I tried playing around with various Bluetooth devices (Tile, etc) and an Arduino to see if could get something like bluetooth triangulation working for a pet project. The best I could come up with was an RSSI measuring scheme that sorta worked line of site, w/out movement but went to heck with obstacles and very little movement.
I hope they find a loophole where social credit can be bought, sold, leased...then you can have derivatives, then you can speculate on a person, a group, a whole region of people. That would make The Chicago Merc look tame.
I will gladly pay you $899 US for a shiny metal and plastic box that barely fits in my pocket. As long as the edges are curved to the the perfect ratio.
I feel like the screen is really breaking the perfection of design they are aspiring to. They should remove the screen then it will be smartphone nirvana.
One thing I find interesting, is that all of these 'disruptor' style, innovative companies, tend to inevitably regress the the standard corporate playbook. Same management structure, same PHB's, same buildup of bureaucracy, emphasis on quarterly numbers, etc.
It seems for a time, if you can collect the right staff of, smart, excited, properly motivated, and compensated people, you can get great things done. But soon enough those folks move on because the comp is better somewhere else, or a crappy boss is introduced, the environment starts getting toxic, etc. Then the firm coasts until it isn't very relevant.
I could imagine space nutters like myself would put up with a lot to work at SpaceX, but the grind on putting in overtime just to crank out one more overpriced, yuppy, go cart just to allow a big-mouthed boss to stick it to the equity shorts...I don't know how many people would hang in there for the long haul.
"Therefore, optimal fasting in a timed manner would be strategic to positively affect cellular functions and ultimately benefiting health and protecting against aging-associated diseases."
Why keep us in suspense? What is the freaking optimal fasting and timing? Tell us already. Just like the local news people. "There is a killer tornado bearing down on you, we'll tell you how to survive at 11."
I assume, like many a mouse study, that there is a giant gulf between the results one gets with experiments on Mickey versus a real, live, 200lb human person.
Keep in mind that the lawmakers (super majority Democrats) in California did not want a privacy bill, or more specifically the money behind the lawmakers didn't want such a bill. However they were forced to act because a ballot initiative was poised to make a stricter law and the polling numbers showed it would pass overwhelmingly
"The so-called California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (AB 375) was introduced late last week by state assemblymember Ed Chau and state senator Robert Hertzberg, in a rush to defeat a stricter privacy-focused ballot initiative that had garnered more than 600,000 signatures from Californians. The group behind that initiative, Californians for Consumer Privacy, said it would withdraw it if the bill passed." - Wired magazine
And of course the one thing that is bi-partisan are lobbyist dollars, so this privacy bill passed unanimously both Dems and GOP.
Likewise last year when there was a proposal for a Net Neutrality bill for the state, the Democratic led committee tried to quietly quash it, led by the telecom-funded committee members. Only after the dirty trick was made very, very public did it go through. I expect the State Senator who made the fuss will need to be watching his political back for some years to come.
As many have said in/. be wary of being a party-first sort of voter.
Gambling I thought was harmless until I witnessed first hand a buddy of mine go down the tube with online gambling on the early days of online poker. We're talking the age of dial up modem. The guy lost a ton of money, basically wiped out, started running up credit cards, getting cash from cards, just everything to gamble. After first making fun of him, as this progressed we really started to get scared for him. Ended up sabotaging his modem, then his computer, then basically what nowadays they would call an intervention. Though less touchy feelly and more "Dude, you are a *&#$$ dumb*@!#, you better get your @#$@ together, or we're kicking you out of the place."
He got over it, but a couple times years later we'd meet up for a wedding or something where you can gamble, Nassau, Bahamas etc, he would hit the tables and go nuts, lose all his cash. Though he did win $9k one night, and we ended up hiding $8k of that from him until after the trip. By that time he was smart enough to let us take his credit cards away too. But that impulse looks scary and call it what you want, addiction, moral deficit, habit, whatever...its the real deal and if I were running the world I would seek to minimize it as much as possible.
Agreed. Insert the slightest bit of friction into acquiring programming and I'm off to something else. And have never regretted it. This is probably another reason why YouTube is getting more popular.
Just wondering if anyone has experience with a roll your own system using RTSP cameras. Any cheap cameras you can recommend that are usable without sending data to the cloud? I tried my hand hacking a couple of the cheap XiaoFang cameras ( https://github.com/samtap/fang...) but haven't been successful to date.
Would love 2-3 such low powered cameras I could get to record locally using VLC or similar. Just a basic set-up.
Basically it just comes down to "... as account details being used in two locations within similar time periods." You don't need 'machine learning' for that. I suspect Netflix does this behind the scenes and lets it roll for the most common instances of household members watching separately. A while back Amazon clamped down on multiple accounts without AI. I doubt anyone will buy/invest in this firm.
I will continue to invest my own money in brick and mortar companies like Sears and Macy's.
I recall an episode of 60 Minutes about 5 years ago where Leslie Stahl said that they stopped doing cancer cure breakthrough stories for a while, because inevitably the hype wouldn't pan out. But the story they were doing on day was extraordinary (something about using gold nano particles and then heating them using a CAT scan) so they broke their own rule and went nuts on the telecast. Of course that also didn't pan out....
Cancer cure, AI, autonomous driving...things that are always 5 years out.
Entrapment "is the conception and planning of an offense by an officer, and his procurement of its commission by one who would not have perpetrated it except for the trickery, persuasion or fraud of the officer. "
I would love for a defense attorney to try and present entrapment as a defense to any jury in the USA when it comes to package theft. Heck, if you read the comments on slashdot, most people here are ready to offer capital punishment for these kinds of things.
In my city, package theft, bike theft, car break ins are rampant. The police, no surprise, say that the are too busy with working more important crimes. This, though overall crime is way down (use this state chart as a place holder https://www.ppic.org/publicati...) and, again no surprise, the hiring of police officers is way up.
Why can't the police do a similar thing as this guy? Maybe without the glitter and and fart spray, but perhaps something similar to dye packs used in banks, though less powerful. It should be cheap and easy to GPS track a bait bike, package or take a picture when a bait car is broken into. The problem in my city is that the chance of a thief being caught, and then prosecuted are infinitesimally small. Making some examples of thieves and giving people a second thought as to whether or not their target is a honey pot would put these crimes of opportunity way down.
"In the first round of testing, the scans of children who reported daily screen usage of more than seven hours showed premature thinning of the brain cortex, the outermost layer that processes information from the physical world."
That is a ton of screen time, especially for kids that should be in school most of the day.
A case could be made that the US should restrict exploration and production domestically, as well as keep progressing with auto efficiency standards. The list of oil producers after the US is pretty consistent with a list of our adversaries. Why not use their oil in the present, and leave ours in the ground for the years when oil begins to become more scarce?
Ideally we would be looking out for the long term well being of the United States of America which is why whether it's Facebook or Marathon Oil, we should not, cannot, let corporations dictate governmental policy. Corporations goals are geared towards the short term wealth of a very few people, and do not have the long term interests of the nation at heart.
02 Russia 03 Saudi Arabia 04 Iraq 05 Iran 06 China 02 Russia 03 Saudi Arabia 04 Iraq 05 Iran 06 China... 11 Venezuela 13 Nigeria 14 Angola
Yes, that's fairly ridiculous, and typical of the editors to leave that, highly relevant bit out. They do that all the time with new battery tech announcements. "New battery tech charges 10Kw in 5 minutes, and uses beach sand as an electrolyte" Fine print: battery can be used once and explodes.
But it is interesting how high pressure changes the dynamic, and so as basic science goes this is interesting and worthy of more research and learning. Just not breathless/. headlines.
I was wondering the same thing. Everytime there is a news article that seems to omit the important contextual number I am suspicious. My Google results came up with California having 14.8 million registered vehicles (https://www.statista.com/statistics/196024/number-of-registered-automobiles-in-california/).
So the more accurate number is that somewhere around 3.4% of CA vehicles are electric. People with entrenched political positions on either side are free to spin that however they want.
I don't think so. Paul Allen, Steve Jobs, as examples. Both had all the money and resources in the world and still died young. I feel bad for Paul Allen, but for the life of me can't understand why he didn't put something like 50% of his fortune towards a cure for Hodgkin's & non-Hodgkins lymphoma after his initial diagnosis in the 80's and again in the early 2000's.
Can't watch the Trailblazers if you are dead. Can't look cool with an iPhoneX if you are likewise dead. Like most technololgy any big advances in medicine will be readily available to the public at some exorbitant, but not unrealistic cost.
I'm also in agreement. I'm keeping my 5SE as long as possible. Have already had to 'iFixit" several bits of trim and charger connector. In addition to the ridiculous cost of a new phone, I also cannot stand how big they have become. Doesn't anyone remember Will Farrell and the tiny phones...?
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I tried playing around with various Bluetooth devices (Tile, etc) and an Arduino to see if could get something like bluetooth triangulation working for a pet project. The best I could come up with was an RSSI measuring scheme that sorta worked line of site, w/out movement but went to heck with obstacles and very little movement.
I hope they find a loophole where social credit can be bought, sold, leased...then you can have derivatives, then you can speculate on a person, a group, a whole region of people. That would make The Chicago Merc look tame.
I will gladly pay you $899 US for a shiny metal and plastic box that barely fits in my pocket. As long as the edges are curved to the the perfect ratio.
People will be so jealous of me.
I feel like the screen is really breaking the perfection of design they are aspiring to. They should remove the screen then it will be smartphone nirvana.
How about using this picking up the litter around the city of Berkeley first, then head off to the warehouses.
One thing I find interesting, is that all of these 'disruptor' style, innovative companies, tend to inevitably regress the the standard corporate playbook. Same management structure, same PHB's, same buildup of bureaucracy, emphasis on quarterly numbers, etc.
It seems for a time, if you can collect the right staff of, smart, excited, properly motivated, and compensated people, you can get great things done. But soon enough those folks move on because the comp is better somewhere else, or a crappy boss is introduced, the environment starts getting toxic, etc. Then the firm coasts until it isn't very relevant.
I could imagine space nutters like myself would put up with a lot to work at SpaceX, but the grind on putting in overtime just to crank out one more overpriced, yuppy, go cart just to allow a big-mouthed boss to stick it to the equity shorts...I don't know how many people would hang in there for the long haul.
Good, maybe someone in the FSB will be able to figure out the Dems political strategy, 'cause I sure can't.
"Therefore, optimal fasting in a timed manner would be strategic to positively affect cellular functions and ultimately benefiting health and protecting against aging-associated diseases."
Why keep us in suspense? What is the freaking optimal fasting and timing? Tell us already. Just like the local news people. "There is a killer tornado bearing down on you, we'll tell you how to survive at 11."
I assume, like many a mouse study, that there is a giant gulf between the results one gets with experiments on Mickey versus a real, live, 200lb human person.
Keep in mind that the lawmakers (super majority Democrats) in California did not want a privacy bill, or more specifically the money behind the lawmakers didn't want such a bill. However they were forced to act because a ballot initiative was poised to make a stricter law and the polling numbers showed it would pass overwhelmingly
"The so-called California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (AB 375) was introduced late last week by state assemblymember Ed Chau and state senator Robert Hertzberg, in a rush to defeat a stricter privacy-focused ballot initiative that had garnered more than 600,000 signatures from Californians. The group behind that initiative, Californians for Consumer Privacy, said it would withdraw it if the bill passed." - Wired magazine
And of course the one thing that is bi-partisan are lobbyist dollars, so this privacy bill passed unanimously both Dems and GOP.
Likewise last year when there was a proposal for a Net Neutrality bill for the state, the Democratic led committee tried to quietly quash it, led by the telecom-funded committee members. Only after the dirty trick was made very, very public did it go through. I expect the State Senator who made the fuss will need to be watching his political back for some years to come.
As many have said in /. be wary of being a party-first sort of voter.
Gambling I thought was harmless until I witnessed first hand a buddy of mine go down the tube with online gambling on the early days of online poker. We're talking the age of dial up modem. The guy lost a ton of money, basically wiped out, started running up credit cards, getting cash from cards, just everything to gamble. After first making fun of him, as this progressed we really started to get scared for him. Ended up sabotaging his modem, then his computer, then basically what nowadays they would call an intervention. Though less touchy feelly and more "Dude, you are a *&#$$ dumb*@!#, you better get your @#$@ together, or we're kicking you out of the place."
He got over it, but a couple times years later we'd meet up for a wedding or something where you can gamble, Nassau, Bahamas etc, he would hit the tables and go nuts, lose all his cash. Though he did win $9k one night, and we ended up hiding $8k of that from him until after the trip. By that time he was smart enough to let us take his credit cards away too. But that impulse looks scary and call it what you want, addiction, moral deficit, habit, whatever...its the real deal and if I were running the world I would seek to minimize it as much as possible.
Agreed. Insert the slightest bit of friction into acquiring programming and I'm off to something else. And have never regretted it. This is probably another reason why YouTube is getting more popular.
Just wondering if anyone has experience with a roll your own system using RTSP cameras. Any cheap cameras you can recommend that are usable without sending data to the cloud? I tried my hand hacking a couple of the cheap XiaoFang cameras ( https://github.com/samtap/fang...) but haven't been successful to date.
Would love 2-3 such low powered cameras I could get to record locally using VLC or similar. Just a basic set-up.
Basically it just comes down to "... as account details being used in two locations within similar time periods." You don't need 'machine learning' for that. I suspect Netflix does this behind the scenes and lets it roll for the most common instances of household members watching separately. A while back Amazon clamped down on multiple accounts without AI. I doubt anyone will buy/invest in this firm.
I will continue to invest my own money in brick and mortar companies like Sears and Macy's.
Steve Jobs and Paul Allen.
I recall an episode of 60 Minutes about 5 years ago where Leslie Stahl said that they stopped doing cancer cure breakthrough stories for a while, because inevitably the hype wouldn't pan out. But the story they were doing on day was extraordinary (something about using gold nano particles and then heating them using a CAT scan) so they broke their own rule and went nuts on the telecast. Of course that also didn't pan out....
Cancer cure, AI, autonomous driving...things that are always 5 years out.
Entrapment "is the conception and planning of an offense by an officer, and his procurement of its commission by one who would not have perpetrated it except for the trickery, persuasion or fraud of the officer. "
I would love for a defense attorney to try and present entrapment as a defense to any jury in the USA when it comes to package theft. Heck, if you read the comments on slashdot, most people here are ready to offer capital punishment for these kinds of things.
In my city, package theft, bike theft, car break ins are rampant. The police, no surprise, say that the are too busy with working more important crimes. This, though overall crime is way down (use this state chart as a place holder https://www.ppic.org/publicati...) and, again no surprise, the hiring of police officers is way up.
Why can't the police do a similar thing as this guy? Maybe without the glitter and and fart spray, but perhaps something similar to dye packs used in banks, though less powerful. It should be cheap and easy to GPS track a bait bike, package or take a picture when a bait car is broken into. The problem in my city is that the chance of a thief being caught, and then prosecuted are infinitesimally small. Making some examples of thieves and giving people a second thought as to whether or not their target is a honey pot would put these crimes of opportunity way down.
"In the first round of testing, the scans of children who reported daily screen usage of more than seven hours showed premature thinning of the brain cortex, the outermost layer that processes information from the physical world."
That is a ton of screen time, especially for kids that should be in school most of the day.
Seems like the fact that we've sent astronauts to a star 97 light years away would be the bigger headline.
A case could be made that the US should restrict exploration and production domestically, as well as keep progressing with auto efficiency standards. The list of oil producers after the US is pretty consistent with a list of our adversaries. Why not use their oil in the present, and leave ours in the ground for the years when oil begins to become more scarce?
Ideally we would be looking out for the long term well being of the United States of America which is why whether it's Facebook or Marathon Oil, we should not, cannot, let corporations dictate governmental policy. Corporations goals are geared towards the short term wealth of a very few people, and do not have the long term interests of the nation at heart.
02 Russia ...
03 Saudi Arabia
04 Iraq
05 Iran
06 China
02 Russia
03 Saudi Arabia
04 Iraq
05 Iran
06 China
11 Venezuela
13 Nigeria
14 Angola
But it is interesting how high pressure changes the dynamic, and so as basic science goes this is interesting and worthy of more research and learning. Just not breathless /. headlines.
3rd place USA, 2nd place Europe, but Skynet has a commanding lead with 6x10^23 new AI research papers this year.
So the more accurate number is that somewhere around 3.4% of CA vehicles are electric. People with entrenched political positions on either side are free to spin that however they want.
Can't watch the Trailblazers if you are dead. Can't look cool with an iPhoneX if you are likewise dead. Like most technololgy any big advances in medicine will be readily available to the public at some exorbitant, but not unrealistic cost.
I'm also in agreement. I'm keeping my 5SE as long as possible. Have already had to 'iFixit" several bits of trim and charger connector. In addition to the ridiculous cost of a new phone, I also cannot stand how big they have become. Doesn't anyone remember Will Farrell and the tiny phones...?
Wasn't Magic Leap counting on that sweet DOD nectar? Methinks this is the first nail in the coffin for them.