I gave up on the privacy issues since I find Google Photos worth it. But I also back my originals up to my desktop and then to backup drives. I don't trust them to keep Photos going forever, but for now it's a great service for me.
One quote: "Waymo still uses backup drivers in most of its trips."
And the director of operations says: “I’ve done fully driverless in Phoenix as well a few times, and it’s pretty normal,” she said matter-of-factly. “It just works.”
Unless someone likes living in an over crowded over priced city
If people didn't like living there, it wouldn't be overcrowded, would it?
It seems to me that the Northern Virginia location, aside from being near Bezos' DC house, makes sense - the DC area has (one of, at least) the highest percent of college grads in the country. If you want to hire a bunch of smart/educated people, it's clearly one of the areas you'd look at.
In lots of places (Iceland and Canada, for example) it is. Iceland makes more aluminum than the US, because its electricity is cheaper; it's also clean. It's not hard to imagine steel production moving there if this type of process is viable.
I haven't tried it yet, but my understanding is that it's relatively lightweight compared to running a VM, and it has direct access to your Windows filesystem. I used to use Cygwin to run a script to resize my photos, I could see this being used in a similar way.
I agree that cars are important, but globally transportation only accounts for ~15% of CO2 emissions and even in the US it's ~28%. And that's all transportation, not just cars.
In this case, where you're burning tons of coal, it's not hard to imagine that there are a lot of places where using electricity would be much cleaner.
I haven't looked into this too much, but I thought that the idea behind the boring company was that costs would be lower through first, making smaller tunnels and second, automating the boring/concrete lining process. I guess we'll see if there are enough areas where any cost savings gets them into a competitive position.
Certainly when you see the projected costs of something like a new Chesapeake Bay bridge, a tunnel would seem to be able to compete on cost.
No, you're right, I didn't. It does reflect what the Union of Concerned Scientist's calculator shows; in certain areas, an EV currently is not much cleaner than a Prius. In lots of other areas, however, they are quite a lot cleaner.
So an EV is not as clean as riding a bike, but if you are going to be driving a car in an area with a reasonably clean grid and want to get the most efficient car you can, you should get an EV.
OK, I read this article and it seems like the definition of FUD. The headline is "The Dirt on Clean Electric Cars", and there's a lot of largely-irrelevant charts and statistics. The most damning statement they make is:
An electric vehicle in Germany would take more than 10 years to break even with an efficient combustion engine’s emissions
Yet further down, they have to admit:
To be sure, other studies show that even in coal-dominant Poland, using an electric car would emit 25 percent less carbon dioxide than a diesel car
So basically, on the worst emitting grids, today, an EV might have about the same emissions as the cleanest diesel; everywhere else they are clearly lower. And the grid in most places is getting steadily cleaner; a diesel made today will not be getting better emissions in 10 years.
For me, it comes down to the camera. I'm still not willing to buy an $800 phone, but I am willing to pay more to get a better camera than what you get in a $300 phone. I take quite a few pictures with my phone these days, so it's worth it to me to have them looking better.
I don't know anyone who sees their phone as a status item, personally.
Assuming the article is correct: 1. They were connected to the baseboard management controller (BMC) - so they were basically opening up the IPMI 2. My takeaway would be that you could use small command and control which would be very hard to spot, then make other changes which could exfiltrate only the data you were interested in.
I was always impressed by what I could do with my little EEE. For a while when I was traveling I would run a script to convert 1080p videos and it actually was pretty decent at doing the conversions. For the time it was a great option.
With Keepassdroid, at least, there is a configurable timeout for clearing the clipboard. So you would have to swipe my phone within 5 minutes of me doing the copy-paste, and if I was at all concerned about that I would set it to 30 seconds.
You are trading a user-configurable window of potential insecurity for the ability to have arbitrarily complex, unique passwords which you can use on your phone. Seems worth it to me.
I realize that this was intended as sarcasm, but in my kids schools there was a Communication Arts magnet program. They bent over backwards to get enough boys in that program to get somewhat equal numbers of boys and girls. So at least in some areas, there is an attempt to achieve balance by encouraging and supporting boys.
How can you refer to a video of an "ecologist standing on the frozen surface of an Arctic lake, then lighting a methane stream on fire to create a tower of flame as tall as she is" and not link to it?
I have a camera (several, actually). But I always have my phone on me, and it automatically uploads my photos both to Google Photos so my wife can look at them and Dropbox so I have the original quality if I want. The convenience of this alone means that I now take many more photos using my phone than I do on my cameras.
My current phone is about to be replaced by a Pixel 2 when/if they drop in price a bit.
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I gave up on the privacy issues since I find Google Photos worth it. But I also back my originals up to my desktop and then to backup drives. I don't trust them to keep Photos going forever, but for now it's a great service for me.
This article alludes to Waymo doing some trips fully driverless:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/...
One quote:
"Waymo still uses backup drivers in most of its trips."
And the director of operations says:
“I’ve done fully driverless in Phoenix as well a few times, and it’s pretty normal,” she said matter-of-factly. “It just works.”
Virginia has one of the lower tax burdens in the country, though you may be right for NY.
Unless someone likes living in an over crowded over priced city
If people didn't like living there, it wouldn't be overcrowded, would it?
It seems to me that the Northern Virginia location, aside from being near Bezos' DC house, makes sense - the DC area has (one of, at least) the highest percent of college grads in the country. If you want to hire a bunch of smart/educated people, it's clearly one of the areas you'd look at.
In lots of places (Iceland and Canada, for example) it is. Iceland makes more aluminum than the US, because its electricity is cheaper; it's also clean. It's not hard to imagine steel production moving there if this type of process is viable.
I haven't tried it yet, but my understanding is that it's relatively lightweight compared to running a VM, and it has direct access to your Windows filesystem. I used to use Cygwin to run a script to resize my photos, I could see this being used in a similar way.
I agree that cars are important, but globally transportation only accounts for ~15% of CO2 emissions and even in the US it's ~28%. And that's all transportation, not just cars.
While it's still large, the actual percentage is closer to 5% for cement production.
In this case, where you're burning tons of coal, it's not hard to imagine that there are a lot of places where using electricity would be much cleaner.
I haven't looked into this too much, but I thought that the idea behind the boring company was that costs would be lower through first, making smaller tunnels and second, automating the boring/concrete lining process. I guess we'll see if there are enough areas where any cost savings gets them into a competitive position.
Certainly when you see the projected costs of something like a new Chesapeake Bay bridge, a tunnel would seem to be able to compete on cost.
I assume that this is being proposed as a way to store renewable energy, in order to even out wind or bank solar for overnight. Not for portable use.
No, you're right, I didn't. It does reflect what the Union of Concerned Scientist's calculator shows; in certain areas, an EV currently is not much cleaner than a Prius. In lots of other areas, however, they are quite a lot cleaner.
https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-v...
So an EV is not as clean as riding a bike, but if you are going to be driving a car in an area with a reasonably clean grid and want to get the most efficient car you can, you should get an EV.
OK, I read this article and it seems like the definition of FUD. The headline is "The Dirt on Clean Electric Cars", and there's a lot of largely-irrelevant charts and statistics. The most damning statement they make is:
An electric vehicle in Germany would take more than 10 years to break even with an efficient combustion engine’s emissions
Yet further down, they have to admit:
To be sure, other studies show that even in coal-dominant Poland, using an electric car would emit 25 percent less carbon dioxide than a diesel car
So basically, on the worst emitting grids, today, an EV might have about the same emissions as the cleanest diesel; everywhere else they are clearly lower. And the grid in most places is getting steadily cleaner; a diesel made today will not be getting better emissions in 10 years.
Is this true? Wikipedia says that LibreOffice has ~120 million users, I can't find an estimate of AOO users.
For me, it comes down to the camera. I'm still not willing to buy an $800 phone, but I am willing to pay more to get a better camera than what you get in a $300 phone. I take quite a few pictures with my phone these days, so it's worth it to me to have them looking better.
I don't know anyone who sees their phone as a status item, personally.
Assuming the article is correct:
1. They were connected to the baseboard management controller (BMC) - so they were basically opening up the IPMI
2. My takeaway would be that you could use small command and control which would be very hard to spot, then make other changes which could exfiltrate only the data you were interested in.
I was always impressed by what I could do with my little EEE. For a while when I was traveling I would run a script to convert 1080p videos and it actually was pretty decent at doing the conversions. For the time it was a great option.
If you like Pandora, you'd agree they need some way to fight this. If you don't like or use Pandora, then why are you here crying?
Because we don't want Spotify to change our plan? ;)
True, I stand corrected!
I don't know about most, but I just tested it on my Xperia X and it worked as expected.
Certainly a malicious app could access the clipboard, but if I go installing malicious apps then all bets are off IMHO.
With Keepassdroid, at least, there is a configurable timeout for clearing the clipboard. So you would have to swipe my phone within 5 minutes of me doing the copy-paste, and if I was at all concerned about that I would set it to 30 seconds.
You are trading a user-configurable window of potential insecurity for the ability to have arbitrarily complex, unique passwords which you can use on your phone. Seems worth it to me.
I realize that this was intended as sarcasm, but in my kids schools there was a Communication Arts magnet program. They bent over backwards to get enough boys in that program to get somewhat equal numbers of boys and girls. So at least in some areas, there is an attempt to achieve balance by encouraging and supporting boys.
How can you refer to a video of an "ecologist standing on the frozen surface of an Arctic lake, then lighting a methane stream on fire to create a tower of flame as tall as she is" and not link to it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You're welcome!
I have a camera (several, actually). But I always have my phone on me, and it automatically uploads my photos both to Google Photos so my wife can look at them and Dropbox so I have the original quality if I want. The convenience of this alone means that I now take many more photos using my phone than I do on my cameras.
My current phone is about to be replaced by a Pixel 2 when/if they drop in price a bit.
Agreed; why don't they at least just say "use the OpenVPN client"?
Of course the most likely answer is "because they want to make it harder to switch VPN providers".