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From: Guy Olsen on 14 Feb 2010 00:21 On Feb 13, 1:49 pm, Larry G <gross.la...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 13, 12:27 pm, Scott in SoCal <scottenazt...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Last time on rec.autos.driving, Larry G <gross.la...(a)gmail.com> said: > > > >> Which will only create a healthy black market for devices+software > > >> which can "sanitize" the data on these loggers. > > > >maybe but let's say you ALREADY have a real accident record that has > > >cost the insurance company and they come back and say "No insurance > > >unless you put this device in your car" - very similar in concept to > > >these alcohol interlock systems. > > > Until they all collude you can simply switch to another company. > > > >keep in mind also that these devices can come with GPS and wireless > > >transmission. > > > And the antennas for those wireless transmissions can break or get > > poor reception, forcing a fallback to the download scenario mentioned > > in the article. > > > >Hacking ? sure.... some clever guy may figure it out... but the > > >average guy won't. > > > The average guy will just buy the technology from the hackers. How > > many DrecTV pirates figured out how to break the signal encryption by > > themselves? > > -- > > The MFFY Litmus Test: > > If your maneuver forces another driver WHO HAS THE RIGHT-OF-WAY > > to alter course or speed, what you did was probably MFFY. > > hey whats MFFY stand for?- Hide quoted text - > Me First, F--- You
From: Nate Nagel on 14 Feb 2010 19:52 On 2/14/2010 6:02 PM, Scott in SoCal wrote: > Last time on rec.autos.driving, Nate Nagel<njnagel(a)roosters.net> > said: > >> Anyone remember 84 Lumber bumper stickers? > > Never heard of them. > >> My dad would always park his >> truck backed up against a wall or something so they couldn't slap one on. > > Who are "they" and why do "they" want to slap bumper stickers onto > your dad's truck? The store employees. They'd go out into the parking lot and slap bumper stickers on customers' cars when nobody was looking. nate -- replace "roosters" with "cox" to reply. http://members.cox.net/njnagel
From: Otto Yamamoto on 15 Feb 2010 01:35 On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:49:06 +0000, Brent wrote: > China today is a nasty combination of crony capitalism and totalitarian > communism. The 'communism' part is name-only. If China were truly communist, all enterprises would be state-owned. China is really closer to National Socialism(where the 'socialism' was also only a name) than anything else. -- Otto Yamamoto
From: Larry G on 15 Feb 2010 05:54 On Feb 15, 12:54 am, Scott in SoCal <scottenazt...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Last time on rec.autos.driving, Nate Nagel <njna...(a)roosters.net> > said: > > >> Who are "they" and why do "they" want to slap bumper stickers onto > >> your dad's truck? > > >The store employees. They'd go out into the parking lot and slap bumper > >stickers on customers' cars when nobody was looking. > > Any store that does that to one of my vehicles is going to find an IED > tossed through their front window... funny how people's attitudes have changed about this practice..... I think it is, in general, far, far less acceptable now.. perhaps in part because bumpers are no longer real chrome and getting the stickers off not as easy. but I'l still immensely enjoy seeing some MFFY stickers affixed.. until the owners found them... but you know some of them might actually proudly keep them affixed.
From: Brent on 15 Feb 2010 08:30
On 2010-02-15, Otto Yamamoto <otto(a)yamamoto.cc> wrote: > On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:49:06 +0000, Brent wrote: > >> China today is a nasty combination of crony capitalism and totalitarian >> communism. > > The 'communism' part is name-only. If China were truly communist, all > enterprises would be state-owned. China is really closer to National > Socialism(where the 'socialism' was also only a name) than anything else. Crony capitalism is for the people effectively corporatism/fascism. |