Heh, I always thought the obvious solution was to test on those most opposed to animal testing. Rather than protest, threaten, intimidate, cause destruction and generally be a major pest, they should volunteer themselves in place of the animals. After all, they care so much that they are willing to risk their lives, the skin trials would be nothing in comparison. It's a win/win situation!
The animals don't get tested on, the labs get real human skin to test on (rather than using animal skin as an approximation), and the protesters succeed in their goal, with the added benefit of aiding the rest of humanity.
Likewise... I'd love to hear of any alternative though. I have a pile of crap to sell, and Ebay makes it so painful that I've not bothered to do it for months!
Any good alternative that is used in Europe and UK as well?
OMG wow! I've not seen that in ages. Used to be my favorite show when I was a kid! Thanks for the link:)
(Now will just need to find some of the old episodes to watch again). Gadget was also my fave as a kid. I wonder how much of my tinkering and taking stuff apart was due to watching that show, and all the cool stuff she made....
They would move their money out before the new rules take effect, this is generally referred to as "capital flight". After all, you have to release your new tax rules in advance of them taking effect, so that everyone has time to make adjustments to their accounting.
How to tax the rich is a very tricky problem. As they usually have the money to buy influence, or just pack up and move to somewhere where they are more welcome. As a general rule these rich people also invest their money in the economy, so if you make their life difficult they can just move those investments elsewhere, with a net result of loss in the economy.
But yes, I agree with you. Just that rich people are hard to tax. After all, they didn't get rich by giving money to others. They are rather good at hoarding it.
Tax the shit out the wealthy and they'll just move themselves (or just their money) to places with low tax rates. Thereby depriving the state of what money they get out of them as is.
In fact, you've just given them a massive hole in your own idea. So say I am $richguy. You want to tax the shit out of me, but will happily allow money into the country for free? Then I will just move all my money to $low_tax_haven, and only bring the money in (for free) to spend on what I want.
In fact, as a rich guy, that would be a better system to live under than the current one, where they make it difficult to bring money in without it being taxed.
They used one of the component explosive (PETN) in SEMTEX.
Developed in the USSR, SEMTEX was seen as highly dangerous (and liked by terrorists) because it nearly impossible to detect. So hard to detect, that nowadays SEMTEX actually has stuff added to it so it can be detected more easily and it's export and use is highly restricted (presumably why these guys decided not to actually use modern SEMTEX).
Fuel gives off a very strong smell, making it trivial to detect:P
Why would they do that? The N810 has a true RS232 Serial port on it's back. Or if that isn't good enough, use a usb to serial adapter you can buy for cheap on ebay. Or a bluetooth serial adapter.
Although I'm curious, how did they manage to get rs232 out of an usb-ethernet dongle?
I have to say though, I love my n810, it's perfect for all my needs! It has everything I can think of, and a real Linux OS underneath it (Maemo, Debian based) where you have access to anything you want. It actually replaced my laptop for 70% of my portable uses. If only it could have its RAM upgraded! (the n900 has more ram, but no host USB, and a smaller screen, otherwise I'd get it).
I don't understand why people buy things like the iPhone then try to hack it to do stuff it isn't supposed to do. Well, there is the cool "hack value" which I get, but sometimes I feel like we should support companies that already give us everything, along with full access to the system.
On one hand we have Nokia discontinuing these all out Linux devices due to lack of interest (or so I heard, there will be no successor to the n900) while we have geeks spending big money on locked down apple hardware with a crippled OS, which they then have to spend more time and money hacking (and voiding their warranty) to do what the Nokia devices legitimately allow you to do.
Wire it up to a 5V line on the PSU? (or 12V line, if device supports it, but assuming it's USB-like, than 5V is enough).
It will heat a hell of a lot faster than this, and be easier to make, while being easier to move around (you can even add a custom port just for your PC-kettle).
Indeed! Especially as this is a dupe. I remember seeing this on Slashdot a couple of years ago. It seemed a stupid idea then, and guess what, it seems to be a stupid idea now.
I don't feel like this has much hack value really. Stringing $number of USB ports in parallel isn't particularly hard, it's not a particularly elegant solution (which is one of the things I put down as being key to calling something a "hack"), and it doesn't solve a problem in an smart way. I don't know if it was fun to do (because that is subjective) but it doesn't seem particularly interesting to me.
I personally can attest to what the parent said. Back while I was a sysadmin at my old job, I read about the yellow-dot markings that were sneaked into all sorts of printers and copiers for detection, and in some cases, for prevention of copying.
While reading about this, we came across the knowledge that banknotes had these yellow markings on them, so on a slow Friday we decided to test it out. We stuck a 20GBP note into the machine and hit copy. It promptly jammed and said it needed an engineer to come service it immediately.
As it was a small company and I was their go-to guy for just about everything, I already knew how to fix it, so I did it myself rather than calling an engineer.
Thinking it was a coincidence, we ran more tests. The machine would run fine for hundreds of copies, but would jam every single time you tried to copy the banknote, without exception. It really seemed like it was deliberately jamming itself.
If memory serves me correctly, it was a Toshiba colour copier, but if you want to find out if your copier also does the same, just stick a banknote in it. (UK ones are rejected, but probably others are as well).
I remember thinking how sneaky it was of them. Rather than telling you that they refuse the action you requested, they jam the machine. I don't know if the engineer would rat you out when he came round to fix it (as we didn't call one) but it is known that the machine will generally hold the last few things copied in memory (I presume to aid debugging of issues).
P.S Sorry for any typo's etc... typing this on my phone.
I don't intend to talk to them, but I've been stopped and questioned by them many times in my life. Here in the UK they have targets to fill for persons arrested, so they care little if you are guilty or not, they are just trying to inflate their numbers, so will try to arrest you for any little detail.
Thankfully I've not been arrested yet, but so far I've never been stopped with my laptop in my possession. If they demanded to look at it I don't know how I could explain to them what's going on without them arresting me. That is what I'm getting at.
And yeah, this seems to happen most places around the world, that was what I was getting at with my original post (i.e. that it's not just something that happens "In Soviet Russia")
Indeed, a really messed up law, although really convenient if you want to put someone away for a limited time.
Assuming you have some access to their computer, All you have to do is place some files full of random data with an extension of "gpg" then anonymously tip off the cops that you saw your target viewing CP on their laptop. They arrest the guy, confiscate the laptop, find the files (which look like encrypted containers) and demand an encryption key that doesn't exist. Unless the guy somehow can convince them otherwise, he can get a 3 year stint in prison, even if he is totally innocent of the charges levied against him.
That sounds like the same crap we get from law enforcement here in the UK. If a police officer sees a PC that does not run windows, they usually assume you are hiding something from them. I've actually heard them refer to it as "that hacker system". Seems that unless you are running Microsoft software (or a Mac running OSX), they will generally suspect you of something. Primarily because they seem to think that if you are not using Windows, it's a deliberate ploy to prevent their "forensic tools" and "experts" from prying, and that you are using it for "non-legal" purposes.
God forbid they ever look at my laptop, in addition to it not being windows, it starts up in command line mode, and has encrypted partitions and files all over the place. I would not like to find out what explaining that to them would be like (let alone what would happen if they don't believe me).
Unlikely, if Broadcom can open source their entire driver, it means there are some hardware restrictions in place to prevent such tampering from occuring.
If that was true then Atheros should have gone by now. They open sourced their drivers almost a decade ago, yet they are still around. In fact, due to the excellent Linux support, I've only been buying and recommending to others the Atheros chipset WiFi cards. Not to mention all the extra abilities it gained from the OS community (like the ability to simultaneously act as an AP and client, which brought about mesh networking and community wifi).
They probably gained a lot indirectly in the form of higher sales of hardware due to this, plus the reduction in costs because they didn't have to pay a dev team all this time.
I believe one of the reasons is that you must not be able to program your wifi cards radio to work on unauthorized frequencies. This is a FCC requirement. This is one of the reasons that the excellent madwifi driver still needs a binary blob (although the devs have access to the firmware source code, it was by NDA only).
If you have the ability to modify the firmware, you can make it violate regulations. For example, if you hack the madwifi driver you can make some cards work up to 100mW of power (limit where I live is 30mW).
If you had the firmware source code you could all sorts of crazy stuff that would be against regulations.
Ok, If I remember correctly it varied between 6l/100km and 9l/100km. I think that was dependent on the incline. I suspect that 6l/100km was probably when it was going slightly downhill, but either way, it was lower than when we were going slower.
From personal experience (on UK roads) I've witnessed a cars fuel consumption go from 15l/100km to 13l/100km at the speed limit, to about 6l/100km around 220kph. Once we hit 250kph the consumption went up to about 10l/100km, but that was because that was the cars top speed, and the engine was at it's top end (where it was less efficient).
There seems to be some relationship, especially when you look at cars which both state their urban and highway consumption, the highway consumption is usually lower than the urban.
Didn't we have that bitcoin thing crop up as anonymous internet cash? I seem to remember an article about it, perhaps porn sites should start accepting bitcoins or something.....
I always wondered why they didn't go after companies such as rapidshare. Surely it should be easier to take down a centralised system? It's almost as bad as the old FTP sites (in fact it's worse, FTP sites generally were not indexed by search engines). These companies should be easy pickings as far as lawsuits are concerned. What am I missing?
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Heh, I always thought the obvious solution was to test on those most opposed to animal testing. Rather than protest, threaten, intimidate, cause destruction and generally be a major pest, they should volunteer themselves in place of the animals. After all, they care so much that they are willing to risk their lives, the skin trials would be nothing in comparison. It's a win/win situation!
The animals don't get tested on, the labs get real human skin to test on (rather than using animal skin as an approximation), and the protesters succeed in their goal, with the added benefit of aiding the rest of humanity.
Likewise... I'd love to hear of any alternative though. I have a pile of crap to sell, and Ebay makes it so painful that I've not bothered to do it for months!
Any good alternative that is used in Europe and UK as well?
OMG wow! I've not seen that in ages. Used to be my favorite show when I was a kid! Thanks for the link :)
(Now will just need to find some of the old episodes to watch again). Gadget was also my fave as a kid. I wonder how much of my tinkering and taking stuff apart was due to watching that show, and all the cool stuff she made....
They would move their money out before the new rules take effect, this is generally referred to as "capital flight". After all, you have to release your new tax rules in advance of them taking effect, so that everyone has time to make adjustments to their accounting.
How to tax the rich is a very tricky problem. As they usually have the money to buy influence, or just pack up and move to somewhere where they are more welcome. As a general rule these rich people also invest their money in the economy, so if you make their life difficult they can just move those investments elsewhere, with a net result of loss in the economy.
But yes, I agree with you. Just that rich people are hard to tax. After all, they didn't get rich by giving money to others. They are rather good at hoarding it.
Tax the shit out the wealthy and they'll just move themselves (or just their money) to places with low tax rates. Thereby depriving the state of what money they get out of them as is.
In fact, you've just given them a massive hole in your own idea. So say I am $richguy. You want to tax the shit out of me, but will happily allow money into the country for free? Then I will just move all my money to $low_tax_haven, and only bring the money in (for free) to spend on what I want.
In fact, as a rich guy, that would be a better system to live under than the current one, where they make it difficult to bring money in without it being taxed.
They used one of the component explosive (PETN) in SEMTEX.
Developed in the USSR, SEMTEX was seen as highly dangerous (and liked by terrorists) because it nearly impossible to detect. So hard to detect, that nowadays SEMTEX actually has stuff added to it so it can be detected more easily and it's export and use is highly restricted (presumably why these guys decided not to actually use modern SEMTEX).
Fuel gives off a very strong smell, making it trivial to detect :P
Why would they do that? The N810 has a true RS232 Serial port on it's back. Or if that isn't good enough, use a usb to serial adapter you can buy for cheap on ebay. Or a bluetooth serial adapter.
Although I'm curious, how did they manage to get rs232 out of an usb-ethernet dongle?
I have to say though, I love my n810, it's perfect for all my needs! It has everything I can think of, and a real Linux OS underneath it (Maemo, Debian based) where you have access to anything you want. It actually replaced my laptop for 70% of my portable uses. If only it could have its RAM upgraded! (the n900 has more ram, but no host USB, and a smaller screen, otherwise I'd get it).
I don't understand why people buy things like the iPhone then try to hack it to do stuff it isn't supposed to do. Well, there is the cool "hack value" which I get, but sometimes I feel like we should support companies that already give us everything, along with full access to the system.
On one hand we have Nokia discontinuing these all out Linux devices due to lack of interest (or so I heard, there will be no successor to the n900) while we have geeks spending big money on locked down apple hardware with a crippled OS, which they then have to spend more time and money hacking (and voiding their warranty) to do what the Nokia devices legitimately allow you to do.
Yeah well, mine goes up to 12 :P (It does actually, damn Germans)
Wire it up to a 5V line on the PSU? (or 12V line, if device supports it, but assuming it's USB-like, than 5V is enough).
It will heat a hell of a lot faster than this, and be easier to make, while being easier to move around (you can even add a custom port just for your PC-kettle).
Indeed! Especially as this is a dupe. I remember seeing this on Slashdot a couple of years ago. It seemed a stupid idea then, and guess what, it seems to be a stupid idea now.
I don't feel like this has much hack value really. Stringing $number of USB ports in parallel isn't particularly hard, it's not a particularly elegant solution (which is one of the things I put down as being key to calling something a "hack"), and it doesn't solve a problem in an smart way. I don't know if it was fun to do (because that is subjective) but it doesn't seem particularly interesting to me.
I personally can attest to what the parent said. Back while I was a sysadmin at my old job, I read about the yellow-dot markings that were sneaked into all sorts of printers and copiers for detection, and in some cases, for prevention of copying.
While reading about this, we came across the knowledge that banknotes had these yellow markings on them, so on a slow Friday we decided to test it out. We stuck a 20GBP note into the machine and hit copy. It promptly jammed and said it needed an engineer to come service it immediately.
As it was a small company and I was their go-to guy for just about everything, I already knew how to fix it, so I did it myself rather than calling an engineer.
Thinking it was a coincidence, we ran more tests. The machine would run fine for hundreds of copies, but would jam every single time you tried to copy the banknote, without exception. It really seemed like it was deliberately jamming itself.
If memory serves me correctly, it was a Toshiba colour copier, but if you want to find out if your copier also does the same, just stick a banknote in it. (UK ones are rejected, but probably others are as well).
I remember thinking how sneaky it was of them. Rather than telling you that they refuse the action you requested, they jam the machine. I don't know if the engineer would rat you out when he came round to fix it (as we didn't call one) but it is known that the machine will generally hold the last few things copied in memory (I presume to aid debugging of issues).
P.S Sorry for any typo's etc... typing this on my phone.
I don't intend to talk to them, but I've been stopped and questioned by them many times in my life. Here in the UK they have targets to fill for persons arrested, so they care little if you are guilty or not, they are just trying to inflate their numbers, so will try to arrest you for any little detail.
Thankfully I've not been arrested yet, but so far I've never been stopped with my laptop in my possession. If they demanded to look at it I don't know how I could explain to them what's going on without them arresting me. That is what I'm getting at.
And yeah, this seems to happen most places around the world, that was what I was getting at with my original post (i.e. that it's not just something that happens "In Soviet Russia")
Indeed, a really messed up law, although really convenient if you want to put someone away for a limited time.
Assuming you have some access to their computer, All you have to do is place some files full of random data with an extension of "gpg" then anonymously tip off the cops that you saw your target viewing CP on their laptop. They arrest the guy, confiscate the laptop, find the files (which look like encrypted containers) and demand an encryption key that doesn't exist. Unless the guy somehow can convince them otherwise, he can get a 3 year stint in prison, even if he is totally innocent of the charges levied against him.
That sounds like the same crap we get from law enforcement here in the UK. If a police officer sees a PC that does not run windows, they usually assume you are hiding something from them. I've actually heard them refer to it as "that hacker system". Seems that unless you are running Microsoft software (or a Mac running OSX), they will generally suspect you of something. Primarily because they seem to think that if you are not using Windows, it's a deliberate ploy to prevent their "forensic tools" and "experts" from prying, and that you are using it for "non-legal" purposes.
God forbid they ever look at my laptop, in addition to it not being windows, it starts up in command line mode, and has encrypted partitions and files all over the place. I would not like to find out what explaining that to them would be like (let alone what would happen if they don't believe me).
Thanks for the tip! Thankfully the cameras were not a problem as the car had foreign plates on it.
And yeah, it's expired, it should auto-renew though..
Unlikely, if Broadcom can open source their entire driver, it means there are some hardware restrictions in place to prevent such tampering from occuring.
If that was true then Atheros should have gone by now. They open sourced their drivers almost a decade ago, yet they are still around. In fact, due to the excellent Linux support, I've only been buying and recommending to others the Atheros chipset WiFi cards. Not to mention all the extra abilities it gained from the OS community (like the ability to simultaneously act as an AP and client, which brought about mesh networking and community wifi).
They probably gained a lot indirectly in the form of higher sales of hardware due to this, plus the reduction in costs because they didn't have to pay a dev team all this time.
I believe one of the reasons is that you must not be able to program your wifi cards radio to work on unauthorized frequencies. This is a FCC requirement. This is one of the reasons that the excellent madwifi driver still needs a binary blob (although the devs have access to the firmware source code, it was by NDA only).
If you have the ability to modify the firmware, you can make it violate regulations. For example, if you hack the madwifi driver you can make some cards work up to 100mW of power (limit where I live is 30mW).
If you had the firmware source code you could all sorts of crazy stuff that would be against regulations.
Ok, If I remember correctly it varied between 6l/100km and 9l/100km. I think that was dependent on the incline. I suspect that 6l/100km was probably when it was going slightly downhill, but either way, it was lower than when we were going slower.
2.0L Saab Turbo (non GM). Admittedly it had modifications done to the engine, but I don't know how much that affected it's consumption.
Note that this was cruising speed on a flat surface, while we were accelerating the consumption was much higher
Motorway, It was the M20 towards Dover.
From personal experience (on UK roads) I've witnessed a cars fuel consumption go from 15l/100km to 13l/100km at the speed limit, to about 6l/100km around 220kph. Once we hit 250kph the consumption went up to about 10l/100km, but that was because that was the cars top speed, and the engine was at it's top end (where it was less efficient).
There seems to be some relationship, especially when you look at cars which both state their urban and highway consumption, the highway consumption is usually lower than the urban.
I think you're looking for one of these.
These definitely don't look flat, I assure you. :P
Didn't we have that bitcoin thing crop up as anonymous internet cash? I seem to remember an article about it, perhaps porn sites should start accepting bitcoins or something.....
I always wondered why they didn't go after companies such as rapidshare. Surely it should be easier to take down a centralised system? It's almost as bad as the old FTP sites (in fact it's worse, FTP sites generally were not indexed by search engines). These companies should be easy pickings as far as lawsuits are concerned. What am I missing?