Put some tape over the webcam. Or if they mean some Internet of Shit camera on the wall then a few choice google searches will probably reveal its burnt-into- firmaware root password.
"And if you think that sounding soooo "authoritative" about people being lazier at home "
That sound comes from seeing the difference in performance from people who work from home and those who work in the office. I have no idea where who who these so called studies were done with but they're bollocks. We have one guy who works from home and half the time he can't be contacted and the other half he may or may not do what he's supposed to get done.
" and I say that as a late Gen-Xer that works his ass off from home "
Well thats your choice isn't it. I'm guessing you live alone, at least during the day anyway.
"I have never had an issue getting someone on Skype to discuss and resolve an issue"
LOL, yeah, ok, whatever pal. I'm not sure what world you live in but it must be full of unicorns farting rainbows too.
"this idea that WFH employees slack more at home than they do in the office is pure bullshit."
If you don't think people slack more when they're working from home - especially if they have family distractions around such as kids or a wife who needs some help etc etc - than when they're in the office then I've got a bridge for sale you might be interested in.
Its nothing to to with generations - its everything to do with human nature and thats not something technology can - yet - solve.
Seems to me that analysing the type of surface the car is on or is heading for or defects in the road is something else that automated car designers haven't yet bothered with.
Other than his cynicism in blatantly trying to raise his companies stock price self driving cars will never be fully automated until they have a good understand of human psychology as well as the rules of the road and laws of physics. Maybe driving in the nice wide roads and intersections in the US is relatively simple, but lets see these cars navigate a european or far eastern city where its very hard to get out of a side turn unless you push out, or streets that are 2 narrow for 2 way traffic and the automated car is coming down it but someone decides to come up the other way anyway.
And theres the true test - lets see one navigate itself around the l'arc de triomphe roundabout in Paris. Good luck with that Mr Huang!
After being heated up to > 1000C I doubt there'd be anything left intact to make it worth recovering. Plus you can guarantee that any spy satellite will have been built so that the top secret espoinage parts are the first to burn up upon re-entry and all that reaches the sea is whatevers left of the core structure and motors.
Also lithium fires can't be put out with water - it just makes them even worse. So the only fire suppression system in a plane that would work on them (other than a bucket of sand) would also suffocate the passengers.
Unless they've found a seem of CaO nearby (which will still require fuel to be used to mine it) then it all seems a bit pointless. I suspect its true aim is to get venture capiltal to line some pockets and then after a few years they'll say "Oops, the maths doesn't work, but thanks for the money. First class to the climate conference in the Seychelles rocked!"
" Really the advent of Windows a very good graphical interface was the biggest advancement in placing PC's in the home"
The C64 was a home computer. You've head about the Amiga, right? Windows came about years after the Amiga, whose GUI still was a match for anything MS came up with up until Win 3.1 (and even then the Amiga was a proper virtual memory multitasking system unlike the lash up that was Windows until NT came along). The reason the Commodore lost wasn't technology - they were leagues ahead of the PC in software and hardware, it was purely utterly inept management.
A screwdriver? What kind of windows does your house have?? I don't think any for the last 50 years have been so badly built as to have the screws on the outside! Ditto the doors.
But as another poster says, you can hurl a rock through the window but that would probably be heard and someone would call the police before you could even clear the glass and get in.
"Nobody uses real silverware anymore"
You might not have any, plenty do. And to a drug addict even a fiver for some electronic gadget down the pub is better than nothing.
" merely watching how the pattern of memory accesses is generally enough to identify at least the class of algorithm used "
Oh come on, you think nobody has thought of that and doesn't game the algorithm to make a load of pointless and unnecessary memory accesses in order to fool anyone with a logic analyser sitting on the bus? These days the speed hit doing so is almost irrelevant.
Its not like their grid was put up last week. They've probably had 100 years of electric power in which to think , "Y'know, maybe we should put these cables that keep falling down in hurricanes underground?"
"Our guys are doing great - even better than most of our Americans - and we've haven't experienced any of the problems purported here on Slashdot."
Yeah, thats what all managers say when all they're talking about is the cost savings, not the actual productive output. I've worked with plenty of coders from India (not born in the west) and they were uniformly rubbish. They're thought patterns were linear, as soon as they hit a problem they throw it upstairs instead of trying to solve it and for the most part their code could be served with a nice tomato sauce and meatballs.
.... got fed up being put through to some idiot in Bangalore who couldn't solve his own shoelaces whenever there was an issue who then had to escalate it 3 levels up before there was even a satisfactory response, never mind a solution. Of course IBM arn't the only ones guilty of this. You'd think companies would have started to realise now that outsourcing isn't always the solution to their problems, sometimes it IS the problem.
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Put some tape over the webcam. Or if they mean some Internet of Shit camera on the wall then a few choice google searches will probably reveal its burnt-into- firmaware root password.
"And if you think that sounding soooo "authoritative" about people being lazier at home "
That sound comes from seeing the difference in performance from people who work from home and those who work in the office. I have no idea where who who these so called studies were done with but they're bollocks. We have one guy who works from home and half the time he can't be contacted and the other half he may or may not do what he's supposed to get done.
" and I say that as a late Gen-Xer that works his ass off from home "
Well thats your choice isn't it. I'm guessing you live alone, at least during the day anyway.
"I have never had an issue getting someone on Skype to discuss and resolve an issue"
LOL, yeah, ok, whatever pal. I'm not sure what world you live in but it must be full of unicorns farting rainbows too.
"this idea that WFH employees slack more at home than they do in the office is pure bullshit."
No, you're full of bullshit.
If only life were that simple. When you have a family you'll understand.
If you don't think people slack more when they're working from home - especially if they have family distractions around such as kids or a wife who needs some help etc etc - than when they're in the office then I've got a bridge for sale you might be interested in.
Its nothing to to with generations - its everything to do with human nature and thats not something technology can - yet - solve.
They work well when people follow the rules. But this is France we're talking about. Rules are considered optional on the road.
"Happens several hundred times a day. (*facepalm*)"
Really? You'll be able tp provide a link proving this then won't you.
Seems to me that analysing the type of surface the car is on or is heading for or defects in the road is something else that automated car designers haven't yet bothered with.
Other than his cynicism in blatantly trying to raise his companies stock price self driving cars will never be fully automated until they have a good understand of human psychology as well as the rules of the road and laws of physics. Maybe driving in the nice wide roads and intersections in the US is relatively simple, but lets see these cars navigate a european or far eastern city where its very hard to get out of a side turn unless you push out, or streets that are 2 narrow for 2 way traffic and the automated car is coming down it but someone decides to come up the other way anyway.
And theres the true test - lets see one navigate itself around the l'arc de triomphe roundabout in Paris. Good luck with that Mr Huang!
We shouldnae be surprised thata there's a wee number here!
"and a couple of social media inquiries turned up the fact that he worked for rival WeWork,"
Face -> palm.
After being heated up to > 1000C I doubt there'd be anything left intact to make it worth recovering. Plus you can guarantee that any spy satellite will have been built so that the top secret espoinage parts are the first to burn up upon re-entry and all that reaches the sea is whatevers left of the core structure and motors.
Sure, if the water doesn't hit the exposed battery innards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"Incidentally, water helps only because it cools the cells back down - if you can keep the cells from heating up, you're fine"
Rubbish. Water and lithium react violently (check out plenty of youtube videos showing this). You might as well chuck petrol on it.
Also lithium fires can't be put out with water - it just makes them even worse. So the only fire suppression system in a plane that would work on them (other than a bucket of sand) would also suffocate the passengers.
Unless they've found a seem of CaO nearby (which will still require fuel to be used to mine it) then it all seems a bit pointless. I suspect its true aim is to get venture capiltal to line some pockets and then after a few years they'll say "Oops, the maths doesn't work, but thanks for the money. First class to the climate conference in the Seychelles rocked!"
" Really the advent of Windows a very good graphical interface was the biggest advancement in placing PC's in the home"
The C64 was a home computer. You've head about the Amiga, right? Windows came about years after the Amiga, whose GUI still was a match for anything MS came up with up until Win 3.1 (and even then the Amiga was a proper virtual memory multitasking system unlike the lash up that was Windows until NT came along). The reason the Commodore lost wasn't technology - they were leagues ahead of the PC in software and hardware, it was purely utterly inept management.
A prybar might work if the windows are made of wood maybe. Mine are made of uPVC covered steel.
You can't decompile the binary if you can't get to it - if its encrypted in firmware and taking the lid off the chip destroys it.
A screwdriver? What kind of windows does your house have?? I don't think any for the last 50 years have been so badly built as to have the screws on the outside! Ditto the doors.
But as another poster says, you can hurl a rock through the window but that would probably be heard and someone would call the police before you could even clear the glass and get in.
"Nobody uses real silverware anymore"
You might not have any, plenty do. And to a drug addict even a fiver for some electronic gadget down the pub is better than nothing.
" merely watching how the pattern of memory accesses is generally enough to identify at least the class of algorithm used "
Oh come on, you think nobody has thought of that and doesn't game the algorithm to make a load of pointless and unnecessary memory accesses in order to fool anyone with a logic analyser sitting on the bus? These days the speed hit doing so is almost irrelevant.
Its not like their grid was put up last week. They've probably had 100 years of electric power in which to think , "Y'know, maybe we should put these cables that keep falling down in hurricanes underground?"
Why not? Its done in a lot of places in europe.
... it might be a sensible idea to bury electric cables rather than running them around on fragile masts and poles everywhere?
"Our guys are doing great - even better than most of our Americans - and we've haven't experienced any of the problems purported here on Slashdot."
Yeah, thats what all managers say when all they're talking about is the cost savings, not the actual productive output. I've worked with plenty of coders from India (not born in the west) and they were uniformly rubbish. They're thought patterns were linear, as soon as they hit a problem they throw it upstairs instead of trying to solve it and for the most part their code could be served with a nice tomato sauce and meatballs.
.... got fed up being put through to some idiot in Bangalore who couldn't solve his own shoelaces whenever there was an issue who then had to escalate it 3 levels up before there was even a satisfactory response, never mind a solution. Of course IBM arn't the only ones guilty of this. You'd think companies would have started to realise now that outsourcing isn't always the solution to their problems, sometimes it IS the problem.