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Rash of parts thefts is leaving Freightliner trucks inoperable

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Re: Rash of parts thefts is leaving Freightliner trucks inoperable

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Post by eastbound »

Syonyk wrote: post #55
Starlevel001 wrote: post #54

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> I mean it's not like most consumer hardware has to be on the latest nodes. Maybe developers should take some responsibility and stop fucking writing code that's slow as shit and unusable on anything past their company-paid for macbook pros. In an ideal society programmers would be sat down and given a seven year old mid-range laptop and threatened that if their program lags in the slightest they would be fired and…

Nah. "Raspberry Pi Day at Google." One day a week, your dual Xeon workstation is replaced with a Raspberry Pi 4. 8GB. Overclocked if you want. It is absolutely adequate to do a lot of things one wants to do. But it will show when you've done something stupid with CPU. I'm still bitter that Google ruined the Blogger editor interface. Fancy, shiny new interface... that lagged horribly if you had a low power CPU and a b…

Well they’ll just limit table rows to 6 instead of 10.

That’s what React does: Instead of showing a table of 200 rows, the performance of React is so poor that it’s a design trend to make you paginate through 10-line pages. So, soon 6, “for better performance”.

Re: Rash of parts thefts is leaving Freightliner trucks inoperable

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Post by riffraff »

astrange wrote: post #57
speed_spread wrote: post #45

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I'm currently reading "Idoru" for the first time and it feels contemporary. Much of Gibson's work is no longer science-fiction.

Too bad the name of the book is spelled wrong. Maybe he didn’t have any fact checkers.

Isn't it a common transliteration of japanese to use R for L and show the devoiced U for voiceless consonant?

I'm pretty sure I've seen it used often when the intent is to show "japeneseness".

Re: Rash of parts thefts is leaving Freightliner trucks inoperable

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Post by labster »

astrange wrote: post #57
speed_spread wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm currently reading "Idoru" for the first time and it feels contemporary. Much of Gibson's work is no longer science-fiction.

Too bad the name of the book is spelled wrong. Maybe he didn’t have any fact checkers.

Fact checking was hard before the internet became widespread. And proofreading even harder for things that look right at first glance. It took me about a minute to realize that idol should be spelled aidoru.

Re: Rash of parts thefts is leaving Freightliner trucks inoperable

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Post by aidenn0 »

riffraff wrote: post #62
astrange wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Too bad the name of the book is spelled wrong. Maybe he didn’t have any fact checkers.

Isn't it a common transliteration of japanese to use R for L and show the devoiced U for voiceless consonant? I'm pretty sure I've seen it used often when the intent is to show "japeneseness".

I assume the mistake was the proper romanization of アイドル is aidoru.

Re: Rash of parts thefts is leaving Freightliner trucks inoperable

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Post by fswd »

Syonyk wrote: post #37
r00fus wrote: post #31

"The rip-offs of common powertrain control module 4 units relate to the ongoing shortage of microchips" So how long does the microchip shortage continue?

> So how long does the microchip shortage continue? Warning: Paid Pessimist point of view (I've done computer security for far, far too long). Indefinitely. It doesn't recover. Because (modern, leading process) microchips are the sort of globe spanning supply chain problem that works great, right up until it doesn't. Coolant for some laser is made in this country that's at war. Some critical surface processing chemic…

So basically... Unrestricted Warfare

Re: Rash of parts thefts is leaving Freightliner trucks inoperable

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Post by Thorrez »

>The company will consider civil actions for software infringement against those involved in CPC theft and mismanagement.

What is software infringement? Does it mean copyright infringement? Stealing a piece of hardware isn't copyright infringment, although maybe some types of reprogramming it would be.

Kind of funny. I've heard people call copyright infringement theft before, but I've never heard anyone call theft copyright infringement until now.

Re: Rash of parts thefts is leaving Freightliner trucks inoperable

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Post by b112 »

sokoloff wrote: post #44
KennyBlanken wrote: post #19

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The article implies the control units are coded to the vehicle's VIN at least to some degree and mentions Freightliner asks people to look out for logged errors indicating someone attempted to use a control unit from a different VIN. There's also mention of a separate password function. However, if there's a market for these units, someone's likely developed a tool to "re code" the control units. But: "Moving toward"…

The average age of vehicles is trending up because cars are more reliable and just last longer. It used to be an event to roll over a 5-digit odometer. Now, 250K miles is just getting broken in.

What? You can repair parts that fail on cars. And I grew up driving 70s, 80s cars , and 100k was completely normal.

Re: Rash of parts thefts is leaving Freightliner trucks inoperable

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Post by b112 »

DennisP wrote: post #23
donw wrote: post #17

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Didn't think of that angle, but perhaps! Pretty much everything in transportation is being pushed in the direction of centralized control; hence, the focus on EVs and the push against biofuels. The marketing is all "climate change", but the reality is that biofuel-based vehicles can, in theory, be manufactured locally with machine tools, and the fuel can be grown locally as well. I'd bet money that they're better for…

On the other hand, any electric car can be charged from solar panels on your roof. Then there's Aptera, which can charge itself from the sun if you're in a reasonably sunny area, and which has a strong commitment to right-to-repair: https://aptera.us/right-to-repair-commitment-feat-rich-rebui... They also make their own battery packs, despite not exactly being a large operation. https://aptera.us/battery-update/

Solar panels on my car roof might be good to charge my laptop. Or, keep a car from losing charge while idle.

I think you'd have to leave the car in the sun for days, just to drive to the 5 minutes away store and back.

Re: Rash of parts thefts is leaving Freightliner trucks inoperable

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Post by b112 »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #22
EntropicBrew wrote: post #8

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I think the article is on Frieghtliners not firefighting trucks. But robbery is still absolutely an issue.

Best I can think of is that parent commenter was referring to the fact that many fire and EMS vehicles use a Freightliner chassis/engine? Our fire department needs a new ambulance. There is a two year waiting list for one. The ineptitude of the automotive industry in dragging its heels relying on outdated semiconductor manufacturing is just mind-boggling, but so is the lack of action by the administration to order pr…

The ineptitude of the automotive industry in dragging its heels relying on outdated semiconductor manufacturing is just mind-boggling,

This never happened, because outdated makes no sense.

You want a part? People make a part. Older is easier to make too, has more test cycles, failure points mapped, etc.

Automakers are doing things right, by using tested parts. Production methods.

We absolutely don't need new as the primary priority, or iterative, we need stable first.

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