This is one more reason to have a posted retention policy stating that server logs will be removed after 30/60/90 days or stripped of identifying information. You can always get historical visitor data, trends, etc. from Google Analytics (with no IPs showing) sans logfiles.
Things like this make me wonder why mission- and life-critical systems are (presumably) set up on Internet-facing systems. Sure, it's cheap, but when the walls come tumbling down like this article implies, cost is a moot point.
I don't see why they can't just buy a phone line for each power station and link to central stations (also with NON-Internet-facing systems) like that.
Last.fm's "neighbor" system works similarly, except it looks at what each person listens to. Keep in mind that it takes a fair bit of training to find neighbors who are actually close to your likes, but once you've listened to enough music, it's pretty good at finding things I like but have never heard of. I.E.if I like song A B C and D, and you like song A, B and C, you might like song D.
The neighbor system groups people with similar musical tastes, and allows each person to tune to his/her "Neighbor Radio", to listen to songs liked by your neighbors.
(Disclaimer: I have no vested interest in last.fm besides being a paid member. [My Profile])
Indeed. However, you can take heart in the fact that each intersection has its lights controlled by a computer (an embedded microcontroller or microprocessor), which is usually installed in a grey box at one of the corners. This controls the intersection's lights, including crosswalks, and takes input from inductive sensors in most lanes. If any part of this computer fails or does not pass sanity checks, the lights flash red, requiring a team to visit the intersection's box to diagnose and fix the problem.
In this case, the article says it's just a matter of the intersections not knowing what time it is, saying "...[w]hen they were supposed to switch to morning rush mode, from 7 to 7:30, they kept rocking along at a rhythm better suited to Sunday morning."
IIRC, older systems used a dial-up modem to report problems to head office, or receive new instructions from it, whereas newer systems use DSL to communicate. The article says, "...[t]hey know where the problem is, but they just don't know what it is... The server seems to be sending the signal, but the conduit is not transferring the information to the signal lights."
"The brakes are more powerful than the engine. Always."
If that were so, then how come the crash that prompted the Toyota Floor Mat recall had "[r]otors [that] were discolored and heated, had very rough surfaces, had substantial deposits of brake pad material, and showed signs of bright orange oxidation on the cooling fins consistent with endured braking." [Autoblog: NHTSA releases new info about... (26 Oct 2009)?
Since we're talking about reporting via RFID... I'd give this program a week before the RFID packet is cracked, spoofed with lower mileage readings, and the source to do so made public.
Well, the thing is... WoW is one of (if not THE) best supported games on Wine. It runs flawlessly. For me, it actually runs better on Linux under Wine than it ever did on Windows. Why fix what isn't broken? As long as Blizzard uses code that Wine can handle, and as long as Wine supports Blizzard's code, then there really isn't a problem.
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Shut. Down. EVERYTHING.
This is one more reason to have a posted retention policy stating that server logs will be removed after 30/60/90 days or stripped of identifying information. You can always get historical visitor data, trends, etc. from Google Analytics (with no IPs showing) sans logfiles.
Things like this make me wonder why mission- and life-critical systems are (presumably) set up on Internet-facing systems. Sure, it's cheap, but when the walls come tumbling down like this article implies, cost is a moot point.
I don't see why they can't just buy a phone line for each power station and link to central stations (also with NON-Internet-facing systems) like that.
Last.fm's "neighbor" system works similarly, except it looks at what each person listens to. Keep in mind that it takes a fair bit of training to find neighbors who are actually close to your likes, but once you've listened to enough music, it's pretty good at finding things I like but have never heard of. I.E. if I like song A B C and D, and you like song A, B and C, you might like song D.
The neighbor system groups people with similar musical tastes, and allows each person to tune to his/her "Neighbor Radio", to listen to songs liked by your neighbors.
(Disclaimer: I have no vested interest in last.fm besides being a paid member. [My Profile])
Indeed. However, you can take heart in the fact that each intersection has its lights controlled by a computer (an embedded microcontroller or microprocessor), which is usually installed in a grey box at one of the corners. This controls the intersection's lights, including crosswalks, and takes input from inductive sensors in most lanes. If any part of this computer fails or does not pass sanity checks, the lights flash red, requiring a team to visit the intersection's box to diagnose and fix the problem.
In this case, the article says it's just a matter of the intersections not knowing what time it is, saying "...[w]hen they were supposed to switch to morning rush mode, from 7 to 7:30, they kept rocking along at a rhythm better suited to Sunday morning."
IIRC, older systems used a dial-up modem to report problems to head office, or receive new instructions from it, whereas newer systems use DSL to communicate. The article says, "...[t]hey know where the problem is, but they just don't know what it is... The server seems to be sending the signal, but the conduit is not transferring the information to the signal lights."
"The brakes are more powerful than the engine. Always."
If that were so, then how come the crash that prompted the Toyota Floor Mat recall had "[r]otors [that] were discolored and heated, had very rough surfaces, had substantial deposits of brake pad material, and showed signs of bright orange oxidation on the cooling fins consistent with endured braking." [Autoblog: NHTSA releases new info about... (26 Oct 2009)?
Is that where they break, and then fix themselves?
I am Car of Borg. You will be assimilated.
And nothing of value was lost.
Laptop + webcam = pictures?
Maybe if you had a laptop with a rotating webcam on the lid, with high enough resolution, you could transcribe it later.
Sounds like some banks haven't been keeping things up to date...
Security patches are there for a reason. Security.
I'm running a Linux-loaded MSNTV2, and with an IDE hard drive. At 100% CPU, it peaks at 15W.
It takes a bit of hardware hacking, but if you're into that kind of thing, see MSNTV2 Linux Port and MSNTV2 Boot Tutorial
We could rebuild it. We have the technology.
"With HDD I/O still the single biggest bottleneck today"
I still say it's PEBCAK.. I can't type those 0s and 1s nearly fast enough.
I'm pretty sure I'm not at risk of accidentally buying from SPARC when I meant to buy from SparkFun. Sorry, SPARC.
This just begs the question of who you work for.
So what, they patented the transmission? CV joints? Axles?
I like the 'giveittome' tag.
Though, Xbox Linux is probably the way to go if you want that kind of thing.
Yikes. It's Trusted Computing again, in a different guise.
DO NOT WANT.
I still think it'd be fairly easy to open it up and reflash the BIOS chip with a programmer.
Suggested tag: ThereBeDragons!
May I suggest the tag "TinFoilCar"?
Since we're talking about reporting via RFID... I'd give this program a week before the RFID packet is cracked, spoofed with lower mileage readings, and the source to do so made public.
Well, it's not the size that matters... Right?
Whew. For a moment there, I was scared the laser might be going the speed of light. Now THAT would be dangerous.
Well, the thing is... WoW is one of (if not THE) best supported games on Wine. It runs flawlessly. For me, it actually runs better on Linux under Wine than it ever did on Windows. Why fix what isn't broken? As long as Blizzard uses code that Wine can handle, and as long as Wine supports Blizzard's code, then there really isn't a problem.
Both Pay and Display and Pay on Foot allow for either credit cards or "parking cards" (Smart cards that carry a cash-equivalent balance) to be used. http://www.ottawa.ca/residents/parking/automated/parking_cards/parking_card_use_en.html). Parking meters can accept both coins and parking cards.