You do not understand people being cheap ? Because even if many great thinkers of slashdot will not recognize it and will try to rationalize piracy in a way or the other, this is still the main driving factor for most of the people using this kind of solutions.
Something more interesting would be to have something like ACAS implemented, in which both your car and incoming traffic would cooperate to minimize damage.
It was supposed to be "7 people present in the train cab instead of 3" in the original submission.
I will not complain too much however, as the editors fixed a broken link.
Whereas it's conceivable that a single software engineer, directed by a single manager, could have secretly written and uploaded the code that ran the defeat device
Of course is conceivable, but does anybody actually believe that ? You would need to be quite ingenuous to believe that... this is not an obscure open source project with almost no reviews, you cannot "slip" a patch without anyone noticing... moreover, you cannot keep that code for more than 6 years in the revision control system without anyone noticing.
This is not a conspiracy, this is just a company caught red handed.
I'm afraid what happened in Serbia is only one example, and it is something that really should never have happened. The radar used there was not particularly sophisticated. If anyone knows they can track a F-35 or F-22 right now then they are going to keep their cards close to their chest.
You can also shoot down the F-117 over Belgrade in the very comprehensive SAM Simulator. Try it, you will see this is not easy...
The point of the radar cross-section comparison with a bird is that in most circumstances, you cannot track birds reliability with radars. It is not that you are supposed to mistake the plane for a bird.
People expect to throw away their phone after 2 years. I'm sure you've thrown away other hardware because its OS couldn't be upgraded. Eg.: DVD players, NAS boxes, printers, or even wi-fi repeaters.
I'm pretty sure DVD players and printers are rather long-lived.
It's not all about market muscle, even if this is a big part of the problem.
There is an area in which Linux is really lacking, which is "computer administration for dummies". Incidentally, the people who will be in the deepest trouble are home users, who are the administrators of their own computers, but have never learnt how to do that.
Grandma can use Linux: she will have a locked-down setup installed by her computer-savvy grandsons, and she only wants to go on the internet and print a few things.
Office users can use Linux, as their desktops are administrated by IT. Here the problem will be more about the OSS ecosystem. Almost every business uses "niche" software or "niche" features that are crucial to their operations.
But home users, who are always installing programs and configuring small things are in trouble. Let's say I run OpenSUSE... I can use YaST to configure my system. Or I can try to use the "system configuration" panel in KDE. Or I can use an independant KDE utility which will be happy to interfere with YaST settings, or will have absolutely no effect. Or I can use a command-line utility written in ncurses that I read about on the internet and was installed by default on the system (e.g alsamixer or others...). Or finally, I can hack directly the configuration text files, hoping that they have not been deprecated by a newer system.
If you know Linux, you will probably skip every of those steps to go to the final one, as it is the most reliable way to administer stuff with UNIX-likes. However, not every home user is either able to do that, or willing to learn that.
Let's compare the situation to Windows now, where you can go for 10 years with your home computer without even knowing what the registry is.
So what ? You seem quite polarized on Joffrin. Indeed, he's very representative of a particular leftist current of thought that is present in France and more generally in Europe. However, this is just this: a current of thought. It is not like if it was the dominant current of thought.
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This is the attitude I don't understand.
You do not understand people being cheap ? Because even if many great thinkers of slashdot will not recognize it and will try to rationalize piracy in a way or the other, this is still the main driving factor for most of the people using this kind of solutions.
You know, the rocket engineers working at SpaceX did not come out of nowhere...
Something more interesting would be to have something like ACAS implemented, in which both your car and incoming traffic would cooperate to minimize damage.
perl is a requirement on many linux distributions. Which means they will not work without it.
It makes a lot of sense from the viewpoint of an economist. It made millions of people go see the movie.
It was supposed to be "7 people present in the train cab instead of 3" in the original submission.
I will not complain too much however, as the editors fixed a broken link.
It's always a bad sign when you consider that your users are a part of the problem.
You could also use one of the gazillion of apps that exist for flickr on iPad.
The concept if very interesting, however the actual GIF could have been a little more creative than just a counter.
Whereas it's conceivable that a single software engineer, directed by a single manager, could have secretly written and uploaded the code that ran the defeat device
Of course is conceivable, but does anybody actually believe that ? You would need to be quite ingenuous to believe that... this is not an obscure open source project with almost no reviews, you cannot "slip" a patch without anyone noticing... moreover, you cannot keep that code for more than 6 years in the revision control system without anyone noticing.
This is not a conspiracy, this is just a company caught red handed.
Anyway, if you need any proof that this behaviour was indeed intended by the company, just have a look at this article: Bosch reportedly warned Volkswagen about illegal emissions software in 2007.
From that table:
Italy: 6.2 fatalities per 100 000 inhabitants per year.
USA: 11.2 fatalities per 100 000 inhabitants per year.
Staying on the side is not a good idea on a roundabout.
Actually, yes. One way streets except for bicycles are more and more common in the Netherlands and other European countries.
See for instance here, here or here.
The difference is that the library has paid for it. And can only lend it to one person at a time.
The European Parliament has repeatedly asked Turkey to recognize the Armenian genocide.
I'm afraid what happened in Serbia is only one example, and it is something that really should never have happened. The radar used there was not particularly sophisticated. If anyone knows they can track a F-35 or F-22 right now then they are going to keep their cards close to their chest.
You can also shoot down the F-117 over Belgrade in the very comprehensive SAM Simulator. Try it, you will see this is not easy...
The point of the radar cross-section comparison with a bird is that in most circumstances, you cannot track birds reliability with radars. It is not that you are supposed to mistake the plane for a bird.
People expect to throw away their phone after 2 years. I'm sure you've thrown away other hardware because its OS couldn't be upgraded. Eg.: DVD players, NAS boxes, printers, or even wi-fi repeaters.
I'm pretty sure DVD players and printers are rather long-lived.
It's not all about market muscle, even if this is a big part of the problem.
There is an area in which Linux is really lacking, which is "computer administration for dummies". Incidentally, the people who will be in the deepest trouble are home users, who are the administrators of their own computers, but have never learnt how to do that.
Grandma can use Linux: she will have a locked-down setup installed by her computer-savvy grandsons, and she only wants to go on the internet and print a few things.
Office users can use Linux, as their desktops are administrated by IT. Here the problem will be more about the OSS ecosystem. Almost every business uses "niche" software or "niche" features that are crucial to their operations.
But home users, who are always installing programs and configuring small things are in trouble. Let's say I run OpenSUSE... I can use YaST to configure my system. Or I can try to use the "system configuration" panel in KDE. Or I can use an independant KDE utility which will be happy to interfere with YaST settings, or will have absolutely no effect. Or I can use a command-line utility written in ncurses that I read about on the internet and was installed by default on the system (e.g alsamixer or others...). Or finally, I can hack directly the configuration text files, hoping that they have not been deprecated by a newer system.
If you know Linux, you will probably skip every of those steps to go to the final one, as it is the most reliable way to administer stuff with UNIX-likes. However, not every home user is either able to do that, or willing to learn that.
Let's compare the situation to Windows now, where you can go for 10 years with your home computer without even knowing what the registry is.
So what ? You seem quite polarized on Joffrin. Indeed, he's very representative of a particular leftist current of thought that is present in France and more generally in Europe. However, this is just this: a current of thought. It is not like if it was the dominant current of thought.
From Los Angeles to San Francisco: 559 km
From Paris to Marseilles: 660 km, 16 high speed trains per day.
You also have to take into account that the router is transmitting 24/7... whereas the laptop is closed when not used.
This was a production model. The test models have had no problems so far.
It was once the case.
Now with the ubiquity of ARM, it might not be true anymore.
Most people do not know what is a NAT. They only need a safe default configuration on their home routers.