Yes, conservatives who were desperate for the "gig economy" to save this stupid economic system from falling flat on its big dumb face (at least in terms of providing jobs). Oh well, they still pin their hopes on VR or social media stardom or whatever overhyped concept might employ the masses against increasing automation and decreasing spending power among most of the population.
From what I've seen the LED comes on at least half a second before the camera is usable, and there seems to be a shutdown delay as well, so I don't think it would be possible to take a pic with the LED only flashing on so quickly that you wouldn't spot it.
Most laptops have an LED next to the camera to tell you when it's on. So far as I've seen, they're connected at the hardware level (yes I've investigated this deeply in trying to work around a Linux power management bug). So if a piece of malware activates your camera, they'll just get a quick glance of you taking action appropriately.
Came here to say this, it makes perfect sense. It's people who don't know what they're doing who have to pirate Office or Windows because they don't know that there are better options or have trouble learning to use different software.
Came here to say this. Intake snorkels are common, I've never seen an "exhaust scoop" (or any kind of raised exhaust on an actual offroad truck, vs. a coal-rolling bro-dozer) and they aren't necessary - a turndown at the exhaust tip will keep the exhaust from flooding under light submersion, and if you go deep, just stay on the gas and the exhaust flow will keep the water out.
Same here, now I can only have the private window before I have to open another browser.
However I've found that plugins aren't properly isolated across profiles. For example if you have a normal and private window open and temp. allow a site in NoScript in one, the change takes effect in the other. Not good. A fix for this might be more useful than the container tabs.
Video isn't searchable. You have very limited control over how quickly you can take it in (I'm glad Youtube has adjustable speed settings now, at least). Video takes up massive amounts of storage space or bandwidth, especially on a per-word basis vs. plain text. Video can be computationally expensive to play back (how many of your computers can play a 1080p HEVC/H.265 video?).
Video is not a good medium for everyday communication. I will usually look for information in text form and avoid video.
Video calls are rarely made even though it's trivially easy with today's technology. Why does Facebook think they can turn that trend around on a dime?
I hope this trend will remain limited to a walled garden that I hardly ever look at.
I'd be surprised if the spooks don't have an exploit for it for targeted use, but as you point out, nothing has been found in the wild for all these years, so the cost/benefit is obviously not good enough for your average blackhat. Software-only APTs are good enough and don't rely on proprietary hardware features.
There was a conspiracy theory going around when it was new that the IME included a GSM modem (and presumably a hidden SIM card tied to a subscription paid for by the Illuminati) and could be used for out-of-band remote control of your computer.
Now you've outed yourself as an idiot on tractor-trailer braking systems and a gratuitous ad-hominem user.
So apparently your friends haven't properly explained what exhaust brakes are to you. The exhaust brake only acts through the drivetrain on the driven wheels, just the same as regen braking on an EV. The trailer brakes are pneumatically driven friction brakes. An electric truck will need to have an air compressor, just like a diesel truck has, to drive these. That's another system that can take advantage of regen power. No retrofitting will be necessary on the trailers, they'll work just the same as they would on a diesel truck.
Trains use mostly electric motor braking (regen and rheostatic) and supplement it with physical brakes only as necessary, to prevent brake overheating.
I've taken more than a single look at wikipedia, that's why I know more about this stuff than you;-)
When an AC on Slashdot reminds you to breathe, he's an annoying troll. But when an app on an overpriced gadget reminds you to breathe, it's big business.
To be fair, most race cars with more than 1500HP simply store their waste heat for a very short time (drag & landspeed cars) rather than actually dissipating it. But yes there are many race cars with 800~1500HP that manage to dissipate the heat produced at full power for sustained periods (F1, GRC, and pro drift off the top of my head).
There are places along the transcanada, 401, and I-75 where the use of a normal brake even re-gen brake would burn out(and turn into a pile of melted metal or glorious fire) long before the truck started coming down the other side.
See, now you've outed yourself as an idiot on electric powertrains.
Regen braking produces very little waste heat, comparable to what the EV would produce accelerating under full power at most. It would be impossible to cause melting or a fire through regen braking on a EV with a working cooling system.
Regen braking with a resistor bank to act as an auxiliary load dump could easily replace a jake brake. This is how diesel-electric locomotives do most of their braking after all.
Trucks pull over on the highway to let their brakes cool whenever they're heated up by repeated light braking in traffic. It's done in conjunction with exhaust braking but the repeated lighter braking raises brake temperatures anyway. On long downhills truck drivers will use constant exhaust braking combined with short bursts of heavy wheel braking. Short heavy braking gives the brakes more time to cool than extended light braking and results in lower average brake temperatures for the same deceleration. With regen brakes, downhill braking will charge the battery and with enough auxiliary load dumping the regen braking could be made more powerful than exhaust braking.
True, that's called "dynamic braking" on trains. Both are forms of electric motor braking.
Modern EVs might benefit from a resistor bank that could be used to give motor braking when the battery is full or increase the motor braking power past what the battery charge system can take.
The marketing of this truck as an EV is misleading, but the math makes sense. By your math, which seems correct, 25kW of waste heat is generated by each motor at full power, and that's a very easily manageable amount of heat to dissipate, far less than an average family sedan could produce at full power.
This is similar to what a 15hp ICE at 33% efficiency would produce - so at full power each motor will be spewing about as much heat as a motor scooter or a go-kart also would at full power. These often have air-cooled engines.
For comparison, let's consider an everyday 150hp car with a 33% efficient ICE - at full power it will be generating 224kW of waste heat.
Now let's consider a 700hp car at 33% efficiency - in the range of a supercar, but more than a modern semi and less than many race cars. It will have over a megawatt of waste heat to dissipate at full power.
You have to put your finger into the robot's stabbing chamber to be attacked:-\
I was hoping it would roll around the tabletop on wheels or tracks pursuing humans sitting around the table and trying to stab them, ideally while displaying some kind of angry face and saying "KILL ALL HUMANS" with a synthesized voice.
Can anyone think of a situation where a technological solution has ever fixed a societal problem? I don't think it's ever been done. I think the idea keeps coming back up because if it were to ever work, it would be a libertarian's holy grail - a simple free-market substitute for regulation and/or government action. It's quite an empowering concept for nerdy types in general as well - that inventions can improve society rather than just making it do the same shitty things faster (while accelerating inequality).
As for what you need to do to prevent this sort of thing, the US has to choose whether it wants to join the rest of the world with some basic gun control laws, or if it wants to keep making human sacrifices to the gun god, who is always thirsty for more blood. Choose.
The first act of the movie is about people saying nonsensical things and not understanding each other. In the second act a man goes into room of portals and nearly kills himself. Then in the third act a woman narrates nonsense into the camera, although it does almost turn into a porno for a moment.
Soundtrack has bizarre lyrics, but they're still better than anything U2 ever wrote.
If you could use the Linux desktop on the phone somehow (Xephyr or VNC application maybe?) this could make an Android phone as capable as one of Nokia's Maemo/MeeGo devices.
There are plenty of other darknets out there, some are better than Tor for certain applications (for example, I2P doesn't get choked up by torrents) and are harder to block. Tor is just the most popular and well-established.
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I uses it to reduce my activity to Desert With Tumbleweed!
Yes, conservatives who were desperate for the "gig economy" to save this stupid economic system from falling flat on its big dumb face (at least in terms of providing jobs). Oh well, they still pin their hopes on VR or social media stardom or whatever overhyped concept might employ the masses against increasing automation and decreasing spending power among most of the population.
I was thinking the same thing, and it would be little work for them since it's just a modified desktop linux distro...could be good news!
From what I've seen the LED comes on at least half a second before the camera is usable, and there seems to be a shutdown delay as well, so I don't think it would be possible to take a pic with the LED only flashing on so quickly that you wouldn't spot it.
Most laptops have an LED next to the camera to tell you when it's on. So far as I've seen, they're connected at the hardware level (yes I've investigated this deeply in trying to work around a Linux power management bug). So if a piece of malware activates your camera, they'll just get a quick glance of you taking action appropriately.
Just being a couple hundred dollars less is better! And in the context of piracy, that's the most relevant factor.
Came here to say this, it makes perfect sense. It's people who don't know what they're doing who have to pirate Office or Windows because they don't know that there are better options or have trouble learning to use different software.
Came here to say this. Intake snorkels are common, I've never seen an "exhaust scoop" (or any kind of raised exhaust on an actual offroad truck, vs. a coal-rolling bro-dozer) and they aren't necessary - a turndown at the exhaust tip will keep the exhaust from flooding under light submersion, and if you go deep, just stay on the gas and the exhaust flow will keep the water out.
Same here, now I can only have the private window before I have to open another browser.
However I've found that plugins aren't properly isolated across profiles. For example if you have a normal and private window open and temp. allow a site in NoScript in one, the change takes effect in the other. Not good. A fix for this might be more useful than the container tabs.
Stuck at the Butcher's Paradise or some such nonsensical level name in a game?
Sounds like the last level of Psychonauts :-P
(Actually it's "Meat Circus")
Video isn't searchable. You have very limited control over how quickly you can take it in (I'm glad Youtube has adjustable speed settings now, at least). Video takes up massive amounts of storage space or bandwidth, especially on a per-word basis vs. plain text. Video can be computationally expensive to play back (how many of your computers can play a 1080p HEVC/H.265 video?).
Video is not a good medium for everyday communication. I will usually look for information in text form and avoid video.
Video calls are rarely made even though it's trivially easy with today's technology. Why does Facebook think they can turn that trend around on a dime?
I hope this trend will remain limited to a walled garden that I hardly ever look at.
I'd be surprised if the spooks don't have an exploit for it for targeted use, but as you point out, nothing has been found in the wild for all these years, so the cost/benefit is obviously not good enough for your average blackhat. Software-only APTs are good enough and don't rely on proprietary hardware features.
There was a conspiracy theory going around when it was new that the IME included a GSM modem (and presumably a hidden SIM card tied to a subscription paid for by the Illuminati) and could be used for out-of-band remote control of your computer.
How the times have changed...
Now you've outed yourself as an idiot on tractor-trailer braking systems and a gratuitous ad-hominem user.
So apparently your friends haven't properly explained what exhaust brakes are to you. The exhaust brake only acts through the drivetrain on the driven wheels, just the same as regen braking on an EV. The trailer brakes are pneumatically driven friction brakes. An electric truck will need to have an air compressor, just like a diesel truck has, to drive these. That's another system that can take advantage of regen power. No retrofitting will be necessary on the trailers, they'll work just the same as they would on a diesel truck.
Trains use mostly electric motor braking (regen and rheostatic) and supplement it with physical brakes only as necessary, to prevent brake overheating.
I've taken more than a single look at wikipedia, that's why I know more about this stuff than you ;-)
When an AC on Slashdot reminds you to breathe, he's an annoying troll. But when an app on an overpriced gadget reminds you to breathe, it's big business.
This. Assange is making some terrible decisions here (shocking, I know). Worst-case scenario, he could end up putting Trump in the White House.
The Democrats should have a backup plan in case Hillary's baggage finally achieves critical mass.
To be fair, most race cars with more than 1500HP simply store their waste heat for a very short time (drag & landspeed cars) rather than actually dissipating it. But yes there are many race cars with 800~1500HP that manage to dissipate the heat produced at full power for sustained periods (F1, GRC, and pro drift off the top of my head).
There are places along the transcanada, 401, and I-75 where the use of a normal brake even re-gen brake would burn out(and turn into a pile of melted metal or glorious fire) long before the truck started coming down the other side.
See, now you've outed yourself as an idiot on electric powertrains.
Regen braking produces very little waste heat, comparable to what the EV would produce accelerating under full power at most. It would be impossible to cause melting or a fire through regen braking on a EV with a working cooling system.
Regen braking with a resistor bank to act as an auxiliary load dump could easily replace a jake brake. This is how diesel-electric locomotives do most of their braking after all.
Trucks pull over on the highway to let their brakes cool whenever they're heated up by repeated light braking in traffic. It's done in conjunction with exhaust braking but the repeated lighter braking raises brake temperatures anyway. On long downhills truck drivers will use constant exhaust braking combined with short bursts of heavy wheel braking. Short heavy braking gives the brakes more time to cool than extended light braking and results in lower average brake temperatures for the same deceleration. With regen brakes, downhill braking will charge the battery and with enough auxiliary load dumping the regen braking could be made more powerful than exhaust braking.
True, that's called "dynamic braking" on trains. Both are forms of electric motor braking.
Modern EVs might benefit from a resistor bank that could be used to give motor braking when the battery is full or increase the motor braking power past what the battery charge system can take.
The marketing of this truck as an EV is misleading, but the math makes sense. By your math, which seems correct, 25kW of waste heat is generated by each motor at full power, and that's a very easily manageable amount of heat to dissipate, far less than an average family sedan could produce at full power.
This is similar to what a 15hp ICE at 33% efficiency would produce - so at full power each motor will be spewing about as much heat as a motor scooter or a go-kart also would at full power. These often have air-cooled engines.
For comparison, let's consider an everyday 150hp car with a 33% efficient ICE - at full power it will be generating 224kW of waste heat.
Now let's consider a 700hp car at 33% efficiency - in the range of a supercar, but more than a modern semi and less than many race cars. It will have over a megawatt of waste heat to dissipate at full power.
You have to put your finger into the robot's stabbing chamber to be attacked :-\
I was hoping it would roll around the tabletop on wheels or tracks pursuing humans sitting around the table and trying to stab them, ideally while displaying some kind of angry face and saying "KILL ALL HUMANS" with a synthesized voice.
Can anyone think of a situation where a technological solution has ever fixed a societal problem? I don't think it's ever been done. I think the idea keeps coming back up because if it were to ever work, it would be a libertarian's holy grail - a simple free-market substitute for regulation and/or government action. It's quite an empowering concept for nerdy types in general as well - that inventions can improve society rather than just making it do the same shitty things faster (while accelerating inequality).
As for what you need to do to prevent this sort of thing, the US has to choose whether it wants to join the rest of the world with some basic gun control laws, or if it wants to keep making human sacrifices to the gun god, who is always thirsty for more blood. Choose.
The first act of the movie is about people saying nonsensical things and not understanding each other. In the second act a man goes into room of portals and nearly kills himself. Then in the third act a woman narrates nonsense into the camera, although it does almost turn into a porno for a moment.
Soundtrack has bizarre lyrics, but they're still better than anything U2 ever wrote.
If you could use the Linux desktop on the phone somehow (Xephyr or VNC application maybe?) this could make an Android phone as capable as one of Nokia's Maemo/MeeGo devices.
There are plenty of other darknets out there, some are better than Tor for certain applications (for example, I2P doesn't get choked up by torrents) and are harder to block. Tor is just the most popular and well-established.