Sony was thought of as impenetrable with their PS3. Pissed the wrong people off when they removed the OtherOS support... and lo and behooooold.... security was destroyed. I can download over 200 PS3 games right now with all sorts of firmware and methods to "pwn" the PS3. I hate Sony so I have no interest in giving them money for that POS.
This, it's the same with the Xbox and Wii.
Consoles are extremely popular, look how quickly they get hacked. A hack to give the user more functionality is a hack never the less.
Macs are considerably less popular then Windows and less powerful then Linux, if you were a malware author who's malware depends on the largest number of infections would you target 1 in 20 systems or 19 in 20 systems? Even Linux Malware is more popular considering the power of the hardware Linux is normally installed on and the fact most Linux servers are internet facing.
I cannot speak for the UK, but in some parts of the world, you can get fined for speeding in a rental vehicle - by the rental company, not the police!
I'm fairly certain this is illegal in the UK. It certainly is in Australia. The rental company, if fined can nominate you as the driver (seeing as they've got an invoice with your DL number against it, it's pretty solid evidence). The police will proceed to fine you.
Or have people not misusing company vehicles for private use.
If a company is relying on GPS only to determine this, they deserve to be abused.
This is more likely to be used to evade legal requirements, in Australia a trucking company has been caught disabling speed governors and faking log books.
Now, they certainly APPEAR low when compared to prices around the globe, particularly in Europe. But that is not because America has found a way to magically push prices down. It's because European countries push prices artificially HIGH through excessive taxation and regulation.
A poor excuse.
Europe and Australia tax petrol to pay for roads. Roads dont build or fund themselves, so that money has to come from somewhere, if not a tax on petrol (effectively a tax based on road usage) then where? Excessive taxation my arse, the US just takes the money it needs for roads from you in some other way. Compared to having roads paid for by petrol tax or income tax, I prefer petrol tax as I drive a light and economical Honda Civic, not an asphalt shredding SUV.
And what regulation?
The most regulation we have is forcing all petrol to be RON 92 and preventing harmful additives being put in. Try going to a country where large amounts of ethanol and other additives is put into petrol, see the engine damage that crap causes. In Thailand you have Gasoline and Gasohol, the Gasohol (from memory you can get E10 and E20) is cheaper at the pump but kills engines designed for RON 92, normally the prolific little Honda scooters you see in Thailand have a long life span as long as you put in RON 92.
if bad cars have gone extinct. take a seat, it will be a while before he's done laughing.
A lot of species of bad cars have gone extinct.
However the species of bad driver is more prolific then ever.
People who ignore temp warnings, oil lights, never check fluid levels and so on will kill the best of cars. People who maintain their cars, keep oil and fluids levels good, check the car for damage, take it to a mechanic when there's a problem (because not everyone can replace a radiator with their eyes shut) can keep mediocre cars running for years. I've got an old Honda Civic, 280,000 on the clock, runs like a train. I know people with newer Camry's with 1/3 of the K's that run like crap because they dont maintain them.
A few years ago Google Maps had integrated wonderful public transport information for Vienna, Austria. And then it suddenly vanished, and so now on Google Maps when you click on an underground station, you are just shown a link to wienerlinien.at and the comment "Note: Public transit coverage may not be available in this area.", rather than station info.
I think that it would be because the public transit authority (not sure if public, private or any combination of the above in Vienna) has probably revoked Googles access to the data. I know Transperth in Oz has made the data that Google uses available in XML form.
Actually I own a Galaxy Tab 10.1, and yes they copy-catted the iPad to a stupidly obvious level.
You've never touched a Tab 10.1, that much is obvious by your complete lack of corroborating evidence.
How do I know, I actually own a Galaxy Tab 10.1, the application draw acts differently, it needs to be opened manually rather then being open all the time. IOS doesn't have widgets that can be moved on the home screen. Ipads dont have rotation lock like the Galaxy Tab. The Tab can actually multi-task. You can move directly back to an application you were previously using, that's what the little up arrow in the bottom bar is there for. If you've actually used one, you might have known that.
Seen that photoshop before. The saddest thing about it is that it's a fake
Heres the real photo of the two. You may notice the Galaxy II is larger, has the big words "samsung" written on it and a widget displaying the time and date. If you didn't notice them, you need your eyes examined.
My crew and I have just left Earth's orbit, it took a mere 15 minutes to accelerate enough to reach escape velocity. Unfortunately, we ran out of batteries the moment we passed the moon and are now waiting for the Vulcans to come rescue us. Unfortunately, there are no electric charding stations out past the great-divide so we will have to be taken back earth where our crew will double the number of lithium ion batteries.
This would never have happened if they used dilithium-ion batteries.
After missing three or four timed-transfer connections, I've given up on Google Maps for transit.
In Perth, Australia Google Maps is more reliable then Transperths own website, not to mention the fact that Google Maps works on my phone.
If you want schedule data, just select the bus stop or train station you want that data on.
I guess that the predictability of the transport route would matter in this case.
The key to unpredictability is when, not where. Letting potential enemies know where you are moving a high value item reduces the area you need to look for them in. Not letting them know when gives you all the time you like to find them.
But for long range transport of warheads, why not just use air. C17's can lift 77 tonnes over 4500 KM's. How heavy does a nuke get?
Spoken like a person who doesn't understand the complex realities surrounding animal cruelty and animal care. There are plenty of respectable animal shelters that do put animals down. Here's why: some proportion of the animals that are brought in will never, ever be re-homed. For example, around 25% of the dogs brought in to dogs homes are from police seizures of illegal fighting dogs. These dogs have been raised to fight, and used in illegal dog fights. These animals are, and will always be, dangerous. It is just not usually possible to re-home them in a family environment.
This man speaks the truth.
I have a friend who runs a shelter for dogs in Thailand, a lot of areas in Thailand have a huge stray/feral dog problem and re-housing them is not easy (few want to take in a re-socialised Soi dog). Organisations try to spray (neuter) these strays and ferals to reduce their number over generations but some who are caught or bought in are simply too sick, diseased or injured to be housed or released. These dogs live their lives in agony, so vets in this position have the choice of prolonging that pain or euthanasia the creature.
Although western nations dont have the huge feral problem the smaller one is taken care of in the same way (neutering) and there are a number of animals bought in who simply cant be cared for. Injuries and illness from car accidents, fires and mistreatment by their owners can reach a point where the creature will never recover and live with pain for the rest of it's life. Is it humane to force this creature to live? Is it human even to do nothing in the face of this kind of suffering? Putting them down is the last option for a vet.
It should be no surprise why, even some nation's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have spoken in favour of culling when faced with the alternative of having uncared for animals starve to death.
When people think of a cull, they think of a few hooligans running around with guns shooting at any dog, horse or roo (I'm Australian) that moves. This could not be further from the truth, culls are conducted with very strict guidelines, even when they are conducted via firearm rather then lethal injection or impact (basally a hydrologic hammer to the back of the neck, not sure what the exact term for it is). In Australia one has to be a very good marksman to be included in a cull using firearms.
Most societies would choose sterilisation of an animal population over culling, but sometimes a culling is necessary as the alternative is less humane.
Starting from year one the copyright costs $1 and doubles every year. So year 2 is $2, year 3 is $4, etc.
Still too open to abuse. Copyright has been co-opted to control distribution rather then guarantee compensation for the creator. This system actually allows them to sue for increased damages for downloading a song as well as increasing prices. Higher licensing fees will just be passed onto the consumer.
Copyright needs to be treated like FRAND. Rather then letting the companies who own the stuff control the laws an International IP Union made up of independent experts needs to shape things.
Basically a FRAND-like system guarantees a fixed royalty will be paid regardless of who sells it. After a set number of years, it automatically becomes public domain. Fees are collected by a not for profit licensing agency, then distributed to the creators and publishers with a fixed percentage going to the authors rather then all of it going to the publisher and the author getting a pittance.
Companies who abuse the licensing arrangement get hit with huge fines, people who sell the product without paying the fee, huge fines, companies who dont front up the originals for the public domain or licensee's, huge fines. No stranglehold on distribution allows true competition in the market and prevents the regional abuse that is currently going on (Games in Australia cost A$80-100, that's US$83-106 as well as the infamous 1 USD = 1 EUR)
Or ablative shielding, or maybe even spray dust down the anticipated threat axis. If the enemy laser emits visible light and you have an idea of the laser's frequency, maybe coat the dust particles with something of the same color, or spray multi-colored dust if you don't.
Alistair Reynolds had a good idea (probably wasn't the first) which I read in Absolution Gap.
How do you easily replace ablative coating in space, with materials that can be gathered in space?
Coat a ship in ice.
Ice probably isn't the best ablative material, but it will be the easiest to replace and maintain, especially given the number of sources of ice out there and the ease of melting and applying it (Ceramics and metals require some kind of foundry/fabrication facility meaning this can not easily be carried on ships). Not just for combat, travelling at speed in space is dangerous enough, micrometeorites, dust and other stellar debris present a problem for metal hulls. The downside is, it cant be used for re-entry.
If you happen to travel to the USA then getting tracked by GSM is the least of your problems with all the surveillance they have there now
Oh please... Having been to many places in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland (North and Republic); I can say that they are the ones with this problem and not the USA. They have police CCTV even out in the sticks. Here in the USA we're still doing good to have a telephone line out in the boonies.
Billy-Joe-Ray: Hey Jeb, what's that buzzin, Jeb: Poe leese drone.
What laptop running Windows is competitive in speed, weight, and battery life with a MacBook Air and substantially cheaper?
Basically anything with an AMD E-series. The amount they are slower is more than made up for by the amount they are cheaper.
Given how underpowered a Macbook Air is, an AMD E-Series will run rings around it.
I bought an Asus U36SD for US$800 put a 128 SSD in there for US$170, I'm still up on buying an entry level Macbook and have the performance of an i5 with a 10 hour battery life (Doubly so with the AUD fetching US$1.07 at the time of purchase).
Plus, don't most lights go to flashing yellow (= 4 way stop) at off-peak times?
I've never understood the purpose of the 4 way stop. We dont have them in Australia, the only time I've seen them is in the Philippines and it seems like the most retarded idea ever. In Oz, one road always has priority, if not you put in a traffic control device, traffic lights for high volume and roundabouts for low volume. I dont understand why anyone would use a 4 way stop over a roundabout, a roundabout allows all four sides to enter and exit at the same time rather then forcing everyone to stop.
But the simplest solution is some kind of directional light sensor that picks up headlights of approaching vehicles.
How does this work during the day when people have their headlights off?
The best detection method is induction loops in the road. A few sets of these and a little competent traffic planning cuts down the time spent waiting for lights a lot..
I'd never get a ticket there - because I drive the speed limit. The only reason the gold mine exists is because people are stupid, not because of the calibration of the lights.
This,
In the (Australian) state I live in, 75% of revenue from speed cameras goes to the Road Trauma Trust Fund, which is used to build and maintain roads. Realistically that money has to come from somewhere otherwise roads end up in disrepair, if not fines then it will end up coming out of tax. So speed camera's are not revenue raisers as much as tax minimisation for people smart enough not to speed.
As of July this year, that number goes from 75% to 100%
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This, it's the same with the Xbox and Wii.
Consoles are extremely popular, look how quickly they get hacked. A hack to give the user more functionality is a hack never the less.
Macs are considerably less popular then Windows and less powerful then Linux, if you were a malware author who's malware depends on the largest number of infections would you target 1 in 20 systems or 19 in 20 systems? Even Linux Malware is more popular considering the power of the hardware Linux is normally installed on and the fact most Linux servers are internet facing.
I'm fairly certain this is illegal in the UK. It certainly is in Australia. The rental company, if fined can nominate you as the driver (seeing as they've got an invoice with your DL number against it, it's pretty solid evidence). The police will proceed to fine you.
Or have people not misusing company vehicles for private use.
If a company is relying on GPS only to determine this, they deserve to be abused.
This is more likely to be used to evade legal requirements, in Australia a trucking company has been caught disabling speed governors and faking log books.
Go to any taxi rank in Germany (where almost all taxis are Mercedes). You won't have any trouble at all finding one with over 500,000 km on the clock.
Or Singapore, some of those Toyota Crowns have been running for 25 years.
A poor excuse.
Europe and Australia tax petrol to pay for roads. Roads dont build or fund themselves, so that money has to come from somewhere, if not a tax on petrol (effectively a tax based on road usage) then where? Excessive taxation my arse, the US just takes the money it needs for roads from you in some other way. Compared to having roads paid for by petrol tax or income tax, I prefer petrol tax as I drive a light and economical Honda Civic, not an asphalt shredding SUV.
And what regulation?
The most regulation we have is forcing all petrol to be RON 92 and preventing harmful additives being put in. Try going to a country where large amounts of ethanol and other additives is put into petrol, see the engine damage that crap causes. In Thailand you have Gasoline and Gasohol, the Gasohol (from memory you can get E10 and E20) is cheaper at the pump but kills engines designed for RON 92, normally the prolific little Honda scooters you see in Thailand have a long life span as long as you put in RON 92.
if bad cars have gone extinct. take a seat, it will be a while before he's done laughing.
A lot of species of bad cars have gone extinct.
However the species of bad driver is more prolific then ever.
People who ignore temp warnings, oil lights, never check fluid levels and so on will kill the best of cars. People who maintain their cars, keep oil and fluids levels good, check the car for damage, take it to a mechanic when there's a problem (because not everyone can replace a radiator with their eyes shut) can keep mediocre cars running for years. I've got an old Honda Civic, 280,000 on the clock, runs like a train. I know people with newer Camry's with 1/3 of the K's that run like crap because they dont maintain them.
A few years ago Google Maps had integrated wonderful public transport information for Vienna, Austria. And then it suddenly vanished, and so now on Google Maps when you click on an underground station, you are just shown a link to wienerlinien.at and the comment "Note: Public transit coverage may not be available in this area.", rather than station info.
I think that it would be because the public transit authority (not sure if public, private or any combination of the above in Vienna) has probably revoked Googles access to the data. I know Transperth in Oz has made the data that Google uses available in XML form.
You're forgetting the second tenant of religion, "Ignore the conflicting evidence". Once you do this, faith and provability are completely compatible.
You've never touched a Tab 10.1, that much is obvious by your complete lack of corroborating evidence.
How do I know, I actually own a Galaxy Tab 10.1, the application draw acts differently, it needs to be opened manually rather then being open all the time. IOS doesn't have widgets that can be moved on the home screen. Ipads dont have rotation lock like the Galaxy Tab. The Tab can actually multi-task. You can move directly back to an application you were previously using, that's what the little up arrow in the bottom bar is there for. If you've actually used one, you might have known that.
Well, it seems like there's a lot of copying going on there. The difference is certainly astounding.
It certainly is amusing isn't it.
Especially when I can call your extremely transparent lies out so easily.
Really?
Seen that photoshop before. The saddest thing about it is that it's a fake
Heres the real photo of the two. You may notice the Galaxy II is larger, has the big words "samsung" written on it and a widget displaying the time and date. If you didn't notice them, you need your eyes examined.
Here is Samsung's official marketing on the S2 Here's the comparison chart between the two
Try linking to something other then CultOfMac. So nice troll, but it's nothing but a troll.
Sorry if reality doesn't fit in with your warped world view, but that's reality for you.
Steve Jobs made a career of it.
And Samsung read his book!
Except that they didn't.
Most of Samsung's ideas were built upon the ideas of Google (which is the point of Android).
The notion that Samsung copied Apple only exists in the minds of fanboys who've never touched a Samsung Galaxy phone or tablet.
Stardate 45280.4
My crew and I have just left Earth's orbit, it took a mere 15 minutes to accelerate enough to reach escape velocity. Unfortunately, we ran out of batteries the moment we passed the moon and are now waiting for the Vulcans to come rescue us. Unfortunately, there are no electric charding stations out past the great-divide so we will have to be taken back earth where our crew will double the number of lithium ion batteries.
This would never have happened if they used dilithium-ion batteries.
After missing three or four timed-transfer connections, I've given up on Google Maps for transit.
In Perth, Australia Google Maps is more reliable then Transperths own website, not to mention the fact that Google Maps works on my phone. If you want schedule data, just select the bus stop or train station you want that data on.
I guess that the predictability of the transport route would matter in this case.
The key to unpredictability is when, not where. Letting potential enemies know where you are moving a high value item reduces the area you need to look for them in. Not letting them know when gives you all the time you like to find them.
But for long range transport of warheads, why not just use air. C17's can lift 77 tonnes over 4500 KM's. How heavy does a nuke get?
"Fry like an Eagle...into the future~~" :-D :-/
So the USPS has been taken over by Speedpost.
Michael Bay is that you?
When I read "Nuclear Truckers" I instantly thought it would be a B grade action movie.
this only confirms my suspicion.
From here, they have entire separate milk and meat dishes and can't have even chicken with cheese.
Yes, to be denied the simple pleasure of a plate of Nachos. In fact 90% of the Mexican spectrum is not Kosher.
I cant get a cheeseburger or a bacon sarnie in Israel, their tourist board have their work cut out for them.
This man speaks the truth.
I have a friend who runs a shelter for dogs in Thailand, a lot of areas in Thailand have a huge stray/feral dog problem and re-housing them is not easy (few want to take in a re-socialised Soi dog). Organisations try to spray (neuter) these strays and ferals to reduce their number over generations but some who are caught or bought in are simply too sick, diseased or injured to be housed or released. These dogs live their lives in agony, so vets in this position have the choice of prolonging that pain or euthanasia the creature.
Although western nations dont have the huge feral problem the smaller one is taken care of in the same way (neutering) and there are a number of animals bought in who simply cant be cared for. Injuries and illness from car accidents, fires and mistreatment by their owners can reach a point where the creature will never recover and live with pain for the rest of it's life. Is it humane to force this creature to live? Is it human even to do nothing in the face of this kind of suffering? Putting them down is the last option for a vet.
When people think of a cull, they think of a few hooligans running around with guns shooting at any dog, horse or roo (I'm Australian) that moves. This could not be further from the truth, culls are conducted with very strict guidelines, even when they are conducted via firearm rather then lethal injection or impact (basally a hydrologic hammer to the back of the neck, not sure what the exact term for it is). In Australia one has to be a very good marksman to be included in a cull using firearms.
Most societies would choose sterilisation of an animal population over culling, but sometimes a culling is necessary as the alternative is less humane.
This is why I wear cotton, I wanted to save a Cryllic
Starting from year one the copyright costs $1 and doubles every year. So year 2 is $2, year 3 is $4, etc.
Still too open to abuse. Copyright has been co-opted to control distribution rather then guarantee compensation for the creator. This system actually allows them to sue for increased damages for downloading a song as well as increasing prices. Higher licensing fees will just be passed onto the consumer.
Copyright needs to be treated like FRAND. Rather then letting the companies who own the stuff control the laws an International IP Union made up of independent experts needs to shape things.
Basically a FRAND-like system guarantees a fixed royalty will be paid regardless of who sells it. After a set number of years, it automatically becomes public domain. Fees are collected by a not for profit licensing agency, then distributed to the creators and publishers with a fixed percentage going to the authors rather then all of it going to the publisher and the author getting a pittance.
Companies who abuse the licensing arrangement get hit with huge fines, people who sell the product without paying the fee, huge fines, companies who dont front up the originals for the public domain or licensee's, huge fines. No stranglehold on distribution allows true competition in the market and prevents the regional abuse that is currently going on (Games in Australia cost A$80-100, that's US$83-106 as well as the infamous 1 USD = 1 EUR)
Or ablative shielding, or maybe even spray dust down the anticipated threat axis. If the enemy laser emits visible light and you have an idea of the laser's frequency, maybe coat the dust particles with something of the same color, or spray multi-colored dust if you don't.
Alistair Reynolds had a good idea (probably wasn't the first) which I read in Absolution Gap.
How do you easily replace ablative coating in space, with materials that can be gathered in space?
Coat a ship in ice.
Ice probably isn't the best ablative material, but it will be the easiest to replace and maintain, especially given the number of sources of ice out there and the ease of melting and applying it (Ceramics and metals require some kind of foundry/fabrication facility meaning this can not easily be carried on ships). Not just for combat, travelling at speed in space is dangerous enough, micrometeorites, dust and other stellar debris present a problem for metal hulls. The downside is, it cant be used for re-entry.
If you happen to travel to the USA then getting tracked by GSM is the least of your problems with all the surveillance they have there now
Oh please... Having been to many places in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland (North and Republic); I can say that they are the ones with this problem and not the USA. They have police CCTV even out in the sticks. Here in the USA we're still doing good to have a telephone line out in the boonies.
Billy-Joe-Ray: Hey Jeb, what's that buzzin,
Jeb: Poe leese drone.
What laptop running Windows is competitive in speed, weight, and battery life with a MacBook Air and substantially cheaper?
Basically anything with an AMD E-series. The amount they are slower is more than made up for by the amount they are cheaper.
Given how underpowered a Macbook Air is, an AMD E-Series will run rings around it.
I bought an Asus U36SD for US$800 put a 128 SSD in there for US$170, I'm still up on buying an entry level Macbook and have the performance of an i5 with a 10 hour battery life (Doubly so with the AUD fetching US$1.07 at the time of purchase).
I've never understood the purpose of the 4 way stop. We dont have them in Australia, the only time I've seen them is in the Philippines and it seems like the most retarded idea ever. In Oz, one road always has priority, if not you put in a traffic control device, traffic lights for high volume and roundabouts for low volume. I dont understand why anyone would use a 4 way stop over a roundabout, a roundabout allows all four sides to enter and exit at the same time rather then forcing everyone to stop.
How does this work during the day when people have their headlights off?
The best detection method is induction loops in the road. A few sets of these and a little competent traffic planning cuts down the time spent waiting for lights a lot..
I'd never get a ticket there - because I drive the speed limit. The only reason the gold mine exists is because people are stupid, not because of the calibration of the lights.
This,
In the (Australian) state I live in, 75% of revenue from speed cameras goes to the Road Trauma Trust Fund, which is used to build and maintain roads. Realistically that money has to come from somewhere otherwise roads end up in disrepair, if not fines then it will end up coming out of tax. So speed camera's are not revenue raisers as much as tax minimisation for people smart enough not to speed.
As of July this year, that number goes from 75% to 100%