If I remember right, Toyota got into trouble in court when the firmware provided to the investigators did not match the firmware in the vehicles. Toyota never did provide the real code if memory serves.
Yep. I can't deny a certain amount of smug satisfaction when an HOA actually goes to court and not only loses, but loses with prejudice basically to the point that the homeowner and property can't be touched by them again. Doesn't happen often, but it's delicious when it does.
I've seen software writers follow RFC and ONLY RFC for communications protocols, to the point that anything not explicitly expected per the newest standard of RFC will cause the daemon to crash hard. Doesn't matter if it's garbage on accident, garbage on purpose to try to cause a buffer overflow, or even deprecated commands from previous RFCs, the daemon should handle unexpected input gracefully even if it throws a 500 and closes the connection. To do otherwise (as was done) is irresponsible, but all too common.
It's referred to as "limp mode" and it limits you to 2nd gear for forward and reverse. It's a transmission control feature, not an engine feature. It's designed to keep a transmission fault from stranding you but to also attempt to mitigate damage; by limiting to second gear the hope is that most owners will seek to get it fixed rather than continuing to drive it that way.
I buy second-hand servers for my workstations. More powerful than most workstations even used, and don't have any of that crap because they have to be able to run whatever virtualization OS natively.
I'm surprised that when the screen aspect ratio changed from 4:3, they didn't push for a portrait layout to be default. Would have been plenty of room for toolbars that way.
people were more interested in personality cults than anything else.
That's what happens when early adopters are allowed to cybersquat, or when participation and enthusiasm plus a large degree of echo-chamber dictate policy.
This is nothing new in the electronic medium. I've seen it happen in Newsgroups back when the World Wide Web was still competing with Gopher, I've seen it in domain-name acquisitions, in IRC channel and network management, in mailing lists, in forums, and most recently before Reddit blew up, in Wikipedia. Anywhere that self-important busybodies can reaffirm each other's beliefs and are free to ban others that they disagree with regardless of merit can have this happen.
Hell, I've even seen it happen on bulletin board systems and on Fidonet. There's a throwback for you...
I'm saddened by the misapplication of "computer science" as a term. When I took computer classes, they were not called "computer science" until one was actually supposed to program the computer. Like, open an IDE, write code, and compile it. Classes on computer usage before that were called "technology", "desktop publishing", "computers", and other names that did not include "science".
I don't think that it's appropriate to use computers to teach basic skills to children, but regardless of that perspective, it is wholly inappropriate to call an introduction to computers "computer science".
Ammunition supply is finite. Militaries of the world are always looking for ways to reduce the number of personnel, and they still have to manually perform maintenance tasks on all machinery including loading fuel and ordnance.
Some day that might change, but right now there's no practical general-purpose war machine capable of servicing itself or being serviced by another machine without human involvement. Should a hostile AI want to do ill to humanity, it would either require support from some portion of humanity, or it would be limited to a small set of engagements until its machines-as-appendages ran out of supplies or broke down.
Chute probably wasn't actually torn, it was designed to provide a specific amount of drag at a very high speed through a thin atmosphere, so it had a pattern of holes and solid panels with that intent in mind. Could be something as simple as the direction of the weave in the fabric didn't behave as expected, or the stresses were higher than expected in critical points where the reinforcing webbing attached to the main fabric. I'm no expert on parachutes, but some fabrics will tear in specific ways, and it could well be that this fabric did much the same.
But the modelers argue that this really wasn't a failure, because their predictions served as worst-case scenarios that mobilized international efforts.
so.... how about those climate models out there????
So, you're saying that climate models that do not reflect the mobilization of international efforts mean that we should not attempt to push for international efforts to ensure that those worst-case predictions do not happen?
Climate science is always evolving. Scientists learn more about the planet and how different aspects of our planet's behavior interact, and they discover new aspects through this process. I don't think there's a lot of argument that humans are taking huge carbon deposits that are the result of plants using carbon from the air as building material in their structures and reintroducing that carbon into the atmosphere again. The debate is what that does to climate.
It really just depends on the types of inspections being done this way. Truly comprehensive inspections involving testing or disassembly will probably stil require direct human contact unless th aircraft manufacturer starts designing regimens for this sort of inspection, but for more casual inspections in between critical ones it might not be unreasonble to essentially look for obvious signs of missing or broken rivets, panel gaps, abnormal paint wear on tight control surface joints indicating rubbing from a bushing or bearing failure, or the presence of fluids on surfaces that would indicate leaks.
That said, it's all about resolution and other image quality. I've seen cars for sale on craigslist that are absolutely gorgeous even in higher-res e-mailed pictures that look like crap in person because the camera hides a lot of sins.
Really depends on what aspects of the bike he's working on.
The article mentions rider comfort. Granted, racers expect discomfort in their racing, but the bicycle designer still should make an effort to take what was excruciating and make it merely agonizing if possible. If the bicycle designer has worked out better ergonomics for the angles between the seat, pedals, and handlebars, and worked out how to make them more adjustable by the layperson to make the bike fit any given rider fairly well then it would make sense. If the race bike designer's name is being applied to give it some street cred, thats another matter.
That's why CD, despite its flaws, is probably the best format for someone that wants physical media. It's a physical media with a defined standard that discs and physical players have to follow, but can also be read electronically in computers both for conventional playback and for manipulation of what's recorded to the disc, and since the standards predate DRM, it's not really possible to truly lock-out CDs from being converted to literally any other digital format that the listener wants to use.
I'm not ever going to go back to the difficulty of vinyl, it's just too damn much work to keep both the physical media and the player maintained such that they produce good quality output, but I can honestly say that having CDs has helped. I rip my CDs to a non-DRM digital format. I can play them on my phone, on my computers, on most DVD players from either disc or from flash, and even on some car stereos that support mp3 from CD or from flash. If I have a device failure I can copy back off of other devices, or worst case I can re-rip again from source media.
No one's digital store method has ever satisfied my want for being able to always access the content that I have paid for. Sometimes things are removed from the catalog, so they could later no longer be downloaded again, or the content is streamed instead of stored locally, or other things.
I want control over my stuff. If I own media then I have control.
Depends on what that trigger is attached to and how that object is being used.
A trigger attached to a rifle for hunting, in some peoples definitions, is sport, or has been considered such. Some would exclude hunting but would allow for target shooting. The term sportsman is often applied.
Pulling the trigger attached to a pistol-grip soldering iron, or a reciprocating saw, or a drill doesn't count. Neither does pulling the trigger on a firearm in the commission of a felony.
The only way this is "sports" is if one looks at the french word for leisure that the English word "sport" and "sports" as a form of outdoorsmanship or athleticism is based on. To my view, a degree of physical exertion outside of the realm of using a computer or video game system is necessary. Beyond that it's just gaming. Admittedly competitive gaming with a rather ridiculous degree of third-party interest, but still gaming, not sport.
2) If the theories remain broadly accepted for long enough (many generations?) then there is a danger that if conflicting data is eventually found it will be rejected or suppressed. Many a researcher has had their career devastated by making claims inconsistent with accepted science, especially if the results can't be consistently replicated (a hallmark of new phenomena where we don't actually understand what's happening, but *something* seems to be). Fleischmann and Pons spring to mind - granted they did a particularly irresponsible job of releasing their findings, but follow-up research does continue to dangle tantalizing hints that under certain poorly-understood conditions fusion does occur.
That is exactly my concern. Religion was an early way to attempt to interpret and understand the Universe. When religious dogma became quite literally set in stone it was difficult and bloody to change it. I do not want something else equally untestable, however well it seems to fit the observations, to be as entrenched as old religious perspectives, especially if it wears the cloak of science without actually following the scientific method, as that could be even harder to undo than religion.
Ubuntu's commingling of free-as-in-speech and free-as-in-beer software actually is a strength for the vast majority of users and administrators that don't code. I went to install Debian on a Dell server only to discover that because the Ethernet support wasn't completely GPL, Debian did not distribute the code in the default installation package to actually put Debian on this server. Sure, the packages were available in the nonfree section, but I couldn't get to that through the installer without already having network support. Ubuntu on the other hand had these packages as part of the installer.
Yes, I know that there are ways around this. On the other hand, if things require too many hoops then people will just not bother to use the software and will look at other options with even worse licensing. If I want to be 'pure' I'll use Debian. I actually do use Debian on the majority of boxes. If I want it to just work I end up using Ubuntu because in the end it doesn't matter very much to me anyway.
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If I remember right, Toyota got into trouble in court when the firmware provided to the investigators did not match the firmware in the vehicles. Toyota never did provide the real code if memory serves.
Yep. I can't deny a certain amount of smug satisfaction when an HOA actually goes to court and not only loses, but loses with prejudice basically to the point that the homeowner and property can't be touched by them again. Doesn't happen often, but it's delicious when it does.
You would be sadly mistaken.
I've seen software writers follow RFC and ONLY RFC for communications protocols, to the point that anything not explicitly expected per the newest standard of RFC will cause the daemon to crash hard. Doesn't matter if it's garbage on accident, garbage on purpose to try to cause a buffer overflow, or even deprecated commands from previous RFCs, the daemon should handle unexpected input gracefully even if it throws a 500 and closes the connection. To do otherwise (as was done) is irresponsible, but all too common.
It's referred to as "limp mode" and it limits you to 2nd gear for forward and reverse. It's a transmission control feature, not an engine feature. It's designed to keep a transmission fault from stranding you but to also attempt to mitigate damage; by limiting to second gear the hope is that most owners will seek to get it fixed rather than continuing to drive it that way.
Case in point, the Toyota vehicle acceleration problem.
I buy second-hand servers for my workstations. More powerful than most workstations even used, and don't have any of that crap because they have to be able to run whatever virtualization OS natively.
Don't even fucking think I'll open my wallet for 99 cents.
I don't keep coins in my wallet. Too bulky.
I'm surprised that when the screen aspect ratio changed from 4:3, they didn't push for a portrait layout to be default. Would have been plenty of room for toolbars that way.
How is money made, if the fake passenger pays X to Uber, the driver earns X-% from Uber, and the driver pays X-% back to the fake passenger?
That's what happens when early adopters are allowed to cybersquat, or when participation and enthusiasm plus a large degree of echo-chamber dictate policy.
This is nothing new in the electronic medium. I've seen it happen in Newsgroups back when the World Wide Web was still competing with Gopher, I've seen it in domain-name acquisitions, in IRC channel and network management, in mailing lists, in forums, and most recently before Reddit blew up, in Wikipedia. Anywhere that self-important busybodies can reaffirm each other's beliefs and are free to ban others that they disagree with regardless of merit can have this happen.
Hell, I've even seen it happen on bulletin board systems and on Fidonet. There's a throwback for you...
I think that was just the City of Munich...
I'm saddened by the misapplication of "computer science" as a term. When I took computer classes, they were not called "computer science" until one was actually supposed to program the computer. Like, open an IDE, write code, and compile it. Classes on computer usage before that were called "technology", "desktop publishing", "computers", and other names that did not include "science".
I don't think that it's appropriate to use computers to teach basic skills to children, but regardless of that perspective, it is wholly inappropriate to call an introduction to computers "computer science".
Ammunition supply is finite. Militaries of the world are always looking for ways to reduce the number of personnel, and they still have to manually perform maintenance tasks on all machinery including loading fuel and ordnance.
Some day that might change, but right now there's no practical general-purpose war machine capable of servicing itself or being serviced by another machine without human involvement. Should a hostile AI want to do ill to humanity, it would either require support from some portion of humanity, or it would be limited to a small set of engagements until its machines-as-appendages ran out of supplies or broke down.
Chute probably wasn't actually torn, it was designed to provide a specific amount of drag at a very high speed through a thin atmosphere, so it had a pattern of holes and solid panels with that intent in mind. Could be something as simple as the direction of the weave in the fabric didn't behave as expected, or the stresses were higher than expected in critical points where the reinforcing webbing attached to the main fabric. I'm no expert on parachutes, but some fabrics will tear in specific ways, and it could well be that this fabric did much the same.
But the modelers argue that this really wasn't a failure, because their predictions served as worst-case scenarios that mobilized international efforts.
so.... how about those climate models out there????
So, you're saying that climate models that do not reflect the mobilization of international efforts mean that we should not attempt to push for international efforts to ensure that those worst-case predictions do not happen?
Climate science is always evolving. Scientists learn more about the planet and how different aspects of our planet's behavior interact, and they discover new aspects through this process. I don't think there's a lot of argument that humans are taking huge carbon deposits that are the result of plants using carbon from the air as building material in their structures and reintroducing that carbon into the atmosphere again. The debate is what that does to climate.
the 90's had eyeballs. tens of millions of them.
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It really just depends on the types of inspections being done this way. Truly comprehensive inspections involving testing or disassembly will probably stil require direct human contact unless th aircraft manufacturer starts designing regimens for this sort of inspection, but for more casual inspections in between critical ones it might not be unreasonble to essentially look for obvious signs of missing or broken rivets, panel gaps, abnormal paint wear on tight control surface joints indicating rubbing from a bushing or bearing failure, or the presence of fluids on surfaces that would indicate leaks.
That said, it's all about resolution and other image quality. I've seen cars for sale on craigslist that are absolutely gorgeous even in higher-res e-mailed pictures that look like crap in person because the camera hides a lot of sins.
Really depends on what aspects of the bike he's working on.
The article mentions rider comfort. Granted, racers expect discomfort in their racing, but the bicycle designer still should make an effort to take what was excruciating and make it merely agonizing if possible. If the bicycle designer has worked out better ergonomics for the angles between the seat, pedals, and handlebars, and worked out how to make them more adjustable by the layperson to make the bike fit any given rider fairly well then it would make sense. If the race bike designer's name is being applied to give it some street cred, thats another matter.
That's why CD, despite its flaws, is probably the best format for someone that wants physical media. It's a physical media with a defined standard that discs and physical players have to follow, but can also be read electronically in computers both for conventional playback and for manipulation of what's recorded to the disc, and since the standards predate DRM, it's not really possible to truly lock-out CDs from being converted to literally any other digital format that the listener wants to use.
I'm not ever going to go back to the difficulty of vinyl, it's just too damn much work to keep both the physical media and the player maintained such that they produce good quality output, but I can honestly say that having CDs has helped. I rip my CDs to a non-DRM digital format. I can play them on my phone, on my computers, on most DVD players from either disc or from flash, and even on some car stereos that support mp3 from CD or from flash. If I have a device failure I can copy back off of other devices, or worst case I can re-rip again from source media.
No one's digital store method has ever satisfied my want for being able to always access the content that I have paid for. Sometimes things are removed from the catalog, so they could later no longer be downloaded again, or the content is streamed instead of stored locally, or other things.
I want control over my stuff. If I own media then I have control.
He still had a skill that translated into a physical activity though. He was able to hit a baseball probably best of anyone of his time.
Depends on what that trigger is attached to and how that object is being used.
A trigger attached to a rifle for hunting, in some peoples definitions, is sport, or has been considered such. Some would exclude hunting but would allow for target shooting. The term sportsman is often applied.
Pulling the trigger attached to a pistol-grip soldering iron, or a reciprocating saw, or a drill doesn't count. Neither does pulling the trigger on a firearm in the commission of a felony.
The only way this is "sports" is if one looks at the french word for leisure that the English word "sport" and "sports" as a form of outdoorsmanship or athleticism is based on. To my view, a degree of physical exertion outside of the realm of using a computer or video game system is necessary. Beyond that it's just gaming. Admittedly competitive gaming with a rather ridiculous degree of third-party interest, but still gaming, not sport.
That is exactly my concern. Religion was an early way to attempt to interpret and understand the Universe. When religious dogma became quite literally set in stone it was difficult and bloody to change it. I do not want something else equally untestable, however well it seems to fit the observations, to be as entrenched as old religious perspectives, especially if it wears the cloak of science without actually following the scientific method, as that could be even harder to undo than religion.
Ubuntu's commingling of free-as-in-speech and free-as-in-beer software actually is a strength for the vast majority of users and administrators that don't code. I went to install Debian on a Dell server only to discover that because the Ethernet support wasn't completely GPL, Debian did not distribute the code in the default installation package to actually put Debian on this server. Sure, the packages were available in the nonfree section, but I couldn't get to that through the installer without already having network support. Ubuntu on the other hand had these packages as part of the installer.
Yes, I know that there are ways around this. On the other hand, if things require too many hoops then people will just not bother to use the software and will look at other options with even worse licensing. If I want to be 'pure' I'll use Debian. I actually do use Debian on the majority of boxes. If I want it to just work I end up using Ubuntu because in the end it doesn't matter very much to me anyway.