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@dragoon said in In other news today...:
that is what ~75F? That is hardly what I would call a hot day.
Obviously, you don't live in Canada
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
Keuper and Alkemade say the IVI system is also indirectly connected to the car's acceleration and braking system, but they stopped investigating the possibility of interacting with those systems fearing they might breach Volkswagen's intellectual property.
Well, it has to be connected, because it also
- needs to read various parameters (e.g. speed is used by the navigation) and
- runs settings UI for the car functions.
If the design is reasonable, it should be connected through a separate controller (even without security concerns, the one connected to CAN has higher reliability requirements, so separating them simplifies developing the UI) and that controller would limit what commands can be send. So I'd expect it would not be willing to send things like accelerate commands. But it might be willing to, e.g. turn off the lights.
Yay, CAN bus.
A Controller Area Network (CAN bus) is a robust vehicle bus standard
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
It is quite robust. But it is not secure. In fact, securing the physical layer can only really be done physically anyway. And it's not a problem. The CAN bus is internal to the car. It is any controllers that connect to the outside world, or run third-party code, that need to take responsibility for security.
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@boomzilla I'd like to see someone pitch more than 8 strikeouts in less than 3 innings.
It's technically possible if the catcher drops the third strike. The pitcher is credited with the strikeout even if the hitter/runner reaches base safely; that's charged as an error on either the catcher (passed ball), if in the scorekeeper's opinion he should have been able to catch it, or the pitcher (wild pitch), if not.
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@dragoon said in In other news today...:
that is what ~75F? That is hardly what I would call a hot day.
Given that it's a race usually run at about 60F in a country with pretty much year round very high humidity, 75F is quite hot enough to cause problems.
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@bb36e said in In other news today...:
Ohio State Trooper Hartford knew three things about Tyrone Warfield before stopping his car. He knew that Warfield, having recently exited a construction zone, was driving under the speed limit with both hands on the steering wheel. He knew that Warfield had touched the lane line twice. And he knew that Warfield was black. From there, Hartford cast off on a freewheeling investigation that began with a supposed marked lane violation, moved to suspicions of drunk driving, then to suspicions of trafficking untaxed cigarettes, and then on to drugs. The offense Warfield pleaded guilty to was even further adrift: the possession of gift cards re-encoded with stolen information. Because the initial stop was not supported by probable cause or reasonable suspicion, we reverse the district court’s denial of the motion to suppress and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
The officer was a moron. He should've just said that Tyrone made an illegal turn just before he switched on his patrol car's dashcam to record the stop.
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@anotherusername That would not make it a probable cause warranting search of the car.
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@bulb oh sorry. Yes, then he also caught a whiff of marijuana odor emanating from the window.
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@dragoon Some people are just crazy. When the temperature rose to like 100°F here, people were excused from class due to the 'heat wave', and I'm confused because I grew up where every single summer was 100°F.
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@pie_flavor A few years back, I got a job in LA. Just a couple weeks after I moved down there, SoCal had one of its extremely rare days of heavy rain. That Sunday, everyone at church was griping about how much trouble it was causing for them, so I said, "I don't know what everyone's complaining about; I just moved down here from Seattle and I'm feeling right at home!" :D
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A Famous Biohacker Was Found Dead In A Sensory Deprivation Tank
The body of 28-year-old startup CEO Aaron Traywick was found Sunday morning in a spa in Northwest DC.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon Some people are just crazy. When the temperature rose to like 100°F here, people were excused from class due to the 'heat wave', and I'm confused because I grew up where every single summer was 100°F.
But what was the humidity where you grew up vs. the humidity on that 100°F day where you are now?
Because humidity can have a drastic effect on how hot is feels.
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@djls45 Dry as shit vs dry as shit.
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@pie_flavor The water content of feces is highly variable. Sometimes it is very unpleasantly high.
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Kanye West says 400 years of slavery was a choice for African-Americans
Following a string of Twitter rants last week, Kanye West turned up at the TMZ offices on Tuesday to film “TMZ Live” and made controversial comments about slavery that caused offense.
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"That was the moment that I wanted to use Bitcoin, when I saw Harriett Tubman on the $20 bill,” he said. “It’s like when you just see all the slave movies. It’s like why do you gotta keep reminding us about slavery? Why don’t you… put Michael Jordan on the $20 bill?”
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@dragoon said in In other news today...:
that is what ~75F? That is hardly what I would call a hot day.
Given that it's a race usually run at about 60F in a country with pretty much year round very high humidity, 75F is quite hot enough to cause problems.
Also from the article:
Organisers faced criticism from runners after the water stations between miles eight and 10 ran out for around an hour, forcing some to dash into shops to buy bottles.
If the runners aren't used to staying hydrated and lack easy access to water then the organisers were just asking for trouble.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
The body of 28-year-old startup CEO Aaron Traywick was found Sunday morning in a spa in Northwest DC.
Too much salt came through osmosis?
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@bb36e said in In other news today...:
Ohio State Trooper Hartford knew three things about Tyrone Warfield before stopping his car. He knew that Warfield, having recently exited a construction zone, was driving under the speed limit with both hands on the steering wheel. He knew that Warfield had touched the lane line twice. And he knew that Warfield was black. From there, Hartford cast off on a freewheeling investigation that began with a supposed marked lane violation, moved to suspicions of drunk driving, then to suspicions of trafficking untaxed cigarettes, and then on to drugs. The offense Warfield pleaded guilty to was even further adrift: the possession of gift cards re-encoded with stolen information. Because the initial stop was not supported by probable cause or reasonable suspicion, we reverse the district court’s denial of the motion to suppress and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor The water content of feces is highly variable. Sometimes it is very unpleasantly high.
And sometimes it's rather unpleasantly low.
Given the choice, I think I'd take the former...
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor The water content of feces is highly variable. Sometimes it is very unpleasantly high.
You're welcome.
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor The water content of feces is highly variable. Sometimes it is very unpleasantly high.
You're welcome.
I've been keeping regiment to slowly take that from 6 back on up...
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Police tight-lipped on goat report as man bailed after bomb squad search
Reports claimed a goat was removed from a Coventry address where a "controlled disposal" of a substance was undertaken.
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@hardwaregeek Don't blame the bus, the bus is just in charge of sending messages between devices.
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@dragoon said in In other news today...:
French museum discovers half of its collection are fakes
A state-owned French art museum has discovered that more than half of its collection consists of worthless fakes and experts fear that other public galleries may also be stuffed with forgeries.
I mean, the whole cult of personality in the art world is just ridiculous. If the only way they could see the paintings were not created by the attributed artist was that they hade motifs that did not exist when he lived, the paintings areobviously good enough to have been his work, and at least to me are works of art as much as his original work.
So, this following is just dumb:I put myself in the place of all the people who came to visit the museum, who saw fake works of art, who paid an entrance fee. It’s intolerable and I hope we find those responsible.
The people paid to see works of art, they got to see works of art.
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@carnage said in In other news today...:
at least to me are works of art as much as his original work.
You could argue that forgeries don't have the originality and inspiration that the actual pieces do
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@jaloopa I would say they've got even better inspiration.
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@carnage said in In other news today...:
at least to me are works of art as much as his original work.
You could argue that forgeries don't have the originality and inspiration that the actual pieces do
In this case, they were not copies of his actual work, but entirely new productions that just had his squiggle on them, since they portrayed things that did not exist during his lifetime. They had no less originality and inspiration than his own work, since people actually did not notice it byt the quality of the work, but rather that the buildings in the paintings were built after his death.
The idiocy of paying a thousand times more for a paiting for a doodle in the bottom corner is strange. If it's not the work of art that is important, why not just display a bunch of autograph hunters collections of doodles in a flip book?
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@carnage the style is not original
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@bb36e said in In other news today...:
@carnage the style is not original
It's probably not like the artist that made the first ones had avery original style either. And if his style is so easily copied that it's impossible to see that someone else did it, the style is worth fuck all to begin with.
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@carnage said in In other news today...:
And if his style is so easily copied that it's impossible to see that someone else did it, the style is worth fuck all to begin with.
I'd disagree. Many modern photography styles are easily copied, (e.g. Brenizer Method, the dude who started the fairy lights fad that's starting to die out, crushed/lifted blacks) but they still add a lot of aesthetic value and personally speaking, I'd pay more for work created by their pioneers. Mind you, those are just mainly post-processing styles; I think it'd be technically easy to copy Ming Thein but again, I'd pay more for his work because I admire his photos as well as his views on photography.
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@bb36e said in In other news today...:
@carnage said in In other news today...:
And if his style is so easily copied that it's impossible to see that someone else did it, the style is worth fuck all to begin with.
I'd disagree. Many modern photography styles are easily copied, (e.g. Brenizer Method, the dude who started the fairy lights fad that's starting to die out, crushed/lifted blacks) but they still add a lot of aesthetic value and personally speaking, I'd pay more for work created by their pioneers. Mind you, those are just mainly post-processing styles; I think it'd be technically easy to copy Ming Thein but again, I'd pay more for his work because I admire his photos as well as his views on photography.
To copy a style, you'd also have to have an eye for what makes that style. you need to recreate what makes that style. Pretty much all of painting and art in general is just copying a style, with minor tweaks to begin with, very rarely does something truly innovative show up. For every well known artist that "created" a style, there is a hoard of them that never reached fame that also did that.
And, after the original artist did the first work of a particular style, he's also just copying himself...
I see a lot more value in paying the actually living artists for their work than shuffling around the creations of dead creators for insane amounts.
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
Reports claimed a goat was removed from a Coventry address where a "controlled disposal" of a substance was undertaken.
There is no B-3 bomber and I don't know why these rumors get started!
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@boner This must be a new definition of the word "famous" of which I was not previously aware.
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Attention Whore Says Stuff To Get Him Attention; gullible irresponsible press falls for it every fucking time.
Full story at 11:00.
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Too much salt came through osmosis?
Maybe he turned into a caveman and then later a lava monster.
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@carnage said in In other news today...:
I see a lot more value in paying the actually living artists for their work than shuffling around the creations of dead creators for insane amounts
No argument from me against that.
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Passengers on that Southwest flight with faulty engine are suing Southwest:
https://twitter.com/AwfulAviation/status/991643845715689473
For not... uh removing the engine from their Boeing 700? WTF. Do... do they think the plane is actually called the Boeing 700-737, or do they think that Southwest has a bunch of 707s and 727s in service and they use the same engine as the 737 or... what the hell even.
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@blakeyrat perhaps they meant 737-300...either way, it reflects poorly
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
For not... uh removing the engine
And replacing it with one that wasn't about to fail catastrophically, I'd assume was what it meant. They're supposed to go over those engines with a fine-tooth comb to make sure they don't fail in midair. I don't know whether it was negligent or not (so I'd say this lawsuit is premature), but precisely why and how they failed to recognize the engine's impending failure is definitely a good question that needs to be answered.
@bb36e said in In other news today...:
@blakeyrat perhaps they meant 737-300...
Or the 737-700.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
And replacing it with one that wasn't about to fail catastrophically, I'd assume was what it meant.
The point is you'd assume a lawyer drafting a claim against a huge corporation would maybe have someone proofread this shit.
I'd love to see the logic behind how they thought warning passengers would help. "There's a 1:100,000,000 chance that this engine could catastrophically fail!" Oh yeah, that's a huge assistance to the public, thanks guys.
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
Or the 737-700.
The plane involved was a 737-700, so that makes the most sense. Still... hire a proofreader, maybe?
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
The plane involved was a 737-700, so that makes the most sense. Still... hire a proofreader, maybe?
The proofreader probably read "737 to 700? That should be 700-737, the smaller number comes first."
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@anotherusername "How many planes? About 700 and change"
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
The plane involved was a 737-700, so that makes the most sense. Still... hire a proofreader, maybe?
The proofreader probably read "737 to 700? That should be 700-737, the smaller number comes first."
There probably wasn't a proofreader. The text was probably reassembled from a string of random tweets from a nobody, like most "journalism" these days.
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@mott555 The proofreader's job was to strip out the
and 
emojis
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
I'd love to see the logic behind how they thought warning passengers would help. "There's a 1:100,000,000 chance that this engine could catastrophically fail!" Oh yeah, that's a huge assistance to the public, thanks guys.
No, that lawyer obviously expected a "Hey guys, this engine is going to blow up on this flight. Do you still want to get on board?"
But hey - somethingsomething about lawyers, ambulances, and airplanes... (can't come up with a good quip for this - clutch in the brain is slipping)
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
No, that lawyer obviously expected a "Hey guys, this engine is going to blow up on this flight. Do you still want to get on board?"
I'd still take my chances. If you can convince two modern qualified pilots the plane's safe to fly, that plane's at least 10 times safer than any plane flying in 1980.
The worst case scenario is the plane really isn't safe, in which case I'm out nothing because they wouldn't be able to find any pilots to fly the thing.
#GameTheory
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
And replacing it with one that wasn't about to fail catastrophically, I'd assume was what it meant.
The point is you'd assume a lawyer drafting a claim against a huge corporation would maybe have someone proofread this shit.
I'd love to see the logic behind how they thought warning passengers would help. "There's a 1:100,000,000 chance that this engine could catastrophically fail!" Oh yeah, that's a huge assistance to the public, thanks guys.
Absolutely, most things in aeroengine maintenance are based on failure probabilities and keeping them remote.
Some of the stuff I get up to crosses over into this world, if you aren't Military and just running everything on-condition then it's bloody complicated, highly regulated, and it's fairly unlikely a major airline would be negligent on maintenance.
You have the general engine maintenance that runs on the manufacturer's specified schedules, this is on-wing and obviously you can't inspect quite a lot of stuff. Most importantly, you can't detect subtle damage to turbine/compressor disks.
Off-wing overhaul is the next major thing that happens. Some parts of the engine are considered Life Limited Parts (LLP) and they have a set number of Engine Flying Hours (EFH) after which they must be replaced. The rest of the engine is governed by a ratio between EFH and Engine Flight Cycles (EFC) and required performance.
So taking the engine off the plane for overhaul happens because:- You've hit the hours limit on some LLP
- You've hit the EFH/EFC numbers the manufacturer considers to mean that the engine is out of life. Starts are very hard on Gas Turbines so you want to keep the EFC low.
- The engine isn't meeting your performance targets because of wear/degradation of components.
You have to trust that the engine manufacturer has correctly identified which components are LLP and what the appropriate EFH/EFC overhaul limits are for each engine configuration.
If they get this wrong then you might, for example, have a case where a disk crack could fully develop between overhauls rather than being caught before it dismantled itself.The wildcard on maintenance is if an Airworthiness Directive (AD) is issued. This means you have to do something in a certain time-frame because an issue has been identified. So, if they discover a problem here that wasn't just pure chance and was instead that a part had less life than expected they'll probably issue an AD for inspection/overhaul of the affected engines.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
For not... uh removing the engine from their Boeing 700?
Check your gramming. "...not removing or warning passengers..." That is to say, not putting them on the plane with the bad engine.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
The plane involved was a 737-700, so that makes the most sense. Still... hire a proofreader, maybe?
The proofreader probably read "737 to 700? That should be 700-737, the smaller number comes first."
There probably wasn't a proofreader. The text was probably reassembled from a string of random tweets from a nobody, like most "journalism" these days.
That just shifts the job positions one step. The journalist is now the proofreader and the twittertwats are the journalists.
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@boomzilla Which also brings up a point: they're presuming Southwest knew the engine was in bad shape and flew anyway? Jesus. They're gonna piss off some judge with that shit.
