Posted on 08/15/2019 11:24:55 AM PDT by CedarDave
You-should-have-bought-a-squirrel
Perhaps; but NIOT from halfway around the world in Mom's basement.
If the controls are somehow linked to the outside world; then yes; it may be possible.
But if the system is self contained; then actual physical access to the device must be obtained to do any 'hacking'.
Hal; open the pod bay doors.
yes
Do casinos have facial recog on all those thousands of cameras watching you?
And that is one of the places that it hurts the most; too!
Amen on the pad.
HATE them things!!
20 or so years ago a friend had borrowed my truck to do some moving stuff and left me his car. I almost broke the gear selector off before I accidently touched my foot on the brake pedal! (The designers were protecting little kids; being left in a running vehicle; from accidently pulling the car into gear and having a wreck.)
Another time I’d rented a car and when it was time for some gas; I couldn’t open the gas door.
I almost broke it when I noticed a little lever that released it.
At least I can open the hood on my Jeep; barely.
After flipping the latch (down by the floor) I have a hard time reaching the lever by the radiator as my fingers are too short.
There’s just HAS to be a special place in hell for the person who designed THAT thing!!
Thank god he wasn’t TEXTING and driving!
“Are you SURE you want to DELETE this patient?”
Or the “safe” gas cans where you pour gas over everything except where you want it because of what is needed to work the “safety” mechanism.
I’m in CA again after a long absence. Got to chat with my brothers who have lived in the East Bay all their lives.
There big thing is how the car dealerships here are folding. The Automall only has Ford, Honda, and Infiniti left - the others folded.
The cost of the new cars now are so bloated with sensor tech.
Doesn’t surprise me at all that some of these manufacturers are putting back the old mechanical controls. Way cheaper.
Oh yeah!
I have plenty of good gas comtainers that the yellow nozzles were NOT made out of the same material as the red thing. Thus; they’ve cracked and broken.
I can still manage to find some replacements that fit at a farm store.
Wallyworld etal have these complicated nozzle things that I GUT if I have to buy one.
And have you seen the PRICE of the things?
Just WOW!
I notice my laptop touch pad doesn’t work if my hand is wet.
I wonder if these guys verified that their touch screens still work if the user’s hands are wet, bloody, covered in grease, or any of a number of conditions likely to be encountered in a combat situation.
When working with toxic substances such as gasoline or oil, I wear disposable nitrile gloves. Touch screens on iphones or ipads are completely useless for when wearing them. This is especially bad when you need to enter data or even answer a phone call.
What the Navy needs is some sort of ‘MCAS’ : ) tech for their ships and not tell the sailors how to disengage it easily as it never fails.....
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