Comment Re:old tech (Score 1) 165
Just picked up a 1944 Izhevsk ex sniper.
LK
Now you win. I'm jealous
Just picked up a 1944 Izhevsk ex sniper.
LK
Now you win. I'm jealous
but come on, I have guns that were used to kill Nazis.
LK
I have a1942 Izhvesk Mosin Nagant as well
I collect WWI/WWII vintage guns. I have guns made as far back as 1923 even though a new AR is cheap, easy and available.
I have an Austrian Lorenz rifled musket that has been in my family since the Civil War. I win. But seriously, one gun I really want to add to my collection is an M1 Carbine made by either GM or IBM, because that's just plain cool, and one hell of a conversation starter.
a gun to calculate Pi value...
According to a couple of Canadian mathematicians,
I didn't realize we had annexed Canada recently. I hope we didn't also get Quebec.
If everybody else in the world was vegan, would you still be insisting that it's 'normal' to eat animal products?
Yes, because our teeth are designed to chew meat and our body is evolved to process animal protein.
Totally not the same thing. These companies have the option of not using OpenSSL. In your analogy, where's my option of not getting hit by you?
Well, you chose to be sitting on your couch when he drove into your living room, didn't you?
I did not RTFA in depth but I am surprised that they did not have a mechanism to fix it remotely via updates of something.
Straight from the summary:
they are disabling the Nest Wave feature through automatic updates. Owners who don't have their Nest Protects connected to their WiFi net or don't have a Nest account are suggested to either update the device manually or return it to Nest for a full refund
Lately, when I checkin for a flight, the software in the ticket scanner checks to see if the seat has already been scanned. If it has, it'll beep, if not then it marks it as now allocated.
The gate agents also have access to electronic versions of the passenger manifest, and newer systems even display the names of passengers that are not yet checked in/on board/awaiting seat assignment next to a seatmap of the aircraft so they can be literally dragged and dropped to assign seats. If the boarding pass fails to scan, the first thing the gate agent will notice, either by looking at the list or manually typing in the passengers name, is that no one with that name is booked on the flight, either as a paying passenger or on standby. The name would have to match up with a person assigned to the flight, otherwise they will not let you on.
Of course there's also the non-rev standby category, but for that you need to fake an airline ID and uniform... and that's a lot more risky.
Non-rev standby doesn't work like that. You are thinking more of jump-seating for pilots and flight attendants, who must be in uniform and can just show up at a gate and get listed. Non-revs wear regular clothes and do not need to show ID at the gate, but when they check-in at the airport they need to have already made a reservation through their online company portal, or need to produce an airline ID to the ticket agent if they are booking the flight day of. But trying to fake either of those, especially jump-seating, is a good way to earn yourself a nice little vacation in federal prison.
What makes you think that Cuba has propaganda?
Probably the fact that every country has propaganda? The US has Voice of America; other states have semi-official or even official government news agencies.
Even in India there are count down clocks on many signals, telling you how many seconds of red is remaining or how many seconds of green is remaining. Just simple feedback like this would reduce accidents and save fuel for the drivers. This technology is easier to implement in a phased manner all over the country rather than fancy-nancy technology involving "the cloud" and such stuff.
We kind of have this in the US, at least indirectly. As you are coming up to a light, you can look at the cross signal for the intersecting street. If it is counting down, then you are about to get a green light. Vice versa, waiting at a red light you can just look at your own cross signal for the countdown. Of course, not every light has crosswalk timers yet.
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
