Yes, you can be asked to agree to conduct yourself a certain way on the network, but unless they have a really good reason to target you specifically they can't just start keylogging your computer. This has been established in court.
Level 3 is okay. That's where the car can drive itself under certain limited conditions (e.g. on a highway, but not on urban roads) and gives the driver plenty of warning when they need to take over. By "plenty" I mean 60+ seconds, and if you don't take over nothing terrible happens.
99% of local news is uninteresting bullshit, puff pieces and trivial nonsense that few people really care about. People used to read it because there wasn't much else, but these days we are not short of low grade crap to read.
This is a general problem with news - we benefit greatly from some stuff being reported or investigated, but the bread-and-butter bullshit stories that used to bump up the page count to something acceptable don't bring in the sales any more.
In the EU you can't be forced to sign away your basic rights like that. Giving up basic rights to keep your job is not considered a choice anyone should have to make.
This is Uber, their self driving cars don't have to be particularly safe or reliable, just cheap. I mean, if people are willing to risk assault and rape just to get a cheaper taxi, the odd self driving car going off a bridge won't stop them.
The whole sensor package seems poorly thought out. For example, the lack of a nose camera means that they can't implement a 360 degree overhead view like Nissan and several other manufacturers have now.
And then there is the whole "AP2.5" debacle, where they did a major computing power upgrade over the original AP2.0 hardware after realizing it wasn't up to the task, and then promised free upgrades to people who had already paid for full self driving a year ago.
The thing about cameras is that they are not the same as human eyes. People have been extracting images from the Tesla cameras and the resolution just isn't good enough to resolve signs at distance, for example. Also processing those images is proving to be difficult. Currently they are down-sampling them to an even lower resolution before handing them to their neural networks for recognition.
The current state of their system is that they can follow well marked roads somewhat reliably. On corners the car will sometimes stray into oncoming traffic or into walls. Junctions confuse it. Even on well marked roads in good weather it sometimes ping-pongs left and right in the lane. And they use GPS maps for assistance, something that a full self driving car can't rely on.
Musk said they would demo driving from coast to coast autonomously this year. Seems unlikely to happen, although it might just be possible if they stick to major roads. But they are so far from being able to handle anything tricky, like roundabouts or unusual junctions or car parks or even read basic road signs and traffic lights that I'm thinking some of the people who already paid for the self-driving feature will be selling the car long before it ships.
Don't forget that the drivers are just a temporary stand-in for self-driving cars. They aren't planning on keeping them around for any longer than they have to. Their only concerns are keeping costs down and covering over the problems with PR until they can get to the self-driving stage and fire most of their workforce.
I'm not convinced that Tesla will get to level 5 with their current hardware. They are already selling level 5 to customers as a future firmware update (â3000 extra last time I looked), saying they will upgrade hardware if necessary for people who already paid.
Their system is only cameras and ultrasonic sensors, no lidar. They are using neural nets for image processing.
But... But... Without patent protection Apple would have no incentive to steal, I meant invent slide to unlock!
They would just have used an unlock button... Okay, well that could get triggered easily, so maybe something that required a more definite action, like sliding but less obvious.
I visited an ancient Roman amphitheatre in Italy once, and although obviously the original wooden doors were long gone the reproduction ones claimed to be historically accurate and had slide to unlock.
The Apple "improvements" aren't to the screen, those are the same as the ones that Samsung makes for itself and anyone else willing to pay. The "improvement" is that they added multiple ambient light sensors that adjust the screen white balance to give more accurate colours in different lighting conditions.
Of course, most users don't want accurate colours, they want popping colours and high contrast. When Google made accurate colours the default on the Pixel 2 people complained that it was too dull and flat looking.
Plus, most images are not designed for accurate settings, e.g. on the web and in apps. So Apple uses the exciting mode most of the time, only switching to accurate colours when apps request it. Again, Android supports that too, although interestingly Chrome doesn't take advantage of it while Firefox does.
There is no excuse for your computer to be less reliable than the outlet it gets its power from.
There is: Applications.
If your staff need to run QuickBooks or Visual Studio or the quality of LibreOffice's.docx output isn't good enough for them, just telling them "sorry, Windows is crap" probably won't fly. So there are a lot of people who are interested in securing Windows as much as possible.
The big issue that no-one seems to have mentioned yet is updates. Telemetry is one thing, but for IT people the forced, random updates that can't be adequately controlled are a massive security problem and support headache.
I don't like TPM because if it breaks everything it protects is gone and I neither need nor want my systems to be secured against physical access in a way that can't stand alone. (e.g. passphrase)
You are doing it wrong then. The way Windows uses the TPM allows for recovery, for example.
The TPM stores the encryption key and is able to verify that the OS is unmolested before accepting a key (typically a hash) to release the encryption key. To protect against TPM loss Windows will prompt you to make a backup of the encryption key somewhere. It might be kept by the IT department, or you might print it out and lock it away.
The continued assaults against their staff and customers are hurting their bottom line. Some regulators are cracking down on them because of it, at least in part, e.g. London.
So $5m seems like peanuts if it fixes that problem for them.
The morality is in spending not inconsiderable amounts of money finding ways to subvert the clear intention of the tax law. Most people don't have that option, and those that do reduce their own tax burden at the expense of those people.
Just because it is technically legal doesn't make it morally acceptable to shirk your responsibilities while enjoying the massive benefits of being able to operate in those countries.
Correct. The seller only has to charge VAT at the rate of the buyer's country, they don't actually have to pay it to that tax authority. It is mostly automated via online payment processors so creates little burden.
The problem is that YouTube is being cheap. Rather than hire humans to do manual reviews, they want to rely on flawed AI. Just pay people to do it while the AI shadows, until you get it working properly.
But no, they want kids to beta test it for them. They want YouTube creators to put their livelihoods on the line so they can save a few bucks.
A bad investment for the individual perhaps, but society is in trouble if the supply of highly skilled workers decreases. That's why in most developed countries the cost is heavily subsidised for everyone.
The idea of paying for someone else's education seems to upset a lot of people in the US, and increasingly in the UK too. They are usually the same people who complain that they have to wait a long time to see a doctor and then that doctor is foreign, but for some reason don't connect the dots.
It's a real shame that the US won't place nicely with China in space. Seems unbelievable now but Kennedy had been seriously pursuing doing the moon landings as a joint US-USSR project. Now it's just US paranoia about stolen technology that prevents cooperation with China.
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Yes, you can be asked to agree to conduct yourself a certain way on the network, but unless they have a really good reason to target you specifically they can't just start keylogging your computer. This has been established in court.
Level 3 is okay. That's where the car can drive itself under certain limited conditions (e.g. on a highway, but not on urban roads) and gives the driver plenty of warning when they need to take over. By "plenty" I mean 60+ seconds, and if you don't take over nothing terrible happens.
In some way's AMD's system is worse. Less is known about it, and we don't have any ways to sabotage and disable it.
At least with Intel we know how to delete all non-essential parts of the firmware and then set the master disable flag that the NSA asked for.
99% of local news is uninteresting bullshit, puff pieces and trivial nonsense that few people really care about. People used to read it because there wasn't much else, but these days we are not short of low grade crap to read.
This is a general problem with news - we benefit greatly from some stuff being reported or investigated, but the bread-and-butter bullshit stories that used to bump up the page count to something acceptable don't bring in the sales any more.
The same could be said of capitalist utopia.
In the EU you can't be forced to sign away your basic rights like that. Giving up basic rights to keep your job is not considered a choice anyone should have to make.
This is Uber, their self driving cars don't have to be particularly safe or reliable, just cheap. I mean, if people are willing to risk assault and rape just to get a cheaper taxi, the odd self driving car going off a bridge won't stop them.
The whole sensor package seems poorly thought out. For example, the lack of a nose camera means that they can't implement a 360 degree overhead view like Nissan and several other manufacturers have now.
And then there is the whole "AP2.5" debacle, where they did a major computing power upgrade over the original AP2.0 hardware after realizing it wasn't up to the task, and then promised free upgrades to people who had already paid for full self driving a year ago.
The thing about cameras is that they are not the same as human eyes. People have been extracting images from the Tesla cameras and the resolution just isn't good enough to resolve signs at distance, for example. Also processing those images is proving to be difficult. Currently they are down-sampling them to an even lower resolution before handing them to their neural networks for recognition.
The current state of their system is that they can follow well marked roads somewhat reliably. On corners the car will sometimes stray into oncoming traffic or into walls. Junctions confuse it. Even on well marked roads in good weather it sometimes ping-pongs left and right in the lane. And they use GPS maps for assistance, something that a full self driving car can't rely on.
Musk said they would demo driving from coast to coast autonomously this year. Seems unlikely to happen, although it might just be possible if they stick to major roads. But they are so far from being able to handle anything tricky, like roundabouts or unusual junctions or car parks or even read basic road signs and traffic lights that I'm thinking some of the people who already paid for the self-driving feature will be selling the car long before it ships.
Don't forget that the drivers are just a temporary stand-in for self-driving cars. They aren't planning on keeping them around for any longer than they have to. Their only concerns are keeping costs down and covering over the problems with PR until they can get to the self-driving stage and fire most of their workforce.
Also usually illegal in the EU. If this really is as common as TFA thinks then it might be the next big compensation scandal.
By "fixes the the problem" I mean the PR issue, not the actual abuse.
I'm not convinced that Tesla will get to level 5 with their current hardware. They are already selling level 5 to customers as a future firmware update (â3000 extra last time I looked), saying they will upgrade hardware if necessary for people who already paid.
Their system is only cameras and ultrasonic sensors, no lidar. They are using neural nets for image processing.
But... But... Without patent protection Apple would have no incentive to steal, I meant invent slide to unlock!
They would just have used an unlock button... Okay, well that could get triggered easily, so maybe something that required a more definite action, like sliding but less obvious.
I visited an ancient Roman amphitheatre in Italy once, and although obviously the original wooden doors were long gone the reproduction ones claimed to be historically accurate and had slide to unlock.
The Apple "improvements" aren't to the screen, those are the same as the ones that Samsung makes for itself and anyone else willing to pay. The "improvement" is that they added multiple ambient light sensors that adjust the screen white balance to give more accurate colours in different lighting conditions.
Of course, most users don't want accurate colours, they want popping colours and high contrast. When Google made accurate colours the default on the Pixel 2 people complained that it was too dull and flat looking.
Plus, most images are not designed for accurate settings, e.g. on the web and in apps. So Apple uses the exciting mode most of the time, only switching to accurate colours when apps request it. Again, Android supports that too, although interestingly Chrome doesn't take advantage of it while Firefox does.
There is no excuse for your computer to be less reliable than the outlet it gets its power from.
There is: Applications.
If your staff need to run QuickBooks or Visual Studio or the quality of LibreOffice's .docx output isn't good enough for them, just telling them "sorry, Windows is crap" probably won't fly. So there are a lot of people who are interested in securing Windows as much as possible.
The big issue that no-one seems to have mentioned yet is updates. Telemetry is one thing, but for IT people the forced, random updates that can't be adequately controlled are a massive security problem and support headache.
I don't like TPM because if it breaks everything it protects is gone and I neither need nor want my systems to be secured against physical access in a way that can't stand alone. (e.g. passphrase)
You are doing it wrong then. The way Windows uses the TPM allows for recovery, for example.
The TPM stores the encryption key and is able to verify that the OS is unmolested before accepting a key (typically a hash) to release the encryption key. To protect against TPM loss Windows will prompt you to make a backup of the encryption key somewhere. It might be kept by the IT department, or you might print it out and lock it away.
The continued assaults against their staff and customers are hurting their bottom line. Some regulators are cracking down on them because of it, at least in part, e.g. London.
So $5m seems like peanuts if it fixes that problem for them.
Thanks. This is a problem I get a lot, people assume all sorts of things about me and argue as if I had stated those positions.
The morality is in spending not inconsiderable amounts of money finding ways to subvert the clear intention of the tax law. Most people don't have that option, and those that do reduce their own tax burden at the expense of those people.
Just because it is technically legal doesn't make it morally acceptable to shirk your responsibilities while enjoying the massive benefits of being able to operate in those countries.
Correct. The seller only has to charge VAT at the rate of the buyer's country, they don't actually have to pay it to that tax authority. It is mostly automated via online payment processors so creates little burden.
The problem is that YouTube is being cheap. Rather than hire humans to do manual reviews, they want to rely on flawed AI. Just pay people to do it while the AI shadows, until you get it working properly.
But no, they want kids to beta test it for them. They want YouTube creators to put their livelihoods on the line so they can save a few bucks.
Portable CD players are making a comeback as retro items now. Apparently WAV/FLAC isn't good enough, it's got to be a spinning disc.
For hipsters the idea of even owning music must seem old fashioned these days.
A bad investment for the individual perhaps, but society is in trouble if the supply of highly skilled workers decreases. That's why in most developed countries the cost is heavily subsidised for everyone.
The idea of paying for someone else's education seems to upset a lot of people in the US, and increasingly in the UK too. They are usually the same people who complain that they have to wait a long time to see a doctor and then that doctor is foreign, but for some reason don't connect the dots.
It's a real shame that the US won't place nicely with China in space. Seems unbelievable now but Kennedy had been seriously pursuing doing the moon landings as a joint US-USSR project. Now it's just US paranoia about stolen technology that prevents cooperation with China.