Comment Re:Cost of making the USA piss their pants: Pricel (Score 1) 409
Iran could care less about what the US thinks
So, they DO care? How much less could they care?
Iran could care less about what the US thinks
So, they DO care? How much less could they care?
The evidence does not even hint at the hypothesis.
What? Why not? Why else would you be seeing a surge in Windows 7 licenses now, when they are harder to get than ever before?
The hard-line Islamic movement was already well underway.
It was petering out in both Iran and Iraq before we fueled Saddam to deal with the Shah, and then went into Iraq and deliberately separated peacefully coexisting Sunnis and Shiites into segregated neighborhoods. The USA is behind the success of the hard-line Islamic movement, which probably would be limping and gasping now if not for our deliberate actions to support it.
Please, please, PLEASE do not use this device in the amateur radio bands (or any other band, for that matter) without first obtaining all certifications and licenses that are required by law.
Amateur radio operators are very welcoming to new LEGAL users of the amateur spectrum - they do NOT tolerate pirate/unlicensed activity.
I'm very surprised that the kickstarter campaign doesn't mention FCC compliance testing in their 'known risks' category. Getting an intentional radiator tested and approved/certificated is not a trivial exercise, even if it's sold as a kit. If they intend to leave 'out of band transmit' enabled, they're going to run afoul of a ton of Part 2 and Part 15 rules.
Then somebody hacks into a thermostat, uses it to burn somebody's house down for luls.
How do you propose it will even do this? The thermostat just asks the heater for heat, the heater typically has an overheat switch and will shut itself off if somehow it approaches starting a fire.
I've seen a fair bit of amateur wiring, and I can assure you that most people are not capable of safely wiring up a house.
Isn't this slashdot? Don't we assume that regulars here arw capable of learning this?
In any case, without certification the electricity company won't let you connect to the grid, so you are reliant on what you can produce.
Not only is that not a big problem any more, but all a contractor has to do is sign his name to a piece of paper and you're allowed to connect to the grid. And all he has to do before he does that is look over some of what you've done and see that you know what you're doing.
Not long after I moved into this rental I live in now, I corrected a neutral fault to ground, probably created by a prior resident. So yeah, people can screw up badly. But they can also fix things, and get it right. I put in a branch 220 circuit in my last house, and I did it correctly down to wire gauges.
Actually the problem with Iran has nothing to do with the US.
Iran was getting its shit together and we took a gigantic shit on it on purpose, to prevent that from happening.
I bought mine on eBay from someone who is part of the Registered Refurbisher program. Since my PC was cobbled together from parts of other older PCs, it seems to apply. I'm about to upgrade the motherboard under it, I'll probably have to get on the phone to Microsoft for that one. I already have to call them for my lady's machine, I upgraded it to 64-bit and it validated, but later it popped a validation failure.
Wow, this article really pulls a conclusion out of its butt. They look at some vague web statistics, notice that Windows 7 has gone up a tad - likely due to seasonal usage differences or many other things - and then draw a wild conclusion that people are using it to get Windows 10?!
I can only speak for myself, but I bought a Windows 7 license at least partly because I would be able to upgrade it to a Windows 10 license... and partly because I feared that Microsoft would raise the prices or make them unavailable when Windows 10 came out. So a little from column A, a little from column B. Why are you surprised?
I prefer my ISP's DNS service to Google's, because my ISP is likely not competent enough to actually understand the data and truly track me.
You only think this because you don't know how the system works. Ignorance is a bitch, prepare to be educated: The FBI serves your ISP with a letter telling them they have to collect your DNS requests. It doesn't matter where your requests go, because your ISP logs all of your DNS traffic, maybe the contents of any unencrypted HTTP requests you make (the URL, that is) and anything else the FBI wants. Then, on a regular schedule, they provide that information to the FBI.
Probably every ISP of any note in America is collecting logging data on at least one of their customers. I would be shocked, amazed, and almost appalled if I weren't one of them
Well, I live in serious critter country, Lake county is one of the primary hunting zones for California. And, knock on wood, I don't have problems seeing deer. Usually I spot them well before they try to cross in front of me. Maybe you just need to slow down, and not outdrive your eyes. When my vision is impaired, including by darkness, I slow down.
And there is no way I'll see a blue-white glint if I have a blue HUD sparkling on the screen.
The HUD doesn't dominate the windshield, you know. And it's not as bright as you seem to imagine.
Must be a Diesel. Did Mercedes put a turbo in a non-Diesel? They seemed to only use superchargers for the AMG models.
Mercedes has used the occasional turbo, but only on very rare cars... diesels aside. So yeah, it's a diesel. 1982 300SD. Runs like a top, but it does have a bit of a leak yet. It had many more, but I fixed those.
if you don't think iran is building a nuclear weapon you have reached a level of naive idiocy beyond contempt
i don't care if you think it is ok for them to build one, or not ok. it doesn't matter if you think they deserve a nuclear weapon or not
but they obviously are
if you think they aren't you are a ridiculous gullible fool and all i can do is wonder what other ignorant propaganda you blindly believe in laughable contrast to basic reality
IO ports. The Beeb had millions of them
Ultra?
I'm joking of course but considering the historical significance of the name Enigma as a cypher that was spectacularly hacked to divulge crucial war secrets, it might not have been the best PR to call their project that name.
Rename.
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