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  1. If you are saying that these schools won't raise the price of tuition and you know that for a fact then it would be good if you could show in writing that is the case. It certainly is not a given under any circumstance I've seen.

  2. Re:"faulty cables and cooling fans" on Cisco's Network Bugs Are Front and Center in Bankruptcy Fight (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    To a degree. What if there is a serious bug or hardware flaw from a sourced component. Remember when HP bought motherboard components (faulty capacitors - from a supplier who had tried to steal the code from another company and had stolen fake docs) about 10 years ago? Their laptops and desktops had about a 40% failure rate in the first year as a result. Is that on the consumers shoulders to have purchased a machine with bad motherboard capacitors that were sourced by HP? They should have met the specifications but the failure rates were 3-4 times the norm. So the consumer is at fault for expecting lower failure rates?

    This may be very different than what happened here, but it might not be entirely different.

  3. They don't supply a lightning headset. They supply a headset with a 3.5mm jack.

  4. Re:3D maps can't be the only source on Japan To Develop 3D Maps For Self-Driving Cars (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    Locations such as traffic lights are derived from the map, not real time slam. This allows the vehicle to know where to look to get the appropriate information without having to scan the area each and every traffic light.

  5. Re:Discount program for "surveying volunteers" on Japan To Develop 3D Maps For Self-Driving Cars (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    autonomous cars will collect data as they drive. All autonomous cars are capable of mapping to a degree.

  6. Re:Why 3D? on Japan To Develop 3D Maps For Self-Driving Cars (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    How should the vehicle know how many lanes are on the road without that data being made available in a map? You can't have a frame of reference and say I'm in the third lane if you don't know how many lanes there are. Also vehicles etc will block the ability for a lidar scan to see how many lanes are on the other side of that truck.

  7. Re: Discount program for "surveying volunteers" on Japan To Develop 3D Maps For Self-Driving Cars (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    having near survey grade maps is not a the end of the navigation assistance, it is a start however. Autonomous cars wil have rtk gps, lidar, radar and computer vision all working in tandem with highly accurate 3d maps to do situational avoidance.

  8. Re:3D maps can't be the only source on Japan To Develop 3D Maps For Self-Driving Cars (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    No one is suggesting that autonomous cars are wholly reliant on 3d maps they have in their database. They will have sensors to read street signs, and new road shifts etc. The 3d maps assist in the process but are not the only means for guiding the vehicle. The sensors on autonomous vehicles can easily be used to update changes in the map. Fleets of vehicles will be able to upload to servers and using the magic of modern tech they will be able to be updates in the vehicle.

  9. Re:Is this more than a point cloud? on Japan To Develop 3D Maps For Self-Driving Cars (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    This will be more than a LIDAR point cloud. IMU data/ RTK GPS/ Images and photogrammetry all need to be included. LIDAR relies on images to collect color data, and those images will be used to reference lines in the road etc. Very little data can be extracted directly from the point cloud without making the a polygonal mesh.

  10. Re:This is just an upsell to hosted office 365 on Microsoft Deprecating 'Obsolete' SmartScreen Spam Filters In Outlook and Exchange (winbeta.org) · · Score: 1

    Let me simplify the concept: They won't be removing SPAM filtering from Office 365 for certain. SMB's hosting their own exchange that can't afford or don't want to pay for forefront or other systems will be encouraged to move to office 365 in the cloud because it comes with "free". So hosting your own is losing a feature and hosted/cloud doesn't lose that feature. This is a disparity which promotes one and deprecates another.

  11. Re:Android users have to be on Android Users More Honest and Humble Than iPhone Users, Study Says (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    This is not true. Permissions in Android are now granular and can be selected which accesses are permitted for an app.

  12. This is just an upsell to hosted office 365 on Microsoft Deprecating 'Obsolete' SmartScreen Spam Filters In Outlook and Exchange (winbeta.org) · · Score: 3

    Reduce the value of the already paid systems to get people onto the cloud treadmill.

  13. Re:No problem on Google Begins Rolling Out Android 7.0 Nougat (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    CArriers and OEM's have both decided that the need to be in the middle of this to be able to guarantee Qualit of Service. The same way Bell Atlantic phones wouldn't let you install a phone line in your own home, or even use hardware other than what they sold. It is a control mechanism when Apple does it to Telcos, and it is a control mechanism when Verizon or HTC decide to not push out the new OS or updates.

  14. This is a wrong information.

  15. Re:Bound to happen on Millions Of Steam Game Keys Stolen After Hacker Breaches Gaming Site (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly which part of Steam Information was involved here? Are you aware this is a forum on an unrelated gaming website which was hacked. Your comment is simplistic enough that it would have the federal government be liable if people were writing their social security number on their bumper sticker.

  16. Re:Deceptive at best on Canada's Police Chiefs Want New Law To Compel People To Reveal Passwords (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    I agree with you. I do wish that the media would ask these sorts of questions, but it doesn't seem they get time for adversarial questions.

  17. Deceptive at best on Canada's Police Chiefs Want New Law To Compel People To Reveal Passwords (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Government whining about encryption protecting guilty parties by going dark from scrutiny is flawed. Governments now have more information gathered daily than they could ever have dreamed of in the cold war, and yet they are still baiting and spreading fear and uncertainty that they can't see it all so bad people are getting away with bad things. Did they run around saying in the late 80's that citizens need to carry walking spy devices wherever they roam to make certain their actions can be monitored? The fact is governments have more information available to them about every aspect of life including citizens and non alike, and they are still saying if they had more then they could do their jobs.

  18. Re:Is this news? Look like the same Canada on FBI Forced To Release 18 Hours of Spy Plane Footage (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't need to install pokemon onto a phone for the tracking to occur. They have the data they want with or without pokemon go.

  19. Patent cash grabs like this are a last desperate grab before they wanderout to the desert to die. Not entirely unlike Microsofts Mobile strategy.

  20. Re:How's this different from telephone deregulatio on US Copyright Office Sides With Cable Companies Against FCC's Set Top Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The fear of Comcast and TWC etc are not about piracy. This is a straight up control mechanism. They have already had years to open up cable cards to do similar and have dragged their feet at every attempt. the reason the FCC is attempting this is because the prior non forced attempts have been responded to not in good faith by the ISP's. So the options here are to: Hold them legally accountable for their failure top open up cable cards until they solve their probably internally, or to move ahead without the the ISP's approval.

  21. Re:Yeah, they should totally stop selling it on Apple Should Stop Selling Four-Year-Old Computers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Comcast and TWC are making bank leasing STB to customers at extortion pricing. But hey it makes them money so why shouldn't the customer get screwed in the deal?

  22. Re:Infinitesimally precise on Australia Has Moved 1.5 Metres, So It's Updating Its Location For Self-Driving Cars (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    The algorithms collectively used in autonomous vehicles lacking in GPS or in addition to it are called SLAM. Simultaneous localization and mapping is defined as follows: In robotic mapping, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is the computational problem of constructing or updating a map of an unknown environment while simultaneously keeping track of an agent's location within it.

    The equations are designed to calculate the responses of the vehicle or object as it moves through an unknown environment. Without understanding of the cirtical point of origin the vehicle has no information with which to base its decision tree upon. The core of autonomy without GPS needs to understand the motion/inertia of itself to coordinate a response to a changing environment. There is no SLAM that localization is not critical to.

  23. Are you suggesting that you have never used GPS to navigate a route complex or simple? If you look at a map, and plan a route, then come to a complex intersection the initial heading a nd destination factor into decisions no matter how local.

  24. Re:Infinitesimally precise on Australia Has Moved 1.5 Metres, So It's Updating Its Location For Self-Driving Cars (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Location information doesn't need to be GPS. Autonomous machines guiding themselves without GPS use localization based off of other factors (lidar/radar/sonar) or a combo of sensors. To see the light ahead is changing color, requires an understanding of distance relevant to the vehicle, to react. It does require location information to navigate, but it doesn't have to be Global positioning it can be local coordinates.

  25. Immobile beacons that don't shift along with the continent? Even survey points shot into the ground can fluctuate about a foot within a year due to frost drift. I wonder where these stations that don't shift with the continent get anchored.