What this boils down to is that the content industry is asking ISPs to do lots of deep analysis of their traffic. That's the problem here. ISPs should have no business looking at the data portion of packets. The proposals here are all about looking at the data portion.
Yet another argument that everything needs to be encrypted and routed to a single port. You can almost do this with sslh to de-multiplex a port, but some protocols (e.g., IMAP) don't send distinguishing headers immediately when the client connects. Of course, this doesn't stop ISPs from doing packet size and frequency analysis to determine the type of traffic through fingerprinting.
So the spaceship portion is Starship, and the launcher is Super Heavy, so together at launch (from Earth), it's Starship Super Heavy. When using it to ferry passengers across the globe, it will give new meaning to making an SSH connection.
If you actually read what I wrote an the comment it was responding to, it has nothing to do with the technology being ready. It's a discussion on whether the elimination of mosquito species would disrupt the food chain.
I believe they studied that, and it's not significant, especially if you only target the species of mosquitoes that spread diseases to humans (malaria, west nile, etc.), as that leaves many others unharmed.
I loved how he always did a cameo in every Marvel movie. I've been saying for a long time that he should just film a bunch of scenes that could be used in future movies, but now it's too late.
He did what he loved, was successful, and touched many lives.
The speech-to-text engines are amazing. Google and even distinguish voices between users.
What's lacking is the natural language understanding. Everything right now is rule based. They may need to move to an AI approach to get that part really working well, but they haven't come close to what they can still do with their current approach. There are so many things that it either can't do, or I have to use cryptic code-like phrasing to make work. For example, I can set a timer, but I can't say, "Hey Google, in three and a half minutes, tell me my tea is ready." Instead of "Alexa, where's my car?" I have to ask, "Alexa, ask my car location" (because "my car" is the skill that knows how to talk to my car).
What I find most surprising about all this is that while they're selling these by the millions and supposedly have huge development teams behind them, I've seen no indication that they've betten one bit smarter since I've had them.
This will be a win for Disney. I would love to see fewer services instead of more, but Disney has the right content to make this work. With decades of shows from The Disney Channel, a huge movie library, and a range of new shows, they have enough content to support their network (unlike CBS).
Most of their subscribers will be families with kids. Lots of parents will love the idea of being able to let their kids stream shows without ads (until Disney starts injecting ads).
Those were big bugs, and they have real impacts. Not all impacts allow remote exploit. For home users, the impact is to change any remote exploit that gains user privileges into one that gains root privileges. That's important, but not a disaster.
Where the real disaster is is in virtualized systems. That class of exploits allows you to potentially hack from one VM into another running on the same physical hardware. That's a disaster for cloud providers, but fortunately, they have professional IT teams that can stay on top of required patches, to the extent that they are able to do so. Unfortunately many of the patches may need to be done inside the user-controlled VMs.
This sounds like a somewhat similar bug in that if you can execute on one hyperthread, you can figure out what is going on on the other one on the same core (or at least I suspect that's it--I didn't read the article). Again, that's bad for virtualized systems, but not that serious for most home users. It does potentially blow a big hole in the security for whole-disk encryption and things like that, which some people are going to be very concerned about.
I wanted to buy a Mini a few years back, but for the same money, I could buy a much higher spec Intel NUC box as a Hackintosh, so that's where we went. The Hackintosh has worked well, though it has a few glitches, and I'm afraid to install upgrades in case it breaks something.
It looks like with this upgrade, the equation stays the same. If you're willing to do a Hackintosh, you can get something much better at a lower cost.
There are two issues with subsidies like this. One is that most companies will look for loopholes and try to take advantage of the deal, doing only the bare minimum to get everything they can. The other is that the government usually doesn't structure the deal such that the payouts are tied to meeting promises.
I'm under the impression that Nevada's deal with Tesla is a case where both issues were handled correctly, because Tesla really wanted to do everything they promised, so they had no reason to try to wiggle out, and because the deal was well-structured and tied to jobs.
I expect in most cases the people writing the deal for the government just don't have enough experience to put all the right teeth in them. I know from my experience in my town's government, we have sometimes failed to correctly specify details in agreements that have come back to bite us.
You never know for certain that a given course of action will cause a fatality. When you're driving, you try to avoid accident. Self-driving cars will do the same. They'll compute the odds of an accident for all options and select the one with the lowest odds. It may be just a fraction of a percent less likely, but it will take that.
Yup, growing up in Boise in the 80s, we were complaining about "liberal Californians" moving into the area. What really happened is that conservative Californians moved to Idaho, making Idaho more conservative now than it was then.
But, yeah, complaining about Californians moving to Boise is at least 40 years old. That said, there has been so much construction that I hardly recognize the place anymore. Almost all the farmland between Boise and Nampa is now city. The increases in home prices will be moderated by the continuing expansion of the city.
No, but it often does. It would mean that instead of just buying apps, they would have to buy the entire accounts, which would make it a bit harder for them.
Google and Apple should disable auto-update on apps that change owners. If you want an update after the app has changed owners, you should at least be aware of the change, which would cut way down on this type of scam.
The removal of FSD is probably a mix of a number of factors:
Most people aren't buying it
The current price doesn't cover the hardware upgrade costs
They might be afraid of lawsuits if FSD isn't available soon
I don't see Tesla worrying about the last factor much--not because it isn't an issue, but because it's just not how the company operates. The real issue is probably that they are expecting the hardware upgrade to cost $5000, and the FSD package was only $3000. They were probably seeing a significant uptick in FSD orders after they announced the hardware upgrades would probably cost $5K for people who hadn't ordered it.
I would also note that the FSD option has gone away for the Model S/X purchasers, too, though the reporting has focused on the Model 3.
The first thing to do when getting a new allegedly waterproof phone is to test it by putting it in a large cup full of water for five minutes. If there are any obvious faults, it will fail under warranty before you transfer everything over and personalize it. Samsung once had a sport version of their phone that failed in water, and they decided to replace them under warranty when people complained rather than recall them, so lots of people lost data just so Samsung could avoid replacing the ones that didn't happen to get wet.
I like Google+. I felt they really botched the roll-out when they had lots of excitement, but didn't have features for businesses and such. They had one shot at taking out Facebook, and they completely messed it up. I don't see anyone else having enough credibility to convince people to move to another platform, no matter how better it may be.
Lack of pages for businesses and celebrities at the initial roll-out was a significant factor. It would have been better to delay the launch and have everything ready at the start.
Japan has chronic labor shortages due to low birth rates, high longevity, and strict immigration. The latest unemployment is 2.5%. Anything that frees up people to do other things in Japan is good for them.
Headlight controls are on the touch screen because you never use them. The automatic headlights are essentially perfect. They even go on for at least a minute if the wipers go on (as required by law in many states). The only time I can think of needing to manually turn on my headlights was for construction zones in Pennsylvania (weird state law), and I expect the Autopilot will pick that up eventually. The high beams ("brights") are also essentially perfect, though I manually turn them off sometimes at dusk when it turns them on just because it can.
The automatic wipers are pretty good, and I rarely adjust them in my S, but I'm using the older hardware, not the camera-based rain detection. Not having to think about the wipers is nice, even if they do a random swipe once in a while.
Generally I only look at the center screen with the autosteer on or when stopped, so the car is staying nicely in its lane.
Comments like yours are almost always from people who haven't driven the cars. Once you drive one, you understand the logic behind the decisions. As a Model S driver, I'm concerned about a few of the controls that were not included in the Model 3, but they've added the most important ones to the steering wheel buttons, so I expect with a little experience driving, I wouldn't miss them.
If you want to complain about the Model 3, complain about the lack of a heated steering wheel. That's the only thing it's really missing.
In support of the story, China does have a long history of industrial espionage and other spying. Many believe that their economic rise was boosted by stolen IP.
On the other hand, the current administration is clearly using allegations against China to balance the revelations that continue to come out about Russian interference. Many of the allegations from this administration towards China appear to be completely fabricated.
But this allegation is much more detailed than anything the administration has been imagining, but the sources are all anonymous.
True. I'm just under the impression that we're still learning a lot about concrete, so the best concrete for a given job will likely be better in a decade than what is considered best now. But I'm just a non-expert making suppositions, so who knows?
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What this boils down to is that the content industry is asking ISPs to do lots of deep analysis of their traffic. That's the problem here. ISPs should have no business looking at the data portion of packets. The proposals here are all about looking at the data portion.
Yet another argument that everything needs to be encrypted and routed to a single port. You can almost do this with sslh to de-multiplex a port, but some protocols (e.g., IMAP) don't send distinguishing headers immediately when the client connects. Of course, this doesn't stop ISPs from doing packet size and frequency analysis to determine the type of traffic through fingerprinting.
So the spaceship portion is Starship, and the launcher is Super Heavy, so together at launch (from Earth), it's Starship Super Heavy. When using it to ferry passengers across the globe, it will give new meaning to making an SSH connection.
Think again:
If you actually read what I wrote an the comment it was responding to, it has nothing to do with the technology being ready. It's a discussion on whether the elimination of mosquito species would disrupt the food chain.
Ticks should be next. First we get rid of deer ticks (Lyme disease), and maybe a few others that spread serious illnesses.
I believe they studied that, and it's not significant, especially if you only target the species of mosquitoes that spread diseases to humans (malaria, west nile, etc.), as that leaves many others unharmed.
I loved how he always did a cameo in every Marvel movie. I've been saying for a long time that he should just film a bunch of scenes that could be used in future movies, but now it's too late.
He did what he loved, was successful, and touched many lives.
The devices are still too stupid.
The speech-to-text engines are amazing. Google and even distinguish voices between users.
What's lacking is the natural language understanding. Everything right now is rule based. They may need to move to an AI approach to get that part really working well, but they haven't come close to what they can still do with their current approach. There are so many things that it either can't do, or I have to use cryptic code-like phrasing to make work. For example, I can set a timer, but I can't say, "Hey Google, in three and a half minutes, tell me my tea is ready." Instead of "Alexa, where's my car?" I have to ask, "Alexa, ask my car location" (because "my car" is the skill that knows how to talk to my car).
What I find most surprising about all this is that while they're selling these by the millions and supposedly have huge development teams behind them, I've seen no indication that they've betten one bit smarter since I've had them.
This will be a win for Disney. I would love to see fewer services instead of more, but Disney has the right content to make this work. With decades of shows from The Disney Channel, a huge movie library, and a range of new shows, they have enough content to support their network (unlike CBS).
Most of their subscribers will be families with kids. Lots of parents will love the idea of being able to let their kids stream shows without ads (until Disney starts injecting ads).
The boom is only when crossing the sound barrier. Once they do that, they can continue to go fast without diving.
Those were big bugs, and they have real impacts. Not all impacts allow remote exploit. For home users, the impact is to change any remote exploit that gains user privileges into one that gains root privileges. That's important, but not a disaster.
Where the real disaster is is in virtualized systems. That class of exploits allows you to potentially hack from one VM into another running on the same physical hardware. That's a disaster for cloud providers, but fortunately, they have professional IT teams that can stay on top of required patches, to the extent that they are able to do so. Unfortunately many of the patches may need to be done inside the user-controlled VMs.
This sounds like a somewhat similar bug in that if you can execute on one hyperthread, you can figure out what is going on on the other one on the same core (or at least I suspect that's it--I didn't read the article). Again, that's bad for virtualized systems, but not that serious for most home users. It does potentially blow a big hole in the security for whole-disk encryption and things like that, which some people are going to be very concerned about.
I wanted to buy a Mini a few years back, but for the same money, I could buy a much higher spec Intel NUC box as a Hackintosh, so that's where we went. The Hackintosh has worked well, though it has a few glitches, and I'm afraid to install upgrades in case it breaks something.
It looks like with this upgrade, the equation stays the same. If you're willing to do a Hackintosh, you can get something much better at a lower cost.
There are two issues with subsidies like this. One is that most companies will look for loopholes and try to take advantage of the deal, doing only the bare minimum to get everything they can. The other is that the government usually doesn't structure the deal such that the payouts are tied to meeting promises.
I'm under the impression that Nevada's deal with Tesla is a case where both issues were handled correctly, because Tesla really wanted to do everything they promised, so they had no reason to try to wiggle out, and because the deal was well-structured and tied to jobs.
I expect in most cases the people writing the deal for the government just don't have enough experience to put all the right teeth in them. I know from my experience in my town's government, we have sometimes failed to correctly specify details in agreements that have come back to bite us.
You never know for certain that a given course of action will cause a fatality. When you're driving, you try to avoid accident. Self-driving cars will do the same. They'll compute the odds of an accident for all options and select the one with the lowest odds. It may be just a fraction of a percent less likely, but it will take that.
Yup, growing up in Boise in the 80s, we were complaining about "liberal Californians" moving into the area. What really happened is that conservative Californians moved to Idaho, making Idaho more conservative now than it was then.
But, yeah, complaining about Californians moving to Boise is at least 40 years old. That said, there has been so much construction that I hardly recognize the place anymore. Almost all the farmland between Boise and Nampa is now city. The increases in home prices will be moderated by the continuing expansion of the city.
No, but it often does. It would mean that instead of just buying apps, they would have to buy the entire accounts, which would make it a bit harder for them.
Google and Apple should disable auto-update on apps that change owners. If you want an update after the app has changed owners, you should at least be aware of the change, which would cut way down on this type of scam.
The removal of FSD is probably a mix of a number of factors:
I don't see Tesla worrying about the last factor much--not because it isn't an issue, but because it's just not how the company operates. The real issue is probably that they are expecting the hardware upgrade to cost $5000, and the FSD package was only $3000. They were probably seeing a significant uptick in FSD orders after they announced the hardware upgrades would probably cost $5K for people who hadn't ordered it.
I would also note that the FSD option has gone away for the Model S/X purchasers, too, though the reporting has focused on the Model 3.
The first thing to do when getting a new allegedly waterproof phone is to test it by putting it in a large cup full of water for five minutes. If there are any obvious faults, it will fail under warranty before you transfer everything over and personalize it. Samsung once had a sport version of their phone that failed in water, and they decided to replace them under warranty when people complained rather than recall them, so lots of people lost data just so Samsung could avoid replacing the ones that didn't happen to get wet.
It's trust but verify.
I like Google+. I felt they really botched the roll-out when they had lots of excitement, but didn't have features for businesses and such. They had one shot at taking out Facebook, and they completely messed it up. I don't see anyone else having enough credibility to convince people to move to another platform, no matter how better it may be.
Lack of pages for businesses and celebrities at the initial roll-out was a significant factor. It would have been better to delay the launch and have everything ready at the start.
Japan has chronic labor shortages due to low birth rates, high longevity, and strict immigration. The latest unemployment is 2.5%. Anything that frees up people to do other things in Japan is good for them.
Headlight controls are on the touch screen because you never use them. The automatic headlights are essentially perfect. They even go on for at least a minute if the wipers go on (as required by law in many states). The only time I can think of needing to manually turn on my headlights was for construction zones in Pennsylvania (weird state law), and I expect the Autopilot will pick that up eventually. The high beams ("brights") are also essentially perfect, though I manually turn them off sometimes at dusk when it turns them on just because it can.
The automatic wipers are pretty good, and I rarely adjust them in my S, but I'm using the older hardware, not the camera-based rain detection. Not having to think about the wipers is nice, even if they do a random swipe once in a while.
Generally I only look at the center screen with the autosteer on or when stopped, so the car is staying nicely in its lane.
Comments like yours are almost always from people who haven't driven the cars. Once you drive one, you understand the logic behind the decisions. As a Model S driver, I'm concerned about a few of the controls that were not included in the Model 3, but they've added the most important ones to the steering wheel buttons, so I expect with a little experience driving, I wouldn't miss them.
If you want to complain about the Model 3, complain about the lack of a heated steering wheel. That's the only thing it's really missing.
I'm not sure what to believe here.
In support of the story, China does have a long history of industrial espionage and other spying. Many believe that their economic rise was boosted by stolen IP.
On the other hand, the current administration is clearly using allegations against China to balance the revelations that continue to come out about Russian interference. Many of the allegations from this administration towards China appear to be completely fabricated.
But this allegation is much more detailed than anything the administration has been imagining, but the sources are all anonymous.
I was repeating what I've heard. It appears that I heard wrong. Thanks for enlightening me.
True. I'm just under the impression that we're still learning a lot about concrete, so the best concrete for a given job will likely be better in a decade than what is considered best now. But I'm just a non-expert making suppositions, so who knows?