If a "large part" of the population is being tracked this way, checking for and removing these devices (or actively polluting their data) will become common also, thus making the entire practice useless.
Someone will develop a cheap device that can detect them, and then the game is over.
Coffee should be brewed at about 175F. Pretty much ANY coffee, if made properly, will be too hot to drink at first, let alone dumped on more sensitive skin.
By the way, if I was ever faced with such a situation, I'd plug my hard drive is as an external, scrub the offending files, blow away the registry, destroy the file system, and take a soldering iron to the circuit board so that they have to do a clean room recovery which will result in a partial image for analysis. I'd present that drive along with a new drive, repaired and what not to the court and say my hard drive crashed and that they can have at it if they like.
I live in north Texas... this time of year, I'd just bolt a lightning rod to the top and set it out in the yard:P
Yes, your honor, the evidence is gone, but it was an act of God...
The problem with this is that there will be lots of logs, registry bits, and other cruft on the "legal" system drive that point to the existence of the one you removed.
You never actually own the battery - it belongs to the power company - you just pay a deposit when you pick up your first battery. Regular wear and tear on the battery is included in the fuel costs - mistreat it and you lose your deposit.
Which could be a major problem when you're talking about something mobile like a car. What happens if I live in TX and want to drive to or through an area where the battery replacement company I use at home doesn't operate? Are you going to end up with huge "roaming" charges when they have to ship the battery back and forth?
Unfortunately nearly ALL of them qualify as "fucking idiots"... Why do we elect these bozos as our leaders?
Because you have to be a fucking idiot bozo to want put up with the bullshit we subject our public figures to. Thus, only fucking idiotic bozos are available when it comes time to vote...
But, enabling 29,000,000,000 people to buy a car and drive around is not always a great idea. Everyone is already bitching about how cars are destroying the planet so would enabling more cars be a bad idea? Just going from the eco freaks that complain here. cars still = bad right? or was that last week.
I think the whole point is that these enable "the masses" to afford these *instead of* the pollution-belching death traps that have been their only option to this point.
This issue gets brought up every time this thing is mentioned.
It's NOT a replacement for garden-variety cars. It's a replacement for light aircraft that solves the last mile problem and allows for home storage without living on an airport.
Did the manager put any of those bogus accusations in writing? It sounds like he's accusing you of what would be criminal behavior. I'd be suing the shit out of him...
There's enough greed to go around, certainly, and I don't support deception--but the consumers love to bitch and moan but they're never willing to accept their own share of the responsibility.
Why is it so important to these companies to push service plans and insurance and batteries, and mark up a cable to $60 and sell you a hot apple pie with that? Because they've slashed their margins on the things you're actually there to buy so low trying to get you in there to buy them. Think about the people you know. If they could choose between Store A which has their product at $300 and Store B that has it at $250 but are going to push as hard as they possibly can to get you to buy their $50 warranty, which are they likely to choose? The majority of people are going to choose Store B and then bitch about the pressure to buy a warranty as if the two things were unrelated.
The problem with blaming the customers here is this: Before going shopping, Mr. Resonsible Customer looks around at some prices. He sees Store A that advertises the Model T laptop for $300 and Store B that advertises exactly the same thing for $250. They don't advertise "Model T Laptop and hard sell for useless extras for $250," so how is Mr. Customer supposed to base a decision on that?
Its not a fault of the schools. Its a fault of the constant piling on of complexity while continuing to write/build everything from the ground up.
I think this is the crux of the matter. Current IP law pretty much makes rebuilding from the ground up (often in less efficient ways) the only way to get anything new done.
Or smarter... If they were forced to put the backdoor in, then gagged by the court, maybe one of the programmers "accidentally" made a mistake so that the existence was indirectly revealed.
You act like girls don't want to have sex. Do you know how badly most of them would love to skip the phony dinner and go straight to bed... but guys like you make them feel ashamed so they need stupid rituals to validate the affair.
Then you deprive them of any excitement by paying for dinner without strings attached, still on the thesis that she doesn't want cock, and shouldn't.
Then you wonder why she went home with "that guy"... really she was only too happy to make some "gentleman" pay for her meal, and then ditch him for what was truly on her mind.
Damn, no mod points.
Hell, most healthy women probably want sex MORE than men do, believe it or not. Unfortunately, most men don't understand this, and don't know how to get them turned on.
Ironically, if you cave to an expensive meal, you prove that you can be manipulated, which is NOT attractive to a woman and actually decreases your chances of sex with her.
If the child is likely to have a very expensive-to-treat genetic condition, it might make financial sense to prevent it, regardless of the up-front cost.
Whatever you do, make sure the process for creating and updating the documents is simple, or it'll quickly become out of date and useless.
I would recommend NOT using any special software like a wiki for your primary documentation. It should be simple and printable, and not need a special server set up to access/use your docs in case of a disaster recovery situation.
Create a template document. If you use a word processor, set up standard formatting styles for sections, TOC, etc, so the docs are easy to create and navigate.
Put enough detail in the document so that you can hand it to a marketing droid and have them successfully complete the procedure. You'll be glad you did when you're stressed and under pressure from the Big Boss in an emergency (or if the whole IT department keels over from a tainted batch of Mt. Dew, and the only people left are completely unfamiliar with your environment).
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If a "large part" of the population is being tracked this way, checking for and removing these devices (or actively polluting their data) will become common also, thus making the entire practice useless.
Someone will develop a cheap device that can detect them, and then the game is over.
Coffee should be brewed at about 175F. Pretty much ANY coffee, if made properly, will be too hot to drink at first, let alone dumped on more sensitive skin.
By the way, if I was ever faced with such a situation, I'd plug my hard drive is as an external, scrub the offending files, blow away the registry, destroy the file system, and take a soldering iron to the circuit board so that they have to do a clean room recovery which will result in a partial image for analysis. I'd present that drive along with a new drive, repaired and what not to the court and say my hard drive crashed and that they can have at it if they like.
I live in north Texas... this time of year, I'd just bolt a lightning rod to the top and set it out in the yard :P
Yes, your honor, the evidence is gone, but it was an act of God...
The problem with this is that there will be lots of logs, registry bits, and other cruft on the "legal" system drive that point to the existence of the one you removed.
Don't underestimate modern forensic software.
Especially if they have fingerprints of the data on each drive, and tracked which one went where for disposal.
No, no... just point out that soy products reduce testosterone production, and using soy toner would fill the air with soy vapor.
Your boss will realize that his plans to score the secretary will be foiled, and a policy forbidding soy toner will be posted within minutes.
Problem solved! (unless your boss is female)
Probably not if it was painted like Air Force One...
A new market will be created for companies providing improved batteries which can be used in any electric car
Which is why it probably won't happen. The auto companies have to protect their 500% markup on OEM parts, after all.
You never actually own the battery - it belongs to the power company - you just pay a deposit when you pick up your first battery. Regular wear and tear on the battery is included in the fuel costs - mistreat it and you lose your deposit.
Which could be a major problem when you're talking about something mobile like a car. What happens if I live in TX and want to drive to or through an area where the battery replacement company I use at home doesn't operate? Are you going to end up with huge "roaming" charges when they have to ship the battery back and forth?
"Even better would be to ferry the cars along those rails so you can drive as needed once you reach your destination."
Exactly! I don't care about high-speed rail. Give me auto trains! Bonus if I can bring a boat/pwc trailer along for an extra fee.
Also, 2.5-3.2kW is about what the largest element of most electric ranges consume at full power. Sounds reasonable to me.
Unfortunately nearly ALL of them qualify as "fucking idiots" ... Why do we elect these bozos as our leaders?
Because you have to be a fucking idiot bozo to want put up with the bullshit we subject our public figures to. Thus, only fucking idiotic bozos are available when it comes time to vote...
But, enabling 29,000,000,000 people to buy a car and drive around is not always a great idea. Everyone is already bitching about how cars are destroying the planet so would enabling more cars be a bad idea? Just going from the eco freaks that complain here. cars still = bad right? or was that last week.
I think the whole point is that these enable "the masses" to afford these *instead of* the pollution-belching death traps that have been their only option to this point.
and the option for the people like me that can't do 1-3:
4. Keep my current (8 year old) car and pray fervently that a viable all-electric appears before I can't keep this one going any more.
This issue gets brought up every time this thing is mentioned.
It's NOT a replacement for garden-variety cars. It's a replacement for light aircraft that solves the last mile problem and allows for home storage without living on an airport.
Humiliating? Not really.
How much computing power do they have to throw at it to be on par with a human? It's mostly a "clunky" brute force approach is all.
Challenge it to a face recognition competition, and see who wins that one.
Did the manager put any of those bogus accusations in writing? It sounds like he's accusing you of what would be criminal behavior. I'd be suing the shit out of him...
There's enough greed to go around, certainly, and I don't support deception--but the consumers love to bitch and moan but they're never willing to accept their own share of the responsibility.
Why is it so important to these companies to push service plans and insurance and batteries, and mark up a cable to $60 and sell you a hot apple pie with that? Because they've slashed their margins on the things you're actually there to buy so low trying to get you in there to buy them. Think about the people you know. If they could choose between Store A which has their product at $300 and Store B that has it at $250 but are going to push as hard as they possibly can to get you to buy their $50 warranty, which are they likely to choose? The majority of people are going to choose Store B and then bitch about the pressure to buy a warranty as if the two things were unrelated.
The problem with blaming the customers here is this:
Before going shopping, Mr. Resonsible Customer looks around at some prices. He sees Store A that advertises the Model T laptop for $300 and Store B that advertises exactly the same thing for $250. They don't advertise "Model T Laptop and hard sell for useless extras for $250," so how is Mr. Customer supposed to base a decision on that?
Its not a fault of the schools. Its a fault of the constant piling on of complexity while continuing to write/build everything from the ground up.
I think this is the crux of the matter. Current IP law pretty much makes rebuilding from the ground up (often in less efficient ways) the only way to get anything new done.
The fact that you agreed to allow yourself to be censored doesn't mean it's not censorship.
Or smarter... If they were forced to put the backdoor in, then gagged by the court, maybe one of the programmers "accidentally" made a mistake so that the existence was indirectly revealed.
You act like girls don't want to have sex. Do you know how badly most of them would love to skip the phony dinner and go straight to bed... but guys like you make them feel ashamed so they need stupid rituals to validate the affair.
Then you deprive them of any excitement by paying for dinner without strings attached, still on the thesis that she doesn't want cock, and shouldn't.
Then you wonder why she went home with "that guy"... really she was only too happy to make some "gentleman" pay for her meal, and then ditch him for what was truly on her mind.
Damn, no mod points.
Hell, most healthy women probably want sex MORE than men do, believe it or not. Unfortunately, most men don't understand this, and don't know how to get them turned on.
Ironically, if you cave to an expensive meal, you prove that you can be manipulated, which is NOT attractive to a woman and actually decreases your chances of sex with her.
If the child is likely to have a very expensive-to-treat genetic condition, it might make financial sense to prevent it, regardless of the up-front cost.
I also thought that useful geosynchronous orbit space was getting crowded.
Also, what happens when another satellite in LEO flies through the power beam?
Whatever you do, make sure the process for creating and updating the documents is simple, or it'll quickly become out of date and useless.
I would recommend NOT using any special software like a wiki for your primary documentation. It should be simple and printable, and not need a special server set up to access/use your docs in case of a disaster recovery situation.
Create a template document. If you use a word processor, set up standard formatting styles for sections, TOC, etc, so the docs are easy to create and navigate.
Put enough detail in the document so that you can hand it to a marketing droid and have them successfully complete the procedure. You'll be glad you did when you're stressed and under pressure from the Big Boss in an emergency (or if the whole IT department keels over from a tainted batch of Mt. Dew, and the only people left are completely unfamiliar with your environment).