confused by this..
1)why was he not typing what he said he was typing?
2)he wasn't even trying to guess a password, he didn't even know what command to run to access the interface for the security, so how would that trigger Dennis' lockout. If a cat walked on the keyboard the same thing could happen.
3)dinosaurs? ...in a park?

As a 'car guy', the biggest draw to a Tesla [for me] is the acceleration ... and since the model 3, handling is 'good nuff for a stock car'. A model 3 even won scca solo b street.

Eventually they can get their electronics switching fast nuff to maintain torque above 100 (or add a gear), and it will probably be a pretty good track car too.

I never cared for the self driving and whatever else. I just care about the basics. Tesla basics are pretty good.

The down side of tesla is that you can't fix it yourself. Their parts are coded to each other, and even if you replace a bad part with a good one, it won't work till the ECM is coded to it. Pretty much a repair monopoly.

You can replace some control boards/software to help with that, but Tesla detects it and punishes you with a quick charge lockout.

Don't really feel comfortable owning a car I am not allowed to fix.

For someone like me, Tesla has only 1 vulnerability : Other manufacturers can choose to make fast EVs, too.
That's all it would take [for someone like me] to change Tesla from 'the only game in town' to 'just one of many'.

-scheherazade

I'm amused at two assertions: guns are designed to kill people, and that kids think guns are fun to play with.

Children who are not taught properly about firearms are, generally, viewing them as toys to play with. Children who are properly taught about firearm safety, use, etc., are much more likely to view them properly; as very dangerous tools.

SOME firearms—guns—are, indeed, designed to kill people. I would suggest that the projectile is the part that has seen more development for human lethality than the firearm itself. There are parts of the country where carrying a firearm is distinctly in the realm of protection of self and family. No, not from acts of violence by other people, but by animal predators. Lots of places have bears and such wander across the porches of people's houses. Regularly.

I will, however, strongly agree that the lack of obvious gun lockout devices (I only saw one on the first watch of the video) is concerning, but if he doesn't have children himself, and none come to visit, that leaves children accessing his house without his knowledge…

As far as the number of firearms, do we know if he has a wife? Are they all HIS guns, or is that collection of guns owned by multiple people?

>> ^direpickle:

@Yogi I wrote this big long reply, but screw it. Synopsis:
I don't blame the replacements. They're making understandable mistakes based on what their actual jobs are. I blame the people causing the lockout.
I agree they're not as bad as the media is making them out to be. I have been curious about seeing the exact same sort of studies you mention. I'll have to Google. I do find it hard to believe that they're not measurably worse, though.
Bad penalty-calling aside, they're almost definitely breaking the flow of the game as they try to figure out the rules. There's frequent overlong stoppage of play for no real reason. Again, not totally their fault. Maybe this happens with the regulars and I just don't remember, but it seems way worse.


Here's my reply to all of this. I don't really care all that much. What pisses me off is that this is a big deal when our country is fucked. People don't have jobs everywhere, our economy is shit, and the government is giving the rich everything. So why do we care about these millionaires not getting calls in their "Game." I played football all my life, and I like the NFL, but they're expecting me to care about people with soo much money it's obscene. Fuck Them. They need to shut the fuck up.

@Yogi I wrote this big long reply, but screw it. Synopsis:

I don't blame the replacements. They're making understandable mistakes based on what their actual jobs are. I blame the people causing the lockout.

I agree they're not as bad as the media is making them out to be. I have been curious about seeing the exact same sort of studies you mention. I'll have to Google. I do find it hard to believe that they're not measurably worse, though.

Bad penalty-calling aside, they're almost definitely breaking the flow of the game as they try to figure out the rules. There's frequent overlong stoppage of play for no real reason. Again, not totally their fault. Maybe this happens with the regulars and I just don't remember, but it seems way worse.

Lakers, please hire this young player after NBA lockout ends.

>> ^jimnms:

>> ^Stingray:
Quoted from http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Brothers_(episode)
The strength of Data's lockout code would potentially require trying 36⁵² combinations to break it, or 846,700,936,056,091,894,301,310,586,236,842,935,416,138,248,772,949,513,519,821,268,414,868,295,354,679,296 (8.467x1080) combinations – equivalent to cracking a 269-bit key in symmetric cryptography, something that is currently impossible to do.

Maybe not, I just read this the other day: "Cheap GPUs are rendering strong passwords useless."


Yeah, Data is way advanced than those. I'd like to see brute force!

>> ^jimnms:

>> ^Stingray:
Quoted from http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Brothers_(episode)
The strength of Data's lockout code would potentially require trying 36⁵² combinations to break it, or 846,700,936,056,091,894,301,310,586,236,842,935,416,138,248,772,949,513,519,821,268,414,868,295,354,679,296 (8.467x1080) combinations – equivalent to cracking a 269-bit key in symmetric cryptography, something that is currently impossible to do.

Maybe not, I just read this the other day: "Cheap GPUs are rendering strong passwords useless."


But he could supplement his security with a SecureID dongle from RSA - oh.

>> ^Stingray:

Quoted from http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Brothers_(episode)
The strength of Data's lockout code would potentially require trying 36⁵² combinations to break it, or 846,700,936,056,091,894,301,310,586,236,842,935,416,138,248,772,949,513,519,821,268,414,868,295,354,679,296 (8.467x1080) combinations – equivalent to cracking a 269-bit key in symmetric cryptography, something that is currently impossible to do.


Maybe not, I just read this the other day: "Cheap GPUs are rendering strong passwords useless."

Quoted from http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Brothers_(episode)

The strength of Data's lockout code would potentially require trying 36⁵² combinations to break it, or 846,700,936,056,091,894,301,310,586,236,842,935,416,138,248,772,949,513,519,821,268,414,868,295,354,679,296 (8.467x1080) combinations – equivalent to cracking a 269-bit key in symmetric cryptography, something that is currently impossible to do.

@kasinator

Replicating weapons is not a theory. In fact, all weapons and ship are replicated except for those parts that use materials that can't be replicated (like latinum). Of course, normally there are safety lockouts that prevent you from replicating weapons, plus you would need a replication pattern.

But anyway, my point concerning the Prime Directive was that, as a Vulcan precept it is not primarily concerned with morality per se. When Spock tells Kirk that his holodeck solution is logical, he is not saying in any way that it is a "good" or "bad" solution. Spock doesn't take morality into consideration, only logic. Thus, while Kirk's solution is "logical" in light of the moral dilemma he faces (that he created for himself) it is not a situation that Spock would get himself into because Spock would not have deliberated on whether or not he must try to save the natives in the first place. And it's not like Spock doesn't have emotions. Even pure-blood Vulcans have emotions, they just shove them aside most of the time. To a Vulcan, acting on emotions invites chaos sooner or later and chaos is inherently unpredictable. Instead of trying to predict the unpredictable and play god, you decide not to interfere.

But then we kind of see the reverse with the Q for a while. They are so high-up in the food chain that they do not consider their interventions as disruptive any more than we consider our destroying of an ant colony disruptive. After all, ants as a whole will adapt and survive in one way or another. But still, even they must admit that they cannot predict what will happen to their own continuum and so they realize they can't stop themselves from evolving without losing what made them Q in the first place. Their "Prime Directive" of not artificially ascending lower lifeforms (except Riker for a while) into Q stems mostly from apathy towards non-Q things but also from self-preservation, as they cannot predict what would happen if non-evolved Q arrived en masse. Thus the same could be said of the Federation's Prime Directive, even if the self-preservation aspect is unavowed.

Meh, obvious fake. You can't just "cancel" an account for any MMO, you cancel the next month's payment. No such thing as an instant account lockout tantrum.

Jesus christ Mint.

"Slow down, yer postin' too fast. Ya got to make the moment last. Just, kickin' down the regional-lockout-zones. Lookin' for sifts and feelin' groooovvyyyyyyyyyy!"

Congrats

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

DFT, honestly, I don't even know where to begin with that comment. You obviously have a pro-labor, pro-Marxist, anti-Capitalist bone to pick with our society, which I simply do not understand, but your attacks are all over the board. First, my comment was focused at unions, because I disagree with organized labor usurping the efforts of individuals who take financial risk to create business. It's wrong no matter how uneven the pay scales are between the shelf stocker at Walmart and the CEO. There was something written into our Constitution called the Freedom of Contract which allows us a right to contract the wage we find suitable for our labor. It's fair. Union lockouts and their push for self-serving political legislation is not fair.

I have to admit, as I wrote that, I felt a little slimy defending Walmart. I will, nonetheless, continue...

You say if you can't afford to pay workers minimum wage, then you shouldn't be in business? Let's tally up all the hours Lucky has worked and see if his financial compensation can match that. I bet it cannot. Should VideoSift be put out of business? Why do you hate VideoSift so much, DFT?! The thing to consider is Lucky is here working for whatever unsaid amount (or negotiated profit sharing) because he finds the price to be fair. Oh no! Someone call the government! We have a free thinking laborer on our hands!

And this comment! "Rottenseed, When you don't pay your workers enough, they don't buy enough, and when people don't buy enough, we get recessions and depressions." DFT, we don't live in a monarchy where king Walmart has employed everyone and refuses to pay out more than a shilling wage per citizen. If that was the case, then, yeah, we'd be in trouble, but people have the ability and the right to make their own contracts and receive the pay they deserve. If you stock shelves at a Walmart, then, yes, you get much less. If you offer a more needed service, then, yes, you get more - and you also buy more from services from other people keeping the economy moving.

>> ^volumptuous:

I'm not sure I get why you brought up I&O. I like their business model. I think it's wonderful that they're willing and able to pay more to their employees. They are the exception, but I'd like to think if I was in their CEO's position, I'd do the same thing. But, if paying their workers $9/hr (by the way, a far cry from the $20/hr wage I mentioned above which I believe prompted your question to me, right?) became unprofitable, then they'd give their employees a huge pay cut. Luckily for them, their burgers are yum, and the added competition from higher wages means my food is fresh, hot and my order is never wrong. [/vagina monologue]

it doesn't have to be myfacejournal-ey Dag, just a little list on the side for quick navigation. All those blagging sites have "friends" feature as a lockout option to choose who can see what material (not to mention the popularity factor) I think BF and IK are just talking about something to speed up hopping around on the sift. I personally would love it as I spend most of my puter time on the laptop (because of nursing) and end up with far too many windows open and my poor lil laptop gets very bogged down. Having a quick jump to my favorite sifter's pages would be a very nice boon.