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Comment Re:Yes, but the real problem is being ignored. (Score 1) 461

Depends on the business, and what's being regulated. I would argue that certain regulations are, in fact, bad. Including ones restricting something like dancing.

Also, assuming that dancing is free speech, free speech doesn't become null and void just because it's done by a business.

They are not regulating dancing.
Non-hookers are not being restricted.
And hookers are free to dance as free expression in a non-commercial venue.
However, government DOES have the ability to regulate business.

They are trying to stop known prostitutes from furthering their prostitution business under the cover of nekkid dancing.

You're saying, "You can't keep someone from getting a job as a bank teller just because they have multiple priors for embezzling cash."

Well, yes you can.

Comment Re:Yes, but the real problem is being ignored. (Score 1) 461

...and dancing is free speech. The government should tread very lightly.

Absolutely! If the girls want to dance around, as free expression, in a free venue; they are welcome to do so.

However, once you have a cover charge, and take money for food and drinks, and are paying employees; then you are running a 'business' and government has the right to regulate business.

Comment Re:Yes, but the real problem is being ignored. (Score 1) 461

Many strippers engage in prostitution...

Correct. Left unchecked, professional prostitutes often use strip clubs as a 'screening room' to select, and pick up their clients.

The reason for the registration is to keep the 'pros' out of the clubs.

It's no different than screening potential bank employees for money issues, or screening potential police officers for a criminal background.

Comment Re:Typical!! (Score 3, Informative) 271

Eh, this depends on whether your state subscribes to Title Theory or Lien Theory.

Correct! But either way the financing dealer could:

A. Attach the GPS to protect his/her property (Title)

B. Attach the GPS to secure his/her loan collateral (Lien)

(Here, I admit I haven't read through a car finance contract, but...) I imagine they could stipulate the GPS as part of the loan terms.

I'm sure it makes repo'ing easier.

Comment Re:Typical!! (Score 4, Informative) 271

...Any such devices like this would be removed from any car I buy...

Agreed! But the key work here is 'buy' - the implication being you buy it outright, and are the owner.

On the other hand, if you are financing through the dealer, the RO (registered owner) is the dealer, not you.

If you look at the Spireon tracking company's site, it states the purpose of the tracker:

"Like auto dealers, vehicle finance companies are turning to GPS vehicle tracking in order to offer loans to subprime buyers while minimizing their risk."

Comment Re:Key or keyless, all the same (Score 4, Interesting) 221

...The cure is to lock and unlock your car with a physical key to prevent reading of the code. The other step is to add a switch to simply turn off the RF trancievers in the car when parking...

Great point.

Once hackers started popping passenger doors remotely, I found out you could disable remote door unlock just by pulling the fuse on the receiver.

Now you need a physical smart key turn to open the door and disable the alarm.

Just picking the lock won't work either, because it's the smart key that disables the alarm.

Comment Peltier Junctions (Score 1) 202

Simple:

1. Put your conventional, fan-cooled PC inside a completely sealed all-metal case. (With water-tight ports for CAT-5, USB, whatever.)

2. Line the inside of the case with Peltier junctions wired to power, through a thermostat.

3. On the outside of the case, aligned with each Peltier junction, you place a heat sink. Heat to be transferred through the metal case.

4. If the thermostat detects high temp inside the case, it energizes the Peltier junctions to be cold on the inside, hot on the case side.

5. If the thermostat detects low temps inside the case, it energizes the Peltier junctions to be hot on the inside, cold on the case side.

Comment Re:Man up (Score 1) 279

It gets better , when you realize most rooms only need one jack or none at all.

I would argue false economy on this. Cable is cheap and labour is expensive (even if it is your own time) if you are pulling a single cable to a room, pull at least 2.

No need to pull two cables. Every time you run a line, tie in a double-long length of braided poly rope. If you ever need to run another cable in the future (who knows what it will be; fiber, CAT 9, 10?) attach it to the poly rope and pull it through.

Because it's double-long, you can pull it back in to the 'starting position' when you're done and it will be ready for the next pull.

Comment Re:Cost (Score 1) 118

Er, if you have a wireless LAN, you might as well have router to an always-on internet connection, and say a Beaglebone Black for smarts to collect the data and forward it. That way you don't need any of these modules at all.

Excellent point!

Perhaps this would still be useful where no always-on internet connection is available - like an RV, or on a fleet of shipping trucks where you want to monitor a constellation of activities= speed, gas level, lights, engine status, reefer temps, etc.

Or, where you don't want to spend money for an always-on internet connection, like a vacation cabin (when empty).

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