No. I got rid of the car about a year later. It didn't bother me because at the time, I thought it was just a snitch, like the any other cell phone. Didn't occur to me they could shut off my car but I feel stupid I didn't think of that. Too trusting.
We need to push for CEOs to be replaced with AI. They'd do a better job and would cost a LOT less.
Start repeating this everywhere and get the meme-makers on it. It will be wonderful to watch them squirm as they suddenly find reasons why AI shouldn't replace a company's most valuable assets: its most highly-paid executives.
this can equally well be used in authoritarian countries (Russia, US, China, etc) to track or disable the vehicles of dissidents or keep protesters from following ICE vermin.
The OnStar system in my previous vehicle still reported to OnStar (or someone) even though it did not HAVE OnStar installed or activated. I was out west where the nearest cell tower was over 60 miles away and was using an SDR and traced it to the trunk on the drivers side. I was looking for some SCADA signals in the 800-950 Mhz range and said "What the actual hell is THAT!?" when I saw it was always near, and always fairly strong. I assume it was beaconing for a cell tower since it was a repeated signlal with about the same waveform.
the way house alarm is wired
"Value Priced" installed alarms do that. I installed and maintained alarms in the 70's. I used two types of systems, for low security, a resistor at the bitter end of the zone. That way a open or short would set off the zone. The other was a oscillating R/C or C/L circuit that was tuned to a unique frequency for that alarm on that zone. Lately, the zones (wired or wireless) use TLS.
As to reporting, most were metallic pair from TelCo (kinda expensive) with line security (variable oscillating), or used dial up every few minutes. A special "OverWatch" mode for dial up was available for an extra charge that stayed connected but that was designed by the company and not something off the shelf. These days, it's done with Internet via cable/phone or wireless. A drop in comms == "Trouble" which is treated as an alarm condition.
Another precaution was a code to repeat in case of alarm. Said code said one style, everything is OK. Said in another style it ment the subscriber was being held hostage. Much fun calling for a SWAT response and very, very expensive when the subscriber got it wrong.
I've just realized that with the M-type gimps in typical configuration you could use a modified ball gag to augment the anal collection and only need 25 of them. Proper gimpsuits for the outdoor temperature would ensure a longer collection period to avoid hypothermia before the phone is charged.
I've seen tenth of a watt with 50 degree C temperature differential reported. So on a brisk winter day of -17 C you'd need 50 friends or johns or M type gimps to prostrate themselves in a circle with their exposed rumps in the air towards the center, and from your pivot man position in the center jam a silicone heat sink greased JTEC up each their asses to get the 5W to charge a smartphone.
Nonsense, Russia can't and won't attack any NATO country. Russia does not have the means to stand up to NATO in either conventional or nuclear war. It would end them. Their expansion is limited to Ukraine and they're struggling there. Your hypothetical trillions to defend and scare mongering about an "emboldened Russia" are just fiction.
We sent $24 billion just to prop up Ukrainian government salaries to the end of December 2024 alone, parasites.
We are getting low on several critical munitions because we're wasting them on Ukraine, and Ukraine continues to lose even now. It's good money after bad, a waste. Zelenskyy and his oligarchs have his gravy train from fighting Russia down to the last Ukrainian and last acre of Ukraine.
It is not cost effective to waste our money and munitions on a losing war.
Johnson claims 40 - 60 % efficiency with large temperature spread of 600 degrees C.. and that's beautiful and wonderful.
Thus far experiments at lower temperature differences have been done, I see on net 180 degrees with 17 percent which actually is ok too. The theoretical max there would be 38 percent.
But, anything near the 40 to 60 percent theoretical value hasn't been demonstrated in repeatable experiment, he's working up to that. So, is Johnson just overhyped about the invention or can he (or anyone) deliver? for that matter, even 20 percent at lower temp differences might be good for a lot of things anyway.
You're hilarious, I'm a third generation U.S. citizen.
I don't give a shit about either Russia or Ukraine problems, fuck 'em both. I care about my tax dollars propping up sponges, and that means Ukraine.
Your little pea brain can't comprehend someone not swallowing the B.S. narrative fed to them by the Biden administration to support this stupid war.
Nope!
OpenBSD has the luxury by fiat that users will accept utterly breaking API for previous versions, to say you must recompile all apps for the new 32 bit time_t; not a big deal the way the distro is put together, if you use their thousands packages you're fine, they did the work for you. OpenBSD users are fine with the "flag day break the past" approached, explained, promised and delivered.
Not the case in Linux land, utterly different situation. They promise and keep backward compatibility of 32 bit libraries. No flag day promised, threatened or allowed. Your 32 bit Linux will die in 2038, deal with it.
What a juvenile you are, calling anyone not brainwashed to support the proven neonazi government of Ukraine a "Russian." Grow up, little boy.
The real poll shows your lies:
Why are you trying to get new programmers to write code? Isn't vibe coding supposed to be taking over that niche? I'm not sure if I'm serious or not, but it seems a valid question in this day and she.
Are anything replacing Java and COBOL for big finacial wares the big iron runs with decades old libraries? The mid sized stuff is going to C# which has a Windows curse countries outside the USA hate and Python which is 34 years old.
So 25 to 50 years out it'll be those for core business except Microsoft in coding space will collapse with ai and other unfocused clippy-ism.
Systems programming might go to Rust
No, we understood the author but he had no valid point.
To program is to be.
