"They cannot even clean up problem frequencies where *everyone* knows who the offenders are"
Not necessarily true.
Just recently they proposed handing down a huge fine to a hobby company (HobbyKing) for the sale of non-compliant video transmitters (FPV) for model aircraft and drone use.
Then they issued this warning which may just be sabre-rattling but does show that they're trying to do something.
And here in New Zealand, when Police (or any other agent of the state) are found to have broken the law it is not classified as a crime -- it is reclassified as "an unlawful act" -- which is double-talk for "yes they did it but nobody will be prosecuted or punished for the act". It has happens time and time again, including when cops "unlawfully" raid the homes of people (including Kim Dotcom and leading journalists) at gunpoint.
Even though the courts have (on a number of occasions) ruled these acts to be "unlawful", nobody responsible for the offending is prosecuted.
THAT is an incredibly dangerous situation and speaks to the way that corruption in this country goes all the way to the top, regardless of the government in power at the time.
When I was a contract programmer and got burnt-out, nobody came to hold my hand or tell me how I deserved to be treated with more respect and love.
But I never expected them to. I was a big boy (with big-boy pants and everything) so I took responsibility for my own destiny.
Now I'm a full-time YouTube content creator and I still don't expect anyone to hold my hand or tell me how I deserve to be treated with more respect and love.
Still wearing the big-boy pants!
Yes, YouTube and it's constantly changing policies make life very hard -- but so did all those project managers I used to code for.
Life can be tough... get over it. Take a teaspoon of cement and harden up -- or find something else to do.
Surely if Tesla demands that drivers keep their hands on the wheel at all times that the autopilot is engaged then they should have a sensor for this and disengage the autopilot whenever the driver releases the wheel -- as a safety measure.
The fact that they don't do this is a clear indication that they really do expect people to take their hands off the wheel and use autopilot as if it were perfect. Stop passing the buck Tesla!
There were multiple failures all around which caused this death. If any one of those failures had not happened then the pedestrian would likely still be alive today.
I've summed it up here in a column which was written almost 24 hours ago so it's nice to see that others have come to similar conclusions.
Is Intel still shipping processors with these vulnerabilities?
If so, you have to ask "what the hell are they thinking"?
Would Ford or Chevy be allowed to keep selling a vehicle which was known to have defects that made it unroadworthy even before you drove it off the showroom floor?
If you check the actual FAA report, you will see that both craft are defined as "Helicopter" in that report.
Therefore, this was a collision between like-craft.
And it's also interesting to note that registration did nothing to either prevent the incident nor to track down the operator of the "unmanned" helicopter involved.
So can someone explain why US drone owners have to register again?
I loved the show... although it got a bit "soap opera" ish part way through.
Although I wasn't in Silicon Valley at the time I was very much involved in the microcomputer scene so it was a real nostalgia trip watching that first season -- although I expect I'm in a very small group who'd feel that way.
I think that four seasons was probably enough though and in reality, if you watch only the first season then you'll have seen almost everything you need to.
Yeah, I have a small "dumb" mobile phone from Samsung. It just has a 128x128 color LCD (no touch) and a *real* numeric button pad. It's super-small, only cost $7 and it goes nearly two weeks between charges!
It receives calls, makes calls and does SMS messaging.
Hell... it even has a game of "Super Jewel Quest" and an FM radio built into it.
Even better, I have a pre-pay plan and only need to top up with $20 credit every two or three months because it uses no data.
If I want to watch a video, send email, edit a document or do other computer-y things, I use a computer or a tablet.
I think you're right about content creators looking for an alternative platform.
Over a number of years now, YouTube has successively f'd-over its "channel partners" in such a way that it is becoming increasingly more difficult for those who are doing this as a full-time gig to make ends meet.
Initially, only approved YT channel partners could have ads on their videos and that meant the advertising pie was divvied up amongst a relatively small number of such creators. Everyone got a reasonable share of the pie and you could live on the resulting income.
Then they decided to let *anyone* and *everyone* monetize their videos -- which meant that that same pie was now being divvied up amongst many millions of people; hence all those dedicated YT channel partners saw a cut in their earnings.
Then there was the G+ fiasco which I won't even go into.
That was followed by the massive advertiser pull-out when it was found that YT was monetizing virtually anything that was posted, regardless of the nature of its content. That also hurt full-time YT creators.
The cure for that was worse than the complaint, with AI routines demonetizing videos seemingly at random and on a whim. Once again, full-time YT creators were hit in the pocket and many actually lost their entire channels for no good reason.
And now we have yet another advertiser pull-out by the likes of Mars etc -- because of YT's inability to control "predatory" videos.
If Google wasn't so god-damned greedy and simply went back to only monetizing the content of approved channel partners (like it used to be) then all these problems would disappear. Advertisers wouldn't find their products on unsavoury content, approved channel partners could (once again) make an honest living and the rest of us YT users wouldn't have to sit through an endless stream of pre-roll and interstitial unskippable ads, as well as patreon begging and shills for affiliate links in the description of just about every damned video.
Someone, please bring on some serious competition to YT... and bring it on quickly!
Why on earth link to the NYPOST version of this story with all it's misinformation?
From that story: "In what is believed to be the first incident of its kind, a drone slammed into a packed British Airways jetliner in April 2016 as it was landing at London’s Heathrow Airport. The plane landed safely"
Bullshit! That was later deemed to almost certainly have been a plastic shopping bag, not a drone.
Facts seem to be of little interest to some "news" publishers and the NYPOST is (at least in this case) right up there at the front of the "fake news" purveyors.
ABC EyeWitness carried a much better report on this story and it even includes pictures of the damage.
So let me get this straight... the courts have ruled that the GCSB broke the law (and thus committed a crime). Now for that to happen, some PERSON or PERSONS within the GCSB must have given the order to commit this crime and therefore they must surely be culpable and punished for their law-breaking.
Of course we know that those who are responsible for this crime will never be truly held to account for their actions or punished for their criminal activities -- because they are part of the clique that makes those laws (government).
Oh the hypocrisy... thou shalt not break the law -- if you're just a regular peasant. If you're a government employee then do whatever the hell you like because there will be no penalty associated with your criminal activity.
So explain to me again why those responsible (who receive no censure) would be inclined not to break the law again? Laws without enforcement and penalty are a waste of time.
And here we have Kim... who (unlike the GCSB) has *NOT* been found guilty of a damned thing -- having his assets, his livelihood and his life taken from him on "suspicion", while the true criminals ruled by a court to be guilty of a very serious breach of human rights) suffer no penalty whatsoever.
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And here I am, freezing by arse off down here in New Zealand where it's cold, went and windy and I've had a cold for over a month now.
Throw some of that heat down this way guys!
"They cannot even clean up problem frequencies where *everyone* knows who the offenders are"
Not necessarily true.
Just recently they proposed handing down a huge fine to a hobby company (HobbyKing) for the sale of non-compliant video transmitters (FPV) for model aircraft and drone use.
Then they issued this warning which may just be sabre-rattling but does show that they're trying to do something.
And here in New Zealand, when Police (or any other agent of the state) are found to have broken the law it is not classified as a crime -- it is reclassified as "an unlawful act" -- which is double-talk for "yes they did it but nobody will be prosecuted or punished for the act". It has happens time and time again, including when cops "unlawfully" raid the homes of people (including Kim Dotcom and leading journalists) at gunpoint.
Even though the courts have (on a number of occasions) ruled these acts to be "unlawful", nobody responsible for the offending is prosecuted.
THAT is an incredibly dangerous situation and speaks to the way that corruption in this country goes all the way to the top, regardless of the government in power at the time.
"Was Mars avoidance programmed into the Autopilot braking subroutines?"
Yes, but a software update is required to ensure that it will brake in the required distance :-)
When I was a contract programmer and got burnt-out, nobody came to hold my hand or tell me how I deserved to be treated with more respect and love.
But I never expected them to. I was a big boy (with big-boy pants and everything) so I took responsibility for my own destiny.
Now I'm a full-time YouTube content creator and I still don't expect anyone to hold my hand or tell me how I deserve to be treated with more respect and love.
Still wearing the big-boy pants!
Yes, YouTube and it's constantly changing policies make life very hard -- but so did all those project managers I used to code for.
Life can be tough... get over it. Take a teaspoon of cement and harden up -- or find something else to do.
Memo:
From: Alphabet HQ
To: YouTube
Hey you guys at YouTube... everything's still working just fine, isn't it time you fixed that (again)??
Remember, we struck out "Don't be evil" so make those users squeal!
Surely if Tesla demands that drivers keep their hands on the wheel at all times that the autopilot is engaged then they should have a sensor for this and disengage the autopilot whenever the driver releases the wheel -- as a safety measure.
The fact that they don't do this is a clear indication that they really do expect people to take their hands off the wheel and use autopilot as if it were perfect. Stop passing the buck Tesla!
Isn't going into YouTube HQ with a loaded gun and shooting people a violation of the terms of service?
Does this gunman not understand that this will almost certainly result in a strike against his account?
Talk about reckless!
"Microwave ovens operate at a frequency of 2.45 GHz (2.45x109 Hz) and this is NOT the resonant frequency of a water molecule"
cite: http://www.schoolphysics.co.uk/age16-19/Wave%20properties/Wave%20properties/text/Microwave_ovens/index.html
There were multiple failures all around which caused this death. If any one of those failures had not happened then the pedestrian would likely still be alive today.
I've summed it up here in a column which was written almost 24 hours ago so it's nice to see that others have come to similar conclusions.
This is what happens when you give the power to regulate to a bunch of politicians and bureaucrats who have no idea how the internet works.
Sigh!
What???? The Daily Mail is wrong?
Oh my lord, the last bastion of bias-free, independent, thoroughly researched professional journalism has been breached!
The end is nigh!!!!
"Moreover, there is a fix that the end user can apply as he sees fit."
Really? I thought it was still in beta-test, hence this discussion.
Is Intel still shipping processors with these vulnerabilities?
If so, you have to ask "what the hell are they thinking"?
Would Ford or Chevy be allowed to keep selling a vehicle which was known to have defects that made it unroadworthy even before you drove it off the showroom floor?
Well I did sound the alarm bells about this back in 2002
The danger of the low-cost cruise missile
Hello... anyone home???
If you check the actual FAA report, you will see that both craft are defined as "Helicopter" in that report.
Therefore, this was a collision between like-craft.
And it's also interesting to note that registration did nothing to either prevent the incident nor to track down the operator of the "unmanned" helicopter involved.
So can someone explain why US drone owners have to register again?
I loved the show... although it got a bit "soap opera" ish part way through.
Although I wasn't in Silicon Valley at the time I was very much involved in the microcomputer scene so it was a real nostalgia trip watching that first season -- although I expect I'm in a very small group who'd feel that way.
I think that four seasons was probably enough though and in reality, if you watch only the first season then you'll have seen almost everything you need to.
Check out DJI's Aeroscope. It's now almost trivial to track errant drones and their owners.
Yeah, I have a small "dumb" mobile phone from Samsung. It just has a 128x128 color LCD (no touch) and a *real* numeric button pad. It's super-small, only cost $7 and it goes nearly two weeks between charges!
It receives calls, makes calls and does SMS messaging.
Hell... it even has a game of "Super Jewel Quest" and an FM radio built into it.
Even better, I have a pre-pay plan and only need to top up with $20 credit every two or three months because it uses no data.
If I want to watch a video, send email, edit a document or do other computer-y things, I use a computer or a tablet.
Horses for courses!
I think you're right about content creators looking for an alternative platform.
Over a number of years now, YouTube has successively f'd-over its "channel partners" in such a way that it is becoming increasingly more difficult for those who are doing this as a full-time gig to make ends meet.
Initially, only approved YT channel partners could have ads on their videos and that meant the advertising pie was divvied up amongst a relatively small number of such creators. Everyone got a reasonable share of the pie and you could live on the resulting income.
Then they decided to let *anyone* and *everyone* monetize their videos -- which meant that that same pie was now being divvied up amongst many millions of people; hence all those dedicated YT channel partners saw a cut in their earnings.
Then there was the G+ fiasco which I won't even go into.
That was followed by the massive advertiser pull-out when it was found that YT was monetizing virtually anything that was posted, regardless of the nature of its content. That also hurt full-time YT creators.
The cure for that was worse than the complaint, with AI routines demonetizing videos seemingly at random and on a whim. Once again, full-time YT creators were hit in the pocket and many actually lost their entire channels for no good reason.
And now we have yet another advertiser pull-out by the likes of Mars etc -- because of YT's inability to control "predatory" videos.
If Google wasn't so god-damned greedy and simply went back to only monetizing the content of approved channel partners (like it used to be) then all these problems would disappear. Advertisers wouldn't find their products on unsavoury content, approved channel partners could (once again) make an honest living and the rest of us YT users wouldn't have to sit through an endless stream of pre-roll and interstitial unskippable ads, as well as patreon begging and shills for affiliate links in the description of just about every damned video.
Someone, please bring on some serious competition to YT... and bring it on quickly!
Let them ban preloaded Kodi boxes... I don't really care.
Smarter folk just use a Raspberry Pi with OpenElec/Kodi and their choice of add-ons anyway.
The fewer store-bought preloaded Kodi boxes there are, the quicker my streams will start :-)
Says it all really
Why on earth link to the NYPOST version of this story with all it's misinformation?
From that story: "In what is believed to be the first incident of its kind, a drone slammed into a packed British Airways jetliner in April 2016 as it was landing at London’s Heathrow Airport. The plane landed safely"
Bullshit! That was later deemed to almost certainly have been a plastic shopping bag, not a drone.
Facts seem to be of little interest to some "news" publishers and the NYPOST is (at least in this case) right up there at the front of the "fake news" purveyors.
ABC EyeWitness carried a much better report on this story and it even includes pictures of the damage.
So let me get this straight... the courts have ruled that the GCSB broke the law (and thus committed a crime). Now for that to happen, some PERSON or PERSONS within the GCSB must have given the order to commit this crime and therefore they must surely be culpable and punished for their law-breaking.
Of course we know that those who are responsible for this crime will never be truly held to account for their actions or punished for their criminal activities -- because they are part of the clique that makes those laws (government).
Oh the hypocrisy... thou shalt not break the law -- if you're just a regular peasant. If you're a government employee then do whatever the hell you like because there will be no penalty associated with your criminal activity.
So explain to me again why those responsible (who receive no censure) would be inclined not to break the law again? Laws without enforcement and penalty are a waste of time.
And here we have Kim... who (unlike the GCSB) has *NOT* been found guilty of a damned thing -- having his assets, his livelihood and his life taken from him on "suspicion", while the true criminals ruled by a court to be guilty of a very serious breach of human rights) suffer no penalty whatsoever.
Tell me this isn't corrupt practice!
Why the hell do we stand for this?
I was watching a documentary called Salvation and I see they have already developed the EM drive! :-)