The Nissan Leaf has some countermeasures, like stamping on the brakes and blowing cold air at you if it thinks you are not paying attention. Maybe the car should just keep irritating you, turning the stereo up or changing the sat nav destination to randomly to keep you on your toes.
While I sympathise with his situation, he could kill someone. In the UK he would have been banned from driving as soon as this condition was diagnosed. It sucks but at least in the UK there would be an obligation by his employer to try to accommodate him, e.g. by allowing him to work from home or allowing reduced working hours so that he could commute on public transport more easily.
AP wouldn't be that much help anyway, as you have to activate it. If he blacks out while it's turned off then it won't do anything beyond the basic forward collision avoidance that is pretty much standard (mandatory?) on all new cars.
Until we get to level 5 autonomy these technologies cannot be used as a substitute for safe driving.
Autopilot encourages you to doze off. Instead of having to be attentive and constantly make corrections to steering you just sit there with nothing much to do for hours on end.
The Model 3 actually has an internal camera pointed at the driver, but it's not in use yet. There are also questions about what the car should do if it does decide you are asleep - stopping in the middle of the road like Tesla does may not be the best option.
I dunno, there are plenty of ridiculous diets and parenting fads that the affluent get involved with. Maybe they are better educated but misinformation targeting them can still be effective if it pushes the right buttons.
It makes sense really, they have the money to invest in healthcare and so take more interest in it, which means reading a lot of BS on the internet and in magazines.
The UK standard is some newspapers use Fahrenheit for everything, everyone else uses Celsius and maybe puts the Imperial measurement in brackets later.
High temperatures tend to be Celsius only, along with a comparison to some other really hot thing like the sun.
Or did I just hear a whoosh because you were joking? I can't tell.
Beware of simply googling this kind of thing, it tends to send you to dubious claims like the one you linked to. If you read the actual Snopes article it refers to then you can see that the RealClearPolitics description of it is misleading at best.
I see you have already picked up a few troll mods. Slashdot would be better if the troll mod just set the moderator's mod point count to zero, and then deleted their account. I'd happily put up with a bit of actual trolling to stop the politically motivated mods trying to control the message.
You are a factor of 10 out, 1mA at 2.8V is 2800 microwatts. 1% duty cycle might be possible, but 100uW is optimistic and also doesn't account for losses after harvesting because the harvesting circuit won't give you a regulated 2.8V.
It's still possible to use for some applications, but if you have the option then solar is likely to be a better bet.
I don't think there actually was any outrage... It seems that they sent the retraction email a few hours later, and when you look on Twitter and Facebook there is basically nothing.
Seems like they manufactured a fake outrage for marketing purposes. Should provide fodder for meta-outrage industry I guess.
Most Chinese nationals arenâ(TM)t moving back out of choice and are merely looking to cash in with intellectual property. It was a prerequisite to be able to come here in the first place. They still have family under the thumb of the PRC. Make no mistake, they are not free to do what they want over here. They still answer to the PRC.
This is mostly untrue. Chinese nationals have no trouble getting passports or leaving the country. Of course I'm sure the government targets a few individuals, just like the western ones do, but there is no mass amateur spy programme as some people seem to think.
In my opinion, any corporation that engages in any government contract should be prevented from hiring any foreign national under any circumstance at this restriction should also extend to their subcontractors as well. If your Company has a government contract didnâ(TM)t even the people washing dishes in the cafeteria need to be a US citizen without exception.
Aside from anything else that wouldn't work. Do you think native dish washers are any less prone to being bribed or blackmailed?
It's also a very slippery slope. What if a staff member marries a foreigner? What if they date them one time? What if one parent was foreign? What if their sibling moves to the PRC, now they have a potential hostage according to your statement above.
That sounds extremely unlikely. It would be very easy to detect and very obvious that multiple papers from a single university were being mysteriously plagiarised in China. There also isn't much to gain from it - publishing scientific papers brings some kudos but the whole point of it is to make the ideas public and share them with others.
On the one hand, you don't want their families to come. On the other, you want them to stay long term and contribute.
As an actual immigrant who moved for work I can tell you that the idea we just flit around taking any offer that looks good is nonsense. It's a huge upheaval, a huge pain in the arse to sort out visas for us and our families, and every time you need to figure out how the new country works, get your kids into the local education system, learn the local language and customs etc. I pay my way, I have to pay for healthcare while my taxes subsidise less fortunate locals' treatment.
Of course most immigrants are on the younger side and healthy so they tend not to place much of a burden on healthcare or pensions anyway. Studies in the UK found them to be a net contributor, maybe the US is different but given that you don't have free healthcare I'd be surprised.
The company I worked for was looking for local talent for over a year. It's great that you want to invest in education but for a business hearing that you will just have to wait 10-15 years to get a qualified graduate when you need an experienced engineer isn't going to cut it. My employment has lead to the company being able to hire two juniors who will now gain experience and eventually take on my role when I leave one day.
You can harvest small amounts of energy with a basic FM/TV antenna, rectifier diode and a few voltage doubler stages (simple diode and capacitor).
The issue is that you need a fairly large antenna that is pointed in the right direction. Any improvement, such as a smaller, less directional antenna and lower power electronics to power gets us closer to devices that can run from ambient RF power for extremely long periods of time.
For example you could have a smoke/carbon monoxide alarm that could last for decades with RF harvesting and a battery backup for safety.
Problem is that "intellectual property" is not well defined. If someone steals a computer it's easy to point to a physical object. If someone learns how your process works and then goes off to work for the competition and uses their knowledge and experience to develop a similar system, did they "steal" your IP?
You didn't lose your IP, your process still exists and works, and you can't reasonably expect them to wipe their memories or not use their accumulated experience in future jobs. Well, you can try with a non-compete, but they might not even be legal where they are working now.
Cisco is claiming that Huawei copied some library files, which appear to be the standard C ones implementing string functions. They word it so that it sounds like the copied Cisco's routing protocol source, but actually if you read carefully they say "two library files" which are presumably the same as before, C standard library files.
Did Cisco even write those files itself? More likely they are, as Huawei says, widely available online and probably copyright some other third party. Often proprietary compilers have their own C standard library implementations and they are not supposed to be distributed, but leak out by accident anyway.
Their claims are vague and unconvincing. The court rejected them. Sounds like sour grapes.
Facebook has a simple blacklist of known fake news sites where they automatically label anything from those domains as suspect when posted. So just like spam blacklists, the work-around is to change domains.
I'm not sure being smarter is the solution. In the past we saw that the fake news sites upped their game, creating entire fake news networks and brands to add credibility. People who post intelligent technical comments on Slashdot also push fake news too, so it doesn't seem to be a universal cure anyway.
It's probably going to be like spam and phishing emails - we will eventually get on top of it, but it will take time and be a constant battle.
Immigration isn't causing your low pay and high fees. If you stop immigration tomorrow you aren't suddenly going to get a job paying 50% more.
The UK is running this experiment right now, if you wish to observe. Businesses are just moving the work overseas, not increasing local wages. It's 50/50 if that means a few more local jobs, or a few less as the higher skilled ones get exported as well.
What you need to do is reform H1B to deal with the low skill outsourcing companies. The economic activity generated by having a supply of highly skilled workers is a net benefit to you, you want to keep that.
Seems like a simple fix would be to target tech staffing companies directly, e.g. placing a limit on the number of H1B workers per company as a percentage of the total, or having a H1B tax that is on an exponential curve.
If Rei could just be a bit more objective and fair she would be a great source of Tesla info. She clearly spends a lot of time learning everything she can about the inner workings of the company, with some insightful and interesting posts...
But then ruins it by idolizing Musk and their cars to a ridiculous degree. Also their quarterly earnings aren't particularly interesting.
There are some forums where people have really interesting discussions about the current crop of EVs. it's a shame we can't do that there, but it's already polarized into Tesla fans and oil shills.
You pay for the convenience of not being tethered to a power socket.
Unfortunately 100uW is too small to actually make any appreciable difference to your phone's battery life. I did some experiments years ago and if you have a decent set-top antenna pointed at the transmitter you can run a small LCD clock.
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The Nissan Leaf has some countermeasures, like stamping on the brakes and blowing cold air at you if it thinks you are not paying attention. Maybe the car should just keep irritating you, turning the stereo up or changing the sat nav destination to randomly to keep you on your toes.
While I sympathise with his situation, he could kill someone. In the UK he would have been banned from driving as soon as this condition was diagnosed. It sucks but at least in the UK there would be an obligation by his employer to try to accommodate him, e.g. by allowing him to work from home or allowing reduced working hours so that he could commute on public transport more easily.
AP wouldn't be that much help anyway, as you have to activate it. If he blacks out while it's turned off then it won't do anything beyond the basic forward collision avoidance that is pretty much standard (mandatory?) on all new cars.
Until we get to level 5 autonomy these technologies cannot be used as a substitute for safe driving.
Autopilot encourages you to doze off. Instead of having to be attentive and constantly make corrections to steering you just sit there with nothing much to do for hours on end.
The Model 3 actually has an internal camera pointed at the driver, but it's not in use yet. There are also questions about what the car should do if it does decide you are asleep - stopping in the middle of the road like Tesla does may not be the best option.
I was going to say the Daily Mail too, thanks for the example.
I dunno, there are plenty of ridiculous diets and parenting fads that the affluent get involved with. Maybe they are better educated but misinformation targeting them can still be effective if it pushes the right buttons.
It makes sense really, they have the money to invest in healthcare and so take more interest in it, which means reading a lot of BS on the internet and in magazines.
That's not the UK standard.
The UK standard is some newspapers use Fahrenheit for everything, everyone else uses Celsius and maybe puts the Imperial measurement in brackets later.
High temperatures tend to be Celsius only, along with a comparison to some other really hot thing like the sun.
Or did I just hear a whoosh because you were joking? I can't tell.
Westinghouse were invited, but their design lost out long ago to a French one.
Beware of simply googling this kind of thing, it tends to send you to dubious claims like the one you linked to. If you read the actual Snopes article it refers to then you can see that the RealClearPolitics description of it is misleading at best.
I see you have already picked up a few troll mods. Slashdot would be better if the troll mod just set the moderator's mod point count to zero, and then deleted their account. I'd happily put up with a bit of actual trolling to stop the politically motivated mods trying to control the message.
You are a factor of 10 out, 1mA at 2.8V is 2800 microwatts. 1% duty cycle might be possible, but 100uW is optimistic and also doesn't account for losses after harvesting because the harvesting circuit won't give you a regulated 2.8V.
It's still possible to use for some applications, but if you have the option then solar is likely to be a better bet.
I don't think there actually was any outrage... It seems that they sent the retraction email a few hours later, and when you look on Twitter and Facebook there is basically nothing.
Seems like they manufactured a fake outrage for marketing purposes. Should provide fodder for meta-outrage industry I guess.
Most Chinese nationals arenâ(TM)t moving back out of choice and are merely looking to cash in with intellectual property. It was a prerequisite to be able to come here in the first place. They still have family under the thumb of the PRC. Make no mistake, they are not free to do what they want over here. They still answer to the PRC.
This is mostly untrue. Chinese nationals have no trouble getting passports or leaving the country. Of course I'm sure the government targets a few individuals, just like the western ones do, but there is no mass amateur spy programme as some people seem to think.
In my opinion, any corporation that engages in any government contract should be prevented from hiring any foreign national under any circumstance at this restriction should also extend to their subcontractors as well. If your Company has a government contract didnâ(TM)t even the people washing dishes in the cafeteria need to be a US citizen without exception.
Aside from anything else that wouldn't work. Do you think native dish washers are any less prone to being bribed or blackmailed?
It's also a very slippery slope. What if a staff member marries a foreigner? What if they date them one time? What if one parent was foreign? What if their sibling moves to the PRC, now they have a potential hostage according to your statement above.
That sounds extremely unlikely. It would be very easy to detect and very obvious that multiple papers from a single university were being mysteriously plagiarised in China. There also isn't much to gain from it - publishing scientific papers brings some kudos but the whole point of it is to make the ideas public and share them with others.
Surely it can't be beyond the ability of your legal system to stop that kind of abuse?
On the one hand, you don't want their families to come. On the other, you want them to stay long term and contribute.
As an actual immigrant who moved for work I can tell you that the idea we just flit around taking any offer that looks good is nonsense. It's a huge upheaval, a huge pain in the arse to sort out visas for us and our families, and every time you need to figure out how the new country works, get your kids into the local education system, learn the local language and customs etc. I pay my way, I have to pay for healthcare while my taxes subsidise less fortunate locals' treatment.
Of course most immigrants are on the younger side and healthy so they tend not to place much of a burden on healthcare or pensions anyway. Studies in the UK found them to be a net contributor, maybe the US is different but given that you don't have free healthcare I'd be surprised.
The company I worked for was looking for local talent for over a year. It's great that you want to invest in education but for a business hearing that you will just have to wait 10-15 years to get a qualified graduate when you need an experienced engineer isn't going to cut it. My employment has lead to the company being able to hire two juniors who will now gain experience and eventually take on my role when I leave one day.
You can harvest small amounts of energy with a basic FM/TV antenna, rectifier diode and a few voltage doubler stages (simple diode and capacitor).
The issue is that you need a fairly large antenna that is pointed in the right direction. Any improvement, such as a smaller, less directional antenna and lower power electronics to power gets us closer to devices that can run from ambient RF power for extremely long periods of time.
For example you could have a smoke/carbon monoxide alarm that could last for decades with RF harvesting and a battery backup for safety.
Problem is that "intellectual property" is not well defined. If someone steals a computer it's easy to point to a physical object. If someone learns how your process works and then goes off to work for the competition and uses their knowledge and experience to develop a similar system, did they "steal" your IP?
You didn't lose your IP, your process still exists and works, and you can't reasonably expect them to wipe their memories or not use their accumulated experience in future jobs. Well, you can try with a non-compete, but they might not even be legal where they are working now.
Cisco is claiming that Huawei copied some library files, which appear to be the standard C ones implementing string functions. They word it so that it sounds like the copied Cisco's routing protocol source, but actually if you read carefully they say "two library files" which are presumably the same as before, C standard library files.
Did Cisco even write those files itself? More likely they are, as Huawei says, widely available online and probably copyright some other third party. Often proprietary compilers have their own C standard library implementations and they are not supposed to be distributed, but leak out by accident anyway.
Their claims are vague and unconvincing. The court rejected them. Sounds like sour grapes.
Facebook has a simple blacklist of known fake news sites where they automatically label anything from those domains as suspect when posted. So just like spam blacklists, the work-around is to change domains.
I'm not sure being smarter is the solution. In the past we saw that the fake news sites upped their game, creating entire fake news networks and brands to add credibility. People who post intelligent technical comments on Slashdot also push fake news too, so it doesn't seem to be a universal cure anyway.
It's probably going to be like spam and phishing emails - we will eventually get on top of it, but it will take time and be a constant battle.
Immigration isn't causing your low pay and high fees. If you stop immigration tomorrow you aren't suddenly going to get a job paying 50% more.
The UK is running this experiment right now, if you wish to observe. Businesses are just moving the work overseas, not increasing local wages. It's 50/50 if that means a few more local jobs, or a few less as the higher skilled ones get exported as well.
What you need to do is reform H1B to deal with the low skill outsourcing companies. The economic activity generated by having a supply of highly skilled workers is a net benefit to you, you want to keep that.
Seems like a simple fix would be to target tech staffing companies directly, e.g. placing a limit on the number of H1B workers per company as a percentage of the total, or having a H1B tax that is on an exponential curve.
If Rei could just be a bit more objective and fair she would be a great source of Tesla info. She clearly spends a lot of time learning everything she can about the inner workings of the company, with some insightful and interesting posts...
But then ruins it by idolizing Musk and their cars to a ridiculous degree. Also their quarterly earnings aren't particularly interesting.
There are some forums where people have really interesting discussions about the current crop of EVs. it's a shame we can't do that there, but it's already polarized into Tesla fans and oil shills.
If it saves you needing to pay a doctor for their time then it's probably going to be worth it.
Charities will buy them to give to staff.
You pay for the convenience of not being tethered to a power socket.
Unfortunately 100uW is too small to actually make any appreciable difference to your phone's battery life. I did some experiments years ago and if you have a decent set-top antenna pointed at the transmitter you can run a small LCD clock.