Actually, most all of the big car makers have been working on hydrogen fuel cell cars for over a decade now. The problem isn't the tech, although the cost of the technology is an issue. In fact GM has been putting them in the real world since 2007, I think. I doubt they are alone, as that is with minimal searching and knowledge in the area. Do not think Toyota is first or ahead simply because they have a good PR department.
If Google really wanted to prove out fiber, they would look to a less densely populated area. Consider what putting fiber successfully and profitably in a more rural area would do: pretty much kill the "It's too expensive" arguments for pretty much anywhere. Google needs to be put their weight and minds in trying to solve the last mile problem for all of America, not just the easy parts.
I'm sorry and I'm just mentioning how I reacted to this quote, but for me writing "computer illiterate little sister" rather than "computer illiterate friend" (or sibling, etc.) and bringing age into the quote lessens the argument for me.
I am not a cryptography expert, but I have been supporting genomic medicine for 10 years. For Homomorphic encryption to be of any use in research, or diagnostics, it is necessary to know that each genetic sequence is encrypted to the same results. That is XYZ for person 1 has to be the same genetic sequence as XYZ for person 2. Otherwise we are comparing apples to wood and the results are gibberish. So if XYZ is XYZ is XYZ, how is that any more secure, from a genetic profiling, etc. POV than the raw genetic sequence? It's like saying your SSN is safe, no one will know it is 123-45-6789, we "secured" it as abc-de-fghi but otherwise is just as unique in identifying you.
Am I missing something here?
I don't think "freedom of speech" provides any cover for arrest or legal action from the results of that speech. It only guarantees that the government cannot prevent you from being able to speak freely, or anyone else in public places. In private properties, physical and logical, "freedom of speech" as an amendment to the US Constitution is not in force. E.G. I can tell you to leave my house if I don't like what you are saying, you have absolutely no right to speech in that context. (And thank goodness for that or we'd be overrun with door to door advertisers forcing their way into our homes, oh wait...)
I know I'm showing my age here, but I can't see the term "sonic transducer" with out a Rocky Horror Picture Show flashback: This sonic transducer, it is I suppose some kind of audio-vibratory-physio-molecular transport device?
That's the government for you; An epic cluster fuck you wind up paying through the nose for.
Really? Then I guess we shouldn't be worried about the NSA, since they are a government agency and obviously can't do anything right? Oh, and the Social Security Administration must be missing printing out and distributing I don't know how many truck loads of payments everyone month, since they are.... And don't forget how the US Post Office can't delivery over 99% of our mail correctly.
Every large agency, public or private, have issues and humans have a tendency to focus on issues, not successes. And a lot of public agencies have to air their mistakes in public eventually. Big government isn't pretty or perfect, but it also isn't pitiful either.
I may have the title of this wrong, but it is a well known rule of thumb in social media tech circles that of 100% of users, 90% pretty much just read, 9% post regularly, and only 1% are really active. So they have simply come up with the algorithm to determine that 1%.
Also, traditional surveillance can be seen, with care, and cannot follow you onto private property. GPS trackers do not have those limitations. May not be a big difference, but one non-the-less.
There is also Villians by Necessity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villains_by_Necessity), which takes a view on what really happens when good wins and why that is bad.
His vision was a mini computer and you would "share time".
So, now, we have a lot of PCs and the drive is to use them as web browsers(OK, better than VT-100's at least) sharing CPU on a server. Maybe things are so simple after all.
Fingerprint + password + voice sample: even better
If you accept the concept of being able to spoof biometrics, finger and voice prints were mentioned as possible ones in the blurb, then this "even better" security is really falls back to the "simple" password security.
I would still prefer security I can modify and change easily rather than security that is part of me.
Also, how do you bring back the measles? Aren't we inoculated against measles when you're maybe six years old?
There was a period of time when the vaccine used lost its effectiveness over time. I know this because I was inoculated as a child and needed to get the shot again as an adult, or at least so I was told by my doctor. I haven't had measles, mumps or rubella so it was important.
I know people will rightfully claim this is more than what Disney did, but this doesn't sound all that large of a leap over animatronics, from a pure mechanical point of view.
In addition, we don't really understand the effect on wind patterns caused by the farms on the surrounding ecology and weather patterns. I wonder if the tidal generation has similar problems? Imagine the effect to Europe if the Gulf Stream was disturbed by a series of wave turbines? (Ok, a somewhat far-fetched question there.)
Actually, this is exactly the process of recounting votes in the old pull the lever machines. They did not keep individual votes either. The recount was to make sure the process of tallying the votes "up stream" from the machines was correct; or really to check the math and communications of the humans doing the sums based on the reported numbers called into the election offices. The difference between then and now is that our parents trusted those machines, and we here on/. don't trust the electronic versions.
These are good until someone breaks into the security database and finds the poorly protected electronic version of your fingerprint or voice print. They copy that and can pretend to be you to their heart's content and the only option you have is cosmetic surgery to change the biometric value.
You may laugh that no one would build a biometric database which could be so simply hacked into, but didn't they say that about password and credit card number databases? At least I can change those.
From Article: When the office temperature in a month-long study increased from 68 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit, typing errors fell by 44 percent and typing output jumped 150 percent.
This is a well-known phenomenon, first seen in the Hawthorne studies. One of the first productivity studies was in a factory where the researcher first reduced the light, and productivity increased; then the researcher increased the light, and productivity still increased. The end result is that worker productivity increased indirectly merely by changing the work environment.
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Actually, most all of the big car makers have been working on hydrogen fuel cell cars for over a decade now. The problem isn't the tech, although the cost of the technology is an issue. In fact GM has been putting them in the real world since 2007, I think. I doubt they are alone, as that is with minimal searching and knowledge in the area. Do not think Toyota is first or ahead simply because they have a good PR department.
Hardly new, though. People have been trying to show niche success of AI and NN can translate into major success for years, at least since the 1980s.
If Google really wanted to prove out fiber, they would look to a less densely populated area. Consider what putting fiber successfully and profitably in a more rural area would do: pretty much kill the "It's too expensive" arguments for pretty much anywhere. Google needs to be put their weight and minds in trying to solve the last mile problem for all of America, not just the easy parts.
I'm sorry and I'm just mentioning how I reacted to this quote, but for me writing "computer illiterate little sister" rather than "computer illiterate friend" (or sibling, etc.) and bringing age into the quote lessens the argument for me.
I am not a cryptography expert, but I have been supporting genomic medicine for 10 years. For Homomorphic encryption to be of any use in research, or diagnostics, it is necessary to know that each genetic sequence is encrypted to the same results. That is XYZ for person 1 has to be the same genetic sequence as XYZ for person 2. Otherwise we are comparing apples to wood and the results are gibberish. So if XYZ is XYZ is XYZ, how is that any more secure, from a genetic profiling, etc. POV than the raw genetic sequence? It's like saying your SSN is safe, no one will know it is 123-45-6789, we "secured" it as abc-de-fghi but otherwise is just as unique in identifying you. Am I missing something here?
I don't think "freedom of speech" provides any cover for arrest or legal action from the results of that speech. It only guarantees that the government cannot prevent you from being able to speak freely, or anyone else in public places. In private properties, physical and logical, "freedom of speech" as an amendment to the US Constitution is not in force. E.G. I can tell you to leave my house if I don't like what you are saying, you have absolutely no right to speech in that context. (And thank goodness for that or we'd be overrun with door to door advertisers forcing their way into our homes, oh wait...)
That argument makes sense for the back, not so much for the front/display.
I know I'm showing my age here, but I can't see the term "sonic transducer" with out a Rocky Horror Picture Show flashback: This sonic transducer, it is I suppose some kind of audio-vibratory-physio-molecular transport device?
Quick, get your proposal into SyFy now, before someone else steals it!
Really? Then I guess we shouldn't be worried about the NSA, since they are a government agency and obviously can't do anything right? Oh, and the Social Security Administration must be missing printing out and distributing I don't know how many truck loads of payments everyone month, since they are.... And don't forget how the US Post Office can't delivery over 99% of our mail correctly.
Every large agency, public or private, have issues and humans have a tendency to focus on issues, not successes. And a lot of public agencies have to air their mistakes in public eventually. Big government isn't pretty or perfect, but it also isn't pitiful either.
They are sending each stage up with enough fuel to land under power? I wonder how much extra $/kg that costs relative to just using parachutes...
I may have the title of this wrong, but it is a well known rule of thumb in social media tech circles that of 100% of users, 90% pretty much just read, 9% post regularly, and only 1% are really active. So they have simply come up with the algorithm to determine that 1%.
Also, traditional surveillance can be seen, with care, and cannot follow you onto private property. GPS trackers do not have those limitations. May not be a big difference, but one non-the-less.
Um, Ben did use a pseudonyms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Silence_Dogood). Granted that was when younger.
There is also Villians by Necessity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villains_by_Necessity), which takes a view on what really happens when good wins and why that is bad.
I would really be impressed with references from something other that Flood.
Agreed; or at least go back to making games in more than just the SW genre.
So, now, we have a lot of PCs and the drive is to use them as web browsers(OK, better than VT-100's at least) sharing CPU on a server. Maybe things are so simple after all.
Fingerprint + password + voice sample: even better
If you accept the concept of being able to spoof biometrics, finger and voice prints were mentioned as possible ones in the blurb, then this "even better" security is really falls back to the "simple" password security.
I would still prefer security I can modify and change easily rather than security that is part of me.
Also, how do you bring back the measles? Aren't we inoculated against measles when you're maybe six years old?
There was a period of time when the vaccine used lost its effectiveness over time. I know this because I was inoculated as a child and needed to get the shot again as an adult, or at least so I was told by my doctor. I haven't had measles, mumps or rubella so it was important.
I know people will rightfully claim this is more than what Disney did, but this doesn't sound all that large of a leap over animatronics, from a pure mechanical point of view.
In addition, we don't really understand the effect on wind patterns caused by the farms on the surrounding ecology and weather patterns. I wonder if the tidal generation has similar problems? Imagine the effect to Europe if the Gulf Stream was disturbed by a series of wave turbines? (Ok, a somewhat far-fetched question there.)
Actually, this is exactly the process of recounting votes in the old pull the lever machines. They did not keep individual votes either. The recount was to make sure the process of tallying the votes "up stream" from the machines was correct; or really to check the math and communications of the humans doing the sums based on the reported numbers called into the election offices. The difference between then and now is that our parents trusted those machines, and we here on /. don't trust the electronic versions.
These are good until someone breaks into the security database and finds the poorly protected electronic version of your fingerprint or voice print. They copy that and can pretend to be you to their heart's content and the only option you have is cosmetic surgery to change the biometric value.
You may laugh that no one would build a biometric database which could be so simply hacked into, but didn't they say that about password and credit card number databases? At least I can change those.
From Article: When the office temperature in a month-long study increased from 68 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit, typing errors fell by 44 percent and typing output jumped 150 percent.
This is a well-known phenomenon, first seen in the Hawthorne studies. One of the first productivity studies was in a factory where the researcher first reduced the light, and productivity increased; then the researcher increased the light, and productivity still increased. The end result is that worker productivity increased indirectly merely by changing the work environment.
Maybe that's why we keep getting reorganized....