Lock who up?

According to authors [CheolHong Lim] and [DongSeok Seo], the research covered in this paper was undertaken because of reports of rare cancers among Korean STEM teachers, particularly those who used 3D printers in their curricula. It was thought that only long-term, continued exposure to the particulates generated by 3D printers could potentially be hazardous and that PLA was less likely to be hazardous than ABS. The study was designed to assess the potential carcinogenicity of both ABS and PLA particulates under conditions similar to what could be expected in an educational setting.

Is the door locking mechanism something you can change? If so you could change it to one that doesn’t lock when it’s closed, only when a key is used.

How do you keep getting locked out? Would it not be easier to remember your keys when you go outside?

Make sure the car is in neutral and handbrake is on before starting. It’s not strictly necessary but you should make this a habit for safety.

Buckle up. Make yourself aware of your surroundings.

Insert and turn key / press button. Newer cars require clutch and/or brake to be pressed to start, check the car manual if unsure.

Key shouldn’t need to be turned for long - if its kept turned when the engine starts you’ll hear a horrible grinding noise. Avoid this.

The car should now be started. Take your foot off clutch/brake, nothing will happen (as long as you ate in neutral with handbrake on).

To start moving, press the clutch, put the gear stick in 1st, start smoothly lifting your foot off the clutch. You’re looking for the bite point of the clutch - when you start to feel the car want to move. This takes practice and you will stall the car many times before its natural. Once you’ve found the bite point, its time to release the hand brake*, and start gently pressing the accelerator as you lift your foot the rest of the way off the clutch.

It takes a while for this to be smooth.

*you could release the hand brake before this and use the brake pedal instead.

When you want to change gears, take your foot off the accelerator, press the clutch, move the gear stick to the right gear, release the clutch smoothly, press the accelerator

Oh, you mean like the leader of the fucktards who want to make the world an even worse place than they already have. Gotcha.

Clickbait title for extra sensationalism. Nobody physically forced her to have the surgery to remove the implant.

I sympathize with this woman however it was part of the trial for it to be switched off and removed at the end of the trial, which is what she agreed to, though it does raise a lot of questions about medical trials/procedures involving implants.

If the company no longer exists but let her keep the implant, what happens when something goes wrong? Who is responsible, who do medical professionals trying to help with what went wrong contact for context, who bears the cost, what happens if it’s hacked, etc etc. If it was left in and she ended up dying, it’s guaranteed that headlines will talk about it being irresponsible and medical malpractice.

Fwiw, reading the MIT review, this device didn’t prevent her seizures, but monitored brainwave activity and used an algorithm to predict the likelihood of an imminent seizure. She seems to have been an edge case in terms of successi in the trial.

It seems the issue is that this gave her confidence to leave the house to do things. Prior to that she very rarely left the house because of the unpredictability of her seizures. It must suck to have that confidence, and therefore freedom, taken away.

Who is the king you’re referring to?

Why is everything clickbait? I know some communities have rules about keeping the original headline as written but I don’t know any that have rules against putting a meaningful description in the post itself. Do you get commission from clicks or are you just trying to collect worthless internet points? I really don’t understand the mindset of some posters.

Is this on the machine where you have a 23 year old low end GPU?

I get that for normal clients but letting it get to millions is a bit silly unless you have a guarantee of payment and I’m not one bit surprised this waste of oxygen isn’t paying up/claiming he can’t. I would insist on extra upfront on top but there’s probably a reason I’m not a successful and rich lawyer

I couldn’t do it but I understand that to have a balanced law system there needs to be lawyers to defend even the guilty. Some are ethically challenged and stoop to disgusting tactics but not all who defend the obviously guilty play dirty. Frustrating when bad people evade justice on a technicality but sometimes that’s the fault of the prosecution for making a mistake, which of course happen as matter of course though that doesn’t make it any more palatable.

Is anyone surprised? I don’t understand why these law firms don’t require payment up front for “defendants” like this. I wouldn’t represent them for all the money in the world but if I was going to I wouldn’t do it on good faith that they’ll pay me when the bill becomes due. The minute the owe me a cent, all work stops until payment is received.

Rule 41 of the internet - there’s always a relevant XKCD comic.

I’m not sure that the maths in it is correct - I know there’s some criticism of that in particular example but I think it holds up as long as you make it long enough and don’t just use common short words or common phrases. Its also bad if there’s a pattern to your passphrases e.g. only using colours, or sports team mascots, or all words of the same length, etc

And where possible use MFA (unless it’s SMS based, then I wouldn’t bother - I suspect when businesses offer that they just want to collect your phone number and don’t care about security).

Just a slight correction - the old recommendation of using random chars, numbers, and symbols is no longer best practice as it causes more issues than it solves. New best practice is use long passphrase with minimum 16 characters but I’d recommend minimum 24 for future proofing. That sounds like a lot but “mary-had-a-little-lamb” is 22 chars and not hard to remember or type. Obviously don’t use exactly that password (since it’s mine & passwords should be unique 😉)

It’s still possible to prevent you wiping the phone with the sim in. Admittedly that would work most of the time but all that’s needed to change that is a someone watching the right YouTube videos and spreading the word.

If your phone is encrypted and has the correct security settings then your data isn’t vulnerable. Unless it’s a government agency or something like an APT. If that’s the case there’s little you can do besides not keeping any valuable data on it.

It’s unlikely they care about your data though. Not unless you’re wealthy enough to be bribed. The main concern for them is getting caught by tracking, depending on how much law enforcement cares.

What makes you think I’m angry?

Big Dilbert fan?

https://books.google.ie/books/about/The_Trouble_with_Dilbert.html?id=VU8VAQAAMAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y

https://apnews.com/article/kansas-city-business-d1d88fe02461930d9c2ad70e1f55b136

Ack that you just don’t know.

In answer to your question, yes. Other NATO countries will go to war if any NATO country is attacked.

Think about it… are you willing to stand by and embolden a country by doing nothing when they nuke another? Any country that would be willing to nuke another over being called out for involvement in assassination is one that needs to be neutralized immediately to remove that nuclear threat.

By your very logic, if they are willing to nuke over nothing, they’ll also do it to countries that sanction them. Just because you wouldn’t help your friends in a fight or if they got attacked doesn’t mean everyone is the same as you and just watch while it happens doing nothing. Think about it…

You keep asking people for proof but yet you provide none for your claims.

You’re focusing (obsessing) about the wrong thing - you made up your mind as to what you think the solution is before you even asked the question and your rejecting the right answers because they don’t confirm to the answer you want to hear.

If someone steals your phone, it’s gone. “Locking” the sim card slot will not prevent this. Make your peace with that.

Sim card in or out, phones can be turned off. If the problem is as ubiquitous in your country as you suggest, law enforcement doesn’t even care that if they didn’t turn off the phone it does not matter. If law enforcement does care, they’ll start using other techniques (Faraday bags) as soon as people start getting jail time. Despite your assertion otherwise, not all criminals are dumb and the ones that are, are still smart enough to copy the ones that aren’t.

You won’t be able to track them, you won’t get justice, the thief’s will make money, the world will continue to rotate just the same. Try addressing the problem elsewhere.

You are not listening to what you are being told.

You bought a budget drive.

You got budget quality.

You got budget longevity.

It doesn’t matter what the companies marketing material say about its product.

Companies and marketing lie.