Well, there are two things missing on that for me.
First, it has to be a reasonable price. That means cheaper than cable assuming I'm not getting all the channels I don't care about.
Second, I have to be able to record shows. If we're talking channels, and not a general streaming service, then I want to continue to use MythTV to record my shows. This is a big show-stopper for any of the services available now.
There were flyers at the Tesla service center in Watertown, and I contacted them. We had the cameras installed in September of 2016. Occasionally I remember the cameras and pay extra attention, but that's rare, probably 1% of the time. We pretty much ignore them.
Yeah, last summer Elon went crazy, but the most recent bout was the SEC being vindictive, and the judge basically recognized that and told them to work it out.
I am one of the drivers in the study. They equipped my car with three cameras, one for my face, one for my hands, and one out front. They also record data directly from the car and audio. When I look at the animation of the various trips, I can recognize my drive to work.
I generally turn on Autopilot (AP1) anytime the road has paint on both sides of the lane. I've learned that there are some situations it handles poorly, such as coming over the crest of a rise, so that accounts for a lot of the disconnects. On highways, we're on Autopilot most of the time, and it's really quite good, though I watch for stopped cars, construction zones, and exits (it used to be bad about following the right paint into the exit).
If you have any questions about my experience, I would be happy to answer. (I'm not seeing messages from Slashdot on post replies recently; I'm not sure if something broke, but I'll try to check back.)
I signed a release for video clips of disconnects for release with this paper, so there will probably be some videos of me somewhere.
Yes, but then the question is how much of the excess already in the atmosphere will get pulled out by natural activity? Or have we initiated processes that will cause more carbon to be released?
I disagree. Sea level rise is the threat that we can't mitigate. Farms can shift to different crops. We can tweak the DNA of existing crops to adjust as needed, potentially protecting them from new pests. Yes, we have a public health threat looming, but we can manage it. It will be a disaster for the fishing industry, but we've been overfishing for years, so that's not unexpected even without climate change.
But there's not much we can do about sea level rise except move, and we've put massive infrastructure on the coasts, and that will be lost. It's not like we have empty cities waiting for us to relocate our coastal populations to. Well, there's Detroit. Do you want to have to move to Detroit in the next decade or two?
One foot of sea level rise is probably the limit of what we could tolerate before we start pulling out of coastal areas. One meter and we're losing many towns and building walls around others. Ten meters and it's goodbye to most of the coast.
The big issue is that in the past, these changes have taken place over thousands of years. This could happen over decades. We just can't adapt that quickly.
The sea level rise is the big issue. We're talking about flooding many major cities. We'll try to add sea walls and such, but if we're talking 10+ meters, that won't work.
And without the sea level rise, we're fine as a species, but much of nature isn't, and isn't going to adapt fast enough. We're talking about a major extinction event. Yes, in some cases, this will help agriculture, but the benefits will be dwarfed by the problems.
Well, there are two challenges. One is storing the stuff permanently, but the other is transporting the waste and putting it into the permanent storage. Much of the opposition to facilities like Yucca Mountain have been around the transportation issue. That's what they can celebrate having demonstrated success with now.
Ahh, I see you don't understand how reading works. I suggest you learn to read adjectives like "local" instead of just skipping them as a foreign concept. That graphical and computational processing is going to "the Internet," or more specifically to "the cloud." GPU and CPU power at Google's servers are quite important in this scheme, but they would be described with a different adjective, such as "remote." In fact, Google's GPUs will have to do more work than would be necessary for the same game running locally (there's that word again), because they have to both generate the video frames and then encode those frames using whatever video codec they're streaming back to you.
I would think anything capable of watching Netflix should be capable of working with this service. It would just need to be able to take input from the controller and be updated to add the new streaming service.
I can't be sure from the article, but it looks like this is a different approach to gaming. Normally the code and data for the games is sent to your device, and then your device runs the game logic, renders the graphics, and outputs the video and sound, sending data to central servers for multiplayer gaming. This service takes data from your controller, sends it over the network to a server, runs all the logic and rendering there, then streams the video and sound back to your device.
This is a radical change that has lots of serious implications if it catches on.
Your local CPU is no longer important
Your local GPU is no longer important
Your local OS is no longer important
Network latency is much more important
Network bandwidth caps are very limiting
I expect Google will be able to encode the game video in a number of different formats, enabling streaming to many different devices. Doing this in real time is a nice trick. Eventually they should be able to support multi-monitor setups and other interesting configurations.
Tesla already complies with right to repair laws. You can buy access to all their service manuals. There's a guy who resurrects dead Teslas who has used that occasionally (but only occasionally, as the access is expensive).
Nope. Mobile repair can do all sorts of work, including brakes and suspension. Yes it takes longer without a lift, but the added cost in one employee's time is offset by the reduced overhead from fewer service buildings. It also means fewer loaner cars and happier customers.
Sure, there are some things they can't do, but if they shift 75% of the work to mobile service, then they can handle four times as many cars without increasing the number of service centers. It's the simplest way they can scale their service operations as the number of cars on the road jumps.
Nope. I had mobile repair replace my parking brakes (warranty issue) and rotate my tires. He did it in my garage with a jack. The whole point of mobile service is that while it takes the repair guy a bit more time (both in driving and in working), it saves them a ton of overhead in buildings, so it ends up being cheaper.
So the question for NASA is when should they open this last supply of moon rocks for study. The longer they wait, the more advanced our science will be, but also the longer they wait, the longer we go without the knowledge that today's science can unlock. Well, obviously now is the right time. Why? Because soon the cache will be worthless when SpaceX returns new samples, so this is the last chance to do real science from the Apollo missions.
Imagine if everyone had PV on their roofs to supply a net of 100% of their needs (including businesses). The power company would be left with utility lines to maintain, and they would have to buy power at night to provide power when the sun goes down (or pay for fuel if they own the plants). Thanks to net metering, the only fees homeowners pay is the monthly connection charge.
This model will lead to the following sequence:
Very high monthly connection charges.
Severe time of use rates, such that the credit for power during the day is near zero while the cost at night is high.
Strong incentives for homeowners to also get battery systems to avoid pulling power at night and instead supply power at night.
Sufficient power from home battery systems to eliminate the power plants.
Many customers deciding it's not worth paying the monthly connection fee, and instead just using their battery all the time.
Utilities going out of business
So where does that sequence break down? With EV charging, it's not practical to store enough power to charge your cars overnight, so the grid is still needed. Also some states (I believe Florida) it's illegal to not connect to the grid. And of course, many homes have too much shade to install solar panels, so they get left out.
But following that logic is important for planning what the grid needs to look like in ten years. There will still be a lot of electricity flowing through it, but with both large-scale and home storage and generation, it will be a lot different from today.
Some people argue that it's more efficient to have large scale solar farms and industrial storage facilities, but I think it makes the whole system much more resilient to have much of the generation and storage distributed. The question is then how will we pay for the grid once we get there, and how do we get there?
Would all apps on a given phone share the same "edited set"?
Ideally you could create as many sets of "contacts" as you like and define which set each app sees.
If this were to transpire, then movie streaming apps would quickly become exclusive to iOS, as streaming providers would have no way to verify that the user of an Android device is physically in a country (or a digital single market confederation) where the provider has licensed the movie.
Non-sense. The services work just fine on desktop systems without GPS. They'll just fall back to geo-IP databases. No big deal.
"To continue using this feature, connect to the Internet. For advanced offline capability, subscribe to Offline Pack next time you're online."
Need contacts? Either get the real ones or a fake empty list. Or possibly get some edited set. Or yes, but restricted to just names and phone numbers (or names and email for an email client).
Need location? Either get the real location, or just get a static location defined by the user.
Need storage? Either get it for real, or get a restricted app-specific subdirectory.
Need the network? Either get it, or tell the app that you're offline. Oh, and add this back as a permission even if almost every app will ask for it. I have to run a VPN app to block network access on a per-app basis. (This was a regular permission in Android many versions back.)
This sort of thing is so obvious that it's stupid that they haven't done it yet.
And then there are the permissions they don't have but should. Many apps seem to start themselves up and do things automatically for no good reason. Make background activity a permission, and I'll turn it off on apps that shouldn't be active unless I tap the icon.
I bet adding all the above would also do wonders for the battery life.
No, let's frame the discussion with the correct terminology. For four months in the winter, we use Daylight Wasting Time. That term correctly describes the current system, points out the stupidity, and make clear the solution.
It was almost 4 years from 4.0 to 5.0, and we're 19 years from 2038, so that puts us at somewhere around 10.0, not 23.1. Of course Linus may completely change the number system by then, so it's impossible to predict.
I'm not sure either, but I would speculate that since the attack lets you find out about the memory layout, you can figure out where another application (or VM) is using memory, so you can target that memory with Rowhammer, using your own memory that has the right physical relationship on the DRAM chips. I would also speculate that you could use Rowhammer to corrupt your own memory in a way that is predictably different depending on the contents of the memory in the other application, allowing you to read the other application's data.
It all sounds very difficult to make serious use of, but the difficulty of mitigating it makes it a good target for someone who has the resources to make a serious effort.
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Well, there are two things missing on that for me.
First, it has to be a reasonable price. That means cheaper than cable assuming I'm not getting all the channels I don't care about.
Second, I have to be able to record shows. If we're talking channels, and not a general streaming service, then I want to continue to use MythTV to record my shows. This is a big show-stopper for any of the services available now.
There were flyers at the Tesla service center in Watertown, and I contacted them. We had the cameras installed in September of 2016. Occasionally I remember the cameras and pay extra attention, but that's rare, probably 1% of the time. We pretty much ignore them.
Yeah, last summer Elon went crazy, but the most recent bout was the SEC being vindictive, and the judge basically recognized that and told them to work it out.
I am one of the drivers in the study. They equipped my car with three cameras, one for my face, one for my hands, and one out front. They also record data directly from the car and audio. When I look at the animation of the various trips, I can recognize my drive to work.
I generally turn on Autopilot (AP1) anytime the road has paint on both sides of the lane. I've learned that there are some situations it handles poorly, such as coming over the crest of a rise, so that accounts for a lot of the disconnects. On highways, we're on Autopilot most of the time, and it's really quite good, though I watch for stopped cars, construction zones, and exits (it used to be bad about following the right paint into the exit).
If you have any questions about my experience, I would be happy to answer. (I'm not seeing messages from Slashdot on post replies recently; I'm not sure if something broke, but I'll try to check back.)
I signed a release for video clips of disconnects for release with this paper, so there will probably be some videos of me somewhere.
I had a 5G connection on my Galaxy S8 in Boston last week. Thank you AT&T.
Do you really think your economy is that independent from what happens on the coasts?
No, by gradual change, I mean on a geological timescale like in the past. Now we're compressing milenia into decades.
Yes, but then the question is how much of the excess already in the atmosphere will get pulled out by natural activity? Or have we initiated processes that will cause more carbon to be released?
I disagree. Sea level rise is the threat that we can't mitigate. Farms can shift to different crops. We can tweak the DNA of existing crops to adjust as needed, potentially protecting them from new pests. Yes, we have a public health threat looming, but we can manage it. It will be a disaster for the fishing industry, but we've been overfishing for years, so that's not unexpected even without climate change.
But there's not much we can do about sea level rise except move, and we've put massive infrastructure on the coasts, and that will be lost. It's not like we have empty cities waiting for us to relocate our coastal populations to. Well, there's Detroit. Do you want to have to move to Detroit in the next decade or two?
One foot of sea level rise is probably the limit of what we could tolerate before we start pulling out of coastal areas. One meter and we're losing many towns and building walls around others. Ten meters and it's goodbye to most of the coast.
That works much better when change is gradual.
The big issue is that in the past, these changes have taken place over thousands of years. This could happen over decades. We just can't adapt that quickly.
The sea level rise is the big issue. We're talking about flooding many major cities. We'll try to add sea walls and such, but if we're talking 10+ meters, that won't work.
And without the sea level rise, we're fine as a species, but much of nature isn't, and isn't going to adapt fast enough. We're talking about a major extinction event. Yes, in some cases, this will help agriculture, but the benefits will be dwarfed by the problems.
Well, there are two challenges. One is storing the stuff permanently, but the other is transporting the waste and putting it into the permanent storage. Much of the opposition to facilities like Yucca Mountain have been around the transportation issue. That's what they can celebrate having demonstrated success with now.
Ahh, I see you don't understand how reading works. I suggest you learn to read adjectives like "local" instead of just skipping them as a foreign concept. That graphical and computational processing is going to "the Internet," or more specifically to "the cloud." GPU and CPU power at Google's servers are quite important in this scheme, but they would be described with a different adjective, such as "remote." In fact, Google's GPUs will have to do more work than would be necessary for the same game running locally (there's that word again), because they have to both generate the video frames and then encode those frames using whatever video codec they're streaming back to you.
I would think anything capable of watching Netflix should be capable of working with this service. It would just need to be able to take input from the controller and be updated to add the new streaming service.
I can't be sure from the article, but it looks like this is a different approach to gaming. Normally the code and data for the games is sent to your device, and then your device runs the game logic, renders the graphics, and outputs the video and sound, sending data to central servers for multiplayer gaming. This service takes data from your controller, sends it over the network to a server, runs all the logic and rendering there, then streams the video and sound back to your device.
This is a radical change that has lots of serious implications if it catches on.
I expect Google will be able to encode the game video in a number of different formats, enabling streaming to many different devices. Doing this in real time is a nice trick. Eventually they should be able to support multi-monitor setups and other interesting configurations.
Tesla already complies with right to repair laws. You can buy access to all their service manuals. There's a guy who resurrects dead Teslas who has used that occasionally (but only occasionally, as the access is expensive).
Nope. Mobile repair can do all sorts of work, including brakes and suspension. Yes it takes longer without a lift, but the added cost in one employee's time is offset by the reduced overhead from fewer service buildings. It also means fewer loaner cars and happier customers.
Sure, there are some things they can't do, but if they shift 75% of the work to mobile service, then they can handle four times as many cars without increasing the number of service centers. It's the simplest way they can scale their service operations as the number of cars on the road jumps.
Nope. I had mobile repair replace my parking brakes (warranty issue) and rotate my tires. He did it in my garage with a jack. The whole point of mobile service is that while it takes the repair guy a bit more time (both in driving and in working), it saves them a ton of overhead in buildings, so it ends up being cheaper.
So the question for NASA is when should they open this last supply of moon rocks for study. The longer they wait, the more advanced our science will be, but also the longer they wait, the longer we go without the knowledge that today's science can unlock. Well, obviously now is the right time. Why? Because soon the cache will be worthless when SpaceX returns new samples, so this is the last chance to do real science from the Apollo missions.
Imagine if everyone had PV on their roofs to supply a net of 100% of their needs (including businesses). The power company would be left with utility lines to maintain, and they would have to buy power at night to provide power when the sun goes down (or pay for fuel if they own the plants). Thanks to net metering, the only fees homeowners pay is the monthly connection charge.
This model will lead to the following sequence:
So where does that sequence break down? With EV charging, it's not practical to store enough power to charge your cars overnight, so the grid is still needed. Also some states (I believe Florida) it's illegal to not connect to the grid. And of course, many homes have too much shade to install solar panels, so they get left out.
But following that logic is important for planning what the grid needs to look like in ten years. There will still be a lot of electricity flowing through it, but with both large-scale and home storage and generation, it will be a lot different from today.
Some people argue that it's more efficient to have large scale solar farms and industrial storage facilities, but I think it makes the whole system much more resilient to have much of the generation and storage distributed. The question is then how will we pay for the grid once we get there, and how do we get there?
Ideally you could create as many sets of "contacts" as you like and define which set each app sees.
Non-sense. The services work just fine on desktop systems without GPS. They'll just fall back to geo-IP databases. No big deal.
They could do that now.
Absolutely!
Need contacts? Either get the real ones or a fake empty list. Or possibly get some edited set. Or yes, but restricted to just names and phone numbers (or names and email for an email client).
Need location? Either get the real location, or just get a static location defined by the user.
Need storage? Either get it for real, or get a restricted app-specific subdirectory.
Need the network? Either get it, or tell the app that you're offline. Oh, and add this back as a permission even if almost every app will ask for it. I have to run a VPN app to block network access on a per-app basis. (This was a regular permission in Android many versions back.)
This sort of thing is so obvious that it's stupid that they haven't done it yet.
And then there are the permissions they don't have but should. Many apps seem to start themselves up and do things automatically for no good reason. Make background activity a permission, and I'll turn it off on apps that shouldn't be active unless I tap the icon.
I bet adding all the above would also do wonders for the battery life.
No, let's frame the discussion with the correct terminology. For four months in the winter, we use Daylight Wasting Time. That term correctly describes the current system, points out the stupidity, and make clear the solution.
It was almost 4 years from 4.0 to 5.0, and we're 19 years from 2038, so that puts us at somewhere around 10.0, not 23.1. Of course Linus may completely change the number system by then, so it's impossible to predict.
I'm not sure either, but I would speculate that since the attack lets you find out about the memory layout, you can figure out where another application (or VM) is using memory, so you can target that memory with Rowhammer, using your own memory that has the right physical relationship on the DRAM chips. I would also speculate that you could use Rowhammer to corrupt your own memory in a way that is predictably different depending on the contents of the memory in the other application, allowing you to read the other application's data.
It all sounds very difficult to make serious use of, but the difficulty of mitigating it makes it a good target for someone who has the resources to make a serious effort.