Slashdot has a hard-on for Tesla, and slashdot commenters have a hard-on for pointing a finger and Musk and laughing every time he doesn't get something perfect. Everyone here has an inferiority complex because they didn't become a billionaire and then go get to found a car company, a solar company, and a space company that lands rockets like science fiction movies. *shrug*
How much would you pay to get back into your house at 11:30pm on a Saturday night when it's 20 below zero outside and your smart locks have all been hacked? No need for a $5k ransom - it needs only be a couple hundred dollars, repeated many times, to be profitable.
Or in the case of a thermostat, a remote override that switches a heater on full blast on a hot summer day or - better yet - begins switching between heating and cooling on a heat pump, which will burn out the compressor in under an hour and cost a couple thousand dollars to replace. How many people will think of cutting the breaker in time? Not too many.
Do you have any idea what a licensed installer charges for an emergency visit on a Sunday morning? That $25 thermostat is $50 because you don't get to buy the one that's on sale at Home Depot, and the cost to knock on your door is going to be close to $150, and then the rate ticks forward at $100/hr. And at the end of your $300 emergency service call, you'll be left with a dumb thermostat and a $200 paperweight.
I can't believe that Zerolemon won't have a battery case that will last several days within a month or two of release. Replaceable batteries are nice, but portable chargers are getting more common and more compact, and with those you don't have to completely shut the phone down and reboot to swap in a new battery. That's one of the things LG definitely got wrong with their G5 battery - a 20mAh internal cell to allow "hot-swapping" would have been a killer feature.
If it's a capture in the IR, then a selfie - or any common photograph - may not contain all the information necessary to verify the user. Just as Intel's Hello feature is not fooled by photos of the user.
Exactly. In fact, it was my web site creator who bought (several) commercial/shrink-wrapped CDs of "royalty free" images to use. It was 5-6 years before I got the letter asking for ~$2200 in fees for 3-4 images. Turns out royalty free simply means that a fee is not due for every single impression, but the images required a license for each image to be used.
Going to court would have cost me in the $10k-30k range, presuming I would win. Of course, the developer didn't even have all of the CDs any more, and the ones she had contained so little information it would have been impossible to track down the companies, even if they existed. After $350 in legal fees to review the conditions and send out a form letter, Getty countered for $1400. I sent in the check and vowed I would never again pay a single penny to Getty for anything. Any stock company I use which has been bought by Getty I have eliminated from my purchasing list (it's happened at least twice so far).
You are sorely misinformed on the "wipe and flash" for any Android. Yes, many android handsets can be rooted and flashed, but Android handset manufacturers are just as protective of their hardware and custom skin software as Apple is. Android phones are all of the things you mentioned, but they're not all of those things IN ONE PHONE. You can get removable batteries. You can get expandable storage. You can get waterproof. You can get flashable. You can get none of those in an iPhone. You can get at least one of those in most Android handsets. In several you can get two of them. You cannot get all those things at the same time - you have to choose which advantages you want most. The good news is that, with one exception of the Note 7, which you can't yet buy - pretty much all Android handsets are priced less than the equivalent iPhone at a given screen size and internal memory size. And the Note 7, which will cost $30 more than the (slightly smaller) iPhone 6s+, comes with expandable memory, waterproof features, and an active digitizer and stylus. And the camera is better. And by betterm I mean objectively better. Some people like iPhone cameras better due to subjective considerations such as software applied sharpening, color casts, and the like. It's like choosing a set of Bose speakers over B&W or MK. The latter two are markedly superior at sound reproduction, but some people still like the "warmth" of the altered sound Bose produces. But I digress...
Anyway...If wiping and flashing is your thing, you want one of the Nexus handsets from Google. They're affordable, always get the first updates and you can do pretty much whatever you like with them. https://store.google.com/categ... They are $350 or $400-550 - less than 2/3 the cost of the iPhone 6s and 6s+ (the direct analogs in the Apple world).
If you want to do a bit more work and force-root the phone, you'll have a wide array of options. Just check at XDA developers and see which phones are easy to root.
Since they're going to use Exnos in some markets, I presume that means no QuickCharge 3 for it. Still it's at the top of my list to replace the LG pocket heater I'm currently using (my G4 likes to just get stuck with the CPU on 100% for no reason).
I would be curious to see how it's radios are - it's a shame nobody ever tests those anymore.
Does your real estate agent take a percentage of your profit? Does your broker base his fees on your profit? Does your property tax bill ask what your profit was?
Of course not, so why is the US Government that? The value you get from the government running the military, maintaining safety programs,and building and maintaining our transportation infrastructure isn't based on how much you made last year, it's a fixed cost. Change to a gross receipts tax and every dollar you receive is taxed at a fixed rate. No worries about what is deductable, or what does or doesn't qualify as pre or post tax. Plus it's more easily auditable.
My town uses it and it's pretty fucking straight forward. You put down what you grossed, and you multiply that by between 0.10% and 0.37%. Yes, you read that correctly - our local business tax is ten to thirty-four CENTS for every One Hundred DOLLARS you gross. And, aside from lying on your tax forms, there's no way around it.
As someone who has been on the wrong end of a letter from Getty's lawyers concerning a set of images which were bought (on a CD) with the impression that they were already properly licensed, I hope she wins every fucking penny.
You're bitching about semantics. Machine learning, AI, programming - no, this isn't some autonomous correction to the system; it isn't going to "learn" from this in the human sense. But the system (programmers, sensors, and control fucntions) will be improved to deal with this type of situation. There is no AI in the car - it's just programmed reactions. But in your zeal to blather on about what AI is and isn't, you're missing the point that the *system* will become more capable of handling out-of-normal and unanticipated conditions. In humans we call this intelligence.
That's going to be an exceptionally rare use case, actually - a shoulder case that needs to be evaluated, but not in any case common. It would be a significant case for a tractor trailer, or a vehicle towing a large trailer such as a camper, but for a car that's shorter than a 12 year old girl, concern for an object spanning over a road which has no material in the first 24" above the lane of traffic, but is shorter than 56" is pretty damned rare.
That does suck, though...introductory rates and such are never guaranteed. Still, it beats my Comcast by a pretty wide margin - $70 gets me 30/10, and that's consumer-capped. I'd jump at the chance for 100/100 (or even 50) at $75.
But they weren't random communications. They were intentionally created for a particular purpose and crafted and formatted to present more than basic data. There are also thousands of attachments, many of them presumably reports and pictures - all of which would definitely be works which fall under copyright. This post is even copyrighted, as useless as it is, and the terms of using this site are that I grant/. the non-exclusive right to redistribute it.
Even if the performance wasn't copyrighted, unless the arrangement and the original work was either public domain or written on government time, the recording would still carry the music author's copyright and would not be allowed to be reproduced without a license.
Since these are private communications - not government data - and each email is a creative work by the author, would this potentially be subject to copyright infringement, to the "value" of the communications (which may only arguably be $10-20 a piece if you count time spent x nominal billing rate), triple damage for intentional distribution, times the number of downloads (or x1 if it was uploaded to a torrent, and then copyright infringement applied to all who are torrenting)? Could several of the key documents be registered and then, if subsequently distributed by others, in for the $150,000 per infringement violation - and could that be applied to any organization which disseminates [even non-fair-use excerpts] of the works?
The Play store takes the same cut as Apple (30%), though the recent "long term developer" discounts would have that fall to as little at 15% on both platforms. I suspect that if the simpletons writing the fluff piece don't understand the peaking kind of demand for this game, they wouldn't have considered the out-year rate reductions which are planned.
Fireworks have been around in the US for a couple hundred years too - not once has the two week period leading up to a July 4th been extrapolated to annual sales directly.
I have no doubt that the P/Go app will continue to generate revenue - probably good revenue. But to imagine that even 10% of the vast majority of bandwagon jumpers are going to continue the game - and pay for it on a regular basis - is sheer folly. I'll be surprised if they hit 1/2 the 13B in 2 years - which would be less than the jump in market cap of Nintendo due to the game. We should have a timer on/. to come back in 24 months and see which of us was correct.
That's what the story should be. If Apple is taking a 30% cut of it's 80% market share, then PG is projected to make $3B/0.24 = $12.5B
Of course, this may be a bit like looking at the June 20-July 4 numbers for firework vendors in the US and extrapolating that to how much they'll make over a whole year by multiplying that number by 26. This windfall only happens if the game sustains it's frenzy for 24 months. This isn't a normally mobile crowd, and the next big game (or new Xbox/PS) is always right around the corner. I'm not sure that's really a likely scenario.
Show me a current model 1/2 ton pickup that has an electric drive factory option. It doesn't exist at any price. VIA converts Chevys, and puts the equivalent of a 4 cylinder NA gas engine (~300ft-lb peak torque, 150ft-lb continuous torque) in a vehicle which can only carry 2/3 the load of the equivalent truck (1000lb vs 1500+). Oh, and it's $80k for the equivalent of a $35k appointed gas truck.
The 3 majors have fumbled the ball pretty completely on electric / hybrid trucks. Hell, they've fumbled the ball on electrics, period. I would love a hybrid or electric full-sized truck. I drive an F150 and am looking at replacing it, but the only thing out there are gas non-hybrids. Chevy made one 3-4 years ago, but priced it so high and sucked so badly with the implementation that they discontinued it. Trucks used for towing (like campers for long haul) will still need gas engines, but a truck with a battery pack like the Model X - which would likely translate into about a 175-200 mile range with the increased drag, and more like 100 mile range when towing, would still cover the vast majority of small contractors.
You mean like the right to choose a residential neighborhood that is not full of transients? Zoning is all about protecting the rights of people who own land - to ensure stability and compatibility of uses. People who are staying for 1-7 nights have very different lifestyles/uses than those of a year or longer. And if you start allowing incompatible uses into a residential neighborhood, you are interfering with the economic activity of everyone who holds their home as a significant portion of their net worth.
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Slashdot has a hard-on for Tesla, and slashdot commenters have a hard-on for pointing a finger and Musk and laughing every time he doesn't get something perfect. Everyone here has an inferiority complex because they didn't become a billionaire and then go get to found a car company, a solar company, and a space company that lands rockets like science fiction movies. *shrug*
How much would you pay to get back into your house at 11:30pm on a Saturday night when it's 20 below zero outside and your smart locks have all been hacked? No need for a $5k ransom - it needs only be a couple hundred dollars, repeated many times, to be profitable.
Or in the case of a thermostat, a remote override that switches a heater on full blast on a hot summer day or - better yet - begins switching between heating and cooling on a heat pump, which will burn out the compressor in under an hour and cost a couple thousand dollars to replace. How many people will think of cutting the breaker in time? Not too many.
Do you have any idea what a licensed installer charges for an emergency visit on a Sunday morning? That $25 thermostat is $50 because you don't get to buy the one that's on sale at Home Depot, and the cost to knock on your door is going to be close to $150, and then the rate ticks forward at $100/hr. And at the end of your $300 emergency service call, you'll be left with a dumb thermostat and a $200 paperweight.
We think you're bugged.
I can't believe that Zerolemon won't have a battery case that will last several days within a month or two of release. Replaceable batteries are nice, but portable chargers are getting more common and more compact, and with those you don't have to completely shut the phone down and reboot to swap in a new battery. That's one of the things LG definitely got wrong with their G5 battery - a 20mAh internal cell to allow "hot-swapping" would have been a killer feature.
If it's a capture in the IR, then a selfie - or any common photograph - may not contain all the information necessary to verify the user. Just as Intel's Hello feature is not fooled by photos of the user.
If you've made it to LEO, you may as well just nuke them from there. It's the only way to be certain.
Exactly. In fact, it was my web site creator who bought (several) commercial/shrink-wrapped CDs of "royalty free" images to use. It was 5-6 years before I got the letter asking for ~$2200 in fees for 3-4 images. Turns out royalty free simply means that a fee is not due for every single impression, but the images required a license for each image to be used.
Going to court would have cost me in the $10k-30k range, presuming I would win. Of course, the developer didn't even have all of the CDs any more, and the ones she had contained so little information it would have been impossible to track down the companies, even if they existed. After $350 in legal fees to review the conditions and send out a form letter, Getty countered for $1400. I sent in the check and vowed I would never again pay a single penny to Getty for anything. Any stock company I use which has been bought by Getty I have eliminated from my purchasing list (it's happened at least twice so far).
You mean like people who are allergic to IR radiation; the kind you will find everywhere there is natural or incandescent light?
You are sorely misinformed on the "wipe and flash" for any Android. Yes, many android handsets can be rooted and flashed, but Android handset manufacturers are just as protective of their hardware and custom skin software as Apple is. Android phones are all of the things you mentioned, but they're not all of those things IN ONE PHONE. You can get removable batteries. You can get expandable storage. You can get waterproof. You can get flashable. You can get none of those in an iPhone. You can get at least one of those in most Android handsets. In several you can get two of them. You cannot get all those things at the same time - you have to choose which advantages you want most. The good news is that, with one exception of the Note 7, which you can't yet buy - pretty much all Android handsets are priced less than the equivalent iPhone at a given screen size and internal memory size. And the Note 7, which will cost $30 more than the (slightly smaller) iPhone 6s+, comes with expandable memory, waterproof features, and an active digitizer and stylus. And the camera is better. And by betterm I mean objectively better. Some people like iPhone cameras better due to subjective considerations such as software applied sharpening, color casts, and the like. It's like choosing a set of Bose speakers over B&W or MK. The latter two are markedly superior at sound reproduction, but some people still like the "warmth" of the altered sound Bose produces. But I digress...
Anyway...If wiping and flashing is your thing, you want one of the Nexus handsets from Google. They're affordable, always get the first updates and you can do pretty much whatever you like with them. https://store.google.com/categ... They are $350 or $400-550 - less than 2/3 the cost of the iPhone 6s and 6s+ (the direct analogs in the Apple world).
If you want to do a bit more work and force-root the phone, you'll have a wide array of options. Just check at XDA developers and see which phones are easy to root.
Since they're going to use Exnos in some markets, I presume that means no QuickCharge 3 for it. Still it's at the top of my list to replace the LG pocket heater I'm currently using (my G4 likes to just get stuck with the CPU on 100% for no reason).
I would be curious to see how it's radios are - it's a shame nobody ever tests those anymore.
Does your real estate agent take a percentage of your profit?
Does your broker base his fees on your profit?
Does your property tax bill ask what your profit was?
Of course not, so why is the US Government that? The value you get from the government running the military, maintaining safety programs,and building and maintaining our transportation infrastructure isn't based on how much you made last year, it's a fixed cost. Change to a gross receipts tax and every dollar you receive is taxed at a fixed rate. No worries about what is deductable, or what does or doesn't qualify as pre or post tax. Plus it's more easily auditable.
My town uses it and it's pretty fucking straight forward. You put down what you grossed, and you multiply that by between 0.10% and 0.37%. Yes, you read that correctly - our local business tax is ten to thirty-four CENTS for every One Hundred DOLLARS you gross. And, aside from lying on your tax forms, there's no way around it.
As someone who has been on the wrong end of a letter from Getty's lawyers concerning a set of images which were bought (on a CD) with the impression that they were already properly licensed, I hope she wins every fucking penny.
You're bitching about semantics. Machine learning, AI, programming - no, this isn't some autonomous correction to the system; it isn't going to "learn" from this in the human sense. But the system (programmers, sensors, and control fucntions) will be improved to deal with this type of situation. There is no AI in the car - it's just programmed reactions. But in your zeal to blather on about what AI is and isn't, you're missing the point that the *system* will become more capable of handling out-of-normal and unanticipated conditions. In humans we call this intelligence.
"common use-case"
That's going to be an exceptionally rare use case, actually - a shoulder case that needs to be evaluated, but not in any case common. It would be a significant case for a tractor trailer, or a vehicle towing a large trailer such as a camper, but for a car that's shorter than a 12 year old girl, concern for an object spanning over a road which has no material in the first 24" above the lane of traffic, but is shorter than 56" is pretty damned rare.
That does suck, though...introductory rates and such are never guaranteed. Still, it beats my Comcast by a pretty wide margin - $70 gets me 30/10, and that's consumer-capped. I'd jump at the chance for 100/100 (or even 50) at $75.
But they weren't random communications. They were intentionally created for a particular purpose and crafted and formatted to present more than basic data. There are also thousands of attachments, many of them presumably reports and pictures - all of which would definitely be works which fall under copyright. This post is even copyrighted, as useless as it is, and the terms of using this site are that I grant /. the non-exclusive right to redistribute it.
Even if the performance wasn't copyrighted, unless the arrangement and the original work was either public domain or written on government time, the recording would still carry the music author's copyright and would not be allowed to be reproduced without a license.
Since these are private communications - not government data - and each email is a creative work by the author, would this potentially be subject to copyright infringement, to the "value" of the communications (which may only arguably be $10-20 a piece if you count time spent x nominal billing rate), triple damage for intentional distribution, times the number of downloads (or x1 if it was uploaded to a torrent, and then copyright infringement applied to all who are torrenting)? Could several of the key documents be registered and then, if subsequently distributed by others, in for the $150,000 per infringement violation - and could that be applied to any organization which disseminates [even non-fair-use excerpts] of the works?
The Play store takes the same cut as Apple (30%), though the recent "long term developer" discounts would have that fall to as little at 15% on both platforms. I suspect that if the simpletons writing the fluff piece don't understand the peaking kind of demand for this game, they wouldn't have considered the out-year rate reductions which are planned.
Fireworks have been around in the US for a couple hundred years too - not once has the two week period leading up to a July 4th been extrapolated to annual sales directly.
I have no doubt that the P/Go app will continue to generate revenue - probably good revenue. But to imagine that even 10% of the vast majority of bandwagon jumpers are going to continue the game - and pay for it on a regular basis - is sheer folly. I'll be surprised if they hit 1/2 the 13B in 2 years - which would be less than the jump in market cap of Nintendo due to the game. We should have a timer on /. to come back in 24 months and see which of us was correct.
That's what the story should be. If Apple is taking a 30% cut of it's 80% market share, then PG is projected to make $3B/0.24 = $12.5B
Of course, this may be a bit like looking at the June 20-July 4 numbers for firework vendors in the US and extrapolating that to how much they'll make over a whole year by multiplying that number by 26. This windfall only happens if the game sustains it's frenzy for 24 months. This isn't a normally mobile crowd, and the next big game (or new Xbox/PS) is always right around the corner. I'm not sure that's really a likely scenario.
Show me a current model 1/2 ton pickup that has an electric drive factory option. It doesn't exist at any price. VIA converts Chevys, and puts the equivalent of a 4 cylinder NA gas engine (~300ft-lb peak torque, 150ft-lb continuous torque) in a vehicle which can only carry 2/3 the load of the equivalent truck (1000lb vs 1500+). Oh, and it's $80k for the equivalent of a $35k appointed gas truck.
The 3 majors have fumbled the ball pretty completely on electric / hybrid trucks. Hell, they've fumbled the ball on electrics, period. I would love a hybrid or electric full-sized truck. I drive an F150 and am looking at replacing it, but the only thing out there are gas non-hybrids. Chevy made one 3-4 years ago, but priced it so high and sucked so badly with the implementation that they discontinued it. Trucks used for towing (like campers for long haul) will still need gas engines, but a truck with a battery pack like the Model X - which would likely translate into about a 175-200 mile range with the increased drag, and more like 100 mile range when towing, would still cover the vast majority of small contractors.
...you still have made a choice.
"protecting rights"
You mean like the right to choose a residential neighborhood that is not full of transients? Zoning is all about protecting the rights of people who own land - to ensure stability and compatibility of uses. People who are staying for 1-7 nights have very different lifestyles/uses than those of a year or longer. And if you start allowing incompatible uses into a residential neighborhood, you are interfering with the economic activity of everyone who holds their home as a significant portion of their net worth.
That sword cuts both ways.