Warning: Regardless of the disabling procedure you use, ALWAYS ASSUME THAT ALL HIGH VOLTAGE COMPONENTS ARE
ENERGIZED! Cutting, crushing, or touching high voltage components can result in serious injury or death.
I'm guessing reading is hard for you
On p. 14, "Cutting the front trunk first responder loop", it shows how to disable the high voltage. Under the hood there is a coiled loop of red wire with a big bright orange label with a picture of wire cutters. You cut the red wire. This shuts down the high voltage system outside of the high voltage battery itself. For extra safety, you cut a section out of it so it won't reconnect accidentally.
IMO they should put this on the first page. But at least it is there.
I'm more concerned about what it more important than that which occupied 14 pages before this.
Invariably you'll get the slashdotters whining that N+1 is only an incremental improvement over N without looking at the fact that some people are still on N-5. Skylake may not be the end all be all but if you're coming from Core or Nehalem it's a noticeable improvement.
New owners, you should know by now this isn't the stuff Slashdot is made of. At the minimum tack it on to the actual release story.
The problem is, unlike Ford, Android, Dell, Intel, et.al. that Apple can not advertise the next JebusPhone as simply an N+1, even though it is 100% just an N+1. Apple needs to keep the mouth breathing masses fooled that they are revolutionary. The problem they have is that the RDF has pretty much died off and people are beginning to see that they aren't that great after all.
Also, as you pointed out people generally go from something that was a few generations ago to something current. Someone buying a Ford Focus would notice a huge difference between a 2005 Focus and a 2015 Focus.. Apple however relies on repeat sales to keep its numbers up, around 80% of Iphone purchases are made by people who already had Iphones, this statistic has probably gotten worse since Apple has almost run out of markets to expand into. So people going from N-3 to N is going to hurt them.
The problem apple has is that the Iphone has become too passe. Even someone on benefits can get one (and I mean buying it, not stealing it) and now the RDF has worn off people aren't in a hurry to spend hundreds of pounds to upgrade any more.
Er...two hour flight delays are now Slashdot-worthy? Let me tell you about every other trip I've taken through Chicago then.
Well you see, airlines that are in other parts of the world are typically well organised, this means things like delays are rear events and that makes them newsworthy.
So is this going to be another "computer glitch" where the "computer glitch" was actually an electrical fire caused by power equipment? Everyone is quick to blame computers.
Kind of a pet peeve of mine. For all practical purposes there is no such thing as a "computer error". Computers are machines that do exactly what they were designed and instructed to do. Nearly everything we casually refer to as a "computer glitch" is really a human error once you dig through the abstraction layers. It might be a bad bit of code or a poorly designed piece of hardware or inadequately spec'ed equipment or failure to account for (possibly severe) environmental factors or inadequate data redundancy but at the end of the day these are ALL human errors in reality. We built the machines and told them what to do so if the machines don't function as expected that is at some level the fault of a human.
The computer just provides a convenient way to hide the person actually responsible for the mistake. But it is a human mistake somewhere along the line in all but a hand full of cases.
In a perfect world then we could trace back every event back to the human that caused it though action or inaction and have them spanked appropriately. But we dont live in a perfect world.
In the real world, complex systems behave unexpectedly and often in ways difficult to predict until they occur. This is why we call them "glitches" when we talk about computers. Even technically perfect code or hardware operated exactly as it should be can behave unexpectedly simply because the system is too complex to be able to calculate every single variable under every single circumstance. A design decision to have a 28 character maximum on a name field can cause a failure when a 29 character name is entered. An American designed system will behave badly when given ROTW style dates.
If the government collapses you'll have bigger problems than worrying about whether advertisers know you subscribe to the NYT.
If the US government is going to collapse, you'll be able to cash out long before the currency becomes defunct. Typically when that happens a country has already adopted the currency of another country, whether legitimately or by de facto. If things in the US get bad enough, they'll just start using imported Euro notes for purchases.
Although the US is a long way off from this.
As for buying things anonymously, its not that there aren't ways to do it, there's heaps with cash being first and foremost. The problem is that most people are refusing to use anonymous payment methods because they've been sucked into living in debt for everything (this is going to become apparent as a major issue long, long, looooooong before any governmental collapse and is likely to be the cause of a(nother) financial collapse). When you borrow money for everything, someone else knows all about your spending habits.
Yes, I know the view that people should live within their means is unpopular here in/. but I will not apologise for holding it.
Sounds like both Cook and Apple. They're on overpriced commodity hardware, and playing international games to avoid paying local taxes.
From the US IRS website:
1972: 16.67% of the federal revenue stream from individual income taxes, 25% from corporate taxes
Now: 44+% from income taxes, and 10+% from corporate taxes.
We pay more, so he doesn't have to. Let's go back to the 1972 tax structure, and see how you like *that*, Cook - you'd be in the 72% tax bracket....
mark
Ireland has a mere, 12.5% corporate tax rate, Apple wasn't even paying that.
Seeing as how Apple is involved that would make it:
iRexit
But seriously, this fight should be between the EU and Ireland. Apple did not write Irish tax laws.
Ireland will never leave the EU, especially after witnessing what has happened to the UK... and nothing has even started here yet.
But that's besides the point, Ireland is dependent on EU money to survive. Companies like Apple would flee Ireland exactly 3.2 seconds after they realised how much they'd have to change their tax structure to accommodate the loss of EU income.
India's biggest industrial house has launched its 4G LTE network and is offering unlimited free voice calls forever to anyone who signs up for its services.
If there is a monthly fee for the service then they aren't free. On a unit cost basis (per call) it might be cheap if someone makes a lot of calls but it isn't free. If the network has enough bandwidth the marginal cost of allowing additional calls within the network is a good approximation of zero. There is an upper cap to the amount of bandwidth a single phone can use for voice calling so once the network exceeds that capability there really is no reason to bill by the minute anymore.
By the sounds of it, the way it's being advertised, you pay for network access only (the ability to connect to the network) with maybe text included, voice and data are add on packs. This is not the first country I've seen this done in.
Not everything is advertised in overpriced plans like in the US. Currently paying GBP 12 a month for 2 GB of data (plus some minutes and texts I don't use) on PAYG.
Now the real profit for this telco comes from the customer data that will be sold and the ads that will be sent to customers and injected in their page loads. This crap is, sadly commonplace in most developing countries.
Ambani said, adding that the network is also "future proof" with baked in support for upcoming 5G and 6G network technologies.
Sounds like puffery to me.
In other words, standard marketspeak.
I've never heard a telco advertise an obsolete network even when it's years behind everyone else. Not so long ago in Oz, 2mbit ADSL was "Super Fast(TM)". Kind of laughing at Australia now I live in the UK and get 150mbit fibre, I shouldn't, but those idiots voted in the LNP twice so I'm revelling in the schadenfreude
Are not transactions like this tracked along the way and why can't the banks just reverse all the transactions?
Well two reasons.
Usually by the time that they've figured out that they've been had, the crims have had plenty of time to move the money through fronts, foreign banks and what not to be able to do anything about. Any trace on the money has been lost.
The second reasons is because the banking system would collapse.
Much like certificate authorities in PKI, banks are trustworthy sources. So the entire banking system relies on banks paying their debts. If a bank renegs on what it has agreed to pay after the fact, they become a non-trustworthy source. Other banks and financial institutions will stop accepting payments from that bank. Once people realise that banks cannot be held to their debts, they will stop using it. To reverse a transaction you require the co-operation of all parties involved. A bank transfer is final, apart from a few checks by law enforcement to make sure you're not laundering money, evading tax or funding terrorism once you transfer the money it cant be stopped.
If they had used PKI Encryption and Digital Signatures, technology that has been available for DECADES, they could have authenticated that message properly and prevented spoofing. To be performing transfers based on unauthenticated email is absurd.
If they had of used basic checks by other staff that has been around for MILLENNIA they could have prevented this. One person should not be able to sign off on 40 billion Euro.
But its the same problem with PKI and mail. It would simply cost too much to implement, just as it would cost too much in extra staff to ensure that no-one makes mistakes.
The weak link here isn't the technology, its the people. Its not an email that was tricked into transferring 40 million, it was a person. You cant fix people with technology. If email was secure work they'd move onto the next insecure method of communication and heck, there's plenty of those (Lync/IM, Yammer/Social Media). The problem is that to get a system of people that works costs more than to lose 10,000 Euro here and there.
Weird names and letter combinations no one has a clue what any of them mean.
You people are complaining over one number, try the EVO VIII MR FQ 340... or it's full name, the Mitsubishi Lancer Evoltion VIII MR FQ-340.
There are 3 different models of the EVO VIII MR FQ, a 320, 340 and 400 BHP model. Beyond this you have other marques in the Lancer Evolution line, the RS and GSR in addition to the MR line... Not to mention the normal Lancer saloons (ES).
Hyundai on the other hand tend to have quite simplistic naming conventions.
i10 - City car (A segment)
i20 - Subcompact (B segment)
i30 - Compact (C segment)
i40 - Medium (D segment)
This is a lot less confusing than their previous models (Getz, Sonata, Granduer).
Numbers are an easy way to differentiate between models that are similar but have different engines or levels of tune. A BWM 320i and 328i share the same chassis and engine, but at different tunes (and different turbos IIRC). Its much easier for the consumer than having to guess that the Renault Felcher has a 1.5L N/A and the Renault Clitoris has a 2.0L Turbo.
It's still just a rumor site reporting this. Everybody calm the fuck down.
Easy there tiger, sounds like you're not familiar with the way Slashdot works.
When rumoursite.com publishes a slightly negative rumour of an upcoming Apple product, everyone is like "Apple are such visionaries, removing buttons and speakers are such brilliance and wow, I'm going to cream myself over this for months".
However when it's an Android rumour everyone is like "Holy Squirrelballs am I angry. How dare they think of ADDING things to Android" and then you would hear the gnashing of teeth as they start to gnaw their desks in a fit of rage.
In a few months when the device is released, the rumours were forgotten as they were found to be untrue, except for Apple fanboys who will still cling to any negative reports about Android no matter how untrue they are.
Indeed. Being forced to accept >14 billions from Apple will teach the Irish that this is a bad idea.:-)
But seriously, this will just encourage other countries to do even worse, since now they know they'll get the billions anyway later, it's the best investment one can do.
However Ireland will have to pay most of that back to the EU and receive a firm finger-waggling from ze Germans.
It's really a win-win for Ireland, they get to say "not our fault, the EU made us do it" whilst counting the money in the back room.
All this is pointless hyperventilating by people who understand little about India.
This. People who have never travelled don't understand how these things work in places like India. Everything is corrupt. Everyone takes and makes payouts. No-one rocks the boat.
What has happened is that the movie moguls paid the politicians to make these laws. The politicians took the money and made the law. The law will never be enforced because it relies on the police.
The police also take bribes. So do the judges. Most crimes can be gotten out of with a nominal sum of money. This is why the charges will never be enforced, the worst case scenario is that they're used as a new way to collect bribe money for a little while. Actually enforcing the law is rocking the boat. This means it gets attention, people start asking questions, politicians who took the bribes will be looked at and whilst it's OK to take bribes it's never OK to admit it. The only people untouchable are those who made the bribes for the law... but that is solely due to the fact they have enough money to pay their way out of any trouble they might get in.
It's probably less risky to steal an actual DVD at this point. Hell, target the guys at the market selling the bootlegs. They won't call the cops.
Actually they will.
You see the guy selling bootleg DVD's is paying Officer Sandeep in order to keep doing business, if Officer Sandeep cant protect the people he collects protection money from then all off a sudden the bootleg DVD vendor stops paying.
....these systems are probably already deployed in American train stations and airports, and they won't bother telling us about it. It'll take years just to get details about it through FOIA.
What you've got to remember is that those cameras are owned by private organisations (same as every nightclub, shopping centre, car dealer, so on and so forth) and not subject to FOIA for the most part. Also remember the mantra Private == Good, Government == Baaaad.
Van Halen famously wrote riders into all their contracts (theirs that word again, "contract") that said the brown M&M's were to be removed from the candy bowl before their shows.
Van Halen had a good reason for doing this. Concerts are set up in a matter of hours by contractors that are impossible to vet due to the sheer number of locations and short times between shows. So writing in instructions that seem like whimsy from a rock star demonstrates two things,
1. The venue has read the whole contract.
2. That the contractors can follow instructions.
This is important because you're trusting these venues and their staff to set up complex electrical and pyrotechnic systems. Also no band wants their fans to go home disappointed due to someone fucking up cabling to an amp.
And that is the kind of things unions are really useful for, monitoring and enforcing OH&S (Occupational Health and Safety). I'll be the first to admit that some unions go to excess, but most don't and do perform valuable services, not just to their members but also the company they're working for. Its no accident that unions tend to be popular amongst the more dangerous of jobs, construction, mariners and stevedores, so on and so forth because people can and do get hurt on the job. Unions do minimise this kind of thing, you might think of it as obstruction but in reality we don't just let people die in the street any more because they broke their wrist at work any more. This means that people who have work related injuries become a cost to society at large, that's why unions minimising work related injuries is a good thing.
I didn't exactly hear a lot of tears being shed by Uber drivers over the cab drivers being put out of work.
This.
They supported a scummy company who didn't care about who they stepped on... now are surprised that they're being stepped on next and expect others to fee sympathy for them.
Nope, Uber drivers I'm fresh out of fucks to give. You made this bed, now you lie in it.
I remember reading about how Uber Fanboys would claim that Uber looked out for its drivers, paid fines for them, managed insurance, so on and so forth. This has all turned out to be complete bollocks. Uber capitalised on an irrational hate of a well regulated industry and now we're seeing why that industry had to be so well regulated.
BTW, rental isn't really the right word for how Uber treats its drivers, chattel is closer. Things to be used, then thrown away when no longer convenient or fashionable.
You start going down that road, and quickly you can point out that most laws are interference to the free market. Does this mean there should be no laws against any corporation ever? Just because you don't see the particular point of a given law, it doesn't make them less important to enforce.
Next thing you'll expect him to admit is that other corporations interfere with the free market. Most of the reason we have regulations is because companies have regularly abused people and situations to lock out competitors.
However you'll never get a Libertarian to admit anything could possibly interfere with the all mighty free market even when evidence is staring them in the face.
The reason I dare say most people buy a console for games is they know any game they buy for that console will just-simply-work (unless it's from EA). If you don't mind the upgrade / incompatibility issues, you're probably already bought a PC and play your games there. Why do we need to turn console gaming into yet another version of PC gaming exactly? (other than the obvious - because we want more money)
They've been trying to turn consoles in PC's since the PS2.
Right now, consoles get all the problems with PC games (bad code, release day patches, patches that break everything, hardware issues) without the benefits PC games (mods, expandable storage, mods good graphics, mods, KB and mouse, ability to run without the cloud, no monthly cloud service fees, multitude of vendors to choose from, $10 less for the game, mods oh and did I mention mods).
Microsoft is just taking the next logical step and actually making it a PC, but crappier.
That being said, it's never going to happen. Right now, before release is when a console manufacturer makes all kinds of grandiose statements about how great their consoles will be, they said the PS3 would last 10 years before replacement, the PS4 was out in 5. Every console has claimed to be a PC gaming killer, every console has failed (PC gaming is stronger than ever).
Personally I'm waiting for whatever Nintendo is bringing out. If I want a PC gaming experience, I have a gaming PC... For my consoles, I like them to be consoles.
IMO best combination is PC plus whatever Nintendo console is out at the time. Obviously Nintendo games are never going to come out on another platform, so you need that console for your Marios and your Zeldas etc. But most (maybe 75-80%) of games that come out for one or both of the other two consoles tend to come out on PC as well. So I think if you are restricting yourself to two devices total, PC+Nintendo casts the widest net in terms of 'having the most games available to me'.
Thats because Nintendo makes consoles that are trying to be consoles. Sony and Microsoft are trying to make consoles that are trying to be PC's. That's why Nintendo is doing well despite the Wii U being lacklustre.
Besides this, I still have a Wii, it's the machine that we play when I have non-gamer friends over. The games are pretty fun no matter what your skill level and no-one seems to care that my Wii is 8 years old now.
The Cisco ASA, especially at the lower end is designed for small to medium businesses. A metric shitload of them will be using them as set and forget devices, only updating them when they have to. If they've never had an serious issue with them, they'd still be running older firmware March 2012 is not that log ago. It would have been installed later than that considering that stock in boxes wont have been updated in March 2012.
Sure most businesses would have updated, but dont kid yourself that no-one is running 4 year old firmware and is completely unaware of the problem with that.
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On p. 14, "Cutting the front trunk first responder loop", it shows how to disable the high voltage. Under the hood there is a coiled loop of red wire with a big bright orange label with a picture of wire cutters. You cut the red wire. This shuts down the high voltage system outside of the high voltage battery itself. For extra safety, you cut a section out of it so it won't reconnect accidentally.
IMO they should put this on the first page. But at least it is there.
I'm more concerned about what it more important than that which occupied 14 pages before this.
Apple, Ford, Android, Dell, Intel, et al.
Invariably you'll get the slashdotters whining that N+1 is only an incremental improvement over N without looking at the fact that some people are still on N-5. Skylake may not be the end all be all but if you're coming from Core or Nehalem it's a noticeable improvement.
New owners, you should know by now this isn't the stuff Slashdot is made of. At the minimum tack it on to the actual release story.
The problem is, unlike Ford, Android, Dell, Intel, et.al. that Apple can not advertise the next JebusPhone as simply an N+1, even though it is 100% just an N+1. Apple needs to keep the mouth breathing masses fooled that they are revolutionary. The problem they have is that the RDF has pretty much died off and people are beginning to see that they aren't that great after all.
Also, as you pointed out people generally go from something that was a few generations ago to something current. Someone buying a Ford Focus would notice a huge difference between a 2005 Focus and a 2015 Focus.. Apple however relies on repeat sales to keep its numbers up, around 80% of Iphone purchases are made by people who already had Iphones, this statistic has probably gotten worse since Apple has almost run out of markets to expand into. So people going from N-3 to N is going to hurt them.
The problem apple has is that the Iphone has become too passe. Even someone on benefits can get one (and I mean buying it, not stealing it) and now the RDF has worn off people aren't in a hurry to spend hundreds of pounds to upgrade any more.
Er...two hour flight delays are now Slashdot-worthy? Let me tell you about every other trip I've taken through Chicago then.
Well you see, airlines that are in other parts of the world are typically well organised, this means things like delays are rear events and that makes them newsworthy.
So is this going to be another "computer glitch" where the "computer glitch" was actually an electrical fire caused by power equipment? Everyone is quick to blame computers.
Kind of a pet peeve of mine. For all practical purposes there is no such thing as a "computer error". Computers are machines that do exactly what they were designed and instructed to do. Nearly everything we casually refer to as a "computer glitch" is really a human error once you dig through the abstraction layers. It might be a bad bit of code or a poorly designed piece of hardware or inadequately spec'ed equipment or failure to account for (possibly severe) environmental factors or inadequate data redundancy but at the end of the day these are ALL human errors in reality. We built the machines and told them what to do so if the machines don't function as expected that is at some level the fault of a human.
The computer just provides a convenient way to hide the person actually responsible for the mistake. But it is a human mistake somewhere along the line in all but a hand full of cases.
In a perfect world then we could trace back every event back to the human that caused it though action or inaction and have them spanked appropriately. But we dont live in a perfect world.
In the real world, complex systems behave unexpectedly and often in ways difficult to predict until they occur. This is why we call them "glitches" when we talk about computers. Even technically perfect code or hardware operated exactly as it should be can behave unexpectedly simply because the system is too complex to be able to calculate every single variable under every single circumstance. A design decision to have a 28 character maximum on a name field can cause a failure when a 29 character name is entered. An American designed system will behave badly when given ROTW style dates.
If the government collapses you'll have bigger problems than worrying about whether advertisers know you subscribe to the NYT.
If the US government is going to collapse, you'll be able to cash out long before the currency becomes defunct. Typically when that happens a country has already adopted the currency of another country, whether legitimately or by de facto. If things in the US get bad enough, they'll just start using imported Euro notes for purchases.
/. but I will not apologise for holding it.
Although the US is a long way off from this.
As for buying things anonymously, its not that there aren't ways to do it, there's heaps with cash being first and foremost. The problem is that most people are refusing to use anonymous payment methods because they've been sucked into living in debt for everything (this is going to become apparent as a major issue long, long, looooooong before any governmental collapse and is likely to be the cause of a(nother) financial collapse). When you borrow money for everything, someone else knows all about your spending habits.
Yes, I know the view that people should live within their means is unpopular here in
We're also more intelligent, attractive and funny.
Not to mention richer.
http://www.cnet.com/news/trump...
Well it's based on averages, so imagine just how much more humble and honest the rest of us are knowing Trump is one of our ranks.
Don't mess with powerful people.
To be fair, he only got 4 years in prison. He'll be out in 3 as they need the room for the really dangerous criminals, like copyright infringers.
Had he done the same thing to Putin, he'd have woken up to a Polonium waffle and have shot himself in the back of the head three times
Seriously, he should have been imprisoned just for using the name Guccifer.
Sounds like both Cook and Apple. They're on overpriced commodity hardware, and playing international games to avoid paying local taxes.
From the US IRS website:
1972: 16.67% of the federal revenue stream from individual income taxes, 25% from corporate taxes
Now: 44+% from income taxes, and 10+% from corporate taxes.
We pay more, so he doesn't have to. Let's go back to the 1972 tax structure, and see how you like *that*, Cook - you'd be in the 72% tax bracket....
mark
Ireland has a mere, 12.5% corporate tax rate, Apple wasn't even paying that.
For Irexit.
Seeing as how Apple is involved that would make it:
iRexit
But seriously, this fight should be between the EU and Ireland. Apple did not write Irish tax laws.
Ireland will never leave the EU, especially after witnessing what has happened to the UK... and nothing has even started here yet.
But that's besides the point, Ireland is dependent on EU money to survive. Companies like Apple would flee Ireland exactly 3.2 seconds after they realised how much they'd have to change their tax structure to accommodate the loss of EU income.
India's biggest industrial house has launched its 4G LTE network and is offering unlimited free voice calls forever to anyone who signs up for its services.
If there is a monthly fee for the service then they aren't free. On a unit cost basis (per call) it might be cheap if someone makes a lot of calls but it isn't free. If the network has enough bandwidth the marginal cost of allowing additional calls within the network is a good approximation of zero. There is an upper cap to the amount of bandwidth a single phone can use for voice calling so once the network exceeds that capability there really is no reason to bill by the minute anymore.
By the sounds of it, the way it's being advertised, you pay for network access only (the ability to connect to the network) with maybe text included, voice and data are add on packs. This is not the first country I've seen this done in.
Not everything is advertised in overpriced plans like in the US. Currently paying GBP 12 a month for 2 GB of data (plus some minutes and texts I don't use) on PAYG.
Now the real profit for this telco comes from the customer data that will be sold and the ads that will be sent to customers and injected in their page loads. This crap is, sadly commonplace in most developing countries.
Ambani said, adding that the network is also "future proof" with baked in support for upcoming 5G and 6G network technologies.
Sounds like puffery to me.
In other words, standard marketspeak.
I've never heard a telco advertise an obsolete network even when it's years behind everyone else. Not so long ago in Oz, 2mbit ADSL was "Super Fast(TM)". Kind of laughing at Australia now I live in the UK and get 150mbit fibre, I shouldn't, but those idiots voted in the LNP twice so I'm revelling in the schadenfreude
Are not transactions like this tracked along the way and why can't the banks just reverse all the transactions?
Well two reasons.
Usually by the time that they've figured out that they've been had, the crims have had plenty of time to move the money through fronts, foreign banks and what not to be able to do anything about. Any trace on the money has been lost.
The second reasons is because the banking system would collapse.
Much like certificate authorities in PKI, banks are trustworthy sources. So the entire banking system relies on banks paying their debts. If a bank renegs on what it has agreed to pay after the fact, they become a non-trustworthy source. Other banks and financial institutions will stop accepting payments from that bank. Once people realise that banks cannot be held to their debts, they will stop using it. To reverse a transaction you require the co-operation of all parties involved. A bank transfer is final, apart from a few checks by law enforcement to make sure you're not laundering money, evading tax or funding terrorism once you transfer the money it cant be stopped.
If they had used PKI Encryption and Digital Signatures, technology that has been available for DECADES, they could have authenticated that message properly and prevented spoofing. To be performing transfers based on unauthenticated email is absurd.
If they had of used basic checks by other staff that has been around for MILLENNIA they could have prevented this. One person should not be able to sign off on 40 billion Euro.
But its the same problem with PKI and mail. It would simply cost too much to implement, just as it would cost too much in extra staff to ensure that no-one makes mistakes.
The weak link here isn't the technology, its the people. Its not an email that was tricked into transferring 40 million, it was a person. You cant fix people with technology. If email was secure work they'd move onto the next insecure method of communication and heck, there's plenty of those (Lync/IM, Yammer/Social Media). The problem is that to get a system of people that works costs more than to lose 10,000 Euro here and there.
Weird names and letter combinations no one has a clue what any of them mean.
You people are complaining over one number, try the EVO VIII MR FQ 340... or it's full name, the Mitsubishi Lancer Evoltion VIII MR FQ-340.
There are 3 different models of the EVO VIII MR FQ, a 320, 340 and 400 BHP model. Beyond this you have other marques in the Lancer Evolution line, the RS and GSR in addition to the MR line... Not to mention the normal Lancer saloons (ES).
Hyundai on the other hand tend to have quite simplistic naming conventions.
i10 - City car (A segment)
i20 - Subcompact (B segment)
i30 - Compact (C segment)
i40 - Medium (D segment)
This is a lot less confusing than their previous models (Getz, Sonata, Granduer).
Numbers are an easy way to differentiate between models that are similar but have different engines or levels of tune. A BWM 320i and 328i share the same chassis and engine, but at different tunes (and different turbos IIRC). Its much easier for the consumer than having to guess that the Renault Felcher has a 1.5L N/A and the Renault Clitoris has a 2.0L Turbo.
It's still just a rumor site reporting this. Everybody calm the fuck down.
Easy there tiger, sounds like you're not familiar with the way Slashdot works.
When rumoursite.com publishes a slightly negative rumour of an upcoming Apple product, everyone is like "Apple are such visionaries, removing buttons and speakers are such brilliance and wow, I'm going to cream myself over this for months".
However when it's an Android rumour everyone is like "Holy Squirrelballs am I angry. How dare they think of ADDING things to Android" and then you would hear the gnashing of teeth as they start to gnaw their desks in a fit of rage.
In a few months when the device is released, the rumours were forgotten as they were found to be untrue, except for Apple fanboys who will still cling to any negative reports about Android no matter how untrue they are.
"Long overdue"
Indeed. Being forced to accept >14 billions from Apple will teach the Irish that this is a bad idea. :-)
But seriously, this will just encourage other countries to do even worse, since now they know they'll get the billions anyway later, it's the best investment one can do.
However Ireland will have to pay most of that back to the EU and receive a firm finger-waggling from ze Germans.
It's really a win-win for Ireland, they get to say "not our fault, the EU made us do it" whilst counting the money in the back room.
All this is pointless hyperventilating by people who understand little about India.
This. People who have never travelled don't understand how these things work in places like India. Everything is corrupt. Everyone takes and makes payouts. No-one rocks the boat.
What has happened is that the movie moguls paid the politicians to make these laws. The politicians took the money and made the law. The law will never be enforced because it relies on the police.
The police also take bribes. So do the judges. Most crimes can be gotten out of with a nominal sum of money. This is why the charges will never be enforced, the worst case scenario is that they're used as a new way to collect bribe money for a little while. Actually enforcing the law is rocking the boat. This means it gets attention, people start asking questions, politicians who took the bribes will be looked at and whilst it's OK to take bribes it's never OK to admit it. The only people untouchable are those who made the bribes for the law... but that is solely due to the fact they have enough money to pay their way out of any trouble they might get in.
It's probably less risky to steal an actual DVD at this point. Hell, target the guys at the market selling the bootlegs. They won't call the cops.
Actually they will.
You see the guy selling bootleg DVD's is paying Officer Sandeep in order to keep doing business, if Officer Sandeep cant protect the people he collects protection money from then all off a sudden the bootleg DVD vendor stops paying.
....these systems are probably already deployed in American train stations and airports, and they won't bother telling us about it. It'll take years just to get details about it through FOIA.
What you've got to remember is that those cameras are owned by private organisations (same as every nightclub, shopping centre, car dealer, so on and so forth) and not subject to FOIA for the most part. Also remember the mantra Private == Good, Government == Baaaad.
Van Halen famously wrote riders into all their contracts (theirs that word again, "contract") that said the brown M&M's were to be removed from the candy bowl before their shows.
Van Halen had a good reason for doing this. Concerts are set up in a matter of hours by contractors that are impossible to vet due to the sheer number of locations and short times between shows. So writing in instructions that seem like whimsy from a rock star demonstrates two things,
1. The venue has read the whole contract.
2. That the contractors can follow instructions.
This is important because you're trusting these venues and their staff to set up complex electrical and pyrotechnic systems. Also no band wants their fans to go home disappointed due to someone fucking up cabling to an amp.
And that is the kind of things unions are really useful for, monitoring and enforcing OH&S (Occupational Health and Safety). I'll be the first to admit that some unions go to excess, but most don't and do perform valuable services, not just to their members but also the company they're working for. Its no accident that unions tend to be popular amongst the more dangerous of jobs, construction, mariners and stevedores, so on and so forth because people can and do get hurt on the job. Unions do minimise this kind of thing, you might think of it as obstruction but in reality we don't just let people die in the street any more because they broke their wrist at work any more. This means that people who have work related injuries become a cost to society at large, that's why unions minimising work related injuries is a good thing.
I didn't exactly hear a lot of tears being shed by Uber drivers over the cab drivers being put out of work.
This.
They supported a scummy company who didn't care about who they stepped on... now are surprised that they're being stepped on next and expect others to fee sympathy for them.
Nope, Uber drivers I'm fresh out of fucks to give. You made this bed, now you lie in it.
I remember reading about how Uber Fanboys would claim that Uber looked out for its drivers, paid fines for them, managed insurance, so on and so forth. This has all turned out to be complete bollocks. Uber capitalised on an irrational hate of a well regulated industry and now we're seeing why that industry had to be so well regulated.
BTW, rental isn't really the right word for how Uber treats its drivers, chattel is closer. Things to be used, then thrown away when no longer convenient or fashionable.
You start going down that road, and quickly you can point out that most laws are interference to the free market. Does this mean there should be no laws against any corporation ever? Just because you don't see the particular point of a given law, it doesn't make them less important to enforce.
Next thing you'll expect him to admit is that other corporations interfere with the free market. Most of the reason we have regulations is because companies have regularly abused people and situations to lock out competitors.
However you'll never get a Libertarian to admit anything could possibly interfere with the all mighty free market even when evidence is staring them in the face.
The reason I dare say most people buy a console for games is they know any game they buy for that console will just-simply-work (unless it's from EA). If you don't mind the upgrade / incompatibility issues, you're probably already bought a PC and play your games there. Why do we need to turn console gaming into yet another version of PC gaming exactly? (other than the obvious - because we want more money)
They've been trying to turn consoles in PC's since the PS2.
Right now, consoles get all the problems with PC games (bad code, release day patches, patches that break everything, hardware issues) without the benefits PC games (mods, expandable storage, mods good graphics, mods, KB and mouse, ability to run without the cloud, no monthly cloud service fees, multitude of vendors to choose from, $10 less for the game, mods oh and did I mention mods).
Microsoft is just taking the next logical step and actually making it a PC, but crappier.
That being said, it's never going to happen. Right now, before release is when a console manufacturer makes all kinds of grandiose statements about how great their consoles will be, they said the PS3 would last 10 years before replacement, the PS4 was out in 5. Every console has claimed to be a PC gaming killer, every console has failed (PC gaming is stronger than ever).
Personally I'm waiting for whatever Nintendo is bringing out. If I want a PC gaming experience, I have a gaming PC... For my consoles, I like them to be consoles.
IMO best combination is PC plus whatever Nintendo console is out at the time. Obviously Nintendo games are never going to come out on another platform, so you need that console for your Marios and your Zeldas etc. But most (maybe 75-80%) of games that come out for one or both of the other two consoles tend to come out on PC as well. So I think if you are restricting yourself to two devices total, PC+Nintendo casts the widest net in terms of 'having the most games available to me'.
Thats because Nintendo makes consoles that are trying to be consoles. Sony and Microsoft are trying to make consoles that are trying to be PC's. That's why Nintendo is doing well despite the Wii U being lacklustre.
Besides this, I still have a Wii, it's the machine that we play when I have non-gamer friends over. The games are pretty fun no matter what your skill level and no-one seems to care that my Wii is 8 years old now.
Why would anybody still be running 8.0 - 8.4 ??
The Cisco ASA, especially at the lower end is designed for small to medium businesses. A metric shitload of them will be using them as set and forget devices, only updating them when they have to. If they've never had an serious issue with them, they'd still be running older firmware March 2012 is not that log ago. It would have been installed later than that considering that stock in boxes wont have been updated in March 2012.
Sure most businesses would have updated, but dont kid yourself that no-one is running 4 year old firmware and is completely unaware of the problem with that.