Your 3TB Toshiba drives are way better than the 3TB Seagates (ST3000DM001) - Backblaze had a cumulative failure RATE of 28% - that's 28% failed per year. In my experience, they are ALL going bad before their third year of use. Backblaze has taken them all out of service, and mine are now paperweights. I do concur with Backblaze that most of them showed SMART failures before they died.
Liability is limited to $50, so after you spend months transferring your files over your limited upstream bandwidth, they can delete your files for whatever reason, including that they just don't want to encourage people "misusing" their service in this way. You complain, they hand you $50, and they're done. Arguably, they can also do that for the Unlimited Everything service, so even if you pay, they can terminate service for anyone they're not making money with. Ultimately, your files are only as safely stored so long as its cheaper to keep 'em than to delete 'em. That's the free market golden rule.
No, California classifies any light with an Edison socket as low-efficiency, not matter what bulb you put in. They're banned in kitchens completely, and only allowable if you put in a dimmer switch that will damage some high-efficiency lights that would otherwise work in an Edison socket.
Depends on the state and/or country. Many states/countries banned incandescent bulbs. California almost did, until they were excoriated by environmentalists and economists, saying that only efficiency levels should be regulated.
No, California banned the Edison socket. More precisely, any light with an Edison socket is treated as low-efficiency lighting, presumably on the theory that someone could screw a low-efficiency light bulb in such a socket. It's really stupid to have done so, because now many people are stuck with lighting that only accepts compact fluorescent and the like, while those who have Edison sockets can easily upgrade to the latest and greatest LEDs. There's a loophole, as Edison-socketed lighting is permitted in rooms other than the kitchen, so long as a dimmer switch is in the circuit. This can be even worse, because many high-efficiency lights that fit in Edison sockets are damaged by poorly-designed dimmers.
That works fine for trains and boats, but here on roads we need to occasionally stop.
In cities we need to stop a lot, therefore the pollution from engines is worse. A steam or stirling engine isn't going to help much here when I need power right the heck now, not in five minutes when the engine heats up. Hybrid engines are more smooth on power use since you can divert energy into the batteries and get it back quick without taxing the gas engine. Even trains do this.
But in that case, you might as well go full electric and eliminate the heat engine entirely.
And as soon as we got rail tracks to every grocery store this actually means something.
Where I live (Los Altos, CA), there were rail tracks adjacent to every grocery store. They were ripped out to make the Foothill Expressway. http://www.abandonedrails.com/...
* Yes, but, often the pre-crime police weren't able to get to the scene of the crime quickly enough for that to be the issue. If only the Apple Watch could vibrate when you were about to commit a crime to gently remind you....
In my view, it crosses the line when it infringes on your activity. If Facewatch gives you a warning that this person might deserve some scrutiny in case they shoplift, and store owners watch your behavior, but allow you to shop and act normally, that's behind the line. It crosses over the line when the reaction to a warning is to refuse to let you in the door, or escort you out upon entering, particularly when there is no recourse to correct the information.
Even now, businesses could use this kind of information to determine whether or not to offer you a bargain, a deal, a coupon relative to the marked price. For businesses like Safeway (US), that routinely offers price breaks on items that they know you buy or want you to start buying, incorporating Facewatch into the mix could lead toward price discrimination that would be very objectionable.
Well, to be fair, that's the official report. I'd use Occam's razor and note that if the pilot did the arithmetic wrong and the copilot simply copied the pilot's calculation instead of doing it himself, the records would also match this explanation. Occam's razor cuts to the chase, even as it also cuts to the quick.
These FCC comments do not dissuade me from the concern that whether or not that was the intention of the FCC rule-making, the effect will be to lock down router firmware. Locking down the firmware is one of the easiest way to address the FCC's concern. How else are router manufacturers going to prevent modification to the values place in control registers of commodity I/O devices? The processors in these devices don't have the necessary capabilities to lock these parameters down using a virtual machine model, and the commodity I/O devices don't have any built-in mechanism to prevent other than blessed values to be placed into control registers. Clearly the FCC still values their concerns about preventing us from misusing our devices over our concerns about securing our devices.
Your diesel cars are polluting the environment with extra NOx at a rate that, under cap-and-trade regulations which have established a market price of about $50 per ton, comes to about ten cents per mile driven on the road. If you're getting 50 miles per gallon, the pollution you are causing has a market price of about $5 per gallon. The conclusion to be drawn here is that you are saving money for yourself only by stealing from the environment. When the price for the excess pollution is paid (at "free market" rates, mind you), these cars are more expensive to operate than any other car on the market.
The "Spy Industry" had their golden chance to do it right after 9/11, and they demonstrated their inability to behave in a manner that honors the cause of freedom and liberty for our citizens. They earned the venom and cynicism by their misbehavior, and until they own up to that, I can't see cause for the American Public giving them a free pass again. Brennan and the rest are seriously in deepest denial if they are truly thinking that the backlash against government spying comes from a desire to undermine the mission of the Three Letter Agencies fueled by our adversaries.
If they want to have keys to our backdoors, they'd better come up with lube.
No only did that Decker have access to a plainly ridiculous level of zoom, when panning around, the perspective of the image changes, and object that were hidden from the original perspective appear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... We're left having to assume that "enhance" operation can do wonders on an old snapshot, or that it's something of an old snapshot from a holographic Polaroid. It would sure make image occlusion an easier problem to solve.
Yes. One can synthetically create cropped images to train CNNs. Then if you recognize "person standing" in the left side of an image and "front end of commercially relevant automobile" in the right side of the image you can likely expect that this is a person standing in front of the automobile, unless the template for junkyard is also signalling recognition. Then you zero in on which of your friends is standing there, and try to get that friend to recommend to you that you need a new car just like his. Almost a solved problem, no?
I noticed when I put in my comments that the deadline has been extended by about a month, but still, I put a comment in before the FCC took their system down for a WEEK for a software upgrade. That in itself ought to be an indication of how wrong-headed this regulation is - even the FCC can't write software that doesn't fail and require modification in the field. This regulation will effectively freeze development of wireless routers and other wireless devices that are key to Internet security and ensure that these devices are full of unfixable software defects that when discovered, make these products immediately and irreversably worthless. Not that any of these routers and devices are actually unfixable or irreversably damaged, but they are effectively so, because manufacturers often take no obligation to repair broken software in products that have expired warranties. Unfortunately, it's the nature of these software defects that the entire manufactured base of product become 100% defective all at once upon the discovery of a critical software security defect - that's world's away from the kind of random, slowly developing defects that result in poorly manufactured hardware. For example, all of my twenty or so personally owned routers would have needed to have been thrown away and replaced when "Heartbleed" was uncovered, and again when "Shellshock" was uncovered, except that they were all running open software for which fixes were provided by the open source community. If I had to rely on the kindness of profit-seeking router manufacturers, they'd all be in the garbage bin, so that I could "shell-out" for new routers. Others have written that millions of devices will never be fixed because of effectively abandoned support of these devices: http://www.technologyreview.co.....or have exposed long-standing vulnerabilties left unfixed: https://www.mocana.com/blog/20...
This one-week downtime is unfortunate, because the news may be forgotten by this community by the time the FCC restores the ability to provide comments online. Someone needs to ping slashdot back in a week when the FCC restores service, or else this ill-considered proposal may become part of established regulation.
The comment period is actually open until sometime in October, but promptly entering your comments is more likely to be effective (call now before you forget). The FCC has responded to mass commenting before on the net neutrality issue - it's time to do it again before the FCC lays us all open to having wireless devices with massive security failures that we can't fix ourselves.
I attended the presentation for this chip, and as multiple audience questioners pointed out, this design hasn't been carefully designed to be clear of patents. As a university project, it's not likely to be an issue, but cribbing from a recent GPU design is not a promising way to get a patent-clear open-source hardware design. It's also not complete, as it's missing graphics-specific functions, such as texture-mapping, and the FPGA implementation had a single processing pipeline. By taking the same instruction set, they made it easier to test and operate their design using AMD's tools. All that being said, it's an impressive start for a small university group, and by enabling operation with instrumentation hooks for measuring dynamic operations, may become useful as benchmarking and measurement tool for GPGPU programs. Just don't expect this to displace commercial designs RealSoonNow.
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Your 3TB Toshiba drives are way better than the 3TB Seagates (ST3000DM001) - Backblaze had a cumulative failure RATE of 28% - that's 28% failed per year. In my experience, they are ALL going bad before their third year of use. Backblaze has taken them all out of service, and mine are now paperweights. I do concur with Backblaze that most of them showed SMART failures before they died.
I'll just read them on huffingtonpost.com, "lightly paraphrased."
No lossless formats, images will be slightly recompressed. Free is free, what do you expect.
Nothing about this is free (after the free trial). Photo Storage is bundled with Prime, or $12/year.
Liability is limited to $50, so after you spend months transferring your files over your limited upstream bandwidth, they can delete your files for whatever reason, including that they just don't want to encourage people "misusing" their service in this way. You complain, they hand you $50, and they're done. Arguably, they can also do that for the Unlimited Everything service, so even if you pay, they can terminate service for anyone they're not making money with. Ultimately, your files are only as safely stored so long as its cheaper to keep 'em than to delete 'em. That's the free market golden rule.
You can always turn on the AC by twisting the right wires together.
Do you think preventing the next asteroid impact on Earth might be more important than colonizing Mars? Sentinel is also short of funding.
There you are. Title 24.
No, California classifies any light with an Edison socket as low-efficiency, not matter what bulb you put in. They're banned in kitchens completely, and only allowable if you put in a dimmer switch that will damage some high-efficiency lights that would otherwise work in an Edison socket.
Depends on the state and/or country. Many states/countries banned incandescent bulbs. California almost did, until they were excoriated by environmentalists and economists, saying that only efficiency levels should be regulated.
No, California banned the Edison socket. More precisely, any light with an Edison socket is treated as low-efficiency lighting, presumably on the theory that someone could screw a low-efficiency light bulb in such a socket. It's really stupid to have done so, because now many people are stuck with lighting that only accepts compact fluorescent and the like, while those who have Edison sockets can easily upgrade to the latest and greatest LEDs. There's a loophole, as Edison-socketed lighting is permitted in rooms other than the kitchen, so long as a dimmer switch is in the circuit. This can be even worse, because many high-efficiency lights that fit in Edison sockets are damaged by poorly-designed dimmers.
That works fine for trains and boats, but here on roads we need to occasionally stop.
In cities we need to stop a lot, therefore the pollution from engines is worse. A steam or stirling engine isn't going to help much here when I need power right the heck now, not in five minutes when the engine heats up. Hybrid engines are more smooth on power use since you can divert energy into the batteries and get it back quick without taxing the gas engine. Even trains do this.
But in that case, you might as well go full electric and eliminate the heat engine entirely.
Steam can be stored and released as needed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Try standing behind your car while someone else revves it.
When the call is still, the emissions control system turns on.
And as soon as we got rail tracks to every grocery store this actually means something.
Where I live (Los Altos, CA), there were rail tracks adjacent to every grocery store. They were ripped out to make the Foothill Expressway. http://www.abandonedrails.com/...
Bzzt. Sorry. You made the unwarranted assumption that the voltage is limited to 5V, devices can negotiate up to 20V. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
* Yes, but, often the pre-crime police weren't able to get to the scene of the crime quickly enough for that to be the issue. If only the Apple Watch could vibrate when you were about to commit a crime to gently remind you....
In my view, it crosses the line when it infringes on your activity. If Facewatch gives you a warning that this person might deserve some scrutiny in case they shoplift, and store owners watch your behavior, but allow you to shop and act normally, that's behind the line. It crosses over the line when the reaction to a warning is to refuse to let you in the door, or escort you out upon entering, particularly when there is no recourse to correct the information.
Even now, businesses could use this kind of information to determine whether or not to offer you a bargain, a deal, a coupon relative to the marked price. For businesses like Safeway (US), that routinely offers price breaks on items that they know you buy or want you to start buying, incorporating Facewatch into the mix could lead toward price discrimination that would be very objectionable.
Well, to be fair, that's the official report. I'd use Occam's razor and note that if the pilot did the arithmetic wrong and the copilot simply copied the pilot's calculation instead of doing it himself, the records would also match this explanation. Occam's razor cuts to the chase, even as it also cuts to the quick.
These FCC comments do not dissuade me from the concern that whether or not that was the intention of the FCC rule-making, the effect will be to lock down router firmware. Locking down the firmware is one of the easiest way to address the FCC's concern. How else are router manufacturers going to prevent modification to the values place in control registers of commodity I/O devices? The processors in these devices don't have the necessary capabilities to lock these parameters down using a virtual machine model, and the commodity I/O devices don't have any built-in mechanism to prevent other than blessed values to be placed into control registers. Clearly the FCC still values their concerns about preventing us from misusing our devices over our concerns about securing our devices.
Your diesel cars are polluting the environment with extra NOx at a rate that, under cap-and-trade regulations which have established a market price of about $50 per ton, comes to about ten cents per mile driven on the road. If you're getting 50 miles per gallon, the pollution you are causing has a market price of about $5 per gallon. The conclusion to be drawn here is that you are saving money for yourself only by stealing from the environment. When the price for the excess pollution is paid (at "free market" rates, mind you), these cars are more expensive to operate than any other car on the market.
The "Spy Industry" had their golden chance to do it right after 9/11, and they demonstrated their inability to behave in a manner that honors the cause of freedom and liberty for our citizens. They earned the venom and cynicism by their misbehavior, and until they own up to that, I can't see cause for the American Public giving them a free pass again. Brennan and the rest are seriously in deepest denial if they are truly thinking that the backlash against government spying comes from a desire to undermine the mission of the Three Letter Agencies fueled by our adversaries.
If they want to have keys to our backdoors, they'd better come up with lube.
Try that in re-purposed Iranian centrifuges.
No only did that Decker have access to a plainly ridiculous level of zoom, when panning around, the perspective of the image changes, and object that were hidden from the original perspective appear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... We're left having to assume that "enhance" operation can do wonders on an old snapshot, or that it's something of an old snapshot from a holographic Polaroid. It would sure make image occlusion an easier problem to solve.
Yes. One can synthetically create cropped images to train CNNs. Then if you recognize "person standing" in the left side of an image and "front end of commercially relevant automobile" in the right side of the image you can likely expect that this is a person standing in front of the automobile, unless the template for junkyard is also signalling recognition. Then you zero in on which of your friends is standing there, and try to get that friend to recommend to you that you need a new car just like his. Almost a solved problem, no?
I noticed when I put in my comments that the deadline has been extended by about a month, but still, I put a comment in before the FCC took their system down for a WEEK for a software upgrade. That in itself ought to be an indication of how wrong-headed this regulation is - even the FCC can't write software that doesn't fail and require modification in the field. This regulation will effectively freeze development of wireless routers and other wireless devices that are key to Internet security and ensure that these devices are full of unfixable software defects that when discovered, make these products immediately and irreversably worthless. Not that any of these routers and devices are actually unfixable or irreversably damaged, but they are effectively so, because manufacturers often take no obligation to repair broken software in products that have expired warranties. Unfortunately, it's the nature of these software defects that the entire manufactured base of product become 100% defective all at once upon the discovery of a critical software security defect - that's world's away from the kind of random, slowly developing defects that result in poorly manufactured hardware. For example, all of my twenty or so personally owned routers would have needed to have been thrown away and replaced when "Heartbleed" was uncovered, and again when "Shellshock" was uncovered, except that they were all running open software for which fixes were provided by the open source community. If I had to rely on the kindness of profit-seeking router manufacturers, they'd all be in the garbage bin, so that I could "shell-out" for new routers. Others have written that millions of devices will never be fixed because of effectively abandoned support of these devices: http://www.technologyreview.co... ..or have exposed long-standing vulnerabilties left unfixed: https://www.mocana.com/blog/20...
This one-week downtime is unfortunate, because the news may be forgotten by this community by the time the FCC restores the ability to provide comments online. Someone needs to ping slashdot back in a week when the FCC restores service, or else this ill-considered proposal may become part of established regulation.
The comment period is actually open until sometime in October, but promptly entering your comments is more likely to be effective (call now before you forget). The FCC has responded to mass commenting before on the net neutrality issue - it's time to do it again before the FCC lays us all open to having wireless devices with massive security failures that we can't fix ourselves.
I attended the presentation for this chip, and as multiple audience questioners pointed out, this design hasn't been carefully designed to be clear of patents. As a university project, it's not likely to be an issue, but cribbing from a recent GPU design is not a promising way to get a patent-clear open-source hardware design. It's also not complete, as it's missing graphics-specific functions, such as texture-mapping, and the FPGA implementation had a single processing pipeline. By taking the same instruction set, they made it easier to test and operate their design using AMD's tools. All that being said, it's an impressive start for a small university group, and by enabling operation with instrumentation hooks for measuring dynamic operations, may become useful as benchmarking and measurement tool for GPGPU programs. Just don't expect this to displace commercial designs RealSoonNow.