So no more Xbox, Playstation, iOS, Android, or Steam games then? Anything that talks to a server could be considered "internet enabled". As could anything you download. Seems like an awfully big overreach by government.
The k2radio article describes how this works. The drone control app on iOS talks to a remote server for mapping info. The Feds feed geofence info into the control app servers and that gets delivered to the pilots & their drones.
"AirMap and Skyward now obtain wildfire information directly from Interiorâ(TM)s Integrated Reporting Wildland-Fire Information (IRWIN) program, and immediately transmit it to drone pilots through AirMapâ(TM)s iOS and web apps, AirMapâ(TM)s API, and the GEO geofencing system included in the DJI GO flight control app."
I'm going to make the giant assumption that enough drones operate in this manner to make this worthwhile.
Drones, aka radio controlled aircraft, communicate with the operator over radio waves. Those signals carry commands, video, and other stuff. My understanding is that these are point-to-point communications.
How then does "software" get in the middle of this point-to-point communication and inform the pilot to go away? Are they setting up hardware with antennas & software that transmits on some common frequency & protocol that drones use?
The latest version of iMessage clearly has access to various iOS APIs. It runs mini-Swift applications with animation, forms, and other stuff. It reaches into the host OS to provide its flashy, whiz-bang features.
How could Apple possibly port that to Android without also porting chunks of iOS?
From http://www.apple.com/swift/pla...: "Because youâ(TM)re working with real code, you can import and export directly between Swift Playgrounds and Xcode. So you can try out your ideas with the tool pros use to develop iOS and Mac apps."
So it looks like there is a path to a more sophisticated dev environment if you outgrow the iPad sandbox.
How does the FitBits' accuracy compare with the many other consumer-grade heart rate monitors on the market? e.g. The ones with a strap you wear around your chest.
If the FitBits do a bad job of measuring heart rate - to the point of being worthless noise - then I agree they ought to be sued for selling a product that doesn't do what it advertises. But I'd like to see a less biased party - such as a fitness magazine, or Consumer Reports - do the testing rather than a lawyer chasing a paycheck.
And that's why the Constitution was designed to be amended. And why we've done it numerous times.
Want the federal government to have new powers? Pass an amendment. Simple. Easy? Maybe not. But it (is supposed to) ensures that the feds don't go crazy doing things the States don't want them to.
Homeschoolers have been delivering "personalized education" for many years. Everything from choosing a complete curriculum and allowing the student to proceed at their own pace, to developing a completely custom curriculum from various sources.
My own child participates in a program called "Classical Conversations" which provides a large chunk of the curriculum, and there are weekly sessions with a small group. Math we are doing via an online course.
FWIW, my child is sixth grade aged, and is doing 7th+ grade level work. Is this because my child is inherently intelligent? Because of the one on one teaching? Because the curriculum happens to fit with her learning style? Who knows. But she is excelling and, IMHO, getting a far better education than she ever would in a public school where they spend the vast majority of their effort making sure the lowest performers make it over the bar rather than helping the high achievers reach their potential.
It may very well be true that existing laws have been crafted in a way to protect entrenched companies. Nothing new there; happens in other industries, too. That does not negate the fact that the government has an interest in ensuring some level of training, insurance, best practices, etc. from service providers. Just as they do for plumbers, construction contractors, lawyers, dentists, beauticians, etc.
Uber & Lyft don't want any rules to apply to them. That's just as selfish/greedy/evil as protective laws.
And this is exactly the issue. Uber & Lyft offer a service that currently has certain regulations, but they don't want to be bound by the existing regulations because they are "different". Same issue with Homeaway, Airbnb, VRBO, etc.
The government has a interest in assuring that people offering a service meet some level of licensing, in theory proving they have some level of training and standard practices to ensure customers (citizens) are not subject to undue risk. But Uber & Lyft don't want to play by those rules. They feel they vet their drivers well enough and the government can go pound sand.
I think I'll create an app offering tooth extraction services. Use the app and someone will come to your house with a pair of pliers and yank your teeth out. Medical school? Sanitation? Pish-posh. That's old-school, big government think. It's a sharing economy now.
The syntax is terse (no semi-colons if you don't want them), it adds a lot of nice touches (null is false, ?. operator), easy JSON and XML support, and yet it works seamlessly with the vast number of Java libraries out there.
Pair Groovy up with the Gradle (Groovy-based) build tool and you have a slick package.
I just got done writing a little utility with it. No class declaration or main(), Sql object that makes database interaction dead simple. It's a fairly trivial piece of code, but it looks lean and clean in Groovy.
I'll throw air conditioning in there under the heading of "refrigeration". A/C has turned baking deserts (e.g. Arizona, Saudi Arabia) and humid swamps (e.g. Florida) into popular places to live.
We've been able to generate heat since the harnessing of fire, but generating cool took a lot longer.
"Between the stupidity of "leaders" in teaching, and zero tolerance insanity, homeschooling or private schooling my children looks better and better every day."
Homeschooling rocks. You can do everything from completely pre-canned video courses online to doing everything via cobbled together public domain content.
Of course, your child(ren) and whoever does the teaching must take to it. But if it works, it works quite well.
This does not prevent/deter the problem. The "government" pays the penalties - read tax payers, not the people who committed the perjury (police, prosecutors, judges, expert witnesses, etc.).
Unless there is a real and expected negative consequence to the direct actors, there is no incentive to stop.
(But if I were one of the victims' families, I'd sure want a few million dollars for the government's screw up.)
As terrible as this is, it has all the ingredients of a James Bond or Mission Impossible movie set up.
Who or what was on board that some nefarious power wanted eliminated? What leverage did that nefarious power have on the co-pilot to make him do this?
The simple explanation of "the guy wanted to commit suicide & take everyone with him" seems rather unconvincing. If that were so, why not crash into a populated area to maximize the damage? If it were an act of jihad, where is the call of glory to Allah & death to the infidels? (He knows the voice recorder is going, surely he would send a message of victory.)
I would expect/hope that people who fly airplanes go through some sort of psyche profile & background check. Hopefully something as common as losing a wife/girlfriend or being outed as homosexual or experiencing financial hardship would not be enough to push someone cleared to fly to mass murder-suicide.
I think the Apple watch is interesting but it is ten times more expensive than it should be
You think the Apple watch should cost $34.95? Or do you mean the limited Edition $10,000+ one? The high end one is irrelevant when discussing pricing. It is purely a fantasy model for the 0.1% to buy. Like race cars by BMW or couture by fashion brands.
"The app's privacy policy prevents schools from identifying users without a subpoena, court order or search warrant, or an emergency request from a law-enforcement official with a compelling claim of imminent harm."
So if someone issues a death threat, etc. you call the police, they get a subpoena, and track down the idiot who posted it.
Once this happens a few times (in every locality where Yik Yak is used) word gets out not to do that. Or, Yik Yak and law enforcement are overwhelmed with subpoena processing for trolls. If Yik Yak can't process requests fast enough is there some sort of penalty they face? If Yik Yak corporate headquarters are out of state or out of the US, how would such penalties be imposed?
Or, signal to noise ratio gets way too low and the app collapses under the weight of trolls. Or the trolls enjoy trolling each other on it (4chan).
I didn't mean to imply that Mac OS's implementation was the best choice, only that it is/was a better choice than three letter extensions on the file name. MIME types are a more modern approach.
A post above suggested prepending MIME information on ALL files. That doesn't seem like a bad choice other than it breaks backward compatibility.
But I think we can agree that the current approach is seriously antiquated and problematic.
Agreed. There ought to be a "metadata" fork/portion of a file that contains the type and other stuff (date created, last changed, category, etc.). Relying on an easily changed three letter extension in this day is really stupid.
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So no more Xbox, Playstation, iOS, Android, or Steam games then?
Anything that talks to a server could be considered "internet enabled". As could anything you download. Seems like an awfully big overreach by government.
(Replying to my own question.)
The k2radio article describes how this works. The drone control app on iOS talks to a remote server for mapping info. The Feds feed geofence info into the control app servers and that gets delivered to the pilots & their drones.
"AirMap and Skyward now obtain wildfire information directly from Interiorâ(TM)s Integrated Reporting Wildland-Fire Information (IRWIN) program, and immediately transmit it to drone pilots through AirMapâ(TM)s iOS and web apps, AirMapâ(TM)s API, and the GEO geofencing system included in the DJI GO flight control app."
I'm going to make the giant assumption that enough drones operate in this manner to make this worthwhile.
Drones, aka radio controlled aircraft, communicate with the operator over radio waves. Those signals carry commands, video, and other stuff. My understanding is that these are point-to-point communications.
How then does "software" get in the middle of this point-to-point communication and inform the pilot to go away? Are they setting up hardware with antennas & software that transmits on some common frequency & protocol that drones use?
I wish I had mod points.
Very well said. Trump may be terrible, but he's openly terrible. The political class has been terrible, but they hide it under a slick veneer.
The latest version of iMessage clearly has access to various iOS APIs. It runs mini-Swift applications with animation, forms, and other stuff. It reaches into the host OS to provide its flashy, whiz-bang features.
How could Apple possibly port that to Android without also porting chunks of iOS?
From http://www.apple.com/swift/pla...:
"Because youâ(TM)re working with real code, you can import and export directly between Swift Playgrounds and Xcode. So you can try out your ideas with the tool pros use to develop iOS and Mac apps."
So it looks like there is a path to a more sophisticated dev environment if you outgrow the iPad sandbox.
How does the FitBits' accuracy compare with the many other consumer-grade heart rate monitors on the market? e.g. The ones with a strap you wear around your chest.
If the FitBits do a bad job of measuring heart rate - to the point of being worthless noise - then I agree they ought to be sued for selling a product that doesn't do what it advertises. But I'd like to see a less biased party - such as a fitness magazine, or Consumer Reports - do the testing rather than a lawyer chasing a paycheck.
And that's why the Constitution was designed to be amended. And why we've done it numerous times.
Want the federal government to have new powers? Pass an amendment. Simple. Easy? Maybe not. But it (is supposed to) ensures that the feds don't go crazy doing things the States don't want them to.
"Volvo is planning on bringing a fleet of 100 self-driving vehicles to China from next year,"
Forget self-driving vehicles. Tell us more about this time travel technology!
Only if the FBI took the phone to Israel to have the procedure done. If the cracking was performed on US soil, then they were within our jurisdiction.
Homeschoolers have been delivering "personalized education" for many years. Everything from choosing a complete curriculum and allowing the student to proceed at their own pace, to developing a completely custom curriculum from various sources.
My own child participates in a program called "Classical Conversations" which provides a large chunk of the curriculum, and there are weekly sessions with a small group. Math we are doing via an online course.
FWIW, my child is sixth grade aged, and is doing 7th+ grade level work. Is this because my child is inherently intelligent? Because of the one on one teaching? Because the curriculum happens to fit with her learning style? Who knows. But she is excelling and, IMHO, getting a far better education than she ever would in a public school where they spend the vast majority of their effort making sure the lowest performers make it over the bar rather than helping the high achievers reach their potential.
And any argument that ignores the substance but instead attacks the presentation or style can be safely ignored as well.
It may very well be true that existing laws have been crafted in a way to protect entrenched companies. Nothing new there; happens in other industries, too. That does not negate the fact that the government has an interest in ensuring some level of training, insurance, best practices, etc. from service providers. Just as they do for plumbers, construction contractors, lawyers, dentists, beauticians, etc.
Uber & Lyft don't want any rules to apply to them. That's just as selfish/greedy/evil as protective laws.
And this is exactly the issue. Uber & Lyft offer a service that currently has certain regulations, but they don't want to be bound by the existing regulations because they are "different". Same issue with Homeaway, Airbnb, VRBO, etc.
The government has a interest in assuring that people offering a service meet some level of licensing, in theory proving they have some level of training and standard practices to ensure customers (citizens) are not subject to undue risk. But Uber & Lyft don't want to play by those rules. They feel they vet their drivers well enough and the government can go pound sand.
I think I'll create an app offering tooth extraction services. Use the app and someone will come to your house with a pair of pliers and yank your teeth out. Medical school? Sanitation? Pish-posh. That's old-school, big government think. It's a sharing economy now.
You forgot Rand Paul.
Favors decriminalizing marijuana.
Wants to minimize our interference in other countries' affairs.
Wants to end the NSA spying.
I've been using Groovy for the past few years. And every where I can I try to use more of it.
http://www.groovy-lang.org/
The syntax is terse (no semi-colons if you don't want them), it adds a lot of nice touches (null is false, ?. operator), easy JSON and XML support, and yet it works seamlessly with the vast number of Java libraries out there.
Pair Groovy up with the Gradle (Groovy-based) build tool and you have a slick package.
I just got done writing a little utility with it. No class declaration or main(), Sql object that makes database interaction dead simple. It's a fairly trivial piece of code, but it looks lean and clean in Groovy.
- Jasen.
I'll throw air conditioning in there under the heading of "refrigeration". A/C has turned baking deserts (e.g. Arizona, Saudi Arabia) and humid swamps (e.g. Florida) into popular places to live.
We've been able to generate heat since the harnessing of fire, but generating cool took a lot longer.
https://randpaul.com/f/stop-ci...
"Therefore: I agree that the Bill of Rights, including the Fourth Amendment, is non-negotiable and I urge you to Stand With Rand and oppose CISA."
"Between the stupidity of "leaders" in teaching, and zero tolerance insanity, homeschooling or private schooling my children looks better and better every day."
Homeschooling rocks. You can do everything from completely pre-canned video courses online to doing everything via cobbled together public domain content.
Of course, your child(ren) and whoever does the teaching must take to it. But if it works, it works quite well.
This does not prevent/deter the problem. The "government" pays the penalties - read tax payers, not the people who committed the perjury (police, prosecutors, judges, expert witnesses, etc.).
Unless there is a real and expected negative consequence to the direct actors, there is no incentive to stop.
(But if I were one of the victims' families, I'd sure want a few million dollars for the government's screw up.)
As terrible as this is, it has all the ingredients of a James Bond or Mission Impossible movie set up.
Who or what was on board that some nefarious power wanted eliminated? What leverage did that nefarious power have on the co-pilot to make him do this?
The simple explanation of "the guy wanted to commit suicide & take everyone with him" seems rather unconvincing. If that were so, why not crash into a populated area to maximize the damage? If it were an act of jihad, where is the call of glory to Allah & death to the infidels? (He knows the voice recorder is going, surely he would send a message of victory.)
I would expect/hope that people who fly airplanes go through some sort of psyche profile & background check. Hopefully something as common as losing a wife/girlfriend or being outed as homosexual or experiencing financial hardship would not be enough to push someone cleared to fly to mass murder-suicide.
We may never know.
I think the Apple watch is interesting but it is ten times more expensive than it should be
You think the Apple watch should cost $34.95? Or do you mean the limited Edition $10,000+ one? The high end one is irrelevant when discussing pricing. It is purely a fantasy model for the 0.1% to buy. Like race cars by BMW or couture by fashion brands.
"The app's privacy policy prevents schools from identifying users without a subpoena, court order or search warrant, or an emergency request from a law-enforcement official with a compelling claim of imminent harm."
So if someone issues a death threat, etc. you call the police, they get a subpoena, and track down the idiot who posted it.
Once this happens a few times (in every locality where Yik Yak is used) word gets out not to do that. Or, Yik Yak and law enforcement are overwhelmed with subpoena processing for trolls. If Yik Yak can't process requests fast enough is there some sort of penalty they face? If Yik Yak corporate headquarters are out of state or out of the US, how would such penalties be imposed?
Or, signal to noise ratio gets way too low and the app collapses under the weight of trolls. Or the trolls enjoy trolling each other on it (4chan).
I didn't mean to imply that Mac OS's implementation was the best choice, only that it is/was a better choice than three letter extensions on the file name. MIME types are a more modern approach.
A post above suggested prepending MIME information on ALL files. That doesn't seem like a bad choice other than it breaks backward compatibility.
But I think we can agree that the current approach is seriously antiquated and problematic.
Agreed. There ought to be a "metadata" fork/portion of a file that contains the type and other stuff (date created, last changed, category, etc.). Relying on an easily changed three letter extension in this day is really stupid.