They could be doing it not just for practical purposes but possibly for setting up a DeBeers of rare earth metals.
Oh come on, can't you Americans communicate something without making everyone else have to go looking up brand names for once?
I know this looks like trolling, but, seriously, how many of you even know anymore that English has a word for tissues / handkerchiefs - and it doesn't end in an 'x'?
The E-Brake is supposed to be a separate system from your hydrolic breaks which is why the hand break requires a lot more effort to pull then just pressing down a peddle
The last time I posted how Cisco uses their routers to sell our privacy...
Wait, what?
I was shocked when I heard of this whole fiasco, and quickly went to check whether my WRT54GL had automatic updates turned on (it doesn't even have the option, thankfully). Beyond that, I thought that not downgrading to this new version will suffice. But you seem to be implying that there is already spying going on in Cisco routers, care to elaborate? I've never heard of this, I thought it to be impossible (what on Earth happened that there was no riot?), but if there really IS some legally-mandated backdoor in Cisco routers, I sure as hell am not going to let it run their firmware!
I laughed my ass off when everyone was saying how "new" and "revolutionary" the Iphone was. I had seen similar phones for years from Japan.
I thought that was pretty much widely known (well, except in the USA - if it was well-known there, the Apple propaganda wouldn't work). At least in terms of consumer electronics, the new gear shows up in Asia first, followed a year or two later by Western and Central Europe, which in turn is followed god knows when by the USA.
Being a pretty darn poor chap who could never afford non-"budget category" phones, I found it highly amusing when the wave of hype surrounding the iPhone in the USA hit, and everyone was talking about these "remarkable" and "new" features it had that my budget Sony Ericsson had years ago, except for well over an order of magnitude more money. I figured it worked for Apple because their target populace has never heard of those features before, and therefore thought it was new.
Then when that hype wave got so big that iPhones started getting popular back here in Europe, shit stopped making sense. It's now blatantly about the logo.
A diet of Scottish and Newcastle Beer and deep fried Mars Bars is a worse risk than Rapier missiles.
Haha, I look forward to the beer! But "Deep-fried Mars bars"? LOL!
And the Glaswegian accent can cause serious brain damage too.how much safer are people in Scotland?
That's actually my biggest fear, it'll be like going into a country without speaking the language. Except I speak the language, I just don't understand they way they're saying it.:D
Btw, when I asked that question I meant "safe" as in "safe from the government"
Then there is the fact that the Olympic authorities have effectively bought laws to protect their "sponsors".
That, specifically, is why I called it the Olympics "scandal" in my original post: at least from what I can see from outside the UK, this whole fiasco is going to cause tremendous damage to the liberties of everyone in or around London (not to mention the enormous inconvenience and loss of revenue), while not many people seem to actually want it. But hey, who cares if it takes a medium-sized country's annual budget and a huge deal of effort to accomplish something few people actually want, if those few people are the ones who are deciding?
I've been regretting my decision to travel to Scotland more and more as every single story related to the UK seems to indicate that they want to bring the American definition of "Freedom" into Europe, which is Not Cool (see: SAM sites in freaking London, the Olympics scandal, this story,...).
Your comment gave me a great deal of relief though; but realistically, how much safer are people in Scotland? Doesn't the central UK Ministry of Peace have a way of slowly forcing its rot into its member states, like it happens in the USA (and sometimes even in the EU)?
This is great news. Remember the scene in Star Wars where Obi-Wan uses that 3D star map, projecting from a crystal ball? With this, if the weekly image is public, we could actually create such real-time maps.
What I don't get is why nobody is screaming about the possible security ramifications of this. Right now, at least on most cars, the brake pedal is (at least partly) mechanical; no malware on the control computers could engage it.
Build an entirely electronic "full stop" override function into all new cars, and you're now just one small step away from a "Stop that terrrist!" button in the officer's car.
See the blue lights flashing behind you? Don't even think about trying to get away, as you no longer have that option...
I suppose next you're going to suggest that said women should also be responsible for the unwanted attention they get when they wear certain clothes and have only themselves to blame.
Given that merely having a few pieces of a plant's flower on you is enough to warrant handcuffs these days (and that's not just in the USA!), I'm not surprised at all that they were used in this case. If anything, I'm surprised it wasn't body bags...
We have some pretty detailed information about which parts of the spectrum plants use, and we can combine that with energy-efficient light sources. Today's LED tech is already good enough that you can realistically grow plants under nothing more than arrays of red and blue high-power LEDs (remember, plants are green because they don't absorb green light). The problem is, you need a lot of those LEDs, and that makes them currently so expensive that inefficient incandescents are more economical for anything more than a few plants.
Add in a couple years' worth of advancement in the field of lighting technology, driving the price of the "current high-tech" down to affordable levels, and we will reach the point where growing crops with LED-generated light starts becoming economically viable.
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They could be doing it not just for practical purposes but possibly for setting up a DeBeers of rare earth metals.
Oh come on, can't you Americans communicate something without making everyone else have to go looking up brand names for once?
I know this looks like trolling, but, seriously, how many of you even know anymore that English has a word for tissues / handkerchiefs - and it doesn't end in an 'x'?
Lawful intercept, what the flying fuck, that kinda shit already exists? :O We're far more boned than I thought.
:)
My Linksys has a glowing(!) Cisco logo on it, so I figured it's not too big of a stretch to lump them under the same umbrella.
Still, now that I know about this I'm going to install some 3rd party firmware just in case...
The E-Brake is supposed to be a separate system from your hydrolic breaks which is why the hand break requires a lot more effort to pull then just pressing down a peddle
Oh boy. That sure was painful to read.
When did you start referring to the handbrake as a parking brake?
The last time I posted how Cisco uses their routers to sell our privacy ...
Wait, what?
I was shocked when I heard of this whole fiasco, and quickly went to check whether my WRT54GL had automatic updates turned on (it doesn't even have the option, thankfully). Beyond that, I thought that not downgrading to this new version will suffice. But you seem to be implying that there is already spying going on in Cisco routers, care to elaborate? I've never heard of this, I thought it to be impossible (what on Earth happened that there was no riot?), but if there really IS some legally-mandated backdoor in Cisco routers, I sure as hell am not going to let it run their firmware!
LMFAO (no mod points, so it had to be said.)
I laughed my ass off when everyone was saying how "new" and "revolutionary" the Iphone was. I had seen similar phones for years from Japan.
I thought that was pretty much widely known (well, except in the USA - if it was well-known there, the Apple propaganda wouldn't work). At least in terms of consumer electronics, the new gear shows up in Asia first, followed a year or two later by Western and Central Europe, which in turn is followed god knows when by the USA.
Being a pretty darn poor chap who could never afford non-"budget category" phones, I found it highly amusing when the wave of hype surrounding the iPhone in the USA hit, and everyone was talking about these "remarkable" and "new" features it had that my budget Sony Ericsson had years ago, except for well over an order of magnitude more money. I figured it worked for Apple because their target populace has never heard of those features before, and therefore thought it was new.
Then when that hype wave got so big that iPhones started getting popular back here in Europe, shit stopped making sense. It's now blatantly about the logo.
No, he didn't. You nitpick about something that's completely fine while missing that godawful "should of" thing blaring at your face!
And do people really think you could make the bomb-carrying mechanism, bomb doors, and a bomb all fit in under 450 pounds?
No way, that would barely buy you a decent camera, let alone a bomb!
how much safer are people in Scotland?
A diet of Scottish and Newcastle Beer and deep fried Mars Bars is a worse risk than Rapier missiles.
Haha, I look forward to the beer! But "Deep-fried Mars bars"? LOL!
And the Glaswegian accent can cause serious brain damage too.how much safer are people in Scotland?
That's actually my biggest fear, it'll be like going into a country without speaking the language. Except I speak the language, I just don't understand they way they're saying it. :D
Btw, when I asked that question I meant "safe" as in "safe from the government"
Then there is the fact that the Olympic authorities have effectively bought laws to protect their "sponsors".
That, specifically, is why I called it the Olympics "scandal" in my original post: at least from what I can see from outside the UK, this whole fiasco is going to cause tremendous damage to the liberties of everyone in or around London (not to mention the enormous inconvenience and loss of revenue), while not many people seem to actually want it. But hey, who cares if it takes a medium-sized country's annual budget and a huge deal of effort to accomplish something few people actually want, if those few people are the ones who are deciding?
I've been regretting my decision to travel to Scotland more and more as every single story related to the UK seems to indicate that they want to bring the American definition of "Freedom" into Europe, which is Not Cool (see: SAM sites in freaking London, the Olympics scandal, this story, ...).
Your comment gave me a great deal of relief though; but realistically, how much safer are people in Scotland? Doesn't the central UK Ministry of Peace have a way of slowly forcing its rot into its member states, like it happens in the USA (and sometimes even in the EU)?
General Mike Hostage
Talk about having the right guy for the job...
Shut-up and calculate.
My new motto.
Thank you.
This is great news. Remember the scene in Star Wars where Obi-Wan uses that 3D star map, projecting from a crystal ball?
With this, if the weekly image is public, we could actually create such real-time maps.
What I don't get is why nobody is screaming about the possible security ramifications of this. Right now, at least on most cars, the brake pedal is (at least partly) mechanical; no malware on the control computers could engage it.
Build an entirely electronic "full stop" override function into all new cars, and you're now just one small step away from a "Stop that terrrist!" button in the officer's car.
See the blue lights flashing behind you? Don't even think about trying to get away, as you no longer have that option...
Heh, funny, the only device that ever crapped out on me before those 2 years were up, was a Seagate HDD.
Exactly the same for me, and I'm running 8 hard drives, several of which are way beyond the 5 year mark.
I suppose next you're going to suggest that said women should also be responsible for the unwanted attention they get when they wear certain clothes and have only themselves to blame.
Um, yes? Isn't that sort of entirely obvious?
Given that merely having a few pieces of a plant's flower on you is enough to warrant handcuffs these days (and that's not just in the USA!), I'm not surprised at all that they were used in this case. If anything, I'm surprised it wasn't body bags...
Wow.
Just wow.
I've got a 14 month old boy. I need to warm up my fart joke capacity, so it'll be ready when I need it.
I'm glad I don't live in the country you do.
Have fun raising the next generation. :)
But is what we are doing truly self-defense?
The United States doesn't even know the meaning of "self-defense".
They never in the course of history had to learn it.
At last, it was high time we build something interesting under the seas.
Cue Android port in 3...2...1...
We have some pretty detailed information about which parts of the spectrum plants use, and we can combine that with energy-efficient light sources. Today's LED tech is already good enough that you can realistically grow plants under nothing more than arrays of red and blue high-power LEDs (remember, plants are green because they don't absorb green light). The problem is, you need a lot of those LEDs, and that makes them currently so expensive that inefficient incandescents are more economical for anything more than a few plants.
Add in a couple years' worth of advancement in the field of lighting technology, driving the price of the "current high-tech" down to affordable levels, and we will reach the point where growing crops with LED-generated light starts becoming economically viable.