"Why is everyone so interested in Julia? "At some high level, Julia seems to solve what Steven Johnson (MIT) described at EuroSciPy on Friday as 'the two-language problem'. It's also known as Outerhout's dichotomy. Basically, there are system languages (hard to use, fast), and scripting languages (easy to use, slow). Attempts to get the best of boths worlds have tended to result in a bit of a mess. Until Julia. (https://agilescientific.com/blog/2014/9/4/julia-in-a-nutshell.html)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... "the language-agnostic design of LLVM has since spawned a wide variety of front ends: languages with compilers that use LLVM include ActionScript, Ada, C#,[4][5][6] Common Lisp, Crystal, CUDA, D, Delphi, Fortran, Graphical G Programming Language,[7] Halide, Haskell, Java bytecode, Julia, Kotlin, Lua, Objective-C, OpenGL Shading Language, Pony,[8] Python, R, Ruby,[9] Rust, Scala,[10] Swift, and Xojo."
While Julia is not running on JVM it should be noted that a recent update to the JVM helps it be an interesting compiler target. See: Java 7 JVM implements JSR 292: Supporting Dynamically Typed Languages[7] on the Java Platform, a new feature which supports dynamically typed languages in the JVM. This feature is developed within the Da Vinci Machine project whose mission is to extend the JVM so that it supports languages other than Java. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_virtual_machine)
And behind Door #2 time is running out for WWVB. The low frequency WWVB standard and short wave clock time standards seem have time running out for them. https://www.voanews.com/a/time...
It may simply be that we will know with more precision when infrastructure has its plug pulled.
GPS time is likely better than NTP time for computers. Clocks like this may allow for the elimination of almost all Olympic timing errors and ties. I can see headlines... runners fail to best Usain Bolt's best time by one Picosecond +/- 2.7 Femtoseconds.
So on the Linux front do things get better or worse?
I almost transitioned an older laptop to Linux but tried Win10 first and the graphics drivers were much improved. I has a nice big disk and a CDROM to rip music with... Then cygwin rsync to other machines and Bob's yer uncle.
Q: How many nukes does Canada have again? A: bombs or nuclear capability? http://www.world-nuclear.org/i... "About 15% of Canada's electricity comes from nuclear power, with 19 reactors mostly in Ontario providing 13.5 GWe of power capacity."
They do have stuff going on that politics here ignore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Some think this is safer, I suspect they are correct.
If this is a terrorif on iPhones alone there is a much greater need to place friendly justices in the courts. In targeting Apple the doors to courts will push wide open to protect the $10billion that is at stake. Other brands of phones and computers are obviously under control of AT&T, samstung, Microsoft, Verizon, U.S. Cellular, Google as much as Apple does just differently. Samsung makes darn nice hardware but systematically obsoletes that hardware vastly quicker than the hardware wears out. It is possible to buy a factory new devices and in the first 24 hours after getting it home recieve the LAST update/upgrade planned for the device. Production can continue for two or three years but the software clock can begin at introduction not even first customer ship.
Ten percent is a rather big tax... enough to be a disincentive to Apple re their pulling cash back into the US when it can borrow from itself at 4% or less and not pay %15-38.91+% income repatriation tax.
Well down under... that explains it. In reading it is unclear if the reader (device and data) was fully under the control of the company or if the company was insulated from a data breach or abuse by a contracted service.
Then there is an issue with a labor force that likely has missing digits (as I do). There are days when I want to give other drivers a specific gesture but cannot.
This down under ruling is a hint or early warning that other parts of the world need to establish rules for such devices. It seems that there are ways to do it terrible wrong and ways that solve the problem of fraud to a company.
In this time zone such a device could be subject to audit by ICE and ill documented labor swept up and turned into cash cows for the contract incarceration industry. In a 1984esque world I can see such readers being mandated.
I am not sure if the cashless restaurants are doing this as a code to be exclusionary.
Yep.
It is more interesting than "exclusionary". Few have followed the shift to a "rentier" state (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rentier_state). Often the lease for a property includes a percentage ($$) of the till. So on one side the landlords (and FBI) are pushing for an easy to audit system. On another side the political kickbacks, protection rackets no longer have a cash till to drain in difficult to audit ways.
On the customer side privacy games are very much involved. Did Uncle Ernie pay cash for the lavish meal and wine with Uncle Donald. If Uncle Ernie is a contractor and Uncle Donald an official then a missing audit trail has value. That PRE IPO hint, that pre-earnings hint to make a killing on the street.
Again something the FBI/CIA/NSA/DHS all want to control. Cell phone location tracking combined with documented extravagant spending might reach as far as the Casbar in Tangier, Morocco.
Then there are private clubs like THE MAR-A-LAGO CLUB where the club has club rules for degree of KevinB interactions.
It seems that Apple is protecting its brand and its customers.
A secure platform (Apple does money, yes it does) has a lot of reasons to managed the stuff folk install and when.
Consider zero day exploits. What if a "dark web" exploit is picked up and is quickly instantiated by an application and pushed to all of a market before Apple can update iOS. It may be a known bug to Apple... just not yet patched.
There are a number of attacks. The most common successful attacks involve code that can be run locally on the hardware i.e. an application. It only takes one bitcoin miner on worse in a pile of 100 applications to put the 100 on the side burner.
I expect to see more and more of this control/management of walled gardens. On the money side iPay, iTunes, banking applications and then there is privacy.
From default the english version: "In factory settings the router SHOULD restrict access to a defined list of services provided to devices connected on the LAN and WiFi interface by the router. The services are provided on one or more dedicated TCP and/ or UDP ports or by the network stack itself."
That is a sane setup to start.
Better modern +$200 routers do this already.
Some of the audit and management features seem difficult. It may disqualify all the existing Apple AirPort devices.
Fair point! The 906 pages of the ACA are fairly dense text and not short especially since it cross links and modifies many other pages of law.... However the regulations behind it are ten times the page count and denser further modifying other regulations and law. So compared to the regulations it spawned it is short.
The Net Neutrality rule change process had exposed the worst imaginable folly in our current body of law.
The folly is the rule and regulation process that is not election based and is not identity trackable.
Early reports disclosed an astounding number of stolen identities of US citizens were used to file statement in favor of the elimination of regulations. In the Russian meddling not a single vote was cast by a Russian cyber bot.
This matters because in many cases current law is an enabling framework that establishes an agency and leaves the reality of the law to rule and regulation process. The ACA was short but the regulations behind it had a ten fold page count. i.e. the Regulations are ten times bigger.
Approval of the regulation changes is guaranteed by inaction. Should the elected officials object the entire set of regulations both good and bad are stopped. The design allows the relentless addition of troubling regulations. Even technical flaws fail to get corrected.
In a recent EPA regulation the definition of acid mine water effluent was called out. It terms out the the regulation (law) codified acid mine water at a level that was less acid than common rainwater over the eastern US. The implications of this blunder is that rain water can trigger EPA legal action on a moning property. Shutting it down, guns drawn, bank accounts locked, employees unpaid and more for rain water. This allows the shutting down of operations where the traffic and noise were the personal objection of someone owning a cabin with a view.
Backlash... most regulations championed by ill informed do gooders are obviously foolish and elections turn little different than propaganda like "Reefer Madness" turned a generation on to herb. Yet some forget that it is called "dope" for a reason (enjoyable but still dope).
Beware the regulation process it is flawed and open to ABUSE.
Is it Open source friendly? If not all the vendors that buy it will end up using opaque binary blobs that are crazy difficult to update and audit. Even if it is Linux based software...
The patchwork of ARM SOC hardware has such a tangle of secret IP that there be a lot more dragons there than even the Raspberry Pi folk (I am a fan) are commonly aware.
The Pandaboard is one example of such a dead end. TI pulled the plug on the handful of contractors maintaining it and now progress is totally stuck and the graphics never what it should have been.
By limiting the areas that this offer applies to they may be tampering.
"eligible areas, including Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, NC, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Miami, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New Orleans, Nashville, New York City and New Jersey, Orange County, CA, Philadelphia, Portland, OR, Phoenix, Raleigh, NC, San Diego, and Washington, D.C."
The service is not cash and ride it requires a smart phone ($$) and credit card. Drivers can refuse to give rides.... A demographic review seems to be in order.
I expect this to be given some review especially in how it shows up on the company tax returns.
Actually, the effort required to do this hack is quite high and the risks to the patient is quite low from this hack.
....
I'm with J&J, It's just NOT worth the replacement risks.... General Anesthesia has significant risks, much more than somebody hacking your insulin pump on the subway.
I am with JJ but this does not require surgery to replace. It is external and connects to the body with an infusion set with standard Luer connector.
I can see a software update to the paired system. Two devices a blood glucose meter and the infuser.
Now people will hack into these just to prove they can. How many have to die because of J&J being cheap and not fixing them?
So these pumps are where? Google google google. Cool it is outside the body and connected by a simple Infusion set with standard Luer connector. That makes it easy to replace.
All these bluetooth family of short distance devices are a risk... time will tell what JJ does.
Not just recurring - how about an online order that won't ship (and, by most laws, can't be billed) for 6 weeks, or even a day? The number was valid when you placed the order, but not when it ships...
They can do like many hotels do. Place a reservation+pad against your credit line. Then when you check out the charge is processed and any pad returned.
Business travelers especially new kids discover that their card is denied for dinner across town because the hotel assumed you would eat in and drink from the mini-bar. The pad/reserve can be 3x or more the room rate and contain padding for damages (spring break).
OK networking is designed to be routable and redundant. Now if all traffic must pass through a fort that used to have no signs or a bit of Utah so hot and far from anyplace that only Octopussy could think of...
In all fairness for phones to go down because an Internet backbone failed tells me that all our phone company laws need revision at all levels. At one time a POT had obligations of reliability and redundancy that seem to have flipped to a binary work or is broken.
I recall mothers day calls where you got all signals busy because of the surge. At least the management was not Uber imposing hidden surge pricing.
This is an opportunity for good questions at the VP thing tonight.
We all have... I would also comment that in this day and age a modest mapping device installed on squad cars in metro areas can record data that the city map makers are unable to maintain. Very high leverage in rural areas.
Like the Waze application has demonstrated mapping and traffic feedback is darn easy.
Waze might have a class of users "city+state roads, police" that have +10 reliability points for reported map errors accidents and obstructions.
Facts like this today are just data. The community can help but the responsibility for valid street markings is a municipal obligation as they are the only ones allowed under the law to place traffic signs and paint public streets.
The big "but" is what laws would they enforce that are not well served today.
Voter fraud has yet to be shown to be a real problem. Perhaps because all the metrics are measured by German VW engineering services.
The current laws on computer hacking make the breaches of HC and the DNC servers totally illegal. But wait the hackers were from off shore and the US has no jurisdiction.
Flaws in systems and applications are not getting fixed because TLAs at times see their knowledge of flaws a bits of power and are unwilling to disclose to vendors for repair. https://www.newamerica.org/oti... Flaws that are seen as power by domestic TLAs are in fact national risks that need prompt and aggressive repair. To some degree the Win10 roll out seems to be a strong move to fix some issues but the anniversary update is changing some rules that are effective contract issue from a year ago perhaps managed by John Deer and CAT.
Perhaps it is flamebait, but it brings up an interesting (to me) question. At this stage of the game, Apple makes most of its money off of its mobile devices. Sure, it still sells Macs - and people still like and buy them. But.....
Yep a bit of flamebait but the truth is a very large numbers of web developers work on a Mac and the result is a Mac is a very pleasurable device for web content. The current versions have AC WiFi and a GigE hard wire network links that allow developers to push or pull source as fast as any.
Same is true for consumer web surfing where MAC retina seems to be the touchstone for content.
I have a modern HiDPI display with a 6th Generation Intel® Core i7 Processor and darn nice graphics driving 3200 x 1800 IPS but applications and font rendering flat out suck at times on Win10. I should note that Win10 has improvements but... it ain't all soup yet. Applications I need and want are on the naughty list for HiDPI, you can see one such list here: http://www.eizoglobal.com/supp... I looked at the history and many of these applications also fell flat when Apple came out with retina displays and a year+ later fixed thing.
I did try a modest Intel® Core i7 system as a server and sent it back because it kept dying. One would have thought that Intel could make a motherboard that ran fine with a new i7 but for many months it was a mystery. I will grab another in a couple months -- while it worked it was fast as stink so I still want one but I want one that works. BTW: The fix sounds real so I am shopping again.
Windows 10 is another consideration. Win10 revived a couple old laptops where graphics drivers and thermal power management stunk on Linux.
Then there is the secret sauce in all new generation BIOS to boot 6th generation processors.
Yes I want an update but there are more moving parts being juggled than is easy to count. I wonder if others can see any clues in macO sSierra (now in beta).
I forgot the FBI and other TLA's out there.... I wonder what secret demands have been made if any.
They also have low specific energy, poor charge retention, and high cost of manufacture. And, indeed, are very heavy.
They might be worth considering for some specific solutions, but it's clear it won't do for most of them (e.g., car-batteries).
Exactly so. Not portable that is sure however as a local to home storage filled from roof/ carport solar or charged off peak at a discount off peak rate. The high cost of manufacture could be resolved with demand and manufacturing patents.
The very heavy aspect makes them less desirable for theft especially when installed in an underground vault.
There does seem to be a need for distributed storage on the grid and there does seem to be a need for better host to host cross sectional distributed routing for networking. The notion of centralized everything is driven by cash and greed of those owning component parts of the infrastructure. These components are coveted and need to be challenged.
Slashdot Mirror
"Why is everyone so interested in Julia?
"At some high level, Julia seems to solve what Steven Johnson (MIT) described at EuroSciPy on Friday as 'the two-language problem'. It's also known as Outerhout's dichotomy. Basically, there are system languages (hard to use, fast), and scripting languages (easy to use, slow). Attempts to get the best of boths worlds have tended to result in a bit of a mess. Until Julia.
(https://agilescientific.com/blog/2014/9/4/julia-in-a-nutshell.html)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"the language-agnostic design of LLVM has since spawned a wide variety of front ends: languages with compilers that use LLVM include ActionScript, Ada, C#,[4][5][6] Common Lisp, Crystal, CUDA, D, Delphi, Fortran, Graphical G Programming Language,[7] Halide, Haskell, Java bytecode, Julia, Kotlin, Lua, Objective-C, OpenGL Shading Language, Pony,[8] Python, R, Ruby,[9] Rust, Scala,[10] Swift, and Xojo."
While Julia is not running on JVM it should be noted that a recent update to the JVM helps it be an interesting compiler target.
See: Java 7 JVM implements JSR 292: Supporting Dynamically Typed Languages[7] on the Java Platform, a new feature which supports dynamically typed languages in the JVM. This feature is developed within the Da Vinci Machine project whose mission is to extend the JVM so that it supports languages other than Java. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_virtual_machine)
LLVM
Utah government is impacted.
Problems from NY to Calif.
Public utilities that should be reliable... Hmmm....
Perhaps there is a busted link managed by a furlough fed DHS/IT contractor guy.
And behind Door #2 time is running out for WWVB.
The low frequency WWVB standard and short wave clock time standards seem have time running
out for them.
https://www.voanews.com/a/time...
It may simply be that we will know with more precision when infrastructure has its plug pulled.
GPS time is likely better than NTP time for computers.
Clocks like this may allow for the elimination of almost all Olympic timing errors and ties.
I can see headlines... runners fail to best Usain Bolt's best time by one Picosecond +/- 2.7 Femtoseconds.
So on the Linux front do things get better or worse?
I almost transitioned an older laptop to Linux but tried Win10 first and the graphics drivers were much improved.
I has a nice big disk and a CDROM to rip music with... Then cygwin rsync to other machines and Bob's yer uncle.
Un-documented hardware is a global security risk.
Q: How many nukes does Canada have again?
A: bombs or nuclear capability? http://www.world-nuclear.org/i...
"About 15% of Canada's electricity comes from nuclear power, with 19 reactors mostly in Ontario providing 13.5 GWe of power capacity."
They do have stuff going on that politics here ignore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Some think this is safer, I suspect they are correct.
If this is a terrorif on iPhones alone there is a much greater need to place friendly justices in the courts.
In targeting Apple the doors to courts will push wide open to protect the $10billion that is at stake.
Other brands of phones and computers are obviously under control of AT&T, samstung, Microsoft, Verizon, U.S. Cellular,
Google as much as Apple does just differently. Samsung makes darn nice hardware but systematically obsoletes that hardware
vastly quicker than the hardware wears out. It is possible to buy a factory new devices and in the first 24 hours after
getting it home recieve the LAST update/upgrade planned for the device. Production can continue for two or three
years but the software clock can begin at introduction not even first customer ship.
Ten percent is a rather big tax... enough to be a disincentive to Apple re their pulling cash back into the US
when it can borrow from itself at 4% or less and not pay %15-38.91+% income repatriation tax.
https://www.reuters.com/articl...
Well down under... that explains it.
In reading it is unclear if the reader (device and data) was fully under the control of the company or if the company
was insulated from a data breach or abuse by a contracted service.
Then there is an issue with a labor force that likely has missing digits (as I do). There are days when I
want to give other drivers a specific gesture but cannot.
This down under ruling is a hint or early warning that other parts of the world need to establish
rules for such devices. It seems that there are ways to do it terrible wrong and
ways that solve the problem of fraud to a company.
In this time zone such a device could be subject to audit by ICE and ill documented labor
swept up and turned into cash cows for the contract incarceration industry. In a 1984esque
world I can see such readers being mandated.
I am not sure if the cashless restaurants are doing this as a code to be exclusionary.
Yep.
It is more interesting than "exclusionary". Few have followed the shift to
a "rentier" state (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rentier_state).
Often the lease for a property includes a percentage ($$) of the till.
So on one side the landlords (and FBI) are pushing for an easy to audit system.
On another side the political kickbacks, protection rackets no longer have a cash till
to drain in difficult to audit ways.
On the customer side privacy games are very much involved.
Did Uncle Ernie pay cash for the lavish meal and wine with Uncle Donald.
If Uncle Ernie is a contractor and Uncle Donald an official then a missing
audit trail has value. That PRE IPO hint, that pre-earnings hint to make a
killing on the street.
Again something the FBI/CIA/NSA/DHS all want to control. Cell phone
location tracking combined with documented extravagant spending might reach
as far as the Casbar in Tangier, Morocco.
Then there are private clubs like THE MAR-A-LAGO CLUB where the club has
club rules for degree of KevinB interactions.
It seems that Apple is protecting its brand and its customers.
A secure platform (Apple does money, yes it does) has a lot of reasons
to managed the stuff folk install and when.
Consider zero day exploits. What if a "dark web" exploit is picked up and
is quickly instantiated by an application and pushed to all of a market before
Apple can update iOS. It may be a known bug to Apple... just not yet patched.
There are a number of attacks. The most common successful attacks involve
code that can be run locally on the hardware i.e. an application. It only takes one
bitcoin miner on worse in a pile of 100 applications to put the 100 on the side burner.
I expect to see more and more of this control/management of walled gardens.
On the money side iPay, iTunes, banking applications and then there is privacy.
From default the english version: "In factory settings the router SHOULD restrict access to a defined list of services provided to devices
connected on the LAN and WiFi interface by the router. The services are provided on one or more dedicated
TCP and/ or UDP ports or by the network stack itself."
That is a sane setup to start.
Better modern +$200 routers do this already.
Some of the audit and management features seem difficult. It may disqualify all the existing Apple AirPort devices.
The VOIP stuff is interesting but optional.
So how is this different than voting records that have
names addresses voting history and party affiliation?
The reality is cars, voting like TV news is a market and market
share and differentiation to keep the market is critical.
Some think that FoX vs. CNN is about morality and politics...
it is about market share.
Fair point! The 906 pages of the ACA are fairly dense text and not short ....
especially since it cross links and modifies many other pages of law
However the regulations behind it are ten times the page count and denser
further modifying other regulations and law. So compared to the regulations
it spawned it is short.
The Net Neutrality rule change process had exposed the worst imaginable
folly in our current body of law.
The folly is the rule and regulation process that is not election based and
is not identity trackable.
Early reports disclosed an astounding number of stolen identities of US citizens were used
to file statement in favor of the elimination of regulations. In the Russian meddling not
a single vote was cast by a Russian cyber bot.
This matters because in many cases current law is an enabling framework that establishes
an agency and leaves the reality of the law to rule and regulation process. The ACA was
short but the regulations behind it had a ten fold page count. i.e. the Regulations are ten times bigger.
Approval of the regulation changes is guaranteed by inaction. Should the elected officials object the
entire set of regulations both good and bad are stopped. The design allows the relentless addition
of troubling regulations. Even technical flaws fail to get corrected.
In a recent EPA regulation the definition of acid mine water effluent was called out. It terms out the the regulation (law)
codified acid mine water at a level that was less acid than common rainwater over the eastern US. The implications of
this blunder is that rain water can trigger EPA legal action on a moning property. Shutting it down, guns drawn, bank
accounts locked, employees unpaid and more for rain water.
This allows the shutting down of operations where the traffic and noise were the personal objection of someone owning
a cabin with a view.
Backlash... most regulations championed by ill informed do gooders are obviously foolish and elections turn
little different than propaganda like "Reefer Madness" turned a generation on to herb. Yet some forget that it
is called "dope" for a reason (enjoyable but still dope).
Beware the regulation process it is flawed and open to ABUSE.
Is it Open source friendly?
If not all the vendors that buy it will end up using
opaque binary blobs that are crazy difficult to update and audit.
Even if it is Linux based software...
The patchwork of ARM SOC hardware has such a tangle
of secret IP that there be a lot more dragons there than even
the Raspberry Pi folk (I am a fan) are commonly aware.
The Pandaboard is one example of such a dead end.
TI pulled the plug on the handful of contractors maintaining it
and now progress is totally stuck and the graphics never
what it should have been.
"are potentially" and the following white space is filled with value ... potentially
.
By limiting the areas that this offer applies to they may be tampering.
"eligible areas, including Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, NC, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit,
Miami, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New Orleans, Nashville, New York City and New Jersey, Orange County, CA,
Philadelphia, Portland, OR, Phoenix, Raleigh, NC, San Diego, and Washington, D.C."
The service is not cash and ride it requires a smart phone ($$) and credit card. .... A demographic review seems to be in order.
Drivers can refuse to give rides
I expect this to be given some review especially in how it shows up on the company tax returns.
Actually, the effort required to do this hack is quite high and the risks to the patient is quite low from this hack.
I'm with J&J, It's just NOT worth the replacement risks.... General Anesthesia has significant risks, much more than somebody hacking your insulin pump on the subway.
I am with JJ but this does not require surgery to replace.
It is external and connects to the body with an infusion set with standard Luer connector.
I can see a software update to the paired system.
Two devices a blood glucose meter and the infuser.
Now people will hack into these just to prove they can.
How many have to die because of J&J being cheap and not fixing them?
So these pumps are where? Google google google.
Cool it is outside the body and connected by a simple Infusion set with standard Luer connector.
That makes it easy to replace.
All these bluetooth family of short distance devices are a risk...
time will tell what JJ does.
Not just recurring - how about an online order that won't ship (and, by most laws, can't be billed) for 6 weeks, or even a day? The number was valid when you placed the order, but not when it ships...
They can do like many hotels do.
Place a reservation+pad against your credit line. Then when you check out
the charge is processed and any pad returned.
Business travelers especially new kids discover that their card is denied
for dinner across town because the hotel assumed you would eat in and
drink from the mini-bar. The pad/reserve can be 3x or more the room rate
and contain padding for damages (spring break).
Recurring is still an issue.
OK networking is designed to be routable and redundant. ...
Now if all traffic must pass through a fort that used to have no signs
or a bit of Utah so hot and far from anyplace that only Octopussy could
think of
In all fairness for phones to go down because an Internet backbone failed
tells me that all our phone company laws need revision at all levels.
At one time a POT had obligations of reliability and redundancy that
seem to have flipped to a binary work or is broken.
I recall mothers day calls where you got all signals busy because of
the surge. At least the management was not Uber imposing hidden
surge pricing.
This is an opportunity for good questions at the VP thing tonight.
a modest mapping device installed on squad cars
Every route to the donut shop accurately mapped.
As long as the map is correct.. It is a start. ;-)
I have nothing against donuts BTW.
We all have... I would also comment that in this day and age a modest mapping device installed on squad cars
in metro areas can record data that the city map makers are unable to maintain. Very high leverage in rural areas.
Like the Waze application has demonstrated mapping and traffic feedback is darn easy.
Waze might have a class of users "city+state roads, police" that have +10 reliability
points for reported map errors accidents and obstructions.
Facts like this today are just data. The community can help but the responsibility for valid street markings is a
municipal obligation as they are the only ones allowed under the law to place traffic signs and paint public streets.
It is critical but
The big "but" is what laws would they enforce that are not well served today.
Voter fraud has yet to be shown to be a real problem.
Perhaps because all the metrics are measured by German VW engineering services.
The current laws on computer hacking make the breaches of HC and the DNC servers
totally illegal. But wait the hackers were from off shore and the US has no jurisdiction.
Flaws in systems and applications are not getting fixed because TLAs at times see their
knowledge of flaws a bits of power and are unwilling to disclose to vendors for repair.
https://www.newamerica.org/oti...
Flaws that are seen as power by domestic TLAs are in fact national risks that need
prompt and aggressive repair. To some degree the Win10 roll out seems to be
a strong move to fix some issues but the anniversary update is changing some rules
that are effective contract issue from a year ago perhaps managed by John Deer and CAT.
In some cases the allegations are more politics than anything.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07...
Perhaps it is flamebait, but it brings up an interesting (to me) question. At this stage of the game, Apple makes most of its money off of its mobile devices. Sure, it still sells Macs - and people still like and buy them. But .....
Yep a bit of flamebait but the truth is a very large numbers of web developers
work on a Mac and the result is a Mac is a very pleasurable device for web content.
The current versions have AC WiFi and a GigE hard wire network links that
allow developers to push or pull source as fast as any.
Same is true for consumer web surfing where MAC retina seems to be
the touchstone for content.
I have a modern HiDPI display with a 6th Generation Intel® Core i7 Processor and
darn nice graphics driving 3200 x 1800 IPS but applications and font rendering flat out suck
at times on Win10. I should note that Win10 has improvements but... it ain't all soup yet.
Applications I need and want are on the naughty list for HiDPI, you can see one such
list here: http://www.eizoglobal.com/supp...
I looked at the history and many of these applications also fell flat when Apple came out
with retina displays and a year+ later fixed thing.
I did try a modest Intel® Core i7 system as a server and sent it back because it kept dying.
One would have thought that Intel could make a motherboard that ran fine with a new i7
but for many months it was a mystery. I will grab another in a couple months -- while it
worked it was fast as stink so I still want one but I want one that works. BTW: The fix sounds real
so I am shopping again.
Windows 10 is another consideration. Win10 revived a couple old laptops where graphics
drivers and thermal power management stunk on Linux.
Then there is the secret sauce in all new generation BIOS to boot 6th generation processors.
Yes I want an update but there are more moving parts being juggled than is easy to count.
I wonder if others can see any clues in macO sSierra (now in beta).
I forgot the FBI and other TLA's out there.... I wonder what secret demands have been made
if any.
They also have low specific energy, poor charge retention, and high cost of manufacture. And, indeed, are very heavy.
They might be worth considering for some specific solutions, but it's clear it won't do for most of them (e.g., car-batteries).
Exactly so.
Not portable that is sure however as a local to home storage filled from roof/ carport solar
or charged off peak at a discount off peak rate.
The high cost of manufacture could be resolved with demand and manufacturing patents.
The very heavy aspect makes them less desirable for theft especially when installed in an underground vault.
There does seem to be a need for distributed storage on the grid and there does
seem to be a need for better host to host cross sectional distributed routing for networking.
The notion of centralized everything is driven by cash and greed of those owning component
parts of the infrastructure. These components are coveted and need to be challenged.