Musk and others like him are the only real breath of fresh air and hope that we finally do something more with space than send a few probes and telescopes up in a very very long time. That Musk would like to live on Mars eventually doesn't in the least say he is "abandoning Earth". Although personally I would be happy to get the hell away for the sniveling jerks that resent anyone that has a bit more or does a bit more than they do.
Also Musk just happens to be Chairman of the most one of the most effective solar companies on the planet and of course made electric cars a going viable reality and of course is developing better battery tech. This hardly sounds like he is "abandoning the planet".
The human form sucks eggs for many tasks in space. Legs? Useless. An octopus has better multi-function design and a lot more grippers and manipulators. We need many many types of space robots if we are going to have any real space faring capable. Structure crawling builders and repairs, free flying bots, asteroid, moon crawling and mining bots, to name only a few. The only reason humanoid bots are generally useful in space is to use tools made for humans or compatible with human use. For many cases this is not necessary or the best and most efficient design.
That is way in Evil territory Eric. Seize and desist. Those tools can go after anything anyone is offended by or worried about. They are a proposal for mass online censorship. They play right into the hands of enemies of freedom everywhere. That the executive chairman of Google, no less, would float such is one of the most terrifying things I have encountered. What the hell is the matter with you?
Anyone than knows much of anything at all about genetic engineering knows that it is incredibly difficult to produce something at all viable, much less that will be a successful super deadly bug using this or any other technology non-experts in good labs are likely to get their hands on. It is really difficult even for said experts in well equipped labs. So less FUD clouding genetic engineering please!
This was immigrant related so "homegrown" doesn't really apply. And there is zero connection to encryption. And making the people part of Stasi effectively is hardly a solution for anything except creating a massive Police State.
They are not even close to sufficient in weight bearing capacity for an earth space elevator. Nothing we have is within 3 orders of magnitude of being sufficient. Not even in the smallest testable quantities. Now, we can build a space elevator on the moon. But not from earth.
From the piece: "With that said, when Nest Cam is turned off, it completely stops transmitting video to the cloud, meaning it no longer observes its surroundings." . So whether its camera is all the way off or in warm standby isn't very relevant to privacy if no information is being sent out. For instance if I wanted a unit to act only as a movement tracker this would be a good thing to have a camera for but no sending information out. Now the question is why does it need to send video from in my home to the cloud at all? Why can't I just store video locally if I am interested in that or see out of its camera live? I am not sure I understand the use cases of this device.
There is not significant enough climate change to worry about at this time according to the data. We do have more significant things to worry about that are far more likely to chew us up in this century. And what does this have to do with slashdot anyway?
If you had put it out in open source on github and then posted this you would instantly get the attention of at least a few people.:) Put in general if you open source something you thing may be generally useful or in an important area and use some social media to get the word out about why you think it is important or asking for assistance then that is likely to be more effective than just putting it on github and hoping someone notices. When you do put it on github please in the readme say why you think it is important, what you think could be better and asking for feedback. For specific areas you think can/should be better you can post code snippets or plunkr etc to stackoverflow.
Then why bother to draw attention to themselves by declaring outright that they will do it? Or is the point to make it after the fact legal? Or is it more of a trial balloon as to their progress in selling the BIG LIE that anything and everything the government does is for our own good to "keep us safe".
The entire point of using encryption is to keep snoops of all kinds out of your information as much as possible. Just because the snoop works for the government does not mean they get carte blanche or are any less criminal if the hack into a device.
Bitcoin is designed to make it very difficult to successfully get fake transactions into the accepted blockchain except on a very short and soon corrected basis - even if you had huge amounts of hashing power which this individual did not. An entire week of lame attempts? Boring.
It is the responsibility of management and ultimately of the executive team to ensure that the work is done correctly, especially on important matters. To claim some roque software engineers did it is to simply claim that the company leadership is incompetent.
If it really is a meritocracy based program, say on IQ scores or some other marker of brighter than your average bear students, then unless the measures of brightness are not applied evenly or the measures themselves are somehow racist the complaint has no basis. It is not at all correct to claim that because fewer Caucasian than Asian folks on average have a particular GPA or because some Jewish sub-population has on average a 15 points greater IQ that the measure itself is racist. There is nothing in reality that says all particular groups should have a proportionally exactly the same incidence of gifted students. So to simply count percentages of different groups present and claim racism and bias if they aren't perfect by the general population is absurd.
Medical devices really get put through a very very anal (no pun intended, eww) process before receiving regulatory approval. While I am not claiming that processi s perfect they are some of the safest and most tamper and foolproof devices produced. So I conclude this article is basically FUD.
Some people are to stupid and much tor fragile to be let out of the house. What is next? Telling people it is illegal to end a friendship online? Whoever thinks such is reasonable really needs to get a life. And yes, I will unfriend any among my social networks who I find out think that this is reasonable. Life is too short to put up with nitwits.
How can it possibly be "good economics" to take money from some effectively by government force to give to others or to further debase the currency or increase the already stupendous national debt? Anyone who things that can be good economics is an idiot.
Employers don't abuse employees generally just for the hell of it now. Employers are there at all to offer any jobs because they need people to help them build something at a rate both parties can afford and still have the company have more income than what was spent (that is stay in business). If you raise the cost per employee too much then they use less employees or close their doors.
People can just walk away right now. Most people if they have their salary coming anyway will not come to work no matter how reasonable the employer may be. Who do you expect to pay for this part? It is against the law to fire people for getting pregnant or complaining about sexual harassment.
There is no such thing as "free money". There is money that was taken from someone else by politicians with people with guns backing their play that they may give some of to you after taking their cut and paying all those needed to take that money. And you pay for all those middlemen. You pay again for the reduced productivity of those that produce more value than they consume.
Or the government just prints more and more money and gives you that. That is "free" right. Ask Zimbabwe what happens when the money printing press runs free. You get hit with all money being worth less and less. You get hit again with higher prices over time. And again if you happen to have any savings or fixed payments incoming that are now effectively reduced.
I have never seen one Guaranteed Income scheme that bothered to count its full costs, or talk honesty about who footed the bill how both directly and indirectly.
The Internet of Things is about sensors everywhere and to a more limited extent actuators. But actuators are relatively few compared to sensors. Fine grained sensors are out at the edge here there is no normal wireless connectivity and are quite a challenge to innovate, power and scale out at very low cost. The next challenging is gathering the edge information at highly distributed small systems that may be more wireless/internet connected in some form. While you could hack to corrupt data feeds flowing up the question is what would be the significant payoff to make it worth it at all? You corrupt the out on the farm soil sensors so the watering systems give too much or too little water? Not so easy to get away with and no payoff beyond malice and an ego trip.
Automated and even driverless cars are not IoT. They will be no easier and likely a great deal harder to hack than your average MS box.
Really, I would expect hackers worth the name to be thinking of cool things to do with the accelerating technology not ways that it will mess up or to mess things up.
Please don't play into FUD coming out of groups that fear for their current business models in the age of driverless cars and trucks. You are being played.
One click is brilliant. Amazon has changed the face of finding stuff you want, seeing what its popularity and rep is and buying it and getting it delivered to your door. Anyone that thinks they can do better is very welcome to try. I love Amazon and am very glad they are there.
I am not expecting the bloody government to data mine all activity on all the streets. I wouldn't mind IF the government was completely limited from doing anything to anyone with this data except preventing actual crimes (initiation of force). Otherwise forget it.
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Musk and others like him are the only real breath of fresh air and hope that we finally do something more with space than send a few probes and telescopes up in a very very long time. That Musk would like to live on Mars eventually doesn't in the least say he is "abandoning Earth". Although personally I would be happy to get the hell away for the sniveling jerks that resent anyone that has a bit more or does a bit more than they do.
Also Musk just happens to be Chairman of the most one of the most effective solar companies on the planet and of course made electric cars a going viable reality and of course is developing better battery tech. This hardly sounds like he is "abandoning the planet".
The human form sucks eggs for many tasks in space. Legs? Useless. An octopus has better multi-function design and a lot more grippers and manipulators. We need many many types of space robots if we are going to have any real space faring capable. Structure crawling builders and repairs, free flying bots, asteroid, moon crawling and mining bots, to name only a few. The only reason humanoid bots are generally useful in space is to use tools made for humans or compatible with human use. For many cases this is not necessary or the best and most efficient design.
That is way in Evil territory Eric. Seize and desist. Those tools can go after anything anyone is offended by or worried about. They are a proposal for mass online censorship. They play right into the hands of enemies of freedom everywhere. That the executive chairman of Google, no less, would float such is one of the most terrifying things I have encountered. What the hell is the matter with you?
Anyone than knows much of anything at all about genetic engineering knows that it is incredibly difficult to produce something at all viable, much less that will be a successful super deadly bug using this or any other technology non-experts in good labs are likely to get their hands on. It is really difficult even for said experts in well equipped labs. So less FUD clouding genetic engineering please!
This was immigrant related so "homegrown" doesn't really apply. And there is zero connection to encryption. And making the people part of Stasi effectively is hardly a solution for anything except creating a massive Police State.
Israel doesn't get a say in what a US company does. Neither does any other country.
They are not even close to sufficient in weight bearing capacity for an earth space elevator. Nothing we have is within 3 orders of magnitude of being sufficient. Not even in the smallest testable quantities. Now, we can build a space elevator on the moon. But not from earth.
From the piece: "With that said, when Nest Cam is turned off, it completely stops transmitting video to the cloud, meaning it no longer observes its surroundings." .
So whether its camera is all the way off or in warm standby isn't very relevant to privacy if no information is being sent out. For instance if I wanted a unit to act only as a movement tracker this would be a good thing to have a camera for but no sending information out. Now the question is why does it need to send video from in my home to the cloud at all? Why can't I just store video locally if I am interested in that or see out of its camera live? I am not sure I understand the use cases of this device.
Why is such crap even given airplay?
Encrypt everything and take no prisoners. Bring the control freaks down. The future will not be stopped.
There is not significant enough climate change to worry about at this time according to the data. We do have more significant things to worry about that are far more likely to chew us up in this century. And what does this have to do with slashdot anyway?
If you had put it out in open source on github and then posted this you would instantly get the attention of at least a few people. :) Put in general if you open source something you thing may be generally useful or in an important area and use some social media to get the word out about why you think it is important or asking for assistance then that is likely to be more effective than just putting it on github and hoping someone notices. When you do put it on github please in the readme say why you think it is important, what you think could be better and asking for feedback. For specific areas you think can/should be better you can post code snippets or plunkr etc to stackoverflow.
Then why bother to draw attention to themselves by declaring outright that they will do it? Or is the point to make it after the fact legal? Or is it more of a trial balloon as to their progress in selling the BIG LIE that anything and everything the government does is for our own good to "keep us safe".
The entire point of using encryption is to keep snoops of all kinds out of your information as much as possible. Just because the snoop works for the government does not mean they get carte blanche or are any less criminal if the hack into a device.
Bitcoin is designed to make it very difficult to successfully get fake transactions into the accepted blockchain except on a very short and soon corrected basis - even if you had huge amounts of hashing power which this individual did not. An entire week of lame attempts? Boring.
It is the responsibility of management and ultimately of the executive team to ensure that the work is done correctly, especially on important matters. To claim some roque software engineers did it is to simply claim that the company leadership is incompetent.
If it really is a meritocracy based program, say on IQ scores or some other marker of brighter than your average bear students, then unless the measures of brightness are not applied evenly or the measures themselves are somehow racist the complaint has no basis. It is not at all correct to claim that because fewer Caucasian than Asian folks on average have a particular GPA or because some Jewish sub-population has on average a 15 points greater IQ that the measure itself is racist. There is nothing in reality that says all particular groups should have a proportionally exactly the same incidence of gifted students. So to simply count percentages of different groups present and claim racism and bias if they aren't perfect by the general population is absurd.
Medical devices really get put through a very very anal (no pun intended, eww) process before receiving regulatory approval. While I am not claiming that processi s perfect they are some of the safest and most tamper and foolproof devices produced. So I conclude this article is basically FUD.
Some people are to stupid and much tor fragile to be let out of the house. What is next? Telling people it is illegal to end a friendship online? Whoever thinks such is reasonable really needs to get a life. And yes, I will unfriend any among my social networks who I find out think that this is reasonable. Life is too short to put up with nitwits.
How can it possibly be "good economics" to take money from some effectively by government force to give to others or to further debase the currency or increase the already stupendous national debt? Anyone who things that can be good economics is an idiot.
Employers don't abuse employees generally just for the hell of it now. Employers are there at all to offer any jobs because they need people to help them build something at a rate both parties can afford and still have the company have more income than what was spent (that is stay in business). If you raise the cost per employee too much then they use less employees or close their doors.
People can just walk away right now. Most people if they have their salary coming anyway will not come to work no matter how reasonable the employer may be. Who do you expect to pay for this part? It is against the law to fire people for getting pregnant or complaining about sexual harassment.
There is no such thing as "free money". There is money that was taken from someone else by politicians with people with guns backing their play that they may give some of to you after taking their cut and paying all those needed to take that money. And you pay for all those middlemen. You pay again for the reduced productivity of those that produce more value than they consume.
Or the government just prints more and more money and gives you that. That is "free" right. Ask Zimbabwe what happens when the money printing press runs free. You get hit with all money being worth less and less. You get hit again with higher prices over time. And again if you happen to have any savings or fixed payments incoming that are now effectively reduced.
I have never seen one Guaranteed Income scheme that bothered to count its full costs, or talk honesty about who footed the bill how both directly and indirectly.
The Internet of Things is about sensors everywhere and to a more limited extent actuators. But actuators are relatively few compared to sensors. Fine grained sensors are out at the edge here there is no normal wireless connectivity and are quite a challenge to innovate, power and scale out at very low cost. The next challenging is gathering the edge information at highly distributed small systems that may be more wireless/internet connected in some form. While you could hack to corrupt data feeds flowing up the question is what would be the significant payoff to make it worth it at all? You corrupt the out on the farm soil sensors so the watering systems give too much or too little water? Not so easy to get away with and no payoff beyond malice and an ego trip.
Automated and even driverless cars are not IoT. They will be no easier and likely a great deal harder to hack than your average MS box.
Really, I would expect hackers worth the name to be thinking of cool things to do with the accelerating technology not ways that it will mess up or to mess things up.
Please don't play into FUD coming out of groups that fear for their current business models in the age of driverless cars and trucks. You are being played.
One click is brilliant. Amazon has changed the face of finding stuff you want, seeing what its popularity and rep is and buying it and getting it delivered to your door. Anyone that thinks they can do better is very welcome to try. I love Amazon and am very glad they are there.
I am not expecting the bloody government to data mine all activity on all the streets. I wouldn't mind IF the government was completely limited from doing anything to anyone with this data except preventing actual crimes (initiation of force). Otherwise forget it.