Yes they are hyping it. Its the primary hype target at the moment, since 3D printing, the cloud, IOT, are all officially boring. We need something else that's gonna change the world to move the spotlight.
IMO, the judge is wrong in this case. This sort of action shouldn't require showing harm to individuals, because the harm isn't necessarily to the individual device owners. Most of the harm is to the people in aggregate.
The harm to the owners is negligible, because they lose just a tiny bit of bandwidth. But the harm to society is huge.
Why is he wrong if the burden is on the plaintiff to show actual harm, and the plaintiff could not show actual harm? Would the judge have been right to not require evidence?
Excellent precedent to cite should I ever get pulled for dangerous driving...
If you ever get sued for dangerous driving, even though you didn't actually harm someone, it might help. But it has nothing to do with breaking the law.
Could be viewed as a failure on the FTCs part I guess, but does anyone have any examples of consumers being harmed by D_Link being cheap POS hardware with poor security?
Possibly a failure to realize that they had a difficult case to make. While it is clear the there were deficiencies, this type of lawsuit requires harm to be shown. If a person was knowingly harmed due to this security lapse, I think we would have heard about it.
It didn't actually measure sitting... In their words, "Our study has several limitations. First, the Actical accelerometer cannot distinguish between postures (such as sitting vs. standing); thus, we relied on an intensity-only definition of sedentary behavior.
Its not that much of a stretch to assume that, during the day, a person who is still for a long period is probably sitting. Yes, they might be standing, or lying down, but sitting is the most probable. At night it would be lying down.
> Google could easily build a filter that could stop 90% or more of these phrases. They will never stop 100%, but they could easily do way better.
If we made a list of objectionable phrases, we may find that Google DID block 90% of them. Without checking, I can't agree with "they could do way better" - we don't know how well they did. We only know that somebody was able to come up with a few phrases that weren't blocked.
> But should they? Is it really their role be society's ideological and moral gatekeepers?
That is indeed a very good question. It gets real interesting when you consider the types of racist things Al Sharpton says, or the things many black comedians say.
If they did block all those phrases, then you would not be able to google this slashdot discussion.
When you are trying to squeeze out as much range as possible, curb weight reduction is very important.
It's less important than you think. Mass matters little on long trips, unless you have poor throttle control. And EVs have regen, so if you drive correctly, it matters less than you think it does in the city, too.
How it compares with ICE weight is meaningless.
False. Totally false. How it compares with ICE weight is totally relevant at all times. Making a car more massive means you need more tire to pull the same number of lateral Gs, which means more rolling resistance which means poorer economy. As such, EVs tend to have narrow tires which compromise handling. Even without exotic materials, you can build a sports car under 3,000 pounds with a gasoline engine.
People commonly described the original Prius as handling like a 1970s land yacht. It wallowed, it slid sideways going over cracked pavement in a turn, and it didn't really want to turn. Making a vehicle heavy and compromising its traction is always a down side. The up sides might well outweigh that, but a lighter vehicle is always going to be more fun to drive. It's going to remain relevant as long as we are permitted to drive ourselves.
A Tesla weighs what a Tesla weighs. Its range is a function of its capacity, curb weight, and aerodynamics. It doesn't matter what ICE cars weigh. You might compare to other EVs instead. They could be heavier, or lighter than an ICE, but that doesn't matter because the Tesla weighs what it must. ICE car weights are irrelevant. If ICE cars got heavier tomorrow, Tesla would perform no differently.
And weight does matter for range, no matter how much you want to ignore it. You'll notice that the most fuel efficient vehicles are the lightest ones. It makes a big difference.
Actually, it's really not. Note the above with the Model 3, for example: adding ~41% more range from batteries increases the vehicle mass by only 7%, which in turn translates to a loss of range at highway speeds of 2-3% 41% vs. 2-3%; it's not that meaningful. It'd be more like 5% for city driving, but then again, nobody cares about EV range in city driving - EVs go much further in city driving regardless, and who drives 310+ miles in-town-only per day?
Sure, if you limit your scope to those who don't care about range, then range doesn't matter. But if you are trying to increase range, vehicle weight does matter.
Shouldn't you be arrested for this level of breech. If you worked at a bank and it was robbed because the security guard always left a door unlocked that would be considered criminal.
I call bullshit. For the past 8 years, every story related to the government was about "...the Obama administration...". So now that it's Trump, nobody's allowed to say Trump?
No, back then they blamed it on "homeland security", or other departments, not "The Obama Administration".
I see someone has no idea of what they are talking about in this regard.
Please, stop with the facts. Its more fun to just assume 'its all connected to the internet', so we can all say how stupid and negligent they are. We don't need to have a clue, its/.
An increase in foot traffic ccan very well be just an influx of the curious. They could have talked about an actual increase is average sales quantities, but didn't.
A tax on revenue is otherwise known as a sales tax.
That pretty much sums it up, since their revenue primarily comes from sales. A tax is a cost to the company, just like any other, and will be rolled into prices.
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With the Tesla, you don't need real fuzzy dice, you can just pull some up on the screen.
Yes they are hyping it. Its the primary hype target at the moment, since 3D printing, the cloud, IOT, are all officially boring. We need something else that's gonna change the world to move the spotlight.
There are craploads of examples of dangerous driving harming people.
OK. I agree. So what difference does that make? How many people have been sued for dangerous driving when nobody was harmed?
Actually the legal definition of "reasonable doubt" is where you are less than 51% certain that a thing occurred.
reasonable doubt has no place in a lawsuit. That is for criminal prosecution.
probably did tens of millions of dollars
Probably isn't good enough in court, and the malware you spoke of was not limited to D-Link.
IMO, the judge is wrong in this case. This sort of action shouldn't require showing harm to individuals, because the harm isn't necessarily to the individual device owners. Most of the harm is to the people in aggregate.
The harm to the owners is negligible, because they lose just a tiny bit of bandwidth. But the harm to society is huge.
Why is he wrong if the burden is on the plaintiff to show actual harm, and the plaintiff could not show actual harm? Would the judge have been right to not require evidence?
Excellent precedent to cite should I ever get pulled for dangerous driving...
If you ever get sued for dangerous driving, even though you didn't actually harm someone, it might help. But it has nothing to do with breaking the law.
Could be viewed as a failure on the FTCs part I guess, but does anyone have any examples of consumers being harmed by D_Link being cheap POS hardware with poor security?
Possibly a failure to realize that they had a difficult case to make. While it is clear the there were deficiencies, this type of lawsuit requires harm to be shown. If a person was knowingly harmed due to this security lapse, I think we would have heard about it.
It didn't actually measure sitting... In their words, "Our study has several limitations. First, the Actical accelerometer cannot distinguish between postures (such as sitting vs. standing); thus, we relied on an intensity-only definition of sedentary behavior.
Its not that much of a stretch to assume that, during the day, a person who is still for a long period is probably sitting. Yes, they might be standing, or lying down, but sitting is the most probable. At night it would be lying down.
> Google could easily build a filter that could stop 90% or more of these phrases. They will never stop 100%, but they could easily do way better.
If we made a list of objectionable phrases, we may find that Google DID block 90% of them. Without checking, I can't agree with "they could do way better" - we don't know how well they did. We only know that somebody was able to come up with a few phrases that weren't blocked.
> But should they? Is it really their role be society's ideological and moral gatekeepers?
That is indeed a very good question. It gets real interesting when you consider the types of racist things Al Sharpton says, or the things many black comedians say.
If they did block all those phrases, then you would not be able to google this slashdot discussion.
When you are trying to squeeze out as much range as possible, curb weight reduction is very important.
It's less important than you think. Mass matters little on long trips, unless you have poor throttle control. And EVs have regen, so if you drive correctly, it matters less than you think it does in the city, too.
How it compares with ICE weight is meaningless.
False. Totally false. How it compares with ICE weight is totally relevant at all times. Making a car more massive means you need more tire to pull the same number of lateral Gs, which means more rolling resistance which means poorer economy. As such, EVs tend to have narrow tires which compromise handling. Even without exotic materials, you can build a sports car under 3,000 pounds with a gasoline engine.
People commonly described the original Prius as handling like a 1970s land yacht. It wallowed, it slid sideways going over cracked pavement in a turn, and it didn't really want to turn. Making a vehicle heavy and compromising its traction is always a down side. The up sides might well outweigh that, but a lighter vehicle is always going to be more fun to drive. It's going to remain relevant as long as we are permitted to drive ourselves.
A Tesla weighs what a Tesla weighs. Its range is a function of its capacity, curb weight, and aerodynamics. It doesn't matter what ICE cars weigh. You might compare to other EVs instead. They could be heavier, or lighter than an ICE, but that doesn't matter because the Tesla weighs what it must. ICE car weights are irrelevant. If ICE cars got heavier tomorrow, Tesla would perform no differently.
And weight does matter for range, no matter how much you want to ignore it. You'll notice that the most fuel efficient vehicles are the lightest ones. It makes a big difference.
Actually, it's really not. Note the above with the Model 3, for example: adding ~41% more range from batteries increases the vehicle mass by only 7%, which in turn translates to a loss of range at highway speeds of 2-3% 41% vs. 2-3%; it's not that meaningful. It'd be more like 5% for city driving, but then again, nobody cares about EV range in city driving - EVs go much further in city driving regardless, and who drives 310+ miles in-town-only per day?
Sure, if you limit your scope to those who don't care about range, then range doesn't matter. But if you are trying to increase range, vehicle weight does matter.
When you are trying to squeeze out as much range as possible, curb weight reduction is very important. How it compares with ICE weight is meaningless.
The headphones are fine, you just need to buy the Monster headphone cables to connect them. Then they'll sound purer, fuller, and richer.
Shouldn't you be arrested for this level of breech. If you worked at a bank and it was robbed because the security guard always left a door unlocked that would be considered criminal.
I'd at least cut their bonuses in half.
I call bullshit. For the past 8 years, every story related to the government was about "...the Obama administration...". So now that it's Trump, nobody's allowed to say Trump?
No, back then they blamed it on "homeland security", or other departments, not "The Obama Administration".
https://www.dailydot.com/layer...
http://www.allgov.com/news/top...
Can you honestly say that you think this story today would not have been blamed directly on Trump?
http://www.salon.com/2012/04/0...
I see someone has no idea of what they are talking about in this regard.
Please, stop with the facts. Its more fun to just assume 'its all connected to the internet', so we can all say how stupid and negligent they are. We don't need to have a clue, its /.
Of course this assumes that the NSA has the ability to do these things.
Dennis Rodman has already planted the malware needed to do this.
No, it means that human factors play a role in safety with these systems. The study has nothing to do with legal culpability.
"""Monitoring driver attention by measuring the driver's touching of the steering wheel "was a poor surrogate for monitored driving engagement." """
How would you monitor their engagement?
Auto makers are working on attention monitoring tools, as they realize it is important human factors issue with partially autonomous driving systems;
http://www.loebermotors.com/bl...
https://electrek.co/2017/08/01...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/s...
An increase in foot traffic ccan very well be just an influx of the curious. They could have talked about an actual increase is average sales quantities, but didn't.
Richmond is in the same state as Springfield.
Is this consistent with transport/delivery rules for other controlled substances (aside from alcohol)?
That should be modded funny, not troll.
Thanks, its an old joke. Some folks can't handle even that.
A tax on revenue is otherwise known as a sales tax.
That pretty much sums it up, since their revenue primarily comes from sales. A tax is a cost to the company, just like any other, and will be rolled into prices.