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Ars has a great write up on it and an actual shuttle engineer added some information in the comments. The most obvious issue is that there was no way to prevent what happened to Columbia from happening to Atlantis (which was in the VAB at the time) and losing 2 shuttles. Link: https://arstechnica.com/scienc...

Is there any evidence Qualcomm made such a promise?

Yes.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

Sounds more like a butt-hurt Apple trying to get out of paying prices the market bears.

Only because of your irrational hate of Apple, and complete lack of understanding of the US patent system.

Apple isn't being forced to buy from Qualcomm.

All cell phone manufacturers are forced to buy from Qualcomm, that's the entire reason so many lawsuits are being filed against them.

If you use Qualcomm chips, you have to buy the chip and then buy again a license for that chip for yourself, and buy another license for every end user the phone will have over its life.

If you DON'T use Qualcomm chips, you also have to buy multiple licenses from them just the same.

They decided many years ago to go down the path of being dependent on Qualcomm and it has earned them billions of dollars saving time and development.

Unless you are arguing that Apple doesn't need to make and sell "cell phones", then you are wrong.

Qualcomm convinced the government that they own anything and everything that is cell phone.
You can't even invent your own radio protocol and errect towers that use it without paying Qualcomm, because they own the concept of a cell phone and anything cell phone like.
They own all cellular radio protocols currently in use, and have convinced the government they own all protocols yet to be invented.

Now they don't want to pay their fair share.

The entire point of the lawsuit is that Apple wants to pay its fair share.
They do not want to pay a few hundred thousand times their fair share.
The US government has sued Qualcomm for the exact same reason.

Once again it is only your irrational hatred of Apple that is causing you to falsely pretend they are using anything Qualcomm invented and owe money for it.

As a side note, do you live in the US? Have you paid your yearly Qualcomm license for each cell phone you own now and in the past?
You are likely very behind on your 3G and GSM payments.
The last court case Qualcomm won explicitly requires you to pay for using those radio protocols.

I have a feeling you are just as much of a criminal as Apple and the rest of the world is here, and you are only arguing that you are in fact a criminal because that's the only way in your mind you can put Apple in a bad light.

But why should we care what you, a thieving criminal, thinks?
It's OK for you to not pay your fair share, but Apple has to pay more? I bet your thieving ass only paid one time for your cell phone when you made the purchase, and not all of the other licences you are legally required to pay on top of that.

For anyone that wonders if the gov can hold keys securely, I merely point them to the NSA's secret keeping capabilities

Yes, I remember the Sturgis well. I was assigned to the 8th SFG in Panama then, and remember it parked up by the Chagres River Spillway where it was plugged into the power grid. Our SCUBA team also pulled a training "raid" on the ship, easily swimming past the almost nonexistent "defenses" and planting fake explosive charges on her hull.

Great site here with lots of pictures of her disassembly. Pity she's gone: the Army Engineers did a good job with her, no question.

https://arstechnica.com/scienc...

APK has a long history of threatening frivolous lawsuits an other malice against his critics:

http://jeremyreimer.com/smam3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5132&view=next

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=818606

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=821190&start=40

http://www.thorschrock.com/2008/05/19/how-to-respond-when-people-threaten-to-sue-you-on-the-web/

You have a long history of malicious behavior. Begone.

APK has a long history of threatening frivolous lawsuits an other malice against his critics:

http://jeremyreimer.com/smam3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5132&view=next

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=818606

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=821190&start=40

http://www.thorschrock.com/2008/05/19/how-to-respond-when-people-threaten-to-sue-you-on-the-web/

You have a long history of malicious behavior. Begone.

Has pledged to open up their jurisdiction to unlimited local competition.

You are right, none of them did. Because that's already the law. Its been federal law since 1992 when the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act outlawed the granting of exclusive franchises.

The problem isn't with the government (sorry delusional libertarians!) its with natural monopolies caused by high costs to enter the market (a cable planet is expensive AF) and collusion between competitors who have secret agreements to stay out of each other's territories. - sometimes they don't even bother to keep it a secret.

First with the Space Shuttle, and now with the SLS rocket.

The Space Shuttle was more expensive to fly and less safe. The new SLS NASA is currently building will be so expensive to fly that NASA only plans to launch it once per year at over a billion dollars per launch. NASA could buy a bunch of Falcon Heavy missions from SpaceX for the cost of ONE SLS flight.

The article is a tad misleading: SpaceX is raising their previously low price a bit but it will still be low (in relative temrs, since we are talking SPACEFLIGHT)

SpaceX is probably more than justified in the increase when you consider that they've been unfairly penalized by a major screw-up of the Obama administration: The Obama admin payed a lot more money to Orbital/ATK for less capability because they were flying on the defense contractor Atlas rocket. Same thing is happening on the Obama admin-negotiated commercial crew contracts where Boeing got a far higher price locked-in for delivering the same number of astronauts to ISS. Boeing and Lockheed Martin have more lobbyists in DC.

From what I've read, determining eg. the polarisation of one quantum entangled particle, the other changes as well, and it happens faster than if the effect of measuring propagated at light speed. Ars Technica had an article touching on this in 2012. Okay, that was the first I found and it doesn't seem very fulfilling.

You mean like containers that Linux and Amazon use and very recently Windows and Azure Linux/Windows serverless?

Problem is it doesn't solve SQL access bugs even if you can generate another container the data is still compromised

Kids today use node.js and frameworks from Azure and Amazon that are secured and unfortunately locked to these platforms.

Coders should not be security experts. The frameworks should which PHP has shown are not written by such

THE DOCTRINE OF FASCISM-BENITO MUSSOLINI (1932)

Accepting mussolini's propaganda as an accurate description of fascism is like taking The Democratic Republic of North Korea's word that they are a democracy.

Instead, lets take the word of more neutral sources:

Although fascist parties and movements differed significantly from one another, they had many characteristics in common, including extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the rule of elites, and the desire to create a Volksgemeinschaft (German: “people’s community”), in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation.
Encyclopedia Britannica

An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
Oxford English Dictionary

> Now of all the players in American politics today, which group does this best describe?

These players:
The people who absolutely lose their shit at the thought of black people kneeling that they walk out of a football game.
The television network that fired a reporter who would not toe the line on climate change reporting
Colorado Republican lawmakers want to punish striking teachers with jail time.
Harper’s Editor Insists He Was Fired Over Katie Roiphe Essay - The New York Times
Professor celebrating Barbara Bush’s death deserves to be fired | Fox News
Joyce Peterson on Twitter: "Happening in Nashville right now: lawmakers trying to penalize the @CityOfMemphis for removing confederate statues by slashing a quarter million dollars in funding. https://t.co/ZAg0ntZl30"
Law Enforcement Has Quietly Backed Anti-Protest Bills in at Least 8 States Since Trump’s Election
Memphis-Based Journalist Taken Into ICE Custody After Arrest While Covering Protest (Updated) - Rewire.News
Sinclair producer in Nebraska resigns to protest 'obvious bias'
‘Black-ish’ Political Episode on Kneeling Canceled Over ‘Creative Differences’ – Variety
Republican governor forced to stop blocking Facebook users who criticize him | Ars Technica
AprilDRyan on Twitter: "It is back again. Not called on today for a question. It has been how long? Oh, my last question was about @StormyDaniels! And, I was just told I am on a list. Whatever! I have been doing this for 21 years. I am not new to the rode
Trump attends event about campus political correctness crisis, accidental

If Isreali spies can infiltrate Kaspersky, it stands to reason that the Russian Federation would be able to have spies as well. Their corporate management doesn't necessarily have to have any ties to the Russian government, only that the employees that work there are easily accessible, such as the Kaspersky executives being arrested for treason.

I'm pretty sure that in Russia, treason means anything they want it to mean so that you do what they want.

Apparently it was discovered by Isreali spies. So it fits the pattern of accuse others of that which you are guilty.

The TFA is incomplete. There are several more small changes.
You can see them in Ars Technica's article.

More trash talk from a weak spam coward.

Proof that I utterly destroyed you. Of course we know how you never give up, even when you have been beaten.

ZIP

I thought they used 18650s -- just a BUNCH of them with a lot of battery monitoring hardware.

If that's right, would they hold their overall charge capacity longer because people (I assume) keep them topped off and not routinely run them down to 0%? (Who wants an unexpected walk?) Or is it the battery monitoring stuff being "nice" to the battery as long as possible?

Or do they have "special selected electrons" in their power stations? (Only the roundest ones for our customers, so they slide around easier. One, two.

It's like the broken window theory of law enforcement

This may be a bad example. After the New York police went on "strike" a few years ago, crime actually dropped:
https://arstechnica.com/scienc... [arstechnica.com]

This is true. Arrests for "resisting arrest" fell to nearly zero along with expenses for replacement TASER cartridges. :)

Strat

It's like the broken window theory of law enforcement

This may be a bad example. After the New York police went on "strike" a few years ago, crime actually dropped:
https://arstechnica.com/scienc...

Ooops I thought you were talking about APK

ZIP

Look, I'm not the one pawning off batch files as "Shareware". APK is in the business of selling his own inflated ego to anyone that will listen. But every person that interacts with him comes to regret the mistake of trusting his lies.

We also know that no amount of proof of accomplishments will satisfy APK. And that his behavior has not changed

Everyone one of these articles has been withdrawn after dealing with APK and his lying and anti-sematic ways. At this point no one can trust his hosts files utilities as they still remain unsigned and open to malware insertion. Zero professional security researches recommend APK hosts at this time and have suggested any number of other hosts files as supplementary to a proper ad blocker and firewall.

ZIP

The great spam coward APK has been pulling this crap for nearly two decades. He's used the same playbook even though every single time he has failed to do anything beyond showing the world his own foolishness.

By now hundreds of people have thoroughly smacked down APK. He thinks by continuing with his act that somehow people will forget his maleadjusted behavior and start respecting him. But it could not be further from the truth.

ZIP

He hasn't lowered himself, he can't possibly go any lower than where he has been for who knows how long. Here's an example. It only takes him 3 messages to start calling people fools, idiots, fleas, and making random all-caps threats. That was 18 years ago. So, no, he hasn't lowered himself anywhere because he's been at that same level for about 2 decades, if not his entire 55 or so year life. If he replied to this message, he would no doubt have words to say about the people in that thread still today, because he does not emotionally progress. His emotional development stopped somewhere in elementary school and hasn't gone anywhere. Incidentally, that's also why he doesn't get any respect. He's worked very hard at not having any respect, he's earned that. He was earning it 18 years ago in that thread, and whenever I see him here he still makes an effort to earn it.

They did look at lots of things, but in this case there really was no question what the cause was. The bleaching event happened very quickly. It precisely coincided with an El Niño that produced abnormally warm temperatures. The amount of coral loss in different locations perfectly matched how far above average the water temperature was in each location. Here's an article that goes into more technical detail about it: https://arstechnica.com/scienc.... For example:

Overall, individual reefs within the Great Barrier Reef experienced a huge range of temperatures, ranging from no significant change up to 10C degree heating weeks. And the authors conclude that the effects were non-linear. At lower temperatures (degree heating weeks of less than 4C), even though bleaching could affect up to a quarter of the corals, and some died, there was little to no loss of coral cover at eight months.

But things changed rapidly beyond that. At a 4C degree heating week, there was a 40 percent decline. And, by the time the warmth of a degree heating week went above 8C, more than 80 percent of the coral was dead at eight months.

That's the beauty of traditional Chinese "medicine". It only works if you don't try to check to see if it actually works.

Which is also true of the bullshit homeopaths push ... like this idiot:

A bite from an animal, with or without rabies vaccination, has the potential to imprint an altered state in the person who was bitten, in some ways similar to a rabies infection. This can include over-excitability, difficulties sleeping, aggression, and various fears, especially of dogs or wolves. This child presented a perfect picture of this type of rabies state. Most homeopaths would have easily recognized the remedy required in this case.

At least traditional Chinese medicine has at least some track record for a few things which actually work.

Homeopathy is just gibberish. And either the scary scenario exists in which homeopaths believe the saliva from a rabid dog will cure behavioural problems in children ... or they all know they're bullshit artists.

Honestly, if you make a medical claim, you better have some fucking proof. I still have no idea how homeopaths haven't been arrested for making misleading claims about the curative power of nothing.

Level 4 vehicles (fully self-driving, no human attendant, but geofenced to a specific area) are already here, working in real life, and have been all year.

From your link:

"On November 7, Waymo announced that it was going to start testing cars without a safety driver. "

So when did they start? That announcement and entire article says that they intend to start. It doesn't say that they have started.

Hundreds of these are already ferrying the public around Phoenix, and they now have a licence for full commercial operation.

You claim that they are already ferrying people, the article says that they intend to use the license to ferry people. Do you have another link? This one doesn't support your claim. What they intend to do and what they are currently doing are two different things.

Level 4 vehicles (fully self-driving, no human attendant, but geofenced to a specific area) are already here, working in real life, and have been all year. Hundreds of these are already ferrying the public around Phoenix, and they now have a licence for full commercial operation.

Expect to see thousands more real self-driving robotaxis in service in the 25 cities they're being tested in today.

The Ars article actually bothered to link the report.

Funny all the "lock down this or that" advice didn't include the obvious "Don't let packets spoofed with your own source addresses come in you Internet pipe." Not that that's a watertight seal, given internal footholds, but... a glaring omission.

Has anyone ever said that? Everyone I've seen points out that the issue is Tesla has no experience building at scale and has had issues with QA / consistency on their existing lines.

You've largely hit the nail on the head. This is just another example of Musk talking Grade 'A' horseshit.

Nowadays, to produce cars cheaply, at scale and acceptable quality, you have to use automation wherever you can. Musk has failed on all 3 of those counts:

* Not cheaply. Regularly running through half a billion bucks a quarter or thereabouts.

* As you say, the quality of the cars has reportedly been shite. Ask matey who crashed into a barrier just how good the softs for his Autopilot are....oh yeah, you can't because he's dead.

* As for the numbers, it very much sounds like he has been selling pre-production units to inflate his already dire production numbers. Tesla reported their quarterly production numbers to the SEC. Unfortunately, the folks on the Street don't seem to be as highly educated as me and obviously missed out on their primary school basic arithmetic. From the numbers given:

$ echo "(9766 - 2020)/11" | bc -e "scale=0"
704

So ignoring the last week of that quarter & it's heavily massaged & spun figure, they're struggling to knock out under 800 cars of shitty quality a week.

He wouldn't be trying to mislead investors with his filing would he? I thought that was some sort of criminal offence.

with economic ones. On anything that really matters (the economy) the media is hard right. Especially CNN, MSNBC, NBC ABC CBS. Once in a blue moon the Post or Times gets to run some left wing economics, usually with a well known lefty guest editor. But even they don't do reports on stuff that matters.

And yes, right wing identity politics are a thing. They convince white men they have a "culture" instead of an economic future to defend. Antifa is a made up bit of nonsense sold to you so you'll forget about all those pesky economic issues and focus on an imaginary boogyman out to steal your rights. America is divided because the ruling class _wants_ us to be divided. Don't be fooled. Join the rest of your working class brothers and lets fix this.

Let me repeat... hardware is cheap in 2018.

No, it isn't.

A decent Intel NUC system with SSD can be had for under $500 and will last 5-7 years at least.

An NUC is a laptop in a box. They don't last 5-7 years. They're good for about 3 years.

Use them as part of a modular system with some acting as workstations, others as servers and backup devices.

You're a nut. Who's going to design such a system and maintain all the machines? How many NUCs do you need? Don't forget the monitor, keyboard, mouse, operating system, etc. for each one.

You can even buy them Ethernet-only, no built-in WiFi.

Not when the WiFi is built into the CPU. https://arstechnica.com/inform...
That shit has been standard in most Intel CPUs over the last few years. It's exposed/hidden based on SKU, like the ME shit.

Sure, an airgap can be breached with some work. It's also a hell of a lot less likely than an Internet-connected or cloud-connected system being breached. Technically, paper records can also be breached or destroyed -- burglaries of medical offices happen.

Airgaps don't exist when you need to access a central repository of records, when you put regular people in front of the terminal, when you need to update software, when you need to print, etc. At best you have a firewall.

The goal is more security, no security is absolute.

And in today's world, paper records and physical locks provide more security. Just by the weight involved in trying to steal them in bulk, or the time involved in trying to copy them in bulk.

They have patents on things Android does. Which patents? They won't say, but they will make you pay for a license to use them.

All over the UK too.
"Fake mobile phone towers discovered in London: Stingrays come to the UK"
https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...
"More than 20 fake phone towers, which indiscriminately hoover up information from phones, were found"
https://www.independent.co.uk/...

What he points out is that people click "yes" to usage agreements and terms of service without reading them, and as an example, links to a test where the terms of service explicitly state giving up your first-born child... and people still agreed to them.

People don't read terms of service, they just click yes.

Have you ever read terms of service? The damn things are pages and pages of boring small print.

Part of it is we know that contracts don't work that way.

No judge would, obviously, enforce the click through give up firstborn child thing. So even if someone did read it, they click, knowing it's not enforceable.

What he points out is that people click "yes" to usage agreements and terms of service without reading them, and as an example, links to a test where the terms of service explicitly state giving up your first-born child... and people still agreed to them.

People don't read terms of service, they just click yes.

Have you ever read terms of service? The damn things are pages and pages of boring small print.

I read TFA on Ars Technica and you have it backwards, this finding may actually rule out MOND, which is what I think you are referring to when you mention the alternative method to explain rotation curves:

The answers were pretty surprising. The data on the 10 globular clusters the team tracked showed them moving much more slowly than would be expected. That led to an estimated mass that was extremely low for a galaxy—on the order of 10^8 solar masses. Using the amount of light emitted by the galaxy produced an estimate of the total mass of stars in the galaxy that was also in the neighborhood of 10^8. Normally, we infer that there's dark matter around because the galaxy appears to have a lot more matter than the amount provided by the stars we can see. But in this case, there's a minimal difference between the two...

"Paradoxically, the existence of NGC1052–DF2 may falsify alternatives to dark matter," the authors conclude, noting that those alternatives include both variations of MOND and emergent gravity.

So this galaxy rotates like we would expect galaxies without much dark matter to rotate, unlike most other galaxies we see. If MOND were right, we shouldn't see galaxies this bright that rotate this slowly.

"it wasn't particularly dark."

Exactly :

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2...

Uber released a video with a misleading contrast level, they also decided to show only a couple of seconds of video before the crash.

I think the current demos were also done on some insanely high-end Quad GPU configured workstation, that costs around $60k ( https://arstechnica.com/gaming... and https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/d... ).

And even with all of the above hardware, I think they are just running at 24fps?

It looks like this is a long ways off, for a reasonably priced high-end home gaming machine (ie. $4k budget).

Also, apparently their current demos are running on some severely beefy hardware (e.g. here), and they're only using raytracing for a portion of the scene. This may play a part in gaming eventually, and it's good that the APIs are getting out there, but it probably will be a while before it makes it to the next Call of Duty game.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2...

https://www.tesla.com/en_CA/se...

https://nikolamotor.com/one

https://www.tesla.com/en_CA/mo...

https://www.arcimoto.com/vehic...

http://www.zeromotorcycles.com...

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2...

After looking at that it's pretty obvious Uber's video is very very misleading.

And lo and behold here's the easy way to do it. https://arstechnica.com/inform...

Teksavvy, one of Canada's largest independent ISPs

Is Teksavvy service worth the process of finding a Canadian employer who will sponsor an immigrant's work visa?

a significant reason being to ensure user privacy because the data is in my house

What happens to your users' data should natural disaster or violence strike your home? Is there a good way to protect it other than making an encrypted backup to a server leased from a third party and somehow backing up the backup's key elsewhere?

email is TLS opportunistically encrypted by Postfix MTA.

That will work once some counterpart to HSTS preload comes to SMTP. Until then, a man in the middle can and does strip the STARTTLS out of the SMTP traffic (source; source).

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2... You wouldn't because she was crossing at a "T" intersection and it was NOT as dark as the dashcam video from Uber makes it out to be.

Is this /. or is this a Fox TV News outlet?

Check in with Ars, https://arstechnica.com/scienc...

A very interesting walk through about why it wasn't worth covering.

I think Trump is a buffoon and in the running for worst leader of a free country in modern times, but I think even Trump would have avoided that pedestrian. The Uber-released video is utter shit and makes the situation look MUCH darker than it really is.

Also, this article has screen grabs that show the same thing.

It is surprising Jack Dorsey did not realize that bitcoin cannot scale.

There are already too many transactions, which cause delays and/or rising fees. This is such a serious problem that even ransomware business turns away from it.

And the worst is to come. Since bitcoin volume is limited by design, mining new bitcoin will become harder and harder over time, leading to the situation where the incentive for miners to maintain the blockchain will vanish.

There was this Ars Technica-article at https://arstechnica.com/gadget... that talks about it, but unfortunately the article doesn't mention any dates. It's a couple of weeks old now, so the microcodes have possibly started to circulate via Windows Update by now?

A cyclist ceases being a cyclist when they are pushing their bike. Which is what was being done according to the police chief:

Herzberg was "pushing a bicycle laden with plastic shopping bags," according to the Chronicle's Carolyn Said, when she "abruptly walked from a center median into a lane of traffic."

After viewing video captured by the Uber vehicle, Moir concluded that “it’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway."

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2...

Did she dart out between two cars right in front of the moving vehicle?

No but close enough:
Herzberg was "pushing a bicycle laden with plastic shopping bags," according to the Chronicle's Carolyn Said, when she "abruptly walked from a center median into a lane of traffic."

After viewing video captured by the Uber vehicle, Moir concluded that “it’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway."

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2...