A research team from Kentucky has released their findings from a government-funded study.They have found that the software in Tesla Z vehicles effectively cheats on tests and that performance figures quoted are grossly exaggerated.
Whenever something bad happens - 9/11, Challenger, Katrina, Bill Crosby, SUV rollovers, every president, Deepwater Horizon - someone will selflessly step forward and say "I knew it was going to happen, I warned you, but nobody would listen!"
Next time a screw-up is in the news, pay attention and wait for the inevitable soothsayer.
"I don't want my child anywhere near chemicals. They are bad for us and evil companies are destroying the planet."
My son was excited to take high school chemistry. After the first day I asked him what they had done. Nothing, just a lecture about good behavior and harassment. Second day: lecture about safety. Third day: more safety and protective equipment. Fourth day: Had the fear of god put in them for doing anything whatsoever unauthorized. Fifth day: Forced to sign a "contract", brought home for parent's signature too.
Second week: Fully kitted with coats, glasses, gloves - observed effect of vinegar and baking soda solution on litmus paper.
Here is a technical specification written by a schoolboy for further development by the engineering team. The genius is in the response from the developers.
All you need is to have a culture that respects people's needs. That means people help one another and share resources, and people naturally become more productive and wealthier. It's so simple, but human greed of wanting to have more than your neighbor has led so many cultures to get past a navel-gazing existence.
You are correct of course, up until some authority arises that forces you to help others against your will. Usually under the guise of rights and freedom. Then it is back to square one.
Simple - because the governments won't allow it. Those people that do not have internet are those that are willing to live under economically and socially repressive regimes. If they were left alone they would wire themselves up in a heartbeat (and feed and clothe themselves).
To kickstart this we need a constellation of low earth orbit networking satellites, together with an airdrop of a billion tablets. Now that would undermine some regimes!
Note that I use the word "internet" in its strictest sense. No deep packet inspection, no port blocking or protocol clocking, no censorship, no regulations hindering provision of infrastructure. By this metric there are actually very few places that have proper internet.
I have long maintained, that by dollar spent per enemy casualty, the US armed forces are most expensive and least cost-effective in the world. In terms of bang for the buck (pardon the expression), America is financed, overseen and managed by a collection of complete dolts. Sadly, their dumbness filters from the top downwards, so that a private has twice the common sense of a major.
America has not formally declared a war since 1941, but has somehow managed to lose quite a few anyway - Mission Accomplished!
A myriad of consumer goods now depend on code. And if that code has problems there may be safety, environmental or cost consequences. I'm talking about all kinds of computer and networking devices of course, but also phones, industrial control systems, medical devices, smart meters, aircraft, ships and household appliances.
If the code cannot be scrutinized, there is no way to check its quality. Plus, as others have noted, no way to maintain or improve it. The only exceptions I can think of offhand are some routers (FCC is trying to plug that), and PCs (Microsoft is trying to plug that). But these exceptions entail a complete replacement, as the original code is secret.
What is needed / what will result, is a marketplace on the dark web, allowing frictionless free enterprise as our Founding Fathers intended, using units of exchange which have real intrinsic value.
It's this kind of foolishness which means that countries like India and China will never advance into the first rank of nations. It is part of a pattern of meddling, obstructiveness, distrust and plain lack of freedom that causes backwardness. I chuckle whenever a pundit proclaims that India is the future.
I hasten to add that American politicians, regulators and the general public now seem intent on thrusting the US backwards, by the same means. America will never be overtaken, but it may fall by the wayside.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China is asking some U.S. technology firms to directly pledge their commitment to contentious policies that could require them to turn user data and intellectual property over to the government, The New York Times reported.
Citing unidentified sources, the report said Beijing had distributed a document to some U.S. firms earlier this summer asking them to promise they would not harm China’s national security and would store Chinese user data within the country.
The NYT report, which comes just ahead of President Xi Jinping's first state visit to the United States, did not identify which companies had been asked to make the pledge.
The document also asked the companies that their products be "secure and controllable", a phrase that industry groups said could be used to force companies to build so-called back doors that would allow third-party access to systems, it said.
Officials at the Cyberspace Administration of China did not respond to a faxed request seeking comment.
Sources told Reuters last month that China had resumed work on a set of banking cyber security regulations it suspended earlier this year.
The previous regulations - containing provisions that required Chinese banks to buy more domestic IT equipment and Western tech vendors to disclose secret source code if they sell to lenders - drew strong protests from foreign business lobbies, the U.S. and European governments.
China regulators suspended the plan in April, saying they would consider feedback from domestic banks. The suspension was seen as a diplomatic victory for the Obama administration, coming shortly after visits to Beijing by Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker.
In July, China's legislature adopted a sweeping national security law that said all key network infrastructure and information systems must be "secure and controllable".
But according to the plea bargain "The Defendant, PASCAL REID, will enter a plea of guilty to count three (3) Unauthorized Money Transmitter in violation of Florida Statute 560.125(5)(A)."
If the ISP does deep packet inspection, blocks ports or protocols, prioritized or degrades certain classes of traffic, censors sites, messes with DNS or otherwise does something besides providing connectivity to the network, then the service shall not be called "Internet".
If users have to give up personal information, it is not "Free".
What you describe is American exceptionalism and is what made the country great (past tense).
These scum would prefer us to be the same as rest, which means we would be lowered to the level of a moderately-oppressed, not very rich or progressive nation.
Sad, but true. My point is that the type of training you describe can be obtained outside a traditional university with its bloated costs. You can get what you need at a much cheaper local technical college, online, or through work experience. I think Peter Thiel is on to something.
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A research team from Kentucky has released their findings from a government-funded study.They have found that the software in Tesla Z vehicles effectively cheats on tests and that performance figures quoted are grossly exaggerated.
Here is the latest example: https://news.yahoo.com/feds-pl...
So where were you two years ago?
By 2030, all coders will be female, and all will be right with the world.
Whenever something bad happens - 9/11, Challenger, Katrina, Bill Crosby, SUV rollovers, every president, Deepwater Horizon - someone will selflessly step forward and say "I knew it was going to happen, I warned you, but nobody would listen!"
Next time a screw-up is in the news, pay attention and wait for the inevitable soothsayer.
"I don't want my child anywhere near chemicals. They are bad for us and evil companies are destroying the planet."
My son was excited to take high school chemistry. After the first day I asked him what they had done. Nothing, just a lecture about good behavior and harassment. Second day: lecture about safety. Third day: more safety and protective equipment. Fourth day: Had the fear of god put in them for doing anything whatsoever unauthorized. Fifth day: Forced to sign a "contract", brought home for parent's signature too.
Second week: Fully kitted with coats, glasses, gloves - observed effect of vinegar and baking soda solution on litmus paper.
Lord help us.
Here is a technical specification written by a schoolboy for further development by the engineering team. The genius is in the response from the developers.
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2...
All you need is to have a culture that respects people's needs. That means people help one another and share resources, and people naturally become more productive and wealthier. It's so simple, but human greed of wanting to have more than your neighbor has led so many cultures to get past a navel-gazing existence.
You are correct of course, up until some authority arises that forces you to help others against your will. Usually under the guise of rights and freedom. Then it is back to square one.
Simple - because the governments won't allow it. Those people that do not have internet are those that are willing to live under economically and socially repressive regimes. If they were left alone they would wire themselves up in a heartbeat (and feed and clothe themselves).
To kickstart this we need a constellation of low earth orbit networking satellites, together with an airdrop of a billion tablets. Now that would undermine some regimes!
Note that I use the word "internet" in its strictest sense. No deep packet inspection, no port blocking or protocol clocking, no censorship, no regulations hindering provision of infrastructure. By this metric there are actually very few places that have proper internet.
I have long maintained, that by dollar spent per enemy casualty, the US armed forces are most expensive and least cost-effective in the world. In terms of bang for the buck (pardon the expression), America is financed, overseen and managed by a collection of complete dolts. Sadly, their dumbness filters from the top downwards, so that a private has twice the common sense of a major.
America has not formally declared a war since 1941, but has somehow managed to lose quite a few anyway - Mission Accomplished!
Chickenhawks, flame away.
A myriad of consumer goods now depend on code. And if that code has problems there may be safety, environmental or cost consequences. I'm talking about all kinds of computer and networking devices of course, but also phones, industrial control systems, medical devices, smart meters, aircraft, ships and household appliances.
If the code cannot be scrutinized, there is no way to check its quality. Plus, as others have noted, no way to maintain or improve it. The only exceptions I can think of offhand are some routers (FCC is trying to plug that), and PCs (Microsoft is trying to plug that). But these exceptions entail a complete replacement, as the original code is secret.
You forgot "leverage". Leverage is very important, a core value, in fact.
More like mission creep. What could possibly go wrong?
What is needed / what will result, is a marketplace on the dark web, allowing frictionless free enterprise as our Founding Fathers intended, using units of exchange which have real intrinsic value.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/...
Saber -> EDS -> HP
HP pays SC $44 million penalty to SC.
SC pays DC $100 million penalty.
Taxpayers rejoice.
http://www.wltx.com/story/news...
http://www.channelnomics.com/c...
Will PBS re-make "Spying On The Home Front" in the light of subsequent revelations? The Ashcroft hospital incident is documented.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/...
It's still worth watching.
You did not bother to read my second paragraph??
It's this kind of foolishness which means that countries like India and China will never advance into the first rank of nations. It is part of a pattern of meddling, obstructiveness, distrust and plain lack of freedom that causes backwardness. I chuckle whenever a pundit proclaims that India is the future.
I hasten to add that American politicians, regulators and the general public now seem intent on thrusting the US backwards, by the same means. America will never be overtaken, but it may fall by the wayside.
I'm guessing it's related to a report:
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China is asking some U.S. technology firms to directly pledge their commitment to contentious policies that could require them to turn user data and intellectual property over to the government, The New York Times reported.
Citing unidentified sources, the report said Beijing had distributed a document to some U.S. firms earlier this summer asking them to promise they would not harm China’s national security and would store Chinese user data within the country.
The NYT report, which comes just ahead of President Xi Jinping's first state visit to the United States, did not identify which companies had been asked to make the pledge.
The document also asked the companies that their products be "secure and controllable", a phrase that industry groups said could be used to force companies to build so-called back doors that would allow third-party access to systems, it said.
Officials at the Cyberspace Administration of China did not respond to a faxed request seeking comment.
Sources told Reuters last month that China had resumed work on a set of banking cyber security regulations it suspended earlier this year.
The previous regulations - containing provisions that required Chinese banks to buy more domestic IT equipment and Western tech vendors to disclose secret source code if they sell to lenders - drew strong protests from foreign business lobbies, the U.S. and European governments.
China regulators suspended the plan in April, saying they would consider feedback from domestic banks. The suspension was seen as a diplomatic victory for the Obama administration, coming shortly after visits to Beijing by Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker.
In July, China's legislature adopted a sweeping national security law that said all key network infrastructure and information systems must be "secure and controllable".
It is a commodity, according to today's news at https://news.yahoo.com/cftc-br...
But according to the plea bargain "The Defendant, PASCAL REID, will enter a plea of guilty
to count three (3) Unauthorized Money Transmitter in violation of Florida Statute 560.125(5)(A)."
So what is it? Money or commodity?
If the ISP does deep packet inspection, blocks ports or protocols, prioritized or degrades certain classes of traffic, censors sites, messes with DNS or otherwise does something besides providing connectivity to the network, then the service shall not be called "Internet".
If users have to give up personal information, it is not "Free".
All Americans, starting with the cops.
Time to update Fahrenheit 451.
What you describe is American exceptionalism and is what made the country great (past tense).
These scum would prefer us to be the same as rest, which means we would be lowered to the level of a moderately-oppressed, not very rich or progressive nation.
Fuck them, defenestrate them.
Sad, but true. My point is that the type of training you describe can be obtained outside a traditional university with its bloated costs. You can get what you need at a much cheaper local technical college, online, or through work experience. I think Peter Thiel is on to something.