The home charging station could have it's own batteries that get charged slowly from solar or the grid, then dumps quickly for 5 minutes after you pull in. It could be sized to put in 100 miles worth of power, then go to slow charge.
The home battery could also double as a UPS during a power outage. If they build it right, you could use older car battery packs that have lost some capacity for the home charger.
If you are late delivering the product, you *will* be fired.
If you send the product prematurely, you *might* brick the device, and have to stay up late fixing it. You decide.
These days if that happened, the parents would be yelled at for allowing their kid to go out unsupervised, yelled at for allowing their kid to run so fast though car parks and sports ovals and things with such a high risk of being hurt in the process and quite possibly yelled at for allowing their kids to spend their money with no controls on what they are buying.
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Or perhaps parents today just perceive they would be yelled at for allowing this because they read that some parents in New Jersey was once talked to by CPS years ago. The "Nanny-State" is more of a chilling effect than a real phenomenon. Better communication means that even if an activity has only a.0001% chance of causing injury, we've heard of a child that was injured by it.
There's a family in our neighborhood that practices that kind of "Free Range" childcare, AFAIK no-one has actually yelled at them, and their children haven't had any more injuries than any others.
When you are working at a company, the idea is to make your best effort to be the deepest domain expert in that particular field in the entire company. If you are in accounting, read every available relevant book on accounting. If you are at a company writing software to do computational fluid dynamics, then really understand the math, the available theories about best practices, and so on.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you were less than honest.
It's also important to be the domain expert for something the company cares about. If you are the best accountant in the world, but your boss doesn't care for accounting and would rather outsource it, you'll never be in a good bargaining position, no matter how important your job is really to the company. Even if losing you would sink the company, it doesn't matter if your boss doesn't know or care.
I hope eman1961 also replies because I'm interested in his answers.
I took a job writing a large system in JavaScript without knowing the language,
That was a feat considering that employers want a few years of paid experience with ANY skill. Not to mention having recent paid experience every single skill listed in the job description.
How did you pull that off?...
The short answer is that companies look outside for Rumpelstiltskin employees, who can walk on water and spin straw into gold for pennies a day. Internal employees are expected to just jump in and solve problems.
If you are already working for a manager or have recently finished a contract for him, successfully, it's easy to get a gig by saying, "I don't know that language, but I'll learn it and finish this project on time".
Of course, I've never been a fan of the "Language of the Month" club. Why decide to do a project in a language when you can't find the people who know that language? First find good people, then use the tools they know.
If people are willing to go to the trouble of creating bots to find cancelations, then it's likely there are people who will *pay* for that service. The bot runners might be selling their service, similar to ticket scalpers. On the other hand, they might be doing it just because they can.
I would think that a lot of bot reservations would go unused, at least, as soon as the newness of this wears off. How long until restaurants start charging a nonrefundable reservation fee?
And/or a simple wait list that gives preference for preferred customers? I.e. The restaurants should see this as an unmet need, and provide their customers a solution.
In the case of AT&T there were real physical limits to the number of calls that could be made from A -> B, and if the last slot was used by a hacker, there was one less slot for a paying customer. Most of the time there was overcapacity, mostly because AT&T did overcharge business customers, so they could afford to overbuild.
Over here, broadcast television doesn't have anything like a "Listen Live" button. It's strictly one way.
Exactly what buttons might one accidentally click on, on television?
In the US, there is "free" commercial broadcast TV, and paid subscription TV over closed cable. Internet TV is either free or paid subscription. For the paid stuff, you have to sign up for an account, and although there are ways to circumvent it, if you don't pay, you can't watch.
I was aware that British broadcast television was licensed, rather than a subscription. Is there a similar model for BBC Internet TV?
That's essentially what Carl Friedrich Gauss said when he was challenged to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. Something on the lines of: "I have no real interest in such endeavors since I could easily put forward a multitude of propositions which one could neither prove nor disprove."
Did Gauss "put forward a multitude of propositions which one could neither prove nor disprove"?
Especially now that we have very fast computers, it seems like the false conjectures would be quickly disproven, and the true ones might take a bit longer. If we eliminate needlessly complicated conjectures, are we left with only "interesting" ones?
Actually it does mean you have permission to do so. It doesn't mean the owners meant to give you permission, however.
That's why you need to be a lawyer to understand this. It's possible that for a given State or Federal law that the owner's intent is what's important, not their implementation. And the intent of the defendant is also a factor.
So, if the owner intended the site to be secure, and the defendant intended to break that security, the actual security might be irrelevant.
IANAL, YMMV, talk to a lawyer in your own state for specifics.
At some point in there, the encryption has to end, and a logic 0 or 1 has to be sent to some device to unlock the door. If you found that point, and had a way to get into it......
A regular car probably has some place where exactly 1 logic 1 or 0 can be sent to unlock the door, but it's not unusual to have a system that first requires an enable solenoid to be activated, then simultaneously the unlock solenoid actually moves the bolt. (Mostly military stuff)
The solenoids also take a bit of current, so if the logic controller is well shielded and takes a stream of bits to open, your system would be fairly secure against EMP type attacks, even if the solenoid isn't well shielded. You don't want your doors unlocking every time you pass a Semi with a 1kw linear amp on his CB rig.
Please explain this to the people on the other side of the pond.
There's a web site where you can get information, but only if you click a certain place are you liable for a fee? Why doesn't the click take you to a login page that verifies you have the license?
A stream of particles traveling above a surface in uniform motion. A vehicle hovering above the surface could only be pushed as fast as the stream is moving.
A wheel on the surface moving at the same speed as the surface isn't all moving at that speed, even if it's center of mass is. The part that touches the surface is stationary w.r.t. the surface, and the top is moving faster than the center speed. If the stream of particles is directed at the center of mass, the most it could be pushed is up to the speed of the particles.
If the stream is directed more to the bottom of the wheel, the center of the wheel could be pushed faster than the stream of particles is moving.
I'm not saying that this is what is happening, just that it could be.
Anything that moves in response to commands is going to be more interesting that stuff that just sits there. Start a robotics curriculum that can be expanded as you find more resources and sponsors.
Throw in a 3D printer and there will be all sorts of interest.
Anything argued in a court of law by anyone should be open, with very few restrictions (identities of minors and victims in some criminal cases, etc). I've not yet heard any convincing arguments for keeping details of cases involving corporations from the public, at least not after some short delay in extraordinary cases (a month or so).
A great idea, but if you implemented it, companies would hack around it. Perhaps by adding another layer of lawyers invoking client privilege, or binding arbitration by a secret panel.
When companies sue each other, neither wants the results public. When a person sues a company, the company will offer them more money to stay quiet, than they can get from the original lawsuit. (once you figure the likelihood of winning & the time value of the money) A settlement keeps most of the facts away from the courts.
Stronger whistleblower protection and a better FTC would help shine light on corporate malfeasance. A law that made silence contracts non-binding would be bad for a few individuals, but good for the rest of the country.
What happens legally if you are 18 or over: You enter a contract with Paypal that allows them to make use of the bug information that you found and gave them, and in exchange they give you some money. What happens if you are under 18: The same, but as the kid under 18 you or your guardian can void the contract at any time, which would mean Paypal wouldn't have the right to use the information you gave them.
Kids write, record and perform songs all the time, the the record companies have found a way to hold them to contracts. Ditto for kids that appear in films. What does Nashville and Hollywood know that PayPal can't figure out?
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The home charging station could have it's own batteries that get charged slowly from solar or the grid, then dumps quickly for 5 minutes after you pull in. It could be sized to put in 100 miles worth of power, then go to slow charge. The home battery could also double as a UPS during a power outage. If they build it right, you could use older car battery packs that have lost some capacity for the home charger.
If you are late delivering the product, you *will* be fired. If you send the product prematurely, you *might* brick the device, and have to stay up late fixing it. You decide.
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These days if that happened, the parents would be yelled at for allowing their kid to go out unsupervised, yelled at for allowing their kid to run so fast though car parks and sports ovals and things with such a high risk of being hurt in the process and quite possibly yelled at for allowing their kids to spend their money with no controls on what they are buying.
...
Or perhaps parents today just perceive they would be yelled at for allowing this because they read that some parents in New Jersey was once talked to by CPS years ago. The "Nanny-State" is more of a chilling effect than a real phenomenon. Better communication means that even if an activity has only a .0001% chance of causing injury, we've heard of a child that was injured by it.
There's a family in our neighborhood that practices that kind of "Free Range" childcare, AFAIK no-one has actually yelled at them, and their children haven't had any more injuries than any others.
When you are working at a company, the idea is to make your best effort to be the deepest domain expert in that particular field in the entire company. If you are in accounting, read every available relevant book on accounting. If you are at a company writing software to do computational fluid dynamics, then really understand the math, the available theories about best practices, and so on.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you were less than honest.
It's also important to be the domain expert for something the company cares about. If you are the best accountant in the world, but your boss doesn't care for accounting and would rather outsource it, you'll never be in a good bargaining position, no matter how important your job is really to the company. Even if losing you would sink the company, it doesn't matter if your boss doesn't know or care.
I took a job writing a large system in JavaScript without knowing the language,
That was a feat considering that employers want a few years of paid experience with ANY skill. Not to mention having recent paid experience every single skill listed in the job description.
How did you pull that off? ...
The short answer is that companies look outside for Rumpelstiltskin employees, who can walk on water and spin straw into gold for pennies a day. Internal employees are expected to just jump in and solve problems.
If you are already working for a manager or have recently finished a contract for him, successfully, it's easy to get a gig by saying, "I don't know that language, but I'll learn it and finish this project on time".
Of course, I've never been a fan of the "Language of the Month" club. Why decide to do a project in a language when you can't find the people who know that language? First find good people, then use the tools they know.
The current methods of cryogenically freezing you will make you legally dead. (That's the problem)
If they could non-destructively freeze and thaw you, it could be legal on a non-dead person.
If people are willing to go to the trouble of creating bots to find cancelations, then it's likely there are people who will *pay* for that service. The bot runners might be selling their service, similar to ticket scalpers. On the other hand, they might be doing it just because they can.
I would think that a lot of bot reservations would go unused, at least, as soon as the newness of this wears off. How long until restaurants start charging a nonrefundable reservation fee?
And/or a simple wait list that gives preference for preferred customers? I.e. The restaurants should see this as an unmet need, and provide their customers a solution.
where do people get their definition of supercomputer?
From the 1960's. The CDC 6000's designed by Seymour Cray were the first "Super Computers". Each "Core" had about 30 mips.
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I think there is prior art.
Yes, but.
In the case of AT&T there were real physical limits to the number of calls that could be made from A -> B, and if the last slot was used by a hacker, there was one less slot for a paying customer. Most of the time there was overcapacity, mostly because AT&T did overcharge business customers, so they could afford to overbuild.
Still not getting it.
Over here, broadcast television doesn't have anything like a "Listen Live" button. It's strictly one way.
Exactly what buttons might one accidentally click on, on television?
In the US, there is "free" commercial broadcast TV, and paid subscription TV over closed cable. Internet TV is either free or paid subscription. For the paid stuff, you have to sign up for an account, and although there are ways to circumvent it, if you don't pay, you can't watch.
I was aware that British broadcast television was licensed, rather than a subscription. Is there a similar model for BBC Internet TV?
That's essentially what Carl Friedrich Gauss said when he was challenged to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. Something on the lines of: "I have no real interest in such endeavors since I could easily put forward a multitude of propositions which one could neither prove nor disprove."
Did Gauss "put forward a multitude of propositions which one could neither prove nor disprove"?
Especially now that we have very fast computers, it seems like the false conjectures would be quickly disproven, and the true ones might take a bit longer. If we eliminate needlessly complicated conjectures, are we left with only "interesting" ones?
Actually it does mean you have permission to do so. It doesn't mean the owners meant to give you permission, however.
That's why you need to be a lawyer to understand this. It's possible that for a given State or Federal law that the owner's intent is what's important, not their implementation. And the intent of the defendant is also a factor.
So, if the owner intended the site to be secure, and the defendant intended to break that security, the actual security might be irrelevant.
IANAL, YMMV, talk to a lawyer in your own state for specifics.
At some point in there, the encryption has to end, and a logic 0 or 1 has to be sent to some device to unlock the door. If you found that point, and had a way to get into it... ...
A regular car probably has some place where exactly 1 logic 1 or 0 can be sent to unlock the door, but it's not unusual to have a system that first requires an enable solenoid to be activated, then simultaneously the unlock solenoid actually moves the bolt. (Mostly military stuff)
The solenoids also take a bit of current, so if the logic controller is well shielded and takes a stream of bits to open, your system would be fairly secure against EMP type attacks, even if the solenoid isn't well shielded. You don't want your doors unlocking every time you pass a Semi with a 1kw linear amp on his CB rig.
Please explain this to the people on the other side of the pond.
There's a web site where you can get information, but only if you click a certain place are you liable for a fee? Why doesn't the click take you to a login page that verifies you have the license?
A stream of particles traveling above a surface in uniform motion. A vehicle hovering above the surface could only be pushed as fast as the stream is moving.
A wheel on the surface moving at the same speed as the surface isn't all moving at that speed, even if it's center of mass is. The part that touches the surface is stationary w.r.t. the surface, and the top is moving faster than the center speed. If the stream of particles is directed at the center of mass, the most it could be pushed is up to the speed of the particles.
If the stream is directed more to the bottom of the wheel, the center of the wheel could be pushed faster than the stream of particles is moving.
I'm not saying that this is what is happening, just that it could be.
Doctor Who, Gregory House, and Sherlock Holmes are all the same character, with different occupations.
A difficult to work with genius, almost always with a companion. (On "House" they made the companion a team.)
Anything that moves in response to commands is going to be more interesting that stuff that just sits there. Start a robotics curriculum that can be expanded as you find more resources and sponsors.
Throw in a 3D printer and there will be all sorts of interest.
Anything argued in a court of law by anyone should be open, with very few restrictions (identities of minors and victims in some criminal cases, etc). I've not yet heard any convincing arguments for keeping details of cases involving corporations from the public, at least not after some short delay in extraordinary cases (a month or so).
A great idea, but if you implemented it, companies would hack around it. Perhaps by adding another layer of lawyers invoking client privilege, or binding arbitration by a secret panel.
When companies sue each other, neither wants the results public. When a person sues a company, the company will offer them more money to stay quiet, than they can get from the original lawsuit. (once you figure the likelihood of winning & the time value of the money) A settlement keeps most of the facts away from the courts.
Stronger whistleblower protection and a better FTC would help shine light on corporate malfeasance. A law that made silence contracts non-binding would be bad for a few individuals, but good for the rest of the country.
People need privacy. Corporations, not so much.
Geoff Taylor of the BPI said that Google has the both the information and technological ability to directly stomp infringing sites...
Everything is possible if someone else has to do it and pay for it.
Movie companies still own movies that have child stars. What's special about entertainment contracts that can't be applied to PayPal contracts?
What happens legally if you are 18 or over: You enter a contract with Paypal that allows them to make use of the bug information that you found and gave them, and in exchange they give you some money. What happens if you are under 18: The same, but as the kid under 18 you or your guardian can void the contract at any time, which would mean Paypal wouldn't have the right to use the information you gave them.
Kids write, record and perform songs all the time, the the record companies have found a way to hold them to contracts. Ditto for kids that appear in films. What does Nashville and Hollywood know that PayPal can't figure out?
They shouldn't wage an expensive a war against nature.
You shouldn't spend too much just to stay alive.
I will spend whatever it takes to stay alive and comfortable.
Substitute anyone for "They", "You", and "I".
Well, yes. Livestock that are given antibiotics, even when not sick, gain weight faster. We don't know why.
People are getting fatter...