Also a good way to convince the bad ones that they might as well *really* be bad because, heck, they've got nothing to lose.
I wonder about this also; if you are in a deep enough hole you may as well keep digging and see if you can reach the other side.
It cannot be good fo society as a whole to bottle up people's movements like this, forcing someone to stay in an area and get angrier and angrier about it... sounds like a really bad idea.
In a way we should all thank the Chinese for going so flat-out on this idea, because a lot of governments are agitating to do similar things but if the Chinese system runs into major issues it will prevent other governments from trying. On the other hand if they iron out the problems by force, and the system appears to work - it could be more likely to spread.:-(
I quite like the name...what do you have against it?
It just sounds wrong.
And if you consider the word from different angles, it either brings up strippers or porn stars. Not that I have anything against either, but you don't name products "Porn Star 8000" unless they are meant for sexual purposes.
There's not much on a scooter to easily brake. It can only accelerate so fast according to design, so you can't really overwork the motor. The scooters I've seen have pretty sturdy bodies, with engines (the only expensive part) pretty well protected.
I could go way beyond simple mistreatment of a scooter - say attack it with a baseball bat, or throw it against a wall - and it should be usable for field use with some replacement parts and repainting.
It is at the very least a question I did not see the article (yes, I read the whole article) even attempt to ask, either rhetorically or the companies directly. They might want to keep that info close to the vest but like I said it simply makes no sense that only a month would render every single scooter un-repairable.
In fact it's pretty obvious the goal for any scooter company would be to move to scooter designs that are even tougher and more repairable for exactly the reason of viability of the model.
I absolutely will not say it's impossible that so many companies are being funded that are not financially viable, because venture capital. But again I'll say, just from a logical standpoint of considering very rugged use of scooters length of service should be six months to a year, if not indefinitely.
t I donâ(TM)t see the point of transducing IR to an existing color.
Yes that is an issue, so you wouldn't exactly know... but you could probably tell by overall vision going green. It seems like the view would be similar to what we already see in very light sensitive gear like scopes, so it wouldn't even be too strange to process.
the average lifespan increased slightly to 32 days and the median lifespan to 28 days.
I can believe the scooters would last that long before being pulled for servicing.
But I can't believe scooters after a month are so trashed you cannot repair them and get them back out in the field. Even with rough use and vandalism, you should be able to have the units in service for at least half a year...
That doesn't account for outright theft but I don't think so many are taken outright is affects the overall stats.
I have to admit, that I am a long way from being ready to inject anything in my eyes.
However, I really really hope that some brave transhumanists chomping at the bit to be able to use this new technique on themselves, are allowed to do so - it would give us invaluable data on how well this worked, and also on any long term side effects so that some day anyone could choose to do this really cool body mod with relative confidence in success and safety.
It sounds like the effect would be really cool, I wonder if normal daytime viewing would appear over-bright though.
So it can be done in a pretty safe and stoppable way if some unforeseen consequence emerged.
I am really, really doubtful you can lower the entire Earth's temperature by 1.5C in short order (as promised) without massive unforeseen consequences, including a possible cooling feedback loop that could send us into the next ice age... if nothing else that cooling is way too fast for plant and animal life to be comfortable with.
Quick thought experiment for all you out there, would you prefer 2C more of warming, or a new ice age under which most cops across the globe would fail?
something slightly alkaline getting more acidic is acidifying
Hey genius, describe for the class why the appropriate term is "more acidic" when any amount of CO2 we put into the atmosphere would NEVER turn the ocean acidic, at most almost neutral?
The only possible alternative phrasing is "more neutral" since that is the worst possible state you can achieve. An actually acidic ocean is not a possible state to enter, so there is no grounds for anyone to claim that term makes any sense - certainly not anyone that actually understands literally basic chemistry...
Since your task is impossible, I'll leave the last response to you while you twist to avoid this very basic (ha!) and unavoidable fact that makes you wrong.
Too bad we don't have more actual scientists and chemists moderating, instead of you religious wingnuts.
I drove a friends Model 3 and it is very disconcerting to have to look to your right
I drive a MINI with the speedometer in the middle of the dash, that is not a problem at all after a day or two.
It has 260 miles and access to CCS and ChargeAmerica
That range is OK although personally for a long road trip I think 300 would be a minimum, especially as you drain the car for various uses (like seat heaters).
I'm glad they have something but it still seems like Tesla has a much more expansive quick-charging network.
Rear visibility. The Model 3 is really difficult to get a clear rear view
I'll believe that when I see it as ALL new cars have incredibly poor rear visibility now, sloping roof or not.
In fact I do not believe it at all when I look at the rear shots of the Kona Electric (about fourth image from top), that is a tinier rear area to see through even than the Model 3 (especially with the roof being glass)! It is the typical no-visibility rear view window you find on every crossover SUV today.
And if you are doing a long 400 mile drive would you rather do it in a cramped sedan or a SUV with more legspace.
The Model 3 has a lot of leg space (my friend has one), these small crossover SUV's can often be worse depending on how they have allocated the cargo area. I can tell you for sure I'd rather be in a Model 3 than a Rav4 for example....
Does it have AWD, or even an option? Doesn't seem ike it from the specs.
Any quick charge ability? Again reading through the product page, seems like an overnight charge,
6.2 inches of ground clearance - Just 0.3 inches more than a MINI countrman, 0.7 more than a model 3 so claiming it is "an SUV" is kind of misleading.
60 mph in 6.4 seconds.
Not sure in what way this car is actually better, except maybe a bit more interior cargo space. By any other metric it is not as good or useful.
As someone else said in another comment, without some approach to long range quick charging it's not a viable option for a lot of people (though I guess you could buy a Kona Electric for everyday use, then a Tesla for roadtrips and return it).
"Polestar" has to be among the worst car names I have ever heard. The car doesn't look that great either.
And it's not even out until 2020, by which time Tesla will probably have a hovering model, or one that includes the rocket engine package for the same price.
"According to the study, 59.3 percent said they would pay for Netflix (or around 14 million people), contributing at least $112 million in monthly revenue, if they lost access.
Those people still tell other people about shows, they still add to viewing metrics of what is popular. This may be a more direct figure of subscription money Netflix is leaving on the table but there is a hard to calculate offset but cementing Netflix in the zeitgeist.
It seems like a more direct loss but even then the situation is not so clear.
They said cheap. Currently, I don't think you'd find a cheap Thunderbolt anything.
Do I seriously have to spell this out on Slashdot of all places? The whole POINT would be that people thought they were buying a non-thunderbolt device, it might actually cost $1 million to make or whatever by secretly including Thunderbolt and advanced spying hardware and cellular hardware (to transmit what it found), but you don't care because what you are seeking to obtain is more valuable.
Since I'm having to lay out every minute detail of such a potential plot, imagine an Amazon seller of USB-C hubs where most of them are indeed just cheap $10 hubs. But if any address you are to ship to matches a database Russia or China has provided you, the "special" model is shipped...
Starting to get the picture here? Don't buy cheap hardware, at least not if you care about your data security (or maybe even don't want your devices fried by bad power regulation which is less espionage than simple cheap hardware).
USB-C hubs don't pass Thunderbolt signalling. So a cheap USB-C hub would actually protect you from a Thunderbolt device disguised as USB-C.
You are assuming the hub itself is not really thunderbolt in disguise meant to spy on you - obviously it's not going to pass thunderbolt stuff around, with it's primary mission accomplished. That is primarily what I was warning about.
How would anyone know? It's all the same connector (or it can be anyway), and some hubs come with bundled unpluggable cables to attach to your computer.
It's not the devices that are the problem here, but the shitty proprietary software that runs on them.
You have that exactly backwards.
With this level of direct system access, even the most bullet proof of open source code is not going to ever fully protect you.
But you are right to say "don't buy proprietary CRAP", emphasis on crap - as in, do not buy cheap devices to plug into your expensive hardware. That is a perfect philosophy for all things electronic - don't buy the cheapest chargers, cables, USB hubs, drives, SD cards and so on, and you can avoid a lot of potential grief. Save up a little and buy something quality - or as quality as external computer devices can get anyway.
I've said it before in the story on potential USB attack vectors, but I am OK with a very highly performing bus being more susceptible to attacks like these.
As the summary says, what it really means is be careful of what you plug into your USB ports. That probably means cheap USB-C hubs are not a great idea, if you have other external storage you care about being snooped.
I don't think the attack they outlined could see internal storage traffic, but I could be wrong about that.
I'm a big proponent of AI myself, but I think it simply shift what work gets done - that is to say, there will still be a lot of programmer jobs, but they will be more about directly higher level concepts than lower level programming we are used to...
But even with that, two years sound really optimistic for taking over programming, because there is such. large mash-mash of things it could possibly help with.
I think we'll have real honest-to-goodness self driving cars running around the world long before we have a significant number of programming jobs taken over by AI helpers. I'm thinking maybe 8-10 years before we see significant strides in this space.
Well bully then, we'll all have a giant war and the resulting millions dead will be much better than the horrors of a slightly warmer Earth with better agricultural production.
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They don't have a new amazing thing every year.
But the Apple Watch has turned out to be quite a hit.
The AirPods, possibly even a bigger hit.
The iMac Pro was a great update to the Mac, as was the new Mac mini...
It's really easy to claim someone is not successful, if you simply define away anything they were successful at.
I agree that some of what he is saying is hype... but I also think, some is probably not. They have a lot of money and a lot of long term R&D at work.
Also a good way to convince the bad ones that they might as well *really* be bad because, heck, they've got nothing to lose.
I wonder about this also; if you are in a deep enough hole you may as well keep digging and see if you can reach the other side.
It cannot be good fo society as a whole to bottle up people's movements like this, forcing someone to stay in an area and get angrier and angrier about it... sounds like a really bad idea.
In a way we should all thank the Chinese for going so flat-out on this idea, because a lot of governments are agitating to do similar things but if the Chinese system runs into major issues it will prevent other governments from trying. On the other hand if they iron out the problems by force, and the system appears to work - it could be more likely to spread. :-(
The real problem here is simply that a Dash button gives you one less reason to consider an Alexa device.
So, goodby Dash.
I quite like the name...what do you have against it?
It just sounds wrong.
And if you consider the word from different angles, it either brings up strippers or porn stars. Not that I have anything against either, but you don't name products "Porn Star 8000" unless they are meant for sexual purposes.
There's not much on a scooter to easily brake. It can only accelerate so fast according to design, so you can't really overwork the motor. The scooters I've seen have pretty sturdy bodies, with engines (the only expensive part) pretty well protected.
I could go way beyond simple mistreatment of a scooter - say attack it with a baseball bat, or throw it against a wall - and it should be usable for field use with some replacement parts and repainting.
It is at the very least a question I did not see the article (yes, I read the whole article) even attempt to ask, either rhetorically or the companies directly. They might want to keep that info close to the vest but like I said it simply makes no sense that only a month would render every single scooter un-repairable.
In fact it's pretty obvious the goal for any scooter company would be to move to scooter designs that are even tougher and more repairable for exactly the reason of viability of the model.
I absolutely will not say it's impossible that so many companies are being funded that are not financially viable, because venture capital. But again I'll say, just from a logical standpoint of considering very rugged use of scooters length of service should be six months to a year, if not indefinitely.
t I donâ(TM)t see the point of transducing IR to an existing color.
Yes that is an issue, so you wouldn't exactly know... but you could probably tell by overall vision going green. It seems like the view would be similar to what we already see in very light sensitive gear like scopes, so it wouldn't even be too strange to process.
the average lifespan increased slightly to 32 days and the median lifespan to 28 days.
I can believe the scooters would last that long before being pulled for servicing.
But I can't believe scooters after a month are so trashed you cannot repair them and get them back out in the field. Even with rough use and vandalism, you should be able to have the units in service for at least half a year...
That doesn't account for outright theft but I don't think so many are taken outright is affects the overall stats.
Vin Diesel is just edgy enough he might entice them to make him the first human candidate.
I have to admit, that I am a long way from being ready to inject anything in my eyes.
However, I really really hope that some brave transhumanists chomping at the bit to be able to use this new technique on themselves, are allowed to do so - it would give us invaluable data on how well this worked, and also on any long term side effects so that some day anyone could choose to do this really cool body mod with relative confidence in success and safety.
It sounds like the effect would be really cool, I wonder if normal daytime viewing would appear over-bright though.
So it can be done in a pretty safe and stoppable way if some unforeseen consequence emerged.
I am really, really doubtful you can lower the entire Earth's temperature by 1.5C in short order (as promised) without massive unforeseen consequences, including a possible cooling feedback loop that could send us into the next ice age... if nothing else that cooling is way too fast for plant and animal life to be comfortable with.
Quick thought experiment for all you out there, would you prefer 2C more of warming, or a new ice age under which most cops across the globe would fail?
something slightly alkaline getting more acidic is acidifying
Hey genius, describe for the class why the appropriate term is "more acidic" when any amount of CO2 we put into the atmosphere would NEVER turn the ocean acidic, at most almost neutral?
The only possible alternative phrasing is "more neutral" since that is the worst possible state you can achieve. An actually acidic ocean is not a possible state to enter, so there is no grounds for anyone to claim that term makes any sense - certainly not anyone that actually understands literally basic chemistry...
Since your task is impossible, I'll leave the last response to you while you twist to avoid this very basic (ha!) and unavoidable fact that makes you wrong.
Too bad we don't have more actual scientists and chemists moderating, instead of you religious wingnuts.
In oceanography a reduction of pH is called "acidfication".
Only by climate alarmists trying to scare you.
I dare you to find one use of that term before it was referenced in terms of CO2 destroying the planet.
Pretty hard to instill fear with the word "Alkaline"
such as ocean acidification
Ocean water does not become "acidic", it simply is less alkaline (huge, huge distinction).
It has heated and cooled seats
So does the Model 3.
I drove a friends Model 3 and it is very disconcerting to have to look to your right
I drive a MINI with the speedometer in the middle of the dash, that is not a problem at all after a day or two.
It has 260 miles and access to CCS and ChargeAmerica
That range is OK although personally for a long road trip I think 300 would be a minimum, especially as you drain the car for various uses (like seat heaters).
I'm glad they have something but it still seems like Tesla has a much more expansive quick-charging network.
Rear visibility. The Model 3 is really difficult to get a clear rear view
I'll believe that when I see it as ALL new cars have incredibly poor rear visibility now, sloping roof or not.
In fact I do not believe it at all when I look at the rear shots of the Kona Electric (about fourth image from top), that is a tinier rear area to see through even than the Model 3 (especially with the roof being glass)! It is the typical no-visibility rear view window you find on every crossover SUV today.
And if you are doing a long 400 mile drive would you rather do it in a cramped sedan or a SUV with more legspace.
The Model 3 has a lot of leg space (my friend has one), these small crossover SUV's can often be worse depending on how they have allocated the cargo area.
I can tell you for sure I'd rather be in a Model 3 than a Rav4 for example....
260 Mi range and an SUV rather than a Sedan.
Does it have AWD, or even an option? Doesn't seem ike it from the specs.
Any quick charge ability? Again reading through the product page, seems like an overnight charge,
6.2 inches of ground clearance - Just 0.3 inches more than a MINI countrman, 0.7 more than a model 3 so claiming it is "an SUV" is kind of misleading.
60 mph in 6.4 seconds.
Not sure in what way this car is actually better, except maybe a bit more interior cargo space. By any other metric it is not as good or useful.
As someone else said in another comment, without some approach to long range quick charging it's not a viable option for a lot of people (though I guess you could buy a Kona Electric for everyday use, then a Tesla for roadtrips and return it).
"Polestar" has to be among the worst car names I have ever heard. The car doesn't look that great either.
And it's not even out until 2020, by which time Tesla will probably have a hovering model, or one that includes the rocket engine package for the same price.
Instead of test drives, cars can be returned within 7 days or 1,000 miles at no charge
After a thousand miles driving, I'd say it's pretty obvious there's going to be no charge.
They only gave one example of the article but I'm highly dubious of the ability to "measure creativity".
The example they gave - linking related words - does not to me seem a "creative" task, but more analytical.
I do think lyrics can be more distracting than music without though,
"According to the study, 59.3 percent said they would pay for Netflix (or around 14 million people), contributing at least $112 million in monthly revenue, if they lost access.
Those people still tell other people about shows, they still add to viewing metrics of what is popular. This may be a more direct figure of subscription money Netflix is leaving on the table but there is a hard to calculate offset but cementing Netflix in the zeitgeist.
It seems like a more direct loss but even then the situation is not so clear.
They said cheap. Currently, I don't think you'd find a cheap Thunderbolt anything.
Do I seriously have to spell this out on Slashdot of all places? The whole POINT would be that people thought they were buying a non-thunderbolt device, it might actually cost $1 million to make or whatever by secretly including Thunderbolt and advanced spying hardware and cellular hardware (to transmit what it found), but you don't care because what you are seeking to obtain is more valuable.
Since I'm having to lay out every minute detail of such a potential plot, imagine an Amazon seller of USB-C hubs where most of them are indeed just cheap $10 hubs. But if any address you are to ship to matches a database Russia or China has provided you, the "special" model is shipped...
Starting to get the picture here? Don't buy cheap hardware, at least not if you care about your data security (or maybe even don't want your devices fried by bad power regulation which is less espionage than simple cheap hardware).
USB-C hubs don't pass Thunderbolt signalling. So a cheap USB-C hub would actually protect you from a Thunderbolt device disguised as USB-C.
You are assuming the hub itself is not really thunderbolt in disguise meant to spy on you - obviously it's not going to pass thunderbolt stuff around, with it's primary mission accomplished. That is primarily what I was warning about.
How would anyone know? It's all the same connector (or it can be anyway), and some hubs come with bundled unpluggable cables to attach to your computer.
It's not the devices that are the problem here, but the shitty proprietary software that runs on them.
You have that exactly backwards.
With this level of direct system access, even the most bullet proof of open source code is not going to ever fully protect you.
But you are right to say "don't buy proprietary CRAP", emphasis on crap - as in, do not buy cheap devices to plug into your expensive hardware. That is a perfect philosophy for all things electronic - don't buy the cheapest chargers, cables, USB hubs, drives, SD cards and so on, and you can avoid a lot of potential grief. Save up a little and buy something quality - or as quality as external computer devices can get anyway.
I've said it before in the story on potential USB attack vectors, but I am OK with a very highly performing bus being more susceptible to attacks like these.
As the summary says, what it really means is be careful of what you plug into your USB ports. That probably means cheap USB-C hubs are not a great idea, if you have other external storage you care about being snooped.
I don't think the attack they outlined could see internal storage traffic, but I could be wrong about that.
I'm a big proponent of AI myself, but I think it simply shift what work gets done - that is to say, there will still be a lot of programmer jobs, but they will be more about directly higher level concepts than lower level programming we are used to...
But even with that, two years sound really optimistic for taking over programming, because there is such. large mash-mash of things it could possibly help with.
I think we'll have real honest-to-goodness self driving cars running around the world long before we have a significant number of programming jobs taken over by AI helpers. I'm thinking maybe 8-10 years before we see significant strides in this space.
Well bully then, we'll all have a giant war and the resulting millions dead will be much better than the horrors of a slightly warmer Earth with better agricultural production.