What if I could purchase a robot that could go out and earn a living for me?
This is fantasy of course, but if I could afford a robot with even most of my abilities as an employee but who could work much longer hours only needing to be taken offline for maintenance occasionally think of it!
Of course, then there will be pressure to upgrade my robot because after a few years it will be surpassed by newer more capable models.
How will my robot compete with all the technological advances of newer robots?
And then there's that four year life span.
If that isn't planned obsolescence, what is?
So you're telling me my robot will be "more human than human", but that it "may develop its own emotional responses" but after 4 years it's "time to die"?
I think many of the things that cause accidents are not due to the fact that we don't know better or lack the skills to navigate such a situation, but it's distraction and an overconfidence due to the fact that we've done similar things so many times before and never gotten into an accident.
Last week, I found myself in the front seat of a car driven by someone unfamiliar with my town staring at his cell phone at 50 mph trying to find a place to eat and my foot was involuntarily pushing hard against the passenger side floorboard and I kept saying how about this Chinese place I know about? His kids kept insisting on going to some place that I had never heard of but sounded truly horrible to me.
We ended up at the Chinese place which they agreed was a very good choice all along.
I was actually scared and the real pisser to me was it was a relative renting a a fairly nice Audi (nicer than my car anyway) through some AirBnB style car-rental scheme and as soon as I sat in it I asked "Can I drive?", but he just said he would let me if it were his own, but....
I didn't argue with him, but that's bullshit. My own auto insurance would have covered anything that might have happened if i had driven and I know the roads and know better than to stare at my phone while driving down unfamiliar streets.
They may be able to customize how locked down they are depending on the facility where they're used.
In this article they pay 5 cents a minute.
Inmates can text and call up to 10 contacts who must be screened and approved by the company. Telmate monitors and stores data on the inmates’ communications, providing the information to investigator
Inmates can't surf the web on the devices but they are allowed to talk to or text up to 10 contacts. The sheriff says Telmate, the company that created the tablet software, checks those people out before any communication occurs. “As well as vetting the person they look for buzzwords, encrypted messages trying to come through,” Apple said.
I didn't know this was available. It says AMC Roku's channel only became available last month too
Good timing for me as I just watched Season 1 of Hap and Leonard on Netflix last week and now I can watch Season 2. (S2E1 air date 3/15/17)
i would definitely pay for this a few months a year at least if it didn't require a cable subscription.
eh, I didn't realize it but I could watch it at their website too. For some reason AMC's Roku app causes my old Roku 2XS to reboot after playing an episode for a couple of minutes. It's done it 4 times now. Netflix works just fine on the old hardware.
Fortunately I don't hear many sirens and none I would consider unnecessary but those other things bother me, mostly the neighbors. Occasionally military aircraft flies overhead but not too often but those things are really loud.
Since I live in a townhome the worst is the walls were thinner than I expected when I moved in. I would love to find out there was some rating of sound insulation between units that could be looked up. For future reference of course, but I really want a freestanding home on its own lot next time I buy.
I love hearing the train whistle in the distance at night though. I've lived close enough to train tracks to hear the train go by too. You get used to it just the same as you get used to having a clock that chimes or cuckoos every half hour if you have one. You simply don't even notice it most of the time.
Or maybe not - train horns have become a political issue with people closer to the tracks (which have been here for probably at least a century) complaining about the horns.
Most of the problems for me come through the walls or from dogs, loud motorcycles, powertools and cars.
I mostly see lights with a delay where all are red very briefly, but it could be where I have lived in the US. What annoys me is that even with that there are often people entering the intersection when the other traffic's light turns green.
I believe we should get much tougher with driving tests in the US. One thing I would add for states which get a lot of snow is some sort of testing in the ability to handle it. I'm not sure how to practically do this year round though - simulated snow course?
I've never been to the UK so I can't really speak to the drivers or road engineers there.
Also I wonder what the stats look like on a more granular scale than just the US.
Because they have relatives in both the US and Syria.
And how you distinguish someone who just visited their parents in Damascus with someone who says they visited their parents in Damascus but spent most of their "vacation" in Raqqa?
If someone walks up to one of my windows and smashes it, there's a very good chance that one of my neighbors will hear it (one advantage of not having a huge property out of earshot of the neighbors). There's also a good chance I will hear it.
My front door is not impenetrable but I'm certainly not going to make it vulnerable to yet another attack vector.
I would hear someone taking a crowbar to it. I probably wouldn't hear someone unlocking it with an app.....but I see I've gotten off topic here. This is about security cameras not locks on doors or even the smashability of windows.
Is your point that since we can't protect ourselves from every potential threat that we shouldn't bother protecting ourselves from any threat?
But we're talking about security cameras. As I see it, cameras serve two purposes. As a deterrent and if that doesn't work potentially apprehending the culprit after the fact. If they can disable your cameras, neither of those are going to be effective and you've wasted your money.
I still lock my doors despite my windows being very smashable.
How is task_num any more descriptive that i, j or k?
I've got to iterate a number of times. If I use i for a variable I know it's something I will throw away after use (usually after a loop).
Calling it task_num implies it may be more important and someone might be tempted to use it later when it was nothing but a throwaway variable.
i was just an index into an array ('i' for index maybe? 'j' and 'k' being the next letters in the alphabet if more are needed?)
I've also been known to use 'x', 'y' and 'z'. I never liked 'a', 'b' and 'c' for some reason though.
I'm all in favor of using descriptive variable names, but sometimes a simple 'i' will do and like another poster said it's more important to say why you're iterating than that you are iterating.
Personally, I'd suggest beating them over the heads with printed copies of man pages whilst trying to emphasize the importance of commenting their goddammed code.
But can I really build a home for $10,000? Aside from the sewer and electric and what not and the fact that it's kind of small. And of course the land.
I didn't read this article, but I read another one which bragged that they could do this in other shapes and sizes.
I don't need a big home but I didn't see what the bathroom looks like in this place and that kitchen looks horrible.
I've got more home than I need right now, but sometimes it's really nice to have that much room.
This is exactly what I do and I backup the password database religiously.
One time the file became corrupt but due to my frequent backups I did not lose anything.
I used to keep passwords in my head which was absolutely insane and of course I re-used the same passwords on lots of different sites. One night a few years ago I read about a Yahoo security breach and so I changed my password. Unfortunately I was drinking and was foolishly confident that I would remember this password which I'm sure was a very good one because when I sobered up even I could not get back into my Yahoo account.
I think of it as KeepAss rather than KeePass though.
I think some people really don't care about password security much, especially not for something like their work accounts. Twice I have guessed a co-worker's password. The first time was when I had my first sysadmin job and I wanted to see if failed login attempts were logged anywhere. lol, the password was the same as the username. I really did not expect that and of course I had root privileges anyway, but geez. Okay, that was the '90s and she was not an IT person.
But it wasn't too long ago that I was screwing around at work and decided to make a few attempts at a fellow developer's password. I had sudo privileges anyway so I didn't need to do this to get into his account. I was just bored. And his password was his first name.
And another time I pointed out to one of my bosses that we had a whole bunch of accounts set up on customer machines that had never been logged into and thus still had the default password which everyone in the whole company (and any customer employee who ever had an account on that system) could figure out. Some of the accounts belonged to former employees who no longer worked for us. Not interested.
Luka Rocco Magnotta (born Eric Clinton Kirk Newman; July 24, 1982) is a Canadian murderer, convicted of killing and dismembering Lin Jun, a Chinese international student, before mailing Lin Jun's limbs to elementary schools and federal political party offices.[9] This act gained international notoriety. After a video depicting the murder was posted online in May 2012,
*Update, 7 February, 12:15 p.m.: The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a statement this morning regarding the removal of animal welfare reports from its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) website:
About a week ago I read something about the Super Bowl's "opening night" and I wondered if it was a football championship or a Broadway musical.
How can a football game have an "opening night"?
No doubt it was a big show, but as another poster points out there was only 11 minutes of playing time. Is that true? And the hype about the commercials and the half-time show is possibly even bigger than the action on the field.
It looks like Intel has taken that a few steps further for this year's Super Bowl. I would hope anyway. That was 16 years ago.
But on other tech fronts, wasn't there an article in the last year on/. about the NFL's horrible experiences with their Surfaces? And didn't announcers keep referring to them as iPads?
And dammit, I just watched a brief news clip about the Super Bowl hoping to see some of this amazing new camera technology and the only pictures of the game were still images! I should have known better than to click on a Newsy link. CBS doesn't play well with whatever extensions I have on Chrome and Firefox so I had to pull up IE to watch their report...and watch a Bud Light commercial...And CBS didn't have anything but still images in their news clip either? WTF?
Didn't the game air on CBS? Was the camera technology cool? It seems they're making it difficult to see.
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Willie Dixon wrote it and Howlin' Wolf recorded it before either the Doors or Led Zeppelin were bands.
What if I could purchase a robot that could go out and earn a living for me?
This is fantasy of course, but if I could afford a robot with even most of my abilities as an employee but who could work much longer hours only needing to be taken offline for maintenance occasionally think of it!
Of course, then there will be pressure to upgrade my robot because after a few years it will be surpassed by newer more capable models.
How will my robot compete with all the technological advances of newer robots?
And then there's that four year life span.
If that isn't planned obsolescence, what is?
So you're telling me my robot will be "more human than human", but that it "may develop its own emotional responses" but after 4 years it's "time to die"?
How expensive is the basic pleasure model?
Some of that sounds like the US.
I think many of the things that cause accidents are not due to the fact that we don't know better or lack the skills to navigate such a situation, but it's distraction and an overconfidence due to the fact that we've done similar things so many times before and never gotten into an accident.
Last week, I found myself in the front seat of a car driven by someone unfamiliar with my town staring at his cell phone at 50 mph trying to find a place to eat and my foot was involuntarily pushing hard against the passenger side floorboard and I kept saying how about this Chinese place I know about? His kids kept insisting on going to some place that I had never heard of but sounded truly horrible to me.
We ended up at the Chinese place which they agreed was a very good choice all along.
I was actually scared and the real pisser to me was it was a relative renting a a fairly nice Audi (nicer than my car anyway) through some AirBnB style car-rental scheme and as soon as I sat in it I asked "Can I drive?", but he just said he would let me if it were his own, but....
I didn't argue with him, but that's bullshit. My own auto insurance would have covered anything that might have happened if i had driven and I know the roads and know better than to stare at my phone while driving down unfamiliar streets.
I saw another article about this a month ago.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ne...
They may be able to customize how locked down they are depending on the facility where they're used.
In this article they pay 5 cents a minute.
Inmates can text and call up to 10 contacts who must be screened and approved by the company. Telmate monitors and stores data on the inmates’ communications, providing the information to investigator
Better article:
http://cbs6albany.com/news/loc...
Inmates can't surf the web on the devices but they are allowed to talk to or text up to 10 contacts. The sheriff says Telmate, the company that created the tablet software, checks those people out before any communication occurs.
“As well as vetting the person they look for buzzwords, encrypted messages trying to come through,” Apple said.
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I didn't know this was available. It says AMC Roku's channel only became available last month too
Good timing for me as I just watched Season 1 of Hap and Leonard on Netflix last week and now I can watch Season 2. (S2E1 air date 3/15/17)
i would definitely pay for this a few months a year at least if it didn't require a cable subscription.
eh, I didn't realize it but I could watch it at their website too. For some reason AMC's Roku app causes my old Roku 2XS to reboot after playing an episode for a couple of minutes. It's done it 4 times now. Netflix works just fine on the old hardware.
Fortunately I don't hear many sirens and none I would consider unnecessary but those other things bother me, mostly the neighbors. Occasionally military aircraft flies overhead but not too often but those things are really loud.
Since I live in a townhome the worst is the walls were thinner than I expected when I moved in. I would love to find out there was some rating of sound insulation between units that could be looked up. For future reference of course, but I really want a freestanding home on its own lot next time I buy.
I love hearing the train whistle in the distance at night though. I've lived close enough to train tracks to hear the train go by too. You get used to it just the same as you get used to having a clock that chimes or cuckoos every half hour if you have one. You simply don't even notice it most of the time.
Or maybe not - train horns have become a political issue with people closer to the tracks (which have been here for probably at least a century) complaining about the horns.
Most of the problems for me come through the walls or from dogs, loud motorcycles, powertools and cars.
Correction. Update available Jauary 5th, 2017.
Dammit!
I've got a Motorola Droid Turbo (came out October, 2014).
Android 6 released in October, 2015.
Update available: January 5, 2016.
Thanks, Verizon. Never again.
I mostly see lights with a delay where all are red very briefly, but it could be where I have lived in the US. What annoys me is that even with that there are often people entering the intersection when the other traffic's light turns green.
I believe we should get much tougher with driving tests in the US. One thing I would add for states which get a lot of snow is some sort of testing in the ability to handle it. I'm not sure how to practically do this year round though - simulated snow course?
I've never been to the UK so I can't really speak to the drivers or road engineers there.
Also I wonder what the stats look like on a more granular scale than just the US.
I found a state by state breakdown:
http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topic...
From 0.52 deaths per 100 million miles in Massachusetts to 1.89 deaths per million miles in South Carolina.
Montana is 2nd worse at 1.81 but I assume that is due to long distances and harsh winters. I don't know what's going on in SC.
Interestingly, 94% of MA fatalities are urban while only 28% of SC's are. SC is more rural to be sureso I'm not sure how useful that is.
Because they have relatives in both the US and Syria.
And how you distinguish someone who just visited their parents in Damascus with someone who says they visited their parents in Damascus but spent most of their "vacation" in Raqqa?
If someone walks up to one of my windows and smashes it, there's a very good chance that one of my neighbors will hear it (one advantage of not having a huge property out of earshot of the neighbors). There's also a good chance I will hear it.
My front door is not impenetrable but I'm certainly not going to make it vulnerable to yet another attack vector.
I would hear someone taking a crowbar to it. I probably wouldn't hear someone unlocking it with an app.....but I see I've gotten off topic here. This is about security cameras not locks on doors or even the smashability of windows.
Is your point that since we can't protect ourselves from every potential threat that we shouldn't bother protecting ourselves from any threat?
But we're talking about security cameras. As I see it, cameras serve two purposes. As a deterrent and if that doesn't work potentially apprehending the culprit after the fact. If they can disable your cameras, neither of those are going to be effective and you've wasted your money.
I still lock my doors despite my windows being very smashable.
Now you're talking terrorism.
I don't want to see most of the people in airports naked.
It's backed up and encrypted. I would consider it a favor if they took my Lenovo away from me.
It's a piece of crap!
How is task_num any more descriptive that i, j or k?
I've got to iterate a number of times. If I use i for a variable I know it's something I will throw away after use (usually after a loop).
Calling it task_num implies it may be more important and someone might be tempted to use it later when it was nothing but a throwaway variable.
i was just an index into an array ('i' for index maybe? 'j' and 'k' being the next letters in the alphabet if more are needed?)
I've also been known to use 'x', 'y' and 'z'. I never liked 'a', 'b' and 'c' for some reason though.
I'm all in favor of using descriptive variable names, but sometimes a simple 'i' will do and like another poster said it's more important to say why you're iterating than that you are iterating.
I don't entirely disagree with you, but I'm reminded of code I've written that I revisited months later and asked myself what I was doing.
It was probably bad code, but when I wrote it I obviously thought it was the best solution at the time. And no clear comment as to why I did that.
The function may have a comment at the top of it, but the details are messy and convoluted.
Also, I'm reminded of something I read once that claimed COBOL was self-documenting. I thought that was funny.
There's also an old quote (maybe I saw it here on /.) that goes something like this:
I don't need comments. If it was hard to program it should be hard to understand.
I would also enforce error checking.
That's a fair point. I have seen comments just for the sake of saying the code is commented. /* MAIN */
int main(.....
etcetera
If they say the book was good, they didn't actually read it.
Okay, I only read one of those books and while it was informative I didn't like it.
They only have three hours in which to do this.
Personally, I'd suggest beating them over the heads with printed copies of man pages whilst trying to emphasize the importance of commenting their goddammed code.
But that's just me.
But can I really build a home for $10,000? Aside from the sewer and electric and what not and the fact that it's kind of small. And of course the land.
I didn't read this article, but I read another one which bragged that they could do this in other shapes and sizes.
I don't need a big home but I didn't see what the bathroom looks like in this place and that kitchen looks horrible.
I've got more home than I need right now, but sometimes it's really nice to have that much room.
This is exactly what I do and I backup the password database religiously.
One time the file became corrupt but due to my frequent backups I did not lose anything.
I used to keep passwords in my head which was absolutely insane and of course I re-used the same passwords on lots of different sites. One night a few years ago I read about a Yahoo security breach and so I changed my password. Unfortunately I was drinking and was foolishly confident that I would remember this password which I'm sure was a very good one because when I sobered up even I could not get back into my Yahoo account.
I think of it as KeepAss rather than KeePass though.
I think some people really don't care about password security much, especially not for something like their work accounts. Twice I have guessed a co-worker's password. The first time was when I had my first sysadmin job and I wanted to see if failed login attempts were logged anywhere. lol, the password was the same as the username. I really did not expect that and of course I had root privileges anyway, but geez. Okay, that was the '90s and she was not an IT person.
But it wasn't too long ago that I was screwing around at work and decided to make a few attempts at a fellow developer's password. I had sudo privileges anyway so I didn't need to do this to get into his account. I was just bored. And his password was his first name.
And another time I pointed out to one of my bosses that we had a whole bunch of accounts set up on customer machines that had never been logged into and thus still had the default password which everyone in the whole company (and any customer employee who ever had an account on that system) could figure out. Some of the accounts belonged to former employees who no longer worked for us. Not interested.
There was this guy too:
Luka Rocco Magnotta (born Eric Clinton Kirk Newman; July 24, 1982) is a Canadian murderer, convicted of killing and dismembering Lin Jun, a Chinese international student, before mailing Lin Jun's limbs to elementary schools and federal political party offices.[9] This act gained international notoriety. After a video depicting the murder was posted online in May 2012,
I can see at least some people saying "See, it's not 'Disputed' on FB, it must be true!"
Or maybe almost everything will be "disputed"
*Update, 7 February, 12:15 p.m.: The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a statement this morning regarding the removal of animal welfare reports from its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) website:
“The review of APHIS’ website has been ongoing, and the agency is striving to balance the need for transparency with rules protecting individual privacy. In 2016, well before the change of Administration, APHIS decided to make adjustments to the posting of regulatory records. In addition, APHIS is currently involved in litigation concerning, among other issues, information posted on the agency’s website. While the agency is vigorously defending against this litigation, in an abundance of caution, the agency is taking additional measures to protect individual privacy. These decisions are not final. Adjustments may be made regarding information appropriate for release and posting.”
I read this almost at the exact same time as I heard someone on the news say "Jamais deux sans three" (Never two without three).
About a week ago I read something about the Super Bowl's "opening night" and I wondered if it was a football championship or a Broadway musical.
How can a football game have an "opening night"?
No doubt it was a big show, but as another poster points out there was only 11 minutes of playing time. Is that true? And the hype about the commercials and the half-time show is possibly even bigger than the action on the field.
I guess the NFL has done some cool things with technology....well, not the NFL but people who partnered with them (e.g. CMU experts helping CBS's 30 robotic cameras to work as one)
It looks like Intel has taken that a few steps further for this year's Super Bowl. I would hope anyway. That was 16 years ago.
But on other tech fronts, wasn't there an article in the last year on /. about the NFL's horrible experiences with their Surfaces? And didn't announcers keep referring to them as iPads?
And dammit, I just watched a brief news clip about the Super Bowl hoping to see some of this amazing new camera technology and the only pictures of the game were still images! I should have known better than to click on a Newsy link. CBS doesn't play well with whatever extensions I have on Chrome and Firefox so I had to pull up IE to watch their report...and watch a Bud Light commercial...And CBS didn't have anything but still images in their news clip either? WTF?
Didn't the game air on CBS? Was the camera technology cool? It seems they're making it difficult to see.