Coal power plants take days to change output, but gas turbines can do it in seconds. Though you're right about the issues of handling the short-term supply fluctuations in an almost-all-renewable grid, this would require some improvements in management technology.
Only the most hardcore greenies want to go pure solar/wind though. The more realistic ones recognise that you also need a steadier baseload component, like hydro or nuclear, and something you can ready for use on demand like gas for those rare time the clouds and wind are really uncooperative.
If that were the reason, it would be easy to fix: 1. Have firmware sha256sum the EFI loader. Does loader match stored key? If not, do not load it. 2. Include an option in setup for 'I just installed a new OS, update stored key on next boot.'
Almost. If malware infects the bootloader, the OS will not boot - but that doesn't quite brick it. You can still boot off of removable media, providing the removable media contains a signed loader. This means that if you insert a Windows 8 or 10 installation CD/USBstick, or the manufacturer-supplied recovery disc (Well, the disc they make you burn to save five cents), you can boot off that and reinstall the OS. However, if you insert a linux* or Windows 7 disc, the firmware will not find a valid signature and thus will not boot.
Short version: You can reinstall from scratch, but only with an approved OS.
*There is a workaround using a shim, but MS could kill that on a whim at any time.
If I were an Evil Executive at Microsoft, my next gambit would be to apply some unofficial, off-the-record pressure to the OEMs to make sure they have no means of disabling secure boot. Requiring this outright would be legally risky, could come back to bite them in future antitrust cases, but nothing to stop them from some deniable hints that it might help get a cheaper license deal.
Flying cars would be too dangerous to be allowed into the hands of the likes of us. Ordinary cars are bad enough - but at least they mostly kill people on the street, and are hard to weaponise. A flying car would be basically a piloted missile, ready to hit any building the driver wants. If the engineering problems were solved then the only way most governments would allow a flying car to be sold would be with a piloting computer wrapped in anti-tamper measures - all the driver does is set a destination landing pad or pad set from the government-approved list. Manual flying cars may be available with a special license for use by emergency services or law enforcement, in much the same capacity as helicopters are today.
It was never a serious name. The famous movie itsself even pointed this out - it said that in practice the fuel will burn down until it hits groundwater, then disperse in a steam explosion.
I tweet "Justin Bieber's unphotoshopped pics leaked. Does his crotch bulge look smaller? #Bieber #Photosock." Half an hour later the tweet gets picked up and retweeted in anger by some popular fan. Half an hour after that, fifteen thousand angry beliebers flood Twitter with complaints about inappropriate content and my account gets taken down.
It's already an issue on youtube for political and religious videos: People making them quite often have to create new accounts after a rival faction pounces on some slim excuse to mass-flag a video.
The educational establishment had a similar debate a few years back over a website called Sparklebox - a free resource site for primary school teachers. Posters, worksheets, that sort of thing. Very popular - teachers love resources as they save a lot of time. Until it emerged that the site's founder had been convicted for possession of child abuse imagery. There was a strong backlash - many teachers refused to use the site after that, posters were taken down from walls, and some local authorities even blocked the site on their webfilters. There was never any reason to believe the site posed or could possibly pose even the slightest danger to children - it wasn't for children to view, it was only for teachers - but this didn't do much to lessen the backlash: The site was owned by a dirty pedo, therefore all resources from the site were considered tainted and unfit for viewing by delicate children.
Correct. But you cannot operate any taxi service without one. This means it isn't possible for one person to provide part-time or opportunistic taxi service: It isn't economical to provide a taxi service unless you can run your car continually, hiring multiple drivers. This is intentional, as a quality of service matter: The city doesn't want amateurs with a GPS unit turning up at airports and getting lost with their passengers. It also means Uber's business model cannot be used, and makes it difficult to start new taxi companies by imposing a substantial minimum investment.
Always will be. 3D printing doesn't compete with injection molding. Different applications. Injection has a high setup cost and very low per-unit cost, while 3D printing has almost no setup cost and comparatively high per-unit cost.
"Are they looking for keywords to be able to sell additional products, or partner with other sellers?"
Maybe, maybe not. Part of the issue is that we don't know. Worse, they could make a decision retroactive: Even if they aren't doing so now, they could decide to in future and process the logs of previous conversations. What we have here is a technology with a strong potential for abuse, and a clear commercial incentive for abuse. This should raise some alarms. The solution should be to set up some means - perhaps techological, perhaps legal - to preemptively block such abuse.
Suggested solution: 1. Learn digital signal processing. 2. Learn linquistics. 3. Learn advanced statistical modeling. 4. Learn machine learning. 5. Create an open-source voice recognition library of comparable or greater accuracy.
Or maybe a better plan: 1. Contribute money to hire someone who has done 1-4 to help improve the libraries that already exist - I can find a few on google, but they clearly aren't good enough.
It's nessicary at the current level of sophistication and viable price point. If computational capacity were cheaper, it'd be possible to put more of the doll's systems onboard. Maybe not everything, as any half-reasonable conversation is going to need a huge knowledge engine behind it, but the voice recognition at least, and some of the simpler query processing.
This is something of a trend in TV right now. More people streaming and using DVRs to skip has lessened the value of traditional advertising. Producers responded by turning to alternative forms of advertising - mostly product placement.
I wouldn't be surprised if the NSA had some secret 'blackmail files' for use in that situation. Everyone has something to hide if you dig deep enough, and the NSA knows how to dig. One thing that this whole subject has taught us is that just because something sounds like the paranoid ramblings of a consiracy theorist nut doesn't mean it can't also be true: The government really is reading your email and monitoring your phone calls, and they really have collected information on the pornograhy-browsing habbits of political figures outside of the US with intent to discredit those who are hostile to US interests. Is is that much of a stretch to think they would do the same to their own government? It would be easy enough to justify as the patriotic thing to do - removing from power a figure who, however well-intentioned, would be exposing the country to terrorist attack or even invasion.
His assumption was wrong in this case, but it is still a valid heuristic: The majority of US voters are consistant in their support for candidates of one party. They might grumble a lot about not really approving of the candidate their supported party puts up for them to vote for, but they'll vote for the party regardless. Voters without a strong loyalty to one party or the other are in the minority - and votes cast for anyone who doesn't have an R or a D after their name are effectively negligable in all congressional and presidential elections, though they may have some presence at the state level.
It's one of the flaws in the US political system: If you dislike the Ds but dislike the Rs more, the only sensible thing to do is to vote for the Ds in order to help keep the Rs out. The individual candidate isn't that important because advancement within a party is dependant upon alignment to party position, so there's a very strong incentive for individual politicians to vote always on party lines - effectively the individual serves only as a proxy by which the party may cast votes.
I grew up in the bubble, and knew I'd be good with computers - but I assumed that with programming being such a glamorous role, everyone would be getting into it. I aimed for a duller tangential field in networking.
My career still flopped, though. I'm too risk-averse, refuse to leave my very stable but low-paying entry-level job and try to move up the ranks because I fear I'd screw up horribly somehow.
I should have clarified that I was limiting the discussion to commercial uses. Commercial science means things like weather monitoring and resource surveys - things you do in LEO. There's absolutely nothing beyond geostationary that pays for itsself - that's why those missions you mention all had to be paid for with someone's tax money.
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Coal power plants take days to change output, but gas turbines can do it in seconds. Though you're right about the issues of handling the short-term supply fluctuations in an almost-all-renewable grid, this would require some improvements in management technology.
Only the most hardcore greenies want to go pure solar/wind though. The more realistic ones recognise that you also need a steadier baseload component, like hydro or nuclear, and something you can ready for use on demand like gas for those rare time the clouds and wind are really uncooperative.
Allowed it, for now. But that means it would be easy for MS to apply pressure and turn 'allowed' into 'strongly encouraged.'
If that were the reason, it would be easy to fix:
1. Have firmware sha256sum the EFI loader. Does loader match stored key? If not, do not load it.
2. Include an option in setup for 'I just installed a new OS, update stored key on next boot.'
Because for those who want laptops, build-your-own is not an option.
Almost. If malware infects the bootloader, the OS will not boot - but that doesn't quite brick it. You can still boot off of removable media, providing the removable media contains a signed loader. This means that if you insert a Windows 8 or 10 installation CD/USBstick, or the manufacturer-supplied recovery disc (Well, the disc they make you burn to save five cents), you can boot off that and reinstall the OS. However, if you insert a linux* or Windows 7 disc, the firmware will not find a valid signature and thus will not boot.
Short version: You can reinstall from scratch, but only with an approved OS.
*There is a workaround using a shim, but MS could kill that on a whim at any time.
If I were an Evil Executive at Microsoft, my next gambit would be to apply some unofficial, off-the-record pressure to the OEMs to make sure they have no means of disabling secure boot. Requiring this outright would be legally risky, could come back to bite them in future antitrust cases, but nothing to stop them from some deniable hints that it might help get a cheaper license deal.
Flying cars would be too dangerous to be allowed into the hands of the likes of us. Ordinary cars are bad enough - but at least they mostly kill people on the street, and are hard to weaponise. A flying car would be basically a piloted missile, ready to hit any building the driver wants. If the engineering problems were solved then the only way most governments would allow a flying car to be sold would be with a piloting computer wrapped in anti-tamper measures - all the driver does is set a destination landing pad or pad set from the government-approved list. Manual flying cars may be available with a special license for use by emergency services or law enforcement, in much the same capacity as helicopters are today.
It was never a serious name. The famous movie itsself even pointed this out - it said that in practice the fuel will burn down until it hits groundwater, then disperse in a steam explosion.
Too easily abused by popularity.
I tweet "Justin Bieber's unphotoshopped pics leaked. Does his crotch bulge look smaller? #Bieber #Photosock." Half an hour later the tweet gets picked up and retweeted in anger by some popular fan. Half an hour after that, fifteen thousand angry beliebers flood Twitter with complaints about inappropriate content and my account gets taken down.
It's already an issue on youtube for political and religious videos: People making them quite often have to create new accounts after a rival faction pounces on some slim excuse to mass-flag a video.
The educational establishment had a similar debate a few years back over a website called Sparklebox - a free resource site for primary school teachers. Posters, worksheets, that sort of thing. Very popular - teachers love resources as they save a lot of time. Until it emerged that the site's founder had been convicted for possession of child abuse imagery. There was a strong backlash - many teachers refused to use the site after that, posters were taken down from walls, and some local authorities even blocked the site on their webfilters. There was never any reason to believe the site posed or could possibly pose even the slightest danger to children - it wasn't for children to view, it was only for teachers - but this didn't do much to lessen the backlash: The site was owned by a dirty pedo, therefore all resources from the site were considered tainted and unfit for viewing by delicate children.
Detail: https://www.tes.co.uk/article....
Correct. But you cannot operate any taxi service without one. This means it isn't possible for one person to provide part-time or opportunistic taxi service: It isn't economical to provide a taxi service unless you can run your car continually, hiring multiple drivers. This is intentional, as a quality of service matter: The city doesn't want amateurs with a GPS unit turning up at airports and getting lost with their passengers. It also means Uber's business model cannot be used, and makes it difficult to start new taxi companies by imposing a substantial minimum investment.
If they are halfway sensible, they'll not specify how to block - just specify what must be blocked, and leave the technological side to the ISPs.
Or, as the pirate bay has, about a billion different mirror sites.
HTTPS doesn't make MITM attacks impossible, but it does make them much, much harder.
Always will be. 3D printing doesn't compete with injection molding. Different applications. Injection has a high setup cost and very low per-unit cost, while 3D printing has almost no setup cost and comparatively high per-unit cost.
Unless you can match the refractive index of cured and uncured resin, the optical calculations involved would be hell.
"Are they looking for keywords to be able to sell additional products, or partner with other sellers?"
Maybe, maybe not. Part of the issue is that we don't know. Worse, they could make a decision retroactive: Even if they aren't doing so now, they could decide to in future and process the logs of previous conversations. What we have here is a technology with a strong potential for abuse, and a clear commercial incentive for abuse. This should raise some alarms. The solution should be to set up some means - perhaps techological, perhaps legal - to preemptively block such abuse.
Suggested solution:
1. Learn digital signal processing.
2. Learn linquistics.
3. Learn advanced statistical modeling.
4. Learn machine learning.
5. Create an open-source voice recognition library of comparable or greater accuracy.
Or maybe a better plan:
1. Contribute money to hire someone who has done 1-4 to help improve the libraries that already exist - I can find a few on google, but they clearly aren't good enough.
It's nessicary at the current level of sophistication and viable price point. If computational capacity were cheaper, it'd be possible to put more of the doll's systems onboard. Maybe not everything, as any half-reasonable conversation is going to need a huge knowledge engine behind it, but the voice recognition at least, and some of the simpler query processing.
This is something of a trend in TV right now. More people streaming and using DVRs to skip has lessened the value of traditional advertising. Producers responded by turning to alternative forms of advertising - mostly product placement.
Also, men are reluctant to go into childcare because a man showing interest in that field is immediately suspected of intent to molest.
I wouldn't be surprised if the NSA had some secret 'blackmail files' for use in that situation. Everyone has something to hide if you dig deep enough, and the NSA knows how to dig. One thing that this whole subject has taught us is that just because something sounds like the paranoid ramblings of a consiracy theorist nut doesn't mean it can't also be true: The government really is reading your email and monitoring your phone calls, and they really have collected information on the pornograhy-browsing habbits of political figures outside of the US with intent to discredit those who are hostile to US interests. Is is that much of a stretch to think they would do the same to their own government? It would be easy enough to justify as the patriotic thing to do - removing from power a figure who, however well-intentioned, would be exposing the country to terrorist attack or even invasion.
His assumption was wrong in this case, but it is still a valid heuristic: The majority of US voters are consistant in their support for candidates of one party. They might grumble a lot about not really approving of the candidate their supported party puts up for them to vote for, but they'll vote for the party regardless. Voters without a strong loyalty to one party or the other are in the minority - and votes cast for anyone who doesn't have an R or a D after their name are effectively negligable in all congressional and presidential elections, though they may have some presence at the state level.
It's one of the flaws in the US political system: If you dislike the Ds but dislike the Rs more, the only sensible thing to do is to vote for the Ds in order to help keep the Rs out. The individual candidate isn't that important because advancement within a party is dependant upon alignment to party position, so there's a very strong incentive for individual politicians to vote always on party lines - effectively the individual serves only as a proxy by which the party may cast votes.
I grew up in the bubble, and knew I'd be good with computers - but I assumed that with programming being such a glamorous role, everyone would be getting into it. I aimed for a duller tangential field in networking.
My career still flopped, though. I'm too risk-averse, refuse to leave my very stable but low-paying entry-level job and try to move up the ranks because I fear I'd screw up horribly somehow.
I should have clarified that I was limiting the discussion to commercial uses. Commercial science means things like weather monitoring and resource surveys - things you do in LEO. There's absolutely nothing beyond geostationary that pays for itsself - that's why those missions you mention all had to be paid for with someone's tax money.