Thats a joke right? When does losing a little in volume ever make a negative, positive.
It's no joke, this business strategy has been been used by a number of internet companies during the first dotcom boom and the model has been extremely profitable to executives and early investors. Webvan and Pets.com both come to mind as early adopters of this strategy, but they are far from the only ones.
Unless public transit is frequent and ubiquitous, it can't replace a car regardless of price
apparently the millions of people who currently use public transportation are deceiving themselves
How many people in areas that don't have frequent and ubiquitous transit use transit exclusively and don't use a car?
In NYC many people rely on transit and never drive. How many people in Los Angeles or Atlanta do?
I live in an area that's fairly well served by transit (by USA standards), I used to take the train to work, now I work closer so I bike to work. Yet I could still never give up my car completely without giving up a lot of mobility since there are still many places I'd like to go that are underserved or completely unserved by transit.
Unless public transit is frequent and ubiquitous, it can't replace a car regardless of price
When I moved to San Francisco, an unlimited Muni pass was so cheap ($35) that it may as well been free, but I still had a car because weekend service is infrequent, and didn't go everywhere I wanted to go. I thought about giving up my car, until I tried an out of town trip on BART one weekend, it would have been an hour (or less) round trip by car, but since it involved a train transfer plus a long wait for a bus (that never came so I ended up walking the 2 miles), the transit part of the trip ended up being being over 3 hours.
Even now an unlimited Muni pass is cheap ($70), much cheaper than owning and parking a car in the city so it's not the cost of transit that makes people hold on to their cars.
On the other hand, when I spent some time in Tokyo, a $170 monthly Metro pass was much better than having a car, few of my friends who lived there full time owned a car.
The point is that no one will be able to tell which is which. It's the same idea as destabilizing an economy by flooding the market with high-quality counterfeit bills.
Sure, but if they flood the market and the horns become more popular and more available (even if they are fake), it's not going to drop the price to zero, it will just increase overall demand. I suspect that even if the price dropped precipitously from $65K/kg to $1K/kg, there would still be people willing to kill rhinos for the real thing.
Maybe they'd be better off tranquilizing the real rhinos, removing their horns, and replacing them with 3d printed fakes (that are a different color or have some other characteristic that identifies them as fake). At least then it removes the incentive to kill the rhino to steal a fake horn that looks fake.
It happens to me all the time, I have a relatively common Gmail address using my first initial and last name. I frequently get misdirected email from a variety of vendors where someone gave them my email address by mistake. I used to try to contact the merchant and tell them, but they rarely respond intelligently (usually they tell me to log on to my account and change the address... duh, I don't have an account!). So now I usually just flag them as spam and ignore them.
Comcast has been sending me monthly bill notifications for someone else's account for over a year, I emailed them, but they told me to call and I didn't feel like calling, so I've been ignoring it.
Some guy keeps sending me his flight reservations, I could screw with him and cancel his flights online or maybe keep changing his seat to put him next to the bathroom.
One guy said he was going to sue me for stealing his email address when I told him that he's using the wrong address, he swore that he'd been using that address for 5 years and that I stole it from him.
Exactly this. Pick the right tool for the right job. If you are just serving up simple web pages to the masses, go cheap, they can always hit refresh if things fail.
If you have serious money flowing through the platform, plan and purchase accordingly. What is an outage going to cost you? A $50,000 server may end up being very, very cheap if an outage costs you $100,000 per hour.
If an outage costs you $100K/hour, you better not be running it on a single server.
The LED matrix is too spread out to be very readable
because alphanumeric text is the ONLY thing you can do with an LED matrix?
That's not an answer, that's a question -- what would you do with this thing if you could wear it? It's relatively big and bulky compared to some other purpose made wearables, so what would you really want to do with it if it were wearable?
I don't know the reason but this became a lot less interesting as soon as the battery was altered, would have been a useful wearable...
Pity
John Jones
What would you use it for as a wearable? The LED matrix is too spread out to be very readable, so what would you do with it clipped to your shirt that you couldn't also do with it in your pocket?
This seems to be the biggest stumbling-block... Last standing desks I saw in a store selling office furniture were over $1000. I can't justify that at home, and I doubt that my employer would justify that at work.
It works reasonably well. It's got a hand crank and cranking it up and down is so tedious that I generally just leave it in the standing position, which is probably a good thing since that encourages me to stand more (though could be a bad thing if I left it in the down position). It's more stable than the $1000 electric desk I have at work, typing doesn't make the monitor move around at all like it does at work.
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Specifically, who violated the lockout tagout rules. If you're going into the cage, it has to be locked out. Sucks that testing is hard without being in there, but these rules are nothing new, and have little to do with the "robot" part.
Exactly, this is just a tragic industrial accident, there are already procedures in place to prevent this type of thing that apply to industrial equipment of all types - hydraulic presses, large walk-in ovens, cutoff saws, etc. Being an industrial robot doesn't make this a special case, it's not as if the robot was stalking him throughout the facility, it had a known safety area, and almost certainly had a proper lockout procedure to keep it from being activated when anyone was within the safety cage.
Maybe it will change some more, but I just set up WiFi on a Windows 10 build today and it had an UNCHECKED check box for sharing the password. I would have had to check the box to allow it to share. How many people go around checking boxes?
Probably the same number of people that want to save on mobile data usage with Wifi Sense?
The Slashdot summary is pure FUD. In the article itself you can see an image of the settings, with a large checkbox to enable/disable sharing with Outlook, Skype and Facebook independently and it also has a large slider above those where you can disable it entirely.
Did you read the box?
Save on mobile data usage with Wifi Sense. Join in and get connected to WiFi. By using WiFi Sense, you agree that it can use your location.
Who doesn't want to save on mobile data usage!? How many people will opt-out? Where does it say that by opting in that they are sharing their Wifi passphrase with everyone they share to? It may be obvious to you, but not to 99% of the people that will run Windows 10.
It does have 360 degree camera coverage. The pilot wears a VR helmet and can "see through the aircraft" by turning his head. What this guy is saying is that the helmet is so bulky he couldn't turn his head to see behind him.
Sounds like a pretty poor UI choice -- why force the pilot to physically turn his head all the way around him to see a virtual representation of what's behind the aircraft? It may be intuitive, but pressing a button to flash the rear-view on his visor sounds much more efficient, especially if the computer has already highlighted potential threats.
"The helmet was too large for the space inside the canopy to adequately see behind the aircraft."
Maybe the military should have paid for the $750 "rear camera package" that's already in wide use in minivans. For what the aircraft cost, it should have 360 degree spherical camera coverage with automatic threat identification so even if the pilot's not looking behind him, he'll get an alert when the camera detects an aircraft approaching from an angle where he can't see it.
I think you'll want to use your configuration management platform to kick off the update. That's how we did it -- applied the update to the dev servers, did some testing, then the same to qa, then preprod, then finally to the production servers. Took us more than 2.5 hours to test and validate everywhere, but actually pushing out the patch to 1200 servers was a single line command.
And cue the screams of the people who think they can just buy one, strap it on, and ascend to 1km... without a pilot's license. For yes, even more so than for drones, these will be classified as manned aircraft and there are already tons of federal regulations regarding operations of such.
Are you sure a pilots license is required? No license is required to fly an Ultralight aircraft.
Though I doubt that anyone with $150K to spend on one of these things is going to cringe at spending a few thousand more on training -- nor would they be dumb enough to try to fly one without testing and/or certification.
Where I used to work, there were a few short terms for idiots who ignored or violated security standards: CEO, CFO, Legal, etc. They'd pass all these security measures for protecting data, and then say, "Oh, but not for me."
One of them had they RSA keyfob security code statically set at "111111" because it was just too hard to type in the digits (or they changed too quickly, I forget which.)
He got written up in the security exception reports and such, but was high enough to be able to override it.
At least it wasn't the code to the planetary air shield generator: 12345.
How did he get RSA to custom produce a keyfob with static numbers?
Actually, what's the harm in living in a trailer? It's possible to at least own a dwelling...
If you mean an actual RV type trailer as opposed to a mobile home that's meant for full-time living, lack of insulation in the winter is a problem - the furnace in my parent's RV can't even keep the temperature comfortable in 35 degree (F) weather - the poorly fitting drafty single pane glass doesn't help either. I can't imagine it being usable in 10 degree winter temperatures.
Or as you are making a backup. A friend of mine thought it would be a good idea to backup their entire laptop drive, reinstall the OS, and then restore their data from the backup. They bought a new external drive to carry out the plan. They backed up the data, and re-installed the OS. The backup data was only going to be the sole copy for a short while, so one drive with the backup aught to be enough for the couple of hours it would take before restoring it, right? No, the brand-new backup drive failed mid-way through the process. It took weeks to recover maybe 3/4 of the files using testdisk.
I think most experienced users know that if a drive is going to fail it will probably do so very early after purchase or years later, but I'd never seen such a horrible demonstration of that expectation for myself. It failed mere hours after putting it to use. Needless to say, they now make sure there are always 2 backup copies during a wipe-and-restore procedure, and I follow that practice too. I would have thought it was paranoid, but it's not.
And they really did apologize, not use the typical "We're sorry that you were offended by our perfectly reasonable actions" fake apology that are so common in these situations:
This is an IMAX-sized mea culpa to you, your team at Ars Technica, and your readers.
We are very passionate about our brand and sometimes we can be overzealous in trying to protect it. Unfortunately in this situation we acted too quickly without truly understanding the reference to our brand.
Again—we apologize for how this was handled and we will try to be better at taking compliments moving forward!
It'd be nice if Slashdot could mention their apology in the summary.
That's weird I always assumed IMAX was just a generic term for theatre with a big ass screen?
Let me put this another way... ask anyone what do you call a movie theatre with a big ass multi-story curved screen?... and before they answer say...but you can't use the word "IMAX".
In various contexts people talk about IMAX cameras and film formats even NASA folks talking about the imax camera for curiosity... I seriously always assumed it was just a generic specification.
Who knows that IMAX is a brand? Perhaps they have already suffered severe dilution and currently deserve no trademark/brand projection of any kind.
NASA isn't using "IMAX" as a general term for high def camera, they use actual IMAX branded cameras:
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Thats a joke right? When does losing a little in volume ever make a negative, positive.
It's no joke, this business strategy has been been used by a number of internet companies during the first dotcom boom and the model has been extremely profitable to executives and early investors. Webvan and Pets.com both come to mind as early adopters of this strategy, but they are far from the only ones.
Unless public transit is frequent and ubiquitous, it can't replace a car regardless of price
apparently the millions of people who currently use public transportation are deceiving themselves
How many people in areas that don't have frequent and ubiquitous transit use transit exclusively and don't use a car?
In NYC many people rely on transit and never drive. How many people in Los Angeles or Atlanta do?
I live in an area that's fairly well served by transit (by USA standards), I used to take the train to work, now I work closer so I bike to work. Yet I could still never give up my car completely without giving up a lot of mobility since there are still many places I'd like to go that are underserved or completely unserved by transit.
Admittedly, I can be daft... so forgive me and please enlighten me...
EXPENSES:
>> Pay songwriter to compose
>> Record
>> Send postcards
INCOME:
>> it's free
BUSINESS MODEL:
>> Profit!
I'm confused how INCOME - EXPENSES = "PROFIT!" ?!?
Well sure, you might lose a little money on each one, but you can make it up in VOLUME!
Unless public transit is frequent and ubiquitous, it can't replace a car regardless of price
When I moved to San Francisco, an unlimited Muni pass was so cheap ($35) that it may as well been free, but I still had a car because weekend service is infrequent, and didn't go everywhere I wanted to go. I thought about giving up my car, until I tried an out of town trip on BART one weekend, it would have been an hour (or less) round trip by car, but since it involved a train transfer plus a long wait for a bus (that never came so I ended up walking the 2 miles), the transit part of the trip ended up being being over 3 hours.
Even now an unlimited Muni pass is cheap ($70), much cheaper than owning and parking a car in the city so it's not the cost of transit that makes people hold on to their cars.
On the other hand, when I spent some time in Tokyo, a $170 monthly Metro pass was much better than having a car, few of my friends who lived there full time owned a car.
The point is that no one will be able to tell which is which. It's the same idea as destabilizing an economy by flooding the market with high-quality counterfeit bills.
Sure, but if they flood the market and the horns become more popular and more available (even if they are fake), it's not going to drop the price to zero, it will just increase overall demand. I suspect that even if the price dropped precipitously from $65K/kg to $1K/kg, there would still be people willing to kill rhinos for the real thing.
Maybe they'd be better off tranquilizing the real rhinos, removing their horns, and replacing them with 3d printed fakes (that are a different color or have some other characteristic that identifies them as fake). At least then it removes the incentive to kill the rhino to steal a fake horn that looks fake.
It happens to me all the time, I have a relatively common Gmail address using my first initial and last name. I frequently get misdirected email from a variety of vendors where someone gave them my email address by mistake. I used to try to contact the merchant and tell them, but they rarely respond intelligently (usually they tell me to log on to my account and change the address... duh, I don't have an account!). So now I usually just flag them as spam and ignore them.
Comcast has been sending me monthly bill notifications for someone else's account for over a year, I emailed them, but they told me to call and I didn't feel like calling, so I've been ignoring it.
Some guy keeps sending me his flight reservations, I could screw with him and cancel his flights online or maybe keep changing his seat to put him next to the bathroom.
One guy said he was going to sue me for stealing his email address when I told him that he's using the wrong address, he swore that he'd been using that address for 5 years and that I stole it from him.
Exactly this. Pick the right tool for the right job. If you are just serving up simple web pages to the masses, go cheap, they can always hit refresh if things fail.
If you have serious money flowing through the platform, plan and purchase accordingly. What is an outage going to cost you? A $50,000 server may end up being very, very cheap if an outage costs you $100,000 per hour.
If an outage costs you $100K/hour, you better not be running it on a single server.
The LED matrix is too spread out to be very readable
because alphanumeric text is the ONLY thing you can do with an LED matrix?
That's not an answer, that's a question -- what would you do with this thing if you could wear it? It's relatively big and bulky compared to some other purpose made wearables, so what would you really want to do with it if it were wearable?
I don't know the reason but this became a lot less interesting as soon as the battery was altered, would have been a useful wearable...
Pity
John Jones
What would you use it for as a wearable? The LED matrix is too spread out to be very readable, so what would you do with it clipped to your shirt that you couldn't also do with it in your pocket?
This seems to be the biggest stumbling-block... Last standing desks I saw in a store selling office furniture were over $1000. I can't justify that at home, and I doubt that my employer would justify that at work.
I picked up this one on Woot for $300:
http://www.amazon.com/Cool-Liv...
It works reasonably well. It's got a hand crank and cranking it up and down is so tedious that I generally just leave it in the standing position, which is probably a good thing since that encourages me to stand more (though could be a bad thing if I left it in the down position). It's more stable than the $1000 electric desk I have at work, typing doesn't make the monitor move around at all like it does at work.
Funny how they said "We are sorry that this happened" and not "We are sorry that we did this". i.e., they are not taking responsibility.
It's better than the typical corporate non-apology "We're sorry that this may have offended some people".
Netflix has their cdn boxes everywhere. That's a physical presence
They transfer ownership to the ISP, so they are not owned by Netflix:
https://openconnect.netflix.co...
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Specifically, who violated the lockout tagout rules. If you're going into the cage, it has to be locked out. Sucks that testing is hard without being in there, but these rules are nothing new, and have little to do with the "robot" part.
Exactly, this is just a tragic industrial accident, there are already procedures in place to prevent this type of thing that apply to industrial equipment of all types - hydraulic presses, large walk-in ovens, cutoff saws, etc. Being an industrial robot doesn't make this a special case, it's not as if the robot was stalking him throughout the facility, it had a known safety area, and almost certainly had a proper lockout procedure to keep it from being activated when anyone was within the safety cage.
Maybe it will change some more, but I just set up WiFi on a Windows 10 build today and it had an UNCHECKED check box for sharing the password. I would have had to check the box to allow it to share. How many people go around checking boxes?
Probably the same number of people that want to save on mobile data usage with Wifi Sense?
The Slashdot summary is pure FUD. In the article itself you can see an image of the settings, with a large checkbox to enable/disable sharing with Outlook, Skype and Facebook independently and it also has a large slider above those where you can disable it entirely.
Did you read the box?
Save on mobile data usage with Wifi Sense. Join in and get connected to WiFi. By using WiFi Sense, you agree that it can use your location.
Who doesn't want to save on mobile data usage!? How many people will opt-out? Where does it say that by opting in that they are sharing their Wifi passphrase with everyone they share to? It may be obvious to you, but not to 99% of the people that will run Windows 10.
It does have 360 degree camera coverage.
The pilot wears a VR helmet and can "see through the aircraft" by turning his head.
What this guy is saying is that the helmet is so bulky he couldn't turn his head to see behind him.
Sounds like a pretty poor UI choice -- why force the pilot to physically turn his head all the way around him to see a virtual representation of what's behind the aircraft? It may be intuitive, but pressing a button to flash the rear-view on his visor sounds much more efficient, especially if the computer has already highlighted potential threats.
"The helmet was too large for the space inside the canopy to adequately see behind the aircraft."
Maybe the military should have paid for the $750 "rear camera package" that's already in wide use in minivans. For what the aircraft cost, it should have 360 degree spherical camera coverage with automatic threat identification so even if the pilot's not looking behind him, he'll get an alert when the camera detects an aircraft approaching from an angle where he can't see it.
Well I'd wrap it in a loop of some kind:
for host in `cat /dev/storage/admin/servers.dat`; do ssh root@$host "yum update -y && reboot"; done
You're going to watch the output for 1000+ servers to see which ones failed?
yum update -y && reboot
You're going to type that on 3500 servers?
I think you'll want to use your configuration management platform to kick off the update. That's how we did it -- applied the update to the dev servers, did some testing, then the same to qa, then preprod, then finally to the production servers. Took us more than 2.5 hours to test and validate everywhere, but actually pushing out the patch to 1200 servers was a single line command.
And cue the screams of the people who think they can just buy one, strap it on, and ascend to 1km ... without a pilot's license. For yes, even more so than for drones, these will be classified as manned aircraft and there are already tons of federal regulations regarding operations of such.
Are you sure a pilots license is required? No license is required to fly an Ultralight aircraft.
Though I doubt that anyone with $150K to spend on one of these things is going to cringe at spending a few thousand more on training -- nor would they be dumb enough to try to fly one without testing and/or certification.
Where I used to work, there were a few short terms for idiots who ignored or violated security standards: CEO, CFO, Legal, etc. They'd pass all these security measures for protecting data, and then say, "Oh, but not for me."
One of them had they RSA keyfob security code statically set at "111111" because it was just too hard to type in the digits (or they changed too quickly, I forget which.)
He got written up in the security exception reports and such, but was high enough to be able to override it.
At least it wasn't the code to the planetary air shield generator: 12345.
How did he get RSA to custom produce a keyfob with static numbers?
Actually, what's the harm in living in a trailer? It's possible to at least own a dwelling ...
If you mean an actual RV type trailer as opposed to a mobile home that's meant for full-time living, lack of insulation in the winter is a problem - the furnace in my parent's RV can't even keep the temperature comfortable in 35 degree (F) weather - the poorly fitting drafty single pane glass doesn't help either. I can't imagine it being usable in 10 degree winter temperatures.
Or as you are making a backup. A friend of mine thought it would be a good idea to backup their entire laptop drive, reinstall the OS, and then restore their data from the backup. They bought a new external drive to carry out the plan. They backed up the data, and re-installed the OS. The backup data was only going to be the sole copy for a short while, so one drive with the backup aught to be enough for the couple of hours it would take before restoring it, right? No, the brand-new backup drive failed mid-way through the process. It took weeks to recover maybe 3/4 of the files using testdisk.
I think most experienced users know that if a drive is going to fail it will probably do so very early after purchase or years later, but I'd never seen such a horrible demonstration of that expectation for myself. It failed mere hours after putting it to use. Needless to say, they now make sure there are always 2 backup copies during a wipe-and-restore procedure, and I follow that practice too. I would have thought it was paranoid, but it's not.
Two Is One, And One Is None
IMAX published an apology and admitted they overreacted. IMHO this is exactly the right thing to have done.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
And they really did apologize, not use the typical "We're sorry that you were offended by our perfectly reasonable actions" fake apology that are so common in these situations:
This is an IMAX-sized mea culpa to you, your team at Ars Technica, and your readers.
We are very passionate about our brand and sometimes we can be overzealous in trying to protect it. Unfortunately in this situation we acted too quickly without truly understanding the reference to our brand.
Again—we apologize for how this was handled and we will try to be better at taking compliments moving forward!
It'd be nice if Slashdot could mention their apology in the summary.
That's weird I always assumed IMAX was just a generic term for theatre with a big ass screen?
Let me put this another way... ask anyone what do you call a movie theatre with a big ass multi-story curved screen? ... and before they answer say ...but you can't use the word "IMAX".
In various contexts people talk about IMAX cameras and film formats even NASA folks talking about the imax camera for curiosity ... I seriously always assumed it was just a generic specification.
Who knows that IMAX is a brand? Perhaps they have already suffered severe dilution and currently deserve no trademark/brand projection of any kind.
NASA isn't using "IMAX" as a general term for high def camera, they use actual IMAX branded cameras:
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedi...
Your belief that IMAX is a generic term is exactly why IMAX has to vigorously defend their trademark, even if they've overstepped this time.