Zuck made a big chunk of change last election cycle, Russkie money or not. News, fake or not, made lots of clicks. Politically, it didn't matter. The company got a big tax break, so FB won either way. The news feeds were driving down traffic because FB doesn't want to spend money and time on new programming tweaks or human auditors and it's less costly to just close it down. If you have politically active friends, you can shut off the shares and refeeds by just unfollowing them, or politely ask them to not share them with you. It does work.
Not really. The Russkies used far less sophisticated brute force attacks to break into the DNC and HRC's people. The whole meltdown/sceptre mess isn't one that has ever been spotted in the wild, and likely never will be. It was a product of a researcher, and got the press. I would not bother to patch M$ or microcode unless a variant represented a significant threat found in the wild.
From a professional driver view, the truck has excellent potential, but getting a large or even medium sized fleet to give them a try will be difficult. This has several causes, but the one I see right off the bat is the lack of infrastructure in the truck stop business right now. With diesel, I can usually fill the tanks, use the restroom, get something to eat and go in about 18 minutes or so, and I'm a slow poke. 30 minutes on a charger would cover the mandatory 8 hour break US drivers have to take, which would be fine, Getting major chain truck stops like TA, Pilot, etc. would be essential to those fleets, but there is also a need to have those charging stations in areas not served by the big chain stops. All Elon would have to do is open up Trucker Path to see the scale of that problem. Canada too, would need additional facilities, owing to their longer 13 hour running day versus the 11 hour one stateside. Trains would not be suitable for cross border work in any sort of automated or semi-automated environment because of traffic flows and the needs of inspectors at border crossings. Animal collisions are a concern, even for conventionally powered trucks, as they do a lot of damage, but is survivable in conventionally powered setups. I'm not so certain about batterry packs, but Tesla cars haven't got much data about wildlife collisions, as EV charging areas in Minnesota don't go far outside the exurbs of the twin cities. Overall, I give it a 5 of 5 for concept, but 2 of 5 for practicality with the lack of charging facilities right now.
Google sees the future, and its not in what their core business is. The future in larger metro areas is community wifi replacing cellular, which is eventual anyways now that the Supreme Court has made the vertically integrated monoliths utilities. LTE is a transitional technology, and by the time it's deployed and the GSM/CDMA wars end, it will all be a moot point. Qualcomm is going down, now that Samsung has abandoned them, so wireless will finally settle on a winner there. I would really rather see the focus on mobile be extending the reach of digital services outside the traditional areas of large cities and extend out to less populated regions, where there is definitely a marketplace, but no technology to serve them. That's where the aging infrastructure of cellular could be cleverly redeployed once the wifi era begins in earnest in cities.
or at least considering ID more like dogs. Really. I can just hear the 'mark of the beast' stuff out of the religious right heading this way. Biometrics have limits just like any other technology. I agree with what has been said in prior debates about this stuff. Perhaps the biometric data can be used as a public/private key system, with safeguards built into it, but changeable as needed to address advancements in hacking by individuals driven by greed, etc. This is the only deterrence we have left when it's all broken down into ones and zeros.
Yahoo lost their edge years ago when they failed to see the obvious and tried to out do Google. They missed so badly, it's not funny anymore.
If they had a chief executive with a little sense and a lot more than just 'how do I look' in mind, perhaps they could get a unified vision in place and
move forward as a company. That will not happen. They missed it completely, and like their fellow hangers-on at AOL, who never completed the
transition to broadband well, they will soon be a name in tech's musty dustbin of history before the decade is out. The only thing that people wonder
about Yahoo these days is when they will sell out and who to. They are dwarfed in the ad market by many other familiar sites, so what are they hanging
around for? Not even the slightest attempt to refine any of their own software (perfect example, Yahoo Messenger) in years, so what are they really
doing over there in the bay area anyway? This is the problem that has no direct answer. As to the actual 'remix', it seems like a line straight out of GTA
Vice City. We went in a different direction... Yeah, a cheap direction.
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Zuck made a big chunk of change last election cycle, Russkie money or not. News, fake or not, made lots of clicks. Politically, it didn't matter. The company got a big tax break, so FB won either way. The news feeds were driving down traffic because FB doesn't want to spend money and time on new programming tweaks or human auditors and it's less costly to just close it down. If you have politically active friends, you can shut off the shares and refeeds by just unfollowing them, or politely ask them to not share them with you. It does work.
Not really. The Russkies used far less sophisticated brute force attacks to break into the DNC and HRC's people. The whole meltdown/sceptre mess isn't one that has ever been spotted in the wild, and likely never will be. It was a product of a researcher, and got the press. I would not bother to patch M$ or microcode unless a variant represented a significant threat found in the wild.
From a professional driver view, the truck has excellent potential, but getting a large or even medium sized fleet to give them a try will be difficult. This has several causes, but the one I see right off the bat is the lack of infrastructure in the truck stop business right now. With diesel, I can usually fill the tanks, use the restroom, get something to eat and go in about 18 minutes or so, and I'm a slow poke. 30 minutes on a charger would cover the mandatory 8 hour break US drivers have to take, which would be fine, Getting major chain truck stops like TA, Pilot, etc. would be essential to those fleets, but there is also a need to have those charging stations in areas not served by the big chain stops. All Elon would have to do is open up Trucker Path to see the scale of that problem. Canada too, would need additional facilities, owing to their longer 13 hour running day versus the 11 hour one stateside. Trains would not be suitable for cross border work in any sort of automated or semi-automated environment because of traffic flows and the needs of inspectors at border crossings. Animal collisions are a concern, even for conventionally powered trucks, as they do a lot of damage, but is survivable in conventionally powered setups. I'm not so certain about batterry packs, but Tesla cars haven't got much data about wildlife collisions, as EV charging areas in Minnesota don't go far outside the exurbs of the twin cities. Overall, I give it a 5 of 5 for concept, but 2 of 5 for practicality with the lack of charging facilities right now.
Google sees the future, and its not in what their core business is. The future in larger metro areas is community wifi replacing cellular, which is eventual anyways now that the Supreme Court has made the vertically integrated monoliths utilities. LTE is a transitional technology, and by the time it's deployed and the GSM/CDMA wars end, it will all be a moot point. Qualcomm is going down, now that Samsung has abandoned them, so wireless will finally settle on a winner there. I would really rather see the focus on mobile be extending the reach of digital services outside the traditional areas of large cities and extend out to less populated regions, where there is definitely a marketplace, but no technology to serve them. That's where the aging infrastructure of cellular could be cleverly redeployed once the wifi era begins in earnest in cities.
or at least considering ID more like dogs. Really. I can just hear the 'mark of the beast' stuff out of the religious right heading this way. Biometrics have limits just like any other technology. I agree with what has been said in prior debates about this stuff. Perhaps the biometric data can be used as a public/private key system, with safeguards built into it, but changeable as needed to address advancements in hacking by individuals driven by greed, etc. This is the only deterrence we have left when it's all broken down into ones and zeros.
Yahoo lost their edge years ago when they failed to see the obvious and tried to out do Google. They missed so badly, it's not funny anymore. If they had a chief executive with a little sense and a lot more than just 'how do I look' in mind, perhaps they could get a unified vision in place and move forward as a company. That will not happen. They missed it completely, and like their fellow hangers-on at AOL, who never completed the transition to broadband well, they will soon be a name in tech's musty dustbin of history before the decade is out. The only thing that people wonder about Yahoo these days is when they will sell out and who to. They are dwarfed in the ad market by many other familiar sites, so what are they hanging around for? Not even the slightest attempt to refine any of their own software (perfect example, Yahoo Messenger) in years, so what are they really doing over there in the bay area anyway? This is the problem that has no direct answer. As to the actual 'remix', it seems like a line straight out of GTA Vice City. We went in a different direction... Yeah, a cheap direction.