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  1. Re:We do what we always do ... on Software Update Adds Autonomous Driving To Tesla's Bag of Tricks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The construction workers will update the online maps to indicate that the road is closed and the AV will no longer go there. If the road is truly closed, it is trivial to update the maps to indicate that it is, it just requires some kind of nationwide system that the map makers subscribe to.

  2. Re:We do what we always do ... on Software Update Adds Autonomous Driving To Tesla's Bag of Tricks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you believe that the autonomous car should have more liability than the human driver? The person walking in front of you is going to be hit no matter who is navigating the car, the computer is less likely to hit someone, but it still limited by physics, JUST LIKE YOU ARE. It therefore has less chance of hitting something in the same situation as it can react much faster than a human.

  3. Re:omg we're losing our skillz on Software Update Adds Autonomous Driving To Tesla's Bag of Tricks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately for GGP, they are wrong.

  4. Re:WTF? SageMicro eMMC?!? on China's Flash Consumption Grows To 30%; 8TB SSDs Are Coming (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The reliability of that type of flash memory is terrible. TLC cells aren't much better though, so I am not sure if it would be a bad thing, or very bad thing.

  5. Re:Unfortunately, it stopped there on China's Flash Consumption Grows To 30%; 8TB SSDs Are Coming (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds tasty too. Everyone loves a good Pita, I make mine into Gyros.

  6. Re: And they're going to ruin the name of SSDs on China's Flash Consumption Grows To 30%; 8TB SSDs Are Coming (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Reliability will suck too as they are using SD card chips rather than the flash chips used in modern SSD.

  7. Re:Firmware is not software on Why Cybersecurity Experts Want Open Source Routers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should read the laws surrounding this stuff, as you are completely wrong.

    http://www.afar.net/tutorials/...

    You are legally allowed to nearly double the EIRP with a directional antenna. You are allowed a Gain of up to 30 dbi with a drop of 8 dbm of transmit power for a total EIRP of 52.

  8. Re:LOL .. RICO on Beware of Oracle's Licensing 'Traps,' Law Firm Warns (scottandscottllp.com) · · Score: 0

    Then I must have imagined Postgres crapping out and having to be rebuilt once a month. Even with SSDs, the thing would die under the load.

  9. Re:LOL .. RICO on Beware of Oracle's Licensing 'Traps,' Law Firm Warns (scottandscottllp.com) · · Score: 0

    Try pushing millions of transactions a day and you will see that Postgres is a toy too.

  10. Re:In other words...BE AFRAID!! on German Police Warn Parents To Stop Posting Photos of Kids On Facebook (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Citation needed.

    The Catholic church had no higher percentage of pedophiles than the average population. The issue was the coverup.

  11. Re:We should arrest school picture photographers a on German Police Warn Parents To Stop Posting Photos of Kids On Facebook (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    What about the Coppertone girl!?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  12. Re:Open Source != Freely Modifable on Why Cybersecurity Experts Want Open Source Routers (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    http://www.afar.net/tutorials/...

    How do you implement the rules listed there for antenna gain?

    If your equipment is used in a fixed point-to-point link, there are two exceptions to the maximum EIRP rule above:

    In the 5.8 GHz band the rule is less restrictive. The maximum EIRP allowed is 53 dBm (30 dBm plus 23 dBi of antenna gain).
    In the 2.4 GHz band you can increase the antenna gain to get an EIRP above 36 dBm but for every 3dBi increase of antenna gain you must reduce the transmit power by 1 dBm. The table below shows the combinations of allowed transmit power / antenna gain and the resulting EIRP.

                Transmit Power
    (dBm)
          Antenna Gain
    (dBi)
    EIRP
              (dBm)
    30 6 36
    29 9 38
    28 12 40
    27 15 42
    26 18 44
    25 21 46
    24 24 48
    23 27 50
    22 30 52

    I don't see any way for the wifi router to tell the gain of the antenna you attach to it and automatically drop the signal strength.

    The responsibility for staying within these power limits falls on the operator (or, if professionally installed, on the installer).

    So if that is the case, why is this firmware lockdown even on the table, even with locked down firmware, you are responsible for staying within the power limits.

  13. Re:Firmware is not software on Why Cybersecurity Experts Want Open Source Routers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The limits are different based on directional antenna vs omnidirectional antenna. You are allowed to crank the power up when using a directional antenna like a Yagi in order to get the signal to travel miles, but omnis are limited in their power output. This would make the limits impossible to implement in every situation.

  14. Re:TPP... on Why Cybersecurity Experts Want Open Source Routers (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    How about the Iran treaty that most of congress is against as it gives too much for too little.

  15. Re:It's here on Microsoft Now Uses Windows 10's Start Menu To Display Ads (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    Rubicon?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    I'm confused...

  16. Re:Cannot reproduce on Microsoft Now Uses Windows 10's Start Menu To Display Ads (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...

    It has to be turned on.

  17. Perhaps you should start with all the Democrats in congress, as they are all 1% ers.

  18. Re:US forcing their laws on Europe AGAIN on Ukrainian Hacker Who Targeted Brian Krebs Extradited To US (go.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Except that is backwards. The UK has 5 times as many people extradited from 1/5 the population.

  19. Re:US forcing their laws on Europe AGAIN on Ukrainian Hacker Who Targeted Brian Krebs Extradited To US (go.com) · · Score: 1

    We KNOW that GWB committed war crimes in Iraq, but that doesn't seem to be enough for HIS extradition !

    What war crimes would those be? Who has charged him and asked for his extradition?

  20. Re:Is it just me? on In 26 Hours, Sick Newborns Go From Genome Scan To Diagnosis (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I am aware of the condition, I grew up with it, and am raising two sons with it myself. They changed the diagnosis so that Asperger's no longer exists as a distinct diagnosis, it is all autism spectrum now.

  21. Re:Watch out, jfdavis668 is Paking good SF on Mysteriously Variable Star Causes Speculation About Dyson Sphere (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Shipstar doesn't take place in the known space universe. But I imagine looking at the exhaust of that ship would make for a rather odd star.

  22. Re:Don't trust the gov to use good technical solut on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Why does this myth persist? These laws are 50+ years old, they apply to all executive branches. Here is the law, and all changes that have happened to it recently:

    http://uscode.house.gov/view.x...

    If you read the law, it is quite clear that she was required to furnish her records, not hold onto them for three years to avoid a congressional investigation.

    It is tough to collect evidence when you have someone refusing to turn over the email they illegally stored on a home server. The Benghazi committee has requested this info over and over and never received it. She should have had more guards in the facility, it was a warzone, why were there so few, and why were the solders held back? It hasn't entirely been answered yet. You don't reduce the number of guards at a facility when the ambassador visits. Unfortunately, since all the records were locked up for 3 years, it is hard to perform an investigation of what she did and didn't do in the situation.

  23. Re: Rapid diagnosis can be life-saving. on In 26 Hours, Sick Newborns Go From Genome Scan To Diagnosis (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    None of those countries is the US, not all countries are the same.

    For an example of socialized medicine in the US, look at the VA, and how dysfunctional it is.

  24. Re:Is it just me? on In 26 Hours, Sick Newborns Go From Genome Scan To Diagnosis (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    You struck upon one example as well. Autism can be a gift or a curse depending on your perspective. Many people with autism score very high on intelligence, some are left brain, some are right brain, but all seem to be very smart. Many of the best artists have autism, and many of the smartest scientists are autistic.

    Not every "negative" has no positives.

  25. Re:That cuts both ways on In 26 Hours, Sick Newborns Go From Genome Scan To Diagnosis (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    So what do you do when population growth goes severely negative because all the fetuses are aborted?

    No one has perfect genetics.