Seems to me that there's a disconnect in the way people think about programming versus thinking about math and logic. Might it make more sense to people to think logically and procedurally, then worry about applying that to a computer? Those skills are useful in life itself and are not limited to even mathematics disciplines, let alone computer programming.
I doubt it. The fact that Microsoft OSes get so infected as they do makes me think they simply broke something like the DNS process that the botnet is dependent on. For all we know, they haven't actually disabled the botnet, just taken control over it.
Everything is being Recorded --- that's the point. There will also be driver-less ("A.I." only) Nascar races. The data from these kinds of experiments is going to be extremely valuable. I would lay odds on Nascar being completely driver-less --- as far as having a physical driver in the car within the foreseeable future.
NASCAR fans are all about the drivers. Some fans do care about branding, but the cars all originate from a handful of chassis builders anyway, so branding is limited to stickers and drivetrains. It becomes about the driver and their role in winning, or who's the villain, or who's the beacon of clean driving.
You'd probably have too many crashes. Even without a life-loss incident you'd have a lot of expensive machinery wrecked. Granted, you could not no longer design cars with the occupant's safety in mind, but even without having to spend the money on that aspect the cars are still very expensive to build. Losing them due to operators pushing the cars past the point of stability would be pricey.
Yeah, the states that I want an autonomous car to operate in would either be fully autonomous where the car figures out the particulars of where it needs to go, or occupant-instructed, where the car can be given directives to try to follow ("keep left" or "slow down and keep right" or "pull over in the next parking area"), but neither require the car to be operated by the person. This would let a child or someone that does not have a license use the car to get from place to place including establishing reasonable curbside service or the ability to make endpoint-specific decisions.
I would love to have a car capable of sport-driving that could also be fully autonomous. Sometimes I want to enjoy the drive, other times I want to enjoy the view.
So, if I'm actually firewalling-off my LAN from the Internet then I'm probably going to be fine?
ie, I'm using the standard features of my consumer-grade broadband router to deny incoming connections from routing into my LAN?
I've just assumed that all of the OSes on my network are vulnerable to something and I've taken steps to mitigate that. To do anything else would be asking for trouble. That same sort of consideration would apply to the "Internet of Things" and to appliances that are more special-purpose in nature too.
The only kinds of places that I can think of that we can't put cameras into and expect them to reliably work are in underwater applications and in extremely harsh post-accident environments like nuclear power plants that have suffered catastrophic failures. Anything beyond these terrestrial applications isn't going to work with this technology because of the latency (ie, can't virtually drive a Martian rover) and while there are submarines and robots for exploring Chernobyl sites like Fukushima Daiichi, the applications for those environments are usually based on slow, methodical processes, not on fast-twitch reactions.
Admittedly if the technology to make the interface work in real-time is actually working then that's pretty neat, but at the same time I still wonder what it's actually for.
See, to me, this is bass-ackwards. The point of the autonomous automobile is to remove the driver from the equation of basic transportation, or to at least have the option to do so when one doesn't feel like driving.
This thing doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Generally the point in sport driving is to enjoy the drive itself, and to really connect with the machine where it feels like an extension of yourself. Removing that experience in order to simulate it in a 3d shell while still occupying the vehicle makes no sense to me. If you're in the vehicle you'll probably use your own eyes to operate it, or you'll use less expensive vision augmentation technology where your eyes are not adequate, and if you're not occupying the vehicle then you'll probably still get enough bandwidth out of video transmissions from cameras to allow you to operate without needing to encode the experience and then generate that 3d quasi-virtual environment.
I don't really understand what this particular technology is for.
The problem is the users, PHP is so ridiculously easy to write it leads to people making horrible insecure "awesome" webpages.
I'll let you in on a little secret, the problem is always the users, regardless of technology. That's why some disciplines have separate security tracks from their development or administration tracks, because the concepts run completely contrary to each other. Development is there to provide access. Security is there to prevent access. At some point the two need to come to a compromise, but trying to get developers to do security is about as useful as trying to get security professionals to do development.
Lawyers all over the earth are filing lawsuits for damages today.
And the judges rule that the cases have no legal standing. They have no jurisdiction over the moon, and instruct the attorneys to seek the correct court on the moon in which to file for proceedings.
instead of "coming clean" to a newspaper, he should have filed a wrongful termination suit. I'd wager Cooley doesnt care about that, and is just glad to get out from an underpaying cube-slave job with low oversight and piss poor accountability and management.
More to the point, depending on how the public disclosure was handled and any slander on the part of government officials, he might be in a position to sue for retirement-related benefits. If he was close to retirement age anyway he might be able to leverage a lawsuit payment directly into his retirement-eligible wages which could take what might be a 60%-of-salary pension and get it closer to a 100% pension.
It's the Segway without the Segway. The Segway looks stupid because of the huge wheels and handle. Take that away and you're down to as minimalist a powered vehicle as has realistically existed.
The idea itself is kind of interesting. The name is dumb and the implementation from both design and implementation perspectives needs work, but this thing takes the concept that the Segway attempted to create, which was a small machine capable of transporting a person, and reduces it to the size of a personal possession.
You're still probably dependent on the photo lab to make the prints though. I've developed negatives and developed prints from negatives, it's a smelly, messy task that is beyond most people. One would have to be on the level of Charles Augustus Milverton to pursue hobbies or crafts specifically for their ability to be used for blackmail, and would have to blackmail in such quantity as to make a living from it in order to justify all of the security and other headaches associated with such a limited lifestyle.
It does if one takes the opportunity to pay the blackmailer as a means to expose them, to then murder them in a way that leaves evidence of a very prolonged and excruciating death.
I suspect that one of the reasons that people don't engage in this kind of behavior more often is that it's very, very difficult to collect ransom without subjecting one's self to grievous risk. Wealthy people also have the means to afford to get retribution against someone else if they choose to do so.
At least duplicating negatives required equipment that most people neither had ready personal access to nor had training on, so if the blackmail content of the negatives was very sensitive then paying a photolab to duplicate the negatives properly could lead to exposing the blackmailer to extra risk.
Modern digital content doesn't usually require any special equipment or training, and even your average neophyte could do it.
One person's asshole in marketing is another person's genius in marketing. Given that these things have caught the public's attention and are being perceived as being cool when they function properly, arguably this leans toward the latter.
See, that's not congestion... that's a badly designed phone.
Unless they either did all of this work in a Faraday cage or they went out to the middle of nowhere and set up their own tower with no interference I don't see how congestion wouldn't play a role.
But the fetus can't be declared a ward of the state and provided to a foster home for care either.
Here's a little hint on how to seriously curtail abortion rates- teach adolescents how to use birth control and that the use of birth control is important. This isn't going to encourage teenagers to have sex, they already want to have sex and they already are having sex in many cases regardless of their parents' wishes. Teaching them to mitigate the consequences of sex is a lot more effective than trying to stop them.
Prostitution *is* legal in the US. As long as you film it and sell the resulting video.
...and employ someone in the specific role of Health and Safety Officer for the incorporated company, and ensure that all participants are frequently and regularly tested for disease and that thsoe records are immediately available and properly stored.
But don't let your TV cartoon legal lesson hold you back...
I don't think so. Miss Bennett is above that, especially now that she's beginning to recognize her feelings for Mr. Darcy. As long as they manage to sort out her sister Lydia and her unhealthy relationship with Mr. Wickham things should calm down.
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Seems to me that there's a disconnect in the way people think about programming versus thinking about math and logic. Might it make more sense to people to think logically and procedurally, then worry about applying that to a computer? Those skills are useful in life itself and are not limited to even mathematics disciplines, let alone computer programming.
At least a crime would have occurred...
I doubt it. The fact that Microsoft OSes get so infected as they do makes me think they simply broke something like the DNS process that the botnet is dependent on. For all we know, they haven't actually disabled the botnet, just taken control over it.
Everything is being Recorded --- that's the point. There will also be driver-less ("A.I." only) Nascar races. The data from these kinds of experiments is going to be extremely valuable. I would lay odds on Nascar being completely driver-less --- as far as having a physical driver in the car within the foreseeable future.
NASCAR fans are all about the drivers. Some fans do care about branding, but the cars all originate from a handful of chassis builders anyway, so branding is limited to stickers and drivetrains. It becomes about the driver and their role in winning, or who's the villain, or who's the beacon of clean driving.
You'd probably have too many crashes. Even without a life-loss incident you'd have a lot of expensive machinery wrecked. Granted, you could not no longer design cars with the occupant's safety in mind, but even without having to spend the money on that aspect the cars are still very expensive to build. Losing them due to operators pushing the cars past the point of stability would be pricey.
Yeah, the states that I want an autonomous car to operate in would either be fully autonomous where the car figures out the particulars of where it needs to go, or occupant-instructed, where the car can be given directives to try to follow ("keep left" or "slow down and keep right" or "pull over in the next parking area"), but neither require the car to be operated by the person. This would let a child or someone that does not have a license use the car to get from place to place including establishing reasonable curbside service or the ability to make endpoint-specific decisions.
I would love to have a car capable of sport-driving that could also be fully autonomous. Sometimes I want to enjoy the drive, other times I want to enjoy the view.
So, if I'm actually firewalling-off my LAN from the Internet then I'm probably going to be fine?
ie, I'm using the standard features of my consumer-grade broadband router to deny incoming connections from routing into my LAN?
I've just assumed that all of the OSes on my network are vulnerable to something and I've taken steps to mitigate that. To do anything else would be asking for trouble. That same sort of consideration would apply to the "Internet of Things" and to appliances that are more special-purpose in nature too.
Then why are the drivers inside of the vehicle?
The only kinds of places that I can think of that we can't put cameras into and expect them to reliably work are in underwater applications and in extremely harsh post-accident environments like nuclear power plants that have suffered catastrophic failures. Anything beyond these terrestrial applications isn't going to work with this technology because of the latency (ie, can't virtually drive a Martian rover) and while there are submarines and robots for exploring Chernobyl sites like Fukushima Daiichi, the applications for those environments are usually based on slow, methodical processes, not on fast-twitch reactions.
Admittedly if the technology to make the interface work in real-time is actually working then that's pretty neat, but at the same time I still wonder what it's actually for.
See, to me, this is bass-ackwards. The point of the autonomous automobile is to remove the driver from the equation of basic transportation, or to at least have the option to do so when one doesn't feel like driving.
This thing doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Generally the point in sport driving is to enjoy the drive itself, and to really connect with the machine where it feels like an extension of yourself. Removing that experience in order to simulate it in a 3d shell while still occupying the vehicle makes no sense to me. If you're in the vehicle you'll probably use your own eyes to operate it, or you'll use less expensive vision augmentation technology where your eyes are not adequate, and if you're not occupying the vehicle then you'll probably still get enough bandwidth out of video transmissions from cameras to allow you to operate without needing to encode the experience and then generate that 3d quasi-virtual environment.
I don't really understand what this particular technology is for.
The problem is the users, PHP is so ridiculously easy to write it leads to people making horrible insecure "awesome" webpages.
I'll let you in on a little secret, the problem is always the users, regardless of technology. That's why some disciplines have separate security tracks from their development or administration tracks, because the concepts run completely contrary to each other. Development is there to provide access. Security is there to prevent access. At some point the two need to come to a compromise, but trying to get developers to do security is about as useful as trying to get security professionals to do development.
Lawyers all over the earth are filing lawsuits for damages today.
And the judges rule that the cases have no legal standing. They have no jurisdiction over the moon, and instruct the attorneys to seek the correct court on the moon in which to file for proceedings.
instead of "coming clean" to a newspaper, he should have filed a wrongful termination suit. I'd wager Cooley doesnt care about that, and is just glad to get out from an underpaying cube-slave job with low oversight and piss poor accountability and management.
More to the point, depending on how the public disclosure was handled and any slander on the part of government officials, he might be in a position to sue for retirement-related benefits. If he was close to retirement age anyway he might be able to leverage a lawsuit payment directly into his retirement-eligible wages which could take what might be a 60%-of-salary pension and get it closer to a 100% pension.
It's the Segway without the Segway. The Segway looks stupid because of the huge wheels and handle. Take that away and you're down to as minimalist a powered vehicle as has realistically existed.
The idea itself is kind of interesting. The name is dumb and the implementation from both design and implementation perspectives needs work, but this thing takes the concept that the Segway attempted to create, which was a small machine capable of transporting a person, and reduces it to the size of a personal possession.
You're still probably dependent on the photo lab to make the prints though. I've developed negatives and developed prints from negatives, it's a smelly, messy task that is beyond most people. One would have to be on the level of Charles Augustus Milverton to pursue hobbies or crafts specifically for their ability to be used for blackmail, and would have to blackmail in such quantity as to make a living from it in order to justify all of the security and other headaches associated with such a limited lifestyle.
It does if one takes the opportunity to pay the blackmailer as a means to expose them, to then murder them in a way that leaves evidence of a very prolonged and excruciating death.
I suspect that one of the reasons that people don't engage in this kind of behavior more often is that it's very, very difficult to collect ransom without subjecting one's self to grievous risk. Wealthy people also have the means to afford to get retribution against someone else if they choose to do so.
At least duplicating negatives required equipment that most people neither had ready personal access to nor had training on, so if the blackmail content of the negatives was very sensitive then paying a photolab to duplicate the negatives properly could lead to exposing the blackmailer to extra risk.
Modern digital content doesn't usually require any special equipment or training, and even your average neophyte could do it.
One person's asshole in marketing is another person's genius in marketing. Given that these things have caught the public's attention and are being perceived as being cool when they function properly, arguably this leans toward the latter.
Learning that not only are they shitty electric skateboards but they're also poorly made, dangerous shitty electric skateboards comes as no shock.
That depends on the failure mode...
See, that's not congestion ... that's a badly designed phone.
Unless they either did all of this work in a Faraday cage or they went out to the middle of nowhere and set up their own tower with no interference I don't see how congestion wouldn't play a role.
Ten years ago data was almost unheard of in cell phones. It was basically limited to SMS. People simply used their phones less.
Now EVERYONE has a phone and they're constantly in-use. Congestion is probably the bigger factor.
But the fetus can't be declared a ward of the state and provided to a foster home for care either.
Here's a little hint on how to seriously curtail abortion rates- teach adolescents how to use birth control and that the use of birth control is important. This isn't going to encourage teenagers to have sex, they already want to have sex and they already are having sex in many cases regardless of their parents' wishes. Teaching them to mitigate the consequences of sex is a lot more effective than trying to stop them.
Prostitution *is* legal in the US. As long as you film it and sell the resulting video.
...and employ someone in the specific role of Health and Safety Officer for the incorporated company, and ensure that all participants are frequently and regularly tested for disease and that thsoe records are immediately available and properly stored.
But don't let your TV cartoon legal lesson hold you back...
Shitstorm in 3... 2... 1...
I don't think so. Miss Bennett is above that, especially now that she's beginning to recognize her feelings for Mr. Darcy. As long as they manage to sort out her sister Lydia and her unhealthy relationship with Mr. Wickham things should calm down.
That doesn't readily correct the behavior of others that send to a given e-mail address though.
In the mid-19th century, researchers claimed they could tell the sex of an individual just by looking at their disembodied brain.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Now that brain that you gave me. Was it Hans Delbruck's?
Igor: No.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Ah! Very good. Would you mind telling me whose brain I DID put in?
Igor: Then you won't be angry?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I will NOT be angry.
Igor: Abby someone.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Abby someone. Abby who?
Igor: Abby... Normal.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Abby Normal?
Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name.