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But it's actually kind of hard if you don't use shitty locks. There's about a dozen different anti-picking techniques in use, you just have pay more than $20 for a deadbolt at Home Depot. Side pins/bars, obstructed keyways, serrated or shaped driver pins, ball bearings, dimple locks... Trap pins and top gapping can...
Actually raking a lock is very quite and bumping can be as long as you use a pad so you don't bash the shoulder of the key directly onto the metal of the lock. Also if I were going to rob a house I wouldn't bother picking the lock in most cases anyhow. A towel and a quick hammer tap will quickly bust a small door wi...
Perhaps these links are more helpful. Matt Blaze, a computer science professor and security expert, talks [here]( and [here]( about locksmiths writing to his school to get him fired because he wrote papers analyzing lock security. Links to his papers: [Master-Keyed Lock Vulnerability]( Matt Blaze, AT+T Research S...
While I, like many others, scoff at the general quality of this article, I have something more to add. About 2 years ago, while in my 7th (don't judge me) year of college, I was bored with the huge amount of free time that I had, and picked up lockpicking as a hobby. I purchased a nice lockpicking kit at a massive 'b...
To everyone who complains about iOS being a "closed system": Do you not remember what came before this? Motorola flip phones which require device-specific software and cable kits to move files onto, Samsung phones that you had to convert videos into 176x144 3GP video to play off the MicroSD, LG phones that require $...
Well the (hidden) benefit of #2 is if they push logic off onto the server, then the thing you download isn't really a full game. it's just a shell, and the logic of the game is on a server. Once it's on a server they have way more control over when you can access it. the
I'm confused.
Neuroscientist here. Let's talk about what is and is not true here. First, this article is bad a much better article (with links to criticism and discussions of feasibility is [here]( The previous article on this topic, [found here]( is the best if you really want to understand. Let me start by saying, I don't much l...
if the computer were to become sentient, would it be murder to turn it off? More like suspended animation. Murder at present implicitly means an irreversible situation. Temporary loss of consciousness happens every time you fall asleep. You could even look at it as a form of time travel -- a consciousness that d...
Voting for someone who is going to win is just as much a waste as a vote for someone who can't win. Worse, I would say, as it is much more valuable to be a single voice in a small group than a single voice in a HUGE group. Even if you weren't sure whether Obama would win (I suspect you were the only one) then at lea...
This is the crap claim made by IP holders. Before the DMCA, what InternetFree is describing was the law. I buy a cassette tape, CD, VHS, and I could make as many copies as I wanted and give (not sell) them to all my friends. The RIAA and MPAA couldn't do jack crap. This constituted Fair Use. People still bought overpri...
I think you already know that statement is racist so I wont bother pointing it out. ;-P on a side note, you seem to know very little about the structure of law and power in the U.S., you see the president has little to do with anything.
Sooo... is no one else sick of the fact that "the wheel" is still our primary form of transportation even after... what... 5000 or so years of human history?? Seriously, cars are so fucking lame, so I don't give a shit about all this Tesla crap either. It's honestly a disgrace to name your car company after Nikola ...
Yah I get the whole electric car movement and all I just don't get how popular this 1 review has gotten and how butthurt people have gotten over it. This is just one guy who wrote one bad/false review for a car. Is this one review going to ruin Tesla and the whole electric vehicle movement? Fuck no it isn't! People don...
The only relevant thing that these Tesla owners could do would be to park their cars overnight in 10 degree Fahrenheit weather and see if the battery loses 75% of its charge. That is the only relevant issue here. That is what put Broder's Model S on a flatbed. And it had nothing to do with when he charged, how much...
Who the fuck can afford a $52,400 car that goes 160 miles on a charge and must have its $20,000 batteries replaced at 100,000 miles? Plus, the base model cannot use SuperChargers. That's twice the median annual income. Top price for a SuperCharger-capable Tesla S: $84,700 base $3,750 (tech package) $950 (so...
Sorry to be a realist here, but while I really love EVs and hope they catch on, them becoming the mainstream norm is still many years off. I hope businesses start catering to them, and I hope there is a charging station in every gas station... but again, still a ways off. In he meantime the truths - all the truths - sh...
I don't think anyone in this thread is really against EVs. In fact personally I think the Model S is really awesome. But they're accusing Broder not of incompetence, but malfeasance which is really unacceptable, since it appears far more likely that he just wasn't quite instilled with the nuances of Electric Cars. He's...
I think all the cold-complainers aren't getting this idea. Guess what, it's a different technology to move a car. "Whoa! You mean you're going to have a different set of primary maintenance and care services?" How is this not clear?
Major kudos to mabye for doing an awesome job of explaining, but I wanted to add something else here since I've spent a bunch of time lately dunking circuits into liquid helium. As was pointed out, you never actually get that thousand times speedup. For one, the circuit itself will heat up, thereby keeping it from op...
and do nothing with our bodies to recoup any of that loss over the process. Which is what we do anyway. No, we don't "do nothing", we stay alive. Now, one could make the case for strapping overweight people to generator-equipped exercise bikes... but if we were to go that far, we'd be way better off mandating a max...
Or we can... Mine petroleum, use it to make fertilizer, grow crops with said fertilizer, feed said crops to cattle (for example), eat said cattle and crops to power our energy-hungry brains and bodies, and do nothing with our bodies to recoup any of that loss over the process. Which is what we do anyway. Arguing th...
Almost no energy is absorbed by the ground on a typical surface (asphalt, concrete). It is very reasonable to model it as ideal isotropic elastic solid. Additionally, remember that the energy harvester must be mounted on the same surface! Any viscous losses in the previous system (if we want to model it more accurate...
I have my car pull a trailer, on which I've mounted a wind turbine. The power output from that turbine is then used in the electrolysis of my water tank, from which the resulting hydrogen gas is extracted. I then have a small hydrogen-combustion engine powering a backseat generator, whose nice side effect is its functi...
It is entirely an either-or. Most of the United States is empty space and can thus be filled with solar panels by whoever can afford them. Just because I can't find a particular sidewalk based system doesn't mean that this is better. When you compare solar power and nuclear power, you don't say 'Oh but look I can place...
So little EXTRA energy is needed, its not worth counting. Of course it's worth counting... that's the whole fucking point. You either make up those calories with food, or you lose weight. In either case, you're converting food into electricity... with many intermediate steps in the process, each being inefficient t...
I'm glad you don't have any data you're worried about the NSA seeing, but do you believe there is no one who has embarrasing or incriminating information that they want to keep from the NSA? No person trying to influence our social or political landscape who could possibly be blackmailed or imprisoned? Blackmailed, a...
I'm too lazy to watch that movie, will you please
This needs more upvotes as it is exactly the case. I worked at Netflix in Tech support for ~2 years. The line we were given from the higher ups is that we can only play the version that we are given. We cannot edit them in any way since Netflix licenses the movie out from distributors.
Yes people don't notice that 'this video is being stretched/modified/compressed to fit your screen directly. What does happen though is that people get an 'off' feeling about a movie. A large part of what makes a movie great is how things are presented. Look at the There Will be Blood example. Sure both pictures ...
Back in the 17th century, you didn't go to art school, you went into training at a successful painter's workshop. What usually happened is that students copied their masters most famous work, just to exercise their painting skills. Some of the copies survived to today, and because they are originally from before the cu...
I think it's a problem that he's just posting scans of the documents. Instead he should convert to plaintext and release. Most likely the content itself is legally open, at least for the american codes he has on there. But blatantly copying and posting PDFs that some contractor has hired people to prepare and print ...
One of my professors in school told the class once that selling the AISC Steel Manual was the main source of income for their development. This funded the creation of the subsequent editions. It is a standard that (almost) all civil engineers use. It takes years of work and hundreds of people working on it to make ...
Lurking for a year. Created an account just for this thread. I am an engineer in Oil & Gas. The laws (DOT CFR Title 49 or local ordinances) reference the codes (ASME B31.#, BPVC, AWS) which references standards (ASTM, API, EJMA, TEMA). A single ASTM standard may reference a dozen or more other ASTM standards. Most of ...
Card counting is not cheating, let alone the many other AP techniques (some of which had their day in court and won), let alone the stupid promo mistakes that have sometimes been made, let alone the faulty game analysis that can lead to an exploitable game being run by the house.
Seriously guys you have it wrong. I have been to these factories to train Asian workers. In Asia the guys with degrees working in the semiconductor fabs are highly looked up to. They may only make US$10K/yr, but they are doing much better than others there. And as far as the interns being unpaid, how is that differ...
The confusion comes from the article's mistranslation of "they aren't allowed to exit the program early or lose 6 credits" as "if they refuse to participate, they lose six course credits". The internship program is [publicly recognized and promoted by the school]( however the description is pretty vague. It mention ...
tripling of pay a far more likely scenario is that shifts would be made shorter and more workers would be hired to make up the shortfall. the result is increased internal competition, which is favorable for a 'get x done, be paid y amount' model where compensation is not tied to hours at all. the compensation ratios ...
Let's further note that the border search exception, which makes border searches different than those which occur in the interior, and generally allows authorities at the border much more leeway in rifling through whatever they think appropriate, has existed since an act of the first Congress of the United States in 17...
Windows already has the capability to use your RAM as a cache for the hard drive. It's called the SuperFetch service. The purpose of the SuperFetch service is to learn what programs you like to launch, and will cache them in RAM before you need them. As a test, mark the SuperFetch service for Manual startup, and ...
I fought this charge in New Jersey. I brought in my documents to show I wasn't on my cell phone talking, texting, or using data. The court said it didn't matter and found me guilty because the prosecutor stated "you could be looking at photos" and the law states you cannot touch the cell phone at all. I countered the a...
My issue is with irresponsible operation of vehicle with great and easy potential for bodily harm/death. No one is looking to 'regulate stupid out'. This is a matter of consequence. Some choose not to drive distracted due to a sense of intelligence/responsible action. Some due to a sense of obligation for rule follow...
Common sense" can't be left up to the individual when it comes to driving. All you need, then, is one law instead of hundreds; reckless endangerment/dangerous use of a motor vehicle laws already exist. You can add subtypes and examples to that, but the final decision rests on the officer that sees you commit that cr...
Laws can also serve a communicative purpose. If the existing laws aren't effectively communicating a rule, new laws can be useful. This is an interesting point, but I would imagine a media campaign talking about giving tickets for reckless driving due to cell phone usage would accomplish the same result. I tried lo...
It also doesn't work. People still text and drive all the time around here. This state is full of some of the worst drivers I've ever seen. I lived in Los Angeles for 18 years and I have driven across the US about a half dozen times. People in LA may drive a little aggressive and there might be a heavy amount of traffi...
Soooo by that rationale, there's no point in discouraging behavior which exacerbates a problem? 'People already get hit by cars so I shouldn't worry about playing in traffic'
You can't "shoot volts" into anything . What you can shoot into things is a current . Bad headline and bad article, because it doesn't mention current anywhere. The voltage alone tells me nothing about danger by itself. Current is gonna vary with the resistivity of materials it conducts thru, but surely the...
Try to think of it this way... When you were growing up, your parents probably didn't like the music you listened to. You likely thought their music tastes sucked too, "old people music". Now you may have kids of your own who listen to music that you think sucks ass. They probably think your music is now "old peopl...
From what I understand though from the ethical standpoint is how the experiment was run. Now I'm not an expert in the field myself I mainly get this information from my roomates who are studying and have a bachelor's degree in psychology. There are very clear rules you have to follow for human experimentation. One of...
On Android you can't enable "high accuracy (with wifi)" location services without explicitly agreeing to share your location and history with google. Don't want to enable it - good luck catching GPS signal (and even then google will try to store your history for "your" convenience).
I don't know why you're being downvoted, though I suppose it's too much to ask that /r/technology know anything about technology other than cell phones or comcast... the motor in an electric car is a little more like a transmission than an engine in an ICE. the battery is more like the engine and fuel tank rolled i...
Wat? Getting more laggy, how about less? 80s Turbo cars started the whole "Hur-Dur Tarbo Lag" crap, modern Turbo cars use Twin-Scroll or Variable Turbos that spool up almost off idle in some cases. Advances in Variable Cam phasing and profiling help with that as well in both Turbo and Non-Turbo. On the Horizon is...
Not negating anything of it, I also like Tesla because of their visions and cars, but even though I just try to put things into perspective for a more objective point of view. The new features and the D are great, I like the way SpaceX is boosting private spce flights, but aside from its electrical engine/battery set...
It's not really policed, its more like a vote. After creation, electricity goes into a pool. It doesn't matter where it came from. And there is no filter to say only let renewables go to the house at 123 ABC street. However, if everyone in the community says "We want 50% of our power to come from renewables" then th...
Your 0 - 60 time isn't useful for figuring how well you can pass other cars on the highway...there you want to now your 60 - 80 time. Torque = accelerate faster. 0-60 time will indicate how much torque you have. If you get to 60 faster than the car have tons of torque. Passing highway what you want is torque. M...
You shouldn't factor the weight into the comparison. Obviously a lighter car can accelerate quicker than a similar, more heavier car. That's why you should make a car light as possible if you want it to accelerate faster.
So here's the REAL reason why: in the US, if you have a fraudulent charge, you call the bank and BY LAW they have to reverse it. The max liability is $50 (or $500 if a lot of time goes by). In other parts of the world the money is GONE. Maybe you can sue to recover some of it. Therefore there is better security,...
Yeah, the contactless system we have here is bullshit. The first thing I do when I get a PayPass card is find and destroy the embedded chip, specifically because it's completely insecure. The big problem we have with chip-and-pin is re-education. You have to understand that if we enter a pin today, our transaction is...
Does that mean you have two accounts (one a standard bank account, and the other a credit account) with the same bank, linked to the same card? No. The first bank cards were credit cards. They were applied to a credit account at the bank. I still remember these cards being run with carbon paper imprints that would ...
Saturation is part of the problem. I have so much data scattered across so many disks and servers, that often I cant see "the wood for the trees". The real danger is that a blip in software (or human accident) on some server will wipe out all your copies of something. Especially if you are replicating in real-time ...
Can someone explain how this is a "google phone"? They don't manufacture it, and they're not a carrier. They make the OS, which is on a dozen other non-"google" phones already. So what's up? edit:
It's the difference between #23238E or #000080 (Navy) and #4169E1, #436EEE, #3A5FCD, #27408B or #3333FF (Royal).
Who would have thought if people were given a reasonably priced easy to use alternative to torrents that they would pay for the service instead of pirating everything? The problem is the same people are running the studios now that were running them 30 years ago and they have no clue whatsoever how this stuff works. ...
I've designed the exact same door system a while back when I was going through a "design a better bike, car door, mouse trap, anything" brain storming sessions to keep my creativity. The problem is they take an age to open, and cost a lot, while not being as reliable as normal doors. And, aside from looking cool, t...
Plus, even a motorbike hitting one of your giraffe's legs will topple you.
11) It adds to the cost of production and hence to the cost of the car. Do we really need cars to be even more expensive? 12) If a window motor malfunctions and I can't open the window, it's a minor inconvenience. If a door motor malfunctions I either can't get in the car or I can't get out, and that's a MAJOR incon...
Depends on which site the article is located for me. If I see engadget I automatically only read the
Yep.. my fault. I'm sleepy and I read so far down your post that I forgot the
I've had a couple "H1B1 revelations" over my 25 years in programming. My first encounter with a foreign programmer was an Indian gentleman who would sleep under his desk in our office. He did not have a home.. he worked 20 hours a day. And he made maybe $10/hour, in 1990. I had to compete against that. Later on ...
It is a personal opinion again, but the CTS-V is a nice car, but man is the Cadillac rear-end a bit ugly. It is boxy and the lines are so blunt and "rude" for the lack of a better word. A few cars that would be just a nice and probably a few tenths of a second slower in a practical setting are: All have 4 doors (prac...
I don't pretend to be qualified to tell you where design patents draw the line, but it's rather unfair to say that the only defining characteristic of a vehicle is that it has four wheels. That is quite obviously not a style characteristic, much like having a power button isn't really controversial. >When I hold a Ga...
Strain relief is defined as a condition where the DC cable (the thin cord that attaches the MagSafe connector to the power adapter) separates from the end of the MagSafe connector or from the other end of the thin cord, at the power adapter. Well, actually: [Strain relief]( "Used in reference to telecommunications...
i just want to say that i have a magsafe connector that broke off my macbook pro at 3 days after 1 year. I did not get the apple exteneded protection plan, and thus apple support told me I was SHIT OUT OF LUCK. I told them I'm broke and looking for a job, and 3 days outside of warrenty is horseshit, but whatever. I ...
This happened to my MagSafe for my mbp, luckily because I live in the UK we have a piece of legislation called the sale of goods act which allows consumers to return faulty equipment or request a replacement up to 6 years after purchase (5 in Scotland). Originally when my MagSafe popped I tried contacting apple phone...
I purchased a wired iMac keyboard to replace my 4 year old one that was failing. I found out the standard Fn keys on the new keyboard wouldn't work on my iMac and there wasn't a way to program them in (ie. sound volume). I called Apple to find out what was going on or if there was a workaround (couldn't find one online...
Fucking FAIL. 1) You don't need 'humanoid' robots to do tasks that a robot can do 2) Most factory related jobs a worker is doing is because a robot can't do that job. The intelligence required or the cost to manipulate the product is too high, and a human is cheaper. 3) These robots are more sophisticated, probab...
One-hundred percent correct; however, there are some additional details. First, I wouldn't call them "bilateral arbitration clauses," but that's just a personal thing. That phrasing conjures up a mutual agreement to resolve claims in a certain way, when in reality they're adhesion contracts that force the side witho...
I'm not sure how this would have helped Kim Dotcom being physically apprehended, and the domain being taken over/plastered. Yeah, a system like this would allow them to redirect on different domains, but MegaUpload was a for-profit venture, and required a high-overhead storage system.
Just because the 2% of users are consuming 95% of the bandwidth doesn't mean it's constant. I am a top 5% Verizon user for using 10-15GB of data in an entire month. I do not 'abuse' my internet at all, meaning I don't torrent entire games or movies ever. Hell 1 digital game download will make you go over the 5GB limit....
Out adsl card in our local switch was giving us way slower speeds than we paid for. They refused to let us back out if our 3 year sla. We of course didn't know about the switch issue until they found it. A defective card for 2.5 years and constant denial about it. It made us leave bell. They forced us to pay busine...
How are consumers affected by them? Well... I am a 'legacy/grandfathered' Alltel data plan user that is now owned by Verizon. I had 0 (zero) issues with Alltel before the takeover/buyout. I got full speeds 95% of the time and could use any amount of data i wanted. With Verizon and it's data caps + throttling, I don't...
There isn't even a theoretical unlimited quantity of data available. Maximum bitrate x number of seconds per billing cycle is the theoretical maximum of data one could download utilizing 100% network capacity. What they are selling you is access to this data network. Everyone knows it has a certain capacity and that ...
I want to make a couple quick points... >there is no reason why wireless internet should cost more than land line based providers. This is a common belief, but the fact of the matter is that the nature of wireless technology has many limitations that landlines do not. Although wireless technology has rapidly evolv...
It may decrease the life of the routers by constantly utilizing more data No, it doesn't. >I assume to added power to run at more capacity is negligible. No. At least, not in the way you think. Adding capacity to a wireless network is a very complex problem, especially in highly populated areas. It's not as si...
Because people know the companies are thieves and still line up to pay them exorbitant fees for their services and refuse to sue them when they fail to deliver.
Bad guy Kodak printer Uses color ink in all greyscale printouts, regardless of if set strictly to greyscale in computer before printing, under the guise of "superduperhighqualitymegaphotoqualitysuperprint" quality printing. Considers cartridge spent when levels are kind of low. WILL NOT print in greyscale if colo...
Here it is plain and simple, free Internet services need money to operate, they make it by tracking what websites you visit, what search terms you use, etc or they run ads (which Adblock stops). People want privacy but don't want to pay for search engines, video sites(YouTube, etc) email, etc so websites said "people c...
I get the internet needs ads. But people don't want to be tracked. They need to resolve this in some way other than "fuck you, watch ads". Technology allows people to avoid things they don't like. That's how the world works. Trying to stop it is like fighting the tide. The way to address this is to find new ways to m...
Apple Maps is absolute garbage. With Google Maps I can type in my apartment address and then the name of a building on campus and it will get me right there. Last night I tried this with Apple Maps and it couldn't even find the building on campus. After I found an exact address for it I was able to get it to find it, t...
When I say "skin" I mean everything that isn't the rendering engine. You can put hooks in the engine to call your routines on most user actions. So you can most likely change the behaviour of history browsing, but I'm not an iOS Webkit specialist, so I can't say for sure.
A "." is not literally a point since a point has no height or width. I was basically just summing up what I thought were the pertinent points of the article, an editorialized
I worked for Verizon for 4 years, in a couple of different locations. If they were to arrest every cell phone employee that has looked through pictures or added some pictures to their phone their jails would be bursting at the seams. Not condoning it, not saying it's ok, just saying that it happens constantly. Ladies (...
I worked for a vzw indirect retailer, I don't think there was a single store in our district that didn't do this. At regional meetings they would share the recent finds, and if something was especially juicy they would send a mass email. The worst offenders were some of the better salesmen, so the managers and DMs woul...
And how exactly do you expect a repair centre to do any kind of software work if it's "illegal to search through someone's computer"? When they hand it over they do so under the knowledge that the computer will be subject to extensive manual and automated searches. If they want to be fussy about the examination then ...
I disagree. It's just about the same amount of effort as sifting through undeleted files. In fact, it might be easier to search through deleted files , especially if the person deletes the files just prior to handing over the phone. In other words, it is either: Remove and plug in the SD card (<2 minutes) and lo...
Considering the possible outcome of someone stealing nudes and/or other private photos, videos, text messages, emails etc from your phone I would argue it is fitting. Not everyone is (and no offense intended to the waitress who no doubts works her ass off) a random joe. Public figures, employees for large companies who...
Use randomly-generated passwords. Instead of trying to create an easy-to-remember password for your Internet credentials, use a tool to randomly generate them. Of course, SplashData publishes its "worst password" list in hopes that you'll use their password generator, SplashID Safe. But there are a number of other tool...
Right on, bro! Piracy is EXACTLY like a free "sample"... ...a free "sample" that just happens to be the entire product which you can keep forever, negating the need to ever purchase anything. The best part is, if you liked the first "sample" you can also "sample" every other product they make or come out with.
Umm, no, I don't think that's the case here. See the thing with random numbers is computers aren't very good at coming up with them. The best you can do is take the current time and multiply that by some crazy math to come up with a pseudorandom number. However, time is really predictable, so if someone can figure o...
Entropy is just a science-y term for chaos. It is a linear measurement and