You are stuck using only visible light to perceive the world around you. Any autonomous system would have sensors that are working outside that band and hence are going to be more or less affected by various conditions. You would expect the system to use lidar, radar, and ultrasonic at the absolute minimum. It would also have sensors that are closer to the ground and at better angles than your eyes so while the lines may be invisible to you in the drivers seat the sensors can see them clearly.
My expectation of behaviour would be that the AI is able to make a remarkably accurate estimate of braking distance and then reduce its speed to a level where its sensor range exceeds that of braking distance + a margin of error.
Rio Tinto runs Automated trains across the Pilbara Network which is thousands of KMs or rail line carrying heavy haulage from mines. They also have autonomous trucks driving in their mines as well.
Whether or not Tesla is able to get the car to self drive that distance is not in any way shape or form related to whether it will be legal.
Personally I think that it would be extremely unlikely for self driving cars to not become a reality. There is too much money being spent on it by too many smart people. It may be that the US ends up being late to the game though due to the nature of the US legal system.
Not specifically a MSFT problem. It will happen on any NTP server that will respond to a monlist request without first requiring a nonce verification of the senders IP address.
Send this command ntpdc –c monlist 1xx.xxx.xxx.xx9 (where x is your target NTP server) and you will get a much larger response. Combine that with a spoofed return address and you have your DDOS attach vector.
No not a weakness but a poorly configured NTP server. They should be either running a later version of NTP where this amplification method was fixed or having their system configured to require a nonce. That way spoofing wont work.
Fascinating to watch that. I wonder what mechanism they are using. I suspect that they have found a weakness in Beijing Hsoft which allows them to use their NTP servers to amplify.
Probably but I suspect that barge landings will always have a high risk of failure. Too many variables you can't control and with the engines unable to power down enough to hover if the barge moves an inch or 2 vertically during the landing that is probably the difference between boom and no boom.
Depending on the cost savings achieved by being able to rebuild the rocket, and the availability of not too deep water we may see musk build something like an oil platform for them to land on.
There were some comments made about the entire barge being pushed down into the water by the force of the rocket landing.
That said I don't think the barge was ever the target landing location. I think the barge was necessary to get regulatory approval to come in over the land. Prove you can hit your target first where you won't hurt / destroy anything then you can try it here.
It's not even the case of can anyone get a fleet to Mars, it is the fact that as soon as Mars has launch capability you had an instant MAD scenario so you cannot enforce laws they don't want to follow. It might take awhile for your attack to arrive but if you aren't trying to slow down to achieve orbit anything you lob will hit the ground pretty hard.
In Queensland if the rent is less than $700 pw then the maximum bond allowed is 4 weeks rent. If the weekly rent exceeds $700 pw then there is no limit.
That came from the FAQ and will probably be a simplification of the actual legislative instrument. I do know that when you apply for a rental you include all the members of your family at that time and these are then given to the owner. It would then leave open the opportunity to discriminate based on family even if it was illegal to do so.
My experience with renters has been that this only goes as far as their bond. After that the owner has to go through the legal process to recoup and is often not worth the recovery cost.
The difference between your examples is that you are talking renting vs sale. The ownership of the property remains with the original owner. There are differences in wear and tear between long term renters and short stays and yet in this instance the cost of those repairs and maintenance increases is staying with the original owner and not being put onto the middle man.
Short term rentals tend to suffer greater levels of wear and tear than long term rentals as well. So this is a consideration when choosing between the two options.
I'm not so sure about this. From the Rental Tenants Authority Queensland site one of the things they list in their FAQ is: * The property manager/owner’s permission must be sought for all people living at the property, even if they are sub-letting. https://www.rta.qld.gov.au/Ren...
But I would have thought the first part of the billing process would be around username and password in the modem. If that is then moved to a MAC system internally surely that would be done automatically when connection was negotiated.
Enforcement agencies in the context of this legislation are police and security forces and do not extend to access by media company representatives such as MPAA. The ACMA is directly involved because ACMA is the entity that has responsibility for managing the internet in Australia, for example they manage they current blocklist that covers illegal content. The part of the acronym that is important in this context is the C. They are the primary agency dealing with communication. Their mandate starts as "The ACMA is a government agency responsible for the regulation of broadcasting, the internet, radiocommunications and telecommunications." It doesn't have anything to do really with "media" in the concept of media ownership or copyright or anything like that.
So to give an example if a site was deemed to be inciting radicalisation then the police, and in this case most likely the Australian Federal Police, would bring the information to the ACMA. The ACMA would then put the case around blocking that site. This however is where things become opaque as there process is not open to the public and the blocklist is not open to the public. The ACMA have also been know to use a sledge hammer and cause collateral damage in the past so the system is far far far from perfect. I have no idea if a court is involved in deciding the block list or not.
From the ACMA.
The ACMA's strategic intent The ACMA is a government agency responsible for the regulation of broadcasting, the internet, radiocommunications and telecommunications.
The ACMA's responsibilities include:
promoting self-regulation and competition in the communications industry, while protecting consumers and other users fostering an environment in which electronic media respect community standards and respond to audience and user needs managing access to the radiofrequency spectrum representing Australia 's communications interests internationally. The ACMA has offices in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney.
The ACMA has the vision to remain constantly relevant and the strategic intent to achieve this by delivering on its mandated outcomes, discharging its statutory obligations and transforming itself into a resilient, e-facing, learning organisation, responsive to the numerous pressures for change that confront it.
The architecture of the ACMA strategic intent is articulated in the following three-layer structure, which encapsulates the mandate from the Australian Government, the strategic purpose the ACMA has derived and with which it engages, and the standard the ACMA has set itself to achieve.
1. Mandate The current ACMA charter from government is reflected in outcomes defined in its annually determined Portfolio Budget Statement (PBS), which indicates the proposed allocation of resources to government outcomes. From the 2012–13 Budget, the outcome mandated for the ACMA is to work ‘ with all stakeholders to maximise the public benefit, using the legislated regulatory framework to address the broad concerns of the community, meet the needs of industry, and maintain community and national interest safeguards.’
2. Purpose The purpose of the ACMA is to discharge its statutory obligations and reflects how the role of the organisation is interpreted at a strategic level—‘why’ it does what it does. At this level, the ACMA strategic goal is distilled as being: ‘To make communications and media work in Australia’s public interest.’
3. Standard Over and above the fulfilment of its mandate and achievement of its purpose, the ACMA has also adopted a standard of performance that reflects the level at which it wants to perform and requires a transformation of the organisation to deliver. This standard is defined as being: ‘To be, and to be recognised as, a world-leading, best practice converged communications regulator.’
The first thing to be aware of is that none of this comment is accurate. This case was brought forward before the Metadata act was passed and is completely independent of it. I am not saying that the mandatory storage of metadata is a good thing, it's not, but you make your arguments look stupid if the first line of your argument is completely false.
The Dallas Buyers Club LLC vs iiNet case was lodged in October 2014, the data retention laws were passed in March of 2015 and came in to force in October of 2015. None of the evidence put forward by DBC was provided by the ISPs involved or was in any way retained, accessed, or otherwise related to the metadata laws.
Please feel free to fight these laws and any kind of movement into other countries. But co-opting unrelated events is not the right way.
But they always would have controlled that capability. Just like if you bought a router and flashed new firmware or the new firmware onto a graphics card. How could you possibly think they didn't? Also it only affects their hub, it doesn't affect anything else.
I'm not familiar enough with the system to know if it auto-updated or whether you needed to choose to flash the update. But potentially you are looking at something you had to take active steps to install.
Designing a system so that you can update it does not signal malign intent. It just signals you built the ability to update the system. If this had been a patch to fix a security flaw would you think it malicious?
I could be completely wrong of course, as I am just making guesses but I see this as being their thought process.
Worker bee 1: Boss we are getting a lot of complaints and service requests where people are trying to use non-compliant 3rd party bulbs with the Hue system. We are copping a lot of the flack for these bulbs not working properly even though it is the third party that is making shit not us.
Boss: Hmmmm. Perhaps what we could do is put together a certification system, I know lets call it "Friends of Hue", and push that out to 3rd party manufacturers. Then we set our system to only work with those compliant bulbs. That way we know the system will work. We really can't afford to be blamed for other peoples shit products.
Worker bee 1: Sounds good. I'll roll it out.
Worker bee 2: Boss we fucked up. We had no idea the level of penetration that 3rd party bulbs had with out system. People are saying we are as bad as Sony. Instead of them seeing it as a quality control measure they think we are trying to lock down the system. We can't afford to lose the enthusiast market, they ARE our market.
Boss: Crap crap crap crap crap. Roll it back and roll it back now. This wasn't what was meant to happen. Oh shit I'm going to get hammered for this.
+1 this. When I did my engineering degree in the 90s this was the reason that was put forward for the collapse. Best part about my physics lecturer is he started by saying that this bridge is used by most of the different schools to argue different reasons. If you do aerospace it will be the wind, if you do civils it will be resonance etc etc. The bridge is used as a cool subject for assignments, the teacher chooses what they want the assignment to be about.
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You are stuck using only visible light to perceive the world around you. Any autonomous system would have sensors that are working outside that band and hence are going to be more or less affected by various conditions. You would expect the system to use lidar, radar, and ultrasonic at the absolute minimum. It would also have sensors that are closer to the ground and at better angles than your eyes so while the lines may be invisible to you in the drivers seat the sensors can see them clearly.
My expectation of behaviour would be that the AI is able to make a remarkably accurate estimate of braking distance and then reduce its speed to a level where its sensor range exceeds that of braking distance + a margin of error.
North West Rail Link (NWRL) which is a huge urban metro line in Sydney is driverless.
Rio Tinto runs Automated trains across the Pilbara Network which is thousands of KMs or rail line carrying heavy haulage from mines. They also have autonomous trucks driving in their mines as well.
Whether or not Tesla is able to get the car to self drive that distance is not in any way shape or form related to whether it will be legal.
Personally I think that it would be extremely unlikely for self driving cars to not become a reality. There is too much money being spent on it by too many smart people. It may be that the US ends up being late to the game though due to the nature of the US legal system.
Not specifically a MSFT problem. It will happen on any NTP server that will respond to a monlist request without first requiring a nonce verification of the senders IP address.
Send this command ntpdc –c monlist 1xx.xxx.xxx.xx9 (where x is your target NTP server) and you will get a much larger response. Combine that with a spoofed return address and you have your DDOS attach vector.
No not a weakness but a poorly configured NTP server. They should be either running a later version of NTP where this amplification method was fixed or having their system configured to require a nonce. That way spoofing wont work.
Fascinating to watch that. I wonder what mechanism they are using. I suspect that they have found a weakness in Beijing Hsoft which allows them to use their NTP servers to amplify.
The Perdido offshore oil rig is in 2400m. The Mid Atlantic Ridge has thousands and thousands of spots were depth is under 1km.
I suspect a solid foundation landing platform built in the ocean in the future.
Probably but I suspect that barge landings will always have a high risk of failure. Too many variables you can't control and with the engines unable to power down enough to hover if the barge moves an inch or 2 vertically during the landing that is probably the difference between boom and no boom.
Depending on the cost savings achieved by being able to rebuild the rocket, and the availability of not too deep water we may see musk build something like an oil platform for them to land on.
There were some comments made about the entire barge being pushed down into the water by the force of the rocket landing.
That said I don't think the barge was ever the target landing location. I think the barge was necessary to get regulatory approval to come in over the land. Prove you can hit your target first where you won't hurt / destroy anything then you can try it here.
It's not even the case of can anyone get a fleet to Mars, it is the fact that as soon as Mars has launch capability you had an instant MAD scenario so you cannot enforce laws they don't want to follow. It might take awhile for your attack to arrive but if you aren't trying to slow down to achieve orbit anything you lob will hit the ground pretty hard.
In Queensland if the rent is less than $700 pw then the maximum bond allowed is 4 weeks rent. If the weekly rent exceeds $700 pw then there is no limit.
That came from the FAQ and will probably be a simplification of the actual legislative instrument. I do know that when you apply for a rental you include all the members of your family at that time and these are then given to the owner. It would then leave open the opportunity to discriminate based on family even if it was illegal to do so.
My experience with renters has been that this only goes as far as their bond. After that the owner has to go through the legal process to recoup and is often not worth the recovery cost.
The difference between your examples is that you are talking renting vs sale. The ownership of the property remains with the original owner. There are differences in wear and tear between long term renters and short stays and yet in this instance the cost of those repairs and maintenance increases is staying with the original owner and not being put onto the middle man.
Short term rentals tend to suffer greater levels of wear and tear than long term rentals as well. So this is a consideration when choosing between the two options.
I'm not so sure about this. From the Rental Tenants Authority Queensland site one of the things they list in their FAQ is:
* The property manager/owner’s permission must be sought for all people living at the property, even if they are sub-letting.
https://www.rta.qld.gov.au/Ren...
But I would have thought the first part of the billing process would be around username and password in the modem. If that is then moved to a MAC system internally surely that would be done automatically when connection was negotiated.
No worries.
Enforcement agencies in the context of this legislation are police and security forces and do not extend to access by media company representatives such as MPAA. The ACMA is directly involved because ACMA is the entity that has responsibility for managing the internet in Australia, for example they manage they current blocklist that covers illegal content. The part of the acronym that is important in this context is the C. They are the primary agency dealing with communication. Their mandate starts as "The ACMA is a government agency responsible for the regulation of broadcasting, the internet, radiocommunications and telecommunications." It doesn't have anything to do really with "media" in the concept of media ownership or copyright or anything like that.
So to give an example if a site was deemed to be inciting radicalisation then the police, and in this case most likely the Australian Federal Police, would bring the information to the ACMA. The ACMA would then put the case around blocking that site. This however is where things become opaque as there process is not open to the public and the blocklist is not open to the public. The ACMA have also been know to use a sledge hammer and cause collateral damage in the past so the system is far far far from perfect. I have no idea if a court is involved in deciding the block list or not.
From the ACMA.
The ACMA's strategic intent
The ACMA is a government agency responsible for the regulation of broadcasting, the internet, radiocommunications and telecommunications.
The ACMA's responsibilities include:
promoting self-regulation and competition in the communications industry, while protecting consumers and other users
fostering an environment in which electronic media respect community standards and respond to audience and user needs
managing access to the radiofrequency spectrum
representing Australia 's communications interests internationally.
The ACMA has offices in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney.
The ACMA has the vision to remain constantly relevant and the strategic intent to achieve this by delivering on its mandated outcomes, discharging its statutory obligations and transforming itself into a resilient, e-facing, learning organisation, responsive to the numerous pressures for change that confront it.
The architecture of the ACMA strategic intent is articulated in the following three-layer structure, which encapsulates the mandate from the Australian Government, the strategic purpose the ACMA has derived and with which it engages, and the standard the ACMA has set itself to achieve.
1. Mandate
The current ACMA charter from government is reflected in outcomes defined in its annually determined Portfolio Budget Statement (PBS), which indicates the proposed allocation of resources to government outcomes. From the 2012–13 Budget, the outcome mandated for the ACMA is to work ‘ with all stakeholders to maximise the public benefit, using the legislated regulatory framework to address the broad concerns of the community, meet the needs of industry, and maintain community and national interest safeguards.’
2. Purpose
The purpose of the ACMA is to discharge its statutory obligations and reflects how the role of the organisation is interpreted at a strategic level—‘why’ it does what it does. At this level, the ACMA strategic goal is distilled as being: ‘To make communications and media work in Australia’s public interest.’
3. Standard
Over and above the fulfilment of its mandate and achievement of its purpose, the ACMA has also adopted a standard of performance that reflects the level at which it wants to perform and requires a transformation of the organisation to deliver. This standard is defined as being: ‘To be, and to be recognised as, a world-leading, best practice converged communications regulator.’
The first thing to be aware of is that none of this comment is accurate. This case was brought forward before the Metadata act was passed and is completely independent of it. I am not saying that the mandatory storage of metadata is a good thing, it's not, but you make your arguments look stupid if the first line of your argument is completely false.
The Dallas Buyers Club LLC vs iiNet case was lodged in October 2014, the data retention laws were passed in March of 2015 and came in to force in October of 2015. None of the evidence put forward by DBC was provided by the ISPs involved or was in any way retained, accessed, or otherwise related to the metadata laws.
Please feel free to fight these laws and any kind of movement into other countries. But co-opting unrelated events is not the right way.
But they always would have controlled that capability. Just like if you bought a router and flashed new firmware or the new firmware onto a graphics card. How could you possibly think they didn't? Also it only affects their hub, it doesn't affect anything else.
I'm not familiar enough with the system to know if it auto-updated or whether you needed to choose to flash the update. But potentially you are looking at something you had to take active steps to install.
Designing a system so that you can update it does not signal malign intent. It just signals you built the ability to update the system. If this had been a patch to fix a security flaw would you think it malicious?
Apparently I am about the only person, since the I disagree = overrated modding has been deployed.
I could be completely wrong of course, as I am just making guesses but I see this as being their thought process.
Worker bee 1: Boss we are getting a lot of complaints and service requests where people are trying to use non-compliant 3rd party bulbs with the Hue system. We are copping a lot of the flack for these bulbs not working properly even though it is the third party that is making shit not us.
Boss: Hmmmm. Perhaps what we could do is put together a certification system, I know lets call it "Friends of Hue", and push that out to 3rd party manufacturers. Then we set our system to only work with those compliant bulbs. That way we know the system will work. We really can't afford to be blamed for other peoples shit products.
Worker bee 1: Sounds good. I'll roll it out.
Worker bee 2: Boss we fucked up. We had no idea the level of penetration that 3rd party bulbs had with out system. People are saying we are as bad as Sony. Instead of them seeing it as a quality control measure they think we are trying to lock down the system. We can't afford to lose the enthusiast market, they ARE our market.
Boss: Crap crap crap crap crap. Roll it back and roll it back now. This wasn't what was meant to happen. Oh shit I'm going to get hammered for this.
+1 this. When I did my engineering degree in the 90s this was the reason that was put forward for the collapse. Best part about my physics lecturer is he started by saying that this bridge is used by most of the different schools to argue different reasons. If you do aerospace it will be the wind, if you do civils it will be resonance etc etc. The bridge is used as a cool subject for assignments, the teacher chooses what they want the assignment to be about.