Immortals are corrupting much of our law and have in the past.
In the past dynastic power bases ruled clashed with each other and crushed common people. Kings, Queens, Caliphates, Dynasty, Emperors, Pope, Pulpit all are the sharp end of immortal government systems that devolved in many social ways and were eventually upended.
Today we have some ill begotten immortal legal frameworks that have many of the rights that citizens have. Their immortality allows them to gain power and move from a part of society to controlling society.
This copyright issue is one symptom of an immortal (Mr. Mouse by way of example) that wields power and attempts to dominate part or all of society. When these immortals gather together as a group and throw their weight around, interesting and perhaps troubling things happen.
Consider that immortals do not pay inheritance or death taxes. If one group of legal entities never pays a tax no group should pay that tax. There are more issues one of which is citizenship....
I'm tired of these security experts holding these sites hostage. They should disclose these vulnerabilities to build a safer Internet, not to line their pockets.
If they really wanted to line their pockets, they'd sell them to......
Groupon could hire people themselves to find the vulnerabilities, but they chose not to, instead they offer a bounty for security bugs, which apparently is very cost effective when they don't pay up, so it's a double win.......
I'm sure they do have their own people looking for vulnerabilities, but if outsiders also find vulnerabilities....
Interesting... Vulnerability testing is sometimes difficult from inside. Companies have security policies that could make testing by employees quite difficult. Testing from home is often excluded by company rules. Network and hardware management also adds to this issue. Laws are making it harder and harder for White hats to operate.
The issue of script rich "experts" hunting bounty is interesting. First the bounty needs rules and pre disclosure rules need to be bounded in time. Fixing it when I darn well want to is not no a working answer.
Script discovered flaws are likely industry standard flaws most with well known solutions. A list of script triggered flaws that is as long as this tells me that the engineering staff and management need to have their bonus packages reviewed. It seems like a flawed culture. Non payment of the bounty is a symptom if the report was held private for a fair length of time.
Some companies have "sat" on bugs and faults. The most famous list of faults are enumerated in the security book written by Robert Morris. Almost none were fixed then his son coded the Morris worm. That should have been the clue to the industry but it was not. The response was mostly legal not technical which is an inversion of the needs of national security where the laws of a nation cannot protect from predators in other nations.
There is an astounding cognitive failure when a nation passes laws and fails to to address the technical reach of those outside the reach of the law. Predator drones are not an answer...
This flawed protectionist mind set by many US TLAs is a problem. Other nations have the same issue and should be filing bugs with vendors left and right. Some nations might need a proxy for this but again national laws could find these people acting as agents of a foreign government to their loss of freedom.
That's not "not clear", that's just an engineering problem.......
Quite so... yet in this tenth of a penny pinching engineering world it becomes a cost and a decision. In this case the resultant degradation of the EBS seems to be unmanaged or over managed at much greater expense and complexity.
Not all engineering problems have known solutions yet this one does and that puts us in agreement.
It is also not clear what the regulations domestic and international are for testing the FM radio for unwanted interference and matching the national band allocations.
Oh that is clear. There's very little. FM must not transmit (and I don't think any mobile chipset does), and it just has to receive in a certain frequency band which is mostly common throughout the world with no further consideration to interference. An analogue radio receiver is about the least regulated radio device you can build.
It is still not clear.... the FM block has a local oscillator. The bluetooth, the WiFi 2.4&5GHz, The Cell system, many bands... as well as the display, processor, memory etc... interact. Part 15 is almost easy in isolation but the RF complexity of turning on a tuner that sweeps the FM local oscillator and that might interact with passive traces, as well as other active systems is "interesting".
Having said this Motorola has it on two of the phones I have owned. Thus, It is possible and to me it is a reasonable expectation for this system to be enabled and active.
I feel strongly that the emergency context has been ignored. It is astoundingly easy to overspend or underspend on emergency systems. Emergency system managers have apparently missed this erosion of a worthy component. Combined this with the demise of plain old telephone services with its legal framework for battery power (etc.) that the cell system and internet does not have and Houston we have a problem.
These are systems and interconnected in poorly understood ways. Changes have consequences some good some bad most unintended. Media coverage wants to reduce important issues to a two team sporting contest and this is just wrong for understanding systems.
Programmers know how difficult "make" rules can get and some know why "makedepend" gets it wrong at times (this is after all a/. geek centric forum).
Arimaa is a two-player strategy board game that was designed to be playable with a standard chess set and difficult for computers while still being easy to learn and fun to play for humans. Every year since 2004, the Arimaa community has held three tournaments: a World Championship (humans only), a Computer Championship (computers only), and the Arimaa Challenge (human vs. computer).
seriously, slashdice, some reference would be nice sometimes.
Given the youth of the game I suspect there is much less analysis and history in support of the game. The difficulty that computers faces is the same one that players face and while depth search for a computer is difficult it is more difficult for the human player.
The game was invented in about 2002... and chess has a history that spans 1500 years and Go 2500 to 4000 years.
While difficult to test I suspect that if we restricted chess players to the same age and tenure profile of Arimaa players a machine would romp over the novice chess players (max experience 13 years, average perhaps 7).
Now that there are champion machines the game may well move into the class of games only played by machines. Or, Programmers and hardware mfg consortiums could compete little different than the America's Cup.
The game might prove the ideal context to form a man+machine or team+machine contest where the men shape strategy and the machine carries the game to conclusion with nudges from the man-power.
The problem with using anesthesia is that organizations (the largest of which is the EU) forbids selling anything used in executions.....
FWIW I am completely against capital punishment,.....
Capital punishment is the choice of the poor. When society is starving for resources quick execution makes sense to me. When society is wasting 1/3 of its food execution makes little sense (same for the waste).
As for cruel -- the decades on death row is nasty.
FFS! What is the accepted definition of execution? Does it involve pain or discomfort? What's wrong with anesthesia?
Those that make the drugs of choice in this case are international and they refuse to supply to this purpose and end.
A pure suffocating gas like nitrogen (but not CO2) will do the job. Noble gasses like He, Ar, Ne might also work. He has national security issues. It is also best extracted from natural gas flows in Texas and Ok... other flows are fracking intensive and He low so the anti fracking folk could help or hinder helium as a choice. Helium would also be too funny for Saturday Night Live to ignore.
LTE isn't free, you can't use the frequencies if you're not a licensed carrier. Presumably, it is easier for Google to make a deal with existing carriers who have the license rather than seek a license themselves for each and every country.
Balloons are short lived... At this point it is an experiment so no need to own or be part of the cell service infrastructure.
This is not a 7x24x365.24 class service. At some point this could become an important service in the event of an emergency. It may also be valuable over places like the Black Rock Desert for about one week a year.
And yes some sparse parts of the world may find value long term.
Smartphones MAY have a chip in them that is capable of receiving FM transmissions [probably as part of the Qualcomm/whomever chip for processing cell phone signals].
But not a matter of 'just turn it on' and everything magically works.
You need an antennae/other external hardware that receives those signals properly. I'm not an antennae engineer,........
Since I have some phones that have the FM radio enabled all that is needed is headphones. The antenna is the wires of the headphones.
That is not to say that the pin for the antenna is connected to the headphone connector. It is also not clear what the regulations domestic and international are for testing the FM radio for unwanted interference and matching the national band allocations.
But the original question is interesting. Local radio is invaluable in a disaster. The power budget and infrastructure (transmitter towers) for FM radio are much more available. The service area of a single FM radio tower could cover hundreds if not thousands of cell towers. Cell towers also depend on digital backbone and data connections (routers) that also need uninterruptible power.
Local emergency management need only contact the radio station and the radio station only needs a single generator. Radio is part of the emergency broadcasting system and disconnecting the FM radio is disconnecting the EBS.
Having said this I recall waiting on the local FM radio station to announce school closure on one especially nasty blizzards winter morning. There was no announcement... the school system could not connect to the station by phone and the roads were so deep in snow that direct contact was impossible.
Legislatures in earthquake, tornado, blizzard, hurricane disaster risk areas (the entire US) should be paying attention to this. Because of the EBS link your representatives should be demanding internal communications that fail to enable this important service. Disconnection and de facto dismantling of the EBS in favor of pay for service revenue should be blocked.
Then there is: "As Radio.no notes, Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) will provide Norwegian listeners more diverse radio channel content than ever before. Indeed, DAB already hosts 22 national channels in Norway, as opposed to FM radio’s five, and a TNS Gallup survey shows that 56% of Norwegian listeners use digital radio every day. While Norway is the first country in the world to set a date for an FM switch-off, other countries in Europe and Southeast Asia are also in the process of transitioning to DAB." (gizmodo-dot-com)
There is more to this narrow minded view of the testing system than is obvious.
It makes a conclusion and presents a solution without any data that supports the conclusion or solution.
They assert that a girls only class is the solution and the problem is boys dominating the class.
They do not address the possibility that educators could simply be biased and the same individual educators in a special class would imprint that same bias without change. The result would then be identical.
Not addressed in this data is the assumption that systematic issues in education are the reason girls do not invest themselves in STEM anything. Society also adds to this...
Personal antidotal bias is that the smartest math and science person in my k-12 education decided to pursue her dream as an artists. As a spouse in a traditional marriage she could do this without concern for the finances of it. She was not alone although another gal almost as smart ended up as a NASA outreach educator.
The other very important issue is that girls and boys do not develop on the same schedule biologically. Moving the girls and boys into their own classes without adjusting the schedule will also get the same result.
If educators are going to be honest they need to design an education programs that allows biology and maturation shape the schedule of boys and girls class content. In a K-12 school the age differences where one child can be 364 days older than another must also be considered important.
One real issue is that standard tests are anchored on birthdays and on a calendar. Adjusting the time for one groups tests vs. another would be seen as very unfair yet it may be more so.
If we cold take sex out of this and substitute cognitive maturation we might get better outcomes from the child's point of view. One clumsy attempt on this is homogeneous grouping. Assignment into a group might be because an individual was slow to grasp or simply unable to grasp the material.
I think the school has a bias and thinks they have a solution. Then they found numbers to support it. There are girl and boy only schools where supporting data might live. One might be a serious review of the famous schools and their curriculum as framed before standard testing. These schools (perhaps 1780-1920) and their syllabus (teachers notes) may still exist and may prove interesting.
Little of this matters -- TV sitcom and even cartoons have very rigid rolls for the sexes to play...
You apparently didn't comprehend the story. That guy was committed to make an attack and die in the process before he came into contact with the FBI. Where is your evidence that the FBI was "pressuring" and "reassuring him"?
In the article: "...stopped taking his medication because he didn't like the way it made him feel and it was expensive." Now that is clearly a mandate for universal mental health care!
The modern pharmacopoeia of mental health drugs is better than many chemotherapy strategies for cancer but not much better. Many are also too darn expensive.
Side effects need to to be understood and absolutely not understood is the effect on a human when starting or quitting the program. Miss a couple doses and a lot of individuals get untied.
The most difficult context "bipolar" seems to be involved here. A prescribing doctor almost never sees a person in both manic and depressive states outside of a locked facility. The transition triggers are ill understood.
It is the rare and exceptional program where a psychologist is trained to and licensed to prescribe medication. The fees are astoundingly high. As doctors they must all pay for insurance. As educated individuals they have made a serious investment in time and money (debt) to become trained and certified.
Statistics make the overlay of professionals and the population a sparse map across much of the nation....
Decades ago it was noted that if you hire a programmer you must budget for two so he or she has someone to talk to. This is true for psych professionals they need continuous learning and a "community" to work with. In isolation they seem to go a little bonkers.
Do you think body camera's would help the small percentage of officers that do fall into, the bad apple catagory, restrain themselves from the bad behaviour?
One important perspective here is, when a citation is issued or an arrest made the weight of the law is heavy on the the side of law enforcement. Citizens and officers alike are equally protected by a quality record that documents the actions of both sides.
Both citizens and officers would do well to have body and dash cameras. It is true that Google glasses were a bust but the world learned a lot.
However once an officer turns on his lights or exits his vehicle in the prosecution of his charter there should be no restrictions on recording including voice.
Anyone want to guarantee 100% perfect security for ANY wireless communication? Because if we have remotely piloted airliners (either because there's no pilot, or the pilot is suicidal) someone WILL hack into it.
And anyone that had to listen to AM and FM radio including short wave for entertainment or news knows how fragile radio links can be. It is necessary to solve the lightning strike problem to 99.9999% or better.
Fried communication, fried or interrupted systems that need to reboot, location sensors include GPS need to recover quickly.
Protecting the current fly by wire systems is easier by a bunch.
What is extra funny is that they apparently have no idea how it works as you would have to snort so much of the crap you would die of your lungs being caked in crap before ever getting a buzz that way. Its a gimmick folks, and in pretty much every situation you would be better off with a hip flask.
It is clearly a gimmick but those that would snort it on a dare could kill themselves with the reverse osmosis effect and airway obstruction. This marketing game could also wreck it as a valuable emergency first aid adjunct. Bandages infused with it as well as other female pad and diaper friendly compounds could (or not) have antiseptic properties of value.
The legislation that bans it bothers me because it is based on FUD and bald faced ignorant lies.
I am scared of vodka soaked tampons and bartenders pouring doubles without being asked. All in all I am more scared by the ignorance...
Fortunately WiFi cards in most laptops can be replaced. It may require a complete tear down to get to it but it can be done.
Not true. WiFi is the most common target of BIOS whitelist. Hidden is worry that FCC compliance rules for power and emissions be violated vendors whitelist only WiFi cards they have "tested".
I tried to update five laptops to new WiFi cards and ALL failed because of the BIOS whitelist. HP, Compaq, Toshiba.... The lockout was absolute nothing would boot at all.
In my case I wanted AC WiFi and USB2 does not support sufficient bandwidth. So I picked up some tiny PCI WiFi cards... NO system would boot with the new card. All did a BIOS lockout.
To me this means that the whitelist is a dependency repair list. Should any whitelist device fail replacing it likely trips on a supply chain sole source dependency chain where the life and availability of the devices are critical in knowing the life expectancy of the purchase. No company computes or divulges a MTBF repair analysis that does not assume full availability of spare parts. The white list changes the numerical analysis drastically and worse it changes it in unknowable ways.
Lenovo doesn't want customers to be able to upgrade their laptops, so they implemented a list of approved mini-pci cards that can be used in them. It's called "bios whitelist".
Therefore if you have a Lenovo laptop you will have to change the whole laptop. Presumably to a different brand that doesn't pull this crap.
For those who do. Not.
The white list in the BIOS for WiFi type hardware makes sense in the context of radio frequency regulation. Makers of mini-pci hardware should jump up and down and toss restraining orders. If you are not on the white list you are SOL as a vendo and side door money can limit the competition.
WORSE in all this is the white list is invisible. I am inclined to begin asking for disclosure of the whitelist and lacking disclosure returning the hardware for failure to operate as advertised. Has PCI slot... PCI compliant cards do not work.
I doubt the parking bit. Many people will choose to use a driverless cab.....chop....
Driverless vehicles will enable a lot of options. Some for the user some for the community some good and some "interesting".
The safety issue is interesting. Some communities may elect to ban all vehicles except autonomous cars for safety reasons.
Some may relay to mass transit as individual vehicles are not as traffic dense or fuel efficient as rail or water.
Taxi drivers and Uber may become a thing of the past. Well maybe not Uber. They may find ways for you to earn $$ by loaning your autonomous auto when you do not need it. Their dispatch system could dispatch an auto-auto as easy as a drive+car.
Individual vehicles for persons that do not wish to wait. Community fleets for those willing to share and wait a bit.
Parking -- an autonomous car could circle on the street and not park thus increasing traffic. This may cause some communities to tax traffic and not passengers. More one way streets are likely as a machine could navigate a wide flow nicely think rings like the Olympic logo.. tedious to navigate for a person but ok for a machine.
Electric vehicles could go find a charger. Hybrid vehicles might go and hibernate.
Traffic congestion and parking density are the rock and hard place that when addressed could make someone wealthy and customers happy.
Even if that half-assed attempt was true, it doesn't improve the safety - they'd still all be dead. It just gives us the ability to ogle and lay blame.
This is worthy of a +1 or moderator vote up. One of the driving forces for video is the media. They lust after any content that they can get and rebroadcast.
Their greed could make you a buck, Copyright any home video and communicate it to any responsible agency with a reminder that it is copyright but never to a news outlet. Should a media outlet use it without permission go after them all. As a minimum 4x the advertising fee and also salary of the personalities and production staff involved.
If you are in an aircraft situation... take a phone video -- it might survive.
We already have a pretty good idea of what happened to the Germanwings flight even with 1 damaged black box.
The damaged data recording boxes are the detail in this that is missing.
Redundant durable data recording boxes in contrast to data collection boxes seem to be the next improvement. Next, it seems to me that the recovery of these boxes and their data is a weak link in crash analysis.
Modern GPS and multi axis sensors kin to the ones in our phones are inexpensive so the sensor set can be augmented and improved without touching flight or engine control systems.
Data links to ground recording stations is the next obvious improvement. Air to air grid style networking can bridge vast reaches over oceans without connecting to expensive satellite systems. Routine data is modest. Store and forward strategies can include automated data dump at the ground terminal can minimize live data links. i.e. fleet data collection aircraft to aircraft for long haul transit.
Cabin alarms can trigger wider air to air transfers and perhaps satellite link dumps. The big red button could also trigger video transfers and archives but that is simply another sensor. Video through chewing gum or cabin cleaner goo is a problem.
Summary: multiple data storage boxes with augmented sensors that do not touch flight control or engine systems are needed. Aircraft to aircraft RF data links can eliminate box recovery urgency. Note line of sight RF at 25-40,000 feet is a long way. Aircraft can be routed in pairs separated by 50 miles... even.
Since the set of Mockrosoft products serve as host to the largest collection of hacked robot farms out there this is interesting. Hardening their server and other products seems too hard for MS. It seems to me that this may prove to be the single most cost effective strategy there is to reduce the size of distributed attack farms. That alone would make their server products measurably better to customers. It would allow sites to maintain desirable uptime and availability numbers.
It also reduces the impact on software engineering in Redmond because this makes is easier to slowly walk away from previous Windowz versions.
Without knowing the truth, I would assert their cash flow is not dominated by selling updates, it is Office and new hardware tax.
It may also enable improved markets for new Office products for Asian languages. Back porting and compatibility in Office 2xxx-new is baggage that might be left behind.
It is a big bet that Win-10 will run well enough on the older hardware and a big bet on the quality of the release.
It could pay off... It could just make Linux+GNU a better choice.
Nobody is under any obligation to share their financial details on net worth with any government official. Income, yes. Net worth, no. Net worth changes every single day depending on markets for real estate, equities, bonds, equipment etc. The overhead associated with appraising everything would be enormous. Then you have classes of people who have lots of paper wealth, but little income. Say a farmer. He may be worth millions on paper, but have little cash flow, and lots of that is committed to paying off bills for seed, chemicals, diesel fuel, etc.
This is important.... I should add that plate readers allow this revenue model to be optimized. Isolation of citation income value data is clearly needed.
Those that see this as a good thing need to be monitored with care. The only good news is the RICH do have long arms and big legal sticks. They also finance individual election programs and abusers might find themselves paying fines for walking 6 mph in a 3 mph walking zone inside a fenced exercise yard.
Isn't the point of the fine, to enforce the concept of SAFETY?
Some places do consider safety a goal.
If safety is a goal you make the fine large enough to cause the offender some financial pain.
But wait if you earn millions and the next guy makes hundreds this very much levels the field of pain.
One troubling problem with traffic fines is the sum and the finances of most receiving the fine are upside down and the disenfranchised have insufficient resources to fight the systematic problems with many traffic laws and their enforcement.
A fine this large justifies legal attention and a side effect is that the judge will see improved defense and review of the law.
Yes, I think it is outrageous but then I do not earn millions.
My gut instinct is that this is the kernel of some improvement to the gross abuses that some traffic enforcement programs finance themselves with.
The next obvious to me abusive process is the photo citations and escalating fail to appear bench warrant processes farmed out to civilian contracts. The citation is often waved for want of evidence but the fail to appear is self-proving and can be isolated from the initial systematic fraud.
How much of this feedbag is from apple.com or another competitor?
My CP/M system is still giving me fine service air-gapped from the universe.
More importantly how is this pile broken down. Some hate any change... bucket A. Some find broken stuff... bucket B (B as in badly broken bozo) Some want their personal change... bucket C. Some found dumb stuff... bucket D.
The report appears innocuous but is also justification for more air power.
Hidden from us is the effect of flattening hot crime spots and dispersing crime more evenly across the area. Short term reduction of crime in hot spots seems very real but would identify the hot spot and move crime to cooler spots.
It does little to solve the social and economic wreckage in many neighborhoods that makes crime the most profitable activity.
With deep database background searches no past criminal can get an "interesting" or well paying job. With 20-40% of the mail population in some areas there are rare honest jobs.
The multi million budget for one helicopter would better be spent on solving social problems. This is harder to do than I like but it needs to be done.
We are making some improvements with the decriminalization of marijuana but have failed to discuss a need to expunge non violent non repeat crimes from public employment screening. Simply financing tattoo removal would help some individuals.
I'm not a Linux programmer so I may be out of date on this, but there isn't or wasn't a single C++ ABI on Linux between the various compilers. If the kernel used C++ for those interfaces it would potentially require that the kernal and all kernel modules were compiled with the same toolchain. Rolling their own implementation means the ABI is compatible across all the different compilers and compiler version with a side benefit of being able to write kernel modules in languages other than C/C++.
The Gentoo crowd had a hoop or two to jump through to get from one version of gcc to another way back when. Compilers and ABI designs are important -- the fuzzy rules for ARM ABIs is holding ARM back for some.
Linus may be correct from where he sits. A lot of where he sits is atop a massive pile of C and history written in C going back to Minix and other versions of Unix -- all of which were built with and on C.
Some of the microkernel designs could have a leg up and the close to hardware bits could be isolated from upper layers that could be crafted in another language.
So if you want to start over and build from the ground up... who knows. But today "C" is the anchor for the pile of stuff that Linus sits on.
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Immortals are corrupting much of our law and have in the past.
In the past dynastic power bases ruled clashed with each other and crushed common people.
Kings, Queens, Caliphates, Dynasty, Emperors, Pope, Pulpit all are the sharp end of immortal government
systems that devolved in many social ways and were eventually upended.
Today we have some ill begotten immortal legal frameworks that have many
of the rights that citizens have. Their immortality allows them to gain power and move from
a part of society to controlling society.
This copyright issue is one symptom of an immortal (Mr. Mouse by way of example)
that wields power and attempts to dominate part or all of society. When these
immortals gather together as a group and throw their weight around, interesting
and perhaps troubling things happen.
Consider that immortals do not pay inheritance or death taxes. If one group of
legal entities never pays a tax no group should pay that tax. There are more
issues one of which is citizenship....
"end-two-cents"
I'm tired of these security experts holding these sites hostage. They should disclose these vulnerabilities to build a safer Internet, not to line their pockets.
If they really wanted to line their pockets, they'd sell them to ......
Groupon could hire people themselves to find the vulnerabilities, but they chose not to, instead they offer a bounty for security bugs, which apparently is very cost effective when they don't pay up, so it's a double win .......
I'm sure they do have their own people looking for vulnerabilities, but if outsiders also find vulnerabilities ....
Interesting...
Vulnerability testing is sometimes difficult from inside.
Companies have security policies that could make testing by employees quite difficult.
Testing from home is often excluded by company rules.
Network and hardware management also adds to this issue.
Laws are making it harder and harder for White hats to operate.
The issue of script rich "experts" hunting bounty is interesting.
First the bounty needs rules and pre disclosure rules need to be bounded in time.
Fixing it when I darn well want to is not no a working answer.
Script discovered flaws are likely industry standard flaws most with well known solutions.
A list of script triggered flaws that is as long as this tells me that the engineering
staff and management need to have their bonus packages reviewed. It seems
like a flawed culture. Non payment of the bounty is a symptom if the report
was held private for a fair length of time.
Some companies have "sat" on bugs and faults. The most famous list of faults
are enumerated in the security book written by Robert Morris. Almost none were fixed then
his son coded the Morris worm. That should have been the clue to the
industry but it was not. The response was mostly legal not technical which
is an inversion of the needs of national security where the laws of a nation
cannot protect from predators in other nations.
There is an astounding cognitive failure when a nation passes laws and fails to ...
to address the technical reach of those outside the reach of the law. Predator drones
are not an answer
This flawed protectionist mind set by many US TLAs is a problem.
Other nations have the same issue and should be filing bugs with vendors
left and right. Some nations might need a proxy for this but again
national laws could find these people acting as agents of a foreign government
to their loss of freedom.
Kafka is giggling.
That's not "not clear", that's just an engineering problem. ......
Quite so... yet in this tenth of a penny pinching engineering world
it becomes a cost and a decision. In this case the resultant degradation
of the EBS seems to be unmanaged or over managed at much greater
expense and complexity.
Not all engineering problems have known solutions yet this one does
and that puts us in agreement.
It is also not clear what the regulations domestic and international are for testing the
FM radio for unwanted interference and matching the national band allocations.
Oh that is clear. There's very little. FM must not transmit (and I don't think any mobile chipset does), and it just has to receive in a certain frequency band which is mostly common throughout the world with no further consideration to interference. An analogue radio receiver is about the least regulated radio device you can build.
It is still not clear.... the FM block has a local oscillator. The bluetooth, the WiFi 2.4&5GHz, The Cell system, many bands... as well as the display, processor, memory etc... interact. Part 15 is almost easy in isolation but the RF complexity of turning on a tuner that sweeps the FM local oscillator and that might interact with passive traces, as well as other active systems is "interesting".
Having said this Motorola has it on two of the phones I have owned. Thus, It is possible and to me it is a reasonable expectation for this system to be enabled and active.
I feel strongly that the emergency context has been ignored. It is astoundingly easy to overspend or underspend on emergency systems. Emergency system managers have apparently missed this erosion of a worthy component. Combined this with the demise of plain old telephone services with its legal framework for battery power (etc.) that the cell system and internet does not have and Houston we have a problem.
These are systems and interconnected in poorly understood ways. Changes have consequences some good some bad most unintended. Media coverage wants to reduce important issues to a two team sporting contest and this is just wrong for understanding systems.
Programmers know how difficult "make" rules can get and some know /. geek centric forum).
why "makedepend" gets it wrong at times (this is after all a
Arimaa is a two-player strategy board game that was designed to be playable with a standard chess set and difficult for computers while still being easy to learn and fun to play for humans. Every year since 2004, the Arimaa community has held three tournaments: a World Championship (humans only), a Computer Championship (computers only), and the Arimaa Challenge (human vs. computer).
seriously, slashdice, some reference would be nice sometimes.
Given the youth of the game I suspect there is much less analysis and history in
support of the game. The difficulty that computers faces is the same one that players face and
while depth search for a computer is difficult it is more difficult for the human player.
The game was invented in about 2002... and chess has a history that spans 1500 years
and Go 2500 to 4000 years.
While difficult to test I suspect that if we restricted chess players to the same age
and tenure profile of Arimaa players a machine would romp over the novice chess
players (max experience 13 years, average perhaps 7).
Now that there are champion machines the game may well move into the
class of games only played by machines. Or, Programmers and hardware mfg
consortiums could compete little different than the America's Cup.
The game might prove the ideal context to form a man+machine or team+machine contest
where the men shape strategy and the machine carries the game to conclusion
with nudges from the man-power.
Now should I bother to learn the game at all?
The problem with using anesthesia is that organizations (the largest of which is the EU) forbids selling anything used in executions. ....
FWIW I am completely against capital punishment, .....
Capital punishment is the choice of the poor.
When society is starving for resources quick execution makes sense to me.
When society is wasting 1/3 of its food execution makes little sense (same for the waste).
As for cruel -- the decades on death row is nasty.
FFS! What is the accepted definition of execution? Does it involve pain or discomfort?
What's wrong with anesthesia?
Those that make the drugs of choice in this case are international and they refuse to
supply to this purpose and end.
A pure suffocating gas like nitrogen (but not CO2) will do the job.
Noble gasses like He, Ar, Ne might also work. He has
national security issues. It is also best extracted from natural
gas flows in Texas and Ok... other flows are fracking intensive
and He low so the anti fracking folk could help or hinder helium
as a choice. Helium would also be too funny for Saturday Night
Live to ignore.
LTE isn't free, you can't use the frequencies if you're not a licensed carrier. Presumably, it is easier for Google to make a deal with existing carriers who have the license rather than seek a license themselves for each and every country.
Balloons are short lived...
At this point it is an experiment so no need to own or be part of the cell service infrastructure.
This is not a 7x24x365.24 class service.
At some point this could become an important service in the event
of an emergency. It may also be valuable over places like the Black
Rock Desert for about one week a year.
And yes some sparse parts of the world may find value long term.
Because the article is very misleading.
Smartphones MAY have a chip in them that is capable of receiving FM transmissions [probably as part of the Qualcomm/whomever chip for processing cell phone signals].
But not a matter of 'just turn it on' and everything magically works.
You need an antennae/other external hardware that receives those signals properly. I'm not an antennae engineer,........
Since I have some phones that have the FM radio enabled all that is needed is headphones.
The antenna is the wires of the headphones.
That is not to say that the pin for the antenna is connected to the headphone connector.
It is also not clear what the regulations domestic and international are for testing the
FM radio for unwanted interference and matching the national band allocations.
But the original question is interesting. Local radio is invaluable in a disaster. The power budget
and infrastructure (transmitter towers) for FM radio are much more available. The service area of
a single FM radio tower could cover hundreds if not thousands of cell towers. Cell towers also depend
on digital backbone and data connections (routers) that also need uninterruptible power.
Local emergency management need only contact the radio station and the radio station only needs
a single generator. Radio is part of the emergency broadcasting system and disconnecting the FM radio
is disconnecting the EBS.
Having said this I recall waiting on the local FM radio station to announce school closure on one
especially nasty blizzards winter morning. There was no announcement... the school system could
not connect to the station by phone and the roads were so deep in snow that direct contact was
impossible.
Legislatures in earthquake, tornado, blizzard, hurricane disaster risk areas (the entire US) should
be paying attention to this. Because of the EBS link your representatives should be demanding internal
communications that fail to enable this important service. Disconnection and de facto dismantling
of the EBS in favor of pay for service revenue should be blocked.
Then there is: "As Radio.no notes, Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) will provide Norwegian listeners more diverse radio channel content than ever before. Indeed, DAB already hosts 22 national channels in Norway, as opposed to FM radio’s five, and a TNS Gallup survey shows that 56% of Norwegian listeners use digital radio every day. While Norway is the first country in the world to set a date for an FM switch-off, other countries in Europe and Southeast Asia are also in the process of transitioning to DAB." (gizmodo-dot-com)
Thus I also want DAB support in future phones...
There is more to this narrow minded view of the testing system
than is obvious.
It makes a conclusion and presents a solution without any data that
supports the conclusion or solution.
They assert that a girls only class is the solution and the problem is boys
dominating the class.
They do not address the possibility that educators could simply be biased
and the same individual educators in a special class would imprint that same bias without
change. The result would then be identical.
Not addressed in this data is the assumption that systematic issues in education
are the reason girls do not invest themselves in STEM anything. Society also
adds to this...
Personal antidotal bias is that the smartest math and science person in my k-12 education
decided to pursue her dream as an artists. As a spouse in a traditional marriage
she could do this without concern for the finances of it. She was not alone although
another gal almost as smart ended up as a NASA outreach educator.
The other very important issue is that girls and boys do not develop on the same
schedule biologically. Moving the girls and boys into their own classes without
adjusting the schedule will also get the same result.
If educators are going to be honest they need to design an education programs that
allows biology and maturation shape the schedule of boys and girls class content.
In a K-12 school the age differences where one child can be 364 days older than another
must also be considered important.
One real issue is that standard tests are anchored on birthdays and on a calendar.
Adjusting the time for one groups tests vs. another would be seen as very unfair
yet it may be more so.
If we cold take sex out of this and substitute cognitive maturation we might get
better outcomes from the child's point of view. One clumsy attempt on this
is homogeneous grouping. Assignment into a group might be because an individual
was slow to grasp or simply unable to grasp the material.
I think the school has a bias and thinks they have a solution. Then they found numbers to support it.
There are girl and boy only schools where supporting data might live. One might be
a serious review of the famous schools and their curriculum as framed before standard testing.
These schools (perhaps 1780-1920) and their syllabus (teachers notes) may still exist
and may prove interesting.
Little of this matters -- TV sitcom and even cartoons have very rigid rolls for the sexes
to play...
You apparently didn't comprehend the story. That guy was committed to make an attack and die in the process before he came into contact with the FBI. Where is your evidence that the FBI was "pressuring" and "reassuring him"?
In the article: "...stopped taking his medication because he didn't like the way it made him feel and it was expensive."
Now that is clearly a mandate for universal mental health care!
The modern pharmacopoeia of mental health drugs is better than many chemotherapy
strategies for cancer but not much better. Many are also too darn expensive.
Side effects need to to be understood and absolutely not understood is the effect
on a human when starting or quitting the program. Miss a couple doses and
a lot of individuals get untied.
The most difficult context "bipolar" seems to be involved here. A prescribing
doctor almost never sees a person in both manic and depressive states
outside of a locked facility. The transition triggers are ill understood.
It is the rare and exceptional program where a psychologist is trained
to and licensed to prescribe medication. The fees are astoundingly
high. As doctors they must all pay for insurance. As educated individuals
they have made a serious investment in time and money (debt) to become
trained and certified.
Statistics make the overlay of professionals and the population a sparse map
across much of the nation....
Decades ago it was noted that if you hire a programmer you must budget for
two so he or she has someone to talk to. This is true for psych professionals
they need continuous learning and a "community" to work with. In isolation
they seem to go a little bonkers.
Do you think body camera's would help the small percentage of officers that do fall into, the bad apple catagory, restrain themselves from the bad behaviour?
One important perspective here is, when a citation is issued or an arrest made the weight of the law is
heavy on the the side of law enforcement. Citizens and officers alike are equally protected by a quality
record that documents the actions of both sides.
Both citizens and officers would do well to have body and dash cameras.
It is true that Google glasses were a bust but the world learned a lot.
However once an officer turns on his lights or exits his vehicle in the prosecution
of his charter there should be no restrictions on recording including voice.
Anyone want to guarantee 100% perfect security for ANY wireless communication? Because if we have remotely piloted airliners (either because there's no pilot, or the pilot is suicidal) someone WILL hack into it.
And anyone that had to listen to AM and FM radio including short wave for entertainment or news knows how
fragile radio links can be. It is necessary to solve the lightning strike problem to 99.9999% or better.
Fried communication, fried or interrupted systems that need to reboot, location sensors include GPS need
to recover quickly.
Protecting the current fly by wire systems is easier by a bunch.
What is extra funny is that they apparently have no idea how it works as you would have to snort so much of the crap you would die of your lungs being caked in crap before ever getting a buzz that way. Its a gimmick folks, and in pretty much every situation you would be better off with a hip flask.
It is clearly a gimmick but those that would snort it on a dare could kill themselves with
the reverse osmosis effect and airway obstruction. This marketing game could also wreck it as a valuable
emergency first aid adjunct. Bandages infused with it as well as other female pad and diaper friendly
compounds could (or not) have antiseptic properties of value.
The legislation that bans it bothers me because it is based on FUD
and bald faced ignorant lies.
I am scared of vodka soaked tampons and bartenders pouring
doubles without being asked. All in all I am more scared by
the ignorance...
For kids I also worry about jello shots.
Fortunately WiFi cards in most laptops can be replaced. It may require a complete tear down to get to it but it can be done.
Not true.
WiFi is the most common target of BIOS whitelist.
Hidden is worry that FCC compliance rules for power and emissions be violated
vendors whitelist only WiFi cards they have "tested".
I tried to update five laptops to new WiFi cards and ALL failed because of the
BIOS whitelist. HP, Compaq, Toshiba.... The lockout was absolute nothing
would boot at all.
In my case I wanted AC WiFi and USB2 does not support sufficient bandwidth. ... NO system would boot with the
So I picked up some tiny PCI WiFi cards
new card. All did a BIOS lockout.
To me this means that the whitelist is a dependency repair list. Should any whitelist
device fail replacing it likely trips on a supply chain sole source dependency chain where
the life and availability of the devices are critical in knowing the life expectancy
of the purchase. No company computes or divulges a MTBF repair analysis that does not assume
full availability of spare parts. The white list changes the numerical analysis drastically and
worse it changes it in unknowable ways.
That is not true if you use Lenovo.
Lenovo doesn't want customers to be able to upgrade their laptops, so they implemented a list of approved mini-pci cards that can be used in them. It's called "bios whitelist".
Therefore if you have a Lenovo laptop you will have to change the whole laptop. Presumably to a different brand that doesn't pull this crap.
For those who do. Not.
The white list in the BIOS for WiFi type hardware makes sense in the context of radio frequency regulation. Makers of mini-pci hardware
should jump up and down and toss restraining orders. If you are not on the white list you are SOL as a vendo and side door money
can limit the competition.
WORSE in all this is the white list is invisible. I am inclined to begin asking for disclosure of the whitelist and lacking disclosure
returning the hardware for failure to operate as advertised. Has PCI slot... PCI compliant cards do not work.
I doubt the parking bit. Many people will choose to use a driverless cab .....chop....
Driverless vehicles will enable a lot of options. Some for the user
some for the community some good and some "interesting".
The safety issue is interesting. Some communities may elect to ban
all vehicles except autonomous cars for safety reasons.
Some may relay to mass transit as individual vehicles are not as
traffic dense or fuel efficient as rail or water.
Taxi drivers and Uber may become a thing of the past.
Well maybe not Uber. They may find ways for you to earn $$ by
loaning your autonomous auto when you do not need it. Their dispatch
system could dispatch an auto-auto as easy as a drive+car.
Individual vehicles for persons that do not wish to wait.
Community fleets for those willing to share and wait a bit.
Parking -- an autonomous car could circle on the street and not
park thus increasing traffic. This may cause some communities
to tax traffic and not passengers. More one way streets are likely
as a machine could navigate a wide flow nicely think rings like the
Olympic logo.. tedious to navigate for a person but ok for a machine.
Electric vehicles could go find a charger. Hybrid vehicles might
go and hibernate.
Traffic congestion and parking density are the rock and hard place
that when addressed could make someone wealthy and customers
happy.
Apparently the pilot is a master at voices.
Even if that half-assed attempt was true, it doesn't improve the safety - they'd still all be dead. It just gives us the ability to ogle and lay blame.
This is worthy of a +1 or moderator vote up.
One of the driving forces for video is the media. They lust after any content that they can get and
rebroadcast.
Their greed could make you a buck, Copyright any home video and communicate it to any responsible agency
with a reminder that it is copyright but never to a news outlet. Should a media outlet use it without permission
go after them all. As a minimum 4x the advertising fee and also salary of the personalities and production staff
involved.
If you are in an aircraft situation... take a phone video -- it might survive.
We already have a pretty good idea of what happened to the Germanwings flight even with 1 damaged black box.
The damaged data recording boxes are the detail in this that is missing.
Redundant durable data recording boxes in contrast to data collection boxes seem to be the next improvement.
Next, it seems to me that the recovery of these boxes and their data is a weak link in crash analysis.
Modern GPS and multi axis sensors kin to the ones in our phones are inexpensive so the sensor set
can be augmented and improved without touching flight or engine control systems.
Data links to ground recording stations is the next obvious improvement.
Air to air grid style networking can bridge vast reaches over oceans without
connecting to expensive satellite systems. Routine data is modest. Store and forward
strategies can include automated data dump at the ground terminal can minimize live data
links. i.e. fleet data collection aircraft to aircraft for long haul transit.
Cabin alarms can trigger wider air to air transfers and perhaps satellite link dumps.
The big red button could also trigger video transfers and archives but that is simply
another sensor. Video through chewing gum or cabin cleaner goo is a problem.
Summary: multiple data storage boxes with augmented sensors that do not touch flight
control or engine systems are needed. Aircraft to aircraft RF data links can eliminate box recovery urgency.
Note line of sight RF at 25-40,000 feet is a long way. Aircraft can be routed in pairs separated
by 50 miles... even.
This seems self serving.
Since the set of Mockrosoft products serve as host to the largest
collection of hacked robot farms out there this is interesting. Hardening
their server and other products seems too hard for MS. It seems to me that this may
prove to be the single most cost effective strategy there is to reduce
the size of distributed attack farms. That alone would make their server
products measurably better to customers. It would allow sites
to maintain desirable uptime and availability numbers.
It also reduces the impact on software engineering in Redmond because
this makes is easier to slowly walk away from previous Windowz versions.
Without knowing the truth, I would assert their cash flow is not dominated by selling updates, it is
Office and new hardware tax.
It may also enable improved markets for new Office products for Asian languages.
Back porting and compatibility in Office 2xxx-new is baggage that might
be left behind.
It is a big bet that Win-10 will run well enough on the older hardware
and a big bet on the quality of the release.
It could pay off...
It could just make Linux+GNU a better choice.
Nobody is under any obligation to share their financial details on net worth with any government official. Income, yes. Net worth, no. Net worth changes every single day depending on markets for real estate, equities, bonds, equipment etc. The overhead associated with appraising everything would be enormous. Then you have classes of people who have lots of paper wealth, but little income. Say a farmer. He may be worth millions on paper, but have little cash flow, and lots of that is committed to paying off bills for seed, chemicals, diesel fuel, etc.
This is important....
I should add that plate readers allow this revenue model to be optimized.
Isolation of citation income value data is clearly needed.
Those that see this as a good thing need to be monitored with care.
The only good news is the RICH do have long arms and big legal sticks.
They also finance individual election programs and abusers might find themselves
paying fines for walking 6 mph in a 3 mph walking zone inside a fenced
exercise yard.
Wait, wait wait....
Isn't the point of the fine, to enforce the concept of SAFETY?
Some places do consider safety a goal.
If safety is a goal you make the fine large enough to cause the offender some
financial pain.
But wait if you earn millions and the next guy makes hundreds this very much
levels the field of pain.
One troubling problem with traffic fines is the sum and the finances of most
receiving the fine are upside down and the disenfranchised have insufficient
resources to fight the systematic problems with many traffic laws and their
enforcement.
A fine this large justifies legal attention and a side effect is that the judge
will see improved defense and review of the law.
Yes, I think it is outrageous but then I do not earn millions.
My gut instinct is that this is the kernel of some improvement
to the gross abuses that some traffic enforcement programs finance
themselves with.
The next obvious to me abusive process is the photo citations and escalating
fail to appear bench warrant processes farmed out to civilian contracts.
The citation is often waved for want of evidence but the fail to appear
is self-proving and can be isolated from the initial systematic fraud.
How much of this feedbag is from apple.com or another
competitor?
My CP/M system is still giving me fine service air-gapped
from the universe.
More importantly how is this pile broken down. ... bucket C. ... bucket D.
Some hate any change... bucket A.
Some find broken stuff... bucket B (B as in badly broken bozo)
Some want their personal change
Some found dumb stuff
The report appears innocuous but is also justification for more air power.
Hidden from us is the effect of flattening hot crime spots and dispersing crime more evenly across the area. Short term reduction of crime in hot spots seems very real but would identify the hot spot and move crime to cooler spots.
It does little to solve the social and economic wreckage in many neighborhoods that makes crime the most profitable activity.
With deep database background searches no past criminal can get an "interesting" or well paying job. With 20-40% of the mail population in some areas there are rare honest jobs.
The multi million budget for one helicopter would better be spent on solving social problems. This is harder to do than I like but it needs to be done.
We are making some improvements with the decriminalization of marijuana but have failed to discuss a need to expunge non violent non repeat crimes from public employment screening. Simply financing tattoo removal would help some individuals.
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Nothing against the unit but the budget area and population make me wonder if more is justified.
I'm not a Linux programmer so I may be out of date on this, but there isn't or wasn't a single C++ ABI on Linux between the various compilers. If the kernel used C++ for those interfaces it would potentially require that the kernal and all kernel modules were compiled with the same toolchain. Rolling their own implementation means the ABI is compatible across all the different compilers and compiler version with a side benefit of being able to write kernel modules in languages other than C/C++.
The Gentoo crowd had a hoop or two to jump through to get from one version of gcc to another way back when.
Compilers and ABI designs are important -- the fuzzy rules for ARM ABIs is holding ARM back for some.
Linus may be correct from where he sits. A lot of where he sits is atop a massive
pile of C and history written in C going back to Minix and other versions of Unix -- all of which
were built with and on C.
Some of the microkernel designs could have a leg up and the close to hardware
bits could be isolated from upper layers that could be crafted in another language.
So if you want to start over and build from the ground up... who knows.
But today "C" is the anchor for the pile of stuff that Linus sits on.