Why is this necessary? Half the point of self driving cars is that they can go slower because I don't need to focus. Go 40 mph (64 kph) for all I care. I can be doing something else. I don't need to "hurry" at 70, just get me there.
But you don't want half an hour's trip to become one or two hours. If the autonomous car is crippled because it's lost long range sensors it's totally reasonable to force it to stop rather than slow down everyone on the road to 10 mph. Though I hope they don't do anything so silly as to ban vehicles with redundant sensors from operating in degraded mode - that's kinda the point of redundancy. I'm not sure why they have to make explicit rules about this, it sounds like the AI version of the "self-integrity" check we should do before getting behind the wheel. Like if I'm drunk or on drugs or too tired or dizzy and at the risk of fainting or suffering from vision problems or whatever, don't drive. You carry the legal burden if you drive anyway, so do they if they think they can wing it without the full deck of sensors.
If you make accessories too expensive, you end up putting yourself in the price range of real laptops running Windows while holding no real competitive advantages. No thanks.
Well $99 for a pen is pretty normal... but $200 for a keyboard is crazy. I mean it starts at $600, if you go for the base model that's 1/3rd of the cost. For that you get the screen, CPU, GPU, memory, storage, wireless etc. and then $200 just to have keys... Surface takes $129 for a type cover, Apple $169 so ~$150 would be in line with the competition. I know they make money back on accessories but when you make Apple look cheap you have a problem.
Iirr the gyroscopes all have issues with their gyroscopes' bearings, that were not discovered in earth-based duration tests. Cosmic rays erode the surface of the metal ball bearings, causing them to fail eventually way before their predicted life span. They changed to ceramic bearings since which solved the problem.
They've found several things:
One lesson learned was that gyros assembled using pressurized oxygen to deliver suspension fluid were prone to failure due to electric wire corrosion. Gyros are now assembled using pressurized nitrogen.
But ultimately all the gyros were replaced in the final service mission in 2009, before that they were also replaced in 1999. These new ones were supposed to last longer but it seems ~10 years is still all we get. I wonder if the Dragon can be retrofitted for spacewalks.. I don't think you could use the same airlock as for docking, they'd need full vacuum spacesuits and June next year is just supposed to be a test flight...
The single-threaded performance mattered a lot on dual-core and some on quad-core. But on an six/eight-core chip it's like yeah you're going full throttle on 12-16% of the processor, it's basically a huge waste unless it absolutely has to be done in one thread. I switched to Ryzen and I've not had any reason to regret it. Playing at 4K you're usually GPU limited anyway, while the few times I really do push my CPU encoding or something like that all the threads start firing up.
So we think because the FANG companies will not give us access to the numbers that they have, we have to apply a broad-based levy. They're forcing us to.
If you can create a levy on ISPs, you can create a levy on FANG companies. That they don't want to give you the numbers today doesn't matter if it becomes law. This is just a fake play to create outrage that no we can't have bandwidth taxes so we have to pick the other half of the false dilemma.
In terms of a constructive solution, I wish there were a crowdfunding website that EARNED its cut by providing project management support. Please let me know if such exists, but I've visited LOTS of them and haven't detected such an approach.
No offense, but I seriously doubt that could catch anything with a dishonest or unrealistic degree of completion. I mean you could offer that support and a whole lot of project might need it, but they rarely have the knowledge or capacity to dispute that you're 90% done.
Even if radiation on Mars surface is limited, the computers still have to survive the trip from Earth to Mars.
Well if we're assuming it's a manned mission it'll have to have a radiation shielded human habitat that can keep it under the 1 Sv career limit. Since the weighting factor is always >1, that's less than 1 Gy of radiation. That's there and back again so less than 0.5 Gy on the way to Mars. From what I understand that's not a whole lot, particularly since you don't have to worry about transient errors or jumping currents during operation just structural damage. You take them from the habitat, bring them to the deepest level of your Mars bunker and you test them. Sure a few might be broken but the cost/benefit might favor just disabling broken cores or just bringing a tray and leaving the super expensive rad-hardened stuff to probes and rovers.
It's really easy to overwhelm a computer with sensor data though, which is kinda the point of the rover being there. CERN is producing data at about 25GB/s and even after specialized selection and compression they now have >200 PB stored. Considering the very limited bandwidth back to Earth of only 100-250 Mbit/day (= 12-32 MB) I'm pretty sure they wish they had more CPU and more memory to pre-process it more and maybe derive its own results like say a 3D map of the environment both for itself and to relay back. Of course I'm sure they'd find ways to work with 16MB or 1MB if they had to, but I'm pretty sure this is an area where more is still significantly better.
Been there, done that and it's been a mixed experience. The short version is that it works real well if you are converging on a long term solution, you do an initial implementation and the tweaks to the code happen less and less often with less and less urgency. If what you want is really Excel - like, the flexibility to just alter a formula and hit save - you're probably going to be disappointed if you have to go through a standard development process of requesting the change, describing the expected outcome for TDD, pass it through DEV-QA-PROD gates and so on. Either that all the process guys are going to go nuts that you start doing ALTER PROCEDURE directly in production, even though you're technically not worse off than Excel was.
We actually ran it that way for a while, turnaround time from request to completed change could be anywhere from ten minutes to two hours, it was simply tweak the code, rerun the calculations, ask if it looks correct now. And despite you might call that process reckless we delivered quickly and cleanly effectively combining business skills and technical skills. Then somebody from the bank and insurance industry came in, no code change without first a request in JIRA, prioritized by the product owner, assigned in a sprint, formal test cases written, code developed, passed through QA, branched into a release... I need it by end of business hours became you can have in three weeks. I wonder why they just read out all the raw data again...
You won't be flying across the Atlantic on an electric airplane any time soon. But much like EVs vs ICEs there's a lot of ~1 hour short hop routes that could possibly - if jet fuel prices and emission regulations demand it - be done electrically.
When you're averaging across 222 million licensed drivers in the US alone humans have pretty persistent flaws. If they were an industry with that rate of faulty product we'd pull it from the market and fire the QA department. Personally I'm not too worried because it's not enough that there's a bug, there also has to be the conditions to trip the bug and most of the time you'd probably notice it earlier through near-misses and lesser accidents. Once they have something resembling a fleet they're going to see very quickly if there's a spike in problems and you can react to it. With humans you more or less just have to accept that's how people are.
It's easy to log millions of miles of road when you are the one choosing which roads to drive and when to drive. Proper independent testing needs to test out when those cars will fail, not just that they will work well under expected conditions.
While that's kinda true, you run into all sorts of drivers, trucks, bikes, trikes, bicycles, pedestrians, wild animals etc. unless you're extremely selective about where you go. I mean the road artifacts aren't that many, sure if you plan a route with no roundabouts or train crossings you never do those but there aren't that many "fixed situations". Most the crazy stuff happens at random due to traffic, you can't plan your way out much other than road conditions.
Such a misguided idea connecting safety alerts to the president.
Yep, it's mostly a marketing failure... I mean even the official site says:
What alerts does WEA deliver? Alerts from WEA cover only critical emergency situations. Consumers may receive only three types of alerts:
Alerts issued by the President Alerts involving imminent threats to safety or life Amber Alerts
Participating carriers may allow subscribers to block all but Presidential alerts.
I mean it is natural that it's the President addressing the country in a crisis, but they could have just called it "National Security alerts" for example. Like you can't opt out of the warning that WWIII just started. It's kinda hard for me to think of a "critical emergency" that doesn't fit any of those three.
In most businesses, the things that reduce productivity are screw-ups by management, not by the people actually doing the work.
Oh please, I've been in many situations where it's very clear that it's the "doer" at the lowest level that is lazy and/or incompetent, both in software development and elsewhere. Unless you use the cop-out that having crap people on staff is ultimately a management failure there are some pretty terrible employees out there. I'm working with one right now, he's a real life Wally. If he's got two projects he's always super busy on the other one. Like he says the exact opposite to different projects in separate status meetings on the same day. He always blames the tools, requirements, documentation, training etc. and what always happens is he spends 1-2 months achieving nothing, somebody more qualified is brought in to put out the fire and he's reassigned to something new. He does a few routine maintenance tasks and other than that he's a waste of space. My boss knows at least in part but I doubt he'll do anything until there's a downsizing.
a patent troll magics up some patent relating to AV1?
Well that could certainly happen but it's a risk for all codecs or indeed software in general, they've done an IPR review to make sure it doesn't infringe on the patents of their competitors in the HEVC camp so it'll have to be a surprise contender. But if you look at the Fortune global 500 they got #11 (Apple), #18 (Amazon), #52 (Alphabet/Google), #71 (Microsoft), #92 (IBM), #146 (Intel), #212 (Cisco) and #274 (Facebook) on board. I think they can afford a few lawyers to get the patent declared invalid or not applicable and if that fails a big payday for a patent troll is still pocket change for them. And if it turns out AV1 doesn't infringe your patent and that's the next dominant standard well too bad your patent is worthless, it'd be a pretty big gamble. If you're not first in line to be sued, what does it matter? I doubt they'll ever get to number two.
you would think the amount of cord-cutting would get more multicast video streaming on the net....
Long haul bandwidth is expensive but caching is cheap and the last mile cost mostly installation and maintenance, so there's not much savings from multicast over unicast from a CDN. If it wasn't for copyright you could set up a super effective simple, open LRU cache for torrents, every time you download externally the ISP caches the chunks. If one chunk = 4MB then a 4TB HDD = a million chunks and you don't need any redundancy. Next person who downloads only sends the hash and gets it right from the ISP's network at max speed. You could even do multi-layer and have a half-PB storage pod before you use any expensive links like undersea cables. For uhh... Linux distributions, sure.
Many companies in the space have stock valuations based on unlimited growth. Normal growth, or stasis, will be a big hit. I do not think investors understand profit and earnings rations anymore.
Some investors understand other investors well enough, a lot of people go by the way the arrow's pointing - up you buy and down you sell. And they get seduced by their own profit, I made lots of money on this stock so invest more. If you're too conservative or too twitchy you're likely to bail out of a booming stock too early, maybe it's not entirely rational based on book value but it's rational based on the market dynamics. Of course if you play the sucker's game too long you end up being the sucker but if you don't lose objectivity you can probably get out in time. And truth be told, average people probably stand a better chance picking the "next big thing" than trying to outwit the pros at reading earnings reports.
I work in a critical field. My employer (the State by the way) requires my laptop and phone must be encrypted. I could lose my job or much worse of I give my password to anyone. So which law trumps the other one?
Sovereign jurisdictions each make their own rules, so both. But personally as an employee I would let the NZ goons do what they want and claim duress back home, it's their soil and their law. Do you think US customs would give a shit about NZ law? If they'll let me I might call my boss and try to escalate it past my pay grade, but if I'm not I'd take the defense that they beat me with a $5000 legal wrench. Assuming that you went there on a work trip by the employer's rules of course, if the rules say to get a burner phone and you brought your regular phone anyway or you just took a private vacation with your work gear you might want to eat the fine. Depends on how much worse it could get at home of course, but losing clearance can be very costly.
It'd be MUCH more effective to turn them into robotic sleeper agents that target military officials/visiting politicians
How do you figure that? The first time you use it there'll probably be eye witnesses, security cameras, ballistics etc. pinning the robot as the guilty one. After that they will take the model out of service and scour through everything until they find out how you did it.
Compare that to a thousand units going berserk all at once at many different locations. Most of them will probably be stationed at military bases, everyone there is a target as either military service personnel or NGOs. Lots of expensive equipment too. And if some are on guard duty in a public location, well shit here's your "protector" going on a rampage. It could do some real military damage, it'd be a PR nightmare at home, a PR nightmare abroad and afterwards they'd be nothing but junk because you had to stop them by force. And a lot simpler, a simple countdown and then start shooting at every heat signature you see.
If I wanted to use them to find some high-level target for assassination well then I wouldn't use my eyes and ears to execute it. Then I'd just use that inside information to plant an IED or something that wouldn't compromise my intelligence asset. To do that it'd have to be very, very important and no other way to get it done.
If I were to wager a guess I'd guess the tendency of some people to think everything that happens to them is a form of discrimination based on whatever minority group they happen to be in. We've seen Linus go ballistic on people who presumably are also white heterosexual males, it's not okay but it's a pretty good evidence he's "just" the occasional asshole not a bigot. But if he now attacks the wrong person I expect there to be all kinds of hell and CoC-waving about how Linus is creating a "hostile environment" for women or some sort of LBGT+ group. Some even seem to go around like agent provocateurs, stirring shit up trying to trigger name calling and then pouncing on them as bigots and acting like their taunting is really an act of community service exposing hidden discrimination. And if they don't get the response they want, escalate as this proves how extensive the hidden discrimination is until there's terminations and public boycotts. I think Linus has badly miscalculated in adopting the CoC, it's like an open invitation to all the trolls who are going to try to tear him down and replace him.
I believe the SEC will also need to prove that Musk *intended* to manipulate the stock price with his dumb tweet. (There's no law against just being dumb.) I don't think Musk actually was trying to manipulate the stock, and how they're going to make they're argument I'm not sure. This may not be the slam-dunk that some people expect.
We never know people's true motives, they're simply inferred from their words and deeds. If you're caught with a smoking gun and your dead ex maybe you just wanted to threaten, not shoot. Maybe you wanted to shoot, but not hit. Maybe you wanted to hurt, but not kill. But when the only evidence is a dead body you'll be convicted for murder regardless. Musk made the tweet and the stock soared, that's means and opportunity. It's well known he hated shorts which is motive. The only viable defense he has is that the buyout offer was real and the statement truthful. If his defense is "I lied, but I didn't realize it would manipulate the stock price" he needs a new lawyer ASAP.
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Why is this necessary? Half the point of self driving cars is that they can go slower because I don't need to focus. Go 40 mph (64 kph) for all I care. I can be doing something else. I don't need to "hurry" at 70, just get me there.
But you don't want half an hour's trip to become one or two hours. If the autonomous car is crippled because it's lost long range sensors it's totally reasonable to force it to stop rather than slow down everyone on the road to 10 mph. Though I hope they don't do anything so silly as to ban vehicles with redundant sensors from operating in degraded mode - that's kinda the point of redundancy. I'm not sure why they have to make explicit rules about this, it sounds like the AI version of the "self-integrity" check we should do before getting behind the wheel. Like if I'm drunk or on drugs or too tired or dizzy and at the risk of fainting or suffering from vision problems or whatever, don't drive. You carry the legal burden if you drive anyway, so do they if they think they can wing it without the full deck of sensors.
My bad - I got flipped to Canadian store. So the real difference is $170. In other news, Canucks are being fleeced for their electronics......
Since you didn't notice I assume this is CAD:
Total: $1687
vs
for a grand total of 1297
Google says 1687 CAD = 1305 USD. So like $8 difference, I think you goofed again...
If you make accessories too expensive, you end up putting yourself in the price range of real laptops running Windows while holding no real competitive advantages. No thanks.
Well $99 for a pen is pretty normal... but $200 for a keyboard is crazy. I mean it starts at $600, if you go for the base model that's 1/3rd of the cost. For that you get the screen, CPU, GPU, memory, storage, wireless etc. and then $200 just to have keys... Surface takes $129 for a type cover, Apple $169 so ~$150 would be in line with the competition. I know they make money back on accessories but when you make Apple look cheap you have a problem.
Iirr the gyroscopes all have issues with their gyroscopes' bearings, that were not discovered in earth-based duration tests. Cosmic rays erode the surface of the metal ball bearings, causing them to fail eventually way before their predicted life span. They changed to ceramic bearings since which solved the problem.
They've found several things:
One lesson learned was that gyros assembled using pressurized oxygen to deliver suspension fluid were prone to failure due to electric wire corrosion. Gyros are now assembled using pressurized nitrogen.
But ultimately all the gyros were replaced in the final service mission in 2009, before that they were also replaced in 1999. These new ones were supposed to last longer but it seems ~10 years is still all we get. I wonder if the Dragon can be retrofitted for spacewalks.. I don't think you could use the same airlock as for docking, they'd need full vacuum spacesuits and June next year is just supposed to be a test flight...
The single-threaded performance mattered a lot on dual-core and some on quad-core. But on an six/eight-core chip it's like yeah you're going full throttle on 12-16% of the processor, it's basically a huge waste unless it absolutely has to be done in one thread. I switched to Ryzen and I've not had any reason to regret it. Playing at 4K you're usually GPU limited anyway, while the few times I really do push my CPU encoding or something like that all the threads start firing up.
So we think because the FANG companies will not give us access to the numbers that they have, we have to apply a broad-based levy. They're forcing us to.
If you can create a levy on ISPs, you can create a levy on FANG companies. That they don't want to give you the numbers today doesn't matter if it becomes law. This is just a fake play to create outrage that no we can't have bandwidth taxes so we have to pick the other half of the false dilemma.
Sorry, but what graphics software your kid makes doodles in isn't going to replace Photoshop.
In terms of a constructive solution, I wish there were a crowdfunding website that EARNED its cut by providing project management support. Please let me know if such exists, but I've visited LOTS of them and haven't detected such an approach.
No offense, but I seriously doubt that could catch anything with a dishonest or unrealistic degree of completion. I mean you could offer that support and a whole lot of project might need it, but they rarely have the knowledge or capacity to dispute that you're 90% done.
Even if radiation on Mars surface is limited, the computers still have to survive the trip from Earth to Mars.
Well if we're assuming it's a manned mission it'll have to have a radiation shielded human habitat that can keep it under the 1 Sv career limit. Since the weighting factor is always >1, that's less than 1 Gy of radiation. That's there and back again so less than 0.5 Gy on the way to Mars. From what I understand that's not a whole lot, particularly since you don't have to worry about transient errors or jumping currents during operation just structural damage. You take them from the habitat, bring them to the deepest level of your Mars bunker and you test them. Sure a few might be broken but the cost/benefit might favor just disabling broken cores or just bringing a tray and leaving the super expensive rad-hardened stuff to probes and rovers.
It's really easy to overwhelm a computer with sensor data though, which is kinda the point of the rover being there. CERN is producing data at about 25GB/s and even after specialized selection and compression they now have >200 PB stored. Considering the very limited bandwidth back to Earth of only 100-250 Mbit/day (= 12-32 MB) I'm pretty sure they wish they had more CPU and more memory to pre-process it more and maybe derive its own results like say a 3D map of the environment both for itself and to relay back. Of course I'm sure they'd find ways to work with 16MB or 1MB if they had to, but I'm pretty sure this is an area where more is still significantly better.
Been there, done that and it's been a mixed experience. The short version is that it works real well if you are converging on a long term solution, you do an initial implementation and the tweaks to the code happen less and less often with less and less urgency. If what you want is really Excel - like, the flexibility to just alter a formula and hit save - you're probably going to be disappointed if you have to go through a standard development process of requesting the change, describing the expected outcome for TDD, pass it through DEV-QA-PROD gates and so on. Either that all the process guys are going to go nuts that you start doing ALTER PROCEDURE directly in production, even though you're technically not worse off than Excel was.
We actually ran it that way for a while, turnaround time from request to completed change could be anywhere from ten minutes to two hours, it was simply tweak the code, rerun the calculations, ask if it looks correct now. And despite you might call that process reckless we delivered quickly and cleanly effectively combining business skills and technical skills. Then somebody from the bank and insurance industry came in, no code change without first a request in JIRA, prioritized by the product owner, assigned in a sprint, formal test cases written, code developed, passed through QA, branched into a release... I need it by end of business hours became you can have in three weeks. I wonder why they just read out all the raw data again...
You won't be flying across the Atlantic on an electric airplane any time soon. But much like EVs vs ICEs there's a lot of ~1 hour short hop routes that could possibly - if jet fuel prices and emission regulations demand it - be done electrically.
When you're averaging across 222 million licensed drivers in the US alone humans have pretty persistent flaws. If they were an industry with that rate of faulty product we'd pull it from the market and fire the QA department. Personally I'm not too worried because it's not enough that there's a bug, there also has to be the conditions to trip the bug and most of the time you'd probably notice it earlier through near-misses and lesser accidents. Once they have something resembling a fleet they're going to see very quickly if there's a spike in problems and you can react to it. With humans you more or less just have to accept that's how people are.
It's easy to log millions of miles of road when you are the one choosing which roads to drive and when to drive. Proper independent testing needs to test out when those cars will fail, not just that they will work well under expected conditions.
While that's kinda true, you run into all sorts of drivers, trucks, bikes, trikes, bicycles, pedestrians, wild animals etc. unless you're extremely selective about where you go. I mean the road artifacts aren't that many, sure if you plan a route with no roundabouts or train crossings you never do those but there aren't that many "fixed situations". Most the crazy stuff happens at random due to traffic, you can't plan your way out much other than road conditions.
Such a misguided idea connecting safety alerts to the president.
Yep, it's mostly a marketing failure... I mean even the official site says:
What alerts does WEA deliver?
Alerts from WEA cover only critical emergency situations. Consumers may receive only three types of alerts:
Alerts issued by the President
Alerts involving imminent threats to safety or life
Amber Alerts
Participating carriers may allow subscribers to block all but Presidential alerts.
I mean it is natural that it's the President addressing the country in a crisis, but they could have just called it "National Security alerts" for example. Like you can't opt out of the warning that WWIII just started. It's kinda hard for me to think of a "critical emergency" that doesn't fit any of those three.
In most businesses, the things that reduce productivity are screw-ups by management, not by the people actually doing the work.
Oh please, I've been in many situations where it's very clear that it's the "doer" at the lowest level that is lazy and/or incompetent, both in software development and elsewhere. Unless you use the cop-out that having crap people on staff is ultimately a management failure there are some pretty terrible employees out there. I'm working with one right now, he's a real life Wally. If he's got two projects he's always super busy on the other one. Like he says the exact opposite to different projects in separate status meetings on the same day. He always blames the tools, requirements, documentation, training etc. and what always happens is he spends 1-2 months achieving nothing, somebody more qualified is brought in to put out the fire and he's reassigned to something new. He does a few routine maintenance tasks and other than that he's a waste of space. My boss knows at least in part but I doubt he'll do anything until there's a downsizing.
I always thought it was the antibiotic resistant bacteria, incompetent doctors, and greedy hospital boards and administrators.
It still is:
Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2019
Not that much left if you exclude people and processes...
a patent troll magics up some patent relating to AV1?
Well that could certainly happen but it's a risk for all codecs or indeed software in general, they've done an IPR review to make sure it doesn't infringe on the patents of their competitors in the HEVC camp so it'll have to be a surprise contender. But if you look at the Fortune global 500 they got #11 (Apple), #18 (Amazon), #52 (Alphabet/Google), #71 (Microsoft), #92 (IBM), #146 (Intel), #212 (Cisco) and #274 (Facebook) on board. I think they can afford a few lawyers to get the patent declared invalid or not applicable and if that fails a big payday for a patent troll is still pocket change for them. And if it turns out AV1 doesn't infringe your patent and that's the next dominant standard well too bad your patent is worthless, it'd be a pretty big gamble. If you're not first in line to be sued, what does it matter? I doubt they'll ever get to number two.
you would think the amount of cord-cutting would get more multicast video streaming on the net....
Long haul bandwidth is expensive but caching is cheap and the last mile cost mostly installation and maintenance, so there's not much savings from multicast over unicast from a CDN. If it wasn't for copyright you could set up a super effective simple, open LRU cache for torrents, every time you download externally the ISP caches the chunks. If one chunk = 4MB then a 4TB HDD = a million chunks and you don't need any redundancy. Next person who downloads only sends the hash and gets it right from the ISP's network at max speed. You could even do multi-layer and have a half-PB storage pod before you use any expensive links like undersea cables. For uhh... Linux distributions, sure.
Many companies in the space have stock valuations based on unlimited growth. Normal growth, or stasis, will be a big hit. I do not think investors understand profit and earnings rations anymore.
Some investors understand other investors well enough, a lot of people go by the way the arrow's pointing - up you buy and down you sell. And they get seduced by their own profit, I made lots of money on this stock so invest more. If you're too conservative or too twitchy you're likely to bail out of a booming stock too early, maybe it's not entirely rational based on book value but it's rational based on the market dynamics. Of course if you play the sucker's game too long you end up being the sucker but if you don't lose objectivity you can probably get out in time. And truth be told, average people probably stand a better chance picking the "next big thing" than trying to outwit the pros at reading earnings reports.
I work in a critical field. My employer (the State by the way) requires my laptop and phone must be encrypted. I could lose my job or much worse of I give my password to anyone. So which law trumps the other one?
Sovereign jurisdictions each make their own rules, so both. But personally as an employee I would let the NZ goons do what they want and claim duress back home, it's their soil and their law. Do you think US customs would give a shit about NZ law? If they'll let me I might call my boss and try to escalate it past my pay grade, but if I'm not I'd take the defense that they beat me with a $5000 legal wrench. Assuming that you went there on a work trip by the employer's rules of course, if the rules say to get a burner phone and you brought your regular phone anyway or you just took a private vacation with your work gear you might want to eat the fine. Depends on how much worse it could get at home of course, but losing clearance can be very costly.
It'd be MUCH more effective to turn them into robotic sleeper agents that target military officials/visiting politicians
How do you figure that? The first time you use it there'll probably be eye witnesses, security cameras, ballistics etc. pinning the robot as the guilty one. After that they will take the model out of service and scour through everything until they find out how you did it.
Compare that to a thousand units going berserk all at once at many different locations. Most of them will probably be stationed at military bases, everyone there is a target as either military service personnel or NGOs. Lots of expensive equipment too. And if some are on guard duty in a public location, well shit here's your "protector" going on a rampage. It could do some real military damage, it'd be a PR nightmare at home, a PR nightmare abroad and afterwards they'd be nothing but junk because you had to stop them by force. And a lot simpler, a simple countdown and then start shooting at every heat signature you see.
If I wanted to use them to find some high-level target for assassination well then I wouldn't use my eyes and ears to execute it. Then I'd just use that inside information to plant an IED or something that wouldn't compromise my intelligence asset. To do that it'd have to be very, very important and no other way to get it done.
Not sure I even want to know what this means.
If I were to wager a guess I'd guess the tendency of some people to think everything that happens to them is a form of discrimination based on whatever minority group they happen to be in. We've seen Linus go ballistic on people who presumably are also white heterosexual males, it's not okay but it's a pretty good evidence he's "just" the occasional asshole not a bigot. But if he now attacks the wrong person I expect there to be all kinds of hell and CoC-waving about how Linus is creating a "hostile environment" for women or some sort of LBGT+ group. Some even seem to go around like agent provocateurs, stirring shit up trying to trigger name calling and then pouncing on them as bigots and acting like their taunting is really an act of community service exposing hidden discrimination. And if they don't get the response they want, escalate as this proves how extensive the hidden discrimination is until there's terminations and public boycotts. I think Linus has badly miscalculated in adopting the CoC, it's like an open invitation to all the trolls who are going to try to tear him down and replace him.
I believe the SEC will also need to prove that Musk *intended* to manipulate the stock price with his dumb tweet. (There's no law against just being dumb.) I don't think Musk actually was trying to manipulate the stock, and how they're going to make they're argument I'm not sure. This may not be the slam-dunk that some people expect.
We never know people's true motives, they're simply inferred from their words and deeds. If you're caught with a smoking gun and your dead ex maybe you just wanted to threaten, not shoot. Maybe you wanted to shoot, but not hit. Maybe you wanted to hurt, but not kill. But when the only evidence is a dead body you'll be convicted for murder regardless. Musk made the tweet and the stock soared, that's means and opportunity. It's well known he hated shorts which is motive. The only viable defense he has is that the buyout offer was real and the statement truthful. If his defense is "I lied, but I didn't realize it would manipulate the stock price" he needs a new lawyer ASAP.
There's only one law of quantum mechanics: Whenever you think you've wrapped your head around a concept, it gets weirder.