The original reporting on ABC15 Self-driving Uber car hits, kills pedestrian in Tempe actually includes a video that has the caption "Self-driving vehicle hits BICYCLIST". The video also shows a crumpled-up bicycle.
Unfortunately, ABC15's text article says "a woman walking outside of the crosswalk was struck" and that is what the rest of the media is regurgitating as their own reporting.
The video also shows a number of bags with the bicycle so she may have been walking with it. Also, some of the bags are black trash bags, which may have contributed to the failure of the sensors (and human) to observe in time.
Mod parent up! Historically speaking, Christians are by far and away the most violent religious group. Not to say that anyone should be afraid of Christians - this is an excellent example of how things can be twisted out of proportion - "historically speaking", only the tiniest extremist fringe groups can be considered "violent" by any stretch of the imgination for the simple reason that by and large the greater majority of people are actually pretty decent folks just trying to get along. It's the rarified strata of megalomaniacs and tiny percentage of the population that's stupid and/or weak enough to follow them that we have to watch out for, they leverage the ignorance of the masses to dangerous effect. (Or, to put it another way, all of the world's problems are rooted in ignorance.)
Seatac is one of the few airports with TSA staff who have a reasonably sane approach to this BS. I've had two positive interactions with them recently.
First was my young daughter being selected randomly for one of their more extreme searches. The TSA staffer who was on point for those clearly wasn't happy but grimaced and waved her over, ready to follow the rules no matter how insane. An apparently higher ranking TSA person stopped him though saying quietly, "C'mon, it's a little girl", with a bit of a look that made it clear she thought he was being a moron.
The other time, also recent, we had forgotten we had some bottled water in the bottom of one of our backpacks and they found it at the x-ray machine. No problem though, they just examined it fairly closely and then let it pass.
I seem to recall reading about this many years ago. Not seeing anything on the web older than a few days though. As I recall it only happens under certain circumstances relating to the age of the snake and specific environmental factors including availability (or lack?) of food, temperature, humidity(?) etc.
Anybody else hear this before?
Or if you really want to get retro, (and remove any risk of propagation by netwok), get some DOS boot disks and the Pakistani Brain Virus.
(For history buffs: the first "real" PC virus evar, which I hand-disassembled on legal paper so I could write what might have been one of the first virus removal tools - a simple hex edit of the boot sector to skip over its code.:)
"...we needed to store ALL the account information, and we needed fast access to ALL of it ALL the time."
Which is why decent needs analysis is critical. In other situations that would not be the case.
I must say this line at the end of the article does more to reflect the ignorance of the author than anything else, "...why on earth did we squander so much money by not thinking this way until now?"
Who is this "we", kemosabe? Smart IT people have been thinking this way since the dawn of computers. Think of the huge storage rooms of archive, (not backup!), tapes that were around back in the mainframe days. We might store a higher percentage of it online nowadays but there's still a brisk market in optical storage arrays, high-speed tape libraries, various utilities for automatic email and database record archiving etc etc
Here, let's just give him some answers: - normalize everything for consistency - denormalize everything for performance - index only key fields for performance - index everything for performance - date index everything for logging purposes - don't date index anything for performance reasons - sanitize your inputs at the db level instead of the client for security and performance - sanitize your inputs at the client level instead of the db for security and performance - use Postgresql because MySQL sucks - use MySQL because Postgresql sucks - use [favorite db engine] because [some other engine] sucks
I'll add a thumbs up for Norhtec. Good, solid design at the right price. If you're in the US it'll be a little less expensive from these guys after you factor in the s/h. (The MicroClient is rebranded as one of the eBox series, I forget which one).
"that's an unabashedly self-modifying database"
Not to mention that ID 15 -> 21 re-mapping in one of the excerpts. Why would an ID of any kind ever need to be remapped on the fly like that? Heck, I used to do a little SQL programming back in the day, I might just have to dig into it a bit myself!:)
A tip for users of ResellerRatings, be sure to search the forums as well. They apparently confirm every post against the actual invoice number with the vendor so if you run across something that is obviously a scam from the get-go and you don't order anything you also can't warn other people away!
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The original reporting on ABC15 Self-driving Uber car hits, kills pedestrian in Tempe actually includes a video that has the caption "Self-driving vehicle hits BICYCLIST". The video also shows a crumpled-up bicycle.
Unfortunately, ABC15's text article says "a woman walking outside of the crosswalk was struck" and that is what the rest of the media is regurgitating as their own reporting.
The video also shows a number of bags with the bicycle so she may have been walking with it. Also, some of the bags are black trash bags, which may have contributed to the failure of the sensors (and human) to observe in time.
eBay no longer forces you to use PayPal.
Yes, they do.
Try any other payment method and see where it takes you...
Though here I am using gmail for going on a decade and a half...
Gmail has never been free, it is paid for by advertising.
I know a small ISP that might be interested, feel free to drop me a line...
Mod parent up! Historically speaking, Christians are by far and away the most violent religious group. Not to say that anyone should be afraid of Christians - this is an excellent example of how things can be twisted out of proportion - "historically speaking", only the tiniest extremist fringe groups can be considered "violent" by any stretch of the imgination for the simple reason that by and large the greater majority of people are actually pretty decent folks just trying to get along. It's the rarified strata of megalomaniacs and tiny percentage of the population that's stupid and/or weak enough to follow them that we have to watch out for, they leverage the ignorance of the masses to dangerous effect. (Or, to put it another way, all of the world's problems are rooted in ignorance.)
Except VIPs don't get scanned...
> Arming passengers will wind up with more people dead than letting terrorists on board.
Citation please!
Even better would be to conduct polls of travelers at airports all over the country and see what the real statistics are.
Seatac is one of the few airports with TSA staff who have a reasonably sane approach to this BS. I've had two positive interactions with them recently.
First was my young daughter being selected randomly for one of their more extreme searches. The TSA staffer who was on point for those clearly wasn't happy but grimaced and waved her over, ready to follow the rules no matter how insane. An apparently higher ranking TSA person stopped him though saying quietly, "C'mon, it's a little girl", with a bit of a look that made it clear she thought he was being a moron.
The other time, also recent, we had forgotten we had some bottled water in the bottom of one of our backpacks and they found it at the x-ray machine. No problem though, they just examined it fairly closely and then let it pass.
"For all intensive purposes"
Completely OT, but had to chuckle at the grammar-nazi-bait sig. :)
I seem to recall reading about this many years ago. Not seeing anything on the web older than a few days though. As I recall it only happens under certain circumstances relating to the age of the snake and specific environmental factors including availability (or lack?) of food, temperature, humidity(?) etc.
Anybody else hear this before?
Or if you really want to get retro, (and remove any risk of propagation by netwok), get some DOS boot disks and the Pakistani Brain Virus.
(For history buffs: the first "real" PC virus evar, which I hand-disassembled on legal paper so I could write what might have been one of the first virus removal tools - a simple hex edit of the boot sector to skip over its code. :)
Oh, yeah, and get offa my lawn!
"...we needed to store ALL the account information, and we needed fast access to ALL of it ALL the time."
Which is why decent needs analysis is critical. In other situations that would not be the case.
I must say this line at the end of the article does more to reflect the ignorance of the author than anything else, "...why on earth did we squander so much money by not thinking this way until now?"
Who is this "we", kemosabe? Smart IT people have been thinking this way since the dawn of computers. Think of the huge storage rooms of archive, (not backup!), tapes that were around back in the mainframe days. We might store a higher percentage of it online nowadays but there's still a brisk market in optical storage arrays, high-speed tape libraries, various utilities for automatic email and database record archiving etc etc
Here, let's just give him some answers:
- normalize everything for consistency
- denormalize everything for performance
- index only key fields for performance
- index everything for performance
- date index everything for logging purposes
- don't date index anything for performance reasons
- sanitize your inputs at the db level instead of the client for security and performance
- sanitize your inputs at the client level instead of the db for security and performance
- use Postgresql because MySQL sucks
- use MySQL because Postgresql sucks
- use [favorite db engine] because [some other engine] sucks
There, HTH!
Yep, pfSense fer shure. It's being used in environments a lot bigger than 1000 users. (Without naming names, think major news sites :).
Wait, it's only compatible with Valve products?!?
Gamers think it's really hot!
Tired of the VI vs EMACS war? Try the new Vyatta vs pfSense conflict instead! :)
(pfSense is great...)
RIM-shot!
On the consulting side people do notice when things are running well because they aren't getting billed!
This article needs a "Schroedinger" tag. :)
I'll add a thumbs up for Norhtec. Good, solid design at the right price. If you're in the US it'll be a little less expensive from these guys after you factor in the s/h. (The MicroClient is rebranded as one of the eBox series, I forget which one).
"that's an unabashedly self-modifying database" Not to mention that ID 15 -> 21 re-mapping in one of the excerpts. Why would an ID of any kind ever need to be remapped on the fly like that? Heck, I used to do a little SQL programming back in the day, I might just have to dig into it a bit myself! :)
A tip for users of ResellerRatings, be sure to search the forums as well. They apparently confirm every post against the actual invoice number with the vendor so if you run across something that is obviously a scam from the get-go and you don't order anything you also can't warn other people away!
PAM is your friend!