Guess what? As clever as Python and Java are, you can't effectively write an entire operating system in them, or a high-performance driver like a graphics card driver in them. You could try, but the result would be bloated and slow and effectively useless. So we have compiler languages like C/C++ that require you to actually be a competent programmer who can write code with proper error checking and error handling. I'm not saying that when you have an entire platoon of programmers all working on parts of the same project (vis-a-vis graphics card driver or OS) that there aren't going to be bugs that crop up, but slapping training wheels onto them isn't necessarily the solution to the problem either.
Note also another 'language' that would have this same problem, and for which there is no substitute for in the highest-performance applications: assembly language. Yes, Virginia, we still use assembly language in some places, so far as I know. Then you really have to know what you're doing.
Maybe the solution to this problem is to educate and train our programmers more thoroughly and carefully.
I can confirm that we still write certain things in ASM for Intel, AMD, and ARM products at my company. Most is written in C because it is ‘fast enough’. But sometimes even C can be too slow and, in certain applications at work, too high level to use effectively.
With you, my city was one of the finalists and traffic here is already shit. We don't need more Amazon, we've already got two of their effing monstrosities of distribution centers. It's like, if you're going to build a building that's literally half a mile long, could you at least put some landscaping around it so we don't have to look at it? And despite one of those warehouses being less than 20 minutes from my house, it still takes 3 days to get anything from them.
Ha. I bet I can guess where you live. Thanks to those giant monstrosities near you I can get free same day delivery almost 200 miles away from you. Thanks for putting up with this for my benefit.
I had been hoping that Amazon would choose a city that could handle to have a large company like Amazon show up; instead, Amazon picked two cities/regions that already have ridiculous issues with real estate. NYC at least has a semi-functional public transit system, but my understanding with DC is that the metro doesn't stretch out far enough to accommodate most people living in the suburbs, resulting in long commutes. There are a number of cities that would have been a better choice and probably handled Amazon's impact on real estate much better (Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Miami).
I see you have never been to Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, or Miami. None of those places have adequate transit, already have terrible traffic, and, in the case of Miami, incredibly expensive real estate. I'm just really glad that my city did not get chosen.
Because you can't spell war without bomb. (In Hebrew.)
If you think about it, Israel is the perfect country to go all electric. Small enough that you can drive the entire country in one charge. Best of all, none of your neighbors like you so you don't have to worry about taking a road trip to neighboring areas. It's like the US, but on a smaller scale.
And car drivers typically break just as many traffic laws as cyclists, just different laws: speeding, changing lanes in an intersection, driving distracted/talking on cell phones, using bike lanes as turn lanes, etc. Pot, meet kettle.
Pretty sure it is 100% legal to use a bike lane as a turn lane in every state of the union. So long as you indicate and you also yield to bicycles. That is, of course, unless the bicycle lane is divided from the road way. In fact, California Vehicle Code 21717 says that a car MUST use the bicycle lane to make a right turn because otherwise a car may HIT a bicycle who is trying to go straight through the intersection. So for the love of god, please stop complaining about something cars do that could potentially save your life.
Every election cycle healthcare becomes an issue, and increasingly CO2 & global warming, energy independence, and global conflicts over energy. Here's an idea: Chip humans and log their blood pressure and heart rate. In order to get any health insurance, your log must show some reasonable level of aerobic exercise - 4 to 6 hours per week, for starters. You are too busy, too important, and don't have the time for this? Fine, pay for your own healthcare. All of it, including vision and dental. No exercise for 1 week - probation. No exercise for 1 month, no coverage, for anything. Probationary coverage resumes the first day you can show a week's worth of exercise, which can be done in half a day.
You are insane. And what about those who are wheelchair bound? Do they not have rights to the same medical care as you because they are physically unable to engage in the exercise that you engage in? Even if they are equally or even more productive to society than you are? Because you might decide to play a sport one day and have someone hit you and paralyze you. Playing a sport is a choice and that made you handicapped. And based on what you're saying, such a person deserves nothing.
The locals are by far the worse drivers I have ever come across in the US. Even worse than Los Angeles. They can flip a car in a single vehicle accident on a straight road on a dry sunny day.
That is one thing that always amazed me about Florida. And on a rainy day I have seen no less than 5 accidents per mile in FL, a place where it rains all the time. But there are quite a few areas of this country that are yearning to beat Florida in this regard.
That being said, the neighborhood I live in now can often be faster to walk than to drive because of stupid and selfish people who block intersections and whole lanes to try and avoid traffic. I have been in sight of my house and it has taken me over 15 minutes (sometimes as many as 30) to drive a distance I could walk in less than 5 minutes. It is mind boggling.
Had chip+PIN debit cards forever, they were very vulnerable to being used online. The numbers and CVV are printed on the card. You can write the numbers in your hand (w/ expiry date) then you've "defeated" it. In modern times, people were taking pictures of cards with smartphones camera or buying numbers on the Internet, so now there's some kind of 2FA which defaults to sending SMS to your phone number.
Sorry, AC. I meant that they cannot be used in card present online authorized transactions. I was tired when I wrote that. They can be used for card not present e-commerce transactions, yes. That is where they are still vulnerable.
And you'd be wrong. In a 90-second evacuation, seconds count. A narrow seating row that's 3-5 seconds slower to empty will add up and slow down the evacuation.
Well show me the empirical evidence you have that shows that these narrow rows are 3-5 seconds slower to evacuate, then.
They bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into - I say let em be crushed.
You're obviously not required to travel for business. If only it was so simple.
Then you're not traveling enough for business or you'd get upgraded automatically and for free. Anyway, most businesses will let you pay for the upgrade cost out of your own pocket. And most airlines will let you book the upgrade separately immediately after ticket purchase so long as they do not buy a basic economy fare. And if your company is trying to save $80 on your ticket by buying basic economy then you ought to put your foot down and tell them you won't travel if they're not willing to spend a few extra dollars so that you have the option to buy an upgrade.
Go back to live evacuation tests. Require that they use airline CEOs, upper management, and their families as the test subjects... If the plane can't be evac'ed in 90 seconds without injury, increase seat pitch and try again.
If a few airline upper managers get hurt during an evacuation test, maybe they'll realize WHY extremely dense seating is a bad idea.
Meh. As a numerate consumer, I think this is a bad idea. Denser seating lowers ticket prices, and given that the probability that a plane I'm on will need to be evacuated in 90 seconds is extraordinarily low, and given that in one of those rare situations I think minor injuries would be the least of my concerns, I'll take the denser seating and lower price as long as I get enough legroom that I can fit. Especially for short flights.
Even as a taller individual I am perfectly okay with these denser packed planes. I get upgraded to the extra leg room section automatically on ticket purchase so these lower prices help me, too. But even if I did not get the auto upgrade I would pay for the extra leg room. Anyway, I've been flying on a regular basis for about 15 years now and they have actually increased the number of emergency exits - they had to. They have to have a certain number of exits based on the number of passengers. So I don't think that there will be a significant problem with meeting the evacuation requirements anyway.
The US opted for chip+signature, rather than chip+PIN like the rest of the world. Since no one ever checks signatures properly, stolen cards can easily be used for fraud in the US, without needing to shoulder surf for a PIN first.
You can't clone the cards and use them in online transactions. They are skimming the cards and using them for online transactions, most likely. Though the chip does generate a new CVV when used with the chip. If you run the magnetic stripe through, you get the real CVV which can be used online. Also there are tons of restaurants, fast food joints, gas stations, and banks that still use the magnetic stripe instead of the chip.
Keeping it updated and working with secure boot isn't the problem. The problem comes when the person/company/government holding the keys decides that they no longer want to sign your software, and the hardware doesn't allow you to add your own keys. Then "your" computer can only run the "approved" software, not the software that you, the owner of the hardware, want it to run.
That's exactly what's going to happen with these new machines in 5-6 years, just like iPhones. Apple won't support installing the latest version on this "old" hardware, and therefore won't sign the OS to be able to boot into the "trusted" environment for it. Yes you could turn off the trusted environment and apply some hacks to get it to install just like "old" Apple machines right now, however since you're no longer running in the trusted environment the internal SSD won't be visible so you'll have to use external storage.
I still have a few 10+ year old machines that work well enough to do anything I would normally do with a computer, though they are a bit heavier and use way more power than modern equivalents. They still can be used, and there's no reason to throw them out just because they're no longer supported by the original manufacturer.
Right now Microsoft's CA is the root of trust for secure boot. Don't like it? Volunteer your own CA or the cash to run the service on a commercial CA. The UEFI forum asked for corporate volunteers to run as a root of trust for secure boot and only Microsoft stepped up. They would allow multiple roots of trust if other CAs volunteered. But I think you'll find that it is in Microsoft's best interest NOT to be overly restrictive with its signing authority as that would likely result in huge fines against Microsoft in the EU. Not only that, but being able to disable secure boot and loading your own keys is a requirement from Microsoft in order to get certified to OEM with Windows. The only company allowed to lock down secure boot on their systems? Microsoft. And we've seen them do it with the ARM versions of the Surface in the past.
This is likely just a fairly amateurish security protocol implementation sold at inflated prices to people flush with cash.
Its really not all that hard to do secure communications... if actual criminals used something called "ironchat" they deserve what they got.
If secure communications are so easy, why do so many people seem to get it wrong? It only takes one little mistake to compromise secure communications. The mistake may not even be in anything but a library you use or a design flaw in the silicon you run it on. No. Secure communications is very difficult and that is why the NSA spends a lot of time and effort A) Monitoring others communications B) developing and testing secure methods of communication.
How exactly do you mandate endpoint authentication for calls originating from Canada, Latin America, South America and overseas?
You either force them to accept your rules and potential fines or you don't peer with them. Simple. I guarantee you the trustworthy networks will play ball. The originating network knows whose DID was used to start the transaction. The fines for a spam call just trickle through the network until the originator pays the fine or that provider is cut off.
That they are opportunities to learn and grow. Children certainly do not grow as individuals when they have every problem in life solved for them.
Ah yes, those infants with bone cancer surely are learning a lot about life before they die at the ripe age of 2. (But obviously they never grow.)
Often times religious people believe that those are learning opportunities for the parent and not the child. Science can neither prove nor disprove the existence of a god. Anyone who knows science knows that is not within the realm of science to begin with. So whether or not you believe in god, this research cannot possibly show that god doesn't exist. End of story.
I'm pretty sure this underlines the fact that humans were not designed by some intelligent superbeing in the sky.
I'm honestly not sure how you draw that conclusion at all. Many religious people believe that there is a purpose behind these sorts of things. That they are opportunities to learn and grow. Children certainly do not grow as individuals when they have every problem in life solved for them.
The kids without computers at home are at a big disadvantage.
Is that because they don't have computers or because they have parents that work two jobs trying to make ends meet and can't really get involved in their education? I love computers. I've been playing on a computer since I was 3. However, this computer mania in schools is ridiculous. Kids should not be doing everything on Chromebooks or iPads. They need to learn to read and write with a pencil and paper. Not because a pen and paper is better, but there is a correlation between writing by hand and memory retention. By all means have them write book reports on the computer. But math and science ought to be done by hand. There's no need for a computer most of the time. Newer is not always better.
he should get states to require people to be able to drive a stick shift during their driver's license exam. Since he owns a 1967 Porsche 911S, he should be well aware of the joy of driving a stick shift compared to the numbing laziness of an automatic.
I would be happy if they forced them to demonstrate the ability to merge onto an interstate, back up in a straight line, parallel park, and other driving skills that 90% of the driving population of the US seems to lack.
Seriously, why are there not criminal charges pending? Perhaps they stopped and reported it. But had they done that, why did the PR at Waymo not cite the police report? Conversely, a police report would have been created for the victim in the case of a hit and run -- where is the investigation into the Camry?
Shoddy journalism. Fairly one sided view of the incident
If they were not involved in the accident they are not obligated to stop or report anything. Unless I misread the article, they were not in an accident. AN idiot who does not know how to merge was in a single car accident, unless I am mistaken.
These two yutzes cause a crash on the freeway and they don't even bother to stop and check if the other people are injured?
They don't even bother reporting the crash to the authorities, they just driiive on back to HQ and hush it up?
"Former Top Waymo Engineer Altered Code To Go On Forbidden Routes" is not the headline I would have chosen for this story, folks.
They most definitely did NOT cause an accident. The driver who is merging needs to actually MERGE and not just assume that people are going to let him in. Typically if they have their indicator on, I will adjust my speed to help them merge but it sounds like the driver of the other vehicle did not try to speed up or slow down. That is their problem and not Google's. Too many people just putter on down the on-ramp not even acting like they're getting onto a freeway or interstate. Sure there are areas where drivers ought to give extra consideration to mergers. Connecticut, as an example, has notoriously short on-ramps that make proper merging difficult.
Problem with E-mail isn't in the "getting one running". It's the constant maintenance that's needed.
The real problem here (assuming that they provide all that upkeep for you in a reliable way) is that no one will accept your mail if you do not have a reverse DNS entry for your IP. Not to mention the fact that ISPs block the necessary ports to run this on a home network. You’d have to have a business service plan to get this to work and you had better have a static IP address also.
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I do worry as to the cause.
Google Engineer here. Sorry, I tripped over a power cord in my boss's office. I had no idea that he was running the load balancing host off of his desk. It won't happen again, I promise!
Same is true of on-site privacy settings. Simply asking a site to behave does nothing. Enforce it by blocking their servers, and deleting their cookies. Don't use the site at all, if practical.
But by taking information from your computer when you have Do Not Track a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act? You don't want them to use your computer in that way, yet they are. I also wonder the same thing about Microsoft's auto-update and reboot program. If I don't authorize the computer to upgrade and reboot, are they violating this law also? I know you'll say that the terms of use give you no right to deny these uses. However, I have no choice but to use a bank in the ordinary course of my life and I can tell you right now that most major banks in the US execute tracking scripts from Facebook every time you visit their site.
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Guess what? As clever as Python and Java are, you can't effectively write an entire operating system in them, or a high-performance driver like a graphics card driver in them. You could try, but the result would be bloated and slow and effectively useless. So we have compiler languages like C/C++ that require you to actually be a competent programmer who can write code with proper error checking and error handling. I'm not saying that when you have an entire platoon of programmers all working on parts of the same project (vis-a-vis graphics card driver or OS) that there aren't going to be bugs that crop up, but slapping training wheels onto them isn't necessarily the solution to the problem either. Note also another 'language' that would have this same problem, and for which there is no substitute for in the highest-performance applications: assembly language. Yes, Virginia, we still use assembly language in some places, so far as I know. Then you really have to know what you're doing. Maybe the solution to this problem is to educate and train our programmers more thoroughly and carefully.
I can confirm that we still write certain things in ASM for Intel, AMD, and ARM products at my company. Most is written in C because it is ‘fast enough’. But sometimes even C can be too slow and, in certain applications at work, too high level to use effectively.
With you, my city was one of the finalists and traffic here is already shit. We don't need more Amazon, we've already got two of their effing monstrosities of distribution centers. It's like, if you're going to build a building that's literally half a mile long, could you at least put some landscaping around it so we don't have to look at it? And despite one of those warehouses being less than 20 minutes from my house, it still takes 3 days to get anything from them.
Ha. I bet I can guess where you live. Thanks to those giant monstrosities near you I can get free same day delivery almost 200 miles away from you. Thanks for putting up with this for my benefit.
I had been hoping that Amazon would choose a city that could handle to have a large company like Amazon show up; instead, Amazon picked two cities/regions that already have ridiculous issues with real estate. NYC at least has a semi-functional public transit system, but my understanding with DC is that the metro doesn't stretch out far enough to accommodate most people living in the suburbs, resulting in long commutes. There are a number of cities that would have been a better choice and probably handled Amazon's impact on real estate much better (Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Miami).
I see you have never been to Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, or Miami. None of those places have adequate transit, already have terrible traffic, and, in the case of Miami, incredibly expensive real estate. I'm just really glad that my city did not get chosen.
Because you can't spell war without bomb. (In Hebrew.)
If you think about it, Israel is the perfect country to go all electric. Small enough that you can drive the entire country in one charge. Best of all, none of your neighbors like you so you don't have to worry about taking a road trip to neighboring areas. It's like the US, but on a smaller scale.
And car drivers typically break just as many traffic laws as cyclists, just different laws: speeding, changing lanes in an intersection, driving distracted/talking on cell phones, using bike lanes as turn lanes, etc. Pot, meet kettle.
Pretty sure it is 100% legal to use a bike lane as a turn lane in every state of the union. So long as you indicate and you also yield to bicycles. That is, of course, unless the bicycle lane is divided from the road way. In fact, California Vehicle Code 21717 says that a car MUST use the bicycle lane to make a right turn because otherwise a car may HIT a bicycle who is trying to go straight through the intersection. So for the love of god, please stop complaining about something cars do that could potentially save your life.
Every election cycle healthcare becomes an issue, and increasingly CO2 & global warming, energy independence, and global conflicts over energy. Here's an idea: Chip humans and log their blood pressure and heart rate. In order to get any health insurance, your log must show some reasonable level of aerobic exercise - 4 to 6 hours per week, for starters. You are too busy, too important, and don't have the time for this? Fine, pay for your own healthcare. All of it, including vision and dental. No exercise for 1 week - probation. No exercise for 1 month, no coverage, for anything. Probationary coverage resumes the first day you can show a week's worth of exercise, which can be done in half a day.
You are insane. And what about those who are wheelchair bound? Do they not have rights to the same medical care as you because they are physically unable to engage in the exercise that you engage in? Even if they are equally or even more productive to society than you are? Because you might decide to play a sport one day and have someone hit you and paralyze you. Playing a sport is a choice and that made you handicapped. And based on what you're saying, such a person deserves nothing.
The locals are by far the worse drivers I have ever come across in the US. Even worse than Los Angeles. They can flip a car in a single vehicle accident on a straight road on a dry sunny day.
That is one thing that always amazed me about Florida. And on a rainy day I have seen no less than 5 accidents per mile in FL, a place where it rains all the time. But there are quite a few areas of this country that are yearning to beat Florida in this regard.
That being said, the neighborhood I live in now can often be faster to walk than to drive because of stupid and selfish people who block intersections and whole lanes to try and avoid traffic. I have been in sight of my house and it has taken me over 15 minutes (sometimes as many as 30) to drive a distance I could walk in less than 5 minutes. It is mind boggling.
Had chip+PIN debit cards forever, they were very vulnerable to being used online. The numbers and CVV are printed on the card. You can write the numbers in your hand (w/ expiry date) then you've "defeated" it. In modern times, people were taking pictures of cards with smartphones camera or buying numbers on the Internet, so now there's some kind of 2FA which defaults to sending SMS to your phone number.
Sorry, AC. I meant that they cannot be used in card present online authorized transactions. I was tired when I wrote that. They can be used for card not present e-commerce transactions, yes. That is where they are still vulnerable.
And you'd be wrong. In a 90-second evacuation, seconds count. A narrow seating row that's 3-5 seconds slower to empty will add up and slow down the evacuation.
Well show me the empirical evidence you have that shows that these narrow rows are 3-5 seconds slower to evacuate, then.
They bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into - I say let em be crushed.
You're obviously not required to travel for business. If only it was so simple.
Then you're not traveling enough for business or you'd get upgraded automatically and for free. Anyway, most businesses will let you pay for the upgrade cost out of your own pocket. And most airlines will let you book the upgrade separately immediately after ticket purchase so long as they do not buy a basic economy fare. And if your company is trying to save $80 on your ticket by buying basic economy then you ought to put your foot down and tell them you won't travel if they're not willing to spend a few extra dollars so that you have the option to buy an upgrade.
Go back to live evacuation tests. Require that they use airline CEOs, upper management, and their families as the test subjects... If the plane can't be evac'ed in 90 seconds without injury, increase seat pitch and try again.
If a few airline upper managers get hurt during an evacuation test, maybe they'll realize WHY extremely dense seating is a bad idea.
Meh. As a numerate consumer, I think this is a bad idea. Denser seating lowers ticket prices, and given that the probability that a plane I'm on will need to be evacuated in 90 seconds is extraordinarily low, and given that in one of those rare situations I think minor injuries would be the least of my concerns, I'll take the denser seating and lower price as long as I get enough legroom that I can fit. Especially for short flights.
Even as a taller individual I am perfectly okay with these denser packed planes. I get upgraded to the extra leg room section automatically on ticket purchase so these lower prices help me, too. But even if I did not get the auto upgrade I would pay for the extra leg room. Anyway, I've been flying on a regular basis for about 15 years now and they have actually increased the number of emergency exits - they had to. They have to have a certain number of exits based on the number of passengers. So I don't think that there will be a significant problem with meeting the evacuation requirements anyway.
The US opted for chip+signature, rather than chip+PIN like the rest of the world. Since no one ever checks signatures properly, stolen cards can easily be used for fraud in the US, without needing to shoulder surf for a PIN first.
You can't clone the cards and use them in online transactions. They are skimming the cards and using them for online transactions, most likely. Though the chip does generate a new CVV when used with the chip. If you run the magnetic stripe through, you get the real CVV which can be used online. Also there are tons of restaurants, fast food joints, gas stations, and banks that still use the magnetic stripe instead of the chip.
Keeping it updated and working with secure boot isn't the problem. The problem comes when the person/company/government holding the keys decides that they no longer want to sign your software, and the hardware doesn't allow you to add your own keys. Then "your" computer can only run the "approved" software, not the software that you, the owner of the hardware, want it to run. That's exactly what's going to happen with these new machines in 5-6 years, just like iPhones. Apple won't support installing the latest version on this "old" hardware, and therefore won't sign the OS to be able to boot into the "trusted" environment for it. Yes you could turn off the trusted environment and apply some hacks to get it to install just like "old" Apple machines right now, however since you're no longer running in the trusted environment the internal SSD won't be visible so you'll have to use external storage. I still have a few 10+ year old machines that work well enough to do anything I would normally do with a computer, though they are a bit heavier and use way more power than modern equivalents. They still can be used, and there's no reason to throw them out just because they're no longer supported by the original manufacturer.
Right now Microsoft's CA is the root of trust for secure boot. Don't like it? Volunteer your own CA or the cash to run the service on a commercial CA. The UEFI forum asked for corporate volunteers to run as a root of trust for secure boot and only Microsoft stepped up. They would allow multiple roots of trust if other CAs volunteered. But I think you'll find that it is in Microsoft's best interest NOT to be overly restrictive with its signing authority as that would likely result in huge fines against Microsoft in the EU. Not only that, but being able to disable secure boot and loading your own keys is a requirement from Microsoft in order to get certified to OEM with Windows. The only company allowed to lock down secure boot on their systems? Microsoft. And we've seen them do it with the ARM versions of the Surface in the past.
This is likely just a fairly amateurish security protocol implementation sold at inflated prices to people flush with cash.
Its really not all that hard to do secure communications... if actual criminals used something called "ironchat" they deserve what they got.
If secure communications are so easy, why do so many people seem to get it wrong? It only takes one little mistake to compromise secure communications. The mistake may not even be in anything but a library you use or a design flaw in the silicon you run it on. No. Secure communications is very difficult and that is why the NSA spends a lot of time and effort A) Monitoring others communications B) developing and testing secure methods of communication.
How exactly do you mandate endpoint authentication for calls originating from Canada, Latin America, South America and overseas?
You either force them to accept your rules and potential fines or you don't peer with them. Simple. I guarantee you the trustworthy networks will play ball. The originating network knows whose DID was used to start the transaction. The fines for a spam call just trickle through the network until the originator pays the fine or that provider is cut off.
That they are opportunities to learn and grow. Children certainly do not grow as individuals when they have every problem in life solved for them.
Ah yes, those infants with bone cancer surely are learning a lot about life before they die at the ripe age of 2. (But obviously they never grow.)
Often times religious people believe that those are learning opportunities for the parent and not the child. Science can neither prove nor disprove the existence of a god. Anyone who knows science knows that is not within the realm of science to begin with. So whether or not you believe in god, this research cannot possibly show that god doesn't exist. End of story.
I'm pretty sure this underlines the fact that humans were not designed by some intelligent superbeing in the sky.
I'm honestly not sure how you draw that conclusion at all. Many religious people believe that there is a purpose behind these sorts of things. That they are opportunities to learn and grow. Children certainly do not grow as individuals when they have every problem in life solved for them.
The kids without computers at home are at a big disadvantage.
Is that because they don't have computers or because they have parents that work two jobs trying to make ends meet and can't really get involved in their education? I love computers. I've been playing on a computer since I was 3. However, this computer mania in schools is ridiculous. Kids should not be doing everything on Chromebooks or iPads. They need to learn to read and write with a pencil and paper. Not because a pen and paper is better, but there is a correlation between writing by hand and memory retention. By all means have them write book reports on the computer. But math and science ought to be done by hand. There's no need for a computer most of the time. Newer is not always better.
he should get states to require people to be able to drive a stick shift during their driver's license exam. Since he owns a 1967 Porsche 911S, he should be well aware of the joy of driving a stick shift compared to the numbing laziness of an automatic.
I would be happy if they forced them to demonstrate the ability to merge onto an interstate, back up in a straight line, parallel park, and other driving skills that 90% of the driving population of the US seems to lack.
you're doing the parenting thing wrong.
Steve Jobs himself wouldn't let his own kids anywhere near an iPhone or an iPad.
Wait. Steve Jobs had kids that he didn't neglect? This is news to me.
Seriously, why are there not criminal charges pending? Perhaps they stopped and reported it. But had they done that, why did the PR at Waymo not cite the police report? Conversely, a police report would have been created for the victim in the case of a hit and run -- where is the investigation into the Camry? Shoddy journalism. Fairly one sided view of the incident
If they were not involved in the accident they are not obligated to stop or report anything. Unless I misread the article, they were not in an accident. AN idiot who does not know how to merge was in a single car accident, unless I am mistaken.
These two yutzes cause a crash on the freeway and they don't even bother to stop and check if the other people are injured?
They don't even bother reporting the crash to the authorities, they just driiive on back to HQ and hush it up?
"Former Top Waymo Engineer Altered Code To Go On Forbidden Routes" is not the headline I would have chosen for this story, folks.
They most definitely did NOT cause an accident. The driver who is merging needs to actually MERGE and not just assume that people are going to let him in. Typically if they have their indicator on, I will adjust my speed to help them merge but it sounds like the driver of the other vehicle did not try to speed up or slow down. That is their problem and not Google's. Too many people just putter on down the on-ramp not even acting like they're getting onto a freeway or interstate. Sure there are areas where drivers ought to give extra consideration to mergers. Connecticut, as an example, has notoriously short on-ramps that make proper merging difficult.
Problem with E-mail isn't in the "getting one running". It's the constant maintenance that's needed.
The real problem here (assuming that they provide all that upkeep for you in a reliable way) is that no one will accept your mail if you do not have a reverse DNS entry for your IP. Not to mention the fact that ISPs block the necessary ports to run this on a home network. You’d have to have a business service plan to get this to work and you had better have a static IP address also.
I do worry as to the cause.
Google Engineer here. Sorry, I tripped over a power cord in my boss's office. I had no idea that he was running the load balancing host off of his desk. It won't happen again, I promise!
Same is true of on-site privacy settings. Simply asking a site to behave does nothing. Enforce it by blocking their servers, and deleting their cookies. Don't use the site at all, if practical.
But by taking information from your computer when you have Do Not Track a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act? You don't want them to use your computer in that way, yet they are. I also wonder the same thing about Microsoft's auto-update and reboot program. If I don't authorize the computer to upgrade and reboot, are they violating this law also? I know you'll say that the terms of use give you no right to deny these uses. However, I have no choice but to use a bank in the ordinary course of my life and I can tell you right now that most major banks in the US execute tracking scripts from Facebook every time you visit their site.
Puck autocorrect!
Especially when you're trying to talk sexy and you end up plucking her fussy.
It's obvious you're faking. Everyone knows that autocorrect always ducks up when you try and use the F word.