Server side decorations actually add a lot of complexity to the protocol, and don't fix frozen clients if in fact pushing the button (such as the close box) requires the client to do something like exit. Also unlike Windows, Wayland compositors can detect frozen clients and still allow the windows to be dragged around (or minimized with reasonable accuracy if the new xdg_shell has support for child windows).
That's not "unlike Windows" last I checked, it even pops up a "This program is not reponding, end/cancel" prompt. Not sure how that could possibly work if the display server can't draw anything itself, sure you could have keyboard shortcuts but that's not very user friendly in a GUI world.
In addition it is now possible to write clients with a gui thread and a computation thread, which will keep not only the borders from freezing, but actually all the widgets inside the windows.
Yes,. this is good practice. Don't assume that applications will follow it.
Well, apps like Trapster, which allow you to report speed traps for other motorists using the app are legal, why isn't flashing your lights?
As far as i know, that's the law here in Norway. Essentially lights and horn are regulated by traffic rules just like you can't blow a stop sign as a "statement" and expect to get away with it, it is considered misuse just like using them to blind or annoy others. Apps, texting, even placing a sign at the roadside is legal, blinking your lights or honking your horn for no "valid" reason is not. Consider it a light version of "Why can't I put blue lights and sirens on my car?"
It didn't seem to contain any flamebait or troll comments so is the post untrue or does it contain untrue statements? or is this just a case of a bad moderation?
Probably this part, which is pretty much nonsense. X has never been used this way.
Note that the concept of "client" and "server" are somewhat reversed from the normal meaning - the X "server" runs on your desktop, the client can run somewhere in a datacenter. Think about apps processing major datasets and then generating some output...makes sense then for the "client" to be on the larger computer.
Well I have been looking for an excuse to kick the habit (1000 comments in the last year, been here 10+ years), and the beta site might be just annoying enough to do it...
X11 used to be a *lot* of things, but long story short it's now mostly a go-between your applications (that render themselves), the compositor (which put the windows together to a screen) and the framebuffer (where you put the screen to make it show on your monitor). And the parts that aren't totally gone, is provided by klugded-on extensions to avoid breaking the core protocol. Wayland basically drops all legacy functionality and backwards-compatibility and consolidates modern X into a new protocol, last I checked in less than 10% of the code and those parts work much simpler and faster.
Now X has network transparancy and Wayland does not, but not the way it's currently used. It's like saying HTML is network transparent but the way most people use it is like this: <html><body><img src="here_is_the_real_content.png"></body></html>. The other big question has been client or server side decorations, who draws the window frames/titles/buttons. The default implementation (Weston) leaves it to the client, but the protocol lets the server do it and KWin does. It's better because a frozen client doesn't stop them from rendering, but at the cost of pulling some form of drawing toolkit into the display server.
I find it hilarious that news corps expect me to pay them to access their sites, when all they do is sit on their asses copying/pasting shit from AP, Reuters, or Bloomberg (for financial news) like everyone else does. No wonder many news outlets (both online and in print) are tanking. If they expect me to pay, I expect them to bring me some original, exclusive news coverage/articles that's not easily found elsewhere for free.
One of our big national newspapers here in Norway recently put up a nagwall at 8 articles/week, though not every article seems to be count but since there's no clear indication this has lead me to only read what I can't get at the other 3-4 sites that usually carry the same mix of news. Even when it's not copy-pasta "breaking events" tend to be exactly the same, the number of unique in-depth articles is very low. Between home and work and smartphone (unique IPs) 24/week is plenty.
The world is complex and ever changing, nobody can with any real confidence say what four years with the "other guy" would have been like even in retrospect. Across electrions it's almost hopeless, each president starts under completely different circumstances and the global economy, technology and science, it all changes rapidly.
It's mostly a belief in whether this administration did better or worse than the alternative(s?) and more often than not on ideology about what the "right thing" is. Could the financial recession been handled better? Would it been handled worse? Could it have been avoided in the first place? Those who lean towards left say there should have been more regulation because it's a failure of the free market. Those who lean right say the regulation and bailouts was the problem because they didn't let the free market work. Nobody can prove the other side wrong, it'd be so much easier if we ever got the true answers.
For example, it's easy to have money "right now" even for a country, just go deeper in debt. Taxes stay low, services stay high, none of those unpopular tax hikes or cutbacks. Until shit hits the fan to smaller or greater degrees, at least. All this really tells you is that you better have bread and circus the last months leading up to an election, somehow that wisdom seems ancient. You dump shit on future generations and future politicians that start with a shit economy, but as long as you can keep shoveling it in front of you it's better than dealing with it.
It's certainly easier to develop good-quality software if you aren't distracted by the need to earn a living doing something else, but it's not essential.
And it's certainly easier to develop good-quality software if you aren't distracted by the need to earn a living off it, you're free to reject bad code or go back and refactor until you get it right no matter if it has a "business case" or not. And you're not going to get a CEO who's read too many trade magazines and wants to replace you with half a dozen Indians. I guess that's not true for "scratch an itch" projects but if it's your baby you don't want it to be just "good enough", you want it to living proof of your skill. At least that's my impression of several dedicated project leads/core contributors.
They have decoding support, but at least as recently as Google Summer of Code 2013 they don't have hardware encoding support. That seems to be the fault of the ffmpeg project though, encoding was added to the VA API in June 2009. Lack of interest?
From the mailing list, it appears you still need to link this all to a closed source binary...
No, it's firmware/microcode. The driver sends it to the GPU at boot as a blob, it lives inside the card hidden from everything. The alternative would be to have an EEPROM and a firmware flashing utility, it'd still be there and closed source but it wouldn't be in the driver. It's not really part of the programming model, it's hardware initialization/configuration/tweaks to make the it work correctly according to the model.
Thus,though a small share of downloaders reports a decrease in their downloading activities after the blocking, this effect is not reflected in the overall numbers. A likely explanation is that there are also new consumers who have started downloading from illegal sources, since the percentage of consumers that has never downloaded decreased over the measurements.
Lots of publicity about online piracy just makes people more aware of the possibilities. That beats all the other effects (awareness, blocking, relapse etc.) they mention.
The PC business is still huge, but what Dell was built on was rapid custom-assembly of components. Between integration and computers out-perfoming the needs it's much more back to the traditional "we need five million laptops of model X" production lines. You even see Apple moving away from the traditional components to custom made-to-order formats that only fit the Mac Book Pro or Mac Pro. Lots of companies still makes lots of money on the PC, but Dell is struggling to find where they can add value to the process.
it would have been nigh on impossible to do anyway given all the contributions by individuals and companies.
"Or any later version"
Only if the authors specifically used that license, the default for the kernel is GPLv2 only. And it's not a democracy, if authors refuse or can't be located or are dead with no heirs to manage the estate the only safe way would be to totally write out those patches. Some have suggested various "abandonware" or "implied by contributing" theories to give the project authority to relicense but it'd be a legal landmine field. For example USC 17506(d): "Fraudulent Removal of Copyright Notice. - Any person who, with fraudulent intent, removes or alters any notice of copyright appearing on a copy of a copyrighted work shall be fined not more than $2,500." That's a criminal copyright statute, not a civil one. Of course it hinges on the "fraudulent" part, but it would be pretty fraudulent to claim the author has given permission to use that code under the GPLv3. In short, even if you got most the core contributors and corporate sponsors on board it'd be a huge undertaking.
Well he's somewhere on the half way between BSD and FSF. BSD people care about usage (open, proprietary, doesn't matter), FSF people care about freedom (abiltiy to fix it yourself). Linus cares about the source code and the project. He doesn't care that Tivo locks down their machine as long as he gets any improvements they make so he can roll it into his own kernel and run it on his machine. Linus doesn't like the GPLv3, Linus doesn't like the BSD license, he likes the GPLv2 no more and no less. What he wants is to build the best kernel he can build, popularity and freedom are simply incidental to the process.
Well, least corrupted if you look at how corruption is defined in the laws of the land. A lot of the corruption is legalized by law(state sanctioned or state run monopolies, or oligopolies run by politicians) and thus not counted towards the corruption score in international rankings. Funny that, just invent a BS reason for a protection racket(protecting the state's or your own profits, not the people...) and BANG! Not corruption, just the way the country is run. BTW, in socialist countries, welfare is a kind of bribe, it keeps the poor masses living on those welfare payment in line, making sure they keep voting for the political parties who keep promising them the best short-term deal.
Well people giving votes for money and politicans giving money for votes is more like two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner, but it's not corruption. Forget the government for a moment, if you want to say win a contract and it doesn't matter how good or bad your bid is only how much you bribe the person in charge, that's corruption. It's a form of fraud where the person doesn't do what he's hired to do, he's secretly lining his personal account at the expense of his employer. The money isn't taken from the employer directly but it's the company or government stuck with the bad bid who is ultimately paying the price, the ones paying the bribe will recover it through inflated prices and shoddy quality. Like a store clerk cooperating with shoplifters to empty the store for a cut of the profit.
Very often the bribe is simply to get them to do their job like you're supposed to get a permit assuming your papers are all correct, but unless you pay the bribe it's going to get misfiled or lost. Or it's to make them not to something, like corrupt police who'll create some bullshit charges unless you pay them not to get arrested. As bad as the system might be, being constantly hustled that way is much worse. The system tends to be equally unfair for everyone, while the corrupt are all trying to gouge as much as possible out of you. And it's not like it's an either-or, just because the store is a monopolist it doesn't help that it's also robbed blind by corrupt clerks, it just makes you double screwed. Granted, I do feel some of my tax money go to useless paper pushers but I find corruption much, much worse.
OK, so Tesla builds ONE string of charging stations approx. 150 miles apart that stretches across the US. So tell me how does that work when there are millions of Tesla cars on the road?
Well, first they make it a grid. Then they build them 75 miles apart. Then 40 miles apart. Then 20 miles apart. Then 10 miles apart. Car parks and parking houses start offering it. Office buildings start offering it. Adding a charger circuit to the garage becomes standard. The challenge is now, is there a charging station where you're going not where Tesla wants to take a PR tour.
Will Tesla be able to build enough fast charging stations when selling cars that cost less than $40K?
It's actually the other way around, one of the most expensive parts of a Tesla is the battery so a cheaper version will no doubt have less range. Without a widespread charger network it won't sell, it'd be just an inner city commute only car. The average commute is not so long, 2x16 miles so even a household plug (110V/12A) could charge that overnight. But then you have just a one-trick pony, it's not that it's hard or awkward to take a long trip it's that you literally can't. Even in a two car household it's cumbersome and people get possessive about his and her car. And for one person two cars is nonsense.
If you extrapolate the charger network to 2016-2017 when the Tesla E is coming, it's clear that their plan is to sell the first cheap electric which can do both the 95% daily commute and errands and limp through the last 5%. That aunt you visit twice a year or that music festival you go to or picking people up at the big city airport, it can do it. The Model S can today already, but at a very high cost. Make say a 120 mile range E model and chargers every 75 miles (double the density), you'll be making a stop every hour and a half but for the occasional long drive it will work.
Well fixing a broken project is one form of work, but adding new features or updating the system to meet new business requirements or technologies is another. If that's what they expect from you but you can't make any progress on the deliverables or you're breaking the bits that work because it comes crumbling down like a house of cards at the slightest touch you're pretty much hosed. Yes, obviously you expect some breakage but if it's just one giant pile of spaghetti code where it's like trying to play a game of Mikado then progress is going to be very, very slow.
And this is a very good illustratration of one of the BIG problems with such registries: no matter how trivial the crime, people will assume (A) that you're guilty
If you've had your due process and been found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt the presumption of innocence is over. Yes, miscarriages of justice happen but if you can't call a convicted man "most likely" guilty, when can you? Basically what you're saying is you don't believe anything the criminal system says.
And it also shows why a national registry is an outrageously BAD IDEA. A person who was an offender in one state would face a lifetime stigma, even in other states where the "offending" activity was perfectly legal.
And? If I went to Amsterdam to smoke pot it's legal, if I do it at home I'm a criminal and I'd get a "drug offense" on my record. It won't get retroactively lifted if they legalize it. You broke the law as it applied then and there, what may or may not be the law elsewhere doesn't matter.
Yes, ridiculous things count as "sex offenses" and people are more than willing to jump at crazy conclusions, but that's more a problem with politicans who make the laws and the general public, not the registry.
While Windows 8.1 is certainly growing steadily and eating into Windows 8s share, the duo only managed to end 2013 with 10 percent market share
I think they did, "the duo" here seems to refer to 8 and 8.1 while the preceding sentence talked about Vista and 8.1. You could just as easily read it as Vista and 8.1 is "the duo" eating into the market share of 8 though, except it doesn't make any logical sense. Very confusingly written.
More like if you had anything of the slightest value under a non-".com" domain the equivalent ".com" domain will be registered for ad squatting and/or to get a payout from you. They're not meaningful either, last I checked slashdot for example is not a non-profit, it's owned by a quite regular for-profit holding company so why is is NOT slashdot.com? And I never know what ".net" was supposed to be, I mean I can't even tell without looking up some sort of definition and even that one is vague as fsck "organizations involved in networking technologies, such as Internet service providers and other infrastructure companies." wouldn't 99.9% of these also be a ".com" (or ".org" in case of a municipal non-profit) so it's more like a weak tag?
It never made much sense to me, all the contrived examples on how this would solve namespace collisions are more easily solved by unique domain names. Apple Records? applerecords.com. If they're truly non-competing well then it'd be obvious to anyone that apple.com is not the record label and applerecords.com not the iDevice manufacturer. If Apple Records wanted it badly enough they could buy "apple.com" and Apple could move to "applecomputers.com" or whatever. It's not a problem in links. It's not a problem in written materials. It's not a problem using search engines. It's only a problem if you're trying to guess the right domain name from the company/organization name by yourself. Who really does that? They should just make "foo" and "foo.com" resolve to the same IP, it's already the big pile of "everything else" that doesn't go under a national domain.
Why? This is essentially a signed kill message and message signing has generally been very secure, good luck getting anyone's root key. Assuming this is a central service (cops send in request for kill code for one license plate, get single use code valid for limited time back) and someone does manage to hack the server and steal the signing key it'd be fairly obvious when it was used "my car just stopped, lights were blinking, radio said it was shut down by the police" Of course revoking the key from every car out there would be a bitch, but the cryptographic standards are all there and it could be done via the mandatory EU check-ups or highway beamers to give at least some herd immunity.
Payments to have the system stripped from the cars of criminals would become some routine, that they would become very cheap. I bet those same idiots would considering adding it to aircraft.
Probably a bit of tin foil around the antenna would do the trick, maybe it won't work on getaway cars but police stop runners, DUIs, people driving the wrong direction and a lot of other loose cannons probably wouldn't have done that. Oh and all military aircraft have kill codes today I think, want to do a runner with a US jet to Russia? Methinks you'd never arrive, even if you could avoid being shot down. Missiles definitively have self-destruct codes, now if it was this totally insecure why would we build systems to totally cripple ourselves in case of war?
That's the last thing we need: robot overlords who keep taking shortcuts. Next thing you know, they'll kill all humans and then go bankrupt from ill-advised mortgages!
Which is why we should let them run the banking systems so they go bankrupt first. Oh, wait...
Just because it has the keywords "Bitcoin" and "Linus Torvalds" in the headline - it doesn't really mean its "news".
Oh, they seem happy enough to publish anything wtih a 50% hit rate on that. And I'm stupid enough to click the 2342564354th Bitcoin story and leave a comment, so shame on me.
"Either you're with us, or you're against us." -- hardly invented by G. W. Bush
There's a reason it's called the silenty majority, the extremists on either side of any issue tend to get extremely vocal. In a shouting match with "No, black!" "No, white!" "No, black!" "No, white!" suggesting "Umm... gray? Green? Yellow?" will get you carved to pieces by both sides for insinuating that it's not [black/white, depending on who's doing the carving]. See vi vs emacs for further examples.
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Server side decorations actually add a lot of complexity to the protocol, and don't fix frozen clients if in fact pushing the button (such as the close box) requires the client to do something like exit. Also unlike Windows, Wayland compositors can detect frozen clients and still allow the windows to be dragged around (or minimized with reasonable accuracy if the new xdg_shell has support for child windows).
That's not "unlike Windows" last I checked, it even pops up a "This program is not reponding, end/cancel" prompt. Not sure how that could possibly work if the display server can't draw anything itself, sure you could have keyboard shortcuts but that's not very user friendly in a GUI world.
In addition it is now possible to write clients with a gui thread and a computation thread, which will keep not only the borders from freezing, but actually all the widgets inside the windows.
Yes,. this is good practice. Don't assume that applications will follow it.
Well, apps like Trapster, which allow you to report speed traps for other motorists using the app are legal, why isn't flashing your lights?
As far as i know, that's the law here in Norway. Essentially lights and horn are regulated by traffic rules just like you can't blow a stop sign as a "statement" and expect to get away with it, it is considered misuse just like using them to blind or annoy others. Apps, texting, even placing a sign at the roadside is legal, blinking your lights or honking your horn for no "valid" reason is not. Consider it a light version of "Why can't I put blue lights and sirens on my car?"
It didn't seem to contain any flamebait or troll comments so is the post untrue or does it contain untrue statements? or is this just a case of a bad moderation?
Probably this part, which is pretty much nonsense. X has never been used this way.
Note that the concept of "client" and "server" are somewhat reversed from the normal meaning - the X "server" runs on your desktop, the client can run somewhere in a datacenter. Think about apps processing major datasets and then generating some output...makes sense then for the "client" to be on the larger computer.
Well I have been looking for an excuse to kick the habit (1000 comments in the last year, been here 10+ years), and the beta site might be just annoying enough to do it...
X11 used to be a *lot* of things, but long story short it's now mostly a go-between your applications (that render themselves), the compositor (which put the windows together to a screen) and the framebuffer (where you put the screen to make it show on your monitor). And the parts that aren't totally gone, is provided by klugded-on extensions to avoid breaking the core protocol. Wayland basically drops all legacy functionality and backwards-compatibility and consolidates modern X into a new protocol, last I checked in less than 10% of the code and those parts work much simpler and faster.
Now X has network transparancy and Wayland does not, but not the way it's currently used. It's like saying HTML is network transparent but the way most people use it is like this: <html><body><img src="here_is_the_real_content.png"></body></html>. The other big question has been client or server side decorations, who draws the window frames/titles/buttons. The default implementation (Weston) leaves it to the client, but the protocol lets the server do it and KWin does. It's better because a frozen client doesn't stop them from rendering, but at the cost of pulling some form of drawing toolkit into the display server.
I find it hilarious that news corps expect me to pay them to access their sites, when all they do is sit on their asses copying/pasting shit from AP, Reuters, or Bloomberg (for financial news) like everyone else does. No wonder many news outlets (both online and in print) are tanking. If they expect me to pay, I expect them to bring me some original, exclusive news coverage/articles that's not easily found elsewhere for free.
One of our big national newspapers here in Norway recently put up a nagwall at 8 articles/week, though not every article seems to be count but since there's no clear indication this has lead me to only read what I can't get at the other 3-4 sites that usually carry the same mix of news. Even when it's not copy-pasta "breaking events" tend to be exactly the same, the number of unique in-depth articles is very low. Between home and work and smartphone (unique IPs) 24/week is plenty.
The world is complex and ever changing, nobody can with any real confidence say what four years with the "other guy" would have been like even in retrospect. Across electrions it's almost hopeless, each president starts under completely different circumstances and the global economy, technology and science, it all changes rapidly.
It's mostly a belief in whether this administration did better or worse than the alternative(s?) and more often than not on ideology about what the "right thing" is. Could the financial recession been handled better? Would it been handled worse? Could it have been avoided in the first place? Those who lean towards left say there should have been more regulation because it's a failure of the free market. Those who lean right say the regulation and bailouts was the problem because they didn't let the free market work. Nobody can prove the other side wrong, it'd be so much easier if we ever got the true answers.
For example, it's easy to have money "right now" even for a country, just go deeper in debt. Taxes stay low, services stay high, none of those unpopular tax hikes or cutbacks. Until shit hits the fan to smaller or greater degrees, at least. All this really tells you is that you better have bread and circus the last months leading up to an election, somehow that wisdom seems ancient. You dump shit on future generations and future politicians that start with a shit economy, but as long as you can keep shoveling it in front of you it's better than dealing with it.
It's certainly easier to develop good-quality software if you aren't distracted by the need to earn a living doing something else, but it's not essential.
And it's certainly easier to develop good-quality software if you aren't distracted by the need to earn a living off it, you're free to reject bad code or go back and refactor until you get it right no matter if it has a "business case" or not. And you're not going to get a CEO who's read too many trade magazines and wants to replace you with half a dozen Indians. I guess that's not true for "scratch an itch" projects but if it's your baby you don't want it to be just "good enough", you want it to living proof of your skill. At least that's my impression of several dedicated project leads/core contributors.
They have decoding support, but at least as recently as Google Summer of Code 2013 they don't have hardware encoding support. That seems to be the fault of the ffmpeg project though, encoding was added to the VA API in June 2009. Lack of interest?
From the mailing list, it appears you still need to link this all to a closed source binary...
No, it's firmware/microcode. The driver sends it to the GPU at boot as a blob, it lives inside the card hidden from everything. The alternative would be to have an EEPROM and a firmware flashing utility, it'd still be there and closed source but it wouldn't be in the driver. It's not really part of the programming model, it's hardware initialization/configuration/tweaks to make the it work correctly according to the model.
Thus,though a small share of downloaders reports a decrease in their downloading activities after the blocking, this effect is not reflected in the overall numbers. A likely explanation is that there are also new consumers who have started downloading from illegal sources, since the percentage of consumers that has never downloaded decreased over the measurements.
Lots of publicity about online piracy just makes people more aware of the possibilities. That beats all the other effects (awareness, blocking, relapse etc.) they mention.
The PC business is still huge, but what Dell was built on was rapid custom-assembly of components. Between integration and computers out-perfoming the needs it's much more back to the traditional "we need five million laptops of model X" production lines. You even see Apple moving away from the traditional components to custom made-to-order formats that only fit the Mac Book Pro or Mac Pro. Lots of companies still makes lots of money on the PC, but Dell is struggling to find where they can add value to the process.
it would have been nigh on impossible to do anyway given all the contributions by individuals and companies.
"Or any later version"
Only if the authors specifically used that license, the default for the kernel is GPLv2 only. And it's not a democracy, if authors refuse or can't be located or are dead with no heirs to manage the estate the only safe way would be to totally write out those patches. Some have suggested various "abandonware" or "implied by contributing" theories to give the project authority to relicense but it'd be a legal landmine field. For example USC 17506(d): "Fraudulent Removal of Copyright Notice. - Any person who, with fraudulent intent, removes or alters any notice of copyright appearing on a copy of a copyrighted work shall be fined not more than $2,500." That's a criminal copyright statute, not a civil one. Of course it hinges on the "fraudulent" part, but it would be pretty fraudulent to claim the author has given permission to use that code under the GPLv3. In short, even if you got most the core contributors and corporate sponsors on board it'd be a huge undertaking.
Well he's somewhere on the half way between BSD and FSF. BSD people care about usage (open, proprietary, doesn't matter), FSF people care about freedom (abiltiy to fix it yourself). Linus cares about the source code and the project. He doesn't care that Tivo locks down their machine as long as he gets any improvements they make so he can roll it into his own kernel and run it on his machine. Linus doesn't like the GPLv3, Linus doesn't like the BSD license, he likes the GPLv2 no more and no less. What he wants is to build the best kernel he can build, popularity and freedom are simply incidental to the process.
Well, least corrupted if you look at how corruption is defined in the laws of the land. A lot of the corruption is legalized by law(state sanctioned or state run monopolies, or oligopolies run by politicians) and thus not counted towards the corruption score in international rankings. Funny that, just invent a BS reason for a protection racket(protecting the state's or your own profits, not the people...) and BANG! Not corruption, just the way the country is run. BTW, in socialist countries, welfare is a kind of bribe, it keeps the poor masses living on those welfare payment in line, making sure they keep voting for the political parties who keep promising them the best short-term deal.
Well people giving votes for money and politicans giving money for votes is more like two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner, but it's not corruption. Forget the government for a moment, if you want to say win a contract and it doesn't matter how good or bad your bid is only how much you bribe the person in charge, that's corruption. It's a form of fraud where the person doesn't do what he's hired to do, he's secretly lining his personal account at the expense of his employer. The money isn't taken from the employer directly but it's the company or government stuck with the bad bid who is ultimately paying the price, the ones paying the bribe will recover it through inflated prices and shoddy quality. Like a store clerk cooperating with shoplifters to empty the store for a cut of the profit.
Very often the bribe is simply to get them to do their job like you're supposed to get a permit assuming your papers are all correct, but unless you pay the bribe it's going to get misfiled or lost. Or it's to make them not to something, like corrupt police who'll create some bullshit charges unless you pay them not to get arrested. As bad as the system might be, being constantly hustled that way is much worse. The system tends to be equally unfair for everyone, while the corrupt are all trying to gouge as much as possible out of you. And it's not like it's an either-or, just because the store is a monopolist it doesn't help that it's also robbed blind by corrupt clerks, it just makes you double screwed. Granted, I do feel some of my tax money go to useless paper pushers but I find corruption much, much worse.
OK, so Tesla builds ONE string of charging stations approx. 150 miles apart that stretches across the US. So tell me how does that work when there are millions of Tesla cars on the road?
Well, first they make it a grid. Then they build them 75 miles apart. Then 40 miles apart. Then 20 miles apart. Then 10 miles apart. Car parks and parking houses start offering it. Office buildings start offering it. Adding a charger circuit to the garage becomes standard. The challenge is now, is there a charging station where you're going not where Tesla wants to take a PR tour.
Will Tesla be able to build enough fast charging stations when selling cars that cost less than $40K?
It's actually the other way around, one of the most expensive parts of a Tesla is the battery so a cheaper version will no doubt have less range. Without a widespread charger network it won't sell, it'd be just an inner city commute only car. The average commute is not so long, 2x16 miles so even a household plug (110V/12A) could charge that overnight. But then you have just a one-trick pony, it's not that it's hard or awkward to take a long trip it's that you literally can't. Even in a two car household it's cumbersome and people get possessive about his and her car. And for one person two cars is nonsense.
If you extrapolate the charger network to 2016-2017 when the Tesla E is coming, it's clear that their plan is to sell the first cheap electric which can do both the 95% daily commute and errands and limp through the last 5%. That aunt you visit twice a year or that music festival you go to or picking people up at the big city airport, it can do it. The Model S can today already, but at a very high cost. Make say a 120 mile range E model and chargers every 75 miles (double the density), you'll be making a stop every hour and a half but for the occasional long drive it will work.
Well fixing a broken project is one form of work, but adding new features or updating the system to meet new business requirements or technologies is another. If that's what they expect from you but you can't make any progress on the deliverables or you're breaking the bits that work because it comes crumbling down like a house of cards at the slightest touch you're pretty much hosed. Yes, obviously you expect some breakage but if it's just one giant pile of spaghetti code where it's like trying to play a game of Mikado then progress is going to be very, very slow.
And this is a very good illustratration of one of the BIG problems with such registries: no matter how trivial the crime, people will assume (A) that you're guilty
If you've had your due process and been found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt the presumption of innocence is over. Yes, miscarriages of justice happen but if you can't call a convicted man "most likely" guilty, when can you? Basically what you're saying is you don't believe anything the criminal system says.
And it also shows why a national registry is an outrageously BAD IDEA. A person who was an offender in one state would face a lifetime stigma, even in other states where the "offending" activity was perfectly legal.
And? If I went to Amsterdam to smoke pot it's legal, if I do it at home I'm a criminal and I'd get a "drug offense" on my record. It won't get retroactively lifted if they legalize it. You broke the law as it applied then and there, what may or may not be the law elsewhere doesn't matter.
Yes, ridiculous things count as "sex offenses" and people are more than willing to jump at crazy conclusions, but that's more a problem with politicans who make the laws and the general public, not the registry.
While Windows 8.1 is certainly growing steadily and eating into Windows 8s share, the duo only managed to end 2013 with 10 percent market share
I think they did, "the duo" here seems to refer to 8 and 8.1 while the preceding sentence talked about Vista and 8.1. You could just as easily read it as Vista and 8.1 is "the duo" eating into the market share of 8 though, except it doesn't make any logical sense. Very confusingly written.
More like if you had anything of the slightest value under a non-".com" domain the equivalent ".com" domain will be registered for ad squatting and/or to get a payout from you. They're not meaningful either, last I checked slashdot for example is not a non-profit, it's owned by a quite regular for-profit holding company so why is is NOT slashdot.com? And I never know what ".net" was supposed to be, I mean I can't even tell without looking up some sort of definition and even that one is vague as fsck "organizations involved in networking technologies, such as Internet service providers and other infrastructure companies." wouldn't 99.9% of these also be a ".com" (or ".org" in case of a municipal non-profit) so it's more like a weak tag?
It never made much sense to me, all the contrived examples on how this would solve namespace collisions are more easily solved by unique domain names. Apple Records? applerecords.com. If they're truly non-competing well then it'd be obvious to anyone that apple.com is not the record label and applerecords.com not the iDevice manufacturer. If Apple Records wanted it badly enough they could buy "apple.com" and Apple could move to "applecomputers.com" or whatever. It's not a problem in links. It's not a problem in written materials. It's not a problem using search engines. It's only a problem if you're trying to guess the right domain name from the company/organization name by yourself. Who really does that? They should just make "foo" and "foo.com" resolve to the same IP, it's already the big pile of "everything else" that doesn't go under a national domain.
Why? This is essentially a signed kill message and message signing has generally been very secure, good luck getting anyone's root key. Assuming this is a central service (cops send in request for kill code for one license plate, get single use code valid for limited time back) and someone does manage to hack the server and steal the signing key it'd be fairly obvious when it was used "my car just stopped, lights were blinking, radio said it was shut down by the police" Of course revoking the key from every car out there would be a bitch, but the cryptographic standards are all there and it could be done via the mandatory EU check-ups or highway beamers to give at least some herd immunity.
Payments to have the system stripped from the cars of criminals would become some routine, that they would become very cheap. I bet those same idiots would considering adding it to aircraft.
Probably a bit of tin foil around the antenna would do the trick, maybe it won't work on getaway cars but police stop runners, DUIs, people driving the wrong direction and a lot of other loose cannons probably wouldn't have done that. Oh and all military aircraft have kill codes today I think, want to do a runner with a US jet to Russia? Methinks you'd never arrive, even if you could avoid being shot down. Missiles definitively have self-destruct codes, now if it was this totally insecure why would we build systems to totally cripple ourselves in case of war?
That's the last thing we need: robot overlords who keep taking shortcuts. Next thing you know, they'll kill all humans and then go bankrupt from ill-advised mortgages!
Which is why we should let them run the banking systems so they go bankrupt first. Oh, wait...
Just because it has the keywords "Bitcoin" and "Linus Torvalds" in the headline - it doesn't really mean its "news".
Oh, they seem happy enough to publish anything wtih a 50% hit rate on that. And I'm stupid enough to click the 2342564354th Bitcoin story and leave a comment, so shame on me.
B5 fan? "Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth."
"Either you're with us, or you're against us." -- hardly invented by G. W. Bush
There's a reason it's called the silenty majority, the extremists on either side of any issue tend to get extremely vocal. In a shouting match with "No, black!" "No, white!" "No, black!" "No, white!" suggesting "Umm... gray? Green? Yellow?" will get you carved to pieces by both sides for insinuating that it's not [black/white, depending on who's doing the carving]. See vi vs emacs for further examples.