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Hardware Hacking

Hackable In-Car GPS Unit? 208

gigne writes "I'm in the market for a new, in-car GPS/sat nav. I am preferably looking for one that has live, up-to-date traffic information and route planning that doesn't make you want to cry. I'm not quite dumb enough to drive off a cliff, but something that doesn't even try and lead me to watery doom is preferable. The only thing I absolutely must have is the ability to hack it. It would be preferable if it ran GNU/Linux, but given a convincing argument, I would be swayed to another OS. Without wanting the Moon on a stick, what is the best device that would offer a decent modding community and a good feature set?"

Comment Finland (Score 5, Interesting) 1359

Finland has the best privacy laws in the world, and Finns enjoy a lot of rights, such as "right to roam". Finland also had women's suffrage in 1906, much earlier than most countries. Finland is also a highly technological nation, which since you post on slashdot, is probably a plus. Most of the people there will speak english to some degree, which should make communicating a little easier.

Finland, however has disadvantages such as, a very difficult native language, immigrating will be tougher than other nations, cold weather, and possible invasion from Russia. If you like Finland, but can't handle the language, you could try a different Scandinavian country, as they all share the same basic values.

You should find this link helpful, it has an immigration section. http://www.finlandforum.org/index.php

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Passengers Cheat Flu Scan With Fever Reducers Screenshot-sm 299

Nguyen Van Chau, head of Ho Chi Minh City's Health Department, has revealed that many sick passengers who flew to Ho Chi Minh City used fever reducers to fool temperature scanners at the airport. The government has confirmed 26 people infected with H1N1 flu, 23 of whom came by air after traveling in the United States or Australia. State media reports that the discovery of these scanner cheaters led to the detection of several infected cases later.

Comment Question for college network admins (Score 1) 699

My university has a ban on using wireless routers in dorms. What are some plausible reasons for doing that? They already require anyone who wants internet access to run antivirus and the Bradford Persistent Agent. This might also be true for intranet access. The university provides wireless in some areas, but not in any dorms.

Comment Re:No (Score 3, Insightful) 1142

Why is this modded insightful? The government should have the right to terminate any company for what their CEO says. That is a terrible idea. Not only is it a bad idea in principle, as it would surely be abused, it also would harm a lot of innocent people like employees and stockholders. There's no way, even by your standard of morality that every person who worked for Microsoft, or owned stock are immoral.

Comment Furman University (Score 1) 163

I attend a school that does a few unethical things, not all of them directly related to rankings. For starters they claim to only have only professors with Ph.D's, yet my CS professor only had a Masters. They also reported that only 2% of students transfer out of Furman. While that is technically true, they failed to mention that their trimester system makes transferring very difficult. After attending, and talking to many people, it seems that at least 25% would have transferred if had been easier to.

The other gripe I have is that they tell everyone "2 years of GERs to figure out what you want to do, then major in anything you want". That is unfortunately a straight up lie. I talked to a music professor and he said that to be a music major a person would have had to declare freshman year, and would have had to play since late middleschool. He said it would be completely impossible for any sophmore to get a music degree. Also, other majors like CS, and Chemistry are either very linear, or only offer a few courses each term, so it takes at least 3 years to complete the major.

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