I watched the video (and some more on Youtube) about this thing, it's a really intersting way of propulsion.
First of all this thing is very flat and low in the water, they add a small mast with what looks like a light beacon and probably a radar reflector to make it visible. The rest of the craft is flat. Wind will not have much grip on such a craft.
Then the propulsion: it's a set of fins that's suspended several meters below the floating craft. The craft is dragged up and down by the waves, moving the fins vertically through the water. These fins flip in such a manner that the vertical movement is converted into forward propulsion. The rudder is also attached to these fins, and the fins pull the craft in the desired direction. Strong wind means big waves, which should result in strong propulsion. I don't think wind as such is doing much when it comes to pushing this craft off its course.
All in all it looks really interesting, and quite simple. The wave action is used for the propulsion, solar panels provide power for the rest (such as sensors, communication, navigation).
When a politician stands on the podium with their wives and children,
That is quite unique American. I don't know of any other country in the world where they do it all the time like that. Wives/husbands and children are usually intentionally kept far out of the limelight.
This sounds very much like WikiPedia but then for software.
Everyone can contribute to the project, and change or delete existing parts. Now how this would ever really work for code I don't know - making sure it still compiles after any changes is just the first issue that I can think of - but it'd be interesting if someone can figure out a way to set up a site where such a project could take shape.
Though having a central repository for code is in itself already a form of central control... just like WikiPedia which used to be a free-for-all, and now also has more and more restrictions on what users can do, down to complete locks on certain pages.
Considering the quoted cost of $0,01 per km, this car has an exceptionally good energy efficiency.
After all this compressed air needs energy (fuel) to be compressed - and the less energy it needs to move, the less fuel it uses. Of course it's a small car for starters, that helps a lot, I still have my doubts it can really be made so efficient that it's a small fraction of the cost of running a small gasoline engine to power it.
Half being middle class still means there is a huge number of people (India has about 1 bln population) that are lower class. And lower class there often means really low.
On top of that, the climate is highly conductive for street sleeping: it's always warm, especially the southern part of the country.
Thinking of what you just wrote I'd like to add a bit.
First of all I don't think they will serve the data from those disks; if only because you will probably want yesterday's data available as well, and drives are constantly being swapped out. So upon plugging in a drive, I'd have a script copy the data to a different directory on your permanent storage (which of course must be sizeable to take several times 500 GB a day - he says each sensor produces 500 GB of data - so several TB of data a day, hundreds of TB a year).
Data files may be renamed to some unique name, if necessary, and a date may be added to either the file name, or create a subdir where the data of that day lives in. You may also want to consider to compress this data on your permanent storage, at least by the time it's becoming archive and doesn't need to be accessed much if at all any more.
And considering the hundreds of TB of data you're going to collect - I am assuming this is some kind of long-term data collection - I wonder what you're doing asking around web sites, and not buy a complete solution from a vendor that's experienced in handling this kind of datasets.
A quick look on Wikipedia tells me that the largest disks available nowadays are 4 TB, that's a day or two of data. For a year of data, you'll going to need a small cupboard full of them. Tape storage comes to mind, too. The amounts of data you're talking about are massive.
I think it's more like the Play Store knows what you have/had installed and will automatically re-install this. After all they do keep track of what you have installed. Backing up data is, afaik, just data: your own data. Not the apps themselves.
No direct experience with that reinstall part myself, still on my first Android.
Also, it's worth noting that Microsoft is hardly alone in this regard, given the rise of app stores over the past several year. (Not that it exculpates this behavior.)
Can't compare this. If I download something from the Play Store, I know Google knows I install that app. After all I have to log in using my Google account, and use their app to download from their store. Afaik they do not know what I install from third-party sources, like alternative app stores. Nor do they have any right knowing that.
Apparently MS monitors what you install from third-party sources. Without telling you, and without asking explicit permission. That's simply evil. They have no business knowing what I install from third-party sources. The fact that this data is stored in some foreign country (the US is a foreign country to me, and some 95% of the world's overall population) with notoriously poor privacy protection only helps making it a lot worse.
In that case I'd rather be in the iodine trade. Everybody will want to buy the stuff - to protect against radiation poisoning. Market will be many orders of magnitude bigger than the U or even Pu market.
Agreed. I had such a "frictionless" experience recently with Groupon.
I wanted two coupons of something, select the number, click , expect to first see a total that they're going to charge me, but no, directly charged. Irritating. I really should try and wipe my credit card number from my acount with them. They really should give me the actual amount they're going to charge and let me agree on that. Even after processing the purchase they didn't show me iirc.
Also I wonder if they unsubscribed me from their newsletter: for some strange reason it takes 1-2 weeks for them to process an unsubscribe (request via the website)... that purchase got me subscribed, and I really didn't notice this happening or I would have unticked the box.
My wife had a recent similar issue with Amazon on her kindle; our little one had been playing with her Kindle and accidentally bought a random book. Dunno if she managed to return it. The "buy" and "preview" links on the screen are also scarily close, very easy to slip.
The kid playing with my phone sometimes is also a major reason not to have my credit card number stored in the Play Store. It's just too risky.
This whole "one-click purchase", well sometimes I would hope Amazon could enforce that patent so no-one else could do it... nice maybe for the seller, not so much for the buyer. Too easy to accidentally buy stuff you don't really want.
Remember you also suddenly lose all those much-loved copyleft licenses. Because if there is no copyright, you can not control ANYTHING about your work. You can not even require being credited for it.
Copyright as a concept, is good. As is most currently protected intellectual property. The current implementations of this however (especially the duration of copyright protection), not so good. Bring protection down to say 20, 30 years from creation; give clear rules for fair use and personal use; and we're in a lot better situation where you actually have works entering the public domain, where people can still profit from their work and keep control of what happens to it, etc.
And just because there is infringement is not a good reason to abolish copyrights. People are shoplifting, they're speeding on the motorway, they're murdering one another. But that's not a reason to just abolish laws against those acts.
The concept of copyright started when copying became a serious option, the time when printing press technology really advanced and allowed for large scale reproduction of printed works.
For thousands of years, copying a book meant hand-writing a second copy. Copying a painting meant painting your own. Sound/video recordings simply didn't exist. Big difference with the current world.
Copyrights are an important concept in our world, as are patents and trademark rights. The problem is that these concepts have grown outside their intended (and useful) scope - and that problem should be addressed, abolishing them is simply not a good idea.
Let me be clear: I support licenses (especially CC-style licenses), because giving credit where it is due, is important. But copyrights? Fuck those.
You can't have your cake and eat it, too.
CC licenses, and software licenses like BSD/Apache/GPL/etc. depend on the existence of copyright. Without having copyright there is nothing to license, and it's a free-for-all, and you can forget about even getting credited for your work. Your CC licensed work will fall in the public domain when it's copyright expires, just like any other works.
There are two aspects here, one of which is conspicuously absent.
First of all statutory damages: what the infringer has to pay the copyright holder. An amount anywhere from 10 to 100 times normal sales price sounds reasonable to me.
Secondly, a fine. For some reason there is no such thing as a fine (payable to the government; not the rights holder) in this whole picture. Yet all copyright holders say it's stealing - and stealing is a crime, punishable by anything ranging from a small fine to a lengthy prison term.
Why should FOSS get a bye? What user really has the time to validate the code, line by line, to search for security weaknesses BEFORE using it?
There are even less users that have the actual skills to understand what's going on in source. And reading someone else's software and fully understanding what it is all doing, is known to be really hard.
More likely scenario: software development companies leave the US, and set up elsewhere (e.g. Mexico, Canada, Europe) where they can safely sell their stuff.
A few short years later the rest of the world completely overtakes the US on all fronts as we have the latest and greatest software while the US is stuck with old, unmaintained software full of known security holes.
I suppose "sensitive" can be defined in privacy regulations. If not there already.
So basically any privacy-sensitive data should be encrypted. One could argue that this should apply to all customer data, especially as these days encryption is so well developed.
Wow. Dozens of comments down the line and finally this one:-) It was quite literally the first I thought of, especially in light of this being featured on/. just days ago.
There is a limit on the number of viewers. And for a channel to be both affordable for the viewer, and economically viable for the broadcaster, you need a certain number of viewers, and with the cost of running TV channels (especially creating/buying the content) this number of viewers usually has to be pretty big.
It's claimed to be as easy as riding a bike. When cycling I never pay attention to keeping balance, my body does that automatically. The suggestion is that this machine works much the same.
Article suggests it was done with a driver on board, though it's not mentioned explicitly. They claim they have not tried to push it to max. height and speed yet (for safety reasons indeed). Though a fall off such a thing at 5m high and going some 50 km/hr will hurt. A lot.
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I watched the video (and some more on Youtube) about this thing, it's a really intersting way of propulsion.
First of all this thing is very flat and low in the water, they add a small mast with what looks like a light beacon and probably a radar reflector to make it visible. The rest of the craft is flat. Wind will not have much grip on such a craft.
Then the propulsion: it's a set of fins that's suspended several meters below the floating craft. The craft is dragged up and down by the waves, moving the fins vertically through the water. These fins flip in such a manner that the vertical movement is converted into forward propulsion. The rudder is also attached to these fins, and the fins pull the craft in the desired direction. Strong wind means big waves, which should result in strong propulsion. I don't think wind as such is doing much when it comes to pushing this craft off its course.
All in all it looks really interesting, and quite simple. The wave action is used for the propulsion, solar panels provide power for the rest (such as sensors, communication, navigation).
Then they may pull you over and fine you for having an unreadable license plate.
When a politician stands on the podium with their wives and children,
That is quite unique American. I don't know of any other country in the world where they do it all the time like that. Wives/husbands and children are usually intentionally kept far out of the limelight.
This sounds very much like WikiPedia but then for software.
Everyone can contribute to the project, and change or delete existing parts. Now how this would ever really work for code I don't know - making sure it still compiles after any changes is just the first issue that I can think of - but it'd be interesting if someone can figure out a way to set up a site where such a project could take shape.
Though having a central repository for code is in itself already a form of central control... just like WikiPedia which used to be a free-for-all, and now also has more and more restrictions on what users can do, down to complete locks on certain pages.
Considering the quoted cost of $0,01 per km, this car has an exceptionally good energy efficiency.
After all this compressed air needs energy (fuel) to be compressed - and the less energy it needs to move, the less fuel it uses. Of course it's a small car for starters, that helps a lot, I still have my doubts it can really be made so efficient that it's a small fraction of the cost of running a small gasoline engine to power it.
Half being middle class still means there is a huge number of people (India has about 1 bln population) that are lower class. And lower class there often means really low.
On top of that, the climate is highly conductive for street sleeping: it's always warm, especially the southern part of the country.
If there is a possiblity of conflict of interests (and with that, a bias towards the case), how could this person be chosen as juror to begin with?
Thinking of what you just wrote I'd like to add a bit.
First of all I don't think they will serve the data from those disks; if only because you will probably want yesterday's data available as well, and drives are constantly being swapped out. So upon plugging in a drive, I'd have a script copy the data to a different directory on your permanent storage (which of course must be sizeable to take several times 500 GB a day - he says each sensor produces 500 GB of data - so several TB of data a day, hundreds of TB a year).
Data files may be renamed to some unique name, if necessary, and a date may be added to either the file name, or create a subdir where the data of that day lives in. You may also want to consider to compress this data on your permanent storage, at least by the time it's becoming archive and doesn't need to be accessed much if at all any more.
And considering the hundreds of TB of data you're going to collect - I am assuming this is some kind of long-term data collection - I wonder what you're doing asking around web sites, and not buy a complete solution from a vendor that's experienced in handling this kind of datasets.
A quick look on Wikipedia tells me that the largest disks available nowadays are 4 TB, that's a day or two of data. For a year of data, you'll going to need a small cupboard full of them. Tape storage comes to mind, too. The amounts of data you're talking about are massive.
They run Win95, have to reboot once a day, and blame it on some external factor?
For starters they should be happy they need to reboot just once a day!
I think it's more like the Play Store knows what you have/had installed and will automatically re-install this. After all they do keep track of what you have installed. Backing up data is, afaik, just data: your own data. Not the apps themselves.
No direct experience with that reinstall part myself, still on my first Android.
Also, it's worth noting that Microsoft is hardly alone in this regard, given the rise of app stores over the past several year. (Not that it exculpates this behavior.)
Can't compare this. If I download something from the Play Store, I know Google knows I install that app. After all I have to log in using my Google account, and use their app to download from their store. Afaik they do not know what I install from third-party sources, like alternative app stores. Nor do they have any right knowing that.
Apparently MS monitors what you install from third-party sources. Without telling you, and without asking explicit permission. That's simply evil. They have no business knowing what I install from third-party sources. The fact that this data is stored in some foreign country (the US is a foreign country to me, and some 95% of the world's overall population) with notoriously poor privacy protection only helps making it a lot worse.
In that case I'd rather be in the iodine trade. Everybody will want to buy the stuff - to protect against radiation poisoning. Market will be many orders of magnitude bigger than the U or even Pu market.
Agreed. I had such a "frictionless" experience recently with Groupon.
I wanted two coupons of something, select the number, click , expect to first see a total that they're going to charge me, but no, directly charged. Irritating. I really should try and wipe my credit card number from my acount with them. They really should give me the actual amount they're going to charge and let me agree on that. Even after processing the purchase they didn't show me iirc.
Also I wonder if they unsubscribed me from their newsletter: for some strange reason it takes 1-2 weeks for them to process an unsubscribe (request via the website)... that purchase got me subscribed, and I really didn't notice this happening or I would have unticked the box.
My wife had a recent similar issue with Amazon on her kindle; our little one had been playing with her Kindle and accidentally bought a random book. Dunno if she managed to return it. The "buy" and "preview" links on the screen are also scarily close, very easy to slip.
The kid playing with my phone sometimes is also a major reason not to have my credit card number stored in the Play Store. It's just too risky.
This whole "one-click purchase", well sometimes I would hope Amazon could enforce that patent so no-one else could do it... nice maybe for the seller, not so much for the buyer. Too easy to accidentally buy stuff you don't really want.
Remember you also suddenly lose all those much-loved copyleft licenses. Because if there is no copyright, you can not control ANYTHING about your work. You can not even require being credited for it.
Copyright as a concept, is good. As is most currently protected intellectual property. The current implementations of this however (especially the duration of copyright protection), not so good. Bring protection down to say 20, 30 years from creation; give clear rules for fair use and personal use; and we're in a lot better situation where you actually have works entering the public domain, where people can still profit from their work and keep control of what happens to it, etc.
And just because there is infringement is not a good reason to abolish copyrights. People are shoplifting, they're speeding on the motorway, they're murdering one another. But that's not a reason to just abolish laws against those acts.
The concept of copyright started when copying became a serious option, the time when printing press technology really advanced and allowed for large scale reproduction of printed works.
For thousands of years, copying a book meant hand-writing a second copy. Copying a painting meant painting your own. Sound/video recordings simply didn't exist. Big difference with the current world.
Copyrights are an important concept in our world, as are patents and trademark rights. The problem is that these concepts have grown outside their intended (and useful) scope - and that problem should be addressed, abolishing them is simply not a good idea.
Let me be clear: I support licenses (especially CC-style licenses), because giving credit where it is due, is important. But copyrights? Fuck those.
You can't have your cake and eat it, too.
CC licenses, and software licenses like BSD/Apache/GPL/etc. depend on the existence of copyright. Without having copyright there is nothing to license, and it's a free-for-all, and you can forget about even getting credited for your work. Your CC licensed work will fall in the public domain when it's copyright expires, just like any other works.
There are two aspects here, one of which is conspicuously absent.
First of all statutory damages: what the infringer has to pay the copyright holder. An amount anywhere from 10 to 100 times normal sales price sounds reasonable to me.
Secondly, a fine. For some reason there is no such thing as a fine (payable to the government; not the rights holder) in this whole picture. Yet all copyright holders say it's stealing - and stealing is a crime, punishable by anything ranging from a small fine to a lengthy prison term.
Why should FOSS get a bye? What user really has the time to validate the code, line by line, to search for security weaknesses BEFORE using it?
There are even less users that have the actual skills to understand what's going on in source. And reading someone else's software and fully understanding what it is all doing, is known to be really hard.
More likely scenario: software development companies leave the US, and set up elsewhere (e.g. Mexico, Canada, Europe) where they can safely sell their stuff.
A few short years later the rest of the world completely overtakes the US on all fronts as we have the latest and greatest software while the US is stuck with old, unmaintained software full of known security holes.
I suppose "sensitive" can be defined in privacy regulations. If not there already.
So basically any privacy-sensitive data should be encrypted. One could argue that this should apply to all customer data, especially as these days encryption is so well developed.
Wow. Dozens of comments down the line and finally this one :-) It was quite literally the first I thought of, especially in light of this being featured on /. just days ago.
There is a limit on the number of viewers. And for a channel to be both affordable for the viewer, and economically viable for the broadcaster, you need a certain number of viewers, and with the cost of running TV channels (especially creating/buying the content) this number of viewers usually has to be pretty big.
FYI I'm not anywhere near those American-brand stores. Our local hardware shops have pretty much anything.
It's claimed to be as easy as riding a bike. When cycling I never pay attention to keeping balance, my body does that automatically. The suggestion is that this machine works much the same.
Article suggests it was done with a driver on board, though it's not mentioned explicitly. They claim they have not tried to push it to max. height and speed yet (for safety reasons indeed). Though a fall off such a thing at 5m high and going some 50 km/hr will hurt. A lot.