The other possibility is finding a vulnerability in other wireless equipment already hooked up to the bus. Obvious candidates are the radio and remote entry.
Then you've never heard of the CAN bus, which is in use on every car produced since 1996. You'd have to avoid anything with obvious wireless access, which means no lock/unlock/panic/remote start systems, and likely not even a car radio since many are on the bus as well.
I didn't RTFA, but I could see them proving it's a name fairly easily. For example, when a family has 2 dogs for a while, and one dies, the other dog is quite visibly affected by their death. If the next night, you hear the living dog using the howl that the now-dead dog normally used, you could quite easily say they're calling a name.
If you've lived somewhere with cluster mailboxes, you know they aren't always under the view of a camera, but are provided with locks in all circumstances.
Selling a tablet at a breakeven could work out in their favor, though, depending on the app purchase model. That would be very similar to what they did with the 360. At a loss it is less likely for them to come out ahead long term, but also possible.
You don't necessarily need to be shocking the dog. Many of the electronic collars (which the OP may not have been referring to at all, considering the other type of collar that's actually called an e-collar) have a "buzz" function that's just a high pitched dog whistle-like noise that you can use as positive punishment in a manner similar to using shocks, but without the cruelty. Obviously, you still have to provide an alternative and provide positive reinforcement for it to work, but if they're really stubborn it's an option.
Then they're liable for fucking up. Their job is to deliver a package to a specific destination, not to deliver it anywhere that's convenient for them.
Even if they didn't get paid for nondelivery due to nobody being home, there's a reasonable number of packages you can expect to be returned to the warehouse every day. As a contractor you should be expecting that outcome for some packages and not violate your contract by delivering to a destination of your choice.
The monarch of the UK also has almost no power in the government besides the natural sway from being connected. Just the ability to veto legislation, AFAIK, a power that hasn't been used in quite a while.
You can always say that religion isn't a factor, then say that religion is the basis for your laws. That doesn't mean that your laws are going to be nondiscriminatory by nature. On the contrary, by claiming the Quran as a basis for the laws of your country, you're inherently going to bias them towards Muslims.
In fact, the guarantee given by the Egyptian constitution is only applicable to Jews, Christians and Muslims. Here's a direct translation: link. Specifically, see article 43, where it states:
The state guarantees the right to practice one’s religious rites and establish places of worship for the heavenly religions. Details are specified by law.
Those "heavenly religions" are only the 3 Abrahamic religions, and nothing more, as those are the religions that the Quran, unsurprisingly, describes as the heavenly religions. In addition, it describes the details as being set in law, which means they're completely subject to change at any time, not an absolute right as we would consider it.
As for the issue of the legitimacy of the constitution itself, the High Constitutional Court ruled it was illegitimate before the coup, but after this wave of demonstrations was already taking place. However, Morsi's move to hold unlimited authority over the law was in response to the possibility of the courts making such a ruling and preventing the constitution from being finalized in the first place. The groups that did not like the constitution and filed those lawsuits? Largely the non-Islamist sects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constituent_Assembly_of_Egypt
I don't believe 33% is a reasonable number to have voted on it, either - if you're able to assemble the largest protests in recorded history at over 16% of the population, and a whopping 26% signed a petition for Morsi to resign, you'd think more than 1/3rd of the population would show up to vote on the constitution. Maybe was a type of protest in not voting, maybe it was coerced voting/nonvoting, maybe it was an unusually high turnout from the Islamist supporters. Honestly, who really knows without being there (because I sure as hell wasn't), but the actual number seems unrealistically low given the unusually high level of involvement of Egyptians in their government right now. I'd expect it to be higher than average US presidential election turnout given the situation.
What I'm saying is that there's a lot at play on both sides, and it seems like a substantial number of people were upset with what was being drafted. Also, this isn't even touching on his group's total ineptitude at actual governance, and likely-to-exist corrupt practices, just the umbrella issue of the constitution.
Well, I think that may be correct, but that may also be a biased view. One provision in the constitution bases the law on Islamist views. Considering he used his power to prevent the constitution from being altered, and he's a part of a strong Islamist group, many in the opposition were kept from attempting to prevent the Egyptian government from being inherently based in Islamist views. His group also added more to the constitution, mentioning Sharia law, during that time period.
There's a reason Steam is so popular now, and there's one word to describe it - indie. Indie games are innovative, not rehashed concepts everyone's seen before, and are taking over because of attitudes like the one in the article. It's cool if you can take a game like Excitebike and toss a bunch of new concepts and mechanics into it to make it innovative again, but the way forward isn't rehashes for the sake of rehashes.
Books adapted to film have the book listed in the credits, something along the lines of "Based on the Novel 'Yadda Yadda' by Random Author". It's also changing the medium entirely whereas Kimba/Lion King is moving from TV to a movie (very similar mediums) without credit given tot he originator of the concepts, so that's almost completely irrelevant.
Disney has done one hell of a job creating and improving technology (sometimes by buying the most advanced companies, i.e. Pixar), and I don't disagree there, but it's a stretch to call their stories or characters since Walt's death original. My comment, while technically not saying that I was referring to the stories, was definitely meant to refer to their lack of creativity in stories.
You might want to skim a bit slower. That scenario wasn't mine either:)
But, as far as it goes, there's a level at which you're unlikely to have sympathy without extensive propaganda campaigns and cronyism. In Germany, it was a many-years-long buildup to the point where Hitler could do as he wished with the army. In Egypt, the situation isn't so similar, since it's only been a year since he took office and began installing fellow Islamists. In the President Hitler hypothetical, nothing is specifically mentioned about the timeline, but it's highly unlikely to happen in one election cycle due to the way propaganda works. The scenario implies it's within one election cycle (vote them out next time is an option he mentions), so I doubt the military would fall in line below the ones directly appointed by Pres. Hitler (Joint Chiefs? Not sure on this one).
You can't impeach a president without Congress, and in his hypothetical, Congress is in the pocket of President Hitler, so it wouldn't work. In Egypt, the situation is a bit simpler while still requiring a suspension of the constitution, since there is no equivalent to impeachment at all.
IIRC, the UK is a worst case scenario for electrical generation pollution in the first world. Their main sources of power are coal and gas, solar isn't as viable as it is in many other countries, hydro and wind are underdeveloped relative to other first world countries, and alternate resources as a whole are relatively unused besides nuclear, which is still underused. If the electric vs gas car pollution comparison is even close to equivalent there, it should be a slam dunk win for electric vehicles in a lot of other places - and that's not even taking the factors that are unmentioned in that report into account.
This isn't punishment for a crime he didn't commit
Yes, it is. Jail time, especially in this amount, for a clearly sarcastic statement in response to what I surmise is a troll on the internet is punishment, quite literally, for not committing a crime.
One is an ad and one is a search result, is there much difference? Given the average quality of monitors, I think those are designed to fool even otherwise sharp eyes.
I have a Dell IPS, and a craptastic non-name-brand sub-$100 LCD, run with f.lux to set them much warmer, and it's really clear on both of them that the ad is on a beige/yellow background while the search result is not. Also, the group of ads is labelled at the top, which you didn't include in your crop, but it's important since just on the layout they're fairly clearly grouped and laid out differently than the search results when there's more than one.
Maybe they're targeting older individuals, but at least to the younger crowd, it's still really obvious. Also, given that Google has a relatively young workforce, it's not out of the realm of possibility that they just didn't realize that contrast decreases with age - I had no idea either.
Well... he's lying about one of these two things: Either Snowden had access to classified information and is a credible source... or he didn't have access, in which case he can't be a traitor, because he's not giving away government secrets, since he never had them to begin with.
Snowden made a large list of claims. If just one of them is true, or even partially true, he can both not have the access he claims to have and still be considered a traitor. I like what Snowden did, but I'm pointing out a really obvious flaw in your logic.
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The other possibility is finding a vulnerability in other wireless equipment already hooked up to the bus. Obvious candidates are the radio and remote entry.
Are you sure about that? Many head units are hooked into the CAN bus.
Then you've never heard of the CAN bus, which is in use on every car produced since 1996. You'd have to avoid anything with obvious wireless access, which means no lock/unlock/panic/remote start systems, and likely not even a car radio since many are on the bus as well.
If it's like a child's lullaby, or just a remembrance of their likeness, it's far more impressive than it being a name. :)
I didn't RTFA, but I could see them proving it's a name fairly easily. For example, when a family has 2 dogs for a while, and one dies, the other dog is quite visibly affected by their death. If the next night, you hear the living dog using the howl that the now-dead dog normally used, you could quite easily say they're calling a name.
That community box has a flaw too. It's not hard to just make a copy of the key, and use it later to steal a package.
If you've lived somewhere with cluster mailboxes, you know they aren't always under the view of a camera, but are provided with locks in all circumstances.
Selling a tablet at a breakeven could work out in their favor, though, depending on the app purchase model. That would be very similar to what they did with the 360. At a loss it is less likely for them to come out ahead long term, but also possible.
You don't necessarily need to be shocking the dog. Many of the electronic collars (which the OP may not have been referring to at all, considering the other type of collar that's actually called an e-collar) have a "buzz" function that's just a high pitched dog whistle-like noise that you can use as positive punishment in a manner similar to using shocks, but without the cruelty. Obviously, you still have to provide an alternative and provide positive reinforcement for it to work, but if they're really stubborn it's an option.
Not having a written constitution is effectively not having a constitution.
Then they're liable for fucking up. Their job is to deliver a package to a specific destination, not to deliver it anywhere that's convenient for them.
Even if they didn't get paid for nondelivery due to nobody being home, there's a reasonable number of packages you can expect to be returned to the warehouse every day. As a contractor you should be expecting that outcome for some packages and not violate your contract by delivering to a destination of your choice.
When you're not home and they require a signature, they're supposed to take it back, not sign it over to the nearest neighbor.
The monarch of the UK also has almost no power in the government besides the natural sway from being connected. Just the ability to veto legislation, AFAIK, a power that hasn't been used in quite a while.
You can always say that religion isn't a factor, then say that religion is the basis for your laws. That doesn't mean that your laws are going to be nondiscriminatory by nature. On the contrary, by claiming the Quran as a basis for the laws of your country, you're inherently going to bias them towards Muslims.
In fact, the guarantee given by the Egyptian constitution is only applicable to Jews, Christians and Muslims. Here's a direct translation: link. Specifically, see article 43, where it states:
The state guarantees the right to practice one’s religious rites and establish places of worship for the heavenly religions. Details are specified by law.
Those "heavenly religions" are only the 3 Abrahamic religions, and nothing more, as those are the religions that the Quran, unsurprisingly, describes as the heavenly religions. In addition, it describes the details as being set in law, which means they're completely subject to change at any time, not an absolute right as we would consider it.
As for the issue of the legitimacy of the constitution itself, the High Constitutional Court ruled it was illegitimate before the coup, but after this wave of demonstrations was already taking place. However, Morsi's move to hold unlimited authority over the law was in response to the possibility of the courts making such a ruling and preventing the constitution from being finalized in the first place. The groups that did not like the constitution and filed those lawsuits? Largely the non-Islamist sects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constituent_Assembly_of_Egypt
I don't believe 33% is a reasonable number to have voted on it, either - if you're able to assemble the largest protests in recorded history at over 16% of the population, and a whopping 26% signed a petition for Morsi to resign, you'd think more than 1/3rd of the population would show up to vote on the constitution. Maybe was a type of protest in not voting, maybe it was coerced voting/nonvoting, maybe it was an unusually high turnout from the Islamist supporters. Honestly, who really knows without being there (because I sure as hell wasn't), but the actual number seems unrealistically low given the unusually high level of involvement of Egyptians in their government right now. I'd expect it to be higher than average US presidential election turnout given the situation.
What I'm saying is that there's a lot at play on both sides, and it seems like a substantial number of people were upset with what was being drafted. Also, this isn't even touching on his group's total ineptitude at actual governance, and likely-to-exist corrupt practices, just the umbrella issue of the constitution.
Well, I think that may be correct, but that may also be a biased view. One provision in the constitution bases the law on Islamist views. Considering he used his power to prevent the constitution from being altered, and he's a part of a strong Islamist group, many in the opposition were kept from attempting to prevent the Egyptian government from being inherently based in Islamist views. His group also added more to the constitution, mentioning Sharia law, during that time period.
You don't remember back in November, when Morsi granted himself unlimited legislative power with no oversight?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Egyptian_protests
There's a reason Steam is so popular now, and there's one word to describe it - indie. Indie games are innovative, not rehashed concepts everyone's seen before, and are taking over because of attitudes like the one in the article. It's cool if you can take a game like Excitebike and toss a bunch of new concepts and mechanics into it to make it innovative again, but the way forward isn't rehashes for the sake of rehashes.
Books adapted to film have the book listed in the credits, something along the lines of "Based on the Novel 'Yadda Yadda' by Random Author". It's also changing the medium entirely whereas Kimba/Lion King is moving from TV to a movie (very similar mediums) without credit given tot he originator of the concepts, so that's almost completely irrelevant.
Disney has done one hell of a job creating and improving technology (sometimes by buying the most advanced companies, i.e. Pixar), and I don't disagree there, but it's a stretch to call their stories or characters since Walt's death original. My comment, while technically not saying that I was referring to the stories, was definitely meant to refer to their lack of creativity in stories.
The Lion King was substantially ripped off too, from Kimba the White Lion. What, you thought Disney actually did anything original?
You might want to skim a bit slower. That scenario wasn't mine either :)
But, as far as it goes, there's a level at which you're unlikely to have sympathy without extensive propaganda campaigns and cronyism. In Germany, it was a many-years-long buildup to the point where Hitler could do as he wished with the army. In Egypt, the situation isn't so similar, since it's only been a year since he took office and began installing fellow Islamists. In the President Hitler hypothetical, nothing is specifically mentioned about the timeline, but it's highly unlikely to happen in one election cycle due to the way propaganda works. The scenario implies it's within one election cycle (vote them out next time is an option he mentions), so I doubt the military would fall in line below the ones directly appointed by Pres. Hitler (Joint Chiefs? Not sure on this one).
You can't impeach a president without Congress, and in his hypothetical, Congress is in the pocket of President Hitler, so it wouldn't work. In Egypt, the situation is a bit simpler while still requiring a suspension of the constitution, since there is no equivalent to impeachment at all.
IIRC, the UK is a worst case scenario for electrical generation pollution in the first world. Their main sources of power are coal and gas, solar isn't as viable as it is in many other countries, hydro and wind are underdeveloped relative to other first world countries, and alternate resources as a whole are relatively unused besides nuclear, which is still underused. If the electric vs gas car pollution comparison is even close to equivalent there, it should be a slam dunk win for electric vehicles in a lot of other places - and that's not even taking the factors that are unmentioned in that report into account.
This isn't punishment for a crime he didn't commit
Yes, it is. Jail time, especially in this amount, for a clearly sarcastic statement in response to what I surmise is a troll on the internet is punishment, quite literally, for not committing a crime.
One is an ad and one is a search result, is there much difference? Given the average quality of monitors, I think those are designed to fool even otherwise sharp eyes.
I have a Dell IPS, and a craptastic non-name-brand sub-$100 LCD, run with f.lux to set them much warmer, and it's really clear on both of them that the ad is on a beige/yellow background while the search result is not. Also, the group of ads is labelled at the top, which you didn't include in your crop, but it's important since just on the layout they're fairly clearly grouped and laid out differently than the search results when there's more than one.
Maybe they're targeting older individuals, but at least to the younger crowd, it's still really obvious. Also, given that Google has a relatively young workforce, it's not out of the realm of possibility that they just didn't realize that contrast decreases with age - I had no idea either.
Isn't that only Germany, or did I miss something?
Well... he's lying about one of these two things: Either Snowden had access to classified information and is a credible source... or he didn't have access, in which case he can't be a traitor, because he's not giving away government secrets, since he never had them to begin with.
Snowden made a large list of claims. If just one of them is true, or even partially true, he can both not have the access he claims to have and still be considered a traitor. I like what Snowden did, but I'm pointing out a really obvious flaw in your logic.