Augmented reality doesn't really interest me. Just let me do quality 3d scans with my phone and download the models, and I'm sold;)
If they want "apps" that would interest me, they'd be apps to auto-process the scanned 3d data and try to make sense of it - tracking how individual objects move/transform between time steps, autoconstruction of deformable armatures on moving objects, separation objects from the surface that they rest upon (which requires identifying where an object ends and the "ground" begins), identifying what objects are and filling in properties or building/refining fine detail that can't be gotten from the scan (say, threading on a screw, the behavior of hair, etc), calculation of all material properties (not just shape and simple texture maps, but also reflectiveness, surface roughness, transparency, etc), and so on down the line.
Basically, what I want out of a phone that can easily build models of its environment is... said models of its environment. In as refined and easy to work with of a form as it can give.
Actually they seem to have a pretty good clue - barge on into a new market, operate there and profit for a good while before anyone can do anything about it (because these things take time), ultimately get kicked out of 3/4ths of your markets but still profit in the remaining ones, and there's always a brand new market to barge on into in the place of the ones that kick you out.
It's not a stereotype, it's their actual policies, libertarianism calls for as small of a government as physically possible. That's what libertarianism is.
You're confusing "wanting to abolish as much of the government as possible" with "wanting an armed coup".
This isn't an assessment of "what they're capable of", it's an assessment of what they just did. "The west" has an international network of seismographs and satellite suites specifically designed for picking up nuclear explosions, both on the surface and underground, and assessing their strength and various properties about them. In fact, this capability was first introduced as far back as 1963, it's nothing new. You don't blow up an atomic bomb on Earth without it being detected and analyzed.
I live in Iceland, which has a crazy-low population density, yet still taxis are mainly only ever used by locals for getting home when out partying (aka drinking) when they live too far from downtown. You don't take taxis between cities or to the airport or anything like that.
Isn't that how it is supposed to be? Someone invests in something to get the money back due to increased revenue? I don't see the problem. Please elaborate!
The problem is that not everyone is in equal opportunity to invest. To some families/individuals, the cost of college in the US is trivial. To others, it's hugely prohibitive. This imparts a bias in which it's far easier for a certain segment of the population to pay for college than another (much larger) segment, which discourages the latter from attending college, which discourages a large portion of those who would actually be good at a particular career from getting the background and degree that they need to pursue it - leading to said positions being filled by less qualified individuals who simply came from personal (or more often, family) backgrounds with more money.
That's not to say that individuals from poor families can't reach success - far from it. But in this regard money is like the difficulty setting on a video game. Sure, someone who's really skilled may still beat it on the hardest setting, while someone who is lousy at the game may still lose on the easiest. But playing the game at a particular difficulty setting is going to skew the percentage of people who succeed at it. The "high scores" - the job market - is based around those who won the game without regard to what sort of difficulty setting they played at, and so naturally it's going to be skewed toward those who played at easier difficulty settings, rather than being an accurate list of who is really best at the game.
Beyond the base economic issues of wanting your nation's workers to be able to reach their maximum potential rather than having potentially brilliant scientists and engineers working retail, there's also the issue of happiness. Because people tend to work harder at jobs that they enjoy. But if someone gets locked into a particular career path that they don't enjoy or aren't good at, high costs of tuition (as well as a lack of a "safety net", such as universal healthcare) make a career change a hugely, often prohibitively costly endeavour. Where tuition is cheap and a safety net stronger, people who realize that they've headed down the wrong career path are much more likely to switch career paths and find one that they actually do enjoy and are good at, rather than being unhappy and unproductive for decades in the workforce.
Safety nets and universal tuition do have a cost, don't get me wrong. But having workers in the wrong career and not having people meet their potential has an even bigger cost.
I'm not referring to either of these arguments by Hawking, which are both very old. I'm referring to his most recent response to the firewall paradox from several months ago, which has often been snarkily summed up as "there are no black holes", but can more accurately be summed up as "only apparent horizons exist, not true event horizons, and by implication, not singularities either". All infalling matter, even that which built the black hole itself, is held on the apparent horizon, which is a metastable state that slowly decays with time as the black hole boils off. The implication is that there is no singularity because nothing moves past the apparent horizon.
Unfortunately most of the 3d printing services out there - while they have quality in spades - are very lacking when it comes to turnaround time. And of course, those processes that require expensive machines (like metal sintering) or those with a lot of labour (like casting or surface finishing) cost them a lot of money too, which they have to pass on in their pricing scheme.
Getting prices down and reducing the amount of post-print labour to get a quality product are really key to helping 3d printing reach its potential.
I guess they've given up on artificial islands and seasteading as a pipe dream that they're not going to be able to achieve. It's straight out of the so-called stages of grief - denial, anger, depression, bargaining, and move to New Hampshire.
Yep - here's the whole passage that introduced the name in the Vulgate - Isaiah 14:
1. For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. The strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling to the house of Jacob. 2 Then people will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them for servants and maids in the land of the Lord; they will take them captive whose captives they were, and rule over their oppressors. 3 It shall come to pass in the day the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear and the hard bondage in which you were made to serve, 4 that you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say: “How the oppressor has ceased, The golden city ceased! 5 The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers; 6 He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he who ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted and no one hinders. 7 The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing. 8 Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, ‘Since you were cut down, no woodsman has come up against us.’ 9 “Hell from beneath is excited about you, to meet you at your coming; it stirs up the dead for you, all the chief ones of the earth; It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 10 They all shall speak and say to you: ‘Have you also become as weak as we? Have you become like us? 11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the sound of your stringed instruments; the maggot is spread under you, and worms cover you.’ 12 “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,[b] son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! 13 For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’ 15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit. 16 “Those who see you will gaze at you, and consider you, saying: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms, 17 Who made the world as a wilderness and destroyed its cities, who did not open the house of his prisoners?’ 18 “All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house; 19 But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, like the garment of those who are slain, thrust through with a sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a corpse trodden underfoot. 20 You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land and slain your people. The brood of evildoers shall never be named. 21 Prepare slaughter for his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, lest they rise up and possess the land and fill the face of the world with cities.” 22 “For I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts, “And cut off from Babylon the name and remnant, and offspring and posterity,” says the Lord. 23 “I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and marshes of muddy water; I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the Lord of hosts. 24 The Lord of hosts has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass, and as I have purposed, so it shall stand: 25 That I will break the Assyrian in My land, and on My mountains tread him underfoot. Then his yoke shall be removed from them, and his burden removed from their shoulders. 26 This is the purpose that is purposed against the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. 27 For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out and who will turn it back?
Somewhat of a tangent, but related: part of the reason that groups like Daesh persecute the Yazidi people is that they think that they're devil worshipers, and part of the reason that they do is their Garden of Eden story. You know the story of Satan's fall - that God created man and told all of the angels to bow down to him, but Lucifer was to prideful and refused, and as punishment he was cast from heaven. Well, it's subverted in the Yazidi religion. They don't have a Satan, but they have a number of major angels - the chiefest among them being the Peacock Angel.
Their belief system is that since God created the world, he is not part of it, so he has to work through entities (his angels) - and when he said "Let there be light", there was light, all of the colors as once, embodied in the peacock angel - and each subsequent angel split off as a new color of light split off. Creation continued apace through the creation of the world, all the way up to man - and all of the angels, when they saw man, were so impressed with the awe of God's creation that they bowed down to him - except for one, the peacock angel, for he remembered God's commandment to worship nobody but God. In their religion, the refusal to bow down to man wasn't seen as an act of pride but as an act of devotion to God, and he is seen as blessed for it.
By contrast, mainly due to that story, most of the Yazidi's neighbors identify the peacock angel with Satan, and thus the Yazidis with being devil worshipers.
Another side note: the three names for Satan (Satan, Devil, Lucifer) actually have very different origins. Satan is from the original Hebrew, and basically means "the adversary" or "the opposition". Devil comes from diabolos "to slander" or "attack", literally"to throw across". Lucifer is interestingly enough a misnomer - it literally means "light bringer" (lux + ferre), and is another word for the morning star (Venus). It comes from a passage in Isaiah that is almost certainly talking not about the Devil but about the King of Babylon, but has been misinterpreted over the years because of talk of a prideful individual's fall.
I believe that iMaterialize has one metal (their lowest cost steel) that is kind of printed by a nozzle - indirectly. They print out steel powder with as little binder as possible to hold it together, sinter it into a porous steel sponge, then fill in the gaps in a subsequent step with molten bronze. Not exactly an at-home process for laypeople. More commonly used is lost-wax casting with the mould being 3d printed - again, not a home process for laypeople. For the really large scale I've seen one system that's basically a robot arm laying down steel with a MIG welder - again, not something for laypeople at home.
For things that might be workable at home, in addition to laser sintering (and of course, CNC) there's also laser spraying (based on thermal spraying), which is a rather new process, but is almost limitless in what it can print out and produces materials stronger than sintering or casting can. Both of these might be possible at home scales. However, I've never heard of anyone that literally extrudes metals like is done with plastics.
I'm of the view (that Hawking recently has started promoting) that there's no such thing as either a singularity nor an event horizon, that a black hole is basically just an area of near-frozen time formed during the collapse of the star (everything that falls in basically "freezing" into it relative to an outside observer), and that time basically leaks out as the black hole boils off (and its mass reduces). Aka the collapse is still ongoing and everything is still falling in from our perspective, just incredibly slowly. There's nothing behind some inescapable "wall", certainly no firewall - objects are still emitting photons that will ultimately escape, only after incredible spans of time and so distorted by then as to be unrecognizeable.
You totally missed the person's point. It's not about using the word "black hole" when they should have used the term "singularity" (note: black hole and singularity are not synonyms). It's that a "naked singularity" is a very specific term, and it doesn't mean "a black hole not surrounded by stars" - it means a black hole without an event horizon. This is an important concept in physics because there's a number of situations that seem like they should be able to produce one (such as strongly rotating black holes), but if you had one, relativity would break down near it. The event horizon in a black hole "protects" our universe from the effects of any weirdness inside the hole (such as a singularity, if they actually do exist), but with a naked singularity you have no such "protection". The concept exposes an area of weakness in our current understanding of physics.
Calling a black hole without stars a "naked black hole" would be like calling a jacket made out of a very transparent plastic an "invisibility cloak". It's using words that can be seen to make sense (you can't see it, so it's an invisibility cloak!), but it gives readers the totally wrong impression of what is being discussed.
Not likely. One of the biggest weaknesses in the auto industry is its strength in this regard. The auto industry does not work with integrated wholes when it comes to electronics - everything is a separate unit, because the auto industry is based around bolting together various completely independent boxes from various manufacturers onto a frame. It's normally a huge weakness because it means a huge amount of component duplication, unneeded power draw (ever notice how much power cars draw these days?), huge wiring harnesses (you wouldn't believe how heavy they are, all together... also adds a lot of manufacturing cost), lost capabilities (for example, many units might find a net connection useful but can't justify adding it in for just their own use, or whatnot), etc. And it goes without saying that most are basically "sealed boxes" that you can't improve later without a hardware swap - no "app store" or even bugfixes or the like.
We're starting to see the first moves in the direction of unification and upgradeability, but the auto industry is such a dinosaur, it changes direction so slowly. And don't expect any "naive implementations". First off, safety-critical systems will be the last to be integrated, if ever - and a lot of systems on cars are classified as safety critical. Emissions-related systems also will be a pain to get unified due to the regulatory maze. Also, even for the non-critical stuff, redundancy and fault tolerance will be required to be far greater than with home computer systems. And they have to be built to higher standards because they face more wear and tear, vibration, G-forces, etc.
The auto industry has largely been rather mindless in the aspect of interfaces... but there are hopeful signs for the future on this front, they're starting to self-regulate out of fear of forced regulation from safety concerns. The concept of big touchscreens on a center console being operated by a person who's driving means that you're asking them to turn their head so that they can see it (they certainly generally get no tactile feedback) and make sure they hit the right thing. Really, in this day there should be no center console at all. Passengers (at least the front passenger) should have their own screens, just dumb terminals to the main computer - in bulk buy to industrial consumers, screens are cheap nowadays. These should be located in front of them - they shouldn't have to turn to a center console either. The freed up center console space becomes a huge gift to designers. Unlike the passengers, the driver's "screen" should be simplified and ideally concentrated within a few degrees of the windshield in front of him, reducing the distance his eyes have to move and increasing his peripheral view of the road when looking at the console (and vice versa). The usefulness of buttons on the wheel should be maximized in controlling the interface to avoid having to "peck touchscreens or distant buttons with fingers", and multiple types of feedback - visual, tactile, auditory, etc - should reinforce the driver's sense of what actions he's taking in what context.
They'll get there. But there's going to be a lot more garbage before then. Planned out by teams of overpaid people eating at absurdly expensive restaurants followed by overly expensive drinks at the bar followed by concluding the details at a strip club (pretty much standard practice in the auto industry:P)
Hmm, organized hacking efforts that keep hitting important Ukrainian entities, with targeted code that can take out industrial systems... I can't imagine who could possibly be behind this.
You can look at practically any part of anything manmade around you and think "some engineer was frustrated while designing this." It's a little human connection.
Mythbusters has also attempted a lot of absurd things, overwhelmingly successfully, with duct tape.
There's one that I haven't seen anyone try, but would probably actually work surprisingly well: duct tape hybrid rocket propellant. Look at what you already have in the form of rolls of duct tape: adhesive-bound cylinders of aluminized binder plus polyethylene webbing, with a channel down the center. If you can join them effectively lengthwise and put them in a tube with a nozzle, that sounds like a description of a darned effective hybrid rocket to me. Aluminized polyethylene is one of the best hybrid propellants out there.
If you were to unroll them, coat the sticky side partially in ammonium perchlorate, then re-roll them, you should have a pretty darned effective solid rocket propellant.
If you have flexibility on frequencies you gain the best of all worlds - 900 MHz for maximum range / minimum bandwidth, up to 5 GHz for minimum range / maximum bandwidth.
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Augmented reality doesn't really interest me. Just let me do quality 3d scans with my phone and download the models, and I'm sold ;)
If they want "apps" that would interest me, they'd be apps to auto-process the scanned 3d data and try to make sense of it - tracking how individual objects move/transform between time steps, autoconstruction of deformable armatures on moving objects, separation objects from the surface that they rest upon (which requires identifying where an object ends and the "ground" begins), identifying what objects are and filling in properties or building/refining fine detail that can't be gotten from the scan (say, threading on a screw, the behavior of hair, etc), calculation of all material properties (not just shape and simple texture maps, but also reflectiveness, surface roughness, transparency, etc), and so on down the line.
Basically, what I want out of a phone that can easily build models of its environment is... said models of its environment. In as refined and easy to work with of a form as it can give.
What you describe is the C equivalent of std::vector, not std::map. std::map is built around a red-black tree, not an array.
Actually they seem to have a pretty good clue - barge on into a new market, operate there and profit for a good while before anyone can do anything about it (because these things take time), ultimately get kicked out of 3/4ths of your markets but still profit in the remaining ones, and there's always a brand new market to barge on into in the place of the ones that kick you out.
It's not a stereotype, it's their actual policies, libertarianism calls for as small of a government as physically possible. That's what libertarianism is.
You're confusing "wanting to abolish as much of the government as possible" with "wanting an armed coup".
This isn't an assessment of "what they're capable of", it's an assessment of what they just did. "The west" has an international network of seismographs and satellite suites specifically designed for picking up nuclear explosions, both on the surface and underground, and assessing their strength and various properties about them. In fact, this capability was first introduced as far back as 1963, it's nothing new. You don't blow up an atomic bomb on Earth without it being detected and analyzed.
They're libertarians. They're by-definition anti-government.
Flybus.
This never would have happened if they had just kept an arm's length apart ;)
I live in Iceland, which has a crazy-low population density, yet still taxis are mainly only ever used by locals for getting home when out partying (aka drinking) when they live too far from downtown. You don't take taxis between cities or to the airport or anything like that.
The problem is that not everyone is in equal opportunity to invest. To some families/individuals, the cost of college in the US is trivial. To others, it's hugely prohibitive. This imparts a bias in which it's far easier for a certain segment of the population to pay for college than another (much larger) segment, which discourages the latter from attending college, which discourages a large portion of those who would actually be good at a particular career from getting the background and degree that they need to pursue it - leading to said positions being filled by less qualified individuals who simply came from personal (or more often, family) backgrounds with more money.
That's not to say that individuals from poor families can't reach success - far from it. But in this regard money is like the difficulty setting on a video game. Sure, someone who's really skilled may still beat it on the hardest setting, while someone who is lousy at the game may still lose on the easiest. But playing the game at a particular difficulty setting is going to skew the percentage of people who succeed at it. The "high scores" - the job market - is based around those who won the game without regard to what sort of difficulty setting they played at, and so naturally it's going to be skewed toward those who played at easier difficulty settings, rather than being an accurate list of who is really best at the game.
Beyond the base economic issues of wanting your nation's workers to be able to reach their maximum potential rather than having potentially brilliant scientists and engineers working retail, there's also the issue of happiness. Because people tend to work harder at jobs that they enjoy. But if someone gets locked into a particular career path that they don't enjoy or aren't good at, high costs of tuition (as well as a lack of a "safety net", such as universal healthcare) make a career change a hugely, often prohibitively costly endeavour. Where tuition is cheap and a safety net stronger, people who realize that they've headed down the wrong career path are much more likely to switch career paths and find one that they actually do enjoy and are good at, rather than being unhappy and unproductive for decades in the workforce.
Safety nets and universal tuition do have a cost, don't get me wrong. But having workers in the wrong career and not having people meet their potential has an even bigger cost.
I'm not referring to either of these arguments by Hawking, which are both very old. I'm referring to his most recent response to the firewall paradox from several months ago, which has often been snarkily summed up as "there are no black holes", but can more accurately be summed up as "only apparent horizons exist, not true event horizons, and by implication, not singularities either". All infalling matter, even that which built the black hole itself, is held on the apparent horizon, which is a metastable state that slowly decays with time as the black hole boils off. The implication is that there is no singularity because nothing moves past the apparent horizon.
Unfortunately most of the 3d printing services out there - while they have quality in spades - are very lacking when it comes to turnaround time. And of course, those processes that require expensive machines (like metal sintering) or those with a lot of labour (like casting or surface finishing) cost them a lot of money too, which they have to pass on in their pricing scheme.
Getting prices down and reducing the amount of post-print labour to get a quality product are really key to helping 3d printing reach its potential.
I guess they've given up on artificial islands and seasteading as a pipe dream that they're not going to be able to achieve. It's straight out of the so-called stages of grief - denial, anger, depression, bargaining, and move to New Hampshire.
Yep - here's the whole passage that introduced the name in the Vulgate - Isaiah 14:
Somewhat of a tangent, but related: part of the reason that groups like Daesh persecute the Yazidi people is that they think that they're devil worshipers, and part of the reason that they do is their Garden of Eden story. You know the story of Satan's fall - that God created man and told all of the angels to bow down to him, but Lucifer was to prideful and refused, and as punishment he was cast from heaven. Well, it's subverted in the Yazidi religion. They don't have a Satan, but they have a number of major angels - the chiefest among them being the Peacock Angel.
Their belief system is that since God created the world, he is not part of it, so he has to work through entities (his angels) - and when he said "Let there be light", there was light, all of the colors as once, embodied in the peacock angel - and each subsequent angel split off as a new color of light split off. Creation continued apace through the creation of the world, all the way up to man - and all of the angels, when they saw man, were so impressed with the awe of God's creation that they bowed down to him - except for one, the peacock angel, for he remembered God's commandment to worship nobody but God. In their religion, the refusal to bow down to man wasn't seen as an act of pride but as an act of devotion to God, and he is seen as blessed for it.
By contrast, mainly due to that story, most of the Yazidi's neighbors identify the peacock angel with Satan, and thus the Yazidis with being devil worshipers.
Another side note: the three names for Satan (Satan, Devil, Lucifer) actually have very different origins. Satan is from the original Hebrew, and basically means "the adversary" or "the opposition". Devil comes from diabolos "to slander" or "attack", literally"to throw across". Lucifer is interestingly enough a misnomer - it literally means "light bringer" (lux + ferre), and is another word for the morning star (Venus). It comes from a passage in Isaiah that is almost certainly talking not about the Devil but about the King of Babylon, but has been misinterpreted over the years because of talk of a prideful individual's fall.
These prices are actually getting... reasonable. But they need to get the quality up to what you can get from online services.
And of course, what the market really wants is non-plastic printing on a home-scale budget. Some day....
I believe that iMaterialize has one metal (their lowest cost steel) that is kind of printed by a nozzle - indirectly. They print out steel powder with as little binder as possible to hold it together, sinter it into a porous steel sponge, then fill in the gaps in a subsequent step with molten bronze. Not exactly an at-home process for laypeople. More commonly used is lost-wax casting with the mould being 3d printed - again, not a home process for laypeople. For the really large scale I've seen one system that's basically a robot arm laying down steel with a MIG welder - again, not something for laypeople at home.
For things that might be workable at home, in addition to laser sintering (and of course, CNC) there's also laser spraying (based on thermal spraying), which is a rather new process, but is almost limitless in what it can print out and produces materials stronger than sintering or casting can. Both of these might be possible at home scales. However, I've never heard of anyone that literally extrudes metals like is done with plastics.
I'm of the view (that Hawking recently has started promoting) that there's no such thing as either a singularity nor an event horizon, that a black hole is basically just an area of near-frozen time formed during the collapse of the star (everything that falls in basically "freezing" into it relative to an outside observer), and that time basically leaks out as the black hole boils off (and its mass reduces). Aka the collapse is still ongoing and everything is still falling in from our perspective, just incredibly slowly. There's nothing behind some inescapable "wall", certainly no firewall - objects are still emitting photons that will ultimately escape, only after incredible spans of time and so distorted by then as to be unrecognizeable.
Okay, so you saw an argument where one side was the Devil, and you were like, "man, that guy could use an advocate."
You totally missed the person's point. It's not about using the word "black hole" when they should have used the term "singularity" (note: black hole and singularity are not synonyms). It's that a "naked singularity" is a very specific term, and it doesn't mean "a black hole not surrounded by stars" - it means a black hole without an event horizon. This is an important concept in physics because there's a number of situations that seem like they should be able to produce one (such as strongly rotating black holes), but if you had one, relativity would break down near it. The event horizon in a black hole "protects" our universe from the effects of any weirdness inside the hole (such as a singularity, if they actually do exist), but with a naked singularity you have no such "protection". The concept exposes an area of weakness in our current understanding of physics.
Calling a black hole without stars a "naked black hole" would be like calling a jacket made out of a very transparent plastic an "invisibility cloak". It's using words that can be seen to make sense (you can't see it, so it's an invisibility cloak!), but it gives readers the totally wrong impression of what is being discussed.
Not likely. One of the biggest weaknesses in the auto industry is its strength in this regard. The auto industry does not work with integrated wholes when it comes to electronics - everything is a separate unit, because the auto industry is based around bolting together various completely independent boxes from various manufacturers onto a frame. It's normally a huge weakness because it means a huge amount of component duplication, unneeded power draw (ever notice how much power cars draw these days?), huge wiring harnesses (you wouldn't believe how heavy they are, all together... also adds a lot of manufacturing cost), lost capabilities (for example, many units might find a net connection useful but can't justify adding it in for just their own use, or whatnot), etc. And it goes without saying that most are basically "sealed boxes" that you can't improve later without a hardware swap - no "app store" or even bugfixes or the like.
We're starting to see the first moves in the direction of unification and upgradeability, but the auto industry is such a dinosaur, it changes direction so slowly. And don't expect any "naive implementations". First off, safety-critical systems will be the last to be integrated, if ever - and a lot of systems on cars are classified as safety critical. Emissions-related systems also will be a pain to get unified due to the regulatory maze. Also, even for the non-critical stuff, redundancy and fault tolerance will be required to be far greater than with home computer systems. And they have to be built to higher standards because they face more wear and tear, vibration, G-forces, etc.
The auto industry has largely been rather mindless in the aspect of interfaces... but there are hopeful signs for the future on this front, they're starting to self-regulate out of fear of forced regulation from safety concerns. The concept of big touchscreens on a center console being operated by a person who's driving means that you're asking them to turn their head so that they can see it (they certainly generally get no tactile feedback) and make sure they hit the right thing. Really, in this day there should be no center console at all. Passengers (at least the front passenger) should have their own screens, just dumb terminals to the main computer - in bulk buy to industrial consumers, screens are cheap nowadays. These should be located in front of them - they shouldn't have to turn to a center console either. The freed up center console space becomes a huge gift to designers. Unlike the passengers, the driver's "screen" should be simplified and ideally concentrated within a few degrees of the windshield in front of him, reducing the distance his eyes have to move and increasing his peripheral view of the road when looking at the console (and vice versa). The usefulness of buttons on the wheel should be maximized in controlling the interface to avoid having to "peck touchscreens or distant buttons with fingers", and multiple types of feedback - visual, tactile, auditory, etc - should reinforce the driver's sense of what actions he's taking in what context.
They'll get there. But there's going to be a lot more garbage before then. Planned out by teams of overpaid people eating at absurdly expensive restaurants followed by overly expensive drinks at the bar followed by concluding the details at a strip club (pretty much standard practice in the auto industry :P)
Hmm, organized hacking efforts that keep hitting important Ukrainian entities, with targeted code that can take out industrial systems... I can't imagine who could possibly be behind this.
In the words of Randal Munroe:
Mythbusters has also attempted a lot of absurd things, overwhelmingly successfully, with duct tape.
There's one that I haven't seen anyone try, but would probably actually work surprisingly well: duct tape hybrid rocket propellant. Look at what you already have in the form of rolls of duct tape: adhesive-bound cylinders of aluminized binder plus polyethylene webbing, with a channel down the center. If you can join them effectively lengthwise and put them in a tube with a nozzle, that sounds like a description of a darned effective hybrid rocket to me. Aluminized polyethylene is one of the best hybrid propellants out there.
If you were to unroll them, coat the sticky side partially in ammonium perchlorate, then re-roll them, you should have a pretty darned effective solid rocket propellant.
If you have flexibility on frequencies you gain the best of all worlds - 900 MHz for maximum range / minimum bandwidth, up to 5 GHz for minimum range / maximum bandwidth.