Who actually wants a kill switch? Anyone on/. at all?
This anti-feature will be used by not just government but any suffiently motivated hackers to kill your communications. The one ostensible benefit mentioned here is anti-theft, but of course that relies on the mechanism working reliably in the first place and secondly not being circumvented by a thief five minutes after they have acquired it.
Just like the idiotic remote car immobilisers that people who should know better are so quick to adopt. Just wait until some hacker gets the code to your car and holds it to ransom or worse, immobilises it on a freeway. What about when overzealous local law enforcement decides to immobilise all cars exceeding the limit by 1%.
Do you object to such claims because you believe them to be incorrect, or just pedantic and unhelpful?
I'm with you on the second point although I do bring it up as a logical conclusion when someone tries to distinguish between generating and storing energy, since most energy generated on Earth in turn comes from the sun.
Fair enough, but if you carry that logic far enough then fossil fuels aren't an energy source either. They're temporary storage for the sun's fusion energy.
Correct. To be even more pedantic you could say it's nuclear power just like every other energy system on Earth other than the odd zero-point experiment producing a few femtowatts in a laboratory..
However you can consider that gravitational potential energy as an enormous buffer, since there is absolutely no correlation between hours of sunshine and hours of available energy from the system. There's also nothing mandating that the dam has to be filled by precipitation - dams employing pumps exist.
I haven't seen any of the articles, but I'm guessing the news about it has been spread in this fashion:
Rocket companies hate this. NASA has built a new type of engine using a simple trick. You will NEVER believe what happened when they switched it on. When I saw it, my mind was blown! (Photo with a couple of red circles around guys in lab coats)
"Make people not do bad things" is a golden goose. Nobody has yet come up with a way to make that actually happen.
Nobody.
Until someone does, the next best thing is to remove people that do bad things from society so that it can continue to function.
Commonly this involves isolation from society (imprisonment) which also serves as positive punishment. Some call for further punishment such as public floggings or total removal from society by execution of course which in my PERSONAL opinion is going too far. Of course there will be people howling for vengeance, which is a bad motive, but don't let that blind you from the valid reasons for punishment.
While you're sitting dreaming of ways to stop people from doing bad things would you rather there were no penalty for crime, or have I myself now misrepresented your views?
You have asserted that someone here does not desire for there to be no victims to care for (effectively "no crime"), instead choosing to opt for purging offenders from society. In doing so you have attempted to make yourself appear a more moral character than the GP to whom you replied.
The hard truth is that there is no realistic solution to the root cause of these problems. Do you really think that if there were, we wouldn't be already doing that?
I would just like to point out that the AI required to drive a train that effectively requires no steering nor split-second decisions is completely different to what would be required to acceptably drive a car.
After so many "Your next car" posts on Slashdot presenting anti-features like MS Windows, brain control or remote disabling systems, finally here's a story with a feature that might actually benefit being added to a car.
Heh, yeah I remember throwing a second I/O card into my 286, soldering up a couple of resistor ladders to the back of D-25 connectors and enjoying 8-bit stereo sound on the resultant 2 DACs plugged into LPT ports with different addresses. Oh yes.
The problem is that there are no license requirements for bikes, so many riders are totally unaware of the actual laws, and often highly inexperienced.. Drivers at least have to pass a test, and while there are plenty of bad drivers they should at least have some experience and understanding of the rules.
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Who actually wants a kill switch? Anyone on /. at all?
This anti-feature will be used by not just government but any suffiently motivated hackers to kill your communications. The one ostensible benefit mentioned here is anti-theft, but of course that relies on the mechanism working reliably in the first place and secondly not being circumvented by a thief five minutes after they have acquired it.
Just like the idiotic remote car immobilisers that people who should know better are so quick to adopt. Just wait until some hacker gets the code to your car and holds it to ransom or worse, immobilises it on a freeway. What about when overzealous local law enforcement decides to immobilise all cars exceeding the limit by 1%.
Hi Smidge,
Do you object to such claims because you believe them to be incorrect, or just pedantic and unhelpful?
I'm with you on the second point although I do bring it up as a logical conclusion when someone tries to distinguish between generating and storing energy, since most energy generated on Earth in turn comes from the sun.
Fair enough, but if you carry that logic far enough then fossil fuels aren't an energy source either. They're temporary storage for the sun's fusion energy.
Wind power is also solar. So are fossil fuels.
To move further up the pedantry scale, all solar energy is also nuclear.
Enjoy your fusion-powered car.
Correct. To be even more pedantic you could say it's nuclear power just like every other energy system on Earth other than the odd zero-point experiment producing a few femtowatts in a laboratory..
However you can consider that gravitational potential energy as an enormous buffer, since there is absolutely no correlation between hours of sunshine and hours of available energy from the system. There's also nothing mandating that the dam has to be filled by precipitation - dams employing pumps exist.
Clearly it's the rare but apparently also invasive comma-fish, often abbreviated as the ,
Gravity, from water in upstream catchment areas and falling from the sky as rain both into the catchment areas and directly into the dam.
How did the water get "up" in the first place? Well that's solar energy if you really want to get down to it which is, in turn, of course nuclear.
I'm not really sure what answer you're looking for there.
Gravitational potential energy cannot be used as an energy source.
Several hundred million people who use hydroelectric dams as their primary power source disagree.
Still not enough for the Mythbusters.
(On a more serious note though, how on Earth do they manage to store even a few microseconds of the footage from this beast?)
I haven't seen any of the articles, but I'm guessing the news about it has been spread in this fashion:
Rocket companies hate this. NASA has built a new type of engine using a simple trick. You will NEVER believe what happened when they switched it on. When I saw it, my mind was blown!
(Photo with a couple of red circles around guys in lab coats)
"Make people not do bad things" is a golden goose. Nobody has yet come up with a way to make that actually happen.
Nobody.
Until someone does, the next best thing is to remove people that do bad things from society so that it can continue to function.
Commonly this involves isolation from society (imprisonment) which also serves as positive punishment. Some call for further punishment such as public floggings or total removal from society by execution of course which in my PERSONAL opinion is going too far. Of course there will be people howling for vengeance, which is a bad motive, but don't let that blind you from the valid reasons for punishment.
While you're sitting dreaming of ways to stop people from doing bad things would you rather there were no penalty for crime, or have I myself now misrepresented your views?
That's just what Jesus said, sir.
Sorry, but that is a textbook strawman fallacy.
You have asserted that someone here does not desire for there to be no victims to care for (effectively "no crime"), instead choosing to opt for purging offenders from society. In doing so you have attempted to make yourself appear a more moral character than the GP to whom you replied.
The hard truth is that there is no realistic solution to the root cause of these problems. Do you really think that if there were, we wouldn't be already doing that?
This thing is going to happen again and again. Data you put there isn't really yours anyway, no matter what the T&Cs say.
No wonder personal LAMP servers with Postfix/Dovecot are springing up everywhere again.
I would just like to point out that the AI required to drive a train that effectively requires no steering nor split-second decisions is completely different to what would be required to acceptably drive a car.
Well either that or we need to rethink how we measure brain activity.
After so many "Your next car" posts on Slashdot presenting anti-features like MS Windows, brain control or remote disabling systems, finally here's a story with a feature that might actually benefit being added to a car.
Well done.
My goodness, what has happened to Slashdot? Have the competent admins been replaced with morons?
Heh, yeah I remember throwing a second I/O card into my 286, soldering up a couple of resistor ladders to the back of D-25 connectors and enjoying 8-bit stereo sound on the resultant 2 DACs plugged into LPT ports with different addresses. Oh yes.
You mean other than the fact they're a complete joke?
From the summary:
Recent research suggests that many believe we will stop using notes and coins altogether in the not-too-distant future
I am certain that research is correct. Just as it was correct 40 years ago.
Can I use it to line the inner surface of my telescope?
I vote Mos Eisley.
After all, where else would one find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy, outside of Washington that is...
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The problem is that there are no license requirements for bikes, so many riders are totally unaware of the actual laws, and often highly inexperienced..
Drivers at least have to pass a test, and while there are plenty of bad drivers they should at least have some experience and understanding of the rules.
Well the solution to this is fairly clear...