There is always a mechanical override, it's a part of car safety laws in most western countries, U.S. included. Summary is wrong, possibly the article too.
Uh, it doesn't work that way. The thieves didn't get "locked in". The car was remotely disabled. If they chose to stay inside, that's because they were dumb. There is a safety feature mandated by law in most western countries where there must be a mechanical override available from inside to unlatch any door locks and the trunk lock. The summary is stupid or the article is written by someone without any understanding of how cars really work.
I completely agree. You've got 4 ports, and you can use them all for the same purpose (e.g. plugging in USB-2/3 peripherals), or for a mix of these and charging, displays, etc. That's the way to go. I wish every vendor did that on their laptops.
Are you serious? Just buy the fine USB-C to lightning cable and call it day. No need for docks, dongles, or anything.
As for gigabit ethernet: I dig why they don't want to put that on the laptop. The laptop is too thin to fit the jack, other vendors resort to ugly hacks like the movable-jaw RJ-45 receptacles that Apple will have nothing to do with - rightly so IMHO. A USB-C/Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter is $30. Plug your patch cord - that you have to have anyway - into it, and call the complete assembly a "cable". You can heatshrink them together if you think it'll make it cooler somehow.
Dude, have you never ever heard of people working on their fucking cars? Are you that stupid, or do you just play one on Slashdot? WTF?!
The ECM settings that can be changed without breaking the warranty are the ones that are there to be changed to begin with, pretty much. You really must have not ever worked on your own car using factory software. I've been working on my Volvos for more than a decade now and no, the factory software doesn't let you change the engine tune, or really do anything but what the dealer might be willing to do if you ask them. Yes, even the fucking dealer sometimes has advisors or techs stubborn or not giving a fuck enough not to bother changing settings (at an hourly rate!) that the fucking factory documentation advises specifically are changeable per user preferences. These settings are hidden only to route some more business to the dealer, BTW, there's no technical reason why they shouldn't be exposed to the user.
The seatbelt chimes as they are implemented in most cars on US market are useless. Either give me Swedish system where the chime is ON until you put the damn seatbelts on, or give me no fucking chime. In the US you normally have a chime that'll bother you for a few seconds then turn off no matter what you do. Worse yet, if your order of operations is start the car then put the belts on, as plenty of people do, the stupid chime will always beep at you for no reason other than some designer's stupidity.
The "shitty world of liability" is the one you live in. It's all in your head, a made-up problem. My close family is a bunch of litigation lawyers and even they aren't as risk averse as you seem to be.
3rd party hardware people should jump on that bandwagon. There isn't all that much to an ECU, the simplest way to overcome Deere's stupidity will be by ditching their ECU modules and replacing them with 3rd party drop-in replacements. There's plenty of vendors out there that could offer such products, the main reason they didn't jump on it yet is that Deere can stop being stupid at any time, making the 3rd party efforts worth quite a bit less. OTOH, farmers may be jaded enough that even if Deere reversed on their IP retardiness, they perhaps would stick with a 3rd party solution.
Just so you know, the kids aren't supposed to eat all that candy that night. My kids' haul usually lasts 1-2 weeks, and that's with parents doubling the number of candy consumers:)
As a rule of thumb, 1/4~1/2 of transport jet controlled flight into terrain crashes are preceded by unacknowledged autopilot disconnect. It's all too common.
When it comes to autopilots: usually planes crash and people die not because the pilot had to override the autopilot, but because the conditions changed - e.g. one of the air data sources has failed - and the autopilot has failed safe and turned itself off. But the pilots all too often manage not to notice and fly into the ground while under the assumption that the plane's airspeed, altitude and attitude are controlled by the autopilot. Tesla's autopilot is no different. It will disengage when the conditions are too far out of its specifications. And everyday people will get into danger exactly the same way the trained pilots do. Take it for what it's worth.
I don't ride, but isn't the 1N2... pattern a bit silly? When you get rolling, you have to tap the lever twice to go from 1 to 2 - doesn't that make it feel weird?
7 billion billion per day is still 2^63, 58 orders of magnitude short of 2^256, 135 orders of magnitude short of 2^512. Whatever "datacenter" you think of is irrelevant, pretty much.
The extra layer of protection offered by asymmetric encryption will be moot once a key secure hash falls.
There isn't enough material in the entire Universe (that we're aware of, at least) to build a datacenter to brute-force a 512 bit hash. The Universe has roughly 2^400 atoms, the Earth has roughly 2^170, a billion billion is 2^60 only and you'd be very lucky to have a "datacenter" that can do that many hashes per second. End of story. I don't think you have that basic understanding.
You must have missed the news, then. A lot of them. EU is pretty much the reason phones now use mostly USB for charging. They got tired of the horrendous waste generated by throwing away millions of perfectly good power supplies every time someone got a new phone. Every generation of a phone, from every vendor, used their own, incompatible connectors. US was just shrugging at it, while EU finally had enough and convinced top 10 phone makers (Apple included) to agree to only put out phones with micro-USB connector as a means to power/recharge the device. Apple "complied" by offering an adapter (shame on them), but others took it seriously. There's a law brewing that will make it market-wide and applicable to all phones in EU. They are a big enough market that it had and will continue to have ripple effects worldwide.
The "source" are PCI transactions to the GPU in the monitor. That GPU is driving the display. This is IMHO a very nice idea. Thus far, we've been putting all the monitor hardware there only to drive the display panel; that's a big waste in a way. Since we can now push PCI transactions over fairly robust, thin interconnects that are as easy to use as USB is, there's not much point anymore in keeping the GPU inside of the PC. The interconnect performs the same whether it's internal or external.
The conclusion is rather simple: when talking about Aduino, the first thing from Banzi's, or anyone else involved in development of the project, should be "hey, it all started with the thesis of this Colombian guy, Hernando Barragán". That's all it'd take to be fair to Hernando. Nothing less. Nothing more. I happen to agree with Hernando. He doesn't wish fame nor prominence, nor a revenue stream from Arduino: just simple human acknowledgment.
Frankly said, when I'm done ordering fast food, I'm thinking about bigger things than second-guessing the cash register... As for doing long mental addition, one would suck at it anyway if one couldn't do single-digit additions/subtractions fast, whether you call it by a special name or not:)
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Ah well, the court is welcome to have that phone, then. I'm sure they can figure it out. The data is all there.
the first grade will migrate from iPads to Surfaces
Good luck to them. They're gonna need it.
Uh, last time I checked it is illegal to sell cars like that in the U.S. Just FYI.
There is always a mechanical override, it's a part of car safety laws in most western countries, U.S. included. Summary is wrong, possibly the article too.
Uh, it doesn't work that way. The thieves didn't get "locked in". The car was remotely disabled. If they chose to stay inside, that's because they were dumb. There is a safety feature mandated by law in most western countries where there must be a mechanical override available from inside to unlatch any door locks and the trunk lock. The summary is stupid or the article is written by someone without any understanding of how cars really work.
TL;DR: It's patently false.
Go to a junkyard and try it out. You'll fail. Source: tried it on a few cars.
I completely agree. You've got 4 ports, and you can use them all for the same purpose (e.g. plugging in USB-2/3 peripherals), or for a mix of these and charging, displays, etc. That's the way to go. I wish every vendor did that on their laptops.
Are you serious? Just buy the fine USB-C to lightning cable and call it day. No need for docks, dongles, or anything.
As for gigabit ethernet: I dig why they don't want to put that on the laptop. The laptop is too thin to fit the jack, other vendors resort to ugly hacks like the movable-jaw RJ-45 receptacles that Apple will have nothing to do with - rightly so IMHO. A USB-C/Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter is $30. Plug your patch cord - that you have to have anyway - into it, and call the complete assembly a "cable". You can heatshrink them together if you think it'll make it cooler somehow.
I think you're making up imaginary problems.
Dude, have you never ever heard of people working on their fucking cars? Are you that stupid, or do you just play one on Slashdot? WTF?!
The ECM settings that can be changed without breaking the warranty are the ones that are there to be changed to begin with, pretty much. You really must have not ever worked on your own car using factory software. I've been working on my Volvos for more than a decade now and no, the factory software doesn't let you change the engine tune, or really do anything but what the dealer might be willing to do if you ask them. Yes, even the fucking dealer sometimes has advisors or techs stubborn or not giving a fuck enough not to bother changing settings (at an hourly rate!) that the fucking factory documentation advises specifically are changeable per user preferences. These settings are hidden only to route some more business to the dealer, BTW, there's no technical reason why they shouldn't be exposed to the user.
The seatbelt chimes as they are implemented in most cars on US market are useless. Either give me Swedish system where the chime is ON until you put the damn seatbelts on, or give me no fucking chime. In the US you normally have a chime that'll bother you for a few seconds then turn off no matter what you do. Worse yet, if your order of operations is start the car then put the belts on, as plenty of people do, the stupid chime will always beep at you for no reason other than some designer's stupidity.
The "shitty world of liability" is the one you live in. It's all in your head, a made-up problem. My close family is a bunch of litigation lawyers and even they aren't as risk averse as you seem to be.
3rd party hardware people should jump on that bandwagon. There isn't all that much to an ECU, the simplest way to overcome Deere's stupidity will be by ditching their ECU modules and replacing them with 3rd party drop-in replacements. There's plenty of vendors out there that could offer such products, the main reason they didn't jump on it yet is that Deere can stop being stupid at any time, making the 3rd party efforts worth quite a bit less. OTOH, farmers may be jaded enough that even if Deere reversed on their IP retardiness, they perhaps would stick with a 3rd party solution.
Just so you know, the kids aren't supposed to eat all that candy that night. My kids' haul usually lasts 1-2 weeks, and that's with parents doubling the number of candy consumers :)
As a rule of thumb, 1/4~1/2 of transport jet controlled flight into terrain crashes are preceded by unacknowledged autopilot disconnect. It's all too common.
It already has that feature...
When it comes to autopilots: usually planes crash and people die not because the pilot had to override the autopilot, but because the conditions changed - e.g. one of the air data sources has failed - and the autopilot has failed safe and turned itself off. But the pilots all too often manage not to notice and fly into the ground while under the assumption that the plane's airspeed, altitude and attitude are controlled by the autopilot. Tesla's autopilot is no different. It will disengage when the conditions are too far out of its specifications. And everyday people will get into danger exactly the same way the trained pilots do. Take it for what it's worth.
Thank you, that detail clears it up.
I don't ride, but isn't the 1N2... pattern a bit silly? When you get rolling, you have to tap the lever twice to go from 1 to 2 - doesn't that make it feel weird?
7 billion billion per day is still 2^63, 58 orders of magnitude short of 2^256, 135 orders of magnitude short of 2^512. Whatever "datacenter" you think of is irrelevant, pretty much.
The extra layer of protection offered by asymmetric encryption will be moot once a key secure hash falls.
There isn't enough material in the entire Universe (that we're aware of, at least) to build a datacenter to brute-force a 512 bit hash. The Universe has roughly 2^400 atoms, the Earth has roughly 2^170, a billion billion is 2^60 only and you'd be very lucky to have a "datacenter" that can do that many hashes per second. End of story. I don't think you have that basic understanding.
we've already learned that it's not hard to make checksums match.
That'd be big news for hashes that are currently considered secure. Got some links?
You must have missed the news, then. A lot of them. EU is pretty much the reason phones now use mostly USB for charging. They got tired of the horrendous waste generated by throwing away millions of perfectly good power supplies every time someone got a new phone. Every generation of a phone, from every vendor, used their own, incompatible connectors. US was just shrugging at it, while EU finally had enough and convinced top 10 phone makers (Apple included) to agree to only put out phones with micro-USB connector as a means to power/recharge the device. Apple "complied" by offering an adapter (shame on them), but others took it seriously. There's a law brewing that will make it market-wide and applicable to all phones in EU. They are a big enough market that it had and will continue to have ripple effects worldwide.
The "source" are PCI transactions to the GPU in the monitor. That GPU is driving the display. This is IMHO a very nice idea. Thus far, we've been putting all the monitor hardware there only to drive the display panel; that's a big waste in a way. Since we can now push PCI transactions over fairly robust, thin interconnects that are as easy to use as USB is, there's not much point anymore in keeping the GPU inside of the PC. The interconnect performs the same whether it's internal or external.
It does. I didn't notice it, somehow. My bad.
Whooooooosh.
The conclusion is rather simple: when talking about Aduino, the first thing from Banzi's, or anyone else involved in development of the project, should be "hey, it all started with the thesis of this Colombian guy, Hernando Barragán". That's all it'd take to be fair to Hernando. Nothing less. Nothing more. I happen to agree with Hernando. He doesn't wish fame nor prominence, nor a revenue stream from Arduino: just simple human acknowledgment.
Frankly said, when I'm done ordering fast food, I'm thinking about bigger things than second-guessing the cash register... As for doing long mental addition, one would suck at it anyway if one couldn't do single-digit additions/subtractions fast, whether you call it by a special name or not :)