You need cheap commodity hardware with smart software on top. Just ask Google or Facebook.
The software used by the rest of us (e.g. MySQL) isn't that smart, and it's very expensive to get software that is that smart --- requires hundreds of thousands of ops engineer developer man hours, potentially to build that software system.
There are open source products that can be that smart, with enough deployment work.
Developing smart custom applications is a bear.
It may very well be cheaper in many cases for smaller scale applications to spend the extra money on some more reliable hardware instead of massive $$$ on extra development.
I guess you could say then definitively now that OpenCompute is not for everyone.... it's especially not for IaaS hosting providers, if the components are more prone to failures that the service provider will be held responsible for.
The vote tally supporting a bill is not the same as the number who would continue to support the bill, knowing there is a gubernatorial veto esp. with publicly claimed issues, and support it strongly enough to push for overriding.
V2V stands to be fucked up for a multiplicity of reasons: shitty engineering, corporations trying to monetize it, and privacy issues
Bad engineering and monetization efforts ought to only foobar the 1st generation products.
Remember..... before Ethernet, we had DECnet, and many proprietary network protocols designed to help corporations attempt to monetize it by making themselves the patented standard everyone would have to buy.
Note we no longer use all those protocols, but the Internet still became a reality.
Corporations trying to monetize don't necessarily stop an idea that is good enough that has the right community backing it who isn't willing to put up with vendor crap.
By every indication, people only say they care about privacy issues, but when it comes to actions in the real world, the vast majority people ignore privacy or will happily throw it away for convenience, free products or services, enabling them to interact with more people, or more fun toys.
They'll probably "give away" the V2V enablement, and have all that stuff turned on by default, so it's maximally useful to OTHER drivers who pay for the feature, BUT for getting the V2V features that most benefit the end user, they will probably be options or "licensed feature packs", for example... you need options to have a display or warning tones to alert about hazards immediately ahead by the V2V network, or you need additional 'sounding devices' or 'display features' to show the construction/slowdown ahead.
Without the options your V2V is a "headless" sensor that will still interact with other drivers' cars as a sensor to provide information, but without providing you nearly as much benefit.
Usually an admin can solve the problem with a firewall, or by temporarily disabling a feature
A lot of problems would be fixed if we disabled Internet Exploder permanently, and Java, and Shockwave/Flash/Silverlight.
Most exploits these days are not the type that can be solved by closing a port: unless by that you mean closing outgoing ports such as
port 80, and port 443.
It would also be great if we could permanently disable e-mail clients that allow you to double click an attachment.
Microsoft's "Mark of the Web" was a good idea.... until they added an Unblock button and a dialog box that lets you run the program anyways.
I bought shares in a company should I be compensated when the company folds?
Hey, sure.... your share of any value that is left over after all the higher-priority claimants were paid.
But Taxi medallions are not like shares in a company.
The government doesn't have any duty to maintain or attempt to increase their value.
If the local authority sees fit to do so, they can likely issue out 50000 medallions for auction over an X month period, or whatever number they want, to generate more cash for the city, regardless of the affect on market value.
At some point they could choose to start issuing them in even larger quantities if they like, and then, the artificially inflated value would be over.
No... protectionlist laws, like requiring a permit and then limiting the number of outstanding permits to a small fraction of those who want to be in the business, for the sole purpose of restricting supply to be less than what the public needs.
In reality, that guy behind you in the 1987 Malibu isn't going to have it, and never will.
Until the insurance companies start requiring it in order to have the best possible insurance rate, then he will pay for the retrofit, once it doesn't make any financial sense not to add the system.
This still requires that V2V be affordable and provide sufficient benefits.
I don't see it sticking with fancy cars only.... If backup cams have been made mandatory, then I see V2V safety features becoming mandatory as well.
Don't throw distracting trivia at the driver.
DO use computational methods to highlight things the driver should definitely pay attention to that
might not be obvious.
For example: if the view ahead is obstructed, or visibility is limited,
a supplementary warning about oncoming objects that are out of sight could be useful.
It is now 8 years old. And using the original battery, and not having charge or capacity problems.
The longevity of the battery depends on random chance and how it's treated.
The AppleCare+ thing doesn't address the concerns, because it only lasts 2 years.
MOST LIKELY the battery will last longer than 2 years, but still cut short the life of the device, Especially if the battery is frequently cycled too deeply.
I have a desktop that is over 8 years old, and it's still using the original hard drive.
It does not mean I should not be very concerned, if the system had a non-removable hard drive. Just because mine didn't fail yet, does not mean these things don't fail.
I wouldn't use it without a parachute either. With an emergency parachute... um....
An emergency parachute is no panacea. If something goes wrong... first of all, well, the parachute can fail to open..... the shock from the parachute opening can be painful, even if not as painful as freefall into the ground.
With little/no control of where you're going.... You can land at a very inopportune place, such as grazing/crashing into the side of a building, being impaled by a vehicle antennae, having the parachute get tangled up in something, or come into contact with live electric wires.
Other nasty scenarios include landing in water or in the middle of a highway where you might be run over or other unsafe/unsuitable ground.
"If you've got nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear"
Is the broken argument governments are using to "justify" pervasive surveillance of the people.
Why should governments be treated differently from people?
France essentially just took on new Patriot-act style surveillance legislation back in may not too long ago,
that allows warrant-free phone taps, e-mail taps, keyloggers, and covertly installed cameras/recorders.
Health complaints start instantly when the (still disconnected) antennas are installed.
OK, then, so perhaps the health problems are not solely based on what is being transmitted using that antenna.
The antenna could be picking up existing signals that are a multiple length of the antenna and reflecting them back out as a modified signal,
all without any equipment attached to that antenna. ^_^
But the first acknowledgement recorded by the dongle is sent back at the fob.
What acknowledgement? I thought you were jamming the fob.... If there's an acknowledgement, that means the remote side saw the message at least once, so you started jamming after they already sent a signal and operated their RKE one time.
I am also under the impression that the vast majority of fobs are one-way transmitter-only devices, and the car side only has a receiver, so the fobs are not expecting an acknowledgement.
since the next time the fob sends a signal it won't be the right one needed to trigger whatever it was supposed to do
No different than if the fob sends a signal while out of range of the device.
They would have to jam the fob across numerous communication attempts, before they would
truly come out of sync so badly that the fob could no longer operate after the jamming was turned off.
It's not a reason to make it less-secure, the engine control system should not be bloatware.
Unnecessary features on critical systems are a safety hazard, due to possible bugs, not just a security risk, and formal validation and 3rd party review of all the code should be required.
"Sounds through the stereo" could be made by a separate microprocessor that listens in on signals sent over a read-only bus channel.
Maybe... but the French government shouldn't have anything to be concerned about if they have nothing to hide, and if they are trying to hide something, then the NSA is doing a very good thing.
The readers will be cheap..... it's only a matter of time before there are 3rd party agents who roam around operating the readers and catch the data for sale to insurance companies, PIs, and reporters as a subscription service.
They might make an iPhone app where joe consumer can get paid $0.30 for every 1000 unique plates captured.
The skeptic in me says he vetoed it as political cover, expecting his veto to be overruled.
Eh? A governor's veto has only been overruled twice in the history of the state. Where did you think the support is to overrule this one?
Besides, the politicians are "outraged" and busy trying to build support to overrule Jindal's Veto of HB 42, to give current state retirees an additional cost of living bonus.
I doubt if Senate bill 250 is on their radar for an attempted veto override.
They will want to address the governor's privacy concerns.
Depends on the ISP, don't you think? I work for an ISP that sells e-mail as a separate service. If you're in the service area of a suitable provider, then you can buy e-mail service without subscribing to any network connection service, anyways, so it doesn't matter if you switch ISPs.
We're not "giving e-mail service away"; we are not Gmail. If you want a free/gratis mail service with all their disadvantages (and advantages) such as larger attachments and more theoretically allowed disk space with the disadvantages of lack of professional on-call management and no phone number to call which a competent human will answer, or no option for hands-on assistance from a human being if something major goes wrong with your service or account, or you get stuck, then go over there to one of the major search engines for free webmail by all means.
E-mail is a complex application which is totally separate from network connectivity and requires application-specific management for reliable operation. Why should the two services ever be treated as if they were part of the same? They're totally different services.
If reliable e-mail access and delivery is of the umpost importance to you, then you should self-host, or use a paid account with an ISP or hosting provider.
Because it's definitely a better idea than using a free Hotmail account.
There is also a totally different set of skills and experience required from professionals implementing and maintaining e-mail systems, from maintaining a network.
There's no reason you should not be able to switch ISPs but keep your e-mail and DNS hosting, if you want.
Of course you still have to pay the hosting bill to some provider, and it's probably somewhere between $120 and $150 per mailbox.
If you purchased your own domain name and hosted e-mail under that domain, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to take e-mail service to any willing host.
You received a product different from the one you paid for...
Getting the wrong edition of a book is a bit major. The difference in value of a newer edition can be huge,
especially in regards to textbooks, where many professors require students to buy the newer Nth edition, which
is often pretty much the same as the N-1th edition, possible correction of a few errors, And likely rearrangement
and substantial tweaking to homework exercises and test/exam question banks.
Sometimes the "version" is out of Amazon's control. Imagine all of the WiFi Router "versions" out in the field. Some will have firmware that's dreck (and complaints), and some will work well
Amazon ought to put agreements in place requiring that manufacturers distinguish the SKU of every "Version" change that is not offered as a free upgrade to all existing/new users --- In other words, a new "B" version should get a new product subpage.
Any change to the design, model, or sourcing of components, should result in a new product page, so they can be reviewed. There should be no such thing as an "Unofficial revision" that does not get a new SKU, a new product page, etc.
If there are still "A" version components for sale; then you should be prompted which version you are buying during checkout, possibly at a discounted price, OR if they are insistent on clearing their inventory of A components, they should not start selling B version until A version has sold out.
All separate versions of a product should be independently reviewable.
Could be.... but it's also important to consider potential abuses from shady manufacturers.
"For example, sometimes a company will make small tweaks to a product or address some customer complaints, though this product isn't officially updated or renamed....."
Sometimes said "small tweaks" to improve sales --- instead of involving changes to the product, involve employees or paid shills to buy the product and write favorable reviews.
If the product is a less popular one that doesn't have a large amount of purchases and only has a relatively small number of reviews, then these changes could further facilitate artificial score inflation.
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You need cheap commodity hardware with smart software on top. Just ask Google or Facebook.
The software used by the rest of us (e.g. MySQL) isn't that smart, and it's very expensive to get software that is that smart --- requires hundreds of thousands of ops engineer developer man hours, potentially to build that software system.
There are open source products that can be that smart, with enough deployment work. Developing smart custom applications is a bear.
It may very well be cheaper in many cases for smaller scale applications to spend the extra money on some more reliable hardware instead of massive $$$ on extra development.
I guess you could say then definitively now that OpenCompute is not for everyone.... it's especially not for IaaS hosting providers, if the components are more prone to failures that the service provider will be held responsible for.
The vote tally supporting a bill is not the same as the number who would continue to support the bill, knowing there is a gubernatorial veto esp. with publicly claimed issues, and support it strongly enough to push for overriding.
V2V stands to be fucked up for a multiplicity of reasons: shitty engineering, corporations trying to monetize it, and privacy issues
Bad engineering and monetization efforts ought to only foobar the 1st generation products. Remember..... before Ethernet, we had DECnet, and many proprietary network protocols designed to help corporations attempt to monetize it by making themselves the patented standard everyone would have to buy.
Note we no longer use all those protocols, but the Internet still became a reality. Corporations trying to monetize don't necessarily stop an idea that is good enough that has the right community backing it who isn't willing to put up with vendor crap.
By every indication, people only say they care about privacy issues, but when it comes to actions in the real world, the vast majority people ignore privacy or will happily throw it away for convenience, free products or services, enabling them to interact with more people, or more fun toys.
They'll probably "give away" the V2V enablement, and have all that stuff turned on by default, so it's maximally useful to OTHER drivers who pay for the feature, BUT for getting the V2V features that most benefit the end user, they will probably be options or "licensed feature packs", for example... you need options to have a display or warning tones to alert about hazards immediately ahead by the V2V network, or you need additional 'sounding devices' or 'display features' to show the construction/slowdown ahead.
Without the options your V2V is a "headless" sensor that will still interact with other drivers' cars as a sensor to provide information, but without providing you nearly as much benefit.
Usually an admin can solve the problem with a firewall, or by temporarily disabling a feature
A lot of problems would be fixed if we disabled Internet Exploder permanently, and Java, and Shockwave/Flash/Silverlight.
Most exploits these days are not the type that can be solved by closing a port: unless by that you mean closing outgoing ports such as port 80, and port 443.
It would also be great if we could permanently disable e-mail clients that allow you to double click an attachment.
Microsoft's "Mark of the Web" was a good idea.... until they added an Unblock button and a dialog box that lets you run the program anyways.
I bought shares in a company should I be compensated when the company folds?
Hey, sure.... your share of any value that is left over after all the higher-priority claimants were paid.
But Taxi medallions are not like shares in a company. The government doesn't have any duty to maintain or attempt to increase their value.
If the local authority sees fit to do so, they can likely issue out 50000 medallions for auction over an X month period, or whatever number they want, to generate more cash for the city, regardless of the affect on market value.
At some point they could choose to start issuing them in even larger quantities if they like, and then, the artificially inflated value would be over.
No... protectionlist laws, like requiring a permit and then limiting the number of outstanding permits to a small fraction of those who want to be in the business, for the sole purpose of restricting supply to be less than what the public needs.
In reality, that guy behind you in the 1987 Malibu isn't going to have it, and never will.
Until the insurance companies start requiring it in order to have the best possible insurance rate, then he will pay for the retrofit, once it doesn't make any financial sense not to add the system.
This still requires that V2V be affordable and provide sufficient benefits.
I don't see it sticking with fancy cars only.... If backup cams have been made mandatory, then I see V2V safety features becoming mandatory as well.
Don't throw distracting trivia at the driver. DO use computational methods to highlight things the driver should definitely pay attention to that might not be obvious.
For example: if the view ahead is obstructed, or visibility is limited, a supplementary warning about oncoming objects that are out of sight could be useful.
although I'm not sure if "through the center of the earth" is the next big thing for high speed communications.
It won't be until we develop technology that can shoot neutrinos through earth, capture them on the other side, and demodulate the encoded message.
It is now 8 years old. And using the original battery, and not having charge or capacity problems.
The longevity of the battery depends on random chance and how it's treated. The AppleCare+ thing doesn't address the concerns, because it only lasts 2 years. MOST LIKELY the battery will last longer than 2 years, but still cut short the life of the device, Especially if the battery is frequently cycled too deeply.
I have a desktop that is over 8 years old, and it's still using the original hard drive. It does not mean I should not be very concerned, if the system had a non-removable hard drive. Just because mine didn't fail yet, does not mean these things don't fail.
I wouldn't use it without a parachute either. With an emergency parachute... um....
An emergency parachute is no panacea. If something goes wrong... first of all, well, the parachute can fail to open..... the shock from the parachute opening can be painful, even if not as painful as freefall into the ground.
With little/no control of where you're going.... You can land at a very inopportune place, such as grazing/crashing into the side of a building, being impaled by a vehicle antennae, having the parachute get tangled up in something, or come into contact with live electric wires.
Other nasty scenarios include landing in water or in the middle of a highway where you might be run over or other unsafe/unsuitable ground.
I think you didn't get it....
"If you've got nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear"
Is the broken argument governments are using to "justify" pervasive surveillance of the people.
Why should governments be treated differently from people?
France essentially just took on new Patriot-act style surveillance legislation back in may not too long ago, that allows warrant-free phone taps, e-mail taps, keyloggers, and covertly installed cameras/recorders.
Health complaints start instantly when the (still disconnected) antennas are installed.
OK, then, so perhaps the health problems are not solely based on what is being transmitted using that antenna.
The antenna could be picking up existing signals that are a multiple length of the antenna and reflecting them back out as a modified signal, all without any equipment attached to that antenna. ^_^
But the first acknowledgement recorded by the dongle is sent back at the fob.
What acknowledgement? I thought you were jamming the fob.... If there's an acknowledgement, that means the remote side saw the message at least once, so you started jamming after they already sent a signal and operated their RKE one time.
I am also under the impression that the vast majority of fobs are one-way transmitter-only devices, and the car side only has a receiver, so the fobs are not expecting an acknowledgement.
since the next time the fob sends a signal it won't be the right one needed to trigger whatever it was supposed to do
No different than if the fob sends a signal while out of range of the device.
They would have to jam the fob across numerous communication attempts, before they would truly come out of sync so badly that the fob could no longer operate after the jamming was turned off.
It's not a reason to make it less-secure, the engine control system should not be bloatware.
Unnecessary features on critical systems are a safety hazard, due to possible bugs, not just a security risk, and formal validation and 3rd party review of all the code should be required.
"Sounds through the stereo" could be made by a separate microprocessor that listens in on signals sent over a read-only bus channel.
Maybe... but the French government shouldn't have anything to be concerned about if they have nothing to hide, and if they are trying to hide something, then the NSA is doing a very good thing.
The readers will be cheap..... it's only a matter of time before there are 3rd party agents who roam around operating the readers and catch the data for sale to insurance companies, PIs, and reporters as a subscription service.
They might make an iPhone app where joe consumer can get paid $0.30 for every 1000 unique plates captured.
The skeptic in me says he vetoed it as political cover, expecting his veto to be overruled.
Eh? A governor's veto has only been overruled twice in the history of the state. Where did you think the support is to overrule this one?
Besides, the politicians are "outraged" and busy trying to build support to overrule Jindal's Veto of HB 42, to give current state retirees an additional cost of living bonus. I doubt if Senate bill 250 is on their radar for an attempted veto override.
They will want to address the governor's privacy concerns.
Depends on the ISP, don't you think? I work for an ISP that sells e-mail as a separate service. If you're in the service area of a suitable provider, then you can buy e-mail service without subscribing to any network connection service, anyways, so it doesn't matter if you switch ISPs.
We're not "giving e-mail service away"; we are not Gmail. If you want a free/gratis mail service with all their disadvantages (and advantages) such as larger attachments and more theoretically allowed disk space with the disadvantages of lack of professional on-call management and no phone number to call which a competent human will answer, or no option for hands-on assistance from a human being if something major goes wrong with your service or account, or you get stuck, then go over there to one of the major search engines for free webmail by all means.
E-mail is a complex application which is totally separate from network connectivity and requires application-specific management for reliable operation. Why should the two services ever be treated as if they were part of the same? They're totally different services.
If reliable e-mail access and delivery is of the umpost importance to you, then you should self-host, or use a paid account with an ISP or hosting provider. Because it's definitely a better idea than using a free Hotmail account.
There is also a totally different set of skills and experience required from professionals implementing and maintaining e-mail systems, from maintaining a network.
There's no reason you should not be able to switch ISPs but keep your e-mail and DNS hosting, if you want.
Of course you still have to pay the hosting bill to some provider, and it's probably somewhere between $120 and $150 per mailbox. If you purchased your own domain name and hosted e-mail under that domain, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to take e-mail service to any willing host.
Especially if e.g. a classical engineering or math text is 2 decades old.
How do you know the latest edition hasn't substantially affected items material to the older reviews?
You received a product different from the one you paid for...
Getting the wrong edition of a book is a bit major. The difference in value of a newer edition can be huge, especially in regards to textbooks, where many professors require students to buy the newer Nth edition, which is often pretty much the same as the N-1th edition, possible correction of a few errors, And likely rearrangement and substantial tweaking to homework exercises and test/exam question banks.
Sometimes the "version" is out of Amazon's control. Imagine all of the WiFi Router "versions" out in the field. Some will have firmware that's dreck (and complaints), and some will work well
Amazon ought to put agreements in place requiring that manufacturers distinguish the SKU of every "Version" change that is not offered as a free upgrade to all existing/new users --- In other words, a new "B" version should get a new product subpage.
Any change to the design, model, or sourcing of components, should result in a new product page, so they can be reviewed. There should be no such thing as an "Unofficial revision" that does not get a new SKU, a new product page, etc.
If there are still "A" version components for sale; then you should be prompted which version you are buying during checkout, possibly at a discounted price, OR if they are insistent on clearing their inventory of A components, they should not start selling B version until A version has sold out.
All separate versions of a product should be independently reviewable.
Could be.... but it's also important to consider potential abuses from shady manufacturers.
"For example, sometimes a company will make small tweaks to a product or address some customer complaints, though this product isn't officially updated or renamed. ...."
Sometimes said "small tweaks" to improve sales --- instead of involving changes to the product, involve employees or paid shills to buy the product and write favorable reviews.
If the product is a less popular one that doesn't have a large amount of purchases and only has a relatively small number of reviews, then these changes could further facilitate artificial score inflation.