You can currently get an OUI/DWI for sitting in a non-functional vehicle while drunk. You do not even have to be in the passenger seat. Numerous articles have shown the absurdity of these laws over the years. What I suggest is, if you are going to park while drunk, that you get out and put the keys on the antenna stalk and then get back in the vehicle and drink. Then you do not have control or potential to control the vehicle as you do not have the means to start it. Blame MADD. I considered starting DAMM (Drunks Against Mad Mothers) but never got around to it.
I worked in traffic modeling. The roundabout (rotary) that you speak of is known by a technical name. "Pants-on-head Retarded." The term may not suit a layman but it is the vernacular of the experts. I would absolutely abhor being tasked the the algorithm creation to autonomously navigate such. I would, on the other hand, tackle it manually if given a chance to do so. I have driven in the UK but never been near any of the few intersections. They are one of those ideas that look good on paper but are absolutely mind bogglingly stupid when they go beyond the concept phase.
Self-awareness in Los Angeles? Ha! Surely you jest... San Fransisco will become self-aware and pretentious. Well, more so. However, I do not see LA becoming self-aware.;)
How much did you pay for your first computer? How about your first RAM upgrade? I paid $400 to buy 4 MB of EDO RAM. 4 MB.... Today, for the same price, I could easily buy 2,048 times the RAM. That is assuming a price of $50/GB which is a rather easy price point to match. I regularly spent thousands of dollars on hardware that is a trivial portion of today's hardware.
I guess my point is that you are mistaken. Some things do go down in price. I have features in my car that were very expensive when they first came out - they are now standard or less expensive. Economies of scale are real and do matter. Look at the price of ABS and airbags. There was a time when you could get driver's side only airbags because they were damned expensive. (No, honey, I am getting the airbag - it's just fine if you die, we can't afford both sides.) Now we get airbags in front, on the side, and in the seats at little or no extra cost. The price is factored into the car, yes, but it is cheaper to make the car with them than it is to make a custom version without.
I have "lived" in hotels across the country and in other countries. I have done so for long stretches at a time. We do, sort of, live in hotels - we call them apartments. Why not, specifically, live in hotels (ignoring that some do)? Because most are not suites and we like to have more than a kitchenette and a shower or maybe just two interconnected rooms. On the other hand, the gripping one, we have rented out whole floors on adventures such as Further Fest. That was kind of interesting, and exhausting, but I would not imagine that it would be great for long-term living.
My license is insured for $1,000,000 USD comprehensively. Meaning, full coverage, if I drive *any* vehicle it is covered by my insurance even if I do not own the vehicle. It is fully covered so if I get drunk and take out a hobo then I am fully insured - they will even pay up to $250,000 for my legal assistance. The cost is about $125/mo actually. However, I have taken many different driving courses and my MOS was, for a spell, 3505 which was motor pool. I drove a number of different vehicles and they had a variety of important people in them at times. I have taken pretty much every available driving course in the nation as driving is a passion (as are the vehicles) for me. I have absolutely zero at-fault accidents on my record and that record spans a lot of years - over 40. I have had one moving infraction in my life, long since off my record, and no infractions otherwise including no parking violations.
Insurance options exist and they are not all that expensive even in my country. So, yeah, I am supporting what you are saying. It was not much more expensive to go from the $250,000 insurance up to the level I am at now. I seem to recall that it was only about an extra $15/mo for the increased coverage. I could picture it being vastly more expensive (if I were to ever get caught doing the many stupid things I do, for example) but I have been fortunate. How I got/get away with the many illegal things I do is beyond me. It is not entirely uncommon for me to see the radar equipped signs and try to peg them at the 99 mph display limit. My friends and I call it "going for the high score." I have been known to do much worse. Given my age and some math I would say that 85% of my driving has been done while under the influence. (I no longer drink or use drugs.) Somehow, I have never ever been violated or caused an accident or even been in an accident that was determined to be my fault.
This site says 'most.' Maine uses Surety Bonding and is a fairly simple process. I just insure my license to maximum comprehensive coverage (which is rather expensive) but I own about 20 working/restored vehicles as they are a passion for me. I have another half dozen but they are either being restored or will be restored in the future when I find someone who can be safely tasked with the job. I just bought a well-maintained old '78 Chevy cum Tow Truck that is my next project. I have never owned a tow truck before. I plan on lifting it, throwing some TrxUs under it, replacing the winches, and helping extract (getting towed is for wimps) my friends from giant bogs or mud holes.
I will likely buy an electric car, such is not feasible where I live currently -- the tech is not there, and I will certainly buy an automated vehicle when I can. I will likely be an early adopted just to hack at it and see what I can do with it. Retirement and selling your business make for fun times.
Put the car in neutral. Turning it off is a bad, horrifically so, idea. You will cut power to the brakes and steering and may lock the steering wheel by going to far. Neutral is also closer. You are going to want to steer the vehicle to a safe spot. Having no power steering is going to make that more difficult.
Felons are barred from running for the office of President, correct?
You can be a lawyer who has been disbarred, though.
Not as far as I know. The requirements for presidency are natural citizenship and age. Some states disallow felons from voting and holding office. This is not universal and not at the federal level. Practicality comes into play, however, as a felon is unlikely to be elected president.
I love watching people play video games but I have not found watching competitions all that fun. I do not even play games any more. I just like watching them. I actually have a PS3 and an X Box One set up for people to play when they stop over. I do not even know how to play any of the games except for a golf game and I do not even really play that. Ah well... I do like watching people play fighting games such as the Street Fighter line of games. I used to play Street Fighter a lot but, still, I do not play at all now though I could probably figure it out. I like watching driving games as well but not the GTA series. I also enjoy watching people play RPGs quite a bit. I think that is my favorite but it takes more time.
I have been saying that I would watch a second 'Olympics' where it was known that the participants were taking performance enhancing drugs. It would be awesome. They could have their own records and everything so they would not be competing against those who remained stimulant-free. Obviously we would have to stick to strictly legal drugs, a drawback in my opinion, so we would not be having folks snorting a gram of high-quality coke before going out for a dead-lift competition. At the other end of the spectrum there would be weed smokers doing the triple jump and people on PCP doing shot puts. Even more amusing would be the psilocybin users trying to do free-style swim events. I would be all for that.
It would be even more amusing if they had the same sort of competition at the Special Olympics. What could be more glorious than Down's Syndrome kids who have willfully ingested high-grade LSD and are now trying to run track? Before you say that they can not make such a choice I would like to remind you that we are already coercing them to engage in the Special Olympics anyways so either they have a choice or they do not. Is it no more "cruel" to allow some of them to participate after ingesting a cocktail of drugs? I say it is not... You're already capitalizing on their behavior, you might as well allow them the freedom to participate in my fictional competition too.
It is not likely that any of this is ever going to happen. Still, I really would like to see a bunch of meth-heads playing American football and marijuana smoking golfers. Feed a soccer team a bunch of cocaine and watch the ensuing fun! I would go back to watching television just to help pay for such events. I submit that there is no rational person on the planet who would not watch such events. No, not one rational person would be anywhere other than glued to the spectacle. The official sponsorship and advertisements are sure to be an added bonus.
I am not sure why but people seem to, in my observation, be prone to making this mistake. They seem to think that "narcotics" means all drugs. Really, narco would be sleep. Cocaine should not really be classed as a narcotic but some due because it induces physical numbness. My understanding is that the numbness was originally defined as a mental state. Opiates are narcotics. Amphetamines are not. The media is not helping. Some drugs fit in multiple categories and that probably does not help either as few are going to be stuffed enough to learn the differences. Cocaine should probably be in the analgesic and stimulant categories I suppose.
Valid point though I think it would be a bit silly to need an app that would have to save two different file types. To do what you are suggesting means that there would need to be a source file, the one the author created, and then that would have to be "compiled" (for lack of a better term) to the PDF format. I suppose one could just forgo the source file but then they would have to recreate it if they wanted to edit it at a future date. That means they would need an application that not only produced an output in PDF format but would also need to have a format like PDFX to save the source for future editing because the PDF format was locked to read only and unable to be edited according to your suggestion.
I do not see a benefit in needing to save a PDF document in two formats just to be able to make edits to the document in the future. As you are suggesting making the format a read-only format (impossible) there does not seem to be any benefit. Again, perhaps, I am missing something or you can explain yourself more clearly. I am not trying to be obtuse, I do not generally do so, and I am legitimately curious as to where you are going with this and what prompts you to think that this is, in any way, helpful.
The idea seems a bit silly to me and I am not seeing any benefit to this at all. Not to mention, there are no files that can not be edited. You may break or mangle the file but you can edit it. I have yet to see a single file that can not be edited. I submit that you can not even make a file that can not be edited. You can assign permissions to a file that make it difficult to edit but those permissions can be changed and there are many hex-editors available to download online.
If I were to make a suggestion about PDF readers, not creators and where I think the changes need to be made if any changes are to be made at all, they should not be allowed to execute code of any type beyond that of the interpreter. They should be sandboxed and have no access to anything beyond their scope - no access to external libraries or anything outside of their memory space. They should not be able to lock anything nor allowed to load anything without user confirmation. Then, at the most, one should only need to worry about overflowing a buffer and causing a crash that does not allow privilege escalation or interrupts outside of its memory space.
Nothing, at all, that it does should be allowed to interact with anything other than the interpreter itself. PDFReader.exe (I am making that name up) should not be allowed to do anything other than access itself and the file it is opening.
Perhaps that is what you mean by making it read-only? At some point, however, there is going to be a need to generate and edit PDF files. If you make the files read-only then you have to create a second file to create the actual file. I am trying to guess what it is that you mean.
Perhaps you mean that the PDF reader (say PDFReader.exe), itself, should only be allowed to read files? If that is the case then I fully agree. That is very different than making the file read-only though. The first is practical and would likely have great security benefits, the second one? Not so much really and probably not something that could rationally be created or used.
A better argument might be for open standards thus negating the need for PDF in the first place because things would just render properly across multiple platforms. I think the world would be a better place if there were properly implemented standards that worked across all the platforms and rendered files as the author intended. Getting there is, as we can see, neigh-on-impossible even in the open source world.
Update: I went out, started the car, got out, put the key on the shelf in the garage, and drove away. I was able to drive to the end of my driveway, about a half mile, and then down the road for a bit. I turned around and drove back. I put the car in the garage, turned it off, and retrieved my key from the shelf.
What I have seen has been them only breaking into the cars. They have not, yet, been able to get them started I do not believe. If they do get them started they can drive them without limit though. I have tested my car and am able to drive part way down my driveway and back with the key fob sitting on the porch the whole time. The reason is safety, as I understand from a Top Gear episode, in that you do not want the car stopping unexpectedly. Once it is started, and moving, there is no way to be sure that cutting the power is a safe thing to do so once it is started you are good to go until you cut power to the engine.
In the Top Gear episode the younger one took the vehicle of the long-haired one and drove it around to the back of the restaurant and hid it there. It was able to be started because they were parked in front of the restaurant and long-hair's fob was close enough for him to start it even though he was in the bathroom at the time. I saw the episode and decided to test it out and it worked. I did not test it at any great length or anything nor did I go particularly far but I passed a distance that should certainly have been greater than the fob's signal was able to reach. It was not a scientific test or anything, I was just curious. I can test it further if needed. It is not as if I have any more pressing matters, so if you're curious...
if the format was read-only how would people create and edit the files? Collaboration would be unnecessarily complicated. They would have to send the source files and have a separate program for editing in a different format then the format than the output file type. That seems... Well... Nonsensical... What am I missing? I must be missing something... That may be because I do not use Adobe's PDF reader? On Windows systems I use Foxit Reader and Evince on my Linux boxes.
That would be needlessly risky. Not that this means the cops would not do it. However, such a feature would be potentially disastrous. I have heard mention of the police wanting this feature in the past. I believe, sometime in the late 1990s, there was some talk of law enforcement wanting such to be mandatory on all vehicles and the idea was shut down. They claimed they would only use it when it was deemed appropriate and safe. I do not think too many people fell for it at the time. Perhaps they should have tried again after 9/11? Never let a tragedy go to waste and all that...
I seem to recall that OnStar can only disable a parked vehicle and is only used for tracking purposes (currently). Tracking also means eavesdropping. I have not bothered to search for a reference, it is not that important, but I also seem to recall law enforcement getting a warrant (this came out in the public investigation or during the trial) to remotely enable the microphone and record the conversations inside the vehicle.
I seem to recall the gist of the story being that they were challenging the validity of the evidence because people not included in the warrant's specifics were also subjected to monitoring. The judge basically told them to GTFO as lawful wiretapping warrants already included recoding of non-targeted individuals. It was no different than regular wiretaps because it was being done in a car.
Anyhow, it seems odd that cops would want to use a disable function for a moving vehicle. They do so with bait cars but that is done at very low speeds, when the car is first started, and only done in "safe" areas. I could see theoretical safe uses for that feature but the existing methods work well enough that the risks just do not outweigh the potential benefits. Not that this means that they would not do it or that you are incorrect. It just means that it is a horrifically stupid idea and those practicing it or advocating it are either malicious, stupid, illogical, or a combination of all three.
Well, it could have been a bug. It could have been a number of reasons I suppose - though I'd define them all as bugs. My immediate guess would not be that it was security related but it could have been that too. Also, 'autopiolet?' Not to worry, I am fluent in typo (and make enough of my own) and I am conversational in Engrish, but not really fluent, so it is all good.
Did anyone review (I am sure they must have) the flight data records? Have the records been made public so that they can be reviewed? Has the investigation had an official response or was there even an official investigation? I do not recall them grounding the planes so it makes me think that there was nothing too serious which is why I do not think it was a security issue. A security issue would have resulted in an immediate grounding of ALL of Boeing's planes of that model and would have been effective immediately. The FAA is not known for playing around.
Opera, even now with it's current WebKit incarnation, has had an 'icon' that showed which tabs had playing media. It has had this feature for quite a while now. It does not allow you to mute it, AFAIK, but it does let you see which tab is blurting out sound and allow you to navigate to it quickly. Opera always gets the cool features first, they just suck at monopolizing on this.
It would be nice to see CPU/RAM usage. I seem to recall that Chromium does this. I typically just use a single browser across all platforms. I have found the sync functionality to be especially handy because of this.
Of course, I say that but I am actually making this post in Lynx. No, I do not have a good reason for doing so. (Does anyone have a good reason for using Lynx?) I am doing it just because I feel inferior for having never tried to post to/. with Lynx before. So, no, I have no good reason...
This comment, and others like it (you are not that special), are why I have been coming to Slashdot for all these years. Hell, I read the site as a "consumer" for years and years and then joined some years ago when I finally felt the urge to comment. Most of the time I do not read the entire summary and I almost never read the article. I read the site for the comments and it fills my urge for 'people watching.' The comments from others who are experts in such diverse areas is why I come here.
Folks say that the quality of the site has gone downhill. Objectively, I disagree. It was never a panacea, one always needed to find the jewels in the rough and find the gems that met their needs, and the SNR ratio may be a little different but it is not definitely so. Grits and Netcraft were well and good. Today we have cows and appers (Where is the app apper need apps guy anyhow?). The trivial comments still vastly outnumber the nuggets of information and insight. They are not gone and the value of the site, to me at least, is as high as it has ever been. Perhaps expectations have changed? I do not think the content, the users and comments, have really changed much.
I seem to recall people pining for the old days even back as far as 20 years ago.
I am not sure why I threaded this below this comment. I guess it made me think of it and I was reading a bunch of complaints earlier where people fondly recalled the fictional past. Things were better when I was a kid... No, no they weren't. We just view the past with rose-tinted glasses and forget about all the bad things.
Also, I should try posting from Lynx... Seeing as I am this far off topic. I have never done that. I think I shall...
I can say, with reasonable certainty, that they use the tried and true engineering method known, technically, as "willie nillie." There is likely a sensor to determine if the pump is working properly and has a high enough pressure. This obviously will need to be connected to the O2 sensors, brakes, brake lights, and the CD to FM switch. Reading the code via OBDII will get you "BOOBIES" if you flip it upside down but that is not a joke - it is an actual requirement, it controls the HUD (right side only) which is where they give instructions on how to check the tire pressure but do not actually give you the readout.
Actually, my current choice of manufacturer does a very good job - so far. I replace my BMW every second year as I like to keep up with the tech and that seems to be the sweet spot for trade-in value as I tend to be a high-mileage driver. I do not know what, if anything, they are doing right but they seem to be doing pretty well and I am happy with the company. I still have time to change my mind and go pick up my new one after it has been built and I have been considering doing so as I have also been offered a tour of the factory which includes seeing my actual vehicle get finished and then wait while they complete the testing. As I ordered a 640Li I am seriously considering doing so and then spending another week on Germany and going to play on the Nürburgring. (I love the US International Keyboard Layout. Hopefully the lack of UTF-8 support does not kill it or mangle it.)
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You can currently get an OUI/DWI for sitting in a non-functional vehicle while drunk. You do not even have to be in the passenger seat. Numerous articles have shown the absurdity of these laws over the years. What I suggest is, if you are going to park while drunk, that you get out and put the keys on the antenna stalk and then get back in the vehicle and drink. Then you do not have control or potential to control the vehicle as you do not have the means to start it. Blame MADD. I considered starting DAMM (Drunks Against Mad Mothers) but never got around to it.
I worked in traffic modeling. The roundabout (rotary) that you speak of is known by a technical name. "Pants-on-head Retarded." The term may not suit a layman but it is the vernacular of the experts. I would absolutely abhor being tasked the the algorithm creation to autonomously navigate such. I would, on the other hand, tackle it manually if given a chance to do so. I have driven in the UK but never been near any of the few intersections. They are one of those ideas that look good on paper but are absolutely mind bogglingly stupid when they go beyond the concept phase.
Self-awareness in Los Angeles? Ha! Surely you jest... San Fransisco will become self-aware and pretentious. Well, more so. However, I do not see LA becoming self-aware. ;)
How much did you pay for your first computer? How about your first RAM upgrade? I paid $400 to buy 4 MB of EDO RAM. 4 MB.... Today, for the same price, I could easily buy 2,048 times the RAM. That is assuming a price of $50/GB which is a rather easy price point to match. I regularly spent thousands of dollars on hardware that is a trivial portion of today's hardware.
I guess my point is that you are mistaken. Some things do go down in price. I have features in my car that were very expensive when they first came out - they are now standard or less expensive. Economies of scale are real and do matter. Look at the price of ABS and airbags. There was a time when you could get driver's side only airbags because they were damned expensive. (No, honey, I am getting the airbag - it's just fine if you die, we can't afford both sides.) Now we get airbags in front, on the side, and in the seats at little or no extra cost. The price is factored into the car, yes, but it is cheaper to make the car with them than it is to make a custom version without.
I have "lived" in hotels across the country and in other countries. I have done so for long stretches at a time. We do, sort of, live in hotels - we call them apartments. Why not, specifically, live in hotels (ignoring that some do)? Because most are not suites and we like to have more than a kitchenette and a shower or maybe just two interconnected rooms. On the other hand, the gripping one, we have rented out whole floors on adventures such as Further Fest. That was kind of interesting, and exhausting, but I would not imagine that it would be great for long-term living.
My license is insured for $1,000,000 USD comprehensively. Meaning, full coverage, if I drive *any* vehicle it is covered by my insurance even if I do not own the vehicle. It is fully covered so if I get drunk and take out a hobo then I am fully insured - they will even pay up to $250,000 for my legal assistance. The cost is about $125/mo actually. However, I have taken many different driving courses and my MOS was, for a spell, 3505 which was motor pool. I drove a number of different vehicles and they had a variety of important people in them at times. I have taken pretty much every available driving course in the nation as driving is a passion (as are the vehicles) for me. I have absolutely zero at-fault accidents on my record and that record spans a lot of years - over 40. I have had one moving infraction in my life, long since off my record, and no infractions otherwise including no parking violations.
Insurance options exist and they are not all that expensive even in my country. So, yeah, I am supporting what you are saying. It was not much more expensive to go from the $250,000 insurance up to the level I am at now. I seem to recall that it was only about an extra $15/mo for the increased coverage. I could picture it being vastly more expensive (if I were to ever get caught doing the many stupid things I do, for example) but I have been fortunate. How I got/get away with the many illegal things I do is beyond me. It is not entirely uncommon for me to see the radar equipped signs and try to peg them at the 99 mph display limit. My friends and I call it "going for the high score." I have been known to do much worse. Given my age and some math I would say that 85% of my driving has been done while under the influence. (I no longer drink or use drugs.) Somehow, I have never ever been violated or caused an accident or even been in an accident that was determined to be my fault.
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This site says 'most.' Maine uses Surety Bonding and is a fairly simple process. I just insure my license to maximum comprehensive coverage (which is rather expensive) but I own about 20 working/restored vehicles as they are a passion for me. I have another half dozen but they are either being restored or will be restored in the future when I find someone who can be safely tasked with the job. I just bought a well-maintained old '78 Chevy cum Tow Truck that is my next project. I have never owned a tow truck before. I plan on lifting it, throwing some TrxUs under it, replacing the winches, and helping extract (getting towed is for wimps) my friends from giant bogs or mud holes.
I will likely buy an electric car, such is not feasible where I live currently -- the tech is not there, and I will certainly buy an automated vehicle when I can. I will likely be an early adopted just to hack at it and see what I can do with it. Retirement and selling your business make for fun times.
Put the car in neutral. Turning it off is a bad, horrifically so, idea. You will cut power to the brakes and steering and may lock the steering wheel by going to far. Neutral is also closer. You are going to want to steer the vehicle to a safe spot. Having no power steering is going to make that more difficult.
Unless you are driving a truck with an obstructed view you do not use your mirrors to parallel park.
All the way left, all the way right, small turns to get it started the opposite direction if you have a trailer.
I have an embarrassing amount of ammunition. I am not really a gun nut though. At least not by ordinary definition.
Felons are barred from running for the office of President, correct?
You can be a lawyer who has been disbarred, though.
Not as far as I know. The requirements for presidency are natural citizenship and age. Some states disallow felons from voting and holding office. This is not universal and not at the federal level. Practicality comes into play, however, as a felon is unlikely to be elected president.
I love watching people play video games but I have not found watching competitions all that fun. I do not even play games any more. I just like watching them. I actually have a PS3 and an X Box One set up for people to play when they stop over. I do not even know how to play any of the games except for a golf game and I do not even really play that. Ah well... I do like watching people play fighting games such as the Street Fighter line of games. I used to play Street Fighter a lot but, still, I do not play at all now though I could probably figure it out. I like watching driving games as well but not the GTA series. I also enjoy watching people play RPGs quite a bit. I think that is my favorite but it takes more time.
I have been saying that I would watch a second 'Olympics' where it was known that the participants were taking performance enhancing drugs. It would be awesome. They could have their own records and everything so they would not be competing against those who remained stimulant-free. Obviously we would have to stick to strictly legal drugs, a drawback in my opinion, so we would not be having folks snorting a gram of high-quality coke before going out for a dead-lift competition. At the other end of the spectrum there would be weed smokers doing the triple jump and people on PCP doing shot puts. Even more amusing would be the psilocybin users trying to do free-style swim events. I would be all for that.
It would be even more amusing if they had the same sort of competition at the Special Olympics. What could be more glorious than Down's Syndrome kids who have willfully ingested high-grade LSD and are now trying to run track? Before you say that they can not make such a choice I would like to remind you that we are already coercing them to engage in the Special Olympics anyways so either they have a choice or they do not. Is it no more "cruel" to allow some of them to participate after ingesting a cocktail of drugs? I say it is not... You're already capitalizing on their behavior, you might as well allow them the freedom to participate in my fictional competition too.
It is not likely that any of this is ever going to happen. Still, I really would like to see a bunch of meth-heads playing American football and marijuana smoking golfers. Feed a soccer team a bunch of cocaine and watch the ensuing fun! I would go back to watching television just to help pay for such events. I submit that there is no rational person on the planet who would not watch such events. No, not one rational person would be anywhere other than glued to the spectacle. The official sponsorship and advertisements are sure to be an added bonus.
I am not sure why but people seem to, in my observation, be prone to making this mistake. They seem to think that "narcotics" means all drugs. Really, narco would be sleep. Cocaine should not really be classed as a narcotic but some due because it induces physical numbness. My understanding is that the numbness was originally defined as a mental state. Opiates are narcotics. Amphetamines are not. The media is not helping. Some drugs fit in multiple categories and that probably does not help either as few are going to be stuffed enough to learn the differences. Cocaine should probably be in the analgesic and stimulant categories I suppose.
Valid point though I think it would be a bit silly to need an app that would have to save two different file types. To do what you are suggesting means that there would need to be a source file, the one the author created, and then that would have to be "compiled" (for lack of a better term) to the PDF format. I suppose one could just forgo the source file but then they would have to recreate it if they wanted to edit it at a future date. That means they would need an application that not only produced an output in PDF format but would also need to have a format like PDFX to save the source for future editing because the PDF format was locked to read only and unable to be edited according to your suggestion.
I do not see a benefit in needing to save a PDF document in two formats just to be able to make edits to the document in the future. As you are suggesting making the format a read-only format (impossible) there does not seem to be any benefit. Again, perhaps, I am missing something or you can explain yourself more clearly. I am not trying to be obtuse, I do not generally do so, and I am legitimately curious as to where you are going with this and what prompts you to think that this is, in any way, helpful.
The idea seems a bit silly to me and I am not seeing any benefit to this at all. Not to mention, there are no files that can not be edited. You may break or mangle the file but you can edit it. I have yet to see a single file that can not be edited. I submit that you can not even make a file that can not be edited. You can assign permissions to a file that make it difficult to edit but those permissions can be changed and there are many hex-editors available to download online.
If I were to make a suggestion about PDF readers, not creators and where I think the changes need to be made if any changes are to be made at all, they should not be allowed to execute code of any type beyond that of the interpreter. They should be sandboxed and have no access to anything beyond their scope - no access to external libraries or anything outside of their memory space. They should not be able to lock anything nor allowed to load anything without user confirmation. Then, at the most, one should only need to worry about overflowing a buffer and causing a crash that does not allow privilege escalation or interrupts outside of its memory space.
Nothing, at all, that it does should be allowed to interact with anything other than the interpreter itself. PDFReader.exe (I am making that name up) should not be allowed to do anything other than access itself and the file it is opening.
Perhaps that is what you mean by making it read-only? At some point, however, there is going to be a need to generate and edit PDF files. If you make the files read-only then you have to create a second file to create the actual file. I am trying to guess what it is that you mean.
Perhaps you mean that the PDF reader (say PDFReader.exe), itself, should only be allowed to read files? If that is the case then I fully agree. That is very different than making the file read-only though. The first is practical and would likely have great security benefits, the second one? Not so much really and probably not something that could rationally be created or used.
A better argument might be for open standards thus negating the need for PDF in the first place because things would just render properly across multiple platforms. I think the world would be a better place if there were properly implemented standards that worked across all the platforms and rendered files as the author intended. Getting there is, as we can see, neigh-on-impossible even in the open source world.
Update: I went out, started the car, got out, put the key on the shelf in the garage, and drove away. I was able to drive to the end of my driveway, about a half mile, and then down the road for a bit. I turned around and drove back. I put the car in the garage, turned it off, and retrieved my key from the shelf.
What I have seen has been them only breaking into the cars. They have not, yet, been able to get them started I do not believe. If they do get them started they can drive them without limit though. I have tested my car and am able to drive part way down my driveway and back with the key fob sitting on the porch the whole time. The reason is safety, as I understand from a Top Gear episode, in that you do not want the car stopping unexpectedly. Once it is started, and moving, there is no way to be sure that cutting the power is a safe thing to do so once it is started you are good to go until you cut power to the engine.
In the Top Gear episode the younger one took the vehicle of the long-haired one and drove it around to the back of the restaurant and hid it there. It was able to be started because they were parked in front of the restaurant and long-hair's fob was close enough for him to start it even though he was in the bathroom at the time. I saw the episode and decided to test it out and it worked. I did not test it at any great length or anything nor did I go particularly far but I passed a distance that should certainly have been greater than the fob's signal was able to reach. It was not a scientific test or anything, I was just curious. I can test it further if needed. It is not as if I have any more pressing matters, so if you're curious...
if the format was read-only how would people create and edit the files? Collaboration would be unnecessarily complicated. They would have to send the source files and have a separate program for editing in a different format then the format than the output file type. That seems... Well... Nonsensical... What am I missing? I must be missing something... That may be because I do not use Adobe's PDF reader? On Windows systems I use Foxit Reader and Evince on my Linux boxes.
That would be needlessly risky. Not that this means the cops would not do it. However, such a feature would be potentially disastrous. I have heard mention of the police wanting this feature in the past. I believe, sometime in the late 1990s, there was some talk of law enforcement wanting such to be mandatory on all vehicles and the idea was shut down. They claimed they would only use it when it was deemed appropriate and safe. I do not think too many people fell for it at the time. Perhaps they should have tried again after 9/11? Never let a tragedy go to waste and all that...
I seem to recall that OnStar can only disable a parked vehicle and is only used for tracking purposes (currently). Tracking also means eavesdropping. I have not bothered to search for a reference, it is not that important, but I also seem to recall law enforcement getting a warrant (this came out in the public investigation or during the trial) to remotely enable the microphone and record the conversations inside the vehicle.
I seem to recall the gist of the story being that they were challenging the validity of the evidence because people not included in the warrant's specifics were also subjected to monitoring. The judge basically told them to GTFO as lawful wiretapping warrants already included recoding of non-targeted individuals. It was no different than regular wiretaps because it was being done in a car.
Anyhow, it seems odd that cops would want to use a disable function for a moving vehicle. They do so with bait cars but that is done at very low speeds, when the car is first started, and only done in "safe" areas. I could see theoretical safe uses for that feature but the existing methods work well enough that the risks just do not outweigh the potential benefits. Not that this means that they would not do it or that you are incorrect. It just means that it is a horrifically stupid idea and those practicing it or advocating it are either malicious, stupid, illogical, or a combination of all three.
Well, it could have been a bug. It could have been a number of reasons I suppose - though I'd define them all as bugs. My immediate guess would not be that it was security related but it could have been that too. Also, 'autopiolet?' Not to worry, I am fluent in typo (and make enough of my own) and I am conversational in Engrish, but not really fluent, so it is all good.
Did anyone review (I am sure they must have) the flight data records? Have the records been made public so that they can be reviewed? Has the investigation had an official response or was there even an official investigation? I do not recall them grounding the planes so it makes me think that there was nothing too serious which is why I do not think it was a security issue. A security issue would have resulted in an immediate grounding of ALL of Boeing's planes of that model and would have been effective immediately. The FAA is not known for playing around.
Opera, even now with it's current WebKit incarnation, has had an 'icon' that showed which tabs had playing media. It has had this feature for quite a while now. It does not allow you to mute it, AFAIK, but it does let you see which tab is blurting out sound and allow you to navigate to it quickly. Opera always gets the cool features first, they just suck at monopolizing on this.
It would be nice to see CPU/RAM usage. I seem to recall that Chromium does this. I typically just use a single browser across all platforms. I have found the sync functionality to be especially handy because of this.
Of course, I say that but I am actually making this post in Lynx. No, I do not have a good reason for doing so. (Does anyone have a good reason for using Lynx?) I am doing it just because I feel inferior for having never tried to post to /. with Lynx before. So, no, I have no good reason...
Well, this is a whole lot like work. Note to self: Do not use Lynx to post to the internet. I should know this already...
This comment, and others like it (you are not that special), are why I have been coming to Slashdot for all these years. Hell, I read the site as a "consumer" for years and years and then joined some years ago when I finally felt the urge to comment. Most of the time I do not read the entire summary and I almost never read the article. I read the site for the comments and it fills my urge for 'people watching.' The comments from others who are experts in such diverse areas is why I come here.
Folks say that the quality of the site has gone downhill. Objectively, I disagree. It was never a panacea, one always needed to find the jewels in the rough and find the gems that met their needs, and the SNR ratio may be a little different but it is not definitely so. Grits and Netcraft were well and good. Today we have cows and appers (Where is the app apper need apps guy anyhow?). The trivial comments still vastly outnumber the nuggets of information and insight. They are not gone and the value of the site, to me at least, is as high as it has ever been. Perhaps expectations have changed? I do not think the content, the users and comments, have really changed much.
I seem to recall people pining for the old days even back as far as 20 years ago.
I am not sure why I threaded this below this comment. I guess it made me think of it and I was reading a bunch of complaints earlier where people fondly recalled the fictional past. Things were better when I was a kid... No, no they weren't. We just view the past with rose-tinted glasses and forget about all the bad things.
Also, I should try posting from Lynx... Seeing as I am this far off topic. I have never done that. I think I shall...
I can say, with reasonable certainty, that they use the tried and true engineering method known, technically, as "willie nillie." There is likely a sensor to determine if the pump is working properly and has a high enough pressure. This obviously will need to be connected to the O2 sensors, brakes, brake lights, and the CD to FM switch. Reading the code via OBDII will get you "BOOBIES" if you flip it upside down but that is not a joke - it is an actual requirement, it controls the HUD (right side only) which is where they give instructions on how to check the tire pressure but do not actually give you the readout.
Actually, my current choice of manufacturer does a very good job - so far. I replace my BMW every second year as I like to keep up with the tech and that seems to be the sweet spot for trade-in value as I tend to be a high-mileage driver. I do not know what, if anything, they are doing right but they seem to be doing pretty well and I am happy with the company. I still have time to change my mind and go pick up my new one after it has been built and I have been considering doing so as I have also been offered a tour of the factory which includes seeing my actual vehicle get finished and then wait while they complete the testing. As I ordered a 640Li I am seriously considering doing so and then spending another week on Germany and going to play on the Nürburgring. (I love the US International Keyboard Layout. Hopefully the lack of UTF-8 support does not kill it or mangle it.)