But the speed limit signs really make no more sense, since they can trivially be 'hacked'; I've seen local kids in Britain turn speed limit signs around for grins, so you'd end up with a sixty mph limit in the town and a thirty on the road leading out of town.
It's worse than that... often speed limit signs going onto dual carriageway/motorway are either obstructed by trees etc or just don't exist. A driver can use his common sense and deduce the correct limit but imagine joining a 70mph road (where most vehicles are moving at 70mph) and being forced to do 30 or 40mph. Not only would it be frustrating but a danger to all road users.
True but with no drunks/phone users/distracted moms/teenagers driving their workload is bound to drop. At the very least you need less staff per Ambulance as it's driving itself, at best possible speed, using the least congested route, possibly even asking other vehicles in its way to move out of its path...
No. Because when I do want to view one of them its often when I'm out and about visiting friends and relatives and something comes up in conversation that I want the picture or video of someone or some event of. Locked up in my home system its worth nothing and trying to download them from my home server when I need them interrupts the conversation.
"have you seen Dave recently?" "Yeah he's lost a lot of weight" "really?" (15 minutes pause waiting for crappy 2G with 1 bar download) "yeah look here is the picture of Dave last month a Sam's BBQ."
Offloading doesn't give me instant access to my entire data collection on the go in poor 3G signal areas... (granted I only need about 300 GB for that including all the family videos and photos of weddings and Christmases and stuff... hand have a portable hard drive to move stuff when I need to but its increasing every year and a hard drive is one extra thing to carry about...)
Just because I can carry all that data with me doesn't mean its the only copy of that data...
The hard bit these days is naming and indexing and finding the files I want when I want them.
I see what you did there however it is real VB.Net (ok 'object' was something like activeNode but otherwise its good) but most here will probably declare that it should be illegal because its not a 'real' language. Unfortunately we don't use C# as the programs were migrated from a proprietary variant of VB from our vendor before.Net was around and management wanted to limit the amount of re-engineering and have more bugs as a result.
I'm pretty sure that their blocking is based on the host requested in the HTTP header, not keyword detection in the page.
Probably but they need to generate those lists of blocked pages somehow and scanning for combinations of keywords and phrases of pages previously checked by the filter seems a good strategy so as not to have to index the entire web.
...the code from an API for a commercial system we use at work and uses a tree as its primary data structure will get blocked cutting us off from the support documentation and forums. It has frequent use of lines such as...
object.parent.getChildren(0).InsertNode()
which will probably trip some word based filters depending on how strict they are.
Anyway, before the internet came along, people just passed top-shelf magazines around the playground, no clothed people required
It will be the same but it will be USB thumb drives filled by the kid who has parents with the filter off for their own use or has the knowhow to use VPNs or one of the many other ways to get around any such filter.
And I wonder how many legitimate sex education and health sites that teenagers/young adults (lets not call them children given they are already developing interest in the opposite sex) should have access to will be blocked.
Yeah but we do it in a fair, non discriminatory, way to every country and just to be doubly fair include the individual countries and regions within Great Britain in those stereotypes. The kilt wearing, strong accented Scot. The Welsh singing abilities. English bowler hat wearing, stiff upper lip gent. The welsh and/or northern Scots are also reported to be fond of sheep. Middle England is said to be full of Morris Dancing Faggots. London is full of pansy office workers to list just a few...
disclaimer: any views expressed in this post are not my own, rather samples of those that can easily be found on the internet, on TV, in newspapers or in comedy clubs (Not Posting AC as I have Karma to burn and curious if this goes anywhere;) )
Back in the day you had 'game ports' that were really a MIDI port combined with a joystick port. Two different devices via one connector isn't a new idea!
And you could have both connected at the same time so even the two at once isn't new!
The published data was both factually correct and public knowledge due to court filings so there can be no expectation of privacy.
All the individual managed to do with this case is to make it even more widely known and at any interview will now also be the guy who tried to get unpleasant information himself removed from Google and failed.
True, which is why this case isn't about "Right to be forgotten" which is related to the closure of your personal online accounts and not any data published and subsequently indexed by a third party.
The obligation that Google, news sites etc. does have however under various EU data protection laws is that any information that they hold about you must be accurate and corrected if found not to be. Also they can not to publish information that could be otherwise considered private and not in public knowledge. Generally (with some exceptions) they also have to provide you with any personal information they hold about you as an individual, and can charge a reasonable fee for providing such information.
Unfortunately for the individual involved the information published and indexed is correct and is publicly available due to court proceedings and being published in a newspaper etc. so they have no obligation to remove it or change it in any way.
You are probably right... Either that or its a brute force attack and they just throw lots of codes at it in a short time and hope one works which is unlikely.
My guess is they have radio/microwave transmitter that is causing a computer reboot/corruption or messing with the sensor information being fed from the mechanical parts of the lock and tricking the computer into thinking the mechanical key was used which triggers the central locking to open. As for the passenger side thing it could be that side is more vulnerable due to longer/shorter wires or the actual location of the computer.
A while ago I came across a writer that was making reasonable money with ebooks but couldn't get a deal with a dead tree publisher but really wanted physical print runs of his books for his own satisfaction. He typeset a book, arranged artwork etc himself and paid out of his own pocket for a (small) print run. He then *gave* the books away for free from a stall at local markets, literary events etc and invited people once they had read the book to either buy it if they liked it or give it to someone who they thought would buy it if they didn't. I enjoyed and bought it and got a thank you letter back that indicated he had made a reasonable profit on the venture and about 60% of the books were eventually bought by either the person he gave it to or someone further down the chain.
I also then gave the book to a friend who (knowing that I had already done so) also 'bought' it.
If people feel that something has value and can afford it they are often willing to pay money for it. If people have no money or feel that something is overpriced, or has no value, or are morally/socially lacking they are not willing to pay.
So Much hate. I'm guessing you tried to sell your Steam account and they noticed which is your own fault for breaking their rules.
As for resale - Once, many years ago, when I was a poor teenager I resold games I no longer play and now I regret it. I often think "Wow, [old game x] I haven't played that in years and it was great" then realise that I sold it and can't even attempt to try and get it running in DosBox. Lending to friends is more or less the same as selling, but without financial gain as I didn't care about getting it back at the time or forgot who I lent it to.
Steam's best feature is convenience. It allows me to install, uninstall, and install again (next upgrade is a bigger SSD!) , on any of my current PCs, games that I last played 5 or even 10 years (which is 4 or 5 computers/major upgrades and 1 OS upgrade) ago without having to dig around in the back of the cupboard for disks that probably got scratched and a manual with a code on it that I probably accidentally threw out. Add this to a DRM that doesn't get in the way of playing games (as long as you remember to switch to off-line mode if you don't have a connection) and you have a no-hasle DRM.
Imagine 40 years from now, who will decrypt your precious library?
In the future? Just about anyone... Kindle DRM is fairly easy to break with current computers and in 40 years time it won't even register on a CPU usage graph...
I bought a kindle a few years ago now and if it ever dies I'll likely buy another, and even if I don't there are many ways for me to get at my books.
Not only does the Kindle DRM not bother me, the books are available, readable and automatically sync up over most portable, **non Amazon** devices with no real effort on my part. The lack of portability between non Apple mobile devices was probably they only thing that really fuelled the fire for Apple to drop DRM.
There are of course the 'lesser' DRM schemes that were never going to work out for technical or commercial reasons (Micro$oft DRM anyone?) however the truth is you need to back a long term commercial winner in technology in general [see Laserdisk, Betamax, MiniDisk, HD-DVD etc for examples of how not to back a winner].
Also there is a difference between music and books since while you tend to listen to music repeatedly, most people only ever read a (fiction) book once then move onto the next one so long term access is less of a concern. (before buying my kindile I used to frequently buy books, read them through once (or possibly not if I didn't like it) and most then ended up going to a charity shop to make room for more... Of maybe 50 or so books I bought in a typical year I probably retained 5 or so 'really, really good' ones.
You make is sound like unregulated gambling was a good thing. Only an idiot would bet at an unregulated house.
While not all, a good number of the offshore houses WERE regulated in their respective countries. It was just the US government not liking that others were getting a slice of pie and they were going hungry.
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But the speed limit signs really make no more sense, since they can trivially be 'hacked'; I've seen local kids in Britain turn speed limit signs around for grins, so you'd end up with a sixty mph limit in the town and a thirty on the road leading out of town.
It's worse than that... often speed limit signs going onto dual carriageway/motorway are either obstructed by trees etc or just don't exist. A driver can use his common sense and deduce the correct limit but imagine joining a 70mph road (where most vehicles are moving at 70mph) and being forced to do 30 or 40mph. Not only would it be frustrating but a danger to all road users.
EMT do a lot more then just driving
True but with no drunks/phone users/distracted moms/teenagers driving their workload is bound to drop. At the very least you need less staff per Ambulance as it's driving itself, at best possible speed, using the least congested route, possibly even asking other vehicles in its way to move out of its path...
Every time RNG in Android crops up I can't but think of this discussion...
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=42265
No. Because when I do want to view one of them its often when I'm out and about visiting friends and relatives and something comes up in conversation that I want the picture or video of someone or some event of. Locked up in my home system its worth nothing and trying to download them from my home server when I need them interrupts the conversation.
"have you seen Dave recently?"
"Yeah he's lost a lot of weight"
"really?"
(15 minutes pause waiting for crappy 2G with 1 bar download)
"yeah look here is the picture of Dave last month a Sam's BBQ."
Offloading doesn't give me instant access to my entire data collection on the go in poor 3G signal areas...
(granted I only need about 300 GB for that including all the family videos and photos of weddings and Christmases and stuff... hand have a portable hard drive to move stuff when I need to but its increasing every year and a hard drive is one extra thing to carry about...)
Just because I can carry all that data with me doesn't mean its the only copy of that data...
The hard bit these days is naming and indexing and finding the files I want when I want them.
That is pedo-code and will get you sent to jail.
I see what you did there however it is real VB.Net (ok 'object' was something like activeNode but otherwise its good) but most here will probably declare that it should be illegal because its not a 'real' language. Unfortunately we don't use C# as the programs were migrated from a proprietary variant of VB from our vendor before .Net was around and management wanted to limit the amount of re-engineering and have more bugs as a result.
I'm pretty sure that their blocking is based on the host requested in the HTTP header, not keyword detection in the page.
Probably but they need to generate those lists of blocked pages somehow and scanning for combinations of keywords and phrases of pages previously checked by the filter seems a good strategy so as not to have to index the entire web.
...the code from an API for a commercial system we use at work and uses a tree as its primary data structure will get blocked cutting us off from the support documentation and forums. It has frequent use of lines such as...
object.parent.getChildren(0).InsertNode()
which will probably trip some word based filters depending on how strict they are.
He also chose to go public with it on the day the country is distracted by the pending birth of the royal baby.
I suspect that a lot of the recent discussions that didn't seem to go anywhere were him trying to pre-empt the day of the birth...
Anyway, before the internet came along, people just passed top-shelf magazines around the playground, no clothed people required
It will be the same but it will be USB thumb drives filled by the kid who has parents with the filter off for their own use or has the knowhow to use VPNs or one of the many other ways to get around any such filter.
And I wonder how many legitimate sex education and health sites that teenagers/young adults (lets not call them children given they are already developing interest in the opposite sex) should have access to will be blocked.
basically... http://www.amazon.com/review/R1AZQ4UV06BPYP/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B004DGJR1U&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=1036592&store=apparel
every... http://www.amazon.com/review/R4Q3F1BHEF0SY/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00BW6KCTU&nodeID=541966&store=pc
single... http://www.amazon.com/review/R29XIUFKFQU7GU/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B0056CDWO8&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=
product... http://www.amazon.com/review/R3I4QW83V6IDOF/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1426303947&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=
has... http://www.amazon.com/review/R1DWPSCYNW2H5Z/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B008GVM9K4&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=
reviews... http://www.amazon.com/review/R3MLO42ERB2S0U/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B002MSN3QQ&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=
that... http://www.amazon.com/review/R1B7351D396PEW/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B000UZQK8Q&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=
are... http://www.amazon.com/review/RRMNZB68Q2IZE/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B0032BWTSU&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=
suspect... http://www.amazon.com/review/R1L2F14KVVLR4E/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B004JO1YQC&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=
(You really *HAVE* to read the last one!)
Yeah but we do it in a fair, non discriminatory, way to every country and just to be doubly fair include the individual countries and regions within Great Britain in those stereotypes. The kilt wearing, strong accented Scot. The Welsh singing abilities. English bowler hat wearing, stiff upper lip gent. The welsh and/or northern Scots are also reported to be fond of sheep. Middle England is said to be full of Morris Dancing Faggots. London is full of pansy office workers to list just a few...
disclaimer: any views expressed in this post are not my own, rather samples of those that can easily be found on the internet, on TV, in newspapers or in comedy clubs ;) )
(Not Posting AC as I have Karma to burn and curious if this goes anywhere
http://www.hardwarebook.info/PC_Gameport_with_MIDI
nuff said.
Back in the day you had 'game ports' that were really a MIDI port combined with a joystick port. Two different devices via one connector isn't a new idea!
And you could have both connected at the same time so even the two at once isn't new!
http://www.hardwarebook.info/PC_Gameport_with_MIDI
yet another patent that isn't novel or new...
There is no target.
The published data was both factually correct and public knowledge due to court filings so there can be no expectation of privacy.
All the individual managed to do with this case is to make it even more widely known and at any interview will now also be the guy who tried to get unpleasant information himself removed from Google and failed.
True, which is why this case isn't about "Right to be forgotten" which is related to the closure of your personal online accounts and not any data published and subsequently indexed by a third party.
The obligation that Google, news sites etc. does have however under various EU data protection laws is that any information that they hold about you must be accurate and corrected if found not to be. Also they can not to publish information that could be otherwise considered private and not in public knowledge. Generally (with some exceptions) they also have to provide you with any personal information they hold about you as an individual, and can charge a reasonable fee for providing such information.
Unfortunately for the individual involved the information published and indexed is correct and is publicly available due to court proceedings and being published in a newspaper etc. so they have no obligation to remove it or change it in any way.
For every recording he used in his video how many did he have of people who didn't care in the slightest he was recording?
Selective editing can pretty much twist any story.
Given the choice of trusting The US Government and Wizards of the Coast LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc I know which I would choose...
I was thinking more an electrical/electronic attack rather than computational but a buffer overflow could be just as likely...
You are probably right... Either that or its a brute force attack and they just throw lots of codes at it in a short time and hope one works which is unlikely.
My guess is they have radio/microwave transmitter that is causing a computer reboot/corruption or messing with the sensor information being fed from the mechanical parts of the lock and tricking the computer into thinking the mechanical key was used which triggers the central locking to open. As for the passenger side thing it could be that side is more vulnerable due to longer/shorter wires or the actual location of the computer.
A while ago I came across a writer that was making reasonable money with ebooks but couldn't get a deal with a dead tree publisher but really wanted physical print runs of his books for his own satisfaction. He typeset a book, arranged artwork etc himself and paid out of his own pocket for a (small) print run. He then *gave* the books away for free from a stall at local markets, literary events etc and invited people once they had read the book to either buy it if they liked it or give it to someone who they thought would buy it if they didn't. I enjoyed and bought it and got a thank you letter back that indicated he had made a reasonable profit on the venture and about 60% of the books were eventually bought by either the person he gave it to or someone further down the chain.
I also then gave the book to a friend who (knowing that I had already done so) also 'bought' it.
If people feel that something has value and can afford it they are often willing to pay money for it.
If people have no money or feel that something is overpriced, or has no value, or are morally/socially lacking they are not willing to pay.
So Much hate. I'm guessing you tried to sell your Steam account and they noticed which is your own fault for breaking their rules.
As for resale - Once, many years ago, when I was a poor teenager I resold games I no longer play and now I regret it.
I often think "Wow, [old game x] I haven't played that in years and it was great" then realise that I sold it and can't even attempt to try and get it running in DosBox. Lending to friends is more or less the same as selling, but without financial gain as I didn't care about getting it back at the time or forgot who I lent it to.
Steam's best feature is convenience. It allows me to install, uninstall, and install again (next upgrade is a bigger SSD!) , on any of my current PCs, games that I last played 5 or even 10 years (which is 4 or 5 computers/major upgrades and 1 OS upgrade) ago without having to dig around in the back of the cupboard for disks that probably got scratched and a manual with a code on it that I probably accidentally threw out. Add this to a DRM that doesn't get in the way of playing games (as long as you remember to switch to off-line mode if you don't have a connection) and you have a no-hasle DRM.
Imagine 40 years from now, who will decrypt your precious library?
In the future? Just about anyone... Kindle DRM is fairly easy to break with current computers and in 40 years time it won't even register on a CPU usage graph...
I bought a kindle a few years ago now and if it ever dies I'll likely buy another, and even if I don't there are many ways for me to get at my books.
Not only does the Kindle DRM not bother me, the books are available, readable and automatically sync up over most portable, **non Amazon** devices with no real effort on my part. The lack of portability between non Apple mobile devices was probably they only thing that really fuelled the fire for Apple to drop DRM.
There are of course the 'lesser' DRM schemes that were never going to work out for technical or commercial reasons (Micro$oft DRM anyone?) however the truth is you need to back a long term commercial winner in technology in general [see Laserdisk, Betamax, MiniDisk, HD-DVD etc for examples of how not to back a winner].
Also there is a difference between music and books since while you tend to listen to music repeatedly, most people only ever read a (fiction) book once then move onto the next one so long term access is less of a concern. (before buying my kindile I used to frequently buy books, read them through once (or possibly not if I didn't like it) and most then ended up going to a charity shop to make room for more... Of maybe 50 or so books I bought in a typical year I probably retained 5 or so 'really, really good' ones.
Also add testers that don't really understand what the things they are testing are supposed to do to that meeting...
You make is sound like unregulated gambling was a good thing. Only an idiot would bet at an unregulated house.
While not all, a good number of the offshore houses WERE regulated in their respective countries. It was just the US government not liking that others were getting a slice of pie and they were going hungry.