Posts by Eddy Ito

Re: Why do we shoot the messenger still?

Messing with milking and seeding machines may not seem to be an issue but it is messing with the food supply and potentially bankrupting to large portions of said supply. Economically this is not that much different than hacking the power grid but may have a delayed impact and not readily noticeable until an entire years yield is halved or more. Sure people might not suddenly die en masse but it's one of those potentially hidden failures that gets written off as bad luck until it really becomes serious.

Re: I would like to know

@27escape

I wouldn't recommend it for electric cars in general, or any car for that matter. One problem is that if it has a gearbox or differential of any kind it is likely vented which means water can enter the gearbox. Of course with water being heavier than oil, the oil will float on the water and if it fills with water push the oil out the vent entirely. Needless to say, water doesn't lubricate metal parts anywhere near as well as oil. The same is true for the wheel bearings, constant velocity joints, etc. I grant that most are now permanently lubricated and sealed so it becomes a question of what pressure those seals will take and for how long before allowing water inside. I've seen many a boat on the side of the road with a wheel missing because the owner didn't think to maintain the bearings on the trailer after a trip down the launch ramp.

Granted if one has no alternative and finds oneself in a wash there's little harm in trying to get out just be sure to give it a good once over afterward to make sure the seals and lubrication is cared for.

Re: Dirty tactics?

All you've said is either the red team hires better hackers or has better security than the blue team. Although that would also explain why Feinstein wants to ban encryption, she knows the blue team doesn't do it well. LOL

Re: Case..

Why leave out other similar glyphs like Greek and Cyrillic? "0391.xpm" and "0410.xpm".

Re: Careful what you wish, you may regret it! Careful waht you wish, you just might get it!

But it isn't open and transparent to the public, just the hackers. If the hackers would release the information then we, the electorate, would have a more open and transparent election and potentially government. Like the government types like to say when prattling to the hoi palloi, "if you've done nothing wrong then you've got nothing to hide."

Re: Guns don't kill people.... @Waldo Kitty

Timothy McVeigh managed to kill 168 and injure over 600 without firing a shot. Ramzi Yousef et al. killed 6 and injured over 1000. The list goes on and includes this twisted individuals "home boys" at the Boston Marathon. If we're lucky they'll stick with guns since the perpetrators often die in a shootout at the end where bombers tend to walk off free to repeat the performance.

Re: LAPD and the LA Sheriff took in more than all of Oklahoma

For completeness, the average per person taking for the entire U.S. is $7.65 and each state averages $6.73 with a median of $5.43.

Re: Complimentary system reset

It's because while they say "system reset" what they mean is "dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/dba"

Re: Simple solution

Pah, too easy. It's mostly about the bribes and corporate sponsorship. The corruption is simply there to grease the wheels for the whole nationalism bit. I guess there's a little sportsmanship involved but fortunately that's largely restricted to the actual athletes.

Besides, Rio is a nice place although I do wonder how they got suckered into footing the bill for this whole thing. I just wish LA would figure out what a tax sink 2024 would be like Boston did should they actually win.

You've all missed the plot. Today it's a pistol or two which was sneaked on campus but tomorrow it's a drone that can seek out an individual or group and set off a substantial explosive (perhaps directional) killing one or many. Yes, today you may feel the enemy is the "gun/pistol" which is today's tool but tomorrow you'll blame a different tool and I'm fairly confident it's going to be small airborne vehicles that can be launched from the parking lot and the perpetrator can remain largely anonymous. Ted Kaczynski would have loved the future.

Not anonymous because I'm not unstable and I've been counted on table 15.

Re: What a freakin' mess....

Let's also not forget that the DNC is just trying to complete their deal with HRC in return for her supporting Obama on his first go round. That meant that she was supposed to be unopposed this year and as an outsider Sanders wasn't obliged to follow. Unfortunately he's a bit too left for most folks on the D side but he'll get my vote come 7 June. In essence, there wasn't supposed to be a choice for voters in the D sector.

Equally unfortunate the R group thought it wise to put up a bunch of super-Christian clowns clones and The Donald so not a whole lot of real choices there either. In the end I'll have Johnson or maybe even McAfee in the Libertarian party to collect my protest vote.

Re: in theory...

I see the biggest change as the FDA reclassifying stair climbing wheelchairs as Class II medical devices from Class III. That alone will save a ton of dollars on the next iteration and should make it substantially cheaper to produce.

Re: Meanwhile, in Mongolia

@SkippyBing

Probably tough to melt snow at -50 when all you've got for heat is burning dung.

Scoring system

It will depend greatly upon what you hit next and how many pedestrians you've collected along the way. Remember, while smaller pedestrians present a smaller target, large pedestrians do block more of your vision which ups the difficulty. As always, a large fraction of the score will depend on form and style as you enter the water complete the maneuver.

Re: The Silicon Valley world view

I was going to say it easily extends out of the valley to Sacramento but you're right, it extends out to politics in general. Moreover it's the only thing that explains our current Presidential election process. Either way, it should be pretty clear that the people aren't pleased with the current political state of affairs but I have no doubt that whomever wins over the needed 26-27.5%* of eligible voters will declare that the people have given them a mandate.

*this reflects the typical voter turnout of 50-55%. It will be interesting to see where it is this year with the two candidates who are likely the most hated candidates in history.

Re: You are thinking it wrong

@AC It's not a GNU pun but this may shed some light on the matter.

Re: "a flaw everyone 1000 lines of code"

Can't say there's much exaggeration if any. Perhaps you missed the story last year?

Also according to the change log it looks like there have only been four production releases in six years and three of those were in the last six months with everything else being betas and alphas. How many of the products using it are based off version 9.20?

Re: Pointless

I'd also wager that most users who are forced to change their password regularly don't change it by much to make remembering that much easier. Chances are that if their current password is Password_3 the next one will be Password_4.

I think you'll find that Serco, G4S and Sodexo were likely the folks behind the scenes. Although I find it rather cute you think the process is in any way democratic.

@JimmyPage

We don't directly choose our President either. We have these things called "electors" who actually choose the President. In theory they are pledged to vote for a particular candidate but the reality is that they are largely free to cast their vote for anybody they wish. It's a rather screwy process especially given the original process was equally screwy and led to the 12th Amendment. I suppose this is where it needs to be explained that in another turn to that screwiness is that each state makes it's own process for figuring out how electors are chosen and how they are apportioned/winner take all.

Re: "past the $5,000 threshold set by the FEC for candidates that do not accept campaign donations"

Technically the $3,480 filing fee (2% of the first year salary) can be waived if you can collect 10,000 voter signatures so $4,975 would buy you 199 words and still stay under the $5,000 cap. Of course that doesn't leave much left for advertising. There's also the write-in campaign which only requires 65 to 100 signatures but the time period to register is after the 1 April deadline to get the candidate statement on record.

Essentially it's a well designed system to keep the power where it is instead of allowing it be open to all. Come to think of it, it looks very like a cartel.