It is not the longest flight ever, by any aircraft, by time. The record is over 64 days, 64:22:19:05 to be exact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... It looks like it has the unmanned record though.
Still a cool achievement having a solar powered plane in the air for that long, and has potential as a satellite replacement.
Even that's not the longest - the longest is *another*, *manned*, solar plane which spent 9 days in a flight around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes, this is a great drone, Airbus, but clearly not a record holder.
> , but human vote counters are a huge vulnerability and weakness.
I disagree. It's the computers and the companies that own the unaudited code that are the weakness - we can audit human counting (multiple counters, with adversarial checks/balances like in courtrooms).
Once you have a codebase owning an entire election or multiple elections, it's just too tempting to not sell that vote to the highest bidder. Our election auditing process isn't even as good as what we mandate for casino machines!
I don't if it's the regulatory environment or what driving the trend towards privately owned companies, but every time one goes private there's less ability for common small investors to benefit from wealth generation. I'm just a worker with a 401K, and I'd like to get the returns needed to retire on my investment income. Events like this make it slightly harder to do.
Well maybe you should be complaining about Goldman Sachs and other Wall St. mafia front-running trades or the system allowing easy market manipulation? Vampire squids gotta suck blood.
I don't think you'd get away with displaying even stock photography that you hadn't got permission for, just by linking to an instance of it on someone else's website. Try arguing that with Getty...
Whether that should be the law is open to debate, but it sounds like a reasonable application of existing law.
I think it makes sense also. If my "website" uses the imagery even though it's stored on someone else's server, if I get hits/pageviews/ad money from that viewing, shouldn't that mean I'm responsible for the content therein? Otherwise it's profit without liability.
If any system should be "airgapped" it's one the controls the political levers to the biggest market in the world. I mean, which black hat wouldn't want to game that system?
Since China insists on inflicting a "social score" on their citizens, I think the rest of the world should do the same on China
Wanna export your products here? Sorry, our "social score" for China prohibits us from doing so
Want our companies to use your workforce? Oh, sorry, China's "social score" doesn't allow for our companies to do business with it
This used to be the case until Richard Nixon (GOP) opened the road to China, and Bill Clinton (DEM) bestowed "Most Favored Nation" status on them for trade. You'll see that I included both parties because it's more about who funded these guys and their teams. Wealthy people want more money. Ethics, Rights, your livelyhood? Check that at the door.
> A better way would have been to have a larger shared trough of subsidy $ that is gobbled up and gone when it's gone.
Or if you're looking at it from a "transition the buggy-whip^W gas-car industry" then yeah it makes sense to have a subsidy that essentially keeps the existing manufacturers (and their profits) in place while still moving the country to EVs (ostensibly).
In the age of Trump, it's surprising all the subsidies haven't just been given right over to coal extraction and prison industries (as they're doing what's in the funders^W national interest).
you're going to have to convince me that this kind of behavior isn't widespread.
Instead of punishing a bank here and there, we should have sent executives to prison for the highway-robbery committed for the subprime scandals and general knavery of '03-'08.
Otherwise they'll just keep doing it and chalk any losses up as a cost of doing business. How much did they make over the years - was it more than they're suffering now? If so I'd say the bean-counters would call it a win and do it again.
WF's only problem is they got caught (like VW). The rest are busy increasing their bribes to the regulators.
What are you talking about? Your link perfectly exemplifies what I was talking about - notice the almost overuse of the word energy? "Energy lives here" is their slogan? Energy is the main menu item? One of the first links, "Energy and Carbon Summary", talks about their research and investment in renewables. Even a single google search easily finds articles on the subject.
They've used "Energy" since the 80s at least. Oil got really unpopular around the 70s during the gas crisis and association with OPEC.
Was just a blatant move to kill it off to get people to use G+ / FB / Twitter so our every engagement can be tracked and sold to the advertisers (and possibly nation-states).
RSS "lost" like Obi-wan lost in Episode IV. It was never really gone.
It's more of a story of bad transition policy. If I'm terinating a manger, there should be immediate involvement of the new manager (even if it's the manger's manager) of things like contract re-ups, terms, etc.
So it's not automation (I agree) but it's not even approvals but just transition process screwed up.
> Remember that you support this 110% when a congress kneecaps the next democratic president, after all "what is good for the goose".
I remember 2009 - 2016 very well. You know where the Senate failed to do it's duty to even hold hearings for approval of judiciary and executive appointments (through use of the silent filibuster). And the House voting for the 53rd time to repeal the ACA.
So now the shoe's on the other foot. Except there's really no defending DJT's craziness in this or the random tariffs. So far the GOP is pretty happy with Trump it seems. Now are the American people happy with the GOP?
hah remember when Microsoft made IE the default browser? Such a big scandal. Nothing kept you from installing Netscape.
And yet, it was punished for abusing their monopoly.
Oh but not only Apple doesn't allow you to install other browsers in their iOS. They don't let you install anything not from their app store.
And yet, fanboys defend apple.
So the rules are changed if you have monopoly position. Microsoft at the time had a consent decree they had to abide by (which they ignored). Then they got convicted for doing what they weren't supposed to do.
What is the alternative? You could remember 200 complex passwords; but I can't and most people can't. So they end up using very simple password which are different on each service, or they use a few complex password that they reuse everywhere. And that is a lot worse.
You forgot a third option: they (like me) end up using complex passwords, which are different on each service and they write them down in a little notebook. Same idea as using a password manager - except it is not exposed to the internet. And same as with a password manager, if you lose it, or it gets stolen, you are completely owned. You can mitigate it somewhat by 'encrypting' the passwords via some algorithm like 'add a garbage character to each password at position 2 and 5'.
You might as well use KeePass. Sure it's digital but it's local (some folks opt to host the encrypted database). I have it setup to require 2FA (a keyfile on my keychain USB) in addition to a password. I'd say it's a more secure system than your notebook (both of us are subject to rubber-hose cryptography).
Gambling is a one-way function on funds, allowing them to be laundered. Now we can expect more efficient bribes - no more going to Nevada or other jurisdictions, you can bribe your official in any state.
I like how we are promoting local business (as long as it's in the family).
I'm not sure if you wanted a real solution, but increased corporate taxation (of course they'll find loopholes, but let them struggle for it like us schmucks), stock exchange transaction microtax, and removal of the stupid "personhood for eternity" construct would be a good start.
Of course, no one is bound here on "tea-party slashdot".
> Sending people to prison for incompetence is silly.
Anything but time served is something the Corporation can just take as an "operating cost". Now how that time is served (either prison or community service) is debatable.
At this level of disaster it doesn't matter whether the result was incompetence or malfeasance. According to Gray's Law [1] Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. At some point the Corporation's failure should result in tangible punishment regardless of why.
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It is not the longest flight ever, by any aircraft, by time. The record is over 64 days, 64:22:19:05 to be exact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... It looks like it has the unmanned record though.
Still a cool achievement having a solar powered plane in the air for that long, and has potential as a satellite replacement.
Even that's not the longest - the longest is *another*, *manned*, solar plane which spent 9 days in a flight around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes, this is a great drone, Airbus, but clearly not a record holder.
Where do you get the idea of human vote counters being a huge vulnerability/risk?
Basically from a long history of humans manipulating the vote.
Name when and where voter fraud has actually happened in the past 10 years. I'll give you the quick answer: it's statistically negligible.
Now tell me how bad it would be if an entire state or country's voting system were hacked or (more likely) sold in advance for the highest bidder?
> , but human vote counters are a huge vulnerability and weakness.
I disagree. It's the computers and the companies that own the unaudited code that are the weakness - we can audit human counting (multiple counters, with adversarial checks/balances like in courtrooms).
Once you have a codebase owning an entire election or multiple elections, it's just too tempting to not sell that vote to the highest bidder. Our election auditing process isn't even as good as what we mandate for casino machines!
I don't if it's the regulatory environment or what driving the trend towards privately owned companies, but every time one goes private there's less ability for common small investors to benefit from wealth generation. I'm just a worker with a 401K, and I'd like to get the returns needed to retire on my investment income. Events like this make it slightly harder to do.
Well maybe you should be complaining about Goldman Sachs and other Wall St. mafia front-running trades or the system allowing easy market manipulation? Vampire squids gotta suck blood.
saudi arabia is a terrorist state. Just seize all their assets...
By your measure, we should just seize the assets of the USA and major international corporations as well (Monsanto, Cargill, etc).
Actually seems reasonable, as far as it goes.
I don't think you'd get away with displaying even stock photography that you hadn't got permission for, just by linking to an instance of it on someone else's website. Try arguing that with Getty ...
Whether that should be the law is open to debate, but it sounds like a reasonable application of existing law.
I think it makes sense also. If my "website" uses the imagery even though it's stored on someone else's server, if I get hits/pageviews/ad money from that viewing, shouldn't that mean I'm responsible for the content therein? Otherwise it's profit without liability.
Best if Amazon removes itself from the counterfeit scene.
Of course, that would dent their ability to be the "everything store".
If any system should be "airgapped" it's one the controls the political levers to the biggest market in the world.
I mean, which black hat wouldn't want to game that system?
Since China insists on inflicting a "social score" on their citizens, I think the rest of the world should do the same on China
Wanna export your products here? Sorry, our "social score" for China prohibits us from doing so
Want our companies to use your workforce? Oh, sorry, China's "social score" doesn't allow for our companies to do business with it
This used to be the case until Richard Nixon (GOP) opened the road to China, and Bill Clinton (DEM) bestowed "Most Favored Nation" status on them for trade. You'll see that I included both parties because it's more about who funded these guys and their teams. Wealthy people want more money. Ethics, Rights, your livelyhood? Check that at the door.
> A better way would have been to have a larger shared trough of subsidy $ that is gobbled up and gone when it's gone.
Or if you're looking at it from a "transition the buggy-whip^W gas-car industry" then yeah it makes sense to have a subsidy that essentially keeps the existing manufacturers (and their profits) in place while still moving the country to EVs (ostensibly).
In the age of Trump, it's surprising all the subsidies haven't just been given right over to coal extraction and prison industries (as they're doing what's in the funders^W national interest).
you're going to have to convince me that this kind of behavior isn't widespread.
Instead of punishing a bank here and there, we should have sent executives to prison for the highway-robbery committed for the subprime scandals and general knavery of '03-'08.
Otherwise they'll just keep doing it and chalk any losses up as a cost of doing business. How much did they make over the years - was it more than they're suffering now? If so I'd say the bean-counters would call it a win and do it again.
WF's only problem is they got caught (like VW). The rest are busy increasing their bribes to the regulators.
What are you talking about? Your link perfectly exemplifies what I was talking about - notice the almost overuse of the word energy? "Energy lives here" is their slogan? Energy is the main menu item? One of the first links, "Energy and Carbon Summary", talks about their research and investment in renewables. Even a single google search easily finds articles on the subject.
They've used "Energy" since the 80s at least. Oil got really unpopular around the 70s during the gas crisis and association with OPEC.
Why would I use anything other than an RSS feed reader to view RSS? Why do browsers need to support *all* protocols and interaction models?
Was just a blatant move to kill it off to get people to use G+ / FB / Twitter so our every engagement can be tracked and sold to the advertisers (and possibly nation-states).
RSS "lost" like Obi-wan lost in Episode IV. It was never really gone.
s/limpwristed/corrupt/
No active cooling, heck that's just additional sales down the road, amirite?!
It's more of a story of bad transition policy. If I'm terinating a manger, there should be immediate involvement of the new manager (even if it's the manger's manager) of things like contract re-ups, terms, etc.
So it's not automation (I agree) but it's not even approvals but just transition process screwed up.
> Remember that you support this 110% when a congress kneecaps the next democratic president, after all "what is good for the goose".
I remember 2009 - 2016 very well. You know where the Senate failed to do it's duty to even hold hearings for approval of judiciary and executive appointments (through use of the silent filibuster). And the House voting for the 53rd time to repeal the ACA.
So now the shoe's on the other foot. Except there's really no defending DJT's craziness in this or the random tariffs. So far the GOP is pretty happy with Trump it seems. Now are the American people happy with the GOP?
hah remember when Microsoft made IE the default browser? Such a big scandal. Nothing kept you from installing Netscape.
And yet, it was punished for abusing their monopoly.
Oh but not only Apple doesn't allow you to install other browsers in their iOS. They don't let you install anything not from their app store.
And yet, fanboys defend apple.
So the rules are changed if you have monopoly position. Microsoft at the time had a consent decree they had to abide by (which they ignored). Then they got convicted for doing what they weren't supposed to do.
It's amusing they highlight "political regimes" when it's really your spouse/SO/Geek Squad who you're likely worried about.
Amazingly well put.
Microsoft is a convicted monopolist, and IMHO needs to earn it's keep in society's good graces.
I'd also add that (having bent ever so slightly my 4S) that I would always remove my phone from my back pocket before sitting down.
Remarkably that prevented any future bends in phones.
What is the alternative? You could remember 200 complex passwords; but I can't and most people can't. So they end up using very simple password which are different on each service, or they use a few complex password that they reuse everywhere. And that is a lot worse.
You forgot a third option: they (like me) end up using complex passwords, which are different on each service and they write them down in a little notebook. Same idea as using a password manager - except it is not exposed to the internet. And same as with a password manager, if you lose it, or it gets stolen, you are completely owned. You can mitigate it somewhat by 'encrypting' the passwords via some algorithm like 'add a garbage character to each password at position 2 and 5'.
You might as well use KeePass. Sure it's digital but it's local (some folks opt to host the encrypted database). I have it setup to require 2FA (a keyfile on my keychain USB) in addition to a password. I'd say it's a more secure system than your notebook (both of us are subject to rubber-hose cryptography).
Gambling is a one-way function on funds, allowing them to be laundered. Now we can expect more efficient bribes - no more going to Nevada or other jurisdictions, you can bribe your official in any state.
I like how we are promoting local business (as long as it's in the family).
I'm not sure if you wanted a real solution, but increased corporate taxation (of course they'll find loopholes, but let them struggle for it like us schmucks), stock exchange transaction microtax, and removal of the stupid "personhood for eternity" construct would be a good start.
Of course, no one is bound here on "tea-party slashdot".
> Sending people to prison for incompetence is silly.
Anything but time served is something the Corporation can just take as an "operating cost". Now how that time is served (either prison or community service) is debatable.
At this level of disaster it doesn't matter whether the result was incompetence or malfeasance. According to Gray's Law [1] Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. At some point the Corporation's failure should result in tangible punishment regardless of why.
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