Note that NASA has figured out most of these scenarios and while there are no guarantees you can work around quite a number of technical hurdles.
The problem *is* the humans. Humans program (via sw and hw) the automated system, but if they miss something then the flight fails without human intervention. OTOH, if you let a human touch anything during a flight there is a finite chance that that human will become compromised in some way. So to combat that, we put in two humans, wagering that the chance of both being compromised is exceptionally low.
The point is that as long as humans are in control or involved things can - and will - go wrong. But humans are dumb panicky animals, so we keep going around in circles like this to pretend we're doing something to make it better.
Fit the truck with two way communications and let a remote operator in a remote location take over. One driver could service 10 or more trucks, driving only last-mile areas.
[voiceover] For just 44 cents a day, your family can participate in the exploration of the known universe, helping solve the cosmic puzzle we live in. [/voiceover]
That's interesting. I'll remember that the next time I have a huge swath of common interests to talk about with people I've just met at a weekend convention - common interests we discovered not through weeks or months of guessing, but with a quick glance at a public profile. I'll remember that the next time I see my cousins and we talk about all the shared experiences with have with out kids - spurred by our keeping in-touch through FB and seeing our kids grow up. I'm sure I felt that reconnecting with an old college buddy online was totally non-social. It was so non-social that he used FB to let me know he was going to be in my town for a night on business, and we get together at a pub and killed a couple of pitchers of Guiness over the course of a long evening. I met a woman from England at an event about 4 years ago. We see one another - at most - once a year. But when she comes to the states it's like we've been best buddies the whole time and we always have a fantastic time together with friends.
Social media, in general, is about keeping in touch with people and interacting. It doesn't take the place of face to face meetings - it bridges the gaps between those meetings. If you're not closer to your friends with social media than without, you're doing it wrong.
Not using social media is like never using a knife. Both are dangerous, but when used properly and with care can be exceptionally useful.
Are there times I'm careless with social media? I suppose there are certainly times I could be more reserved. But the more you [properly] manage your social media accounts the more you can gain from them. While you do open yourself up to a certain degree of transparency, you also offer an opportunity for people who offer you something beneficial to find you (ex: old friends displaced by time and distance, other hobbiests who share your passion).
If you don't own and never use a knife or other sharp-edged tool, you'll never have to worry about cutting yourself while using one. You'll also find that there are many tasks which are far more difficult to accomplish without one. And despite what you read in the news, you're pretty unlikely to kill, or even severely injure, yourself if used properly.
You can always send a letter. It's not like it's a big deal if we can't get to you TODAY. Anyone who doesn't plan more than a few days ahead is just asking for trouble anyway. The US was founded in a time when it could takes months to get a response from Europe.
I know, it's beneath you to read the fine article, but there's a link in the first sentence of the article which - if you follow it and choose to view an online transcript (which is the subject of the article) you can log in or create a user ID.
You should be taxed based on the value of the services you receive. Basing it on consumption is a foolish (and economy killing) way to allocate tax liability.
Ikea: just some oak and some pine and a handful of Norsemen Ikea: selling furniture for college kids and divorced men Everyone has a home But if you don't have a home you can buy one there
I can now wait for the day that some idiot shows up at my office asking me to certify/upgrade their Ikea shelter the bought on CraigsList for use as a permanent dwelling.
Compared to downtown Hong Kong, Japan is mostly uninhabited country. Everything is relative.
What this means is that coastal areas where tsunamis are likely are off limits to certain types of development. Farm land would be a great application for this area, for example, but not so good for high rises, nuclear plants, and hospitals. The actual impact force of the tsunami is far, far smaller than the flood area (which can be relatively easily dealt with). You're talking about the major restrictions covering a fraction of 1% of the land area.
I'd rather the FAA take a proactive, and active, role in creating rules which allow operations and enforce existing damage and nuisance laws. Letting the FAA "take it's time" is like telling ID that there's no rush on getting Duke Nukem Forever out as long as they do it right.
They're not going to be flying UAVs continuously. If Amazon gets the autopilot right, everything except the final approach and landing at the delivery location will be automated. A bank of "pilots" could easily cover 25-30+ drones each, given a 30 minute flight time from the distro center to the delivery and a 2 minute land/deliver/relaunch sequence. Distro centers would have automated guidance and pads that wouldn't require piloting. It would be far more human-cost efficient than truck delivery which requires the "pilot" to actively travel with the vehicle (weight limitations notwithstanding). That's 200 deliveries a day per person - twice what a UPS/FedEx driver does.
They will never solve the problem, because they will always be one step behind. Every safeguard is a vector for abuse, and every limitation can be circumvented if there are humans involved at any point. And humans are designing and operating the system.
It's already the safest (per passenger or traveller mile) way to travel in the world.
You could not build any critical infrastructure within a set distance from the coast, and no habitable buildings within a second less restrictive distance. This is basic risk mitigation. You don't build critical facilities on a fault line, you shouldn't build one in the direct path of a (potential) tsunami. Go look at the USGS website, or any of a number of wind zone maps. All this stuff has data and is plotted out for the US - all you have to do is set your risk factor (50 years for hurricane/snow, 500 for earthquake in the US) and note your exceptions.
Yes, but a better question was: does he *require* 300GB of data a month, and is it really that ping sensitive? Most things which require huge b/w and low pings are entertainment related. LTE if you need lowish pings, Sat if you just need data.
Oh, those batteries - they'll happen to be in swappable modules that just happen to fit Tesla automobiles. You pay for the infrastructure, Musk magically creates the 1 minute electric car fill-up.
Distribution is generally a monopoly, generation is not.
And "less than they pay for utility power" is a very, very high bar. Installation of a parallel grid, storage, and solar collection? Ignoring the grid, most solar companies I work with will contract to use your rooftop and install a solar system to tie into your grid-based power. You agree to pay $0.30(!) per kWh for all the generated power, they maintain the system. The cost of energy is fixed for the life of the contract (usu 20-30 years), and that's how the financing of the project is secured.
It's all find and dandy, but to break even you have to assume a large annual increase in local electricity cost (>10% inflation every year iirc). That's a pretty big bet to make, and one that relatively few companies are taking for cost reasons.
I might actually consider a passcode if I had this feature. As it is, I don't have a passcode on my phone because it's too big of a hassle. Any passcode which is sufficiently secure will be simultaneously too complex to enter every time you unlock your phone. I struggle with this using my password manager. I had to simplify my master password just to make it usable on my phone since typing in a 24 character password with upper/lower/numerical/specials on a phone is annoying at best. I'm back down to a 10 character pw, and even that has some "patterns" in it to simply entry.
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Its's not a breaker then.
Note that NASA has figured out most of these scenarios and while there are no guarantees you can work around quite a number of technical hurdles.
The problem *is* the humans. Humans program (via sw and hw) the automated system, but if they miss something then the flight fails without human intervention. OTOH, if you let a human touch anything during a flight there is a finite chance that that human will become compromised in some way. So to combat that, we put in two humans, wagering that the chance of both being compromised is exceptionally low.
The point is that as long as humans are in control or involved things can - and will - go wrong. But humans are dumb panicky animals, so we keep going around in circles like this to pretend we're doing something to make it better.
Fit the truck with two way communications and let a remote operator in a remote location take over. One driver could service 10 or more trucks, driving only last-mile areas.
You're conflating the business opportunity which drives the financials of a social media platform company with the user side of social media.
You see it as adversarial, I see it as symbiotic.
[voiceover] For just 44 cents a day, your family can participate in the exploration of the known universe, helping solve the cosmic puzzle we live in. [/voiceover]
That's interesting. I'll remember that the next time I have a huge swath of common interests to talk about with people I've just met at a weekend convention - common interests we discovered not through weeks or months of guessing, but with a quick glance at a public profile. I'll remember that the next time I see my cousins and we talk about all the shared experiences with have with out kids - spurred by our keeping in-touch through FB and seeing our kids grow up. I'm sure I felt that reconnecting with an old college buddy online was totally non-social. It was so non-social that he used FB to let me know he was going to be in my town for a night on business, and we get together at a pub and killed a couple of pitchers of Guiness over the course of a long evening. I met a woman from England at an event about 4 years ago. We see one another - at most - once a year. But when she comes to the states it's like we've been best buddies the whole time and we always have a fantastic time together with friends.
Social media, in general, is about keeping in touch with people and interacting. It doesn't take the place of face to face meetings - it bridges the gaps between those meetings. If you're not closer to your friends with social media than without, you're doing it wrong.
Not using social media is like never using a knife. Both are dangerous, but when used properly and with care can be exceptionally useful.
Are there times I'm careless with social media? I suppose there are certainly times I could be more reserved. But the more you [properly] manage your social media accounts the more you can gain from them. While you do open yourself up to a certain degree of transparency, you also offer an opportunity for people who offer you something beneficial to find you (ex: old friends displaced by time and distance, other hobbiests who share your passion).
If you don't own and never use a knife or other sharp-edged tool, you'll never have to worry about cutting yourself while using one. You'll also find that there are many tasks which are far more difficult to accomplish without one. And despite what you read in the news, you're pretty unlikely to kill, or even severely injure, yourself if used properly.
Or a phone, for that matter.
You can always send a letter. It's not like it's a big deal if we can't get to you TODAY. Anyone who doesn't plan more than a few days ahead is just asking for trouble anyway. The US was founded in a time when it could takes months to get a response from Europe.
So, no, it's really not necessary.
I mean, they are beating a dead horse at this point. We can imagine that the horse is pink.
would prefer if we could just bring back OMG Ponies and call it a day.
I know, it's beneath you to read the fine article, but there's a link in the first sentence of the article which - if you follow it and choose to view an online transcript (which is the subject of the article) you can log in or create a user ID.
You should be taxed based on the value of the services you receive. Basing it on consumption is a foolish (and economy killing) way to allocate tax liability.
...golden parachute to Mars
Now there's a taxpayer funded option I would vote for. I wonder how many we could send with her?
They'd never be able to run together - they both want to hold the handbasket.
Ikea: just some oak and some pine and a handful of Norsemen
Ikea: selling furniture for college kids and divorced men
Everyone has a home
But if you don't have a home you can buy one there
I can now wait for the day that some idiot shows up at my office asking me to certify/upgrade their Ikea shelter the bought on CraigsList for use as a permanent dwelling.
Compared to downtown Hong Kong, Japan is mostly uninhabited country. Everything is relative.
What this means is that coastal areas where tsunamis are likely are off limits to certain types of development. Farm land would be a great application for this area, for example, but not so good for high rises, nuclear plants, and hospitals. The actual impact force of the tsunami is far, far smaller than the flood area (which can be relatively easily dealt with). You're talking about the major restrictions covering a fraction of 1% of the land area.
I see a future full of kids facing jail time and their parents facing 6 figure fines. These drones will have cameras and radio links.
And if they make an error, they can just amend the rules, just like I did in that topic line.
I'd rather the FAA take a proactive, and active, role in creating rules which allow operations and enforce existing damage and nuisance laws. Letting the FAA "take it's time" is like telling ID that there's no rush on getting Duke Nukem Forever out as long as they do it right.
They're not going to be flying UAVs continuously. If Amazon gets the autopilot right, everything except the final approach and landing at the delivery location will be automated. A bank of "pilots" could easily cover 25-30+ drones each, given a 30 minute flight time from the distro center to the delivery and a 2 minute land/deliver/relaunch sequence. Distro centers would have automated guidance and pads that wouldn't require piloting. It would be far more human-cost efficient than truck delivery which requires the "pilot" to actively travel with the vehicle (weight limitations notwithstanding). That's 200 deliveries a day per person - twice what a UPS/FedEx driver does.
They will never solve the problem, because they will always be one step behind. Every safeguard is a vector for abuse, and every limitation can be circumvented if there are humans involved at any point. And humans are designing and operating the system.
It's already the safest (per passenger or traveller mile) way to travel in the world.
You could not build any critical infrastructure within a set distance from the coast, and no habitable buildings within a second less restrictive distance. This is basic risk mitigation. You don't build critical facilities on a fault line, you shouldn't build one in the direct path of a (potential) tsunami. Go look at the USGS website, or any of a number of wind zone maps. All this stuff has data and is plotted out for the US - all you have to do is set your risk factor (50 years for hurricane/snow, 500 for earthquake in the US) and note your exceptions.
Yes, but a better question was: does he *require* 300GB of data a month, and is it really that ping sensitive? Most things which require huge b/w and low pings are entertainment related. LTE if you need lowish pings, Sat if you just need data.
Oh, those batteries - they'll happen to be in swappable modules that just happen to fit Tesla automobiles. You pay for the infrastructure, Musk magically creates the 1 minute electric car fill-up.
Distribution is generally a monopoly, generation is not.
And "less than they pay for utility power" is a very, very high bar. Installation of a parallel grid, storage, and solar collection? Ignoring the grid, most solar companies I work with will contract to use your rooftop and install a solar system to tie into your grid-based power. You agree to pay $0.30(!) per kWh for all the generated power, they maintain the system. The cost of energy is fixed for the life of the contract (usu 20-30 years), and that's how the financing of the project is secured.
It's all find and dandy, but to break even you have to assume a large annual increase in local electricity cost (>10% inflation every year iirc). That's a pretty big bet to make, and one that relatively few companies are taking for cost reasons.
I might actually consider a passcode if I had this feature. As it is, I don't have a passcode on my phone because it's too big of a hassle. Any passcode which is sufficiently secure will be simultaneously too complex to enter every time you unlock your phone. I struggle with this using my password manager. I had to simplify my master password just to make it usable on my phone since typing in a 24 character password with upper/lower/numerical/specials on a phone is annoying at best. I'm back down to a 10 character pw, and even that has some "patterns" in it to simply entry.