Comment Re:Owned by Ford, an American company (Score 2) 178
Ford does not own Jaguar.
Ford does not own Jaguar.
Bull.
Does your car fail to start if you don't buckle your seat belt?
Does your car not work if your tail light goes out or your turn signal fails?
If you disable your front collision avoidance system does your car not work?
I know people who would buy this in a heartbeat. (Especially if it reduces insurance costs).
Rear cams are not that essential. They are nice to have.
Collision avoidance radar, braking systems, lane monitoring and blind spot monitoring systems are getting cheap, and some combinations of these components are showing up on sub $20K cars.
The BIOS has bare back access to the hardware. Why cant it log the keyboard and dump it out the Ethernet? Why cant it access the ram directly?
The term you were looking for is "bare metal".
Bare back is something totally different.
Have you seen newer motherboards? They have 16mb+ of flash for the BIOS.
Oodles of room to do fun stuff in.
And they are all infested with UEFI, the worst malware foisted upon the general public in decades.
Don't forget the Great Molasses Disaster(s) which release tons of toxic sulfur into the rivers. These are an on-going problem over the years and we have learned "Nothin".
I would have thought that the fact that the experiments with leaves brought there from elsewhere decaying slower demonstrate that merely bringing foreign organisms (the collected leaves are not sterile, of course) is not going to help.
The collected leaves are not sterile, but that isn't where the bulk of the organizes live. They live in the soil.
The best thing to do is leave it alone and let organisms that are tolerant of radiation evolve.
Perhaps we have a solution to carbon sequestration!. (I kid of course).
Charging at a rate of 2amps or more has been available in Android phones for years.
Yes. And it's NON-STANDARD. Get it into your skull already.
Not any more. Its now the official standard.
All usb cables have 4 wires, of which only two are used for charging.
QED no such thing. You don't know what you are talking about.
Maybe the work had already been done on that plane, maybe Boeing had already changed the design when it was built.
http://www.newscientist.com/ar...
Malaysia Airlines has not revealed if it has learned anything from ACARS data, or if it has any. Its eleventh media statement since the plane disappeared said: "All Malaysia Airlines aircraft are equipped with ACARS which transmits data automatically. Nevertheless, there were no distress calls and no information was relayed."
Also here: http://www.malaysiaairlines.co... Page 8
The aircraft was delivered to Malaysia Airlines in 2002 and have since recorded 53,465.21 hours with a total of 7525 cycles. All Malaysia Airlines aircraft are equipped with continuous data monitoring system called the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) which transmits data automatically. Nevertheless, there were no distress calls and no information was relayed.
Charging at a rate of 2amps or more has been available in Android phones for years.
If the source can support it, the cable will handle it just fine.
Faster charging than that decreases battery life.
I mean, just look at the devastation non-native species are causing in various nations. They certify they can contain these creatures forever and ever?
There's no shortage of big bore rifles on the market today. Containment isn't an issue.
Wait, isn't this the SECOND time this standard was imposed, and didn't apple get a pass last time?
Why will it be different this time?
I'm betting Apple will issue another "E-waste" adapter to their ridiculous 30pin, and thumb their nose at this rule just like the last time.
Damn you auto-correct!
Note, it occurred to me later that the one country that has had airplanes flown into buildings might very well develop means of tracking planes that intentionally go off the grid, either by additional transmitters hidden in diagnostic gear, or other means.
Since the SAR beacons haven't gone off or haven't been heard, they too might have been disabled.
Actually, I'd like to know where you got the information on the exact equipment on board this plane?
What is being denied is that Malaysian Airlines subscribed to this monitoring program, not that it was not so equipped (*).
The latest reports is that the radios are there and ping the satellites even when they are not going to transmit data.
U.S. officials said earlier that they have an "indication" the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner may have crashed in the Indian Ocean and is moving the USS Kidd to the area to begin searching.
It's not clear what the indication was, but senior administration officials told ABC News the missing Malaysian flight continued to "ping" a satellite on an hourly basis after it lost contact with radar. The Boeing 777 jetliners are equipped with what is called the Airplane Health Management system in which they ping a satellite every hour. The number of pings would indicate how long the plane stayed aloft.
(Sort of like a cell phone with an expired sim still talks to the towers).
This is coming from the white house.
You will remember YEARS AGO when the Russians shot down a commercial airliner, that the NSA pulled recorded conversations between the Russian pilots and their base, WEEKS after the incident, embarrassing the Russians.
The US probably has more data on this indecent than they are willing to reveal at this time.
*This makes sense, because the airlines can turn the feature on by simple writing a check.
Boeing builds it into the fleet on the hopes of selling the service.
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