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"did not directly make a payment to the hackers" That leads one to think they "indirectly" made a payment to them.
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The last paragraph is the most interesting.
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Does it have USB power? If so you could pickup a USB Port to Car Cigarette Lighter Female Socket.
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Thanks!
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I expect future updates to be on a more erratic cycle than during the 2015–2019 timespan. Something in the next 2–3 weeks is my best guess.
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The map databases do contain data relative to the expected travel speed at various times of various days of the week. That would impact the route generated around larger cities. Also, longer routes are calculated by using what could be thought of a…
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I don't know about the data structure of where this is stored, nor the exact scenarios of when it does or does not get updated. However I do know that the map data does allow for a schedule of road closures. This could be something seasonal in natur…
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Guess I'll just continue to use it this way, or use my 4-year-old iPhone (which has limited battery life). My 3.5 year old iPhone also has a weak battery. I went into an Apple Store the other day and was going to have the battery replaced for $49. A…
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HERE, TomTom, Waze/Google, Apple, OSM, etc. They are all competitors in map data.
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Such a list would give their competitors a checklist for their own updates. :) At one point they used to very broadly overview what areas (Provinces, Sates) saw more significant updates, but the map update process is so different today that all are…
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Trimble makes professional level GPS devices: https://geospatial.trimble.com/ I recall that something like this is in the $8k range: https://geospatial.trimble.com/products-and-solutions/geo-7x-gnss
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The image src you used doesn't point to an image, it points to a webpage that is redirecting you to another webpage.
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It is available per category by clicking the gear icon and site-wide in the menu bar. The whole feature was disabled for quite some time as it caused some performance issues. Frankly, I kind of dislike the feature as it does (and promotes) the oppo…
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@dhn, yes, it should bring you back to the place you were previously at after marking all topics as read.
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@Ralph2689 If you go to this link that should do the trick for you.
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@Cycledog you can find Garmin map update dates here.
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This thread is relevant: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1058676834940776450 I know of at least one government agency that has lots of integrated GPS devices in remote locations that were found susceptible to pretty much the exact same bug. Long s…
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Does TomTom make the Subaru GPS? I doubt it. No, they don't make the navigation app. It is Harman Kardon hardware. However TomTom's maps are used on the deice so you see their logo occasionally. (I have a 2018 Outback.)
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Nearly forgot about that one.
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I've had quite a few of these trips down memory lane lately. I dusted off my Dash Express and booted it up, as well as a few old Harman Kardon, LG, and HP devices.
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I think it is unlikely someone would write malicious Garmin firmware because for most devices there is isn't much incentive to exploit most consumer GPS devices. With that said, I've never recommended people download firmware anywhere but direct fro…
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Every satellite contains an expensive atomic clock, but the receiver itself uses an ordinary quartz clock, which it constantly resets. In a nutshell, the receiver looks at incoming signals from four or more satellites and gauges its own inaccuracy. …
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This has been my go to description for more technical info: http://www.avionicswest.com/Articles/howGPSworks.html
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It is a bit of a chicken and egg question, but it would be more appropriate to say that the GPS satellites are broadcasting their current time and current location-- that is what the receiver hears from each satellite. So the receiver knows exactly …
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The Dash would "learn" your routes, along with everyone else's. So it wouldn't work in the scenario described above unless you were the only user in the area... which was a great possibility at the time and would still be so today if there service w…
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Hi @lewkahkang, That question is above my pay grade as well, although one thing stuck out to me in your post. VXSport has mentioned that the speed data that they obtained in independent of the longitude/latitude coordinates, mentioning that it is r…
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Historically, new releases come out around the turn of the year. (Often, but by no means always.) This means they often dump old inventory over the holidays to make room for the new, as well as timing announcements around CES in January. But of cour…
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Hmmm.... weird. I'll look into it. There are few other broken things I need to fix as well.
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The split function was pretty buggy, so I disabled it a few years ago. I'll see if I can move things around later today.
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Most of my friends use "whatever the maps app is that came on my phone". A few others, more commonly friends who live or work in cities will use Waze for its traffic data. I don't know any friends who use a mount for their phone, they just prop it i…
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I get several calls per day from "Google AdWords", but of course it isn't really Google, just some scammers.
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Wow,
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A combination of IP and engineers, I suspect.