The car was a dummy load on a rocket they half expected to explode. Normally such things are tested with blocks of concrete or other inert mass, because no-one will insure sending up anything valuable on an experimental flight.
They can't dip into the emergency reserve just to detour around a rocket because then if there was an emergency they wouldn't have a full reserve to deal with it.
Private business was happy to suck up NASA funding for decades. Elon Musk is obviously superior, a guy driven by a long term goal (Mars) rather than shareholder value.
Fake data doesn't seem to offer any real benefit. It will be too easy to detect if any developer really cares about it. Also, I like that simply denying a permission sends a clear message to the app and the developer.
You can get cases with a cover for the camera, or stick-on privacy sliders designed for laptops but which fit phones okay. Add a bit of acoustic blocking foam to cover the microphone when closed.
Another option to block the microphone is a dummy one in the headphone socket for phones that support headsets that way. Bluetooth and USB also work. Or you can go the other way and physically disconnect the mic on the phone, then connect an external one when you need it.
This is why we need laws like GDPR. Companies know that they can use a TOS-bomb to make people agree to pretty much anything, up to and including ownership of their eternal soul, so we need to create a standard TOS of our own that they have to agree to first.
Unfortunately the laws of physics won't allow Intel to give you faster clock speeds at lower power until they really sort out their next generation fabrication process, and even then the improvement won't be dramatic.
More cores are the way to go for low power performance. It's just taking software a while to catch up.
He was probably thinking about securing online accounts and avoiding doxing... Which maybe he did, because the guy didn't go to his house or workplace, he had to wait for him to attend a public event to get near him. Avoiding murder was probably a bit beyond the scope of his talk.
Not so much leniency as avoiding a life sentence or the death penalty.
We don't know the details but maybe he didn't even intend to kill the guy. He ran off before he was dead. Maybe once he realized he was facing murder charges and dying in jail he decided to hand himself in and hope for 10-15 years for cooperation and good behaviour.
It's not a lone wolf thing, it's a mob problem. Of course most of them don't go that far, but they all see the other members of the group acting a certain way and feel like they can too. The group creates an insulated little world so divorced from reality that occasionally members think that real life violence is the right thing to do.
A recent example would be the people calling themselves "incels", who occasionally murder people. Not just on the internet either, it happens with offline movements too.
It's happened over and over and will keep happening. The only real hope is that people become more aware of how these toxic groups form and avoid becoming part of them.
And that domain names should not be used for authentication. If you want microsoft.com you don't visually inspect the address bar, you validate the certificate with a trusted issuer.
The cost is in extracting the oil, refining it, manufacturing the plastic bag/straw complete with printed logo, transporting it to the shop, lining the bin to contain it when discarded, transporting the waste to landfill, dumping it, making the landfill site safe, and then at some point in the future dealing with the emissions from decaying plastic.
It may seem insignificant per individual item, but we are using billions of such items and much of that cost is difficult to directly measure. How much does securing the supply of disposable plastic cost, how much land is wasted on landfill, how much will people in the future have to pay to deal with it?
Even the reduced number we get in Europe is too many to use up around the house. I also prefer proper bin liner bags because as well as being stronger and leak-proof* they are larger so I have to empty them less often.
* Shopping bags have to have air holes in case kids put them over their heads.
Can confirm, Tor is accessible in China if you bounce through a Microsoft or Amazon cloud based proxy. The problem they have is that they can't very well block access to the Microsoft or Amazon clouds because they are used for so many legitimate services, so all someone needs to do is set up a proxy running in them that accepts HTTPS connections to tunnel Tor through.
Some VPN providers use the same technique to bypass VPN blocks in China too. PrivateInternetAccess works most of the time there.
Most of the world doesn't speak English. It's unreasonable to expect them not to have domain names in their own language.
The solution should be really simple. Just flag up when a domain name contains characters that are not in the user's selected language. The problem is that Unicode makes that rather difficult, because it's badly designed. It's possible, just unnecessarily hard.
It's more about peer pressure. It's like not being able to afford brand name trainers or clothes with the right logos on. The other kids at school will notice.
The Drake equation isn't supposed to give us a single answer though, it's a tool for exploring the range of possibilities.
Given what little information we have to estimate some reasonable limits to the parameters of the equation we can then calculate the range of probabilities, and then see what sort of evidence we should be looking for to narrow things down or increase/decrease the probability that there are other civilizations out there.
You can do things like adding a small amount of delay to speakers firing in one direction to compensate for the sound having to travel further before it reflects off a wall, for example. That prevents ringing and unwanted reverb.
Even though they found out about the harm at the same time as consumers did, they then spent vast amounts of money trying to deny the harm and convince people that it wasn't happening with what they knew was bunk.
You could also argue that they failed to do proper research and checks on the harm their products did, because they didn't want to be told it was bad.
I'm not suggesting that oil producers should stop tomorrow, but they have been slow to take action even after it became apparent the harm that CO2 and lead were doing. Some are now investing in alternative sources of energy and fuel, which is the responsible thing to do when you have a product that is both necessary and harmful.
CO2, soot, lead... Yeah I hold the oil companies responsible. Not least because when it became clear what was happening they were extremely slow to do anything about it, just like tobacco sellers.
The courts are a good venue for this kind of thing, especially in the US where politicians are owned by corporations.
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I think they mean "serial number".
A liar too. She wasn't trans, that was just a transphobic rumour/lie that emerged from 4chan in the aftermath. The same 4chan that idolized her.
Ironic how they complain about "people you don't like" being labelled Nazis, after labelling people they don't like as SJWs.
There is a lot to unpack from that signature.
The car was a dummy load on a rocket they half expected to explode. Normally such things are tested with blocks of concrete or other inert mass, because no-one will insure sending up anything valuable on an experimental flight.
They can't dip into the emergency reserve just to detour around a rocket because then if there was an emergency they wouldn't have a full reserve to deal with it.
Private business was happy to suck up NASA funding for decades. Elon Musk is obviously superior, a guy driven by a long term goal (Mars) rather than shareholder value.
Fake data doesn't seem to offer any real benefit. It will be too easy to detect if any developer really cares about it. Also, I like that simply denying a permission sends a clear message to the app and the developer.
You can get cases with a cover for the camera, or stick-on privacy sliders designed for laptops but which fit phones okay. Add a bit of acoustic blocking foam to cover the microphone when closed.
Another option to block the microphone is a dummy one in the headphone socket for phones that support headsets that way. Bluetooth and USB also work. Or you can go the other way and physically disconnect the mic on the phone, then connect an external one when you need it.
Just build an app that whispers random things now and then to trigger these devices. Enjoy the ensuing chaos.
This is why we need laws like GDPR. Companies know that they can use a TOS-bomb to make people agree to pretty much anything, up to and including ownership of their eternal soul, so we need to create a standard TOS of our own that they have to agree to first.
Unfortunately the laws of physics won't allow Intel to give you faster clock speeds at lower power until they really sort out their next generation fabrication process, and even then the improvement won't be dramatic.
More cores are the way to go for low power performance. It's just taking software a while to catch up.
He was probably thinking about securing online accounts and avoiding doxing... Which maybe he did, because the guy didn't go to his house or workplace, he had to wait for him to attend a public event to get near him. Avoiding murder was probably a bit beyond the scope of his talk.
Not so much leniency as avoiding a life sentence or the death penalty.
We don't know the details but maybe he didn't even intend to kill the guy. He ran off before he was dead. Maybe once he realized he was facing murder charges and dying in jail he decided to hand himself in and hope for 10-15 years for cooperation and good behaviour.
It's not a lone wolf thing, it's a mob problem. Of course most of them don't go that far, but they all see the other members of the group acting a certain way and feel like they can too. The group creates an insulated little world so divorced from reality that occasionally members think that real life violence is the right thing to do.
A recent example would be the people calling themselves "incels", who occasionally murder people. Not just on the internet either, it happens with offline movements too.
It's happened over and over and will keep happening. The only real hope is that people become more aware of how these toxic groups form and avoid becoming part of them.
And that domain names should not be used for authentication. If you want microsoft.com you don't visually inspect the address bar, you validate the certificate with a trusted issuer.
The cost is in extracting the oil, refining it, manufacturing the plastic bag/straw complete with printed logo, transporting it to the shop, lining the bin to contain it when discarded, transporting the waste to landfill, dumping it, making the landfill site safe, and then at some point in the future dealing with the emissions from decaying plastic.
It may seem insignificant per individual item, but we are using billions of such items and much of that cost is difficult to directly measure. How much does securing the supply of disposable plastic cost, how much land is wasted on landfill, how much will people in the future have to pay to deal with it?
Even the reduced number we get in Europe is too many to use up around the house. I also prefer proper bin liner bags because as well as being stronger and leak-proof* they are larger so I have to empty them less often.
* Shopping bags have to have air holes in case kids put them over their heads.
Can confirm, Tor is accessible in China if you bounce through a Microsoft or Amazon cloud based proxy. The problem they have is that they can't very well block access to the Microsoft or Amazon clouds because they are used for so many legitimate services, so all someone needs to do is set up a proxy running in them that accepts HTTPS connections to tunnel Tor through.
Some VPN providers use the same technique to bypass VPN blocks in China too. PrivateInternetAccess works most of the time there.
Most of the world doesn't speak English. It's unreasonable to expect them not to have domain names in their own language.
The solution should be really simple. Just flag up when a domain name contains characters that are not in the user's selected language. The problem is that Unicode makes that rather difficult, because it's badly designed. It's possible, just unnecessarily hard.
It's more about peer pressure. It's like not being able to afford brand name trainers or clothes with the right logos on. The other kids at school will notice.
The Drake equation isn't supposed to give us a single answer though, it's a tool for exploring the range of possibilities.
Given what little information we have to estimate some reasonable limits to the parameters of the equation we can then calculate the range of probabilities, and then see what sort of evidence we should be looking for to narrow things down or increase/decrease the probability that there are other civilizations out there.
You can do things like adding a small amount of delay to speakers firing in one direction to compensate for the sound having to travel further before it reflects off a wall, for example. That prevents ringing and unwanted reverb.
Hmm, -1 troll... I didn't realize there were so many oil shills with mod points.
Even though they found out about the harm at the same time as consumers did, they then spent vast amounts of money trying to deny the harm and convince people that it wasn't happening with what they knew was bunk.
You could also argue that they failed to do proper research and checks on the harm their products did, because they didn't want to be told it was bad.
I'm not suggesting that oil producers should stop tomorrow, but they have been slow to take action even after it became apparent the harm that CO2 and lead were doing. Some are now investing in alternative sources of energy and fuel, which is the responsible thing to do when you have a product that is both necessary and harmful.
CO2, soot, lead... Yeah I hold the oil companies responsible. Not least because when it became clear what was happening they were extremely slow to do anything about it, just like tobacco sellers.
The courts are a good venue for this kind of thing, especially in the US where politicians are owned by corporations.