There are a lot of people experimenting in this space. Unsurprisingly this problem has been considered with far better solutions than this suggestion.
The Alphabet Project Wing system for example doesn't land. It remains at a safe distance above the ground and lowers the load.
This avoids any direct interaction between members of the public and the fragile dangerous drone.
The risk of theft is significantly mitigated by being able to schedule delivery times to correspond to when you are at home. No need to leave a product outside for half the day, you know and can collect it the minute it arrives.
Then you get some exploit that goes wild that was patched 3 months ago and 100 million fuckwits get infected because they refuse to ever do updates when prompted, and refuse to plan to ever do them.
The obnoxious overreach by microsoft here was to address this intractable problem -- regular users won't do critical updates because they're busy / lazy / don't care. And there's millions of them so MS decided listening to them scream about reboots was less bad than the damage done by exploits that were fixed months or even years ago spreading through millions of poorly managed PCs.
I think if Microsoft was only forcing updates for critical security issues everybody would agree with you.
Fascinating strategy. Acknowledge that there are security concerns, promise to fix them but not for years.
In the mean time they continue to aggressively sell their infrastructure into countries, countries which are now reassured on the security front, or at least have a story they can tell to deflect the criticism.
And in five years it doesn't matter what happens. All the 5G infrastructure will already have rolled out or be committed to. If Huawei doesn't come through nobody is going to tear all the infrastructure out, the cost would be staggering.
I don't think concerned countries will fall for it. It does show that the security concerns are seriously impacting their business though.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
The ILOVEYOU virus included the authors handle, email address, and city as a comment at the top of the file because he was so used to doing that for school projects. It was intended to be an attack on a few friends. It went worldwide, shut down email for a day, damage estimates range from $5.5B to $8.7B USD.
If there is a giant digital chaos switch, eventually somebody is just going to hit it by accident.
It is a fundamental lifetime issue. Smart things, like your phone, have a standard life span of about three years. TVs are typically kept for around ten years. Putting a device that goes obsolete in three years inside a device that you will keep for ten years is never going to work very well.
See also, cars with built in GPS maps or last generation's iphone connectors and smart fridges with a twenty year life span.
Which has been enough to throw $30M at Pocket, fund rust, multiple poorly thought through attempts at entering the mobile/IOT/operating system space, attempt a single login system, but not enough to fund Thunderbird development.
The CEO received $2.3M in 2017, the treasurer $1.3M with various other directors earning about $200k.
Mozilla has more than enough money to maintain a web browser. I actually feel if they had significantly less they would focus more on the core browser and have less time to come up with great ideas to further annoy their user base.
Huawei provided code to prove that they had nothing to hide. The tests and hashes are specifically to ensure that the inspected code matches the production code. If the tests don't match you have to assume that they have problems, that is their purpose. If the test results magically change when the device is introduced to a production environment you can guarantee it.
Shooting for a niche phone is a really high risk move.
There are strong economy of scale effects from going with the pack. The screen suppliers all have the screen size and type you are after. Components have been certified and specially designed. You can also leverage existing designs to reduce your time to market.
This ties into costs. Component costs are $200 - $300 USD for value to high end phones, this will rapidly increase if you do anything custom. Then add in your design costs and profit, divided across the number of units. Finally double it for the retail price.
So a value phone with some unique outdoor features and form factor designed from scratch probably has to retail for $1000 USD and sell half a million units.
Much better to take a cheap mass produced standard Android design from generic factory 67. Get them to swap out the back panel and put it in a rubberised case. Costs are lower, risks are lower, time to market is much faster. And this is basically what you see if you search for a rugged phone.
It is worth knowing that this proposal emerged fully formed from the security agencies. This probably means that it was cooked up by the five eyes collective led by the USA and Australia was chosen as the country most likely to support it's introduction.
As many people have pointed out there is no way of implementing this without fundamentally violating the security of encrypted message applications and the impacts would flow on across the world. The assumption is that doing this would be undesirable.
Once in place, and proven to work other countries will rush to "catch up" with similar laws. Until this occurs the five eyes nations can all utilize the Australian back doors via existing intelligence sharing agreements.
Chastity is unclear to me. The gutenberg translation has 11. To chastise the body.
Which to mean means corporal mortification. This could be self denial such as fasting or celibacy, it could also involve the redemption of pain through whipping or hair shirts. This is backed up by 4. Not to commit adultery, which would be irrelevant to a celibate.
35. Not addicted to wine. Could point towards beer brewing for the budding alcoholic.
Honestly, the list seems very long, too open for interpretation and containing a large number of ineffectual lines. A good coding team would have refactored it before accepting it into Master.
Crowd Supply takes this approach of vetting and assisting. 100% of funded projects have been delivered or are on track, 70% of projects are successfully funded.
Not news I know, but there was someone who's job it was to investigate these patents, to understand them and look for prior art.
The fact that a third party had to commit $6000 and a huge amount of personal time comes down to the fact that the patent examiner clearly didn't do their job.
While the work of Swildens should be celebrated, we shouldn't lose sight of the failings of the USPTO which required it.
The $640 billion loss that is being reported is against the massive gains late last year. The money appeared out of nowhere when everybody thought a crytocoin was worth something and is disappears to nowhere when everybody realised that they were wrong.
Sure, some people bought in when the market was high and have lost their shirts. Most of the losses though are from people who paid $300 for their coin years ago and now it is only worth $9000 instead of $25000.
... They don't even need to pay the IP holders money.... If a third-party show gets popular, that means they'll negotiate for more from Netflix next season.
Controlling what people watch simply makes them money.
Actually one of the standard complaints from third party IP providers is that Netflix refuses to provide them with ratings, viewer counts, or any other hard data to help them in negotiations. My understanding of the standard contract is that Netflix pays a set amount for the time period, if nobody watches it or everybody watches it this amount doesn't change.
Spent at least 30 minutes fighting the bloody lameness filter to post the previous post. Ended up having to trim it back to pass, very very frustrating.
The article is a bit unclear because it is a sales pitch aimed at a very small market.
What they are mainly talking about is airspace separation. In controlled airspace air traffic controllers maintain a significant buffer around each aircraft to ensure that they don't get too close and 'overlap'. The size of the buffer is significantly impacted by the accuracy of the monitoring, if you want a 5km gap and you know the location of aircraft within 5km you need a 15km gap.
There are a whole bunch of technologies used but the fallback is waypointing. The aircraft reports that it is at waypoint A proceeding to waypoint B at 600knots. You then can then predict where the aircraft is but accuracy is terrible, consequently the separation required is huge.
ADS-B is a new surveillance technology (2004) where each aircraft broadcasts its position every second. Ground stations can then pick up this broadcast and feed it to the air traffic controllers. It is significantly cheaper and covers a much larger footprint than a secondary radar system.
Aireon is monitoring the ADS-B signals from low orbit communication satellites and providing a feed of that data to air traffic controllers. This solves the obvious difficulties of installing ground monitoring stations in the middle of the ocean. It may also significantly boost worldwide adoption by avoiding the need to install ground stations at all.
The Unity analytics track your progress through the game. How long you play for, where you get stuck, and for relevant games, when you decide to pay to progress.
Redshell spies on your web browser. That's a different game.
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There are a lot of people experimenting in this space. Unsurprisingly this problem has been considered with far better solutions than this suggestion.
The Alphabet Project Wing system for example doesn't land. It remains at a safe distance above the ground and lowers the load.
This avoids any direct interaction between members of the public and the fragile dangerous drone.
The risk of theft is significantly mitigated by being able to schedule delivery times to correspond to when you are at home. No need to leave a product outside for half the day, you know and can collect it the minute it arrives.
I wonder if the car will let you drive home if a passenger is drunk?
Really?
You think that a camera system that can determine your level of intoxication won't be able to differentiate between a driver and a passenger?
As far as grumbly whinges go, this one is really weak.
Then you get some exploit that goes wild that was patched 3 months ago and 100 million fuckwits get infected because they refuse to ever do updates when prompted, and refuse to plan to ever do them.
The obnoxious overreach by microsoft here was to address this intractable problem -- regular users won't do critical updates because they're busy / lazy / don't care. And there's millions of them so MS decided listening to them scream about reboots was less bad than the damage done by exploits that were fixed months or even years ago spreading through millions of poorly managed PCs.
I think if Microsoft was only forcing updates for critical security issues everybody would agree with you.
Fascinating strategy. Acknowledge that there are security concerns, promise to fix them but not for years.
In the mean time they continue to aggressively sell their infrastructure into countries, countries which are now reassured on the security front, or at least have a story they can tell to deflect the criticism.
And in five years it doesn't matter what happens. All the 5G infrastructure will already have rolled out or be committed to. If Huawei doesn't come through nobody is going to tear all the infrastructure out, the cost would be staggering.
I don't think concerned countries will fall for it. It does show that the security concerns are seriously impacting their business though.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
The ILOVEYOU virus included the authors handle, email address, and city as a comment at the top of the file because he was so used to doing that for school projects. It was intended to be an attack on a few friends. It went worldwide, shut down email for a day, damage estimates range from $5.5B to $8.7B USD.
If there is a giant digital chaos switch, eventually somebody is just going to hit it by accident.
It is a fundamental lifetime issue. Smart things, like your phone, have a standard life span of about three years. TVs are typically kept for around ten years. Putting a device that goes obsolete in three years inside a device that you will keep for ten years is never going to work very well.
See also, cars with built in GPS maps or last generation's iphone connectors and smart fridges with a twenty year life span.
The Mozilla Corporation received $542M in 2017.
Which has been enough to throw $30M at Pocket, fund rust, multiple poorly thought through attempts at entering the mobile/IOT/operating system space, attempt a single login system, but not enough to fund Thunderbird development.
The CEO received $2.3M in 2017, the treasurer $1.3M with various other directors earning about $200k.
Mozilla has more than enough money to maintain a web browser. I actually feel if they had significantly less they would focus more on the core browser and have less time to come up with great ideas to further annoy their user base.
Of course.
Huawei provided code to prove that they had nothing to hide. The tests and hashes are specifically to ensure that the inspected code matches the production code. If the tests don't match you have to assume that they have problems, that is their purpose. If the test results magically change when the device is introduced to a production environment you can guarantee it.
Shooting for a niche phone is a really high risk move.
There are strong economy of scale effects from going with the pack. The screen suppliers all have the screen size and type you are after. Components have been certified and specially designed. You can also leverage existing designs to reduce your time to market.
This ties into costs. Component costs are $200 - $300 USD for value to high end phones, this will rapidly increase if you do anything custom. Then add in your design costs and profit, divided across the number of units. Finally double it for the retail price.
So a value phone with some unique outdoor features and form factor designed from scratch probably has to retail for $1000 USD and sell half a million units.
Much better to take a cheap mass produced standard Android design from generic factory 67. Get them to swap out the back panel and put it in a rubberised case. Costs are lower, risks are lower, time to market is much faster. And this is basically what you see if you search for a rugged phone.
Does WhatsApp have any business dealings in Australia?
Sure, WhatsApp is owned by Facebook. Facebook's Australian revenue in 2017 was $477M, that's a fair bit of leverage.
Luckily Facebook is a principled organisation that would never compromise its users privacy for mere money.
It is worth knowing that this proposal emerged fully formed from the security agencies. This probably means that it was cooked up by the five eyes collective led by the USA and Australia was chosen as the country most likely to support it's introduction.
As many people have pointed out there is no way of implementing this without fundamentally violating the security of encrypted message applications and the impacts would flow on across the world. The assumption is that doing this would be undesirable.
Once in place, and proven to work other countries will rush to "catch up" with similar laws. Until this occurs the five eyes nations can all utilize the Australian back doors via existing intelligence sharing agreements.
Chastity is unclear to me. The gutenberg translation has 11. To chastise the body.
Which to mean means corporal mortification. This could be self denial such as fasting or celibacy, it could also involve the redemption of pain through whipping or hair shirts. This is backed up by 4. Not to commit adultery, which would be irrelevant to a celibate.
35. Not addicted to wine. Could point towards beer brewing for the budding alcoholic.
Honestly, the list seems very long, too open for interpretation and containing a large number of ineffectual lines. A good coding team would have refactored it before accepting it into Master.
Crowd Supply takes this approach of vetting and assisting. 100% of funded projects have been delivered or are on track, 70% of projects are successfully funded.
Apple did detect it. If you read the article the extra connections are exactly how they discovered that they had an issue.
Not news I know, but there was someone who's job it was to investigate these patents, to understand them and look for prior art.
The fact that a third party had to commit $6000 and a huge amount of personal time comes down to the fact that the patent examiner clearly didn't do their job.
While the work of Swildens should be celebrated, we shouldn't lose sight of the failings of the USPTO which required it.
Actually in the initial implementation they dropped www regardless of the location in the url.
So www.www.somesite.com became somesite.com
And google.www.com became google.com
CItation needed. Especially since literally everyone would sell you their coin for $9000 at this point.
Was looking at the price in AUD not USD. Same ratio applies though.
The $640 billion loss that is being reported is against the massive gains late last year. The money appeared out of nowhere when everybody thought a crytocoin was worth something and is disappears to nowhere when everybody realised that they were wrong.
Sure, some people bought in when the market was high and have lost their shirts. Most of the losses though are from people who paid $300 for their coin years ago and now it is only worth $9000 instead of $25000.
The Intel core i9 line has the same architecture and features as the i7 processors.
This is a move to show the market than Intel has something new and innovative to offer. Unfortunately the emperor isn't wearing any clothes.
LOL
You would be hard pressed to find a country in the world which was less interested in shiny.
... They don't even need to pay the IP holders money. ... If a third-party show gets popular, that means they'll negotiate for more from Netflix next season.
Controlling what people watch simply makes them money.
Actually one of the standard complaints from third party IP providers is that Netflix refuses to provide them with ratings, viewer counts, or any other hard data to help them in negotiations. My understanding of the standard contract is that Netflix pays a set amount for the time period, if nobody watches it or everybody watches it this amount doesn't change.
Spent at least 30 minutes fighting the bloody lameness filter to post the previous post. Ended up having to trim it back to pass, very very frustrating.
The article is a bit unclear because it is a sales pitch aimed at a very small market.
What they are mainly talking about is airspace separation. In controlled airspace air traffic controllers maintain a significant buffer around each aircraft to ensure that they don't get too close and 'overlap'. The size of the buffer is significantly impacted by the accuracy of the monitoring, if you want a 5km gap and you know the location of aircraft within 5km you need a 15km gap.
There are a whole bunch of technologies used but the fallback is waypointing. The aircraft reports that it is at waypoint A proceeding to waypoint B at 600knots. You then can then predict where the aircraft is but accuracy is terrible, consequently the separation required is huge.
ADS-B is a new surveillance technology (2004) where each aircraft broadcasts its position every second. Ground stations can then pick up this broadcast and feed it to the air traffic controllers. It is significantly cheaper and covers a much larger footprint than a secondary radar system.
Aireon is monitoring the ADS-B signals from low orbit communication satellites and providing a feed of that data to air traffic controllers. This solves the obvious difficulties of installing ground monitoring stations in the middle of the ocean. It may also significantly boost worldwide adoption by avoiding the need to install ground stations at all.
The Unity analytics track your progress through the game. How long you play for, where you get stuck, and for relevant games, when you decide to pay to progress.
Redshell spies on your web browser. That's a different game.
They speak English in Australia??
The same language but all the words are pronounced backwards.
Idid should do much better there than Rebu.