You could run Netflix quite comfortably on 1/100th of that!
That's 500 megabytes per second, or roughly 4x the bandwidth of a GigE connection! Sounds to me like they're doing something seriously wrong, even if you assume they're receiving multiple hi-res live video streams simultaneously from the drones. Maybe the video isn't compressed at all?
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It was written by SharkLaser aka DCTech aka at least one other username starting with "I" that I can't even remember, a dedicated troll. I'm starting to wonder if these are all puppet accounts actually being run by Slashdot staff to boost page views by stirring up nerd rage. The guy's an obvious troll and all his stories get approved, what am I supposed to think?
You're completely right. Just do what I've always done, buy your phone unlocked from the manufacturer or Amazon or something and then get a contract from a cell provider.
There's MoonSecure for Windows, a FOSS virus scanner with real-time scanning. It uses the ClamAV virus definition database which is unfortunately not that great...
The accident I fear most is someone pulling out too close in front of me on a highway where there isn't a run-up lane (or whatever they're called). If they pull out REALLY close it's unavoidable. I've had a few close calls, and the closest was the one where I had the least say in the matter and the other driver was 100% at fault.
I was driving along doing the limit (50mph) in my very visible 4x4 in broad daylight, and this dumb woman who had ages to see that I was coming (from close to a quarter-mile away) pulled out less than 25ft in front of me. That's one of two times I've ever "fright braked." I hit the brakes so hard that the wheels locked up and the jeep spun (it has no electro-nannies, and I just happened to have a sticky brake caliper at the time that pulled harder on one side just enough to start the spin) and I wasn't ready for the spin at all so my head was pulled back against the headrest and I was looking at the roof. The centrifugal force of the spin had to be at least 3 Gs, I wouldn't be surprised if it was over 4, it felt way stronger than anything I'd felt on a rollercoaster and I couldn't pull my head back down. I thought the 4x4 would go onto its side but it stayed shiny-side up. The woman picked up her speed when she saw me sliding sideways towards her.
I was in an offroad rally when the truck ahead of me came to an abrupt stop. It had double-wishbone front suspension and the point where the upper wishbone attaches to the upright had broken, so the wheel was sitting flat on the ground perpendicular to the car, BTTF-style. Luckily it was on approach to a road crossing so we weren't going that fast - if that had happened while driving along the edge of a cliff or skimming the crests of a trail at 80kph+ he could have been in a world of shit.
That guy just replaced all his lug nuts, the shop gave him lugs that matched the thread pitch and everything else but the thread depth was less than it was supposed to be. He torqued up the lugs, drove to the event, and on the first really hard corner all 4 wheels popped off. That's a nice and expensive car too, it was featured on a magazine cover not long before that happened. It was fixed up without any serious damage to anything but the brakes from what I remember.
The wings on airliners can generally bend close to a U-shape - wingtips almost vertical - before they break. Look around on Youtube and see if you can find any wing flex tests. Seeing how far they can bend should make you feel better.
They significantly beefed up the latches that were bending and allowing the doors to open, but yes they still open outward. It's not that unusual for aircraft to have outward-opening cargo and cabin doors but of course inward-opening is safer.
The A380 has a lot of CF parts so metallurgy may not be relevant. There have been enough problems with carbon fiber tails breaking, starting with "small cracks" so I hope they're taking it seriously.
Thought I'd update this. I was working on the script today (decided to go with md5 + byte comp.) and not only is btrfs deduplication not stable, but from my experience today, btrfs is still far from ready for production. When the script actually tried to reflink the file, the system would freeze on the first or second reflink operation. Plenty of recent reports of similar behavior, resulting in data corruption. I think I'm gonna switch this backup drive I was testing btrfs on back to ext4 and stay away from btrfs until the developers consider it finished.
Hybrids, suck. Anyone who knows cars in the slightest knows hybrids suck. Hell, the batteries have traveled some 30,000 miles before the car gets assembled.
People who know cars in more than the slightest know that you're full of shit. ICEs, EVs and hybrids are all best in different situations. No type is best in all or sucks in all.
You you where sitting in a 1970 era boat of a car, and were reaerend by a prius doing 60, you would be seriously hour, and possible killed, as would your passengers.
That's right, I didn't say otherwise.
If you were driving a modern Volvo and were hit by some unregulated car made of toothpicks you wouldn't be hurt. Unless safety regulations limit the mass and structural strength of other cars on the road, cars that don't meet safety regulations, when driven by others, would only pose a risk to pedestrians and people inside that car. That was my point.
If the tires spin out on black ice, does the black box adjust for that? or would it just assume he's actually moving at the rate the tires are spinning?
Good question. The speed is measured at the trans. output so the speedometer would see a higher speed, but the front ABS sensors (if present) would see something closer to the car's true speed. If it records ABS sensor data it should at least be possible to tell if the rear tires were spinning. If the car had traction control though it shouldn't have allowed this to happen at all, the rear brakes would clamp down once the rear tires accelerated faster than the front.
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That's surprising. Tires only come in a minority of LEGO kits and pretty much never wear out.
You could run Netflix quite comfortably on 1/100th of that!
That's 500 megabytes per second, or roughly 4x the bandwidth of a GigE connection! Sounds to me like they're doing something seriously wrong, even if you assume they're receiving multiple hi-res live video streams simultaneously from the drones. Maybe the video isn't compressed at all?
It was written by SharkLaser aka DCTech aka at least one other username starting with "I" that I can't even remember, a dedicated troll. I'm starting to wonder if these are all puppet accounts actually being run by Slashdot staff to boost page views by stirring up nerd rage. The guy's an obvious troll and all his stories get approved, what am I supposed to think?
I'll stop sucking up all the data if the oligarchs stop sucking up all the money :D
You're completely right. Just do what I've always done, buy your phone unlocked from the manufacturer or Amazon or something and then get a contract from a cell provider.
Alright, let's get into gear and start commenting! Pedal to the metal!
You've disproven the greenhouse effect? Well don't wait, go pick up your Nobel prize!
http://www.skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-co2-enhanced-greenhouse-effect.htm
There's MoonSecure for Windows, a FOSS virus scanner with real-time scanning. It uses the ClamAV virus definition database which is unfortunately not that great...
The accident I fear most is someone pulling out too close in front of me on a highway where there isn't a run-up lane (or whatever they're called). If they pull out REALLY close it's unavoidable. I've had a few close calls, and the closest was the one where I had the least say in the matter and the other driver was 100% at fault.
I was driving along doing the limit (50mph) in my very visible 4x4 in broad daylight, and this dumb woman who had ages to see that I was coming (from close to a quarter-mile away) pulled out less than 25ft in front of me. That's one of two times I've ever "fright braked." I hit the brakes so hard that the wheels locked up and the jeep spun (it has no electro-nannies, and I just happened to have a sticky brake caliper at the time that pulled harder on one side just enough to start the spin) and I wasn't ready for the spin at all so my head was pulled back against the headrest and I was looking at the roof. The centrifugal force of the spin had to be at least 3 Gs, I wouldn't be surprised if it was over 4, it felt way stronger than anything I'd felt on a rollercoaster and I couldn't pull my head back down. I thought the 4x4 would go onto its side but it stayed shiny-side up. The woman picked up her speed when she saw me sliding sideways towards her.
I was in an offroad rally when the truck ahead of me came to an abrupt stop. It had double-wishbone front suspension and the point where the upper wishbone attaches to the upright had broken, so the wheel was sitting flat on the ground perpendicular to the car, BTTF-style. Luckily it was on approach to a road crossing so we weren't going that fast - if that had happened while driving along the edge of a cliff or skimming the crests of a trail at 80kph+ he could have been in a world of shit.
Also see this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZCLhSMzetY
That guy just replaced all his lug nuts, the shop gave him lugs that matched the thread pitch and everything else but the thread depth was less than it was supposed to be. He torqued up the lugs, drove to the event, and on the first really hard corner all 4 wheels popped off. That's a nice and expensive car too, it was featured on a magazine cover not long before that happened. It was fixed up without any serious damage to anything but the brakes from what I remember.
Found one here where you can see the plane fuselage clearly in relation to the wing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRf395ioJRY
The wings on airliners can generally bend close to a U-shape - wingtips almost vertical - before they break. Look around on Youtube and see if you can find any wing flex tests. Seeing how far they can bend should make you feel better.
They significantly beefed up the latches that were bending and allowing the doors to open, but yes they still open outward. It's not that unusual for aircraft to have outward-opening cargo and cabin doors but of course inward-opening is safer.
The A380 has a lot of CF parts so metallurgy may not be relevant. There have been enough problems with carbon fiber tails breaking, starting with "small cracks" so I hope they're taking it seriously.
I suppose Apple could be charged with treason since they're a US-based company, the others, not so much...
Thought I'd update this. I was working on the script today (decided to go with md5 + byte comp.) and not only is btrfs deduplication not stable, but from my experience today, btrfs is still far from ready for production. When the script actually tried to reflink the file, the system would freeze on the first or second reflink operation. Plenty of recent reports of similar behavior, resulting in data corruption. I think I'm gonna switch this backup drive I was testing btrfs on back to ext4 and stay away from btrfs until the developers consider it finished.
Hybrids, suck. Anyone who knows cars in the slightest knows hybrids suck. Hell, the batteries have traveled some 30,000 miles before the car gets assembled.
People who know cars in more than the slightest know that you're full of shit. ICEs, EVs and hybrids are all best in different situations. No type is best in all or sucks in all.
Too bad they don't know when to use the median instead of the mean.
maybe some vocal demonstrations might shake things up a bit?
Been tried, didn't work.
You you where sitting in a 1970 era boat of a car, and were reaerend by a prius doing 60, you would be seriously hour, and possible killed, as would your passengers.
That's right, I didn't say otherwise.
If you were driving a modern Volvo and were hit by some unregulated car made of toothpicks you wouldn't be hurt. Unless safety regulations limit the mass and structural strength of other cars on the road, cars that don't meet safety regulations, when driven by others, would only pose a risk to pedestrians and people inside that car. That was my point.
Actually he had brain damage and was in the hospital for a while. The roll bar on the dragster-style vehicle he was in dug into the ground.
Most cars measure from the transmission's output shaft, but newer cars also have a speed sensor in each wheel for ABS.
If the tires spin out on black ice, does the black box adjust for that? or would it just assume he's actually moving at the rate the tires are spinning?
Good question. The speed is measured at the trans. output so the speedometer would see a higher speed, but the front ABS sensors (if present) would see something closer to the car's true speed. If it records ABS sensor data it should at least be possible to tell if the rear tires were spinning. If the car had traction control though it shouldn't have allowed this to happen at all, the rear brakes would clamp down once the rear tires accelerated faster than the front.
Lighter!? I think you mean heavier. MUCH heavier.