We actually send my daughter to a "technology free" camp on the Chesapeake every summer. They have no technology more advanced than fire (they don't even have flush toilets), sleep in big platform tents and learn things like rock climbing and how to catch crabs and fish with simple bait and nets. Last year she learned to juggle and clean fish. Not sure why it costs me hundreds of dollars to send her there, but she loves it and stays in touch with a lot of the other campers after she comes home.
So don't despair, those experiences are still out there, you just have to know where to look
When I was in college I was a computer lab monitor for the statistics department. We had a PDP-11 (/20 IIRC) that ran a program that enabled it to function as an RJE terminal. I had to toggle in a boot loader that would initialize the card reader, then read the program from a deck of punched cards. Then I had to enter the program's starting address and hit RUN.
I trolled my daughter by telling her they used to shut the internet down at midnight to let it cool and drain off the excess voltage. And we only had B&W GIFs on the pages.
LOL, sure it does. Because you're going to flip that switch and it'll tell you that it switched those services off. You'll never know if it really did because you'll never go to the effort of actually auditing the code base to verify that there's no chance that those are merely soft switches that get polled for state changes once a second, and meanwhile the services are actually controlled by code and could be re-started at any time. And even if you did, there's no chance you'd ever compile the system and verify the compiled code exactly matches the firmware in your device. And don't believe that everything will be open source -- you're going to have some proprietary driver or other closed-source blob that won't be auditable and could do anything.
But hey, don't let me discourage you, you've got a touchy-feely rah-rah web page to reassure you. There's no chance that a company that proclaims it's all about privacy could ever fail to deliver, right? "The more he spoke of his honor..."
TFA claims the latest version runs on three separate x86 cores. Are these three in addition to the stated number of cores on the chip, or is it running on three cores that I paid for, and interfering with my use?
You don't even need fake signals, just a transmitter (probably in the 1W range) broadcasting broad-spectrum noise strong enough to swamp the receiver of every car in a fifty-foot radius. And when cars can't signal their intentions to their neighbors, they won't be able to get away with following each other a sub-car-length distances. Additional mayhem is left as an exercise for the reader.
More like someone coming to your house and pointing out that you've got all your neighborhood's credit card data on a clipboard on the wall of your garage, and you left the garage door open. Wouldn't you want to know about that?
I don't even have a caps lock any more. Registry hack, keyboard remap utility or replacement keyboard, I always get rid of that useless piece of shit. Can't think of a single time I've ever really needed it, let alone need it often enough to give it a big chunk of prime real estate.
Next thing you know Skynet becomes self aware! But it'll just want to sell you things rather than nuke you.
I'm sure Skynet has all the information it needs to pro-actively purchase things for you "based on your interests".
"BASED ON YOUR RECENT MEDIA CONSUMPTION HABITS, FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE, I HAVE ORDERED THE ENTIRE 'SIMPSONS' COLLECTION. IN 4K BLU-RAY. ALSO, A 4K TV AND BLU-RAY PLAYER. I HAVE ALSO NEGOTIATED A HIGHER CREDIT LIMIT ON YOUR VISA CARD."
I feel like I'm reading a response from 50 years ago, when we were all going to have flying cars and live in glass boxes and only have to work 20-hour weeks because computers would do everything for us.
Moore's law is dead, I wouldn't count on it for future planning. Any space savings is going to come from custom ASICs, which means you're going to be even more at the mercy of the manufacturer for spare parts (and you'll never be able to ride in a "classic" self-driving car, as they'll all be dead from bit rot). Speaking of which, who's going to service these self-driving beasts? I know my dealership doesn't have any techs with degrees in telematics or sensor networks, and I suspect a lot of them would quit if they had to start learning how to use logic probes, signal injectors and expert systems.
In fact, with Metropolitan areas, the cost per unit from the buyer's perspective can be even lower since many of these data processing systems and additional sensor infrastructure could be installed into the same metropolitan central data centers and street lights, respectively.
The streetlight on my corner has been burned out for over two months. Don't look to municipalities to deploy high-$$$ sensor networks any time in the next decade. And given the infighting I've read about with regards to cable companies sharing access to public infrastructure I wouldn't expect the car companies to roll anything out too quickly either.
LOL, most satellite and space probes run on something like a radiation-hardened 15MHz R3000. Good luck getting any real-time performance out of something like that (even a Beowulf cluster!).
Got a competing service where I live, and I was able to cut my bill in half and raise my average throughput from 12Mb to 525Mb. When I told Comcast I was cancelling, they didn't even try to dissuade me.
Slashdot Mirror
Avalon Hill games
8mm movie film
Plastic models and paints in the drug store
Model train accessories in department stores (lights, rolling stock, landscaping, model houses and trackside buildings in HO and O scale)
K-Tel records (like vinyl mix tapes)
We actually send my daughter to a "technology free" camp on the Chesapeake every summer. They have no technology more advanced than fire (they don't even have flush toilets), sleep in big platform tents and learn things like rock climbing and how to catch crabs and fish with simple bait and nets. Last year she learned to juggle and clean fish. Not sure why it costs me hundreds of dollars to send her there, but she loves it and stays in touch with a lot of the other campers after she comes home.
So don't despair, those experiences are still out there, you just have to know where to look
When I was in college I was a computer lab monitor for the statistics department. We had a PDP-11 (/20 IIRC) that ran a program that enabled it to function as an RJE terminal. I had to toggle in a boot loader that would initialize the card reader, then read the program from a deck of punched cards. Then I had to enter the program's starting address and hit RUN.
I trolled my daughter by telling her they used to shut the internet down at midnight to let it cool and drain off the excess voltage. And we only had B&W GIFs on the pages.
LOL, I won't use Fedora Linux to this day because the quality of the first couple of releases was so bad.
LOL, sure it does. Because you're going to flip that switch and it'll tell you that it switched those services off. You'll never know if it really did because you'll never go to the effort of actually auditing the code base to verify that there's no chance that those are merely soft switches that get polled for state changes once a second, and meanwhile the services are actually controlled by code and could be re-started at any time. And even if you did, there's no chance you'd ever compile the system and verify the compiled code exactly matches the firmware in your device. And don't believe that everything will be open source -- you're going to have some proprietary driver or other closed-source blob that won't be auditable and could do anything.
But hey, don't let me discourage you, you've got a touchy-feely rah-rah web page to reassure you. There's no chance that a company that proclaims it's all about privacy could ever fail to deliver, right? "The more he spoke of his honor..."
And make sure the shiny side is out!
Not since they lost the war with Oceania.
The idea is much older. What about the the Pascal MicroEngine, which executed p-code?
TFA claims the latest version runs on three separate x86 cores. Are these three in addition to the stated number of cores on the chip, or is it running on three cores that I paid for, and interfering with my use?
The car from U.N.C.L.E.
You don't even need fake signals, just a transmitter (probably in the 1W range) broadcasting broad-spectrum noise strong enough to swamp the receiver of every car in a fifty-foot radius. And when cars can't signal their intentions to their neighbors, they won't be able to get away with following each other a sub-car-length distances. Additional mayhem is left as an exercise for the reader.
clueless Indians and other folks on Java's level
Wow, racist much? All you're missing is a "C was developed by white people" comment and you'll be set.
And once you want to move beyond some simple automation scripts, you find that Python doesn't have the performance to handle anything more taxing.
Nowhere is (self-) violence against rednecks more glorified and "physical (self-) harm against an individual or group" more celebrated!
More like someone coming to your house and pointing out that you've got all your neighborhood's credit card data on a clipboard on the wall of your garage, and you left the garage door open. Wouldn't you want to know about that?
You don't have auto-complete? Sucker.
Well, everything that isn't caused by dust, anyway.
I don't even have a caps lock any more. Registry hack, keyboard remap utility or replacement keyboard, I always get rid of that useless piece of shit. Can't think of a single time I've ever really needed it, let alone need it often enough to give it a big chunk of prime real estate.
Next thing you know Skynet becomes self aware! But it'll just want to sell you things rather than nuke you.
I'm sure Skynet has all the information it needs to pro-actively purchase things for you "based on your interests".
"BASED ON YOUR RECENT MEDIA CONSUMPTION HABITS, FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE, I HAVE ORDERED THE ENTIRE 'SIMPSONS' COLLECTION. IN 4K BLU-RAY. ALSO, A 4K TV AND BLU-RAY PLAYER. I HAVE ALSO NEGOTIATED A HIGHER CREDIT LIMIT ON YOUR VISA CARD."
I feel like I'm reading a response from 50 years ago, when we were all going to have flying cars and live in glass boxes and only have to work 20-hour weeks because computers would do everything for us.
Moore's law is dead, I wouldn't count on it for future planning. Any space savings is going to come from custom ASICs, which means you're going to be even more at the mercy of the manufacturer for spare parts (and you'll never be able to ride in a "classic" self-driving car, as they'll all be dead from bit rot). Speaking of which, who's going to service these self-driving beasts? I know my dealership doesn't have any techs with degrees in telematics or sensor networks, and I suspect a lot of them would quit if they had to start learning how to use logic probes, signal injectors and expert systems.
In fact, with Metropolitan areas, the cost per unit from the buyer's perspective can be even lower since many of these data processing systems and additional sensor infrastructure could be installed into the same metropolitan central data centers and street lights, respectively.
The streetlight on my corner has been burned out for over two months. Don't look to municipalities to deploy high-$$$ sensor networks any time in the next decade. And given the infighting I've read about with regards to cable companies sharing access to public infrastructure I wouldn't expect the car companies to roll anything out too quickly either.
They already have his research, and plenty of smart people in their own labs. No further work by the original researcher needed for their purposes.
LOL, most satellite and space probes run on something like a radiation-hardened 15MHz R3000. Good luck getting any real-time performance out of something like that (even a Beowulf cluster!).
Got a competing service where I live, and I was able to cut my bill in half and raise my average throughput from 12Mb to 525Mb. When I told Comcast I was cancelling, they didn't even try to dissuade me.