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TonyEX
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LOL
I can foresee the day that hackers decide to start writing viri (*) that hack into these applications and take over your car..
Just as you're driving down the freeway.. it detects traffic and it flashes and ad for a local restaurant near by on your NAVI screen while hawaiian music plays on your stereo..
"Eat at Joe's, Torrance's best plate lunches.. open for dinner... and beat the traffic!"
Or, the sensors detect that you've been driving alone for quite a while and on a particularly evening you have a passenger on the front seat and it is not very heavy and voice recognitition over the microphone detects it's a female and sounds like you're on a date.. so a voice over the surround sound stereo suddenly yells at you...
"Be a man... Get CHEAP VIAGRA down the street..."
While jungle music sounds in the background and your NAVI gets hijacked to show you the path where Freddie the Pusher is standing at the corner of Van Ness and Torrance Blvd...
BUT IT GETS BETTER....
Voice recognition viri detect that you purchased something over the phone... using the voice IF.. and it detects both what you bought and what credit card you used.... From now on you start getting spam on your NAVI screen and you're credit will soon be toast as the russian mafia runs your credit cards to the limit in Eastern Kurikarasthizian -or some place like that.
BETTER... BETTER....
You get pulled over by a cop... Ooops... so before he walks over to you.. the viri fronting for the GPS, Navi and Turkish mafia tells you that unless you allow an instant transfer of 200 bucks to some offshore account it will start talking when the cop shows up..
"Yes, officer... this miscreant was indeed doing 50mph in a 25 zone... I have the records..."
Lastly, of course, the best... you get into a car and try to start it... Only to be informed, of course, that unless you pay for some mafia protezione your car won't start. Your funds will transfer automatically to the Banco Premiere de Palermo... of course...
Sometimes I miss my old Datsun 510. The Concord Radio and the dual point distributor were the most complicated parts of the whole shebang and a can of WD-40 was sufficient to fix the points if they got wet.
(*) Get your latin straight, huh? It's lupus, lupi... I actually did two years of latin in school. Antonio homini deus est
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A77
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No he's not. (I did 5 years latin). And forgotten all of it. But i do remember that Volvo means I roll.
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TonyEX
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A77 wrote:
No he's not. (I did 5 years latin). And forgotten all of it. But i do remember that Volvo means I roll.
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Hmm... I'm lucky I left the old country... Old timers like me got seven years of a foreign language (french in my school), five years of latin and three of classical greek by the time they graduated from High School.
Wait.. I think if you went to the Science track they did not require the Greek, only those that went to Letters...
I guess you can say that Spanish Lawyers my age are very well trained in classical languages, they can send you to jail in a most erudite way.
Rosa, rosae, rosa.... Surely you must remember that one.
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rocky
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Luke: You can't be my father. Your an Android!
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Waldo
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BEST. THREAD. YET. :-)
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A77
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amo amas amat amamus amatis amant. amabo amabis amabit amabimus amab.....amavero amaveras amaverat avameramus, amaveratis amaverant, amavi amavisti err.....hic haec hoc, hunc hanc.........errrr mensa.....ahhhh how in god's name did all this reciting not send anyone insane. Actually I think it did. Well that's how it was taught. The Roman history aspect was interesting i guess, even to a 9 year old...had to french for 6 years, but no greek for me, only the clever guys did that...nor german. Spanish wasn't even on the radar, which seems unbelievable now. Volvo, volvare.
I probably got some of that loving wrong - it was over 40 years ago...excusi...or excusa? sorry....desculpa?
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integrator
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Not what I expected when I opened this thread... I definitely expected the hacker aspect, but you brought up something I think is far more likely - and insidious. That's the services adding additional auto customization, just as Facebook has, that gives your info to others and pushes content. The hawaiian restaurant ad you mentioned is exactly the kind of nonsense that would have me working on the unit with a screwdriver to disable it, ie: the distraction Honda is claiming to save us from.
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TonyEX
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A77 wrote:
amo amas amat amamus amatis amant. amabo amabis amabit amabimus amab.....amavero amaveras amaverat avameramus, amaveratis amaverant, amavi amavisti err.....hic haec hoc, hunc hanc.........errrr mensa.....ahhhh how in god's name did all this reciting not send anyone insane. Actually I think it did. Well that's how it was taught. The Roman history aspect was interesting i guess, even to a 9 year old...had to french for 6 years, but no greek for me, only the clever guys did that...nor german. Spanish wasn't even on the radar, which seems unbelievable now. Volvo, volvare.
I probably got some of that loving wrong - it was over 40 years ago...excusi...or excusa? sorry....desculpa?
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That's right folks...
Then when your car goes viral.... he, he... it starts transmitting over the internet your driving habits... there you are, picking your nose, cutting some Prius off...
And turning all of your controls into bad Latin. If you thought that going metric by mistake was bad enough, imagine if the stereo starts to blast Gregorian Chants at full blast and the switches and menus are all indicated in classical latin.
Hmm.. how do you say OFF in latin?
DAMN #$%$%%# I'm gonna #%#%#% abd U&)(@@!!
I mean this opens up a whole new front for road rage... if all the cars go this path, then you get a gizmo off the Russian eBay that allows you to take revenge on that Prius XIX that is blocking the road ahead of you... you zap him with a virus that distorts his mileage numbers down to 3mpg while at the same time cutting his computer control throttle to only 25% maximum... Now, that's the way to really get even, huh? He'll be doing 55 mph thinking that he's going wide open throttle and only getting 3mpg.. hopefully he'll pull over and let everyone go by...
Technology... for good _and_ evil.
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Dren
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It'll be like in Minority Report. It'll recognize who you are and start talking to you, pushing products.
I've never had Latin...just 2 years of Spanish, 1 of German, 1 of Korean and 4 of Japanese.
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