I'd think there'd also be money to be made with something similar which produced good readiness values whenever polled by the inspection station (in locations which require that).
Where's the proof of concept firmware which generates a fake, slightly randomized weekday round trips to work at speeds below the limit, and totally ignores real world driving?
It seems to be mainly the interest of the insurance company to add security, not the user's.
IOW, he wants the perception to be that they wouldn't do the same again. Because, it's lowered their credibility. That doesn't mean they wouldn't do the same thing again, they just want you to think they wouldn't.
("Please don't look for more holes in stuff we support. Ignore the man behind the curtain. We're from the government, and we're here to help.")
Telling lies won't convince anyone. Fleming worked for St. Mary's, which was founded as and still was a voluntary hospital (funded by private philanthropy) at the time.
A horse was a luxury, as are automobiles and email. blackomegax is simply a spoiled brat, and probably wouldn't live long in a world where he had to actually sustain himself, leaving no time to play with his Xbox. Trying to justify government grants because they provide luxuries is the height of hubris.
But still, it would be interesting to hear his rationalization of how government grants created the automobile or developed penicillin. Ironically, the letters which he so casually dismisses are a government funded service.
You say that as if that would present a hardship. There's a significant portion of the world who would be very happy to have a horse to ride work and be able to read and write letters to communicate.
Johns Hopkins has an endowment of about $3,000,000,000 (25th highest in the US). Instead of complaining about the lack of grants, the president of Johns Hopkins should be issuing grants.
So, quit complaining, stop being lazy, and convert your systems to use TAI or GPS or TT.
BTW, UTC, even with leap seconds, is perfectly monotonic, you apparently don't understand the meaning. You say IT requires deterministic time, but don't say why? If you need an event to happen X seconds in the future, you can do that. If you need an event to happen at a specific time in the future, you can do that, too. Leap seconds get in the way of neither, except for the lazy. It's a simple matter of picking the right timescale for the need.
You were doing it wrong. If you do it right, you use UTC (or even the local *ST or Unix time) for everything. Conversion to/from *DT is cosmetic, and only occurs in the UI.
Really? UTC is defined by a clearly written normative standard, ITU-R TF.460-6. If you don't consider that well defined, you have no understanding of how standards work.
Standard Time still had local time coupled with sol, to an approximation of about 1/2 hour (stretched for political boundaries and other practical reasons, etc.) One could measure the offset between Standard Time and their local solar time, and use that to determine Standard Time independently at any point in the future.
UTC is likewise closely coupled with solar time (UT1) within 0.9 seconds. If you know the offset of a location, you can determine UTC at that location within 0.9 seconds independently, using only astronomical means.
Decoupling UTC from sol breaks the millenia old convention that civil time is based on sol, for the sake of some lazy programmers.
"If UTC were replaced with TAI (i.e. the same thing, without the leap seconds), I don't believe anything of value would be lost."
Of course it would. A precise, well defined timescale closely tied to the rotation of the Earth would be lost.
Civil time has for millennia been linked to sol, and many jurisdictions specifically define legal time based on UTC (e.g. 15 U.S. Code 261.) Astronomers use UTC as an easily obtained analog to the other forms of Universal Time. Sundials. Celestial navigation. Space operations (eliminating leap seconds would require code changes to the GPS system, and others).
You're certainly free to change your systems to TAI, but any proposal to remove leap seconds from UTC creates not only a redundant timescale (alongside TAI, TT and GPS), but is an attempt to force undesired change upon others. UTC was specifically created to track UT1 withing 0.9 seconds, and there are disciplines and systems which adopted UTC based on that premise.
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I'd think there'd also be money to be made with something similar which produced good readiness values whenever polled by the inspection station (in locations which require that).
Yes, this.
Where's the proof of concept firmware which generates a fake, slightly randomized weekday round trips to work at speeds below the limit, and totally ignores real world driving?
It seems to be mainly the interest of the insurance company to add security, not the user's.
I'm sure all the people and families who suffered under Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot find great comfort in that.
What's next? Replace coreutils with busybox? When will we have a single binary Linux install?
You say that as if it's a good thing. The railroads, which were privately funded, happened much sooner, and with greater positive effect.
IOW, he wants the perception to be that they wouldn't do the same again. Because, it's lowered their credibility. That doesn't mean they wouldn't do the same thing again, they just want you to think they wouldn't.
("Please don't look for more holes in stuff we support. Ignore the man behind the curtain. We're from the government, and we're here to help.")
"I would confuse it by having it try to divide zero by zero, that thing would run for hours trying to figure out the answer."
I think that there are medicines to treat that these days.
Telling lies won't convince anyone. Fleming worked for St. Mary's, which was founded as and still was a voluntary hospital (funded by private philanthropy) at the time.
"has made some machines running Linux to freeze... but him and John Stultz continue to back and forth"
Really?
Without any of today's tech, we would be absolutely no worse off. What's your point?
A horse was a luxury, as are automobiles and email. blackomegax is simply a spoiled brat, and probably wouldn't live long in a world where he had to actually sustain himself, leaving no time to play with his Xbox. Trying to justify government grants because they provide luxuries is the height of hubris.
But still, it would be interesting to hear his rationalization of how government grants created the automobile or developed penicillin. Ironically, the letters which he so casually dismisses are a government funded service.
But sucking at the government teat and driving even more deficit spending is OK? I proclaim you King of Rationalization.
You say that as if that would present a hardship. There's a significant portion of the world who would be very happy to have a horse to ride work and be able to read and write letters to communicate.
Johns Hopkins has an endowment of about $3,000,000,000 (25th highest in the US). Instead of complaining about the lack of grants, the president of Johns Hopkins should be issuing grants.
You're confusing possession of a piece of paper (fake sheepskin) with knowledge. One can get knowledge free by going to the public library.
I'm so sorry you're forced to deal with reality.
You're doing it wrong.
Fish poop in it.
(attr: William Claude Dukenfield)
So, quit complaining, stop being lazy, and convert your systems to use TAI or GPS or TT.
BTW, UTC, even with leap seconds, is perfectly monotonic, you apparently don't understand the meaning. You say IT requires deterministic time, but don't say why? If you need an event to happen X seconds in the future, you can do that. If you need an event to happen at a specific time in the future, you can do that, too. Leap seconds get in the way of neither, except for the lazy. It's a simple matter of picking the right timescale for the need.
You were doing it wrong. If you do it right, you use UTC (or even the local *ST or Unix time) for everything. Conversion to/from *DT is cosmetic, and only occurs in the UI.
How many emails will you receive between the current moment and the end of the year? It's not deterministic. Deal with it.
Really? UTC is defined by a clearly written normative standard, ITU-R TF.460-6. If you don't consider that well defined, you have no understanding of how standards work.
Standard Time still had local time coupled with sol, to an approximation of about 1/2 hour (stretched for political boundaries and other practical reasons, etc.) One could measure the offset between Standard Time and their local solar time, and use that to determine Standard Time independently at any point in the future.
UTC is likewise closely coupled with solar time (UT1) within 0.9 seconds. If you know the offset of a location, you can determine UTC at that location within 0.9 seconds independently, using only astronomical means.
Decoupling UTC from sol breaks the millenia old convention that civil time is based on sol, for the sake of some lazy programmers.
If everyone would just push on the object to the east of them, we could speed up the Earth's rotation and fix this right now.
"If UTC were replaced with TAI (i.e. the same thing, without the leap seconds), I don't believe anything of value would be lost."
Of course it would. A precise, well defined timescale closely tied to the rotation of the Earth would be lost.
Civil time has for millennia been linked to sol, and many jurisdictions specifically define legal time based on UTC (e.g. 15 U.S. Code 261.) Astronomers use UTC as an easily obtained analog to the other forms of Universal Time. Sundials. Celestial navigation. Space operations (eliminating leap seconds would require code changes to the GPS system, and others).
You're certainly free to change your systems to TAI, but any proposal to remove leap seconds from UTC creates not only a redundant timescale (alongside TAI, TT and GPS), but is an attempt to force undesired change upon others. UTC was specifically created to track UT1 withing 0.9 seconds, and there are disciplines and systems which adopted UTC based on that premise.