Comment "They always want something more..." (Score 3, Insightful) 319
"They always want to meet; the SS love to meet, and they always want something more, 'til they have everything."
— Dr Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger, Conspiracy
"They always want to meet; the SS love to meet, and they always want something more, 'til they have everything."
— Dr Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger, Conspiracy
You just stop option ROMs from loading when you're patching the firmware.
Only if they (Apple) patch it before the machine is rooted.
We'll know this is working and improving education when we see GA become a blue state.
You should do presentations in nicer places, so they don't want to get out of the travel
Only if you're crazy enough to live where the temps fall below freezing!
(Sent from sunny CA
WTF. Don't tell me that old Weekly World News article about batboy turns out to be true.
How do you control a financial system without the "M" in STEM?
That's where BJ Blazkowicz busted out of, with my help.
What you say is true, but drivers who are aware of the camera also won't trust the yellow even if it is properly timed. So if in a non-camera intersection you get caught by a yellow you can breeze easily through safely. A driver aware of a camera won't trust the yellow and will slam on the brakes the moment he sees the light change. Take the driver behind him who is a tourist or someone else who may not be aware of the camera. That's a recipe for a rear-ender.
What bugs me are the cameras at toll booths that take your picture for no reason. Every toll booth I've seen in recent months I've noticed takes my picture. Just what the fuck is that about? If a person takes my picture... ok, 1st Amendment protects them. But why is a government agency taking pictures of every single toll booth transaction? How could that much data possibly be useful for the purpose of policing toll booths? Why can't they just take pictures of the drivers that don't pay?
Here's a good conspiracy theory:
Where do you think all the faces to seed/test the database for the facial recognition SW the feds are working on?
They know the car by the plate number. They know the owner by the registration. They have the owner's picture in a DMV database. Now they have tons of crappy real-world images to try to match with a known person where the person in the photo is likely to be the owner. Great for testing out the system.
They already use toll transponders to track vehicles. This isn't too far of a stretch.
Holy crap. Tickets for speed cameras in Baltimore/Maryland are in the $40-50 range?
If Los Angeles ever starts using them, I'm looking at nearly 10x that amount. Red light camera tickets were $490, and a typical speeding ticket (15 over) is about $240. The fine itself is just $35 ($70 in a construction zone), the other $205 are "fees". If a 3rd party company is operating them, the city just increases the cost of the ticket to cover the operator's share.
"low-ID"? WTF are you talking about?
Well, there was a google paper about drive failures a few years back, but I don't think they named names...
There is. Free/Cheap energy in the form of fusion, or very cheap solar panels.
With that, you could desalinate sea water.
"A car is just a big purse on wheels." -- Johanna Reynolds
