If automakers wanted you to drive slower and safer, they would set the speedometer to read high- ie, it reports 60 when you're really doing 55. The upside is that your mpg may improve as well.
Yes, that is what they do and that is what i said they do. I just looked up what Volkswagen has to say about this: "To allow for possible differences in overall tire diameter with different tire manufacturers and wheel sizes, a factor is designed into the speedometer function that increases the displayed speed. "
And while the odometer isn't directly tied to the speedometer, they're usually driven by the same shaft- I've fixed both in several vehicles. Changing tire diameter will affect both. Changing shaft itself can affect both as well, but typically, the gears that break and need replacing are the ones connecting the shaft to the odometers/speedometers.
In my car, the speedometer is not a gear driven system at all. It uses magnetic pulses so once you have the pulses/sec, adjusting it is a matter of modifying the ECU. 500 pulses per second means I'm travelling 88 ft/sec or 60 mph.
As a matter of fact (at least on my GTI) the odometer uses the data reported via the CANBUS. The ECU processes this data and then sends it to the computer that displays your current mph. The distance impulse number used to calculate your speed can be changed in the ECU!
Aside- it's funny how legally you cannot roll back an odometer, but nothing legally prevents one from inserting a high ratio gear to report much lower mileage for future drives (not that I'd do that- I'm extremely careful about maintenance scheduling on my vehicles).
Actually that too is illegally here (Europe). I even had to get my speedometer and odometer verified by a professional when I changed my 15" rims to the new 19" ones.
True. I didn't really see it that way. Thanks for pointing it out.
Still, it's kind of obvious that once someone gains physical access to your device, they can do anything with it. You could swap the keyboard with one that records all keystrokes or simply install a physical key logger device or do whatever you want with it.
Slow news day?
That article is actually like saying that there is no point to install a very expensive and secure door lock on your front door because it doesn't help you when you go get groceries and leave your door open. Duh. I'm sure most people realize that the point of disc encryption is not to protect your data while it's unencrypted in memory.
Is this a failed attempt at trolling?
It's a PLUGIN, not an ADD-ON. There is no way to uninstall ANY Plugins in Firefox. You can disable Add-Ons, you can uninstall Add-Ons and you can disable Plugins. But you cannot uninstall Plugins from within Firefox. Firefox simply loads all files in a specific Internet Plugins folder (not a Firefox-only plugin folder) and if it detects a plugin, it uses it.
Delete the file and you're good to go.
Simple solution needs a simple response: compile Hello World! tutorial app and name it XYZ app and upload it to your desired squatter name.
Clever thought but that wouldn't work. An App like that wouldn't get approved and would hang in the queue for maybe 2-4 weeks, after which it will get rejected. Rejected App names are cleared out of the system, as far as I know. That's why TFA is talking about a "quirk".
The solution is actually even simpler than flushing the DB: Simply register an app name only AFTER a binary has been submitted. I think that's the way it should have worked...
It's a safe bet that that's only a few hours after they found out, and 3 days after the first student did.
That was my thinking too, but TFA says that the students notified their admin on the Friday, who notified Google on the Saturday, who fixed it on the Tuesday. It's not clear - bad writing - but they may have suspended the service on the Monday.
That was my assumption too. And actually, that's not too bad... If they shut down the accounts on Monday morning, that's as prompt as it gets. To my knowledge, Google email support doesn't work on sundays.
If you read the article you'll see that it's not just AT&T that Apple did it for. It's across all providers even if they have a legally unlocked phone and approved tethering in their contracts.
As I said in another comment, my provider's contract in my country allows tethering and tethering still works, even after the 3.1 update. I still don't think this is a necessary move on Apple's side. You can tether with almost any phone that has bluetooth.
Also, I'm paying EUR 2 (US $ 3) a month for tethering with my current contract, which I wouldn't have to, if I had a different phone.
So yes, this sucks.
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