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Comment Re:That OR (Score 0) 216

They could work with industry to produce a external antenna protocol for bluetooth - i.e. you tether your phone to the car and utilise the car's antenna for 3G/4G.

Instead, tether your phone to the car via WiFi and utilize the car's antenna for 3G/4G.

Instead, pay GM $5 for a proprietary solution instead.

So, GM is installing a 3G/4G modem feeding a WiFi hotspot using standard protocols that anything with a WiFi connection can talk to, and this is a "proprietary" solution?

Comment Re:First (Score 3, Insightful) 347

That said, at least with open source you have the chance to find such things, so there is that.

Even with "open source" you still have to get the source code to your spiffy new router. Then you have to do a code review to see what's there. Then compile it, then get the libraries and try to link it, then try comparing the binary just to find out that it will have natural differences from what is installed in the router IF you can extract the binary once it has been flashed into it. (Do many firmware-upgradeable routers have an "extract" function, or only "install"?)

So, if by "chance to find such things" you really mean "install your own code that will overwrite anything that isn't supposed to be there", yes. But to actually FIND the backdoors you need to extract the binary and decompile it anyway. The source may be a guide to what you expect to see, but with optimization and compiler tricks the source may not be all that helpful.

Comment Re:You Sank My Battleship! (Score 1) 93

Agreed. Let's talk about planets in the solar system instead. The 7th from the Sun seems like an interesting one, don't you think?

So, when that one gets downgraded like Pluto did, will they call it a planetoid or an assteroid?

Thanks folks, I'll be here all week. Try the veal, tip your waitress.

He he, the button I need to click next says "sub-mit". He he.

Comment Re:lucid ain't that hard. (Score 1) 138

lol.. It sometimes is really that easy to have a lucid dream. But come on, Mylie Cyrus? Sure, maybe several years ago but after seeing her make out with a foam finger, I kind of think of here like a Tijuana donkey show without the donkey. You know, getting all hyped up and excited until you start to actually see it then you can't stand to be in the same room and swear never again, wondering what you were ever thinking while hoping more and more booze will help you forget the night ever happened.

It doesn't work. It gets burned into your memory and you never forget.

Comment Re: Motivated rejection of science (Score 1) 661

http://dailycaller.com/2013/03...

Skepticism is discouraged. When little Johny asks how something is possible because it doesn't make sense, and is told to sit down and shut up, that isn't proper science. You cannot claim something is falsifiable therefor scientific and squash all attempts to falsify it due to the fact they are attempting to be skeptical and remain scientific. It is not falsifiable if no one is allowed to question it just the same as there is no way to falsify any supernatural being with it's own free will. God will never be scientific even though one could argue that a God created science and the patterns we observe. Neither will anything claiming to be science when you are unable to falsify it.

Comment Re: Motivated rejection of science (Score 1) 661

I'm not sure what your point is? Those conservative politicians have from the start supported aid for sandy victims- they just wanted it paid for instead of blindly charging it yet again. If you remember- at the time this was being debated, the deficit of the US grew from around 500 billion in 2008 to over 1 trillion dollars in the 4 years previous to the aid package while at one point reaching 1.4 trillion.

http://www.davemanuel.com/hist...

Comment Re: Motivated rejection of science (Score -1, Troll) 661

I normally would not reply to idiots like you but any small amount of investigation would show you do not have a fucking clue about this. Here is an excerpt from the daily caller reporting on a NPR interview about the standards

"K-12 students at public schools learn about climate change to help fill a knowledge gap concerning the subject, while skepticism will be discouraged.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/03...

It goes on to say Weâ(TM)ve heard stories of students who learn about climate change,â said McCaffrey. âoeThen they go home and tell their parents, and everybodyâ(TM)s upset because the parents are driving their kids to the soccer game, and the kids are feeling guilty about being in the car and contributing to this global problem.

Now, if that isn't indoctrination, I do not know what it. So either believe me or die some horrible death like they say in most religions and now science being taught in public education. Whenever your instruction relies on scaring people to follow you, it is indoctrination.

Have you even bothered with the standards? I mean I read them on that right wing news site PBS, but I believe them to be accurate. IT says things like "Changes in climate conditions can affect the health and function of ecosystems and the survival of entire species." Oh noes, we are all going to die if we don't act now.

"The only explanation that is consistent with all available evidence is that human impacts are playing an increasing role in climate change." It cannot be anything else even if we find something because as we found out earlier, skepticism is discouraged so nothing that counters the intended prolog will ever be viable.

And here is my favorite essential principle "Scientists have conducted extensive research on the fundamental characteristics of the climate system and their understanding will continue to improve. Current climate change projections are reliable enough to help humans evaluate potential decisions and actions in response to climate change." Despite the fact that none of the projections have been accurate as of yet. Sure, you find models that point in the right direction but if they were accurate, we would have half the east coast under water right now, California would be a lot smaller, and farmers in the mid west would be out of a job. I guess that saying about a million monkeys on typewriters would eventually pound out a Shakespearean novel may apply to it. All models so far have only been accurate to their training data- not forward projections. Hell, just a few months ago, they found 4 or 5 new green house gasses that non of the models were considering. But it is reliable enough I guess if your calculator said 2+2 was 5 every so often, the calculator would be "reliable enough"?

Comment Re: Motivated rejection of science (Score 0, Troll) 661

Wow.. just wow. You recomend cutting a state that pays into the system out of thr system because they refuse to indoctrinate their children through forced public education. They never said the kids couldn't learn about it, just that they weren't going to mandate the state preaches it.

You are right in that we will have to deal with climate change though. But we have to do that whether man is impacting it or not as climate is not static and has changed since the earth has been here. So your gripe seems to be more that the states don't want to evangelize as much as you want them to and to you this is just cause to starve women and children by withholding aid if a disaster should strike the state. Wow..

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