They really went out of their way to keep the code quality up. I think one of the Intel engineers criticized the AMD patch for hardcoding one x64 CPU vendor as unaffected when there is no guarantee that this is and will remain true. They also asked for a flag to force it on on all CPUs so the vendor check can be bypassed. Good old Intel always looking out for the future./sarcasm
Do you mean like how Intel hardcodes a check against the CPUID string instead of the feature bits to disable compiler and library optimizations on processors other than theirs?
That's not a very good "safety measure"; innocent people have a right to be secure in their property, and seeing their door being bashed in without warning, basically gives the inhabitants carte blanche to pull out any guns they can find and open fire in the direction of intruders; the result could be fatalities of members of their "surprise raid team", and it will all be legally protected self-defense.
In a word, no. Even if the police lacked a warrant, innocent people would still lack any right to be secure or be armed.
That said, I'm sure SFPD will find themselves in court pretty soon, as the amount of force used was pretty unreasonable, not to mention the way that the lady was treated by the police.
In the end, there is only one question to ask: was this a reasonable thing to do, considering the type of alleged crime? I'm quite sure this will result in a six figure, of not seven, payout.
If the police relied on the warrant in good faith then qualified immunity covers them. The judge who signed the warrant has absolute immunity. The court remedy would usually be suppression of evidence but if they are not charged and brought to trial, they have no standing and no remedy. That leaves suing the police department and city in civil court which is hardly a deterrent.
While I agree with you, a logical analysis of the situation is not going to persuade those losing their homes and the cities are complicit in what is happening.
I'm not sure how useful this would be today, but clearly the 68000 was far superior to an 8088 (or even an 8086). My guess is that Intel's segmented address approach sucked-up about 20% of developer productivity on the PC. All those crazy memory models would have never existed had IBM chosen the 68000. Not to mention Extended Memory and Expanded Memory.
The 68K has even worse problems. For instance unlike segmented addressing, the double indirect addressing present in the 68K involves the instruction pipeline itself.
if you want these overwhelmingly unpopular things to stop happening you need to show up at your primaries. For a lot of us the choices are a moderate Republican, a "Blue Dog" Democrat or an Independent with zero chance of winning. They way to change that is to vote in your primary.
Do you mean so we can play the same plurality game from a group of preselected winners? No thanks. Even if there was a secondary before the primary, it is turtles all the way down.
For years I have been interested in batteries big enough to run an entire city ("grid-scale" batteries). I was assuming that something unusual like the liquid metal battery technology or flow batteries would be needed, but Tesla has started selling grid-scale lithium battery packs to Australia. So maybe lithium is even getting inexpensive enough for grid-scale. My understanding is that the Tesla battery in Australia can only supply power for a very short time, so I haven't lost interest in liquid metal or flow batteries.
Lithium traction batteries have a higher ratio of power density to energy density than required for stationary grid applications so they will always support short operating times; this makes them a good choice for peaking applications but not for overnight base-load applications. Flow batteries can tailor this ratio for different applications; if you want higher run time, then make the fluid tanks larger.
It will be a lot safer for the public: no more cops who claim they are "under pressure" or "affraid" so they had to shoot first. A robot can afford to shoot last, only when fired uppon first.
I am sure law enforcement will be responsible when using this technology.
As for a lack of GPS, there are plenty of other ways to navigate especially if you know where the target is, the nazis had flying bombs which were built to just run out of fuel and crash onto london.
I looked into this a couple years ago and concluded that dead reckoning, magnetic compass, and radio direction finding of broadcast transmitters like FM , TV, and cellular would be suitable for gross navigation until GPS jamming stopped however I do not think this would be sufficient for precision bombing unless the broadcast transmitters were close and radio direction finding could also be jammed.
The drones didn't have cameras, but assuming they did - how would the footage have got back to the drone operators? Chances are the Russians would be jamming any transmissions, and if the drone was programmed to fly back with recorded footage the Russians could follow it and attack whoever came to collect the footage.
Jamming does not work like that. You jam a receiver so it cannot distinguish the transmitter and this is much easier when you have proximity to the receiver instead of the transmitter. In this case, if the jamming transmitter is on the ground, it may not even have line of sight to the receiver further reducing its effectiveness compared to the transmitter which is airborne.
Jamming GPS is made easier, it is actually trivial unless the receiver is built to be jam resistant, by the transmitters being far away and the receivers being close which is the opposite of a drone transmitting back to its sender.
The courts have ruled that there is no second amendment right to be armed in your own home when the police pound on your door at unusual hours without reasonable suspicion, probable cause, or a warrant.
I see that, and you see that, and we both get lumped in with the tinfoil-hat crowd, told we're dangerously paranoid, told "that'll never happen" by the shills and the deniers, told "SDCs will save lives" (i.e. trading security and 'safety' for freedom, yet again), told "humans aren't capable of driving a car so we need machines to do it for us" (which is a flat-out lie), and so on.
The Harrison Narcotics Act will never be used to ban drugs. The income tax will never be greater than 10%.
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They really went out of their way to keep the code quality up. I think one of the Intel engineers criticized the AMD patch for hardcoding one x64 CPU vendor as unaffected when there is no guarantee that this is and will remain true. They also asked for a flag to force it on on all CPUs so the vendor check can be bypassed. Good old Intel always looking out for the future. /sarcasm
Do you mean like how Intel hardcodes a check against the CPUID string instead of the feature bits to disable compiler and library optimizations on processors other than theirs?
You can't have the State killing people and then just saying, Whoops! My Bad, here's some cash".
That is not the current situation. The State never admits to wrongdoing and does not pay damages.
That's not a very good "safety measure"; innocent people have a right to be secure in their property, and seeing their door being bashed in without warning, basically gives the inhabitants carte blanche to pull out any guns they can find and open fire in the direction of intruders; the result could be fatalities of members of their "surprise raid team", and it will all be legally protected self-defense.
In a word, no. Even if the police lacked a warrant, innocent people would still lack any right to be secure or be armed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Even $300k isn't worth potentially killing someone in a raid like that. What did they think they were going to do, flush them all down the toilet?
It is when the cost to the police is so low. They are not being payed to not shoot people.
That said, I'm sure SFPD will find themselves in court pretty soon, as the amount of force used was pretty unreasonable, not to mention the way that the lady was treated by the police.
In the end, there is only one question to ask: was this a reasonable thing to do, considering the type of alleged crime? I'm quite sure this will result in a six figure, of not seven, payout.
If the police relied on the warrant in good faith then qualified immunity covers them. The judge who signed the warrant has absolute immunity. The court remedy would usually be suppression of evidence but if they are not charged and brought to trial, they have no standing and no remedy. That leaves suing the police department and city in civil court which is hardly a deterrent.
While I agree with you, a logical analysis of the situation is not going to persuade those losing their homes and the cities are complicit in what is happening.
I'm not sure how useful this would be today, but clearly the 68000 was far superior to an 8088 (or even an 8086). My guess is that Intel's segmented address approach sucked-up about 20% of developer productivity on the PC. All those crazy memory models would have never existed had IBM chosen the 68000. Not to mention Extended Memory and Expanded Memory.
The 68K has even worse problems. For instance unlike segmented addressing, the double indirect addressing present in the 68K involves the instruction pipeline itself.
I don't need no infotainment in my car. Give me an AM/FM radio with a USB port to plug a thumbdrive with all my songs and that's all.
There will be extra yearly charges for those premium features.
And please, could we have our climate control knobs back? Independent from the radio?
But skeuomorphic climate control knobs on a touch screen interface are just as good as the real thing. And they let BMW charge extra for them.
if you want these overwhelmingly unpopular things to stop happening you need to show up at your primaries. For a lot of us the choices are a moderate Republican, a "Blue Dog" Democrat or an Independent with zero chance of winning. They way to change that is to vote in your primary.
Do you mean so we can play the same plurality game from a group of preselected winners? No thanks. Even if there was a secondary before the primary, it is turtles all the way down.
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The erosion, low biodiversity , glysophate, Nitrogen and Phosphorus use and runoff is appalling. These are the non-renewable costs of these biofuels.
How much energy went into producing the nitrate fertilizer for this soy? Phosphorus is not a renewable resource.
The fertilizers, chemicals, and transport is all provided by fossil fuels significantly lowering the green potential of biofuels.
For years I have been interested in batteries big enough to run an entire city ("grid-scale" batteries). I was assuming that something unusual like the liquid metal battery technology or flow batteries would be needed, but Tesla has started selling grid-scale lithium battery packs to Australia. So maybe lithium is even getting inexpensive enough for grid-scale. My understanding is that the Tesla battery in Australia can only supply power for a very short time, so I haven't lost interest in liquid metal or flow batteries.
Lithium traction batteries have a higher ratio of power density to energy density than required for stationary grid applications so they will always support short operating times; this makes them a good choice for peaking applications but not for overnight base-load applications. Flow batteries can tailor this ratio for different applications; if you want higher run time, then make the fluid tanks larger.
and what would you suggest to do for that money when most of the vehicles on the road are not using gasoline or diesel?
Civil assets forfeiture.
Lest not forget they're patenting an open source project. When will prior art set in and invalidate these patents i ask?
The USPO is very strict about what constitutes prior art and being published as an open source project does not count.
It will be a lot safer for the public: no more cops who claim they are "under pressure" or "affraid" so they had to shoot first. A robot can afford to shoot last, only when fired uppon first.
I am sure law enforcement will be responsible when using this technology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So drone warfare will make war less expensive so more people can participate? Yea, that sounds like a good idea. Let's do that.
All of the things you name also apply to cash.
They should check carefully if they have 'property of CIA' inscribed anywhere.
Just look for the FAA drone registration number. This is a solved problem in the US at least.
As for a lack of GPS, there are plenty of other ways to navigate especially if you know where the target is, the nazis had flying bombs which were built to just run out of fuel and crash onto london.
I looked into this a couple years ago and concluded that dead reckoning, magnetic compass, and radio direction finding of broadcast transmitters like FM , TV, and cellular would be suitable for gross navigation until GPS jamming stopped however I do not think this would be sufficient for precision bombing unless the broadcast transmitters were close and radio direction finding could also be jammed.
The drones didn't have cameras, but assuming they did - how would the footage have got back to the drone operators? Chances are the Russians would be jamming any transmissions, and if the drone was programmed to fly back with recorded footage the Russians could follow it and attack whoever came to collect the footage.
Jamming does not work like that. You jam a receiver so it cannot distinguish the transmitter and this is much easier when you have proximity to the receiver instead of the transmitter. In this case, if the jamming transmitter is on the ground, it may not even have line of sight to the receiver further reducing its effectiveness compared to the transmitter which is airborne.
Jamming GPS is made easier, it is actually trivial unless the receiver is built to be jam resistant, by the transmitters being far away and the receivers being close which is the opposite of a drone transmitting back to its sender.
Ahem, "getting" the police to kill someone should OF COURSE require much much more than an anonymous phone call. REALLY.
Let's try this again
GETTING THE POLICE TO KILL SOMEONE SHOULD REQUIRE MUCH MUCH MORE THAN AN ANONYMOUS PHONE CALL.
Kansas *and* Georgia disagree:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
The Georgia case is even worse than described if you search for the details.
But... second amendment!
The courts have ruled that there is no second amendment right to be armed in your own home when the police pound on your door at unusual hours without reasonable suspicion, probable cause, or a warrant.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...
The recent Kansas case applies whether you are armed or not and it is not even the only murder by swatting incident this year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
I see that, and you see that, and we both get lumped in with the tinfoil-hat crowd, told we're dangerously paranoid, told "that'll never happen" by the shills and the deniers, told "SDCs will save lives" (i.e. trading security and 'safety' for freedom, yet again), told "humans aren't capable of driving a car so we need machines to do it for us" (which is a flat-out lie), and so on.
The Harrison Narcotics Act will never be used to ban drugs. The income tax will never be greater than 10%.
I bet it failed UX at the time, because people were ... un-trusting of the automation.
Given the history of car makers with reliability of automation, that would be and still is enough for me.
They'll get over it.
Most of the forums I participate in on Yahoo have gotten over Yahoo's redesign but moving elsewhere.