Don't care about research. That's happening all the time, the world over and includes stuff like this.
I care about twats making news items because they get into it and give it a fancy name and claim it's the next big thing. Including, I'd like to point out, this website.
"Musk funds research into neural implants" - questionably "news".
"Elon Musk Launches Neuralink To Connect Brains With Computers" - undoubtedly hyperbole.
Especially when the entire story consists of "Something will be announced in the future, but let's guess at what it is because nobody is actually telling us".
Why can you plug into the network at all? (RADIUS, etc.) Why can you plug in unauthorised devices? (NPS, device management etc.) Why can you use devices without up-to-date antivirus/firewall etc. (NPS again) Why do new things plugged in get access to everything and not just a limited VLAN? Why are you able to then get access to something just by a stolen username/password from an authorised device? (Access controls, I mean come on! At least insist that it's a domain-joined device!) Why did they not notice until ACCESS WAS ALREADY BEING USED ON THE NETWORK?
It's pathetic.
I work in a primary school (up to age 11) and you wouldn't be able to do that to our systems without alarm bells going off.
In a "secure" environment like a prison, and especially on secure services that can create access cards and open door, the IT department were doing NOTHING LIKE their job.
Literally, a managed switch and a device management software / Windows server set up properly would have stopped 99% of what they did in its tracks and all they'd have was a stolen username/password they could use only at an authorised machine anyway.
You basically handed the prisoners the network on a plate, for virus infection, malware installation, Internet access, system compromise, packet-sniffing, etc.
And you're saying well done because they noticed a whole bunch of suspicious entries in a log after a LONG time of the computer being in a position to do all kinds of damage?
This isn't surprising. It never took off like some other things, it therefore turns into an expense with little return (Do they charge a percentage of book sales found through their searches? Can they enforce that and stop you just taking the ISBN and buying from Amazon once you've found it?), so it will die when people lose personal interest in it.
The only things I can see staying any significant length of time are Google search and Google Apps. Everything else is just a boredom / filler project that can disappear like so many others, Google or not.
Nobody noticed them run cable. Nobody noticed them tap into the network. Nobody noticed them sticking things up in ceilings. Nobody noticed them taking power to run this stuff. Nobody noticed them using the machine itself. Nobody noticed them take items from classes they were in. Nobody noticed them use the system to the extent they could access private information and defraud others.
(Or were prepared to turn a blind eye to ALL the above).
The problem with the prison is NOTHING to do with them being able to get hold a computer. It's being able to get hold of ANYTHING, even things brought deliberately into the prison for them to hold, without people noticing. And then being so unsupervised or unmonitored that they can basically build a damn network with nobody noticing. No surveillance. No tracking of movements. No wondering where they are. No noticing absences for potentially hours at a time.
In that time, they could have done ANYTHING they liked, with a lot worse things than a bit of fraud being possible.
Nobody noticed. Nobody cared. Nobody checked. Nobody counted. Nobody noticed things missing. Or the guards were bribed / threatened to turn a blind eye. That's your problem. Not what they actually got up to.
You're obviously doing a lot of things that are highly taxable, or fall into high tax brackets (self-employment is one!). That's not going to be any different elsewhere for you, in that case.
I just think it's funny that places like the UK pay less tax (on average, this number is averaged out over every person in the country don't forget, you're an outlier) and get more back - for example free healthcare.
Electric charging stations? Anyone could make a compatible one if Tesla's really took off. And they can likely do it a lot cheaper if they happen to own, say, thousands of fuel stations in convenient locations. There's no market there.
Software updates? To do what?
Advertising? Where? To passengers? You can't advertise to drivers while they're driving.
Apple don't make money on advertising. Or software. They give it away with their hardware. You can't buy MacOS for anything other than a Mac.
Similarly for iTunes Music - though there are cross-platform apps they are second-class citizens. It's about selling the product (music / hardware), not the software.
What can you sell that you can put on a car's computer? Satnav? Good luck. Entertainment might work but someone only has to go to Apple, Amazon, Netflix, etc. and say "You can be the exclusive content provider to Ford in-car systems". Game over.
Tesla's unique selling point is an all-electric vehicle. They're trying to make it also "the best battery". Both are markets that can become heavily contested overnight and there's nothing to suggest that Tesla would lead in either case. They're hoping to win "by scale" on batteries. I bet the Ford petty cash fund outperforms anything they can muster to build on scale.
By the numbers, Tesla produces not very much for a lot of money. And their share price is basically fake at this stage. Share price = the gamble on their future demand. It has little correlation to profit, product or even real life in some cases. Go see Twitter's share price. It was $31bn at IPO.
And then ask yourself how much money has Twitter ever seen come in except investment? Tesla is only worth slightly more than Twitter, in that respect.
Tesla will be left behind the second their products are taken seriously by consumers. Most people will still have never heard of them by then.
When they did what you told them, and nothing else.
I miss the days of DOS where you knew the only program running was the stuff that you'd set to run.
I also miss when GUI's were nothing more than GUI's. You have no idea how blazingly responsive a Windows 3.1 GUI could be on an early Pentium with 8Mb RAM. It flew. Because all it was doing was drawing boxes.
Before you live in a country where you can telemarket medical products to people at all, and don't have proper data protection legislation, think twice.
I'm amazed that a modern country bothers to spend money maintaining (or rather, pretending to maintain) a system that achieves... well, nothing.
"Large hail"? Really? Though I'm sure it can be quite damaging and painful, it's not a large-scale emergency, especially if you have no way of knowing what the fuck is going on.
And let's say, for instance, that it was warning of a retaliatory response. What, precisely, are you going to do about it? What action can an entire city take that will significantly enhance their chances of survival?
And what action DID you take about all this and which convinced you nothing was wrong? You went on Twitter (i.e. a communications medium perfectly serviceable for such an event that you could set up alerts for if you actually cared about fucking hail).
To be honest, I don't think my country even HAS such warnings except in very, very small areas (e.g. chemical plants have chemical alarms that can be heard locally, etc.). I've certainly never heard of one, and nor have my parents. Because they're expensive to maintain and upgrade and provide literally fuck-all warning that you don't already know about, convey zero information, and are vulnerable to mis-use.
Like the "text alert" systems that I hear about in other countries, where everyone in a city gets a text to alert you to a missing child? Well-intentioned, sure. But I'll be switching that shit off after the first time it wakes me up, whether at 4pm or 1am.
It's a pointless, archaic, useless and expensive way to panic people (often unnecessarily) in the modern age.
If you're worried, site them off-shore or out of the way. They don't need to be near any large centres of population at all. And the US has one of the largest areas of land occupied by the fewest people in the world (comparable to the Faroe Islands).
I think any decent cryptanalyst with a copy of a dictionary and even the barest type of translations (e.g. thousands and thousands of books, documents, etc. in easily-readable electronic format) would make mincemeat out of learning any language.
It really is such "day one" junk of discovering such an archive that would occupy almost no effort or time at all compared to actually interpreting the archive as a whole.
Most of our efforts to translate ancient languages come from there being not enough data stored, not too much. "Rosetta Stones" aren't necessary, especially in the modern age, but help things along when the language is very rare and hard to discover.
But if we'd had a few terabytes of ancient Egyptian? It would have been a cinch to work it out, even without big data number crunchers.
You'd think, then, if this was indeed the issue and they were unable to compete, they'd use some of the HUMONGOUS profit margin they make on the iPhones and iPads and buy the same (or similar) chips?
It's got nothing to do with "competing", so much as "owning".
I would actually think - given the privacy and security of the project in question - that you'd WANT the barrier to entry to be high.
I'm not suggesting artificially raising the barrier, but if the people contributing don't understand type-safety, pointer-safety, etc. then does stripping all that out so they can contribute actually make better code? I would suggest that it actually achieves the opposite, long-term.
That's not to say that C is the ideal language here, or that Rust is any better or worse, but in the same way that contributing to the engineering of a new space vehicle is difficult and subject to understanding a lot of fields, and only available to a handful of specialists, surely there is a factor of capability here.
If they were having problems MANAGING the C code, that's reason enough to move everything to Rust. But having a high barrier of entry because you use C? That just sounds like they're dumbing-down because they're short of contributors - something that I wouldn't want to see in such a project.
Cute that you think that it's GCC that they would need to work with for increasing AAA game performance from random third-party developers.
And cuter that you think that a game patch (which can be an entirely different way of working with the data) is only doing something you could implement as a compiler tweak, or in any way quickly, easily or efficiently enough that all you need do is "recompile" the same code for the new processor.
And are you then going to have a Ryzen-version and an Intel-version and maintain them both? Or two codepaths for everything in the binaries? And that even a visible percentage of games developers will bother to do that with anything, certainly anything already out, or old?
By the time this stuff could even be in code that's in your purchased game, it'll be obsoleted by something else from AMD themselves, let alone their competitors.
Literally never seen another stuck signal, and that was a temporary kit pulled from the trailer of a work vehicles. What makes you think this is a big problem?
And signals should change periodically WHETHER OR NOT the loops detect a vehicle. Anything else is a design flaw. It just adjusts the timing if vehicles are detected on one and not another.
P.S. traffic lights pre-date mobile phones by quite a bit. It's not a problem. Guess what country had the world's first?
And any accident you're involved in by choosing to do so will be deemed (at least partially) your fault too.
I have actually witnessed this exact thing one (it was temporary lights for works, and it got "stuck" on allowing one direction of traffic and never switched to the other.
Literally, you were stuck there. Even when people know what's happening (after they've waited for what should be 2-3 cycles, they tend to realise), they do not want to proceed. And you can't. Because the other side might well be - as in this case - stuck on green permanently and not expect you to try.
We turned around, rang the police, and we weren't the first, and they sent out a car to fix it. Ten minutes later when we came back that way again, it was working.
What makes you think that a red light stuck on red is any safer than one NOT stuck on red to cross? It might well - with modern traffic management systems - be stuck on red for a reason.
In the UK, red means DO NOT CROSS the line of the traffic light. If you're already past the line by the time it goes red, you're on your own (e.g. traffic jam in front but no yellow box forcing you to keep the junction clear and nothing moves for a whole phase) but it's not an offence.
It's quite simple, with our rules. Yellow means "It's about to go red". Red means "You CANNOT cross that line" (and the line is physical - drawn on the ground).
If you cross the line on red, you've broke the law, whether it was red for 0.1 seconds or 10 years (note: you can't even cross it if an emergency vehicle appears behind and you need to cross it to let them pass... it's AGAINST THE LAW to cross the line once the light is red).
The yellow phase has a prescribed minimum time dependent on the speed of the road, but it's basically "this is your warning" and then the red is "do not cross". What decision you make in between is up to your but our red-light cameras trigger on a beam on the line that is activated when the light goes red.
Once you've passed that line on green or amber - no matter what the lights then change to show, you've not broken the "traffic light laws", but you might still be driving dangerously, parked in a yellow-hatched box when you shouldn't be etc. but you aren't automatically fined for the light offence.
That anyone is arguing over tiny timings and when they activate means that people are trying to get out of being fined for their bad driving habits, and local authorities are caving because of bad feeling.
You should just make it very simple: When the light goes red, the beam activates. If you're IN the beam at that point, you cannot progress forward (we'll take your picture if the beam suddenly becomes unbroken). If you're already past the beam at that point, you can do what you need to (we won't take your picture). If you TRIGGER the beam at that point, you get a fine (we take your picture).
So long as the yellow phase is a legally-safe period of time to come to a safe and controlled halt from the maximum speed of the road, everything else is moot.
Not at all sure that any kind of tunnel is appropriate in this day and age, anyway.
Hell, just push all your traffic through us! It's fine! All that unencrypted email and DNS lookup? Don't worry, we're just converting to IPv4 for you!
My home router has every IPv6 option known to man, including all kinds of tunnel and DHCPv6 etc. kind of connectivity.
My ISP supports none of them. The problem is not that I couldn't get on the IPv6 net. It's that my ISP has zero interest in helping me do so. Until that's fixed, it's pointless worrying about another way to get to the same sites/services as I already do.
This is the FOURTH school I've worked at that has the same problem. The others I've worked at have deliberately refused solar installs after doing the sums.
In certain places, solar is just POINTLESS.
I'm in the UK, a major developed country the same latitude as other huge centres of population the world over. (Please don't say "Ah, yes, in the UK you won't get...." - this is exactly my point, solar is not a panacea).
And it's currently reading... ZIP. Literally I have to interpret the decimal points, so it's less than 100W. It's 1pm, it's got cloud cover but not raining, etc. and is daylight enough that you don't need a bulb in the office. We're in the middle of 28 acres of farmland (which tells you just what kind of school we're talking about here).
It's a school so it's electrically checked annually. They are paying for support, so it's verified to be working . It's cleaned every term. It's on a feed-in tariff and they are pushing their green credentials to parents, so they have an interest in seeing it work. I've seen it read nearly a KW, in the Summer, in direct sunlight, on scorching hot days, if you're lucky.
It's on an unobstructed roof, faces South, no trees or other cover.
It's 10KWp. It's about five years old (please don't say "Oh, you need to replace it to get the new.... what's the point if every five years you have to replace a system that takes 20+ to pay itself off?).
In over five years, it's generated 24408 KWh. That's everything, total, complete.
We are not alone. Selling solar to schools is a known con for bursars in the UK. The suppliers do exactly what they promise (and they never promise a minimum), the kit does what it can (and the kit is all third-party so you can verify others do get the maximums). It gets installed properly and schools that have it ALL complain how little it actually does, no matter what company, panel, etc. they use.
Honestly, fourth school I've had this at, all of them the ONLY schools to actually have solar.
The solar roof installed on my workplace (a large school) costs tens of thousands and won't pay for itself in 20 years.
It isn't even warrantied for that long.
It very much depends on where you are, not whether your panel is vertical or not (sure, it's BETTER to be vertical, but if you don't have enough sun in the first place, it makes virtually no difference).
We even have one of those "this is how much energy you're generating, CO2 you've saved" screens inside the building it's on. It's currently generating.... 45W. I could run a small incandescent bulb from it. Before losses.
Fortunately, we don't try and push that into battery storage or anything, because it's just not worth it. I was once asked if we could show the stat to parents on the website. Ironically, the servers, network switches, etc. in use to display that stat on the school webpages would use something like 10 times more power than it would be generating, just to do so.
I've bought at least three 10GBP ones from Amazon Today's Deals.
There's one hanging in my office window now. No idea of brand (it's just plain and blank, but I think it puts up a logo when you turn it on, I just can't turn it off at the moment as it's on wireless and does stuff all day long).
We use them as everything from digital signage to server monitors.
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Don't care about research. That's happening all the time, the world over and includes stuff like this.
I care about twats making news items because they get into it and give it a fancy name and claim it's the next big thing. Including, I'd like to point out, this website.
"Musk funds research into neural implants" - questionably "news".
"Elon Musk Launches Neuralink To Connect Brains With Computers" - undoubtedly hyperbole.
Especially when the entire story consists of "Something will be announced in the future, but let's guess at what it is because nobody is actually telling us".
Call me back when they do the first human clinical trial.
That'll be... what? 20-30 years from now?
At that point, they might be able to prove they can safely do things, and then they can get started on what they actually want to fix.
So is your university paying Google a subscription to do it?
This is the point. They're not.
Like HELL!
Why can you plug into the network at all? (RADIUS, etc.)
Why can you plug in unauthorised devices? (NPS, device management etc.)
Why can you use devices without up-to-date antivirus/firewall etc. (NPS again)
Why do new things plugged in get access to everything and not just a limited VLAN?
Why are you able to then get access to something just by a stolen username/password from an authorised device? (Access controls, I mean come on! At least insist that it's a domain-joined device!)
Why did they not notice until ACCESS WAS ALREADY BEING USED ON THE NETWORK?
It's pathetic.
I work in a primary school (up to age 11) and you wouldn't be able to do that to our systems without alarm bells going off.
In a "secure" environment like a prison, and especially on secure services that can create access cards and open door, the IT department were doing NOTHING LIKE their job.
Literally, a managed switch and a device management software / Windows server set up properly would have stopped 99% of what they did in its tracks and all they'd have was a stolen username/password they could use only at an authorised machine anyway.
You basically handed the prisoners the network on a plate, for virus infection, malware installation, Internet access, system compromise, packet-sniffing, etc.
And you're saying well done because they noticed a whole bunch of suspicious entries in a log after a LONG time of the computer being in a position to do all kinds of damage?
Are they a shareholder-answerable business?
Does it make them money?
No? What did you expect?
This isn't surprising. It never took off like some other things, it therefore turns into an expense with little return (Do they charge a percentage of book sales found through their searches? Can they enforce that and stop you just taking the ISBN and buying from Amazon once you've found it?), so it will die when people lose personal interest in it.
The only things I can see staying any significant length of time are Google search and Google Apps. Everything else is just a boredom / filler project that can disappear like so many others, Google or not.
That's the least of your worries.
Nobody noticed them run cable.
Nobody noticed them tap into the network.
Nobody noticed them sticking things up in ceilings.
Nobody noticed them taking power to run this stuff.
Nobody noticed them using the machine itself.
Nobody noticed them take items from classes they were in.
Nobody noticed them use the system to the extent they could access private information and defraud others.
(Or were prepared to turn a blind eye to ALL the above).
The problem with the prison is NOTHING to do with them being able to get hold a computer. It's being able to get hold of ANYTHING, even things brought deliberately into the prison for them to hold, without people noticing. And then being so unsupervised or unmonitored that they can basically build a damn network with nobody noticing. No surveillance. No tracking of movements. No wondering where they are. No noticing absences for potentially hours at a time.
In that time, they could have done ANYTHING they liked, with a lot worse things than a bit of fraud being possible.
Nobody noticed. Nobody cared. Nobody checked. Nobody counted. Nobody noticed things missing. Or the guards were bribed / threatened to turn a blind eye. That's your problem. Not what they actually got up to.
UK pays less tax.
Get free healthcare. Giving better life expectancy (and lower teenage pregnacy rates):
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Lower crime rates:
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Comparable educational levels in less time:
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Whatever you think of "other countries" that were "stupid enough to allow taxes to get so high" applies to the US, not to the UK.
You pay more. Get less back.
And so... be thankful you don't live elsewhere.
You're obviously doing a lot of things that are highly taxable, or fall into high tax brackets (self-employment is one!). That's not going to be any different elsewhere for you, in that case.
I just think it's funny that places like the UK pay less tax (on average, this number is averaged out over every person in the country don't forget, you're an outlier) and get more back - for example free healthcare.
Electric charging stations? Anyone could make a compatible one if Tesla's really took off. And they can likely do it a lot cheaper if they happen to own, say, thousands of fuel stations in convenient locations. There's no market there.
Software updates? To do what?
Advertising? Where? To passengers? You can't advertise to drivers while they're driving.
Apple don't make money on advertising. Or software. They give it away with their hardware. You can't buy MacOS for anything other than a Mac.
Similarly for iTunes Music - though there are cross-platform apps they are second-class citizens. It's about selling the product (music / hardware), not the software.
What can you sell that you can put on a car's computer? Satnav? Good luck. Entertainment might work but someone only has to go to Apple, Amazon, Netflix, etc. and say "You can be the exclusive content provider to Ford in-car systems". Game over.
Tesla's unique selling point is an all-electric vehicle. They're trying to make it also "the best battery". Both are markets that can become heavily contested overnight and there's nothing to suggest that Tesla would lead in either case. They're hoping to win "by scale" on batteries. I bet the Ford petty cash fund outperforms anything they can muster to build on scale.
By the numbers, Tesla produces not very much for a lot of money. And their share price is basically fake at this stage. Share price = the gamble on their future demand. It has little correlation to profit, product or even real life in some cases. Go see Twitter's share price. It was $31bn at IPO.
And then ask yourself how much money has Twitter ever seen come in except investment? Tesla is only worth slightly more than Twitter, in that respect.
Tesla will be left behind the second their products are taken seriously by consumers. Most people will still have never heard of them by then.
When they did what you told them, and nothing else.
I miss the days of DOS where you knew the only program running was the stuff that you'd set to run.
I also miss when GUI's were nothing more than GUI's. You have no idea how blazingly responsive a Windows 3.1 GUI could be on an early Pentium with 8Mb RAM. It flew. Because all it was doing was drawing boxes.
No.
Before you live in a country where you can telemarket medical products to people at all, and don't have proper data protection legislation, think twice.
I'm amazed that a modern country bothers to spend money maintaining (or rather, pretending to maintain) a system that achieves... well, nothing.
"Large hail"? Really? Though I'm sure it can be quite damaging and painful, it's not a large-scale emergency, especially if you have no way of knowing what the fuck is going on.
And let's say, for instance, that it was warning of a retaliatory response. What, precisely, are you going to do about it? What action can an entire city take that will significantly enhance their chances of survival?
And what action DID you take about all this and which convinced you nothing was wrong? You went on Twitter (i.e. a communications medium perfectly serviceable for such an event that you could set up alerts for if you actually cared about fucking hail).
To be honest, I don't think my country even HAS such warnings except in very, very small areas (e.g. chemical plants have chemical alarms that can be heard locally, etc.). I've certainly never heard of one, and nor have my parents. Because they're expensive to maintain and upgrade and provide literally fuck-all warning that you don't already know about, convey zero information, and are vulnerable to mis-use.
Like the "text alert" systems that I hear about in other countries, where everyone in a city gets a text to alert you to a missing child? Well-intentioned, sure. But I'll be switching that shit off after the first time it wakes me up, whether at 4pm or 1am.
It's a pointless, archaic, useless and expensive way to panic people (often unnecessarily) in the modern age.
Number of nuclear power stations in the world:
350+
https://www.nei.org/Knowledge-...
Number that have caused any significant amount of evacuation:
Chernobyl (human ignorance), Fukushima (tsunami + earthqauke), Three Mile (human error).
That's less than 1%.
If you're worried, site them off-shore or out of the way. They don't need to be near any large centres of population at all. And the US has one of the largest areas of land occupied by the fewest people in the world (comparable to the Faroe Islands).
I think any decent cryptanalyst with a copy of a dictionary and even the barest type of translations (e.g. thousands and thousands of books, documents, etc. in easily-readable electronic format) would make mincemeat out of learning any language.
It really is such "day one" junk of discovering such an archive that would occupy almost no effort or time at all compared to actually interpreting the archive as a whole.
Most of our efforts to translate ancient languages come from there being not enough data stored, not too much. "Rosetta Stones" aren't necessary, especially in the modern age, but help things along when the language is very rare and hard to discover.
But if we'd had a few terabytes of ancient Egyptian? It would have been a cinch to work it out, even without big data number crunchers.
You'd think, then, if this was indeed the issue and they were unable to compete, they'd use some of the HUMONGOUS profit margin they make on the iPhones and iPads and buy the same (or similar) chips?
It's got nothing to do with "competing", so much as "owning".
I would actually think - given the privacy and security of the project in question - that you'd WANT the barrier to entry to be high.
I'm not suggesting artificially raising the barrier, but if the people contributing don't understand type-safety, pointer-safety, etc. then does stripping all that out so they can contribute actually make better code? I would suggest that it actually achieves the opposite, long-term.
That's not to say that C is the ideal language here, or that Rust is any better or worse, but in the same way that contributing to the engineering of a new space vehicle is difficult and subject to understanding a lot of fields, and only available to a handful of specialists, surely there is a factor of capability here.
If they were having problems MANAGING the C code, that's reason enough to move everything to Rust. But having a high barrier of entry because you use C? That just sounds like they're dumbing-down because they're short of contributors - something that I wouldn't want to see in such a project.
Cute that you think that it's GCC that they would need to work with for increasing AAA game performance from random third-party developers.
And cuter that you think that a game patch (which can be an entirely different way of working with the data) is only doing something you could implement as a compiler tweak, or in any way quickly, easily or efficiently enough that all you need do is "recompile" the same code for the new processor.
And are you then going to have a Ryzen-version and an Intel-version and maintain them both? Or two codepaths for everything in the binaries? And that even a visible percentage of games developers will bother to do that with anything, certainly anything already out, or old?
By the time this stuff could even be in code that's in your purchased game, it'll be obsoleted by something else from AMD themselves, let alone their competitors.
You don't program for a living, do you?
Literally never seen another stuck signal, and that was a temporary kit pulled from the trailer of a work vehicles. What makes you think this is a big problem?
And signals should change periodically WHETHER OR NOT the loops detect a vehicle. Anything else is a design flaw. It just adjusts the timing if vehicles are detected on one and not another.
P.S. traffic lights pre-date mobile phones by quite a bit. It's not a problem. Guess what country had the world's first?
Technically, you don't.
And any accident you're involved in by choosing to do so will be deemed (at least partially) your fault too.
I have actually witnessed this exact thing one (it was temporary lights for works, and it got "stuck" on allowing one direction of traffic and never switched to the other.
Literally, you were stuck there. Even when people know what's happening (after they've waited for what should be 2-3 cycles, they tend to realise), they do not want to proceed. And you can't. Because the other side might well be - as in this case - stuck on green permanently and not expect you to try.
We turned around, rang the police, and we weren't the first, and they sent out a car to fix it. Ten minutes later when we came back that way again, it was working.
What makes you think that a red light stuck on red is any safer than one NOT stuck on red to cross? It might well - with modern traffic management systems - be stuck on red for a reason.
Really?
In the UK, red means DO NOT CROSS the line of the traffic light. If you're already past the line by the time it goes red, you're on your own (e.g. traffic jam in front but no yellow box forcing you to keep the junction clear and nothing moves for a whole phase) but it's not an offence.
It's quite simple, with our rules. Yellow means "It's about to go red". Red means "You CANNOT cross that line" (and the line is physical - drawn on the ground).
If you cross the line on red, you've broke the law, whether it was red for 0.1 seconds or 10 years (note: you can't even cross it if an emergency vehicle appears behind and you need to cross it to let them pass... it's AGAINST THE LAW to cross the line once the light is red).
The yellow phase has a prescribed minimum time dependent on the speed of the road, but it's basically "this is your warning" and then the red is "do not cross". What decision you make in between is up to your but our red-light cameras trigger on a beam on the line that is activated when the light goes red.
Once you've passed that line on green or amber - no matter what the lights then change to show, you've not broken the "traffic light laws", but you might still be driving dangerously, parked in a yellow-hatched box when you shouldn't be etc. but you aren't automatically fined for the light offence.
That anyone is arguing over tiny timings and when they activate means that people are trying to get out of being fined for their bad driving habits, and local authorities are caving because of bad feeling.
You should just make it very simple:
When the light goes red, the beam activates.
If you're IN the beam at that point, you cannot progress forward (we'll take your picture if the beam suddenly becomes unbroken).
If you're already past the beam at that point, you can do what you need to (we won't take your picture).
If you TRIGGER the beam at that point, you get a fine (we take your picture).
So long as the yellow phase is a legally-safe period of time to come to a safe and controlled halt from the maximum speed of the road, everything else is moot.
Not at all sure that any kind of tunnel is appropriate in this day and age, anyway.
Hell, just push all your traffic through us! It's fine! All that unencrypted email and DNS lookup? Don't worry, we're just converting to IPv4 for you!
My home router has every IPv6 option known to man, including all kinds of tunnel and DHCPv6 etc. kind of connectivity.
My ISP supports none of them. The problem is not that I couldn't get on the IPv6 net. It's that my ISP has zero interest in helping me do so. Until that's fixed, it's pointless worrying about another way to get to the same sites/services as I already do.
Sigh.
This is the FOURTH school I've worked at that has the same problem. The others I've worked at have deliberately refused solar installs after doing the sums.
In certain places, solar is just POINTLESS.
I'm in the UK, a major developed country the same latitude as other huge centres of population the world over. (Please don't say "Ah, yes, in the UK you won't get...." - this is exactly my point, solar is not a panacea).
And it's currently reading... ZIP. Literally I have to interpret the decimal points, so it's less than 100W. It's 1pm, it's got cloud cover but not raining, etc. and is daylight enough that you don't need a bulb in the office. We're in the middle of 28 acres of farmland (which tells you just what kind of school we're talking about here).
It's a school so it's electrically checked annually. They are paying for support, so it's verified to be working . It's cleaned every term. It's on a feed-in tariff and they are pushing their green credentials to parents, so they have an interest in seeing it work. I've seen it read nearly a KW, in the Summer, in direct sunlight, on scorching hot days, if you're lucky.
It's on an unobstructed roof, faces South, no trees or other cover.
It's 10KWp. It's about five years old (please don't say "Oh, you need to replace it to get the new.... what's the point if every five years you have to replace a system that takes 20+ to pay itself off?).
In over five years, it's generated 24408 KWh. That's everything, total, complete.
We are not alone. Selling solar to schools is a known con for bursars in the UK. The suppliers do exactly what they promise (and they never promise a minimum), the kit does what it can (and the kit is all third-party so you can verify others do get the maximums). It gets installed properly and schools that have it ALL complain how little it actually does, no matter what company, panel, etc. they use.
Honestly, fourth school I've had this at, all of them the ONLY schools to actually have solar.
Good for you.
The solar roof installed on my workplace (a large school) costs tens of thousands and won't pay for itself in 20 years.
It isn't even warrantied for that long.
It very much depends on where you are, not whether your panel is vertical or not (sure, it's BETTER to be vertical, but if you don't have enough sun in the first place, it makes virtually no difference).
We even have one of those "this is how much energy you're generating, CO2 you've saved" screens inside the building it's on. It's currently generating.... 45W. I could run a small incandescent bulb from it. Before losses.
Fortunately, we don't try and push that into battery storage or anything, because it's just not worth it. I was once asked if we could show the stat to parents on the website. Ironically, the servers, network switches, etc. in use to display that stat on the school webpages would use something like 10 times more power than it would be generating, just to do so.
I've bought at least three 10GBP ones from Amazon Today's Deals.
There's one hanging in my office window now. No idea of brand (it's just plain and blank, but I think it puts up a logo when you turn it on, I just can't turn it off at the moment as it's on wireless and does stuff all day long).
We use them as everything from digital signage to server monitors.