You may want to look up how Stuxnet works... or at least read the article. It discretely changes some tiny parameters that, once used in production, will render the end product inoperable or even damage itself. To go from that to "launching against yourself" is a pretty monumental leap. Personally, I'd just make sure I commented out the "Launch Against Seoul" code - the part with the GPS coordinates embedded in it.
The difference between the US and NK is that the US has the resources to back up such a response. If North Korea made such an aggressive move, it would be in a very different boat and as insane as they seem to be, they realize that even their few allies are getting tired of them. The US on the other hand doesn't rely on its allies just to feed its populace during peacetime, much less during war.
"The entertainment processor does not CURRENTLY have access to the ECU or any of the processors that need to be updated."
FTFY. Besides, how about the HUD that's on most newer cars? The one that gives range, tire pressure sensors, etc. Given the depth of data that they provide, I would imagine it talks to the relevant systems.
Most ICE cars don't completely shut down either. It may not stay "awake" to the degree that Tesla does, but there's still power flowing. This is what saves your radio stations, among other things.
Given that most newer cars have some sort of LCD screen interface either for the HUD or the GPS/radio, it seems like it would be (relatively) trivial to run an update prompt through that, including either a short changelist or a reference number to look it up online. My bare minimum requirements would be some sort of screen to give feedback from an update, whether it failed, succeeded or gave some sort of error.
I was assume the same thing that happens when anything else loses connection during an update... it will either hold the download until it can complete or else will cancel it. I don't know of any device that patches itself while it's still downloading the update... storage is cheap enough that nothing should be doing that in this day and age... cache first, then install.
But somehow we've managed to successfully land four of four Martian rovers, whereas the USSR is 0-for-2 and the ESA is 0-for-1. You're like the guy who only wants to talk about Michael Phelps having two Olympic silvers and ignoring his twelve golds.
Go read the summary again and realize how stupid what you just said is. No, Europe is a not a single nation but in the context of the article, it's pretty obvious they mean nations that are not part of the ESA - the major candidates being the US, Russia, Japan, China, India and Israel.
I believe that, with current tech, it's also easier to find A) larger planets and B) planets closer to stars. If you had a system identical to Earth some distance away, it would be much more difficult to detect our planets than the ones we've discovered thus far elsewhere. We're still learning a lot about planet creation and it may just be that large planets closer to their stars are easier to find and that's skewing our models. Or it could very well be our models are correct and the easier-to-locate planets are also the more common planets.
This is pretty common for issues with such a low monetary value that it's not worth the police resources. However, the warrant is kept on record, so if the person ever stumbles across the cops for another matter (as was the case here), the warrant will then be executed with minimal additional police resources used. Honestly, I think it's a hell of a lot better than paying for the salaries, gas, maintenance, etc of sending officers to execute warrants for every little thing.
It's still theft. Part of "lending" is the expectation that it will be returned. And video rentals definitely have an expected timeframe for return; after which it's considered theft (with a reasonable grace period). Lending money is a little different, because that would be considered defaulting on a loan, not lending material goods.
One difference is that the Sheriff is usually an elected position (in at least 45 states that I can tell, not sure about the other 5). That does make it a little different than the general body of police forces.
You could play Six Degrees of Nerdy Bacon. VHS goes in a VCR, and my VCR is hooked up to my computer, and computers are nerdy, so that gives VHS a nerdy score of... 3?
Not always, a lot of times they (Apple in particular) just gives the product away, or an indie producer might put the product in hoping to get the attention of that company.
The NFL is also huge on this to the point where most radio stations, sports bars and the likes can't even use "Superbowl" (or sometimes even "The Big Game") when advertising Superbowl-related events.
"they have also argued that because their trademark “Color Run” is in my photos they are entitled to them"
Just wait until Apple or Coca-Cola hears about this. They'll suddenly own so many movies in which their logo appears they won't know what to do with them.
Generalization == many jobs, much competition, low(er) pay Specialization == fewer jobs, less competition, much higher pay
At a previous job, we had an in-house programmer who pulled the third-highest salary in the company because the in-house app was written in some little-known variant of an old version of Visual Basic. However, it got to the point where a total rewrite was on the drawing board because that language didn't work well well with the APIs of other software we were starting to use, and a web-based interface was starting to make more sense as our sales force became more mobile and we expanded to more branch offices. It didn't help that I, the lowly sysadmin making less than a third of what he did, had to teach him VB.NET and did the initial web interface and software installer myself.
Nascent: (esp. of a process or organization) just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential.
It doesn't mean we're there yet, it means we're approaching the tipping point. Compare it to a century or two ago and you'll see that many homeless now have a higher quality of life than a good portion of the middle class did back then. Obviously not everything is going to be solved overnight - it's a slow march forward and due to the nature of countries, cultures and other variables, it won't happen everywhere at once - even within a single nation.
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You may want to look up how Stuxnet works... or at least read the article. It discretely changes some tiny parameters that, once used in production, will render the end product inoperable or even damage itself. To go from that to "launching against yourself" is a pretty monumental leap. Personally, I'd just make sure I commented out the "Launch Against Seoul" code - the part with the GPS coordinates embedded in it.
The difference between the US and NK is that the US has the resources to back up such a response. If North Korea made such an aggressive move, it would be in a very different boat and as insane as they seem to be, they realize that even their few allies are getting tired of them. The US on the other hand doesn't rely on its allies just to feed its populace during peacetime, much less during war.
"The entertainment processor does not CURRENTLY have access to the ECU or any of the processors that need to be updated."
FTFY. Besides, how about the HUD that's on most newer cars? The one that gives range, tire pressure sensors, etc. Given the depth of data that they provide, I would imagine it talks to the relevant systems.
Most ICE cars don't completely shut down either. It may not stay "awake" to the degree that Tesla does, but there's still power flowing. This is what saves your radio stations, among other things.
Given that most newer cars have some sort of LCD screen interface either for the HUD or the GPS/radio, it seems like it would be (relatively) trivial to run an update prompt through that, including either a short changelist or a reference number to look it up online. My bare minimum requirements would be some sort of screen to give feedback from an update, whether it failed, succeeded or gave some sort of error.
I was assume the same thing that happens when anything else loses connection during an update... it will either hold the download until it can complete or else will cancel it. I don't know of any device that patches itself while it's still downloading the update... storage is cheap enough that nothing should be doing that in this day and age... cache first, then install.
I always measured in station wagons. Maybe that's the American equivalent of a Volkswagen.
But somehow we've managed to successfully land four of four Martian rovers, whereas the USSR is 0-for-2 and the ESA is 0-for-1. You're like the guy who only wants to talk about Michael Phelps having two Olympic silvers and ignoring his twelve golds.
You know, I've looked and looked and looked, but I just can't find my grandmother's home movies on The Pirate Bay. You'd think she'd seed more.
Three fields full of dismembered feet and... well, you know what else. It's nobody's happy place.
Go read the summary again and realize how stupid what you just said is. No, Europe is a not a single nation but in the context of the article, it's pretty obvious they mean nations that are not part of the ESA - the major candidates being the US, Russia, Japan, China, India and Israel.
I believe that, with current tech, it's also easier to find A) larger planets and B) planets closer to stars. If you had a system identical to Earth some distance away, it would be much more difficult to detect our planets than the ones we've discovered thus far elsewhere. We're still learning a lot about planet creation and it may just be that large planets closer to their stars are easier to find and that's skewing our models. Or it could very well be our models are correct and the easier-to-locate planets are also the more common planets.
"When NASA loses a $150 million probe, that’s a lot of real money, but hardly a drop in the bucket compared to what we spend as a nation"
Especially when you compare it to the cost of a single military jet... and the space probes tend to last a lot longer between maintenance check-ups.
And they're suggesting INTERNATIONAL collaboration, which could very well include the US as we've had the most experience with missions of this type.
For pretty much the same reason I have a USB floppy drive. So I can move stuff from older media formats to newer media formats.
This is pretty common for issues with such a low monetary value that it's not worth the police resources. However, the warrant is kept on record, so if the person ever stumbles across the cops for another matter (as was the case here), the warrant will then be executed with minimal additional police resources used. Honestly, I think it's a hell of a lot better than paying for the salaries, gas, maintenance, etc of sending officers to execute warrants for every little thing.
It's still theft. Part of "lending" is the expectation that it will be returned. And video rentals definitely have an expected timeframe for return; after which it's considered theft (with a reasonable grace period). Lending money is a little different, because that would be considered defaulting on a loan, not lending material goods.
One difference is that the Sheriff is usually an elected position (in at least 45 states that I can tell, not sure about the other 5). That does make it a little different than the general body of police forces.
You could play Six Degrees of Nerdy Bacon. VHS goes in a VCR, and my VCR is hooked up to my computer, and computers are nerdy, so that gives VHS a nerdy score of... 3?
Not always, a lot of times they (Apple in particular) just gives the product away, or an indie producer might put the product in hoping to get the attention of that company.
The NFL is also huge on this to the point where most radio stations, sports bars and the likes can't even use "Superbowl" (or sometimes even "The Big Game") when advertising Superbowl-related events.
"they have also argued that because their trademark “Color Run” is in my photos they are entitled to them"
Just wait until Apple or Coca-Cola hears about this. They'll suddenly own so many movies in which their logo appears they won't know what to do with them.
Generalization == many jobs, much competition, low(er) pay
Specialization == fewer jobs, less competition, much higher pay
At a previous job, we had an in-house programmer who pulled the third-highest salary in the company because the in-house app was written in some little-known variant of an old version of Visual Basic. However, it got to the point where a total rewrite was on the drawing board because that language didn't work well well with the APIs of other software we were starting to use, and a web-based interface was starting to make more sense as our sales force became more mobile and we expanded to more branch offices. It didn't help that I, the lowly sysadmin making less than a third of what he did, had to teach him VB.NET and did the initial web interface and software installer myself.
Nascent: (esp. of a process or organization) just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential.
It doesn't mean we're there yet, it means we're approaching the tipping point. Compare it to a century or two ago and you'll see that many homeless now have a higher quality of life than a good portion of the middle class did back then. Obviously not everything is going to be solved overnight - it's a slow march forward and due to the nature of countries, cultures and other variables, it won't happen everywhere at once - even within a single nation.
The simplified version is that sex is biological, whereas gender is cultural/social. It's not a difficult distinction.