The military have converted many of their air operations to drones, and that must be part of the pilot shortage story. If we can operate in Afghanistan from a comfy seat in Reno, isn't this the inevitable future of air transport? It's much like the self-driving car situation, only a mistake kills ~300 people at a time. What would it take to convince YOU to fly on an automatic airplane?
I had that feeling when I got this all-plastic Toshiba Satellite. It replaced an old Sony Vaio that had a metal case. The Toshiba feels "soft", I'll grant, but it has been very reliable. Knock on... plastic.
Maybe there's a market here. Users can pay to have each contract analyzed. Your friendly cloud service will summarize the contract for you, compare it with other contracts in the same industry, and point out how your contract varies from the norm. Etc.
Some of us amateur radio people will tell you that ham radio was the first social network. That may be a stretch, but there are some points to think about.
It's good to have a medium that's free to use by the message, but still has a price. You have to qualify by taking an exam, or by putting up some capital funds, or by paying a monthly fee.
The problem of FB, G+, Reddit,/., etc. are that they are free. So the purveyors have to find revenue from corporate sources - selling your info, your preferences, and your friends.
If a service has value to you, and you want to have control of your data, why aren't you willing or even eager to pay $10 a month?
Last time I looked WSL (and therefore Linux OS's) have very limited interaction with Windows. No graphics, no IPC. It's fine if you want to debug something for Linux server use, but until it integrates with Windows desktop and peripherals, there's nothing to worry about for typical desktop users.
What is an OS? If you use containers or VMs or Snaps or whatever to carry all the local-system-dependent stuff, what really needs to run on bare metal? That's the hypervisor, which can be pared down from your favorite current OS.
But if each app then carries around its own GUI system, what's to keep them coherent for the poor user? So maybe you need to think of the GUI as part of the hypervisor... And then you're back to ground zero, where we are right now.
If you don't have a common user experience, you don't have much compatibility.
One is a little nervous about those incoming boosters. If they lose thrust or attitude control, how do you protect life and property? I could imagine some bad PR there. I suppose there's a range safety procedure with some explosives, but that would convert one big bomb into lots of mid size bombs.
Right. The annual price may be lower than it would have been under the old system, but not by half. As a returning customer, you may get a discount for the first year. Then you're hooked.:(
Not so much. The Quicken upgrade did not require me to store my data on their server. The data still resides on my hard drive. (They even gave me a good size introductory Dropbox account for backups.) You do have to have a Quicken account on their server in order to get your software updates and to manage the billing. I had been in the habit of upgrading every other year. Now, it's continuous upgrades for an annual cost that's comparable for me, and there's a no worries update experience.
There are questions, like how long could I operate if the network goes down and how portable is the data? Quicken's data format has always been proprietary AFAIK, but there are export options.
If they are close to retirement, the easiest and friendliest course might be to give them a buyout -- early retirement with a substantial bonus and a gold watch. Company politics may be against that, but you could make the case to management that they would be ahead over the next few years if they take this course, considering the new (and yes cheaper) talent that would replace them.
If we're on our way to a lethal +8C world, that's bad news. But the world is a reflexive system. If we kill ourselves off at +4C, say, human greenhouse gas production ceases, and (after a long lag) the world finds a new stable point without us. So there's a tendency for the world to self-correct. On the other hand, there may be positive feedbacks (tipping points) that push us all the way to a Venus scenario. The moral is, it's a complex non-linear system, and straight line extrapolations are almost certainly wrong when they go far beyond historical experience.
If this vulnerability shut down all the hospitals in the UK, you'd see some action maybe. Without a crisis, you just have some snooty security gurus gnashing their teeth, which they do all the time, right?
This is a big problem -- getting chip / system / OS designers to spend time and money to debug systems beyond what end users ignorantly are willing to pay for.
HRD is widely used among Hams. One of its claims to fame is integration with amateur transceivers and other equipment; it can control and monitor a wide variety of complex modern rigs, amps, tuners, etc. through serial ports, USB, Ethernet, etc.
Yes, HRD is sort of the systemd of ham radio. You get the same kind of comments.
Would be nice to check my addresses in case my network was an offender so I can fix something I may have missed.
Your router needs a better firewall to prohibit or at least rate limit outgoing traffic to unusual places. Monitor firewall hits. It's "easy", but typical routers don't offer much help.
Well, I'm not sure that the Canadians and Mexicans would completely agree! The US Constitution stops at those borders. The 100 mile thing refers to open sea borders.
I understand that the changeover from 4 to 6 has to be gradual, and I suppose the fact that all the new cellphones are using IPv6 is significant. Still, I wonder if we will ever be able to shut off IPv4 in home installations -- or on phones. Realistically, we can't do it until every server out there supports IPv6.
With Comcast service, I am now fully dual stack, and it's nice to see more of my traffic using IPv6. But there have to be extra overhead and security issues when running two IP systems compared to pure IPv6. Many or most of the services I use are still IPv4 only, e.g. Slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
Tom Swift did it all around 1912. http://tomswiftaeroship.blogsp...
The military have converted many of their air operations to drones, and that must be part of the pilot shortage story. If we can operate in Afghanistan from a comfy seat in Reno, isn't this the inevitable future of air transport? It's much like the self-driving car situation, only a mistake kills ~300 people at a time. What would it take to convince YOU to fly on an automatic airplane?
I had that feeling when I got this all-plastic Toshiba Satellite. It replaced an old Sony Vaio that had a metal case. The Toshiba feels "soft", I'll grant, but it has been very reliable. Knock on ... plastic.
RSS is dead?
Actually, Feedly + Twitter + a well-curated list of bookmarks is all I need to inhabit my Internet bubble.
I do kind of miss Usenet, though.
Go and sin no more.
BTW, there is life beyond social media. I tell myself that as I think of punting Facebook.
Maybe there's a market here. Users can pay to have each contract analyzed. Your friendly cloud service will summarize the contract for you, compare it with other contracts in the same industry, and point out how your contract varies from the norm. Etc.
Some of us amateur radio people will tell you that ham radio was the first social network. That may be a stretch, but there are some points to think about.
It's good to have a medium that's free to use by the message, but still has a price. You have to qualify by taking an exam, or by putting up some capital funds, or by paying a monthly fee.
The problem of FB, G+, Reddit, /., etc. are that they are free. So the purveyors have to find revenue from corporate sources - selling your info, your preferences, and your friends.
If a service has value to you, and you want to have control of your data, why aren't you willing or even eager to pay $10 a month?
Last time I looked WSL (and therefore Linux OS's) have very limited interaction with Windows. No graphics, no IPC. It's fine if you want to debug something for Linux server use, but until it integrates with Windows desktop and peripherals, there's nothing to worry about for typical desktop users.
Why wait for April 2, when April 1 would be so much more appropriate?
What is an OS? If you use containers or VMs or Snaps or whatever to carry all the local-system-dependent stuff, what really needs to run on bare metal? That's the hypervisor, which can be pared down from your favorite current OS.
But if each app then carries around its own GUI system, what's to keep them coherent for the poor user? So maybe you need to think of the GUI as part of the hypervisor... And then you're back to ground zero, where we are right now.
If you don't have a common user experience, you don't have much compatibility.
One is a little nervous about those incoming boosters. If they lose thrust or attitude control, how do you protect life and property? I could imagine some bad PR there. I suppose there's a range safety procedure with some explosives, but that would convert one big bomb into lots of mid size bombs.
Right. The annual price may be lower than it would have been under the old system, but not by half. As a returning customer, you may get a discount for the first year. Then you're hooked. :(
Not so much. The Quicken upgrade did not require me to store my data on their server. The data still resides on my hard drive. (They even gave me a good size introductory Dropbox account for backups.) You do have to have a Quicken account on their server in order to get your software updates and to manage the billing. I had been in the habit of upgrading every other year. Now, it's continuous upgrades for an annual cost that's comparable for me, and there's a no worries update experience.
There are questions, like how long could I operate if the network goes down and how portable is the data? Quicken's data format has always been proprietary AFAIK, but there are export options.
All excess power generation should be used to mine BC. What's not to like?
If they are close to retirement, the easiest and friendliest course might be to give them a buyout -- early retirement with a substantial bonus and a gold watch. Company politics may be against that, but you could make the case to management that they would be ahead over the next few years if they take this course, considering the new (and yes cheaper) talent that would replace them.
The classic OZ housewife's opposition to Summer Time: "It faids me curtins."
Those French! This would have been better for a 1 April press release.
By the way, the energy doesn't come from the computation. It comes from your wall socket.
This was all understood (by the French) 200 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If we're on our way to a lethal +8C world, that's bad news. But the world is a reflexive system. If we kill ourselves off at +4C, say, human greenhouse gas production ceases, and (after a long lag) the world finds a new stable point without us. So there's a tendency for the world to self-correct. On the other hand, there may be positive feedbacks (tipping points) that push us all the way to a Venus scenario. The moral is, it's a complex non-linear system, and straight line extrapolations are almost certainly wrong when they go far beyond historical experience.
Have we learned nothing from the whole Snowden experience?
You put your drone in the fridge overnight. A microwave oven would be even better, for some values of oven.
If this vulnerability shut down all the hospitals in the UK, you'd see some action maybe. Without a crisis, you just have some snooty security gurus gnashing their teeth, which they do all the time, right?
This is a big problem -- getting chip / system / OS designers to spend time and money to debug systems beyond what end users ignorantly are willing to pay for.
Or look for char on the board. Or use your nose.
Still helpful these days.
HRD is widely used among Hams. One of its claims to fame is integration with amateur transceivers and other equipment; it can control and monitor a wide variety of complex modern rigs, amps, tuners, etc. through serial ports, USB, Ethernet, etc.
Yes, HRD is sort of the systemd of ham radio. You get the same kind of comments.
Would be nice to check my addresses in case my network was an offender so I can fix something I may have missed.
Your router needs a better firewall to prohibit or at least rate limit outgoing traffic to unusual places. Monitor firewall hits. It's "easy", but typical routers don't offer much help.
Well, I'm not sure that the Canadians and Mexicans would completely agree! The US Constitution stops at those borders. The 100 mile thing refers to open sea borders.
I understand that the changeover from 4 to 6 has to be gradual, and I suppose the fact that all the new cellphones are using IPv6 is significant. Still, I wonder if we will ever be able to shut off IPv4 in home installations -- or on phones. Realistically, we can't do it until every server out there supports IPv6.
With Comcast service, I am now fully dual stack, and it's nice to see more of my traffic using IPv6. But there have to be extra overhead and security issues when running two IP systems compared to pure IPv6. Many or most of the services I use are still IPv4 only, e.g. Slashdot.