But if you're a mom and pop coffeeshop, or other small business with one location, then the minimum wage is hurting your employees because you're forced to cut back on hours (and basically the owners work for free to make up for it).
Another way to say it is "The small mom and pop store only has a viable business model if their employees are giving them labor at below fair wages..."
Or another way to say it is that if we had slave labor, far more local stores would be able to stay in business with otherwise unworkable business plans.
One of the problems with x86 SBCs is that they are pretty much solely based on Intel's offerings
That cost problem is actually much more acute when you are talking about the real volume customer for these machines: Commercial products that use the Rpi are on the rise, and already account for more than 1/3rd of Raspberry Pi sales according to my supplier (I use the BBB for my commercial product line, which is much closer to 80% commercial product use now). The extra cost of intel based offerings is absolutely a deal breaker for us, as it does not come with any kind of advantages in exchange for the additional cost. The pi3 is already vastly overpowered for what we need, but the arduino has too little power
The true story of the market driver for the Pi and its competitors is that IoT commercial space. That is the market Intel wanted in to, and that market is *very* price sensitive. Intel cant compete in that space because their core IP is simply too expensive to actually manufacture. The x86 architecture was shit the day it was created and has 30 years of cluster^&*$ hacks in it That mess brings zero value to the Iot world, but has a huge per unit cost. ARM is winning by default because they have had 15 years without a real competitor in their space, and every new generation of product, they simply abandon the old generations mistakes instead of having to support them in perpetuity.
If Intel really wants to survive, they need to start making actual plans to abandon x86 and x64, and use their vast knowledge to go back to the drawing board with a squeaky clean design from scratch. That offering would have a chance in the IoT world, since they could probably get the design to be very efficient in both mip/flop per $ and mip/flop per watt if they didn't have to continue to support the legacy x86 garbage. That would be an offering that could compete with the ARM legions.
x86 is a write off. Intel can abandon it now, or they can try to milk it until its too late, but either way, x86s days are closely tied to Windows and Desktop computers, both of which are facing the beginning of the long slow slide to irrelevancy and eventual abandonment.
A beautiful fallacy! Medical science is pseudoscience, too, because physicians are often wrong?
No, it is pseudoscience because it lacks proper repeatability and has only the barest elements of falsifiability.
In case there is any question, I am in fact referring to both Medical "sciences" and Climate "science".
That having been said, I would still think that it would be the best course of action to err on the side of caution and assume the "scientists" are correct given the extreme ramifications if they are... The venn diagram is pretty convincing:
option 1: They are wrong and we do nothing: No harm no foul.
option 2: They are wrong and we do everything in our power to stop something that wasnt going to happen anyways: Some short term economic losses, maybe.
option 3: They are right and we do everything in our power to stop it: We saved the planet.
option 4: They are right and we do nothing: Extinction.
Only one of those options is really bad. the rest are not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. Anybody that isn't a gambling junky knows where to put their bet on that one.
This is a waste of time. Surely everyone has something better to do than wasting their time on useless projects like this.
While I would agree that this is a waste of time, I would still encourage it, as well as encouraging others to use visual studio for their IOT development. I don't like competition, and this should ensure that I have less of it.
Want good C/C++ code? Get a good C/C++ programmer. Want good Java code? Get a good C/C++ programmer.
Absolutely. If you have a fundamental performance problem with your java program, the likelihood that a java programmer is going to be able to fix it is pretty low. Your C++ programmer will be able to get that performance out of java (if it can even be had that way), or do the partial refactor in C++ to make it performant.
There are an infinite number of ways to put the same program together, and the vast majority of them are slow as hell. Your garden variety C++ programmer will know how to choose the fast ones because they had to learn the consequences of all the variations. Java programmers by contrast typically never even learn how the libraries accomplish their magic, much less how the metal works.
A java programmer divides by two to get the answer. A C++ programmer shifts right by one bit...
Last I checked a Judge CANNOT issue an Order demanding someone to Waive a constitutional right.
The Judge didn't. Uber told Levandowski to waive his 5th amendment rights in regards to this case or they will terminate his employment. Given the court case surrounding the very issue that he is required to waive his rights, Uber is perfectly within the law to make the demand of Levandowski. If he did not violate the law, then waiving his rights in that regard will have no effect on him. If he did break the law, then he is in violation of his contract with Uber anyways, so they have the right to fire him on those grounds. This is simply Ubers only legal way to prod him to undo the legal jamb he put the company in.
Yup, the economy has been the same size forever. Nothing new, nothing gone, ever.
The economy is a zero sum game, just one level of abstraction higher than you think. People consider their own personal wealth relative to others, so when everyone is made more wealthy in equal measure, everyone considers themselves to be no more wealthy than before. It is this effect that translates an open ended economy back into a zero sum game and ensures that it will always be that way. Without changing human nature, you cant fix that one fundamental truth.
Put another way, human greed will grow to fit the available resources no matter how great those resources are. A great many people are not happy unless they have more than everyone else and will hoard until others are deprived of wealth just to feel that they have more than everyone else.
The people who designed these systems, those that operate them, and those that hold the purse strings are all stupid enough to be integrating microsoft windows into a potentially life critical piece of equipment, then networking them together. The original manufacturer should be held liable for even putting windows on the damned things in the first place. There have been plenty of network hardened micro-kernels available since the 80s that the military complex uses for various things. They are more expensive, but when were talking about medical devices, the manufacturer charges a premium for them anyways, sicne they are supposed to be "medical grade", not medical grade price with consumer grade electronics, and supersize profits.
The bigger issues here are the overseas bank account he denied having and what's in the emails.
The even bigger issue is the authenticity of the information being released. When the information is dumped in this fashion, there is no time to properly vette any of the data to validate if it is true or not, and because it is being released by an unknown (for the moment) hacker, there is no one to prosecute for election tampering.
Under most circumstances, I would side with wikileaks, but lately it seems that wikileaks is crossing the line from performing an invaluable public service to outright election tampering and fraud. If wikileaks did not verify the authenticity of the data, then they have no business publishing it, and consequently, I would fully endorse active measures to hold them accountable (including criminal liability) for their actions.
I expect we are going to discover that they did not properly check any of the information they were handed, and as such, those responsible should stand trial. Assange has demonstrated strong political leanings, which is absolutely intolerable for someone in his position.
OTOH delivery services generally require you to have someone wait in the house for hours.
Hahahaha, No.
Delivery drivers will release delivery packages in almost any neighborhood as long as there is some way to "hide" the package so it doesn't get snatched. Be it a back door, a porch, or anywhere else they can deliver it. Even in bad neighborhoods a surprisingly small percentage of such deliveries are reported lost or stolen. On any given day less than 2% of residential deliveries are delayed until the following day because no one was home, and the overwhelming majority (95%+) of residential deliveries are driver release (No signature) because the drivers are expected to leave packages unless the signature is required by the shipper (which costs extra). The reason for all this is simple economics. Paying a driver to stand around for 2 minutes collecting a signature is expensive. It is vastly cheaper for the shippers to take the cheaper shipper release option and simply pay out of pocket for any lost or stolen packages than it is to pay for signature verification on every package. The difference in cost is so dramatic that any given shipper would have to be replacing almost 20% of their packages before the cost of signatures would be cheaper than simply replacing merchandise.
If you have been having trouble with getting your packages delivered to your door, I would suggest the following steps: 1) unlock your screen door so that the driver can place packages between your screen door and inside door. This is the easiest "hiding" spot they can use. 2) put a small note just inside the screen door indicating where larger packages can safely be left. 3) Call the carrier and ask to have a note put on your delivery address indicating a safe place to put delivery packages. 4) find a friendly neighbor who is home during the day and leave a note for packages to be delivered there in the event of an issue. There are many more such suggestions but they all boil down to creating an obvious place for the delivery driver to put something for you to find, but is not in plain view from the street.
And if they have it in stock, FREE instantaneous shipping. Even if Bezos invents a transporter, he still can't beat that.
Its only free if you live in the walmart, otherwise, it costs you gas and wear and tear on your vehicle. For the typical American, a trip to Walmart costs them $9 and they are too stupid to realize it (Average of at least 46.2 cents per mile times an average of 10 miles). In most cases, ground shipping is cheaper from almost anywhere in the US to almost anywhere in the US.
It also requires that you spend an hour (give or take) round trip to Walmart and back, plus the aggravation of dealing with walmarts long lines and absolutely shitty customer service). So at minimum wage, you can add another $10 to that cost. On top of that, even if amazon isn't cheaper than walmart for any given item, there is someone out there that is.
Indeed, all these mesh network fanatic seem to forget that outside the densely populated cities where they live there are vast sparsely populated areas. How does your mesh network reach those areas without being prohibitively expensive?
Even within densely populated areas, the technology doesn't scale well. This only works well at a very specific device density. Field testing has shown that much above or below this density, the performance of the system becomes badly sub-optimal.
It should also be noted that at no density is the technology performance competitive with hardwired providers. This is because as the density goes up, you need more and more primary gateway routers to keep the link latency and link saturation down. This turns out to be right around 2.2 hops per primary access (hard-wired) nodes. In practice, this requires so many hard links that you don't save much compared to just providing hard links to every home, and everywhere that mesh technology is economically viable, hard wired access is also economically viable and vastly superior in performance.
Lastly, the technology is highly susceptible to spectrum poisoning. The only good solution to that is to have a dedicated piece of spectrum for just mesh technology, but that spectrum would be worth close to $100B, and that alone renders the technology completely uneconomical. Current mesh solutions use the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, but both of those are also used by just about every home wifi that is included with any type of Internet access. This punches holes in the mesh that cannot be effectively compensated for. This is only going to get worse as the IOT becomes more and more prevalent.
There are a few mesh networking startup providers that I am aware of, and all of them are plagued by poor performance, poor profitability and poor service reliability. I fully expect the introduction of 5G wireless spectrum from the established cellular carriers to put the final nail in the mesh coffin.
But if it starts becoming a required component for turning up the volume, that is clearly a sign of poor design.
Systemd's integration into more than just init is a fundamental result of a singular problem that has been facing all operating systems for about 15 years now: Hot plugging. Hot plugged devices need to be handled in almost exactly the same way as non-hot swapped devices during boot, so it makes sense to use the same code path for both processes. This effectively means that your init system needs to also handle pretty much every type of device that can be hot plugged. This includes: any and all USB devices, large parts of the audio sub-system, network devices, damn near everything these days. By definition, the software that handles this needs to underly everything except the kernel. Since the kernel does not deal with this (by design), something else has to. Prior to SystemD, the various methods for handling it were a complex jumble of incompatible broken-ness.
The whole things smells of ass... Perhaps it was pulled out of one?
I mean, a Tesla car has trouble driving 300 miles on a single charge, and it doesn't even need to stay afloat in the air. How is the airborne battery able to achieve more with same technology?
Other thoughts: are fans really more efficient compared to an electric drive/transmission? Isn't the air resistance (and therefore losses) higher at 300 mph vs 60 mph driving?
Thats simple. On the whole, aircraft actually get better gas mileage than ground vehicles other than trains.
All things considered, the only thing that stinks here is *your* opinion, which clearly came from the nether regions of your hinterlands: The rest of us can google before we post.
the people who would allow themselves to be exposed to such triggering and the companies that makes the shoddy products are the problem.
Its not even the original failure to create a secure system that is the most damning (although that is a cardinal sin in and of itself). It's the fact that Google crafted a "fix" that was so remarkably easy to exploit a second time that it showed just how little Google actually gives a shit about their customers data security.
I still use Google for search because the alternative is Microsoft or Yahoo, but every day they make me inch closer to something else, anything else.
If Burger King legitimizes triggering digital assistants, then everybody can do it
Everyone CAN do it. Laws don't stop criminals, so claiming that BK opened some pandoras box is just plain ignorant. The box was opened when Google (and Amazon and presumably many other wannabes) created these products without even the rudiments of a secure design. These products are defective by design, and its just lucky that it was brought to light in an innocuous way instead of some criminal or other making off with millions by way of a less harmless approach.
Next I expect google to blacklist the phrase after processing rather than just the advert sound if bk keep this up. They might also demote burger king search results, they really don't like others subverting their algorithms.
Maybe if their algorithms didn't suck so bad, and security wasn't an afterthought at Google, they wouldn't have these problems.
BK, your intrusion into my digital devices, has exempted you from EVER receiving my business again. Boundaries guys... Boundaries.
I for one am actually thankful to BK for taking this next step in demonstrating the *inherent* danger of the Google and Amazon products. People are right to compare this behavior to that of a criminal enterprise, because a criminal enterprise would behave exactly the same way if Google reacted by implementing such a half hearted and inept "fix" for the problem. BKs response is very much a good thing because it is exposing Googles complete disinterest in security, and has exposed Google product failings to the light of day.
That having been said, Google is the party that should be shamed here, not BK.
https://www.amazon.com/CAIG-La... [amazon.com]
this is not new.
These guys apparently think that PCBs are made by sintering powdered metal. That process hasn't been used for manufacturing PCBs in more than three decades, so its not surprising that they still think conductive ink is new as well.
The only people who sinter to make PCBs are those who have not yet realized you can have super complex PCBs manufactured in China For less than the cost of a tube of sintering paste, and get it delivered to your door in a week or less.
Even the amateurs don't hand draw circuits anymore. For anything even moderately interesting, you will spend a week just debugging a hand drawn circuit anyways. Better to just let the professionals build it for you and skip the hassle.
Do you arrest Glock cause someone was murdered with one of the pistols they made?
Yes, if Glock ran commercial ads stating their products were most and solely useful for murder and no other uses, they would likely be arrested or at least charged with crimes.
It would be difficult to make the claim that Glocks handgun products have any other purpose than injuring or killing people. Handguns are mostly worthless as a means of hunting either for food or sport. The simple fact is that handguns are made to kill. I think it is a perfect analogy to the tools this person made. Whether Glock advertises it that way or not, they are what they are.
Given that, I have to agree with the original sentiment. The maker of a tool, no matter how evil the perceived usages of the tool are, should not be accountable for how and when the tools are used. Even the most evil of tools can be put to good uses too. For example, if and when the "Armageddon/Deep Impact" scenario actually comes around, we will be very hard put to save ourselves without nuclear weapons, and the development of those tools lead directly to the development of nuclear power production, and it is entirely possible that this will be the only thing that prevents us from cooking our planet to death by way of AGW
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But if you're a mom and pop coffeeshop, or other small business with one location, then the minimum wage is hurting your employees because you're forced to cut back on hours (and basically the owners work for free to make up for it).
Another way to say it is "The small mom and pop store only has a viable business model if their employees are giving them labor at below fair wages..."
Or another way to say it is that if we had slave labor, far more local stores would be able to stay in business with otherwise unworkable business plans.
One of the problems with x86 SBCs is that they are pretty much solely based on Intel's offerings
That cost problem is actually much more acute when you are talking about the real volume customer for these machines: Commercial products that use the Rpi are on the rise, and already account for more than 1/3rd of Raspberry Pi sales according to my supplier (I use the BBB for my commercial product line, which is much closer to 80% commercial product use now). The extra cost of intel based offerings is absolutely a deal breaker for us, as it does not come with any kind of advantages in exchange for the additional cost. The pi3 is already vastly overpowered for what we need, but the arduino has too little power
The true story of the market driver for the Pi and its competitors is that IoT commercial space. That is the market Intel wanted in to, and that market is *very* price sensitive. Intel cant compete in that space because their core IP is simply too expensive to actually manufacture. The x86 architecture was shit the day it was created and has 30 years of cluster^&*$ hacks in it That mess brings zero value to the Iot world, but has a huge per unit cost. ARM is winning by default because they have had 15 years without a real competitor in their space, and every new generation of product, they simply abandon the old generations mistakes instead of having to support them in perpetuity.
If Intel really wants to survive, they need to start making actual plans to abandon x86 and x64, and use their vast knowledge to go back to the drawing board with a squeaky clean design from scratch. That offering would have a chance in the IoT world, since they could probably get the design to be very efficient in both mip/flop per $ and mip/flop per watt if they didn't have to continue to support the legacy x86 garbage. That would be an offering that could compete with the ARM legions.
x86 is a write off. Intel can abandon it now, or they can try to milk it until its too late, but either way, x86s days are closely tied to Windows and Desktop computers, both of which are facing the beginning of the long slow slide to irrelevancy and eventual abandonment.
A beautiful fallacy! Medical science is pseudoscience, too, because physicians are often wrong?
No, it is pseudoscience because it lacks proper repeatability and has only the barest elements of falsifiability.
In case there is any question, I am in fact referring to both Medical "sciences" and Climate "science".
That having been said, I would still think that it would be the best course of action to err on the side of caution and assume the "scientists" are correct given the extreme ramifications if they are... The venn diagram is pretty convincing:
option 1: They are wrong and we do nothing: No harm no foul.
option 2: They are wrong and we do everything in our power to stop something that wasnt going to happen anyways: Some short term economic losses, maybe.
option 3: They are right and we do everything in our power to stop it: We saved the planet.
option 4: They are right and we do nothing: Extinction.
Only one of those options is really bad. the rest are not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. Anybody that isn't a gambling junky knows where to put their bet on that one.
This is a waste of time. Surely everyone has something better to do than wasting their time on useless projects like this.
While I would agree that this is a waste of time, I would still encourage it, as well as encouraging others to use visual studio for their IOT development. I don't like competition, and this should ensure that I have less of it.
Netflix works great over these speeds. You maybe an exception but I think 99 percent of people need FAR less bandwidth than they realize.
Of course, the corollary to that is that 99% of people use far more bandwidth than they realize.
I wouldn't hire a guy whom I couldn't trust to have all my data at his house.
Unless you're willing to pay them C-suite rates, you will not find people you can trust with certainty...
It possible to find a house 4 BR 2 Bath home for about 1-2 K per month with 30 year mortgage. Try doing that in CA.
Here in upstate NY, we can get 2000sqft for about $1k per month, and a decent programmer will not have to look hard to find work.
Want good C/C++ code? Get a good C/C++ programmer. Want good Java code? Get a good C/C++ programmer.
Absolutely. If you have a fundamental performance problem with your java program, the likelihood that a java programmer is going to be able to fix it is pretty low. Your C++ programmer will be able to get that performance out of java (if it can even be had that way), or do the partial refactor in C++ to make it performant.
There are an infinite number of ways to put the same program together, and the vast majority of them are slow as hell. Your garden variety C++ programmer will know how to choose the fast ones because they had to learn the consequences of all the variations. Java programmers by contrast typically never even learn how the libraries accomplish their magic, much less how the metal works.
A java programmer divides by two to get the answer. A C++ programmer shifts right by one bit...
Last I checked a Judge CANNOT issue an Order demanding someone to Waive a constitutional right.
The Judge didn't. Uber told Levandowski to waive his 5th amendment rights in regards to this case or they will terminate his employment. Given the court case surrounding the very issue that he is required to waive his rights, Uber is perfectly within the law to make the demand of Levandowski. If he did not violate the law, then waiving his rights in that regard will have no effect on him. If he did break the law, then he is in violation of his contract with Uber anyways, so they have the right to fire him on those grounds. This is simply Ubers only legal way to prod him to undo the legal jamb he put the company in.
Yup, the economy has been the same size forever. Nothing new, nothing gone, ever.
The economy is a zero sum game, just one level of abstraction higher than you think. People consider their own personal wealth relative to others, so when everyone is made more wealthy in equal measure, everyone considers themselves to be no more wealthy than before. It is this effect that translates an open ended economy back into a zero sum game and ensures that it will always be that way. Without changing human nature, you cant fix that one fundamental truth.
Put another way, human greed will grow to fit the available resources no matter how great those resources are. A great many people are not happy unless they have more than everyone else and will hoard until others are deprived of wealth just to feel that they have more than everyone else.
So.......she's the reason there are so many homeless people in New York?
And a large part of the reason for the hopelessly clogged traffic situation in parts of New York...
The people who designed these systems, those that operate them, and those that hold the purse strings are all stupid enough to be integrating microsoft windows into a potentially life critical piece of equipment, then networking them together. The original manufacturer should be held liable for even putting windows on the damned things in the first place. There have been plenty of network hardened micro-kernels available since the 80s that the military complex uses for various things. They are more expensive, but when were talking about medical devices, the manufacturer charges a premium for them anyways, sicne they are supposed to be "medical grade", not medical grade price with consumer grade electronics, and supersize profits.
The bigger issues here are the overseas bank account he denied having and what's in the emails.
The even bigger issue is the authenticity of the information being released. When the information is dumped in this fashion, there is no time to properly vette any of the data to validate if it is true or not, and because it is being released by an unknown (for the moment) hacker, there is no one to prosecute for election tampering.
Under most circumstances, I would side with wikileaks, but lately it seems that wikileaks is crossing the line from performing an invaluable public service to outright election tampering and fraud. If wikileaks did not verify the authenticity of the data, then they have no business publishing it, and consequently, I would fully endorse active measures to hold them accountable (including criminal liability) for their actions.
I expect we are going to discover that they did not properly check any of the information they were handed, and as such, those responsible should stand trial. Assange has demonstrated strong political leanings, which is absolutely intolerable for someone in his position.
OTOH delivery services generally require you to have someone wait in the house for hours.
Hahahaha, No.
Delivery drivers will release delivery packages in almost any neighborhood as long as there is some way to "hide" the package so it doesn't get snatched. Be it a back door, a porch, or anywhere else they can deliver it. Even in bad neighborhoods a surprisingly small percentage of such deliveries are reported lost or stolen. On any given day less than 2% of residential deliveries are delayed until the following day because no one was home, and the overwhelming majority (95%+) of residential deliveries are driver release (No signature) because the drivers are expected to leave packages unless the signature is required by the shipper (which costs extra). The reason for all this is simple economics. Paying a driver to stand around for 2 minutes collecting a signature is expensive. It is vastly cheaper for the shippers to take the cheaper shipper release option and simply pay out of pocket for any lost or stolen packages than it is to pay for signature verification on every package. The difference in cost is so dramatic that any given shipper would have to be replacing almost 20% of their packages before the cost of signatures would be cheaper than simply replacing merchandise.
If you have been having trouble with getting your packages delivered to your door, I would suggest the following steps: 1) unlock your screen door so that the driver can place packages between your screen door and inside door. This is the easiest "hiding" spot they can use. 2) put a small note just inside the screen door indicating where larger packages can safely be left. 3) Call the carrier and ask to have a note put on your delivery address indicating a safe place to put delivery packages. 4) find a friendly neighbor who is home during the day and leave a note for packages to be delivered there in the event of an issue. There are many more such suggestions but they all boil down to creating an obvious place for the delivery driver to put something for you to find, but is not in plain view from the street.
And if they have it in stock, FREE instantaneous shipping. Even if Bezos invents a transporter, he still can't beat that.
Its only free if you live in the walmart, otherwise, it costs you gas and wear and tear on your vehicle. For the typical American, a trip to Walmart costs them $9 and they are too stupid to realize it (Average of at least 46.2 cents per mile times an average of 10 miles). In most cases, ground shipping is cheaper from almost anywhere in the US to almost anywhere in the US.
It also requires that you spend an hour (give or take) round trip to Walmart and back, plus the aggravation of dealing with walmarts long lines and absolutely shitty customer service). So at minimum wage, you can add another $10 to that cost. On top of that, even if amazon isn't cheaper than walmart for any given item, there is someone out there that is.
Indeed, all these mesh network fanatic seem to forget that outside the densely populated cities where they live there are vast sparsely populated areas. How does your mesh network reach those areas without being prohibitively expensive?
Even within densely populated areas, the technology doesn't scale well. This only works well at a very specific device density. Field testing has shown that much above or below this density, the performance of the system becomes badly sub-optimal.
It should also be noted that at no density is the technology performance competitive with hardwired providers. This is because as the density goes up, you need more and more primary gateway routers to keep the link latency and link saturation down. This turns out to be right around 2.2 hops per primary access (hard-wired) nodes. In practice, this requires so many hard links that you don't save much compared to just providing hard links to every home, and everywhere that mesh technology is economically viable, hard wired access is also economically viable and vastly superior in performance.
Lastly, the technology is highly susceptible to spectrum poisoning. The only good solution to that is to have a dedicated piece of spectrum for just mesh technology, but that spectrum would be worth close to $100B, and that alone renders the technology completely uneconomical. Current mesh solutions use the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, but both of those are also used by just about every home wifi that is included with any type of Internet access. This punches holes in the mesh that cannot be effectively compensated for. This is only going to get worse as the IOT becomes more and more prevalent.
There are a few mesh networking startup providers that I am aware of, and all of them are plagued by poor performance, poor profitability and poor service reliability. I fully expect the introduction of 5G wireless spectrum from the established cellular carriers to put the final nail in the mesh coffin.
But if it starts becoming a required component for turning up the volume, that is clearly a sign of poor design.
Systemd's integration into more than just init is a fundamental result of a singular problem that has been facing all operating systems for about 15 years now: Hot plugging. Hot plugged devices need to be handled in almost exactly the same way as non-hot swapped devices during boot, so it makes sense to use the same code path for both processes. This effectively means that your init system needs to also handle pretty much every type of device that can be hot plugged. This includes: any and all USB devices, large parts of the audio sub-system, network devices, damn near everything these days. By definition, the software that handles this needs to underly everything except the kernel. Since the kernel does not deal with this (by design), something else has to. Prior to SystemD, the various methods for handling it were a complex jumble of incompatible broken-ness.
Science today has its own cancers.
Fraud is a felony.
The whole things smells of ass... Perhaps it was pulled out of one? I mean, a Tesla car has trouble driving 300 miles on a single charge, and it doesn't even need to stay afloat in the air. How is the airborne battery able to achieve more with same technology? Other thoughts: are fans really more efficient compared to an electric drive/transmission? Isn't the air resistance (and therefore losses) higher at 300 mph vs 60 mph driving?
Thats simple. On the whole, aircraft actually get better gas mileage than ground vehicles other than trains.
All things considered, the only thing that stinks here is *your* opinion, which clearly came from the nether regions of your hinterlands: The rest of us can google before we post.
the people who would allow themselves to be exposed to such triggering and the companies that makes the shoddy products are the problem.
Its not even the original failure to create a secure system that is the most damning (although that is a cardinal sin in and of itself). It's the fact that Google crafted a "fix" that was so remarkably easy to exploit a second time that it showed just how little Google actually gives a shit about their customers data security.
I still use Google for search because the alternative is Microsoft or Yahoo, but every day they make me inch closer to something else, anything else.
If Burger King legitimizes triggering digital assistants, then everybody can do it
Everyone CAN do it. Laws don't stop criminals, so claiming that BK opened some pandoras box is just plain ignorant. The box was opened when Google (and Amazon and presumably many other wannabes) created these products without even the rudiments of a secure design. These products are defective by design, and its just lucky that it was brought to light in an innocuous way instead of some criminal or other making off with millions by way of a less harmless approach.
Next I expect google to blacklist the phrase after processing rather than just the advert sound if bk keep this up. They might also demote burger king search results, they really don't like others subverting their algorithms.
Maybe if their algorithms didn't suck so bad, and security wasn't an afterthought at Google, they wouldn't have these problems.
BK, your intrusion into my digital devices, has exempted you from EVER receiving my business again. Boundaries guys... Boundaries.
I for one am actually thankful to BK for taking this next step in demonstrating the *inherent* danger of the Google and Amazon products. People are right to compare this behavior to that of a criminal enterprise, because a criminal enterprise would behave exactly the same way if Google reacted by implementing such a half hearted and inept "fix" for the problem. BKs response is very much a good thing because it is exposing Googles complete disinterest in security, and has exposed Google product failings to the light of day.
That having been said, Google is the party that should be shamed here, not BK.
https://www.amazon.com/CAIG-La... [amazon.com] this is not new.
These guys apparently think that PCBs are made by sintering powdered metal. That process hasn't been used for manufacturing PCBs in more than three decades, so its not surprising that they still think conductive ink is new as well.
The only people who sinter to make PCBs are those who have not yet realized you can have super complex PCBs manufactured in China For less than the cost of a tube of sintering paste, and get it delivered to your door in a week or less.
Even the amateurs don't hand draw circuits anymore. For anything even moderately interesting, you will spend a week just debugging a hand drawn circuit anyways. Better to just let the professionals build it for you and skip the hassle.
Do you arrest Glock cause someone was murdered with one of the pistols they made?
Yes, if Glock ran commercial ads stating their products were most and solely useful for murder and no other uses, they would likely be arrested or at least charged with crimes.
It would be difficult to make the claim that Glocks handgun products have any other purpose than injuring or killing people. Handguns are mostly worthless as a means of hunting either for food or sport. The simple fact is that handguns are made to kill. I think it is a perfect analogy to the tools this person made. Whether Glock advertises it that way or not, they are what they are.
Given that, I have to agree with the original sentiment. The maker of a tool, no matter how evil the perceived usages of the tool are, should not be accountable for how and when the tools are used. Even the most evil of tools can be put to good uses too. For example, if and when the "Armageddon/Deep Impact" scenario actually comes around, we will be very hard put to save ourselves without nuclear weapons, and the development of those tools lead directly to the development of nuclear power production, and it is entirely possible that this will be the only thing that prevents us from cooking our planet to death by way of AGW