The obvious answer is to ignore it. Non-mentally-ill adults do not experience "emotional distress" over the fact that people may see some of their baby pictures.
How about people who are mentally ill (or at least traumatized) by childhood sexual abuse, possibly by their own parents? Even when that is not a factor, for many people privacy is a foundation of autonomy. We used to be able to depend on obscurity to provide privacy; now that is no longer possible. In cases like these I'd rather have laws that err on giving people more privacy rather than less.
But for now, flywheels are more robust than batteries when it comes total # of charge cycles, and lighter for an equivalent amount of torque. For regenerative braking flywheels can be much more efficient than batteries.
In the end it may only make sense for vehicles that frequently need to generate/absorb massive amounts of torque, like race cars and buses. But for trucks hydraulic hybrids might be even better.
Volvo tested one in an S60:
http://www.extremetech.com/ext....It would be interesting to see results from a system with enough storage capacity so that the engine only runs at optimum output to spin up the flywheel and is otherwise shut off, similar to electric hybrids where the engine only powers an alternator and isn't mechanically connected to the wheels. Large systems might need to be two separate flywheels spinning in opposite directions though - otherwise having a giant gyroscope in the car could make handling "interesting".
For hybrids they don't have to by massive. Volvo tested a 6 kg one in an S60: the extra 80 hp meant a 0-60 time of 5.5 seconds. The flywheels are typically made out of carbon fiber composites that pretty much turn into dust if the vacuum chamber gets busted in an accident, so there isn't much shrapnel.
Flywheel instead of battery? You realize we are talking about real life cars, right, not your Hot Wheels...
I'm not sure if Le Mans and Formula One cars should go in the Hot Wheels category or real life, but a bunch of them have been flywheel hybrids for the past few years.
It gets down to my product ideas of balance and getting the most from the least. Try to make things simple and affordable but very adequate.
I'd love to see more MPG stats on flywheel vs battery hybrids. Flywheels are much more efficient, but realistically have much lower energy storage capacity than batteries. Flywheels, CVT, and a small engine might be a way to get the most from the least $ right now: the Bolt's battery costs GM about $9k.
I've been using negativescreen for a long time and always preferred it to f.lux: a keyboard shortcut can take you to viewing text as red on black, which is perfect for reading at night before going to sleep.
Hype (as in money) was also generated by filling the board with smart, serious, famous people who knew absolutely nothing about any of the technical or medical problems but were only there for influence. Henry Kissinger? George Schultz? Navy admirals and Marine generals??
In the industry, a lot of the hate came from the "Andy Grove Fallacy" scientific approach first , the hate for the "do first, ask foregiveness later" business model came later.
Software and hardware design always proceeds from highly predictable and well documented systems. Most things can be simulated from first principles, and unpredictable pieces of hardware are eliminated, either at the design stage or replaced in the field as they fail. Biology is the opposite: simulations are empirical and only work at the level of complexity where the fudge factors have been applied. Go up or down a level and the model falls apart. When you try to apply an IT approach to bio without acknowledging that, you get Theranos (and some of Google's ventures). It's all very fun to say you are going to creatively destroy the medical testing industry by running a hundred tests from one capillary (skin prick) blood drop, but the levels of many analytes vary widely from one blood drop to the next when you sample that way. Sure, you'll get numbers, but the numbers will be worse than useless. They'll be misleading if you use them as a diagnostic.
I'm going to take photos of private property, despite the law giving me the right to do it, I will still ask the property owner as a courtesy.
You can take pictures of private property, but you can't take pictures of people where they have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Seeing as in this case the drone operator was probably paparazzii (them leaving the scene when told the police were coming and never filing a complaint certainly fits with that possibility) that was probably the goal and it's doubtful any courtesy was ever in the offing.
You need both science and engineering, hopefully in a collaborative atmosphere where they are willing to talk about the challenges to make a piratical solution, then
I'm guessing either a spellcheck created "piratical" in your sentence or you were talking about needing both science and IP lawyers, not engineers.
The enthusiasm and lack of fear is important. Not taking notice of experts and plowing on because you believe in something is important. It's much easier to do when you're fully funded
But you have to show that the photographer in this case was personally harmed by the actions of Getty. And since she had donated these images, precluding monetary gain from them by normal means, she probably wasn't harmed by the infringement. Therefore, and say it with me...It's Not RICO (tm).
I don't know about the other parts, but would this count as harm?
The communication, sent by the License Compliance Services, associated with Getty, charged her with copyright infringement and demanded a $120 payment
History has shown us that statistically nobody buys expensive accessories for electronic devices, not least because they are never compatible for long.
Statistically - yes. Companies could create wonderful Moto-mods for niche markets: field or medical testing for example. But niche market = tiny market, and if Lenovo is involved who knows what kind of spyware they would be burdened with.
just missing an eye gives you free reign to circumvent this security.
"Just"???
You first.
contact lens
So add a measure of interpupillary distance. Are you up for having your skull cracked in two and then widened or narrowed so that your IPD matches too? Also: retina scans. Unless they have some pretty amazing holographic properties, contact lenses won't fool a retina scan.
Er, no. Iris or retina scan and most other biometrics are and will continue to be useful: for identifying people in the flesh. Unless you are willing to remove your eyeball and replace it with a replica of someone else's you won't be fooling the security guard at the door.
Sequencing DNA these days means creating a library of millions short segments (100-300 bp) of DNA from your sample, and then assembling the data into longer fragments by finding the segments that overlap and stringing them together. To sequence 4 billion base pairs they actually read about 120 billion base pairs (multiple reads are needed to eliminate errors, generate overlaps, etc). And that raw data is not 2 bits per base: it's an intensity level from the machine and a probability score that the algorithm has called the correct base for that position in the image, plus all of the associated indexing. About 40 bits per "base" for Illumina sequencing. Illumina X-10 sequencers can generate ~10 petabytes of data per year - each.
The final archived data, what you might use for clinical purposes, could indeed be a diff file more or less. But in the meantime the world was generating 1 zettabyte of DNA sequencing data per year in 2015, the rate doubles every ~7 months.
Public maintenance of roads didn't start out as a justification for government bullying road users. We don't need to agree to be bullied to use our own public roads.
Luckily it is a privilege, revokable upon abuse. If you want to live someplace where drivers aren't required to be licensed or insured, vehicles don't have to meet safety standards, and all problems will be solved with libertarian fairy dust (civil law suits), please tell me about places where this has been tried and how it is working out.
Slashdot Mirror
Complete, utter BULLSHIT
So when was the first time SCOTUS determined it was an individual right? What did they say before then?
Being allowed to sell something isn't a right, it's a privilege. One that Tesla doesn't have.
Why doesn't tesla have the right yet McDonalds, Apple, Slazenger and a jillion other companies do?
They don't have the right either - they have the privileges.
Sshh! You'll wake the Kurzweil kids!
The obvious answer is to ignore it. Non-mentally-ill adults do not experience "emotional distress" over the fact that people may see some of their baby pictures.
How about people who are mentally ill (or at least traumatized) by childhood sexual abuse, possibly by their own parents? Even when that is not a factor, for many people privacy is a foundation of autonomy. We used to be able to depend on obscurity to provide privacy; now that is no longer possible. In cases like these I'd rather have laws that err on giving people more privacy rather than less.
In the end it may only make sense for vehicles that frequently need to generate/absorb massive amounts of torque, like race cars and buses. But for trucks hydraulic hybrids might be even better.
Volvo tested one in an S60: http://www.extremetech.com/ext... .It would be interesting to see results from a system with enough storage capacity so that the engine only runs at optimum output to spin up the flywheel and is otherwise shut off, similar to electric hybrids where the engine only powers an alternator and isn't mechanically connected to the wheels. Large systems might need to be two separate flywheels spinning in opposite directions though - otherwise having a giant gyroscope in the car could make handling "interesting".
For hybrids they don't have to by massive. Volvo tested a 6 kg one in an S60: the extra 80 hp meant a 0-60 time of 5.5 seconds. The flywheels are typically made out of carbon fiber composites that pretty much turn into dust if the vacuum chamber gets busted in an accident, so there isn't much shrapnel.
Flywheel instead of battery? You realize we are talking about real life cars, right, not your Hot Wheels...
I'm not sure if Le Mans and Formula One cars should go in the Hot Wheels category or real life, but a bunch of them have been flywheel hybrids for the past few years.
It gets down to my product ideas of balance and getting the most from the least. Try to make things simple and affordable but very adequate.
I'd love to see more MPG stats on flywheel vs battery hybrids. Flywheels are much more efficient, but realistically have much lower energy storage capacity than batteries. Flywheels, CVT, and a small engine might be a way to get the most from the least $ right now: the Bolt's battery costs GM about $9k.
I've been using negativescreen for a long time and always preferred it to f.lux: a keyboard shortcut can take you to viewing text as red on black, which is perfect for reading at night before going to sleep.
Hype (as in money) was also generated by filling the board with smart, serious, famous people who knew absolutely nothing about any of the technical or medical problems but were only there for influence. Henry Kissinger? George Schultz? Navy admirals and Marine generals??
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2007/11/06/andy_grove_rich_famous_smart_and_wrong
Software and hardware design always proceeds from highly predictable and well documented systems. Most things can be simulated from first principles, and unpredictable pieces of hardware are eliminated, either at the design stage or replaced in the field as they fail. Biology is the opposite: simulations are empirical and only work at the level of complexity where the fudge factors have been applied. Go up or down a level and the model falls apart. When you try to apply an IT approach to bio without acknowledging that, you get Theranos (and some of Google's ventures). It's all very fun to say you are going to creatively destroy the medical testing industry by running a hundred tests from one capillary (skin prick) blood drop, but the levels of many analytes vary widely from one blood drop to the next when you sample that way. Sure, you'll get numbers, but the numbers will be worse than useless. They'll be misleading if you use them as a diagnostic.
I'm going to take photos of private property, despite the law giving me the right to do it, I will still ask the property owner as a courtesy.
You can take pictures of private property, but you can't take pictures of people where they have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Seeing as in this case the drone operator was probably paparazzii (them leaving the scene when told the police were coming and never filing a complaint certainly fits with that possibility) that was probably the goal and it's doubtful any courtesy was ever in the offing.
Depends on which country he employs them in.
You need both science and engineering, hopefully in a collaborative atmosphere where they are willing to talk about the challenges to make a piratical solution, then
I'm guessing either a spellcheck created "piratical" in your sentence or you were talking about needing both science and IP lawyers, not engineers.
The enthusiasm and lack of fear is important. Not taking notice of experts and plowing on because you believe in something is important. It's much easier to do when you're fully funded
Fixed.
Who cares about more speed? I'd sign up at 2x the price just to help foster actual competition,
And what percentage of the broadband market would you say would make the same decision based on that one issue?
But you have to show that the photographer in this case was personally harmed by the actions of Getty. And since she had donated these images, precluding monetary gain from them by normal means, she probably wasn't harmed by the infringement. Therefore, and say it with me...It's Not RICO (tm).
I don't know about the other parts, but would this count as harm?
The communication, sent by the License Compliance Services, associated with Getty, charged her with copyright infringement and demanded a $120 payment
History has shown us that statistically nobody buys expensive accessories for electronic devices, not least because they are never compatible for long.
Statistically - yes. Companies could create wonderful Moto-mods for niche markets: field or medical testing for example. But niche market = tiny market, and if Lenovo is involved who knows what kind of spyware they would be burdened with.
just missing an eye gives you free reign to circumvent this security.
"Just"???
You first.
contact lens
So add a measure of interpupillary distance. Are you up for having your skull cracked in two and then widened or narrowed so that your IPD matches too? Also: retina scans. Unless they have some pretty amazing holographic properties, contact lenses won't fool a retina scan.
Er, no. Iris or retina scan and most other biometrics are and will continue to be useful: for identifying people in the flesh. Unless you are willing to remove your eyeball and replace it with a replica of someone else's you won't be fooling the security guard at the door.
The final archived data, what you might use for clinical purposes, could indeed be a diff file more or less. But in the meantime the world was generating 1 zettabyte of DNA sequencing data per year in 2015, the rate doubles every ~7 months.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
Would he care to speculate on the growth of viewership of movies based on broadway musicals over that same period of time?
Public maintenance of roads didn't start out as a justification for government bullying road users. We don't need to agree to be bullied to use our own public roads.
Luckily it is a privilege, revokable upon abuse. If you want to live someplace where drivers aren't required to be licensed or insured, vehicles don't have to meet safety standards, and all problems will be solved with libertarian fairy dust (civil law suits), please tell me about places where this has been tried and how it is working out.
Frankly, I don't see how Uber can survive once we enter the era of autonomous cars..?
By developing their own self driving cars (already in process), firing their drivers, and renting out their own cars instead?