I bought a nice 2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee from a Jeep dealer (not a private party sale). This was the last model year it was not an "always-connected" car. The previous owner left his home address in the GPS navigation system and the HomeLink garage door opener programmed. The dealer cleaned the car but not the data. I could just program the car to take me to the last owner's house and open the door. This is a and old problem for people who left their keys in cars that were stolen (the registration listed a home address). Now with new "always-connected" cars it's a new owner problem. If the new owner leaves the car connected to the previous owner's account then they can track the car, lock/unlock the car, start the car, and lots of other stuff on new cars. Dealers should be required to clear personal data but they won't because this falls under "the used-car loophole" where they don't even have to complete open recalls before selling a car. I make sure I clear my data from rental and loaner cars. It's amazing how much stuff the last people left in the car...
They needed software that would run on their "new" upgraded computers using Windows XP. It's a huge step forward from DOS where they could not get rid of the crazy Ping-Pong virus...
On average there are 700 deaths on US roads EVERY week and two more should not be national news. With safer cars this number has been dropping in the last decade but this is news is actually about computer AI making a choice, or by not making a choice, killing two people. It may not be full AI, but it is still a computer program in control. Two people died because of a computer program. With both accidents the "self-driving" AI program should have saved these people. Both times the person behind the wheel should have been able to avoid or lessen the collision if they were actually driving. We don't hear much about AI driving success in avoiding crashes just like we don't hear about planes that land safely. We only hear about failures. These features will get better with time and debugging (meaning more failures to come). Just as early commercial planes had their problems so does AI self-driving. For now flying is safer than driving no matter who is in control of the car (0 commercial aviation deaths for 2017 in US) and improved technology can only help our chances of making it home safely even if it makes the wrong choice occasionally (well, on average).
They are not paramedics. They are dressed like undertakers black. They were expecting to scoop out what was left of Mad Mike's scrambled remains from the rocket and throw stuff in the back of a pickup truck. If they were medical professionals they would have at least had a backboard, a med kit and maybe some equipment to extract him correctly. All Mad Mike keeps saying is "Easy, Easy, Easy" and "I don't know if I broke back" as they yank him out of the seat.
It was a privilege to have lived at the same time as such an amazing man. His work will still be relevant and important for centuries to come. Now he finally has the freedom to become one with the universe.
"We recommend everyone stop deployment of Intel CPUs". Higher than expected reboots? More than 1 to install the update? The root cause is design flaws and inadequate testing of major low level patches. Google new about these issues months ago and Intel did (or should have) too. They rushed the release so the stock price does not tank not because it was ready. They normally take many months or years to test these design changes or updates and now it will be a long time before they have new CPUs that don't need fixes (or at least these fixes). May be they should have worked around the clock months ago when they did not need to be rushed.
This needs to be live viewing feed (for about 5 minutes) because it will only happen once and you want to make sure it's not censored by the crazy round planet people. He needs to get a circus monkey to push the launch button just to compliment the entertainment value. We'll get to see the first human firework that celebrates his own Darwin Award. Even if he survives, he won't see much at 2000 feet that you can't see from a skyscraper (Burj Khalifa is more than 1/2 a mile tall).
Yes... I signed for the work order and pickup. It was mostly a push about Apple will not cover 3rd party parts or be responsible for any data loss and they may use new or "equivalent" parts. There's a lot of usual service language about warranty and claims and not being responsible for other stuff. I would guess there would be something enforceable about me paying and accepting a discounted battery as the resolution for any performance complaints. I'll take the $30 battery including the labor to install it. I spent more on a new battery for my Android phone and I had to take it apart myself to install it. I think Apple should have been more up front about reducing the CPU speed on old batteries to ensure phone stability and usability. Maybe they would have sold more replacements at full price if they were honest about the battery health vs. performance. My ThinkPad has a battery health tester so I know what's going on and it does not slow my CPU, it just runs for less time until I buy a new battery. Batteries are consumable but companies should not be doing sneaky things to hide the issues.
I had my old iPhone 6 battery replaced today for $29+tax. The free "Battery Life" app said the raw data on the battery was about 39% of capacity (700mAh of 1810mAh) while the in-store Apple diag said it was 91% good.. The Apple Genius only asked if I was sure I wanted it replaced. I said, "yes please". Then they gave me the speech about everything is void if they find 3rd party parts in the phone and would NOT replace a non-apple battery at all. It took them 2 hours. After the replacement the free battery app says 100% good (1810mAh of 1810mAh). All I know is the old battery only lasted 15 minutes playing Jedi Challenges... I have not had time to try the new battery yet.
I got much better battery life after I removed the AccuWeather app from my phone (months ago). I thought it was doing something other than downloading ads all day.
I'm sill using an original 1990's IBM Model M (PS2 style) every day. I've changed OS and computers over the decades but not the keyboard. I have to take it apart every few years and clean out the stuff from under the keys. It may be the reduced cost version of the Model F but it's still a usable, sturdy, and reliable keyboard.
If it takes 5 minutes to fill a 75 liter (20 gallon) gas tank then what will it take to fill (charge) an empty 100KWh battery in the same time? Looks like you'll need a 2500A @ 480v setup or go high voltage 24KV @ 50A changing connection. For just one car you have megawatts of in-rush current. What type of protective equipment do you need to wear to use that? Rather than supercharger you now need a megacharger. If you have a charging (filling) station for multiple cars how can the grid support that? Instead of large underground fuel tanks at corner filling stations, you'll need huge underground "batteries" that will charge all night long so there is on-site extreme capacity storage that can charge all the "little" 100KWh batteries. I guess we need the batteries first and then you can figure out how to charge a large battery.
Nuova Systems developed the Nexus switches (for cisco) and then Cisco bought the company. The Nexus 3000 is also listed as using more off-the-shelf merchant silicon. So maybe the just used the reference code that came with the cheaper chips? In the end it's still Cisco's responsibility to secure the systems they sell no matter where the stuff came from. This is not the first time cisco took over another company's work...
This has been done before.... Both outside/middle dual heads and dual independent actuators on each side. Multi heads can increase performance, but cost space, power, and money. Also more parts = lower MTBF. They don't increase storage density. If you want performance use SSD.
I guess one more... try to access it directly from the USB using a computer and special drivers and software designed to reflash a non-booting tablet... (ie. rooting your system).
If it won't boot and you can't erase the on-board flash then try:
1) Sell it for parts and hope someone does not fix it and access your data (use a sticky note to kindly ask them to erase it for you)
2) Dump it at your local E-waste center and hope some does not pick it up out of the pile (and see #1)
3) Microwave it to fry the chips and hope you don't burn down your house (please upload the video)
4) Use it for target practice (9mm or larger please, full auto would be best) and then crush it with a steam roller (once again, please upload the video)
5) To meet your non-destruct goal, if you have skills: unsolder the flash chips, erase them in a programmer, reinstall the blank chips.
Or as pointed out from before (but it's too late), encrypt your data from the start and reset the keys.
First, don't call them "old people". Second, don't call "them" anything as a group. Third, use correct written English. No made up words, strange spelling, or text speak.
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I bought a nice 2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee from a Jeep dealer (not a private party sale). This was the last model year it was not an "always-connected" car. The previous owner left his home address in the GPS navigation system and the HomeLink garage door opener programmed. The dealer cleaned the car but not the data. I could just program the car to take me to the last owner's house and open the door. This is a and old problem for people who left their keys in cars that were stolen (the registration listed a home address). Now with new "always-connected" cars it's a new owner problem. If the new owner leaves the car connected to the previous owner's account then they can track the car, lock/unlock the car, start the car, and lots of other stuff on new cars. Dealers should be required to clear personal data but they won't because this falls under "the used-car loophole" where they don't even have to complete open recalls before selling a car. I make sure I clear my data from rental and loaner cars. It's amazing how much stuff the last people left in the car...
They needed software that would run on their "new" upgraded computers using Windows XP. It's a huge step forward from DOS where they could not get rid of the crazy Ping-Pong virus...
Here's a map from a few months ago:
https://www.mercurynews.com/20...
On average there are 700 deaths on US roads EVERY week and two more should not be national news. With safer cars this number has been dropping in the last decade but this is news is actually about computer AI making a choice, or by not making a choice, killing two people. It may not be full AI, but it is still a computer program in control. Two people died because of a computer program. With both accidents the "self-driving" AI program should have saved these people. Both times the person behind the wheel should have been able to avoid or lessen the collision if they were actually driving. We don't hear much about AI driving success in avoiding crashes just like we don't hear about planes that land safely. We only hear about failures. These features will get better with time and debugging (meaning more failures to come). Just as early commercial planes had their problems so does AI self-driving. For now flying is safer than driving no matter who is in control of the car (0 commercial aviation deaths for 2017 in US) and improved technology can only help our chances of making it home safely even if it makes the wrong choice occasionally (well, on average).
This should have been a Burning Man event.
They are not paramedics. They are dressed like undertakers black. They were expecting to scoop out what was left of Mad Mike's scrambled remains from the rocket and throw stuff in the back of a pickup truck. If they were medical professionals they would have at least had a backboard, a med kit and maybe some equipment to extract him correctly. All Mad Mike keeps saying is "Easy, Easy, Easy" and "I don't know if I broke back" as they yank him out of the seat.
It was a privilege to have lived at the same time as such an amazing man. His work will still be relevant and important for centuries to come. Now he finally has the freedom to become one with the universe.
It's been a rough few days for /. too
I had better issue a patch for that.
"We recommend everyone stop deployment of Intel CPUs". Higher than expected reboots? More than 1 to install the update? The root cause is design flaws and inadequate testing of major low level patches. Google new about these issues months ago and Intel did (or should have) too. They rushed the release so the stock price does not tank not because it was ready. They normally take many months or years to test these design changes or updates and now it will be a long time before they have new CPUs that don't need fixes (or at least these fixes). May be they should have worked around the clock months ago when they did not need to be rushed.
This needs to be live viewing feed (for about 5 minutes) because it will only happen once and you want to make sure it's not censored by the crazy round planet people. He needs to get a circus monkey to push the launch button just to compliment the entertainment value. We'll get to see the first human firework that celebrates his own Darwin Award. Even if he survives, he won't see much at 2000 feet that you can't see from a skyscraper (Burj Khalifa is more than 1/2 a mile tall).
Yes... I signed for the work order and pickup. It was mostly a push about Apple will not cover 3rd party parts or be responsible for any data loss and they may use new or "equivalent" parts. There's a lot of usual service language about warranty and claims and not being responsible for other stuff. I would guess there would be something enforceable about me paying and accepting a discounted battery as the resolution for any performance complaints. I'll take the $30 battery including the labor to install it. I spent more on a new battery for my Android phone and I had to take it apart myself to install it. I think Apple should have been more up front about reducing the CPU speed on old batteries to ensure phone stability and usability. Maybe they would have sold more replacements at full price if they were honest about the battery health vs. performance. My ThinkPad has a battery health tester so I know what's going on and it does not slow my CPU, it just runs for less time until I buy a new battery. Batteries are consumable but companies should not be doing sneaky things to hide the issues.
I had my old iPhone 6 battery replaced today for $29+tax. The free "Battery Life" app said the raw data on the battery was about 39% of capacity (700mAh of 1810mAh) while the in-store Apple diag said it was 91% good.. The Apple Genius only asked if I was sure I wanted it replaced. I said, "yes please". Then they gave me the speech about everything is void if they find 3rd party parts in the phone and would NOT replace a non-apple battery at all. It took them 2 hours. After the replacement the free battery app says 100% good (1810mAh of 1810mAh). All I know is the old battery only lasted 15 minutes playing Jedi Challenges... I have not had time to try the new battery yet.
I got much better battery life after I removed the AccuWeather app from my phone (months ago). I thought it was doing something other than downloading ads all day.
I think there's a huge stash of "almost new" Samsung Galaxy Note 7 batteries that aren't being used now.
I'm sill using an original 1990's IBM Model M (PS2 style) every day. I've changed OS and computers over the decades but not the keyboard. I have to take it apart every few years and clean out the stuff from under the keys. It may be the reduced cost version of the Model F but it's still a usable, sturdy, and reliable keyboard.
If it takes 5 minutes to fill a 75 liter (20 gallon) gas tank then what will it take to fill (charge) an empty 100KWh battery in the same time? Looks like you'll need a 2500A @ 480v setup or go high voltage 24KV @ 50A changing connection. For just one car you have megawatts of in-rush current. What type of protective equipment do you need to wear to use that? Rather than supercharger you now need a megacharger. If you have a charging (filling) station for multiple cars how can the grid support that? Instead of large underground fuel tanks at corner filling stations, you'll need huge underground "batteries" that will charge all night long so there is on-site extreme capacity storage that can charge all the "little" 100KWh batteries. I guess we need the batteries first and then you can figure out how to charge a large battery.
Does it have a real headphone jack? Or did they remove that to make it cheaper?
Sun blamed cosmic rays for causing CPU cache corruption and system crashes in their high-end enterprise systems. http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2...
Nuova Systems developed the Nexus switches (for cisco) and then Cisco bought the company. The Nexus 3000 is also listed as using more off-the-shelf merchant silicon. So maybe the just used the reference code that came with the cheaper chips? In the end it's still Cisco's responsibility to secure the systems they sell no matter where the stuff came from. This is not the first time cisco took over another company's work...
Nuova: http://www.networkworld.com/ar...
Nexus 3000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Acquisitions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This has been done before.... Both outside/middle dual heads and dual independent actuators on each side. Multi heads can increase performance, but cost space, power, and money. Also more parts = lower MTBF. They don't increase storage density. If you want performance use SSD.
http://www.tomshardware.com/ne...
I guess one more... try to access it directly from the USB using a computer and special drivers and software designed to reflash a non-booting tablet... (ie. rooting your system).
If it won't boot and you can't erase the on-board flash then try:
1) Sell it for parts and hope someone does not fix it and access your data (use a sticky note to kindly ask them to erase it for you)
2) Dump it at your local E-waste center and hope some does not pick it up out of the pile (and see #1)
3) Microwave it to fry the chips and hope you don't burn down your house (please upload the video)
4) Use it for target practice (9mm or larger please, full auto would be best) and then crush it with a steam roller (once again, please upload the video)
5) To meet your non-destruct goal, if you have skills: unsolder the flash chips, erase them in a programmer, reinstall the blank chips.
Or as pointed out from before (but it's too late), encrypt your data from the start and reset the keys.
If you're in the North East here is another good one http://www.ricomputermuseum.org/
They have a lot of minicomputer systems like DEC, IBM, Wang, Data General...and the usual collection of micro computers.
First, don't call them "old people". Second, don't call "them" anything as a group. Third, use correct written English. No made up words, strange spelling, or text speak.