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Comment But (Score 2) 168

why is he a hacker? This is just transmitting FM with a not so regulatory amp? If he would hack the digital feed in their studio he would be a hacker but now he's just a guy who bought some equipment and dialed in a radio station frequency and is driving around the city. Hacking my ass. But he still gets points for style, execution and repetition!

Comment Re:I guess there's one sensible solution to this (Score 1) 819

by sys64764 (#52133491) Attached to: Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test

Wauw, you managed to push all my buttons with a few words, you're a little Napoleon! Do you ever wonder what your employees really think of you?
I guess you hurdle sheep and micromanage the shit out of them, you probably don't have anyone in your team that really shines or anyone with a really strong character because you can't stand anything with a bigger ego than yourself.

Regardless of the drug test issue I wouldn't even consider working for you if you showed that attitude during an interview.

Submission + - Toshiba recalls over 100,000 faulty laptop batteries (cpsc.gov)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a recall for over 100,000 Toshiba laptop battery packs after several "hazard" reports. Toshiba, which says it shipped the affected battery module in 39 models of Toshiba Protege, Satellite, Tecra between mid-2011 and early 2016, urges users to check the model number of the battery on their laptop. Defective packs have part numbers beginning with G71C (G71c*******).

Comment Might not need? (Score 1) 153

by sys64764 (#50650597) Attached to: Volkswagen Diesel Scandal Logistics Imply Sizable Conspiracy

Might not need vs does not have is a stretch. I would think all the information to determine if it's being tested or not would just be accessible by some main controller engine API. It seems the sensors needed to tell if it's being tested or not were really basic stuff like finding out if it's moving or not vs how fast it was being driven which could be required by the hand breaking system or a sensor to tell if the steering wheel is moving or not which could be required to turn headlights in the direction the steering wheel is turned etc. Excluding these build-in hardware sensors from a car that does not have extra options payed for by the owner might not be cost-effective when mass producing and reusing much of the same parts / wiring. Not paying for one of those options does not mean the sensors are not in place.
Some of the extra options you select when buying a car are software driven things with an extra switch in the console to turn it on/off. Not paying for it does not necessarily mean none of the hardware is installed or that none of the signals are available in the API.

Submission + - Breathing Beijing's Air is The Equivalent of Smoking Almost 40 Cigarettes a Day (economist.com)

Submitted by iONiUM
iONiUM writes: From the economist: "Pollution is sky-high everywhere in China. Some 83% of Chinese are exposed to air that, in America, would be deemed by the Environmental Protection Agency either to be unhealthy or unhealthy for sensitive groups. Almost half the population of China experiences levels of PM2.5 that are above America’s highest threshold. That is even worse than the satellite data had suggested."

They go on to say "Berkeley Earth’s scientific director, Richard Muller, says breathing Beijing’s air is the equivalent of smoking almost 40 cigarettes a day and calculates that air pollution causes 1.6m deaths a year in China, or 17% of the total. A previous estimate, based on a study of pollution in the Huai river basin (which lies between the Yellow and Yangzi rivers), put the toll at 1.2m deaths a year—still high."

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