- Headphone port will no longer break if you yank the cord sideways.
Was this really an issue with Iphones?
I've owned all manner of Android phones, MP3 devices and Walkmans and never had this happen. I got my first CD Walkman in 1997 back in Australia... You meant to tell me an Iphone not but 15 years later than my CD Walkman is far more fragile?
In ever 3.5mm port I've ever owned, the headphone has been the first thing to break.
I never heard about people being that stupid when cruise control was introduced into the mainstream. Autopilot, as it stands, is a smarter form of cruise control (it basically helps you maintain the speed without your foot on the pedal but it's a bit fancier than a fixed speed)
People did back in the day. You're probably too young to remember but people with their expensive Mercedes rear ending an old Ford in the 80's tried this excuse. Judges back then were harder to buy, so it resulted in Yuppies having their licenses take off them.
People are smart enough now to know that admitting that they were relying on lane assist is admitting they weren't paying attention and don't know how to drive. Much better to remain silent and hope that blame falls onto the other guy (usually doesn't). People are too lazy to drive, but will go to the ends of the earth to avoid liability.
In most places 5G (in currently envisioned form) will not happen at all due to economics of it. Outside of Japan and such we simply do not have population density to justify putting a cell unit at every lamp post (because signal is short range and does not go through walls very well).
So maybe New York and such, but that's probably it...
You're still thinking that xG is a measurement of technology. It hasn't been that way for years.
What they mean when they say 5G is that the as of the date of the marketing release, their network will be called 5G.
A 540-pound motorcycle pays $0.0013/mile
A 3,470-pound SUV pays $0.347/mile
An 80,000 pound semi trailer pays $4,252/mile
There are two problems with your system, which is why It's never been implemented.
1. The minute you tax by the mile people will all start faking their mileage. Its easy to roll back the odometer and hard to enforce on a large scale.
2. Everything we buy is delivered by a lorry. If we taxed lorries even more then we will have to pay much higher prices at the till for everything.
The closest thing to the system you describe are fuel taxes. A person who travels more will buy more fuel, also heavier cars will use more fuel. This system also has the benefit of being easily implemented and enforced.
People against this idea who say "I'm a small government conservative and I don't believe in giving people free stuff" miss the point entirely; this saves money and reduces the size of government in turn. Anyone who has moral problem with saving money by helping people is likely an Ayn Rand fan or an asshole, but probably both;)
People who say "I'm a small government conservative and I don't believe in giving people free stuff" really mean to say "I'm a greedy motherfucker who wants all the benefits of modern society whilst getting away with not paying for as much of it as possible".
We offered food to someone who said they NEEDED money for food. They rejected the kindness with cursing.
We've all read that anecdote before. I once offered a friend a bite of my sandwich because it was really good, but he said he didn't like turkey. I learned my lesson, and now I never offer to let my friends taste my food. Problem solved!
Or maybe we should find what works for a range of situations and apply the solution that fits best in that moment? Instead of handing out bags of cash, perhaps start with an interview with a social worker trained for this, and directly pay their rent/mortgage/car/bills. Work with local grocery stores to buy groceries. It ain't rocket science.
The reason we use currency is because that method of barter is stupidly inefficient.
Governments have tried for years using various methods from "basics" debit cards to food stamps and continually failed. The financial cost of trying limit what people on welfare could do outweighed the financial gains in every case. Not even considering the social costs. Welfare recipients who wanted booze or drugs turned to barter or crime to get it.
The truth the Daily Mail hates to admit about welfare/benefits is that very few recipients abuse them so the cost of chasing benefit cheats outweighs the money that can be saved and recouped from it.
Giving a place to stay for the homeless, yes, that is much safer.
The point is to help people avoid becoming homeless in the first place--and save money to boot.
Ultimately this is the goal. Its a simple case of prevention is better than cure.
The problem is the idea of helping someone sticks in the craw of Constipated Angry Conservatives.
I don't think "own" means what you think it means:-). If there were no government, you would "own" something until someone with a bigger club comes around. If there is a government obeying the rule of law, you "own" something until your ownership is removed by due legal process. Expropriation is limited in scope and requires renumeration (U.S.C. 5th amendment: "Nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."), so ownership is more than a temporary lease, but it is certainly no unlimited perpetual right. Hint: there's not an awful lot of those:).
I'm pretty sure own doesn't mean what you think it does either.
Own implies permanency, a once off payment for a non-limited time. For limited use or possession we have specific words for them like "lease", "rent" or "hire".
A car is a prime example, when I lease a car I gain exclusive access to that car for a limited time as defined by the lease. When I own a car, I have that car for as long as I want to own it for.
For the ownership of my car to be revoked, circumstances need to be exceptional. BMW cant simply pop up at my house in a year or so and say "that 2 series you gave us 40,000 quid for, well we're just going to take it back" like so-called "content owners" do.
Not sure about the Netherlands but in most countries to own something puts it beyond the control of the sellers after the sale is completed and this is enforced by the courts with the utmost seriousness.
Volunteer. 95% of your "friends" on facebook are anything but that.
Speak for yourself.
100% of my Facebook friends are my actual friends. I only add people I am actually friends with, I don't add estranged relatives, casual acquaintances, workmates or random strangers. Sure I've only got 50 Facebook friends instead of 500, but they're actually friends who care about me.
As a side effect, I my news feed isn't filled with game requests and other pointless bollocks. I choose my friends well.
Facebook gives you 100% control over who you add as a "friend"... so if 95% of your friends are anything but, that is entirely your own doing.
As someone who is on the tail end of a 700 computer migration from WinXP to Win7, I feel their pain. A single critical program that won't run on Win7 can be a showstopper. Not to mention special hardware for which no Win7 drivers are available - all of a sudden that $120 upgrade cost for a Win7 license became $25,120 when you include the cost of a new laser engraver.
I completely agree with your point but if you've got an SA or other enterprise or SMB licensing agreement with Microsoft then your upgrade licenses are $0. If you're buying OEM with 50, let alone 500 desktops you're doing it wrong.
But I do agree with your point, the major cost in doing any kind of upgrade comes in support and ancillary costs, not in the upgrade itself.
I've been in the "1st class" lounges in the US and Australia, and they lump in all the eligible people into a single lounge.
There are some concierge services that require showing higher permissions, but those are few, and inconsistent.
That's US and Australian airlines. People who travel on those airlines are so classless they could be a communist utopia.
Try flying someone like Singapore, they separate their business and first class lounges and their business class lounges are better than any others I've seen, especially in Changi.
Then again, there isn't a credit card I know of that will get you entry (unless it's paying a fee) so you need to have a business class ticket or be a Krisflyer member with status... which you only get with flying Singapore with some regularity.
In addition to the drastically higher of pollution their cars have been spewing for years, millions of people bought these under false pretenses and will now be saddled with weaker acceleration, reduced fuel efficiency and severely lower resale value (in fact the bulk of the settlement is reserved for to fund buybacks of the vehicles at pre-scandal prices).
Yes, but they're diesel drivers so they're already used to slow, inefficient vehicles whose used prices are lower than the approval rating of cholera.
Walmart doesn't need to turbo charge its commerce site. It needs to rewrite it? Have you tried searching for something in its online catalog? It's like a trip to Altavista circa 1995.
To use the correct car analogy, they don't need to turbocharge (one word, turbocharge is one word) their e-commerce, they need an engine swap, replacement suspension and new body panels.
A power outage in Atlanta at about 2.30 a.m. local time is said to be the cause of computer outage.
Kind of amazing they haven't figured out how to make their system redundant, distributed, and/or robust. It makes zero sense that a power outage in Atlanta should have any effect on a flight going from Salt Lake City to Seattle. If this was the first time something like this had ever happened I could see them being caught off guard but stuff like this is nothing new and multiple airlines have been affected. You would imagine that having a robust network would be job number 1 for their IT people since one failure like this can easily cost tens of millions of dollars.
I wouldn't be so fast to lay this at the feet of IT.
I'm certain they wanted to make it robust, distributed and redundant but that all costs money. When PHB's with MBA's see IT as a cost centre, they see all this redundancy as "waste" to be cut back. Budgets are reduced and so are capabilities.
This is the kind of stupidity I see from American companies all the time. Here in Europe, computer downtime like this for a mere hour costs millions of pounds for an airline as they become liable not just for refunds, but also for extra costs as travel insurers pay large sums of money to get people where they're supposed to go. The reinsurers will then send their lawyers to present the airline with a nice bill.
You don't hack a card any more than you bake a car.
At best you can call it a colloquialism based on a gross misunderstanding. I prefer to call it ignorance and irresponsibility.
The "hack" in this case is just reading the card number, expiry date and name from the card. You can get that information in a variety of ways, hijacked/fraudulent card readers, RFID chips, just reading the front of the card. This is information the card gives out freely. So you have to be sure that where you use your card is secure.
Its not a hack, it's fraud.
This guy had his card details stolen because he was stupid. He wasn't paying attention to where he is (I will only use my card in an ATM in developing nations, everywhere else gets cash... and I'm very selective about my ATMs too). Its not Rio's fault he got scammed, it's his fault for not knowing how to handle Rio.
Beyond that, he'll refuse to take responsibility for himself thinking "the bank will take care of me" meanwhile the bank is trying to figure out how to make someone else pay for it.
The biggest problem the BBC has is with non UK users using the iplayer.
The biggest problem they have is not directly offering non-UK users a subscription package. Otherwise, your only choice is to pay for an entire 2nd-tier cable package (BBC America) just for access to a small sample of their programming.
The BBC in the UK is not permitted to do so.
They don't have a mandate to do it and they license out their programs to other countries, which always comes with a non-compete (as why would you watch Strictly Come Dancing with ads when you can stream it without ads).
I dont disagree with your point however, but having lived in the commonwealth we dont have these 2nd tier cable thingo's you're talking about and most good BBC programs end up on the ABC.
If a proper PKI system was used, then it would be possible to program the car to a new fob, by having the fob transmit its public key to the car, and having the car add it to the authorization database.
The locks in the car are read only for obvious reasons. Its not exactly like PKI, it's just the best analogy. All the security is in the key, not the car.
Keys are actually pretty easy to clone if you've got the original, however the equipment needed to do this is heavy (starting with a workbench and a vice) as well as the fact that if a thief gets their hands on the original key, why not just use that to steal the car?
The old TV detector vans were a hoax to scare people into getting a TV licence. Enforcement was actually done by visiting addresses with no record of a licence. This is another con.
Exactly what I thought.
Hoax, at best a few empty vans driving round with TVLicensing.co.uk written on them. Maybe a HMRC logo to make it look official. A packet size is not going to convict anyone.
The biggest problem the BBC has is with non UK users using the iplayer.
but is there a reason it's so easy to reprogram the key fobs to start a car? I mean, my bloody credit card has a chip in it for Pete's sake and I got it free with my account. Heck my crummy bank card has one.
Usually they aren't. What they're doing here is essentially cloning key fob's from a master.
If you lose all your keys, the only way to replace them is to replace the entire locking system as you cant clone keys from the system in the car. It's a bit like PKI, the car contains the public key, the fob contains the private key.
Of course this is Fiat-Chrysler we're talking about here, so the security is likely to be designed by drunken monkeys.
People like you who like to pontificate from their ivory tower eventually get their comeuppance.
Ivory tower?
Have you listened to yourself. I encourage taking responsibility for your personal finances and living within your means and I live in an Ivory tower.
If I have more than you, it is because I have worked for it and been smarter with my finances than you have. You need to climb off your entitlement horse and get over it.
You don't seem to know what an ivory tower is... And yes, I am reaping what I sow, which is a nice life with minimal debt.
People like you are always jealous of what others have achieved through hard work and good decisions, that is not my problem.
Forget your bullshit socio-economic-policital-technobabble explanations. This isn't about cell-phones, or aids, or sex-ed, or work-life balances, or aids, or gender studies, or social media, or tv shows, or Donald fucking Trump!
It's the economy stupid.
Younger Millenials are fucked. They have less jobs, less stable jobs, less income, more debt
I was with you up until here.
Getting into debt is a personal choice. Granted society has made it easier and pushes credit more but it is still the choice of the person taking out credit. I was born in the early 80's, I avoid debt if I can. I took the bus until I could save up enough for driving lessons, I bought an old Civic as my first car, I have saved up and paid cash for all but my second car. I avoid using my credit card, if I don't have the money for something then I simply don't buy it. Sure I didn't have the same amount of toys in my 20's but now I'm in my 30's I've got more toys and more money.
I dont have credit bills to pay at the end of the month, I pay my insurances annually and in advance... Debt should be used for investment, not consumption (including a home in this). Having a crapload of crippling debt in your 20's is not a problem caused by economic mismanagement, it's poor personal finance planning.
If I lost my job tomorrow, I can pay the rent and buy food for 6 months with the money I have in the bank... and that is on my current budget, I could probably last 12 months if I cut back on the luxuries. This isn't touching my investments either.
As much as I agree with you, The Baby Boomers, Gen X and Y had some very good days in the 90's and 00's, I benefited from it as well and people in their 20's have it much tougher now... but choosing to get into debt is not a part of that.
But even 2011 (a strong La Nina, thus the contrary of an El Nino) was hotter than 2008.
ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation) don't determine or even directly correlate with global temperatures. It affects local weather paterns across Austrlaia and South America. The further away from the Pacific you get the less the effects. In Perth, WA an ENSO event changed little that was noticeable however in New South Wales, it makes a noticeable effect on tempratures and rainfall.
Stronger and more frequent ENSO events are seen as being an effect, not a cause or measurement of climate change.
The 16-digit system is ridiculous. If you're going to use your card online, or in restaurants, etc. your card number is quasi-public.
That is what PCI-DSS is for. Only six digits are required to be censored for a card number to be secure. Hell, the first six digits of your number is just identifying information.
For me, yes. Local credit union. 1% cash back on everything, no annual fee, low interest on the card. I make $50-$100 a year from using my credit card.
LoL...
You actually believe the bank is giving you free money? Where do you think this cash "back" coming from?
No, I can already tell that you have no clue. So let me hit you with the clue by four.
The cash "back" actually comes from you. You see the banks figured out long ago that they can charge you as many fees as they like as long as you don't know you're paying them. They know if they charge you for using it, you wont use the card so instead they charge the merchant for accepting the card. Then they put these little "incentives" to encorage you to use it and make you get angry at merchants who dont accept cards.
You see the thing is that the merchant pays 2-6% for accepting the card which, by the terms of his agreement with the banks, he has to build into his prices. So you're getting 1% back of the up to 6% you're spending to use the card.
And the best part, the sheer Machiavellian brilliance of it is that you'll sit there and defend it until you're blue in the face because you've never been a merchant and have no idea how bad the fees are.
When I ran a business, accepting credit cards dwarfed my staffing costs.
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What I want is a system that beeps loudly before a traffic light goes green so that idiots will drop their phone before I have to beep them.
Then again, this is for an Audi, so it will be used to ensure that they can drive right up my chuff from the moment the light goes green.
- Headphone port will no longer break if you yank the cord sideways.
Was this really an issue with Iphones?
I've owned all manner of Android phones, MP3 devices and Walkmans and never had this happen. I got my first CD Walkman in 1997 back in Australia... You meant to tell me an Iphone not but 15 years later than my CD Walkman is far more fragile?
In ever 3.5mm port I've ever owned, the headphone has been the first thing to break.
I never heard about people being that stupid when cruise control was introduced into the mainstream. Autopilot, as it stands, is a smarter form of cruise control (it basically helps you maintain the speed without your foot on the pedal but it's a bit fancier than a fixed speed)
People did back in the day. You're probably too young to remember but people with their expensive Mercedes rear ending an old Ford in the 80's tried this excuse. Judges back then were harder to buy, so it resulted in Yuppies having their licenses take off them.
People are smart enough now to know that admitting that they were relying on lane assist is admitting they weren't paying attention and don't know how to drive. Much better to remain silent and hope that blame falls onto the other guy (usually doesn't). People are too lazy to drive, but will go to the ends of the earth to avoid liability.
In most places 5G (in currently envisioned form) will not happen at all due to economics of it. Outside of Japan and such we simply do not have population density to justify putting a cell unit at every lamp post (because signal is short range and does not go through walls very well).
So maybe New York and such, but that's probably it...
You're still thinking that xG is a measurement of technology. It hasn't been that way for years.
What they mean when they say 5G is that the as of the date of the marketing release, their network will be called 5G.
Because road wear is a function of the fourth power of the weight, the fees should be:
A 540-pound motorcycle pays $0.0013/mile
A 3,470-pound SUV pays $0.347/mile
An 80,000 pound semi trailer pays $4,252/mile
There are two problems with your system, which is why It's never been implemented.
1. The minute you tax by the mile people will all start faking their mileage. Its easy to roll back the odometer and hard to enforce on a large scale.
2. Everything we buy is delivered by a lorry. If we taxed lorries even more then we will have to pay much higher prices at the till for everything.
The closest thing to the system you describe are fuel taxes. A person who travels more will buy more fuel, also heavier cars will use more fuel. This system also has the benefit of being easily implemented and enforced.
People against this idea who say "I'm a small government conservative and I don't believe in giving people free stuff" miss the point entirely; this saves money and reduces the size of government in turn. Anyone who has moral problem with saving money by helping people is likely an Ayn Rand fan or an asshole, but probably both;)
People who say "I'm a small government conservative and I don't believe in giving people free stuff" really mean to say "I'm a greedy motherfucker who wants all the benefits of modern society whilst getting away with not paying for as much of it as possible".
We offered food to someone who said they NEEDED money for food. They rejected the kindness with cursing.
We've all read that anecdote before. I once offered a friend a bite of my sandwich because it was really good, but he said he didn't like turkey. I learned my lesson, and now I never offer to let my friends taste my food. Problem solved!
Or maybe we should find what works for a range of situations and apply the solution that fits best in that moment? Instead of handing out bags of cash, perhaps start with an interview with a social worker trained for this, and directly pay their rent/mortgage/car/bills. Work with local grocery stores to buy groceries. It ain't rocket science.
The reason we use currency is because that method of barter is stupidly inefficient.
Governments have tried for years using various methods from "basics" debit cards to food stamps and continually failed. The financial cost of trying limit what people on welfare could do outweighed the financial gains in every case. Not even considering the social costs. Welfare recipients who wanted booze or drugs turned to barter or crime to get it.
The truth the Daily Mail hates to admit about welfare/benefits is that very few recipients abuse them so the cost of chasing benefit cheats outweighs the money that can be saved and recouped from it.
Giving a place to stay for the homeless, yes, that is much safer.
The point is to help people avoid becoming homeless in the first place--and save money to boot.
Ultimately this is the goal. Its a simple case of prevention is better than cure.
The problem is the idea of helping someone sticks in the craw of Constipated Angry Conservatives.
I don't think "own" means what you think it means :-). If there were no government, you would "own" something until someone with a bigger club comes around. If there is a government obeying the rule of law, you "own" something until your ownership is removed by due legal process. Expropriation is limited in scope and requires renumeration (U.S.C. 5th amendment: "Nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."), so ownership is more than a temporary lease, but it is certainly no unlimited perpetual right. Hint: there's not an awful lot of those :).
I'm pretty sure own doesn't mean what you think it does either.
Own implies permanency, a once off payment for a non-limited time. For limited use or possession we have specific words for them like "lease", "rent" or "hire".
A car is a prime example, when I lease a car I gain exclusive access to that car for a limited time as defined by the lease. When I own a car, I have that car for as long as I want to own it for.
For the ownership of my car to be revoked, circumstances need to be exceptional. BMW cant simply pop up at my house in a year or so and say "that 2 series you gave us 40,000 quid for, well we're just going to take it back" like so-called "content owners" do.
Not sure about the Netherlands but in most countries to own something puts it beyond the control of the sellers after the sale is completed and this is enforced by the courts with the utmost seriousness.
Volunteer. 95% of your "friends" on facebook are anything but that.
Speak for yourself.
100% of my Facebook friends are my actual friends. I only add people I am actually friends with, I don't add estranged relatives, casual acquaintances, workmates or random strangers. Sure I've only got 50 Facebook friends instead of 500, but they're actually friends who care about me.
As a side effect, I my news feed isn't filled with game requests and other pointless bollocks. I choose my friends well.
Facebook gives you 100% control over who you add as a "friend"... so if 95% of your friends are anything but, that is entirely your own doing.
As someone who is on the tail end of a 700 computer migration from WinXP to Win7, I feel their pain. A single critical program that won't run on Win7 can be a showstopper. Not to mention special hardware for which no Win7 drivers are available - all of a sudden that $120 upgrade cost for a Win7 license became $25,120 when you include the cost of a new laser engraver.
I completely agree with your point but if you've got an SA or other enterprise or SMB licensing agreement with Microsoft then your upgrade licenses are $0. If you're buying OEM with 50, let alone 500 desktops you're doing it wrong.
But I do agree with your point, the major cost in doing any kind of upgrade comes in support and ancillary costs, not in the upgrade itself.
I've been in the "1st class" lounges in the US and Australia, and they lump in all the eligible people into a single lounge. There are some concierge services that require showing higher permissions, but those are few, and inconsistent.
That's US and Australian airlines. People who travel on those airlines are so classless they could be a communist utopia.
Try flying someone like Singapore, they separate their business and first class lounges and their business class lounges are better than any others I've seen, especially in Changi.
Then again, there isn't a credit card I know of that will get you entry (unless it's paying a fee) so you need to have a business class ticket or be a Krisflyer member with status... which you only get with flying Singapore with some regularity.
In addition to the drastically higher of pollution their cars have been spewing for years, millions of people bought these under false pretenses and will now be saddled with weaker acceleration, reduced fuel efficiency and severely lower resale value (in fact the bulk of the settlement is reserved for to fund buybacks of the vehicles at pre-scandal prices).
Yes, but they're diesel drivers so they're already used to slow, inefficient vehicles whose used prices are lower than the approval rating of cholera.
Walmart doesn't need to turbo charge its commerce site. It needs to rewrite it? Have you tried searching for something in its online catalog? It's like a trip to Altavista circa 1995.
To use the correct car analogy, they don't need to turbocharge (one word, turbocharge is one word) their e-commerce, they need an engine swap, replacement suspension and new body panels.
A power outage in Atlanta at about 2.30 a.m. local time is said to be the cause of computer outage.
Kind of amazing they haven't figured out how to make their system redundant, distributed, and/or robust. It makes zero sense that a power outage in Atlanta should have any effect on a flight going from Salt Lake City to Seattle. If this was the first time something like this had ever happened I could see them being caught off guard but stuff like this is nothing new and multiple airlines have been affected. You would imagine that having a robust network would be job number 1 for their IT people since one failure like this can easily cost tens of millions of dollars.
I wouldn't be so fast to lay this at the feet of IT.
I'm certain they wanted to make it robust, distributed and redundant but that all costs money. When PHB's with MBA's see IT as a cost centre, they see all this redundancy as "waste" to be cut back. Budgets are reduced and so are capabilities.
This is the kind of stupidity I see from American companies all the time. Here in Europe, computer downtime like this for a mere hour costs millions of pounds for an airline as they become liable not just for refunds, but also for extra costs as travel insurers pay large sums of money to get people where they're supposed to go. The reinsurers will then send their lawyers to present the airline with a nice bill.
that his card was hacked
You don't hack a card any more than you bake a car.
At best you can call it a colloquialism based on a gross misunderstanding. I prefer to call it ignorance and irresponsibility.
The "hack" in this case is just reading the card number, expiry date and name from the card. You can get that information in a variety of ways, hijacked/fraudulent card readers, RFID chips, just reading the front of the card. This is information the card gives out freely. So you have to be sure that where you use your card is secure.
Its not a hack, it's fraud.
This guy had his card details stolen because he was stupid. He wasn't paying attention to where he is (I will only use my card in an ATM in developing nations, everywhere else gets cash... and I'm very selective about my ATMs too). Its not Rio's fault he got scammed, it's his fault for not knowing how to handle Rio.
Beyond that, he'll refuse to take responsibility for himself thinking "the bank will take care of me" meanwhile the bank is trying to figure out how to make someone else pay for it.
The biggest problem the BBC has is with non UK users using the iplayer.
The biggest problem they have is not directly offering non-UK users a subscription package. Otherwise, your only choice is to pay for an entire 2nd-tier cable package (BBC America) just for access to a small sample of their programming.
The BBC in the UK is not permitted to do so.
They don't have a mandate to do it and they license out their programs to other countries, which always comes with a non-compete (as why would you watch Strictly Come Dancing with ads when you can stream it without ads).
I dont disagree with your point however, but having lived in the commonwealth we dont have these 2nd tier cable thingo's you're talking about and most good BBC programs end up on the ABC.
If a proper PKI system was used, then it would be possible to program the car to a new fob, by having the fob transmit its public key to the car, and having the car add it to the authorization database.
The locks in the car are read only for obvious reasons. Its not exactly like PKI, it's just the best analogy. All the security is in the key, not the car. Keys are actually pretty easy to clone if you've got the original, however the equipment needed to do this is heavy (starting with a workbench and a vice) as well as the fact that if a thief gets their hands on the original key, why not just use that to steal the car?
Because you're AMERICAN, that's why.
Actually I'm Australian.
And I did it because I like antagonising Grammar Nazi's.
The old TV detector vans were a hoax to scare people into getting a TV licence. Enforcement was actually done by visiting addresses with no record of a licence. This is another con.
Exactly what I thought.
Hoax, at best a few empty vans driving round with TVLicensing.co.uk written on them. Maybe a HMRC logo to make it look official. A packet size is not going to convict anyone.
The biggest problem the BBC has is with non UK users using the iplayer.
but is there a reason it's so easy to reprogram the key fobs to start a car? I mean, my bloody credit card has a chip in it for Pete's sake and I got it free with my account. Heck my crummy bank card has one.
Usually they aren't. What they're doing here is essentially cloning key fob's from a master.
If you lose all your keys, the only way to replace them is to replace the entire locking system as you cant clone keys from the system in the car. It's a bit like PKI, the car contains the public key, the fob contains the private key.
Of course this is Fiat-Chrysler we're talking about here, so the security is likely to be designed by drunken monkeys.
People like you who like to pontificate from their ivory tower eventually get their comeuppance.
Ivory tower?
Have you listened to yourself. I encourage taking responsibility for your personal finances and living within your means and I live in an Ivory tower.
If I have more than you, it is because I have worked for it and been smarter with my finances than you have. You need to climb off your entitlement horse and get over it.
You don't seem to know what an ivory tower is... And yes, I am reaping what I sow, which is a nice life with minimal debt.
People like you are always jealous of what others have achieved through hard work and good decisions, that is not my problem.
Read. My. Lips.
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No.
Money.
Forget your bullshit socio-economic-policital-technobabble explanations. This isn't about cell-phones, or aids, or sex-ed, or work-life balances, or aids, or gender studies, or social media, or tv shows, or Donald fucking Trump!
It's the economy stupid.
Younger Millenials are fucked. They have less jobs, less stable jobs, less income, more debt
I was with you up until here.
Getting into debt is a personal choice. Granted society has made it easier and pushes credit more but it is still the choice of the person taking out credit. I was born in the early 80's, I avoid debt if I can. I took the bus until I could save up enough for driving lessons, I bought an old Civic as my first car, I have saved up and paid cash for all but my second car. I avoid using my credit card, if I don't have the money for something then I simply don't buy it. Sure I didn't have the same amount of toys in my 20's but now I'm in my 30's I've got more toys and more money.
I dont have credit bills to pay at the end of the month, I pay my insurances annually and in advance... Debt should be used for investment, not consumption (including a home in this). Having a crapload of crippling debt in your 20's is not a problem caused by economic mismanagement, it's poor personal finance planning.
If I lost my job tomorrow, I can pay the rent and buy food for 6 months with the money I have in the bank... and that is on my current budget, I could probably last 12 months if I cut back on the luxuries. This isn't touching my investments either.
As much as I agree with you, The Baby Boomers, Gen X and Y had some very good days in the 90's and 00's, I benefited from it as well and people in their 20's have it much tougher now... but choosing to get into debt is not a part of that.
But even 2011 (a strong La Nina, thus the contrary of an El Nino) was hotter than 2008.
ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation) don't determine or even directly correlate with global temperatures. It affects local weather paterns across Austrlaia and South America. The further away from the Pacific you get the less the effects. In Perth, WA an ENSO event changed little that was noticeable however in New South Wales, it makes a noticeable effect on tempratures and rainfall.
Stronger and more frequent ENSO events are seen as being an effect, not a cause or measurement of climate change.
The 16-digit system is ridiculous. If you're going to use your card online, or in restaurants, etc. your card number is quasi-public.
That is what PCI-DSS is for. Only six digits are required to be censored for a card number to be secure. Hell, the first six digits of your number is just identifying information.
For me, yes. Local credit union. 1% cash back on everything, no annual fee, low interest on the card. I make $50-$100 a year from using my credit card.
LoL...
You actually believe the bank is giving you free money? Where do you think this cash "back" coming from?
No, I can already tell that you have no clue. So let me hit you with the clue by four.
The cash "back" actually comes from you. You see the banks figured out long ago that they can charge you as many fees as they like as long as you don't know you're paying them. They know if they charge you for using it, you wont use the card so instead they charge the merchant for accepting the card. Then they put these little "incentives" to encorage you to use it and make you get angry at merchants who dont accept cards.
You see the thing is that the merchant pays 2-6% for accepting the card which, by the terms of his agreement with the banks, he has to build into his prices. So you're getting 1% back of the up to 6% you're spending to use the card.
And the best part, the sheer Machiavellian brilliance of it is that you'll sit there and defend it until you're blue in the face because you've never been a merchant and have no idea how bad the fees are.
When I ran a business, accepting credit cards dwarfed my staffing costs.