While you have my sympathy for your mother's condition if it is Alzheimer's, it is a common thing in mothers to ask the same question over and over because they don't trust their 'little children' (aged 40 and above) to take proper care of themselves. Furthermore, there is less and less of interest for older people on the computer and internet. Games? Either dedicate your life to the game or GTFO, you aren't good enough. Movies on Netflix? Perhaps, but might as well turn on the TV. Surfing news sites? Look at all these young beautiful people that are scantily clad and involved in eleventy scandals AT ONCE! But first,a word from our hacked ads...
If people decide to turn the computer off and go outside to get some fresh air I can't really blame them.
Most likely the autonomous cars won't be slamming on the brakes and revving up from a stand-still like you and your parents seem to. Barring emergencies it will probably be doing the usual slowing down, which you will anticipate by seeing an intersection ahead, followed by comfortable acceleration, which you will anticipate by NOT seeing an intersection ahead.
I don't think anyone's talking about windowless boxes just yet.
I am funnily reminded of a Donald Duck story I read several decades ago, in which Scrooge got an idea for a fully automated road network from watching the kids play a (VERY early) racing game on a (REALLY VERY EARLY) computer. The mayor of the city was in a panic after trying it out because he had no control over the city, but reached the conclusion that the younger generation would probably adapt better.
Unfortunately the wireless system to make the cars communicate caused massive interference on the TV signal in the city, so the whole plan ended up scrapped. I guess it's a good thing all TV signals have gone digital since then!;-)
The article seems a bit of a fluff piece to me. Personally I am more curious how they did it.
When I try to imagine the process of putting a cable between Europe and America, I picture one of those gigantic container ships with an absolutely massive spool mounted on it. Ridiculous, I know, but how far off the mark am I in that mental picture? Sadly the article doesn't say anything about how the cables were laid, just that the first ones took four years to complete.
There is no competition with private enterprise, because private enterprise has decided it's not cost-efficient to operate in that area - but they don't want anyone else operating there either, including the government.
Living in Europe I've pretty much only been exposed to this case from the various updates here on Slashdot, so please don't take me for a troll when I ask why the phone is even important.
Anyone these two people were in contact with will have ditched anything connecting them. Any plans for future attacks will have been either scrapped or rendered moot by the deaths of the two terrorists. Any call lists etc. would probably be a LOT easier to acquire from the phone company.
So what kind of data can even exist on the phone that was not rendered worthless within a couple of days, let alone the months that have passed by now?
Haven't read the article, but I would first suspect a translation error - that the 32,000 is actually the number of affected people in the entire area around the plant.
Maybe I've just gotten old, but how is the cashier going to verify your initials and picture on the app without seeing your cell phone, and how are you going to show the cell phone without taking your hands out of your pockets?
Have people started wearing their cellphones on a lanyard?
While a good article does not require a professional photographer, presenting yourself with a selfie displays a tendency to laisez faire solutions - a tendency that may very well be displayed in your journalistic integrity as well.
As always, the two may have nothing to do with each other, professional journalists certainly write their share of BS, but there is nothing inherently wrong in considering it the first warning that something is amiss.
If you have heavy enough snowfall to completely obscure the road, you probably have thick enough clouds that this level of accuracy becomes difficult again.
The difference is the time it takes you to analyze and understand a GPS screen showing you exactly where you are (within a few meters, yada yada) and trying to find out where you are on a paper map spread out on the passenger seat.
There ARE still big signs saying "Now leaving Country X and entering Country Y!" followed by a quick list of the rules of the road in that country - city speed, highway speed, must have lights on during daytime or not... It really is hard to miss, ESPECIALLY when all the city names become hard to pronounce!
I suggest cutting the second 'really' as you're missing the last few letters in that signature. Maybe contract the two into "someone you REALLY trust."
Well, with various games installed that I used to play but don't at the moment it can quickly get up there. WoW is some 30 GB, so is Fallout 4, might still have Wildstar installed for another 20... It adds up these days. The point is that a list of what you're about to delete before deleting 100 GB would be really, really nice.
What annoys me most at the moment is their unwanted clean-up tool that tells me I have some 100 GB of unused programs it wants to delete - with no list of WHICH programs it's talking about.
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While you have my sympathy for your mother's condition if it is Alzheimer's, it is a common thing in mothers to ask the same question over and over because they don't trust their 'little children' (aged 40 and above) to take proper care of themselves. Furthermore, there is less and less of interest for older people on the computer and internet. Games? Either dedicate your life to the game or GTFO, you aren't good enough. Movies on Netflix? Perhaps, but might as well turn on the TV. Surfing news sites? Look at all these young beautiful people that are scantily clad and involved in eleventy scandals AT ONCE! But first,a word from our hacked ads ...
If people decide to turn the computer off and go outside to get some fresh air I can't really blame them.
Most likely the autonomous cars won't be slamming on the brakes and revving up from a stand-still like you and your parents seem to. Barring emergencies it will probably be doing the usual slowing down, which you will anticipate by seeing an intersection ahead, followed by comfortable acceleration, which you will anticipate by NOT seeing an intersection ahead.
I don't think anyone's talking about windowless boxes just yet.
I am funnily reminded of a Donald Duck story I read several decades ago, in which Scrooge got an idea for a fully automated road network from watching the kids play a (VERY early) racing game on a (REALLY VERY EARLY) computer. The mayor of the city was in a panic after trying it out because he had no control over the city, but reached the conclusion that the younger generation would probably adapt better.
Unfortunately the wireless system to make the cars communicate caused massive interference on the TV signal in the city, so the whole plan ended up scrapped. I guess it's a good thing all TV signals have gone digital since then! ;-)
The article seems a bit of a fluff piece to me. Personally I am more curious how they did it.
When I try to imagine the process of putting a cable between Europe and America, I picture one of those gigantic container ships with an absolutely massive spool mounted on it. Ridiculous, I know, but how far off the mark am I in that mental picture? Sadly the article doesn't say anything about how the cables were laid, just that the first ones took four years to complete.
So what, the population should just sit in the dark ages twiddling their thumbs while they wait for a Big Provider to get off their ass?
You seem to be missing a very big point here.
There is no competition with private enterprise, because private enterprise has decided it's not cost-efficient to operate in that area - but they don't want anyone else operating there either, including the government.
I don't think someone that wants to blow up a jet engine with a drone carrying a bomb is going to care that he's entering restricted airspace.
How many drones are in the airspace compared to turtles, though?
Living in Europe I've pretty much only been exposed to this case from the various updates here on Slashdot, so please don't take me for a troll when I ask why the phone is even important.
Anyone these two people were in contact with will have ditched anything connecting them. Any plans for future attacks will have been either scrapped or rendered moot by the deaths of the two terrorists. Any call lists etc. would probably be a LOT easier to acquire from the phone company.
So what kind of data can even exist on the phone that was not rendered worthless within a couple of days, let alone the months that have passed by now?
Stop being logical, this is a FUD piece! It is IMPOSSIBLE to tell two people with the same name apart!
Haven't read the article, but I would first suspect a translation error - that the 32,000 is actually the number of affected people in the entire area around the plant.
It goes the other way, too. I am so frustrated when 'a mile down the road' gets translated to literally 1.61 km. Just say one and a half, dammit.
Just yesterday I was playing FF14, doing a bit of crafting, and had just a 1% chance of my craft turning out to be high quality.
And it happened.
See, 1% is indeed a very small chance - but it is still a chance, and therein lies the problem.
Maybe I've just gotten old, but how is the cashier going to verify your initials and picture on the app without seeing your cell phone, and how are you going to show the cell phone without taking your hands out of your pockets?
Have people started wearing their cellphones on a lanyard?
While a good article does not require a professional photographer, presenting yourself with a selfie displays a tendency to laisez faire solutions - a tendency that may very well be displayed in your journalistic integrity as well.
As always, the two may have nothing to do with each other, professional journalists certainly write their share of BS, but there is nothing inherently wrong in considering it the first warning that something is amiss.
If you have heavy enough snowfall to completely obscure the road, you probably have thick enough clouds that this level of accuracy becomes difficult again.
Couldn't the same level of 'automatic' be achieved with image recognition cameras at the doors, or other sensors to achieve the same result?
Strange.
I don't recall those programs being called apps. Applications maybe, more commonly programs ... but not apps.
The difference is the time it takes you to analyze and understand a GPS screen showing you exactly where you are (within a few meters, yada yada) and trying to find out where you are on a paper map spread out on the passenger seat.
There ARE still big signs saying "Now leaving Country X and entering Country Y!" followed by a quick list of the rules of the road in that country - city speed, highway speed, must have lights on during daytime or not ... It really is hard to miss, ESPECIALLY when all the city names become hard to pronounce!
So if I buy a TV made by, say, Samsung or Philips, that gives them carte blanche to record and store everything I say or do in my living room?
I suggest cutting the second 'really' as you're missing the last few letters in that signature. Maybe contract the two into "someone you REALLY trust."
I have seen that behavior in a Lab/GSD mix, with her daughter laying next to her looking quite attentive as if being told a story.
As a funny side note, said daughter actually had some husky mixed in, yet she never did it.
He's not talking about the Windows HOSTS file, but a list on the router - a piece of hardware that is NOT running Windows 10.
Yet.
Well, with various games installed that I used to play but don't at the moment it can quickly get up there. WoW is some 30 GB, so is Fallout 4, might still have Wildstar installed for another 20 ... It adds up these days. The point is that a list of what you're about to delete before deleting 100 GB would be really, really nice.
What annoys me most at the moment is their unwanted clean-up tool that tells me I have some 100 GB of unused programs it wants to delete - with no list of WHICH programs it's talking about.