The type of tire, the car (and it's exact weight at the time), and the temperature outside at the time all affect the braking distance considerably. I'm going to assume that anti-lock brakes are a given on a self driving car..
Forget for a moment that the car might have been able to brake. It should also make better decisions, faster than a human. I would assume that there's some sort of physics engine running there that can calculate a best move..
There was another lane there, and maybe it was impossible once she showed in the visual spectrum (I agree LIDAR should have been there stopping the car long before that point) for the car to be stopped in time, but I'm pretty sure in that case, I would have swerved left which would have only required a foot or two to save that person's life. The car had time to do that for sure.
My Tivo OTA has Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Hulu (and many others) built in.
As a bonus, it mixes the content from them with the OTA shows so that you get one simple interface. If we have a subscription to the "Wild Kratz", then it shows us recent recordings it's made, along with the Amazon Prime Video episodes, and launches the app or plays the video depending on what you click on.
I've also always heard people say it was dangerous to carry cash, but I don't think it is that much.. At least for robbery.. I know myself though, and I'd be sure to accidentally lose it if I carried cash.. Nobody to blame but myself, but it's still "dangerous" for me to carry cash.
My dad always carried cash though, and one time in the early years of his dementia he got lost (forgot where he parked) and ended up wandering around town. He's diabetic, and his blood sugar got way off exacerbating the situation. Some good samaritans stopped to help him out when he started looking like he had a real problem, and ended up searching his wallet to try to figure out how to help him (calling family or whatever).. When it was all said and done, at least three different complete strangers had dug through his wallet in their efforts to try to help him. When we met up at the hospital later and security passed his belongings along to us, we found that he had a little over $1000 dollars in his wallet still. Now, I have no idea for sure what he started with, but I'm pretty sure it was exactly what he still had in there at the end of the day.
The whole incident really made me rethink that whole "people are always trying to steal from you" mentality that we get pounded into us by the pessimists of society. I think generally people almost always do the right thing when given the chance, which I guess includes not robbing you of your cash in your wallet.
Yeah, that thing is a useless toy.. It can't take you wherever you want to go, which would be the point of a flying car..
It's a neat toy, but it's not really even any kind of technical marvel.. It's just a bigger version of a common drone with a seat and pontoons.. It's really something a motivated hobbiest could have made in a weekend by just retrofitting something with bigger motors, props, batteries and speed controllers..
Mind you, it does look like a crap load of fun, but I wouldn't call it newsworthy at all..
Now, the Flyboard Air (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEDrMriKsFM) looks like a bit of a technical marvel.. If you want a personal aircraft, that's your toy.. and it'll fit in the trunk of your car, so maybe it's not a flying car, but it could get you out of traffic in a pinch (and probably kill you in an instant if you're not extremely careful.. or even if you are)...
I appreciate that they didn't dumb everything down, and that they had actual characters and a story.... and a realistic view of science.
Most of the time when something is "invented" in a sci-fi movie, it's all about pretty lights and special effects. In real science new inventions usually look relatively boring. The second and third versions get the LED treatments and the fancy paint jobs..
Ya know, I could go on all day about what Primer does right.. That's why it's my favorite by far.
You know, I've been using almost nothing but Chrome for many years (at least 5), and somehow I never really noticed them there..I only read the context menus *for* something that I'm looking for.. I never notice all the other drivel on those context menus...
It seems likely that most people who actually own bitcoins would fall into one or both of those categories.
...and I don't (completely) fall into either of those categories. I don't need to keep absolute control of all my bitcoins all the time (I'll transfer some spending coin to Coinbase periodically), and I'm perfectly fine with my identity being know. I know plenty of people with similar needs.
I'll probably go get myself one of these cards soon.
Dealextreme used to sell a wifi/cell phone/bluetooth blocker for something like $10.. I have a friend that bought one.. I just went looking though, and it looks like they don't cell them anymore.. Maybe they're trying to seem to be more of a legitimate company or something..
If they don't have a computer, they probably don't have the internet connection they'll also need for your described work flow. In the end, the internet connection is going to cost more than the computer, even with your $170 option.
Of course, they could go use internet at the library, but then it needs to be portable (higher cost) and they already had an option to use a computer there so what are we actually solving.
I think trying to get below the price point of a raspberry pi isn't going to be worth the trouble. I think you can lower your price point on that if you try though.. Looking to price on up cheaply I get: pi 2b ($35), case ($4), wifi ($4), micro sdhc ($4), ac usb charger ($3), usb wire ($2), keyboard ($7), mouse ($2)....for a grand total of: $61 dollars... OK, and I went with the cheapest available (mostly) so a prudent choice would likely cost a few dollars more.. That means that basically your estimate was right on! Doh! I guess I take for granted that I have almost all those cheap little parts already laying all over the place at our house..
Still, I think you can help them put the parts together, and it's probably your best bet.. Anything cheaper is going to quickly lose functionality/quality. A Pi is a really solid little machine for basic computing, and it's really well supported.
I've found that configuring the heck out of Compiz lets me create an environment that suits me well.. One that I have never been able to even remotely come close to under any version of windows.. Some versions of Compiz (or it's plug-ins) could be more stable though.. They're generally fine when just being used, but sometimes I get crashes when re-configuring..
Try installing "ccsm" (compiz config settings manager) and see if you can adjust things to your liking..
I think I would remove: caps lock (standard) print screen (standard) scroll lock (standard) the entire numeric keypad (standard) insert (standard)
alternate functions for the "F" keys, so they're just F1-F12 again (non-standard) F-lock key (non-standard) web/Home (non-standard) search (non-standard) mail (non-standard) 1,2,3,4,5,Calculator (non-standard) zoom (non-standard) My favorites (non-standard)
I would keep: mute, volume up, volume down, play/pause (non-standard)...and add "next track" and "previous track"
I would keep "back" and "forward"...and add a joystick where "zoom" is that covers scroll up, down, left and right
I would have to look at what's left to figure out what would go where caps-lock was.. maybe home and end. Then you would just have delete, page up and page down above the arrows, and media keys crammed in above that..
Much smaller keyboard and still great for my purposes without cramming things together and making it cramped.
If someone wants a numeric keypad, I would just buy a separate device.
Yeah.. I'm so going to have to get myself something that's 100% customizable if I'm ever going to get close to what I want. The problem is I really like the physical layout of the main keys on the 4000 pro.... Split keyboard with a slight seagull like affect.. Everything feels like it's in its most natural position.
If you're going to put an Raspberry Pi in there, you might as well put a small cheap LCD on it just in case they don't have HDMI.. There are some pretty cheap options, and they they'll hopefully only have to apply power (include the AC adapter).
Include an M-disc with the video in a lot of common formats also as a backup..
Yeah.. I'm thinking use the GPIO on the Pi to kick off a script that takes a picture (either from one of the existing cameras, or the camera module on the PI) and sends you an image of the button getting pressed... and maybe some others as well..
There's a lot of info on programming the Pi with GPIO, and a handy little python library waiting to go..
Note: there is a newer version that's hard to find on their page, but the production prototype looks a little bit different. It doesn't look so much like a butterfly as some of the older revisions do. I think they were considering embracing the butterfly look, but then they changed their mind.
No one said that they were reskinned versions of an older Safari version (at least that I can see).
What they said is that the other browsers are reskinned Safari, which is true. You can play around with the menus and how bookmarks are stored and stuff like that, but if you try to submit code that renders HTML apple will reject it as duplicated core functionality. What you are left with is using the Safari engine to render your the HTML/Javascript then.. Of course it's going to be just as fast.. It will always be just as fast and just as slow because you can never use anything but Safari to render your web page.. I'd love to be able to switch to something with a better rendering engine, but Apple has never allowed them.
Some applications work around the issue by using remote display protocols to run a browser somewhere else and display it on your phone, which Apple will allow, but it's a really crappy way to do things.. I don't think you can even scroll down the page if your internet connection goes away..
We used to use LTO, and it was OK for a while, but we switched to using removable hard drives and rsync a long time ago and haven't regretted it one bit.
We're every bit as paranoid as the next guy (there *might* be some more paranoid, but not many).
We've pulled 10 year old hard drives off the shelf before and recovered things no problem. Our rotation won't ever require us to actually do that, but we have tested it a number of times and things worked great.
What we do though, is periodically update our archived copies to newer media when we update our removable drives.. Often times, this allows us to merge old archive media onto fewer drives saving us a lot of space in the long run. We do have multiple copies, including 3 sets that are permanently online in different locations, and a number of offline sets.. As our backups age, we reduce the number of copies we keep offline, but never go below 3 offline copies of any given data.
The real reason that this is fantastic though, isn't that it backs up so much faster (it does, because after a drive has rsync'd once, there usually aren't many changed files compared to the bulk of the rest of the data). The real reason that this is fantastic isn't because we save space and reduce our need to have old hardware with SCSI interfaces etc (it does though). The real reason this is fantastic isn't because when you take older/smaller drives out of the loop, you can actually repurpose them (you can though.. what are you going to do with a bunch of left-over too small LTO tapes).
The real reason that this is fantastic, is that in the event of a catastrophe, you can get things up and running very quickly. If you're really in a panic, you can boot off of the drive that is that backup disk because we add an OS to them when we prep the drives. You just need any old POS PC with SATA on it and a copy of the file used for decryption, and you can be up and running in minutes. Even for the lighter weight emergencies random access to your data is still quite priceless. You can go directly to the file you need, or even multiple versions of it, instead of waiting for tape media to scan.
In short, yes. LTO is dead whether it knows it yet or not.
Yeah... Given their cost, they're going to be completely impractical..
City kids that are bored will have a replacement for cow tipping.. They'll go dress to be unidentifiable on video, and then probably do one of the following:
EM van as stated above so they can have a souvenir Lob it into a lake (maybe making a few holes in it first) Attack it with a magnet strong enough to rearrange it's innards and then proclaim "Yeah Bitch! Magnets!" (check youtube if you don't recognize it) Spray paint over all it's sensors, or hit them with something corrosive so they need to be replaced. Land mine attach with some home made fireworks (manually triggered for safety of course). How about a nice patch of quick trying foam adhesive so someone has to come chip it back out.. Oh oh.. massive balloon bundle attach.. How many do you need to lift 300 pounds? OK, good... double it.. Hack into it and either make it go rogue, or have it send back looped video and sensor readings so that it's effectively void. Trebuchet testing? Potato gun target? Pool ball from a potato gun target? How about just putting a picture on a stick attached to it's "head" to keep it from seeing anything. Home made thermite test?
I'm out of decent ideas, but I'm sure the kids are much more creative than I am..
Do you know how the takedown of so many "darknet" sites was accomplished recently, or do you at least have some suspicions? The government seems to by lying about how they took down the original Silk Road site, and I'm wondering if you believe this is to: a) Hide a technical solution that they have at their disposal, or b) Hide the egregiously illegal/inadmissable things they did to accomplish this, or c) some of each.
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There are a number of factors actually..
The type of tire, the car (and it's exact weight at the time), and the temperature outside at the time all affect the braking distance considerably. I'm going to assume that anti-lock brakes are a given on a self driving car..
Forget for a moment that the car might have been able to brake. It should also make better decisions, faster than a human. I would assume that there's some sort of physics engine running there that can calculate a best move..
There was another lane there, and maybe it was impossible once she showed in the visual spectrum (I agree LIDAR should have been there stopping the car long before that point) for the car to be stopped in time, but I'm pretty sure in that case, I would have swerved left which would have only required a foot or two to save that person's life. The car had time to do that for sure.
How many average consumer devices can't be compromised with physical access to the hardware?
Couldn't someone also just plant a bug in the thing (or somewhere else in your house) and listen to you that way?
In what world is this news?
My Tivo OTA has Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Hulu (and many others) built in.
As a bonus, it mixes the content from them with the OTA shows so that you get one simple interface. If we have a subscription to the "Wild Kratz", then it shows us recent recordings it's made, along with the Amazon Prime Video episodes, and launches the app or plays the video depending on what you click on.
...at least of cash like you're talking about..
I've also always heard people say it was dangerous to carry cash, but I don't think it is that much.. At least for robbery.. I know myself though, and I'd be sure to accidentally lose it if I carried cash.. Nobody to blame but myself, but it's still "dangerous" for me to carry cash.
My dad always carried cash though, and one time in the early years of his dementia he got lost (forgot where he parked) and ended up wandering around town. He's diabetic, and his blood sugar got way off exacerbating the situation. Some good samaritans stopped to help him out when he started looking like he had a real problem, and ended up searching his wallet to try to figure out how to help him (calling family or whatever).. When it was all said and done, at least three different complete strangers had dug through his wallet in their efforts to try to help him. When we met up at the hospital later and security passed his belongings along to us, we found that he had a little over $1000 dollars in his wallet still. Now, I have no idea for sure what he started with, but I'm pretty sure it was exactly what he still had in there at the end of the day.
The whole incident really made me rethink that whole "people are always trying to steal from you" mentality that we get pounded into us by the pessimists of society. I think generally people almost always do the right thing when given the chance, which I guess includes not robbing you of your cash in your wallet.
You had me until "not be an asshole".. That's not our family at all.
Yeah, that thing is a useless toy.. It can't take you wherever you want to go, which would be the point of a flying car..
It's a neat toy, but it's not really even any kind of technical marvel.. It's just a bigger version of a common drone with a seat and pontoons.. It's really something a motivated hobbiest could have made in a weekend by just retrofitting something with bigger motors, props, batteries and speed controllers..
Mind you, it does look like a crap load of fun, but I wouldn't call it newsworthy at all..
Now, the Flyboard Air (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEDrMriKsFM) looks like a bit of a technical marvel.. If you want a personal aircraft, that's your toy.. and it'll fit in the trunk of your car, so maybe it's not a flying car, but it could get you out of traffic in a pinch (and probably kill you in an instant if you're not extremely careful.. or even if you are)...
Agreed.
I appreciate that they didn't dumb everything down, and that they had actual characters and a story.... and a realistic view of science.
Most of the time when something is "invented" in a sci-fi movie, it's all about pretty lights and special effects. In real science new inventions usually look relatively boring. The second and third versions get the LED treatments and the fancy paint jobs..
Ya know, I could go on all day about what Primer does right.. That's why it's my favorite by far.
You know, I've been using almost nothing but Chrome for many years (at least 5), and somehow I never really noticed them there..I only read the context menus *for* something that I'm looking for.. I never notice all the other drivel on those context menus...
It seems likely that most people who actually own bitcoins would fall into one or both of those categories.
I don't need to keep absolute control of all my bitcoins all the time (I'll transfer some spending coin to Coinbase periodically), and I'm perfectly fine with my identity being know. I know plenty of people with similar needs.
I'll probably go get myself one of these cards soon.
Dealextreme used to sell a wifi/cell phone/bluetooth blocker for something like $10.. I have a friend that bought one.. I just went looking though, and it looks like they don't cell them anymore.. Maybe they're trying to seem to be more of a legitimate company or something..
If they don't have a computer, they probably don't have the internet connection they'll also need for your described work flow. In the end, the internet connection is going to cost more than the computer, even with your $170 option.
Of course, they could go use internet at the library, but then it needs to be portable (higher cost) and they already had an option to use a computer there so what are we actually solving.
I think trying to get below the price point of a raspberry pi isn't going to be worth the trouble. I think you can lower your price point on that if you try though.. Looking to price on up cheaply I get: pi 2b ($35), case ($4), wifi ($4), micro sdhc ($4), ac usb charger ($3), usb wire ($2), keyboard ($7), mouse ($2). ...for a grand total of: $61 dollars... OK, and I went with the cheapest available (mostly) so a prudent choice would likely cost a few dollars more.. That means that basically your estimate was right on! Doh! I guess I take for granted that I have almost all those cheap little parts already laying all over the place at our house..
Still, I think you can help them put the parts together, and it's probably your best bet.. Anything cheaper is going to quickly lose functionality/quality. A Pi is a really solid little machine for basic computing, and it's really well supported.
Ewe...
I've found that configuring the heck out of Compiz lets me create an environment that suits me well.. One that I have never been able to even remotely come close to under any version of windows.. Some versions of Compiz (or it's plug-ins) could be more stable though.. They're generally fine when just being used, but sometimes I get crashes when re-configuring..
Try installing "ccsm" (compiz config settings manager) and see if you can adjust things to your liking..
Oh I wish I had some mod points today! +1 funny does not do this justice!
I think I would remove:
caps lock (standard)
print screen (standard)
scroll lock (standard)
the entire numeric keypad (standard)
insert (standard)
alternate functions for the "F" keys, so they're just F1-F12 again (non-standard)
F-lock key (non-standard)
web/Home (non-standard)
search (non-standard)
mail (non-standard)
1,2,3,4,5,Calculator (non-standard)
zoom (non-standard)
My favorites (non-standard)
I would keep: ...and add "next track" and "previous track"
mute, volume up, volume down, play/pause (non-standard)
I would keep "back" and "forward" ...and add a joystick where "zoom" is that covers scroll up, down, left and right
I would have to look at what's left to figure out what would go where caps-lock was.. maybe home and end.
Then you would just have delete, page up and page down above the arrows, and media keys crammed in above that..
Much smaller keyboard and still great for my purposes without cramming things together and making it cramped.
If someone wants a numeric keypad, I would just buy a separate device.
Yeah.. I'm so going to have to get myself something that's 100% customizable if I'm ever going to get close to what I want. The problem is I really like the physical layout of the main keys on the 4000 pro.... Split keyboard with a slight seagull like affect.. Everything feels like it's in its most natural position.
It's been many years since I've used Zoneminder, but even then it was better than almost all of the $200 DVR/Camera kits that I've seen.
My sister got one of those kits at Costco and it was a pain to configure, and very limited on it's options/capabilities.
wget -O - http://./* | grep -i
If you're going to put an Raspberry Pi in there, you might as well put a small cheap LCD on it just in case they don't have HDMI.. There are some pretty cheap options, and they they'll hopefully only have to apply power (include the AC adapter).
Include an M-disc with the video in a lot of common formats also as a backup..
Yeah.. I'm thinking use the GPIO on the Pi to kick off a script that takes a picture (either from one of the existing cameras, or the camera module on the PI) and sends you an image of the button getting pressed... and maybe some others as well..
There's a lot of info on programming the Pi with GPIO, and a handy little python library waiting to go..
Note: there is a newer version that's hard to find on their page, but the production prototype looks a little bit different. It doesn't look so much like a butterfly as some of the older revisions do. I think they were considering embracing the butterfly look, but then they changed their mind.
I'm kinda fond of the http://www.keyboard.io/ keyboard.
It's kinda a hacker/programmer keyboard, but it's a little old school classy (milled out of a chunk of Maple) as well..
No one said that they were reskinned versions of an older Safari version (at least that I can see).
What they said is that the other browsers are reskinned Safari, which is true. You can play around with the menus and how bookmarks are stored and stuff like that, but if you try to submit code that renders HTML apple will reject it as duplicated core functionality. What you are left with is using the Safari engine to render your the HTML/Javascript then.. Of course it's going to be just as fast.. It will always be just as fast and just as slow because you can never use anything but Safari to render your web page.. I'd love to be able to switch to something with a better rendering engine, but Apple has never allowed them.
Some applications work around the issue by using remote display protocols to run a browser somewhere else and display it on your phone, which Apple will allow, but it's a really crappy way to do things.. I don't think you can even scroll down the page if your internet connection goes away..
I disagree.
We used to use LTO, and it was OK for a while, but we switched to using removable hard drives and rsync a long time ago and haven't regretted it one bit.
We're every bit as paranoid as the next guy (there *might* be some more paranoid, but not many).
We've pulled 10 year old hard drives off the shelf before and recovered things no problem. Our rotation won't ever require us to actually do that, but we have tested it a number of times and things worked great.
What we do though, is periodically update our archived copies to newer media when we update our removable drives.. Often times, this allows us to merge old archive media onto fewer drives saving us a lot of space in the long run. We do have multiple copies, including 3 sets that are permanently online in different locations, and a number of offline sets.. As our backups age, we reduce the number of copies we keep offline, but never go below 3 offline copies of any given data.
The real reason that this is fantastic though, isn't that it backs up so much faster (it does, because after a drive has rsync'd once, there usually aren't many changed files compared to the bulk of the rest of the data). The real reason that this is fantastic isn't because we save space and reduce our need to have old hardware with SCSI interfaces etc (it does though). The real reason this is fantastic isn't because when you take older/smaller drives out of the loop, you can actually repurpose them (you can though.. what are you going to do with a bunch of left-over too small LTO tapes).
The real reason that this is fantastic, is that in the event of a catastrophe, you can get things up and running very quickly. If you're really in a panic, you can boot off of the drive that is that backup disk because we add an OS to them when we prep the drives. You just need any old POS PC with SATA on it and a copy of the file used for decryption, and you can be up and running in minutes. Even for the lighter weight emergencies random access to your data is still quite priceless. You can go directly to the file you need, or even multiple versions of it, instead of waiting for tape media to scan.
In short, yes. LTO is dead whether it knows it yet or not.
Yeah... Given their cost, they're going to be completely impractical..
City kids that are bored will have a replacement for cow tipping.. They'll go dress to be unidentifiable on video, and then probably do one of the following:
EM van as stated above so they can have a souvenir
Lob it into a lake (maybe making a few holes in it first)
Attack it with a magnet strong enough to rearrange it's innards and then proclaim "Yeah Bitch! Magnets!" (check youtube if you don't recognize it)
Spray paint over all it's sensors, or hit them with something corrosive so they need to be replaced.
Land mine attach with some home made fireworks (manually triggered for safety of course).
How about a nice patch of quick trying foam adhesive so someone has to come chip it back out..
Oh oh.. massive balloon bundle attach.. How many do you need to lift 300 pounds? OK, good... double it..
Hack into it and either make it go rogue, or have it send back looped video and sensor readings so that it's effectively void.
Trebuchet testing?
Potato gun target?
Pool ball from a potato gun target?
How about just putting a picture on a stick attached to it's "head" to keep it from seeing anything.
Home made thermite test?
I'm out of decent ideas, but I'm sure the kids are much more creative than I am..
Do you know how the takedown of so many "darknet" sites was accomplished recently, or do you at least have some suspicions? The government seems to by lying about how they took down the original Silk Road site, and I'm wondering if you believe this is to: a) Hide a technical solution that they have at their disposal, or b) Hide the egregiously illegal/inadmissable things they did to accomplish this, or c) some of each.