And lets not forget how astonishing that is in light of what many other car manufacturers[0] do when they find issues that effect millions of their cars in a much more dangerous way. The fact that even with that issue, their safety numbers are through the roof and their number of incidents are way under the national average, and they still willingly and transparently issues a recall, I count that as nothing but a plus for Tesla.
Well that is the capability of security cameras, loyalty cards, credit cards, scanning ID to get booze and a million other identification means. Unless you go to Starbucks wearing a ski-mask, a Faraday cage, and paying with cash you are possibly being tracked for marketing data. As much as I have an natural dislike against rampant corporate abuse, I am hard pressed to find a reason a privately owned merchant couldn't put one of these in their store. When I go to a hockey game I get my ticket checked, my ID checked, I have to empty my pockets, possibly even my bag, and I have to get scanned by a metal detector. But that is something I consent to so that I may go about enjoying the game. I feel as though eventually these types of Mac address scanners, loyalty cards, credit card tracking, and things of the like will just be terms that the stores set that we just sacrifice to be able to shop there. As for me I would just rather turn off my wifi and buy as much as I can off online stores.
> The only value they offer is violating people's privacy.
I don't think reading a value being freely broadcast by a person in your building is an invasion of privacy, how is this any different from having security cameras with audio or anything else. Saying you have privacy to something you are broadcasting in public, even more specifically in this case a privately owned building is a little daft. Do you think it's an invasion of privacy if someone writes down your name and address if you were yelling it in the middle of a Starbucks?
Ok, so I have a bunch of domains on Godaddy pointing at a bunch of sites on Digital Ocean and DreamHost. Is it really worthwhile transferring all of them over to Namecheap and setting everything back up? Besides not being Godaddy, i'm curious what the upsides are?
Well shit, anyone else have any ideas? Depending on how strict they are with stalking or watching you I think typing things up on my phone wouldn't be to difficult to do nonchalantly.
My two questions now are,
1. Is there an uncensored version online yet?
2. If there is not, does anyone know if I am allowed to go down to the library of congress and scan/photograph the contents (If so, I live close by and can go do it tonight/tomorrow).
So what if these NSA engineers really thought they were helping people and doing good? What if they personally decided they were willing to deal with the certain privacy sacrifices they were making because from what they knew, working in very secret high level intelligence(seeing and knowing a lot more than we do), the threat to peoples lives and safety were worth what they are doing. Then in that case this whole article would be considered bunk. Ethics like morals are relative.
I was really bummed when I read that one of these costs about 12k. But then I realized how much money you could make taking this around the country, mapping out cities and licensing the images out. Heck, just taking private gigs for colleges, estates, parks, and things of that sort could make you good money. I think i found a new side business.
The way it looks is that it is connected to your cellphone via bluetooth or something of that sort (since it notifies you when it is out of range from your card). An easy solution would be for the card to auto wipe when disconnected from your phone, then re-download all the cards from the app when you reconnect. Problem solved!
Well it seems like this is heavily based upon the progress of sqlalchemy based on the shoulder of giants comment at the bottom of the page. Whether that is in a philosophical way or a technical way, I haven't looked into it enough to find out, but it would be nice to know the comparative differences and similarities.
Thanks, for a while there I thought it was going towards the drop out route, but your second paragraph really made sense. I guess I'm in such a rush to jump in seeing all these young guys working at startups, i'm afraid i'll miss the boat and next thing I know I'm too old and washed up for the hip young startup guys.
Im not doing too bad(about 45k/per year) and still living at home (only 20yo). But how hard would it be to try and go to school while working at a startup style company after moving from out of state? I heard they are a lot more time consuming than normal companies (50-60 hours per week vs 40).
Which service will tumble 32 million worth of coins? And if they do them per bust then people will still see a transaction of x amount leaving their wallet.
Possibly use them in sting operations of more underground sites like the silk road. Obviously as we've seen they are still going after dealers, hitmen, CP and this would be a large enough fund of coins to do that from. The only issue I see is how they would tumble and transfer them without everyone watching for transactions out of the main account.
But you do have to take into account the context of what they are doing. Yes on a technical scale it is similar to a mitm attack, and yes in theory they do have access to your email content, but I don't think that by using an interesting trick to add a useful feature should put them in the same category as sleazy hackers secretly trying to steal your credit cards and such.
Well I don't think that is entirely fair. To get to that price you have to take the most expensive mac product, then add tax. I just bought the highest end MacBook pro today with the student discount and it only cost a little over 2k. Which if I wanted another computer of comparable hardware quality (aluminum vs. plastic), screen resolution, and weight and dimensions I would be hard-pressed to find a comparable PC for that much cheaper. And that is disregarding the crappy support of most PC manufacturers. So I wouldn't say their prices for hardware are even that crazy, a MacBook quality laptop that only ran windows or Linux could still sell for 80-90% of the price.
This seems like it would be cool for existing games to add as a feature, like a level creator on ipad or iphone games, but as for actually making games it seems like all these ideas are just custom basic side-scroller generators. Someone had something like this the other week at Hack-MIT and I think it even won some stuff, the tech is cool, but so far no impressive implementation.