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Not only is Martin Gunsberg's term of "telltale" not a word used in the SYNC3 documentation at all, the functionality he described isn't explained in the owner's manual either. Even if every single car renter reviewed the manual, it is not clear they would understand what icon to look for or would recognize what it is supposed to indicate if they did see it. 
Companies really don't give a crap if it there is no $$$-threat
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A group of Russian scientists was hit by crippling roaming charges after some of the eagles the researchers were studying flew to countries with high roaming charges, including Iran, Turkmenistan, and Pakistan. The birds were outfitted with electronic devices that tracked their locations and sent back status updates a few times a day. Always check roaming charges before migrating
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How was it...
expect the best, be prepared for the worst?
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It still appears to be a poorly-designed experiment. Assuming the data roaming charges are per MB or part of it, what is wrong with aggregating data and sending it off as a burst?
Even if they track the position of the eagle on a minute-by-minute basis, that would be no more than 1440 data points per day, which would easily fit into a data burst of less than 1MB. Surely a daily update would have been timely enough for their needs.
EDIT: from the description, they must have used SMS to send the messages. So they buffered the messages when out of contact, then sent them one by one using the most inefficient protocol available.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: EDIT: from the description, they must have used SMS to send the messages. So they buffered the messages when out of contact, then sent them one by one using the most inefficient protocol available.
Yes, they used SMS. In the article I read was explained with some more details (German paper)
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: So they buffered the messages when out of contact, then sent them one by one using the most inefficient protocol available.
For devices powered by a coin cell or fingernail sized solar panel power efficiency matters. SMS can be sent while conducting handshakes with cell towers at a tiny fraction of the power usage of switching to (any) datamode. This is especially important as 2/3g networks are shut down because standard LTE modems have much higher power consumption levels.
A few years back I read an article on Anandtech about companies working in this type of hardware developing much lower power alternatives; IIRC unidirectional LTE (vs simultaneous TX/RX modules) @ 0.9 MHz channel widths (vs 5+5 MHz as the normal minimum), and a 'super 2g' standard with 20kHz channels. Both were intended to operate in either scraps of phone spectrum too narrow for modern usage (eg the US 800MHz band has 2.5, 1.5, and 1.0 MHz slivers) or in a few small slices of spectrum used for industrial embedded communications long before IOT was a buzzword.
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I stand corrected. I didn't consider the power requirements.
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And now you also know why eagles didn't just take Frodo and Sam to Mount Doom
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Happened to European researchers before, too: their ducks flew from central Europe to Russia and Kazakhstan...
Well, birds enjoy traveling through the world, and they need not worry about visa regulations, airline policies, roaming fees, ...
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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 What a great example of the side-effects of technology!
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Marc Clifton wrote: What a great example of the side-effects of technology bad planning!
FTFY
They could have chosen another price listing (international fee or whatever is called) and this would not have happened. Maybe a bit more expensive at the beginning, but definitively cheaper than this issue. 
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Greg Kroah-Hartman, the stable Linux kernel maintainer, says we're going to see Intel chip security problems for years to come. This 'know-nothing blurb writer' agrees
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Greg Kroah-Hartman, the stable Linux kernel maintainer, says we're going to see Intel chip security problems for years to come.
If M$ continues making things worst and forces more people to move to Linux... we are going to see Linux security problems for years to come too
In my land there is an expression that (freely translated) says:
People complain about a broken thread in others suit, but don't see the big hole in their own clothes.
EDIT:
Nathan is right.
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modified 29-Oct-19 8:19am.
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I don't think this has as much to do with OS as it does with the fact that chip makers have exhausted Moore's Law and have been looking for alternatives design approaches. A lot of these alternative approaches are exploitable. This isn't a linux vs windows thing, just as Spectre and Meltdown were platform agnostic.
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Nathan Minier wrote: This isn't a linux vs windows thing, just as Spectre and Meltdown were platform agnostic.
Fair enough
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And how is it doing?
I have always heard that AMD are worse than intel due to easy overheating, what drops the performance when a limit is reached...
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Nelek wrote: And how is it doing?
No problems and super fast running Ubuntu doing Android development, running emulators etc.
I'm quite happy with it -- especially for the relatively low price (compared to similar Intel power). Also, I have the power supply fan, three fans in front of case, one in back and off course the CPU heatsink and fan (Wraiths cooler).
Plus, since my machine isn't a server being utilized a lot probably isn't a great test but everything is absolutely snappy. I have a relatively decent GPU too so that probably helps too.
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If you want developers to love your platform, then you need to take this seriously. If it isn’t documented, it isn’t done. Worse than {that other company}? Yikes.
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Missing documentation sometimes is better than wrong documentation
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I was fairly shocked to see .NET Core 3 / .NET Standard 2.1 documentation missing even though .NET Core 3 has shipped the release version. I don't think I've run into undocumented core APIs ever with .NET.
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A study published in June 2019 reveals that in the Alexa Top 1 million websites, one out of 600 sites execute WebAssembly (Wasm) code. The study moreover finds that over 50% of those sites using WebAssembly apply it for malicious deeds, such as cryptocurrency mining and malware code obfuscation. Why we can't have nice stuff: part WASM
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A minor quibble when almost all of the malicious WASM seen was miners; but obfuscation shouldn't automatically be classified as malicious when it can become a requirement any time a dev fires up an in-browser debugger to try and troubleshoot something while a pointy-hair is watching.
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--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Using a supercomputing system, MIT researchers have developed a model that captures what web traffic looks like around the world on a given day, which can be used as a measurement tool for internet research and many other applications. And now all it does is watch cat videos
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