They're making a regulatory framework that allows you to have an autonomous vehicle that works properly, that doesn't stop at the state border and tell you it can't drive into Illinois* because Illinois doesn't have laws that allow it to drive you around.
Ultimately, you are correct.
That said, I'm not convinced we're at that point, yet, where we really need one unified law so people can autopilot their Teslas across the country. I'd rather wait and see what the states come up with and then try to unify from there.
I'm not sure there's a huge hurry here.
I am. There have been semi autonomous cars in full production for several years now. Many manufacturers were caught off guard and are far behind on the technology but it is here to stay. There are currently 43 car companies working on it.
Personally, I'd like to see lawmakers looking at legislation requiring autonomous driving features on all new vehicles in order to improve or pathetic road safety records here in the states.
I wonder if it would be cost effective for utility companies to get into the cryptocurrency mining business? Surely it would help avoid situations like this where they actually lose money (temporarily) by adding green power to the grid.
If they had 40 foot shipping containers filled with cryptocurrency mining computers that could be moved around by truck and plugged into the grid as needed, it might help offset costs. Obviously it would be smarter to use electric car fleets to absorb the extra capacity, but maybe this would help too?
Even if it only helped to make bitcoin mining less cost effective in coal powered regions of the grid, it might still be worth doing.
I guess I would have to disagree with Dell's chief human resources officer. Leadership roles are no more or less difficult for telecommuting. To think otherwise just seems bizarre. So if you lead or manage a team that is entirely telecommute, what benefit comes from having leads or managers or directors (et cetera) work from an office? They still have to use the phone or IM or email or videoconference to reach the people they are leading.
As for customer support, is there really any better position to have work remotely? These are people who sit in front of a computer and on the telephone for the entirety of their shift. What possible benefit is there to having them in the office? Engineering can also be done very easily remotely, that's what I do for a living and all of my peers at this fortune 100 firm also work remotely. R&D, well there is some value in having physical access to laboratory equipment. Obviously sales can be done remotely. Even the salesman who must meet with customers in person would glean no value from having to go to an office before he flew out to the prospective customer's office or called them on the phone.
It sounds to me like the Dell chief HR officer is out of touch.
...or, we could read the articles and find that the bans and proposed expanded bans are only from specific airports from terrorist laden locations. It's a good thing to have the extra security from these locations while still managing to avoid inconveniencing everyone else. Let's face it, when you travel to and from these locations you are taking on extra risk. When the governments of these other countries root out and deal with their security problems, I'm sure these measures will no longer be necessary.
No, that would involve removing all of the hallucinogen from the base substance. In this case they were actually taking the drug, just in small amounts.
You just can't lock s-foils in attack formation in a star trek game. It's sacrilege, even to mention such a thing in a joking manner. Put Beau in the brig while we decide what to do about it.
It's been available to users. You could download it from a number of places. The big difference now is it's available in the precious windows App Store.
Exactly. This announcement is just a truckload of no big deal.
I use it every day. Firefox treats an RSS feed as a live bookmark on the toolbar. It's the perfect way to access news sites. I use it to read Slashdot, Ars Technica and a handful of other news related websites.
I don't think I'd bother if I had to use something other than a web browser to effectively use RSS feeds.
A $300 Million boycott on a company that made $79.38 billion in ad revenue last year isn't likely to get quite the attention these guys think it will. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm sure google put a middle manager in charge of dealing with these guys. He might even have access to the email address for someone who has something to do with ad placement.
I think it's just another political stunt to try and manipulate social media into stifling free speech. I'm not saying I agree with the "hate" videos in question, but if you want to have free speech, then you've got to have free speech. sheesh.
For the last week or so/. has been hard to read because all the comments are squashed up in the left half of the screen. If you zoom in to read more easily it's even worse!
Am I the only one to notice this? I haven't seen anyone mention it (not that it's easy to read comments now).
What's going on? Same on a number of browsers and PC's, NoScript or not.
WTF?
Thanks in advance for any replies
Must be just you./. has worked fine in chrome on android and firefox on windows all week for me. Maybe reset your browser to factory default and disable your addons?
Um. you did read the review right? It's not secure AT ALL. Extremely easy to hack and has a backdoor admin account with an outrageously simple password. Do yourself a favor and spend 5 bucks a month for a gmail mailbox.
Since when has gmail not been free? LOL gmail is pretty awful, and there you go taking away the one thing it's got going for it.
Trade shows will double in size every year until the year a company realizes there's not much value in the show and discontinues it immediately. And yes, I realize IDF was not a trade show in name or intended purpose but that's pretty much what it became anyway.
Hush now. We all like to go enjoy a good trade show / "developer forum" when we can. Don't spoil it for anyone else!
Designers quickly realized that it was unusable for anything more than annoying ads and spyware anyway. It breaks back/forward navigation, takes ages to load, not everyone has it, doesn't work well/at all on mobile... And the HTML 5 got better and there was less need for it anyway.
Ad blockers probably had a lot to do with it as well, as developers found a lot of their Flash apps were not even loading anyway. To get through they needed to base64 encode images into the HTML or at least not make it quite so obvious they were loading up some Flash crapware.
I'm going to disagree with you there. While I've never written anything in flash I have used many many flash programs that were unrelated to ads and spyware. Yes, that stuff happened with flash. Guess what? It's happening with HTML5. Shocker, I know! The world is in need of HTML5 "popup" blockers currently... Guess what, several of those programs I still use. Could they be exploited? Yes. Could any program be exploited? Yes. Flash was frequently targeted because of the popularity. Same with Java.
Whenever you have something that's popular, it will be targeted. Or maybe you prefer to live in fantasy land. I remember when iOS was less popular the fanboys were all saying it was impervious to viruses and hacking! I have to admit (not to my credit) that I did enjoy rubbing it in their face later.
I'd go for DRM, simple and straight up, as the primary sinker of the Flash ship.
Those ridiculously frequent "security updates" were almost entirely managing DRM holes, and it would seem they were managing the holes in whack-a-mole style without even attempting to design a more secure DRM solution. As a user, the update frequency killed my enthusiasm for Flash - if I could install it once and forget it, fine - I'll use it when a website says it needs it, but if I'm constantly having to install updates just to browse the web, no thanks.
As a content provider, having to constantly evaluate the stream of Flash updates, determine which one broke our app for our users and which update version we need to tell them to use (and compatibility would fade in and out across the updates, you couldn't just go "old", you'd have one feature that died in versions 275 through 313, and another that only worked in 306 through 392, then you come up with a third compatibility problem that breaks functionality from 317 onward, so you've got to tell your users to use 314 through 316, if they want to access all the features they are paying for.
Flash was not a good partner in the value delivery stream.
Update frequency combined with a piss poor update methodology. Horribly intrusive installers accompany a flash update unless it's being done by a corporate system like Marimba. Same for Java, it's bad. An installer for a security update needs no UI at all. The software should have had an option to silently update as needed. If it had that, who would care if Adobe updated flash 5 times a day? Only people with metered internet.
And yet the iPad still outsells all the Surface models and all Android tablets.
Only because apple users that already have an apple tablet buy more apple tablets. If you look at what's in use out there, apple is not #1. https://www.netmarketshare.com...
Actually, apparently you have never used it. Its an ad-less client that can be setup for remote access across all platforms. It's one of the best available, only to be beaten by deluge in my opinion. I'ts not our fault that you choose to use shitty software without looking around. Some of the best most useful software I've ever used has been free OSS. Just have to google a little bit to find good shit, the good stuff wont always be on the first page.
WTF are you talking about? uTorrent is full of ads.
"Seriously though, how can a golf ball have 11 patents on it?"
I have never played golf, and I know the answers to this. Seriously, though, have you done even a minimal amount of research into how golf balls are designed and manufactured?
If so, you would not have asked the question except rhetorically. You're welcome.
Golf balls. Someone actually designs the things? What an awful way to spend your life.
"Greenland looks roughly the size of Africa when it is actually about 14 times smaller." Actually, if you make something 1 times smaller, it's gone! Nothing left! Perhaps you meant 1/14 the size, instead of "14 times smaller"....
I wish this slashdot article was using a font that was 14 times smaller...
Slashdot Mirror
They're making a regulatory framework that allows you to have an autonomous vehicle that works properly, that doesn't stop at the state border and tell you it can't drive into Illinois* because Illinois doesn't have laws that allow it to drive you around.
Ultimately, you are correct.
That said, I'm not convinced we're at that point, yet, where we really need one unified law so people can autopilot their Teslas across the country. I'd rather wait and see what the states come up with and then try to unify from there.
I'm not sure there's a huge hurry here.
I am. There have been semi autonomous cars in full production for several years now. Many manufacturers were caught off guard and are far behind on the technology but it is here to stay. There are currently 43 car companies working on it.
Personally, I'd like to see lawmakers looking at legislation requiring autonomous driving features on all new vehicles in order to improve or pathetic road safety records here in the states.
Just gross.
I wonder if it would be cost effective for utility companies to get into the cryptocurrency mining business? Surely it would help avoid situations like this where they actually lose money (temporarily) by adding green power to the grid.
If they had 40 foot shipping containers filled with cryptocurrency mining computers that could be moved around by truck and plugged into the grid as needed, it might help offset costs. Obviously it would be smarter to use electric car fleets to absorb the extra capacity, but maybe this would help too?
Even if it only helped to make bitcoin mining less cost effective in coal powered regions of the grid, it might still be worth doing.
There are electric "big rigs".
I guess I would have to disagree with Dell's chief human resources officer. Leadership roles are no more or less difficult for telecommuting. To think otherwise just seems bizarre. So if you lead or manage a team that is entirely telecommute, what benefit comes from having leads or managers or directors (et cetera) work from an office? They still have to use the phone or IM or email or videoconference to reach the people they are leading.
As for customer support, is there really any better position to have work remotely? These are people who sit in front of a computer and on the telephone for the entirety of their shift. What possible benefit is there to having them in the office? Engineering can also be done very easily remotely, that's what I do for a living and all of my peers at this fortune 100 firm also work remotely. R&D, well there is some value in having physical access to laboratory equipment. Obviously sales can be done remotely. Even the salesman who must meet with customers in person would glean no value from having to go to an office before he flew out to the prospective customer's office or called them on the phone.
It sounds to me like the Dell chief HR officer is out of touch.
...or, we could read the articles and find that the bans and proposed expanded bans are only from specific airports from terrorist laden locations. It's a good thing to have the extra security from these locations while still managing to avoid inconveniencing everyone else. Let's face it, when you travel to and from these locations you are taking on extra risk. When the governments of these other countries root out and deal with their security problems, I'm sure these measures will no longer be necessary.
All is as it should be, basically.
So, the homeopathic approach to hallucinogens?
Hunter S. Thompson wound not approve.
No, that would involve removing all of the hallucinogen from the base substance. In this case they were actually taking the drug, just in small amounts.
You just can't lock s-foils in attack formation in a star trek game. It's sacrilege, even to mention such a thing in a joking manner. Put Beau in the brig while we decide what to do about it.
So one of the most gawdawful bloated pieces of shit software is now available on probably the worst online store on the Internet.
What a coup.
Hopefully someone at slashdot can update the title with your more appropriate summary.
It's been available to users. You could download it from a number of places. The big difference now is it's available in the precious windows App Store.
Exactly. This announcement is just a truckload of no big deal.
unless people consider everything that does not agree with them as offensive.
I believe that's pretty much what's going on in the world. Of course, there are always exceptions but generally it's this.
I use it every day. Firefox treats an RSS feed as a live bookmark on the toolbar. It's the perfect way to access news sites. I use it to read Slashdot, Ars Technica and a handful of other news related websites.
I don't think I'd bother if I had to use something other than a web browser to effectively use RSS feeds.
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A $300 Million boycott on a company that made $79.38 billion in ad revenue last year isn't likely to get quite the attention these guys think it will. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm sure google put a middle manager in charge of dealing with these guys. He might even have access to the email address for someone who has something to do with ad placement.
I think it's just another political stunt to try and manipulate social media into stifling free speech. I'm not saying I agree with the "hate" videos in question, but if you want to have free speech, then you've got to have free speech. sheesh.
misleading people through skewed ads and search results
Eh? Does amazon have a search engine now?
For the last week or so /. has been hard to read because all the comments are squashed up in the left half of the screen. If you zoom in to read more easily it's even worse!
Am I the only one to notice this? I haven't seen anyone mention it (not that it's easy to read comments now).
What's going on? Same on a number of browsers and PC's, NoScript or not.
WTF?
Thanks in advance for any replies
Must be just you. /. has worked fine in chrome on android and firefox on windows all week for me. Maybe reset your browser to factory default and disable your addons?
Um. you did read the review right? It's not secure AT ALL. Extremely easy to hack and has a backdoor admin account with an outrageously simple password. Do yourself a favor and spend 5 bucks a month for a gmail mailbox.
Since when has gmail not been free? LOL gmail is pretty awful, and there you go taking away the one thing it's got going for it.
Adidas is making video game cheating software out of plastic now? WTF did I just read?
Exactly. At the very least, "HAVE A BACKUP". I say anyone who doesn't understand this basic principal of cloud computing deserves to lose their data.
Anyone who understands cloud computing probably isn't going to use the cloud.
Winner winner, chicken dinner!
Re: Hollywood Is Losing the Battle Against Online Trolls
Well, at least trolls are doing some good for the ol' neighborhood.
Trade shows will double in size every year until the year a company realizes there's not much value in the show and discontinues it immediately. And yes, I realize IDF was not a trade show in name or intended purpose but that's pretty much what it became anyway.
Hush now. We all like to go enjoy a good trade show / "developer forum" when we can. Don't spoil it for anyone else!
Designers quickly realized that it was unusable for anything more than annoying ads and spyware anyway. It breaks back/forward navigation, takes ages to load, not everyone has it, doesn't work well/at all on mobile... And the HTML 5 got better and there was less need for it anyway.
Ad blockers probably had a lot to do with it as well, as developers found a lot of their Flash apps were not even loading anyway. To get through they needed to base64 encode images into the HTML or at least not make it quite so obvious they were loading up some Flash crapware.
I'm going to disagree with you there. While I've never written anything in flash I have used many many flash programs that were unrelated to ads and spyware. Yes, that stuff happened with flash. Guess what? It's happening with HTML5. Shocker, I know! The world is in need of HTML5 "popup" blockers currently... Guess what, several of those programs I still use. Could they be exploited? Yes. Could any program be exploited? Yes. Flash was frequently targeted because of the popularity. Same with Java.
Whenever you have something that's popular, it will be targeted. Or maybe you prefer to live in fantasy land. I remember when iOS was less popular the fanboys were all saying it was impervious to viruses and hacking! I have to admit (not to my credit) that I did enjoy rubbing it in their face later.
I'd go for DRM, simple and straight up, as the primary sinker of the Flash ship.
Those ridiculously frequent "security updates" were almost entirely managing DRM holes, and it would seem they were managing the holes in whack-a-mole style without even attempting to design a more secure DRM solution. As a user, the update frequency killed my enthusiasm for Flash - if I could install it once and forget it, fine - I'll use it when a website says it needs it, but if I'm constantly having to install updates just to browse the web, no thanks.
As a content provider, having to constantly evaluate the stream of Flash updates, determine which one broke our app for our users and which update version we need to tell them to use (and compatibility would fade in and out across the updates, you couldn't just go "old", you'd have one feature that died in versions 275 through 313, and another that only worked in 306 through 392, then you come up with a third compatibility problem that breaks functionality from 317 onward, so you've got to tell your users to use 314 through 316, if they want to access all the features they are paying for.
Flash was not a good partner in the value delivery stream.
Update frequency combined with a piss poor update methodology. Horribly intrusive installers accompany a flash update unless it's being done by a corporate system like Marimba. Same for Java, it's bad. An installer for a security update needs no UI at all. The software should have had an option to silently update as needed. If it had that, who would care if Adobe updated flash 5 times a day? Only people with metered internet.
And yet the iPad still outsells all the Surface models and all Android tablets.
Only because apple users that already have an apple tablet buy more apple tablets. If you look at what's in use out there, apple is not #1. https://www.netmarketshare.com...
Actually, apparently you have never used it. Its an ad-less client that can be setup for remote access across all platforms. It's one of the best available, only to be beaten by deluge in my opinion. I'ts not our fault that you choose to use shitty software without looking around. Some of the best most useful software I've ever used has been free OSS. Just have to google a little bit to find good shit, the good stuff wont always be on the first page.
WTF are you talking about? uTorrent is full of ads.
"Seriously though, how can a golf ball have 11 patents on it?"
I have never played golf, and I know the answers to this. Seriously, though, have you done even a minimal amount of research into how golf balls are designed and manufactured?
If so, you would not have asked the question except rhetorically. You're welcome.
Golf balls. Someone actually designs the things? What an awful way to spend your life.
"Greenland looks roughly the size of Africa when it is actually about 14 times smaller." Actually, if you make something 1 times smaller, it's gone! Nothing left! Perhaps you meant 1/14 the size, instead of "14 times smaller"....
I wish this slashdot article was using a font that was 14 times smaller...