Yup, I switched to the "Lite" versions of Skype/Facebook/Messenger because they were designed for 2G networks in BRICS coutries. (Thus they phone back less to the mothership. And subsequently wake up less often).
And as for the jailing : webos powered Pre phones did attempt a bit the jailing idea. Given that modern kernels have even better isolation features (containers like LXC and Systemd nspan), that should be even easier. (Having each container's network connected to different types of bridges, some of them disabled when you leave for the weekend and don't want our battery to die).
So... Does this mean that we can make Pluto a planet again? I'm pretty sure that if you asked the majority of the public, their world view would be that it is.
And, right the next day after your comment, comes this/. story about making pluto a planet again.
Awww, did someone call you a faggot? He's a meanie!
There's solid data showing that suicide rate is higher among bi- and homo- sexual youth (teens and young adult) than among their heterosexual peers. This is believed to be strongly linked to the difficulty of feeling accepted. The more a young individual with an unorthodox sexuality and/or gender identity feels rejected by the surrounding society, the higher the risks of suicide.
Check again the summary, it was not a young internet shouting homophobic slurs at a senior officer, it was the other way around. By keeping a climate were "being [homophobic slur]" is considered as a bad thing, that senior officer is actively contributing in a small part in the lack of self acceptance and higher suicide rates among non-heterosexual young people.
It's not about being ridiculously excessively nice to people so they feel special snowflake. It's avoid to keep a general situation were young persons feel so much rejected by the society that suicide seems a better alternative.
For those of us who would be happy using less bandwidth stateside,
What part of "also uses India's controversial Aadhaar biometric authentication" did you not understand?
And you, what part of stateside didn't you understand ? US citizen (and in my case european) aren't very likely to have their biometrics database in an Indian government database. Users can still log-in using normal Microsoft credentials (as far as I know) and completely ignore that microsoft offers to Indian the possibility to log using biometrics they stored into a database that leaks private informations all over the place.
With the additional peculiarity that here, "www.knownquestionablesite.com" will spit a valid page with suggestions, no matter what you throw as a name afterward (even if "big.name.move.html" isn't in their database, it would still give a list of not necessarily related download links).
So they are not exactly issuing DMCA about links that don't even exist (these URLs do not return 404s), only DMCA about links that are not in google database (random links that elict a random answer from the website).
The claim is borderline bogus because, as mentioned, the website return random non related download suggestions. So the website is not necessarily infringing on the DMCA submitter's IP. On the other hand, as the result page is random, Google can't prove that the submitter didn't get their IP showing by random chance on the result page on the precise occurence when they tested the URLs about which they decided to file the complain.
So currently Google is deciding to accept the submissions. But that could easily get changed in the future.
not all humans are capable of staying focused on the ride while not involved in it
Hence some strategies of asking to keep the hands ready on the wheel (and other similar micro-involvements)
(And there is experience, coming from the world of train automation, that suggest that this works (a bit). e.g.: TGV train operators are required by the system to periodically hold the thrust control wheel)
Also in my personal experience, you still remain involved in the driving : - even if the adaptive cruise control is taking care of keeping distance with the car in front, you need to periodically adjust target speed depending on the limitations of the local part of the highway. And in a city settings you still need to react to traffic lights, stop signs, yield, etc. - even if your car has a lane keeping system, you still need to initiate overtakes (even Tesla's Autopilot 's lane change isn't good enough to be done without supervision. The car's sonars have a very short range and might miss a car coming fast from far away in the target line) and over all handle the whole highway entry/exists, and city crossing.
and what is the point of that anyway?
the same as having a friend in the passenger seat also watching the road : additional checks.
Machine are never distracted : the LIDAR, cams and radar are always on, their input constantly processed. The car's computer will never lose focus. Computer excel at boring repetitive tasks. The car will always be ready to execute an emergency braking if there's a risk of collision.
So, compared to just a lone diver steering the car, an autopilot ("Level 2" in official parlance) in addition to the human watching is always better (redundancy against possible accident), even better if driver AND passenger watch the road in addition to the AI.
There was a time people believed combustion was "phlogiston" exiting the material;
Which isn't entirely wrong. It's just the same usual equations but with an arbitrary minus sign in front of the oxygen.
(Just as you could mathematically describe orbits with a complex bunch of circles, but using ellipses makes it way much simpler for everyone).
blood was generated and consumed in the body (not circulated);
(medieval dark-age medecine hardly qualifies as a science. more of a superstition. christian middle-age somewhat focused on a very small subset of the knowledge (mainly Aristotle) available in antiquity that happen to play nicer with their religious believes.)
(Real notion of blood circulation can already be found in many other greek scientist and as far back as egyptian antiquity. Middle age just settled on Aristotle body humors for an arbitrary reason)
the Sun revolved around the Earth;
and then Einstein came and declared that everything is relative and it's only a matter of referential. (You can pretty much put whatever you want in "your center", all relativist equation remain valid).
All of these ideas were eventually discarded through a process that was not incremental, but revolutionary.
and which yet still build-up on several other smaller past discoveries to arrive at the big conclusion:
mice could be "created" by leaving some food and rags alone in a bucket in a barn for a few days, while fly maggots were "generated" in meat.
the disproving of which requires both preliminary advances in chemistry (e.g.: Le Chatelier - matter can't just pop up into existence) and general understanding of evolution (e.g.: Darwin - mice must come from other mices or at least ancestrors close to modern mices) and in turn has interesting implication in germ theory (Pasteur - bacteria can't just pop into existence, exactly as mice can't neither) and for medecin (Koch and the identification of agents causing diseases).
Around Maxwell`s days it was believed aether was needed for the propagation of electromagnetic waves
And yet Maxell didn't competely invent electro magnetism out of the blue. (again, e.g.: Volta for a much older contributor) Even the word Electrictiy come from old Greek "electron" =amber, i.e.: the thing that you need to rub with cloth to generate static electricity. And in turn his models were perfected by Einstein, and then further into quantum physics (Heisenberg and co).
and the age of the Earth was under estimated because the radio active processes preventing a more rapid cooling down were unknown.
yet, some geologists did came to differing conclusion due to plate tectonics. And you needed the advance by the Curies couple to then be able to advance calculation of the Earth thermal cooling. And isotope dating too.
Yup. Some steps are wider than others, but they still built upon all the knowledge that was accumulated up to this point and start as far back as when the first monkey-man lifted up his nose and started wondering about the stars in the sky instead of just thinking about where to get the next fruit.
It's not a terribly difficult problem to get to work 99.5% of the time, but with lives at risk most people aren't too happy with that number.
Depends.
If the system works even 90% of time and there's a human backup that is alert and focused, then it's good already.
(like autopilots found in airplanes, boats, some modern high-speed train. Autopilots help automating some minute detail of the driving/sailing/flying. But autopilots are still under the supervision of a human in charge. It just relieves the human of part of the stupid hard gruntwork.
That's also were Tesla's autopilot and Google's prototypes on highway fell in).
If the system works even 99.9% of time, and the human is asleep, that's an entirely different can of worm. You need well established public awareness that the autonomous driver is better and cause far less accidents than the humans.
(The small scale slow driving google cars with no steering wheel fall in this category).
Cue in citation about standing on giants' shoulders by Sir Isaac Newton.
Yup in reality - unlike what TV show and glamour media want you to think - there isn't such a thing as a "revolution" and "geniuses" in science. Science is mainly an iterative process that build upon what was known and possible up to now and pushes the boundary a little bit further on each step. It's not powered by "geniuses", but by brilliant humans that are able to notice what is available to them and how to combine these things to push the above mentioned boundaries.
That means that you can't trace back the "smartphone" as a single revolution started by one single person. Countless scientists have each added their small brick to the Great Wall.
(e.g.: We could also add Volta : all current gizmo are electricity powered).
The flip side of this is that geeks and nerds tend to never be amazed by new technology. We tend to realise that the latest over hyped and marketing pushed "revolution", is basically an evolution of what we've done in the past decade, only a tiny bit better. (Nope, Apple's iPhone didn't start the smartphone. Only the mass-marketed smartphone craze. Idea of portable computers have been in the wild for quite some time with companies producing PDAs like Palm, Apple's own Newton, Psion, etc.)
The *yawn* reaction that you get from/. isn't merely condescending. It's just that we are better aware on which giant's shoulder the latest craze is standing.
Sadly, it's exactly the kind of real-world bribery nightmare that your company had endured that brings credibility to the various "I'm jail over seas and I need your help" scams/identity theft that often flourish on the social media.
1. Europe. 2. Asia. 3 Africa. 4 Australia. 5 North America 6. South America 7 Antarctica.
8 New Zealand?
In the common every day usage, yes. (Although most people skip Antartica).
The thing is, when you look into details and apply scientific definition (plate tectonics), lots of things shift aroudn : Europe and asia are part of the same eurasia plate. India is its own separate plate (and himalaya is the bump caused by both plates colliding) California is actually on the same pacific plate as hawaii, not on the nothern american plate as the rest of the continental USA (hance the san andreas fault) etc.
I learned in school, 40 years ago, a continent is a big plate floating on the earth magma. That is actually a pretty strict definition. Plates are called "continental shelf", mere islands like Hawaii or Japan are not on a continental shelf.
No idea why the english/american wikipedia article disagrees, I guess because it is written by hobbyists?
The problem with this definition is that California would be on a different continent than the rest of the continental USA. (The San Andreas fault separates the north american plate from the pacific plate) So I suppose that's why everyday american-english wants to use different continent classifications than official scientific ?
And similarily. India is its own separate plate from the rest of eurasia. Also, traditionally europe and asia have been considered different continents, although they are on the same eurasian plate.
All in all, people have get used to some world view (list of continent), and it's hard to ask them to change as more details emerge and the scientific view shifts a bit.
(see: reptile and birds and mammals in the common use : turtles and lizards are reptiles, the rest are not. from an evolutionnary and classification point of view: if you include both turtles and lizards the thing you call "reptile" is such a big chunk of the tree, that birds and mammals appear actually inside of it as sub-branches)
Meanwhile, there are tons of car-sharing programs in Europe (book a car online, find the car, open with your RFID card or app, ride it, return it... think "car rental" except by the hours instead of the day, and entirely between you, the car and an online webapp, without ever needing to speak to an actual human)
Not a single human interaction needed along the line.
Really interesting, I have a few questions - When you say find it, you mean that it's located some where at random, or there is a garage or some similar place.
Several different system exists. Exemple:
- Mobility (CH) and DB Carsharing (DE) The car are normally waiting for you at their respective station. (There are lots of them. At least at each train station. In big cities you can find a station in lots of big underground city parking). You take the car for this station, and at the end of your micro-rental, put it back at the same station. (A little bit more stringent than what you've used with bicycles : you need to return it to its corresponding station). Though there exist pilot projects to allow you to commute between stations, typically along some frequented path where every single individual only goes one way (e.g.: one way trips between the city and the airport).
Given that there are all-electric drive cars in the fleets of some companies (Mobility do have a few Renault Zoe in their fleet, Electriceasy has a 100% electric fleet, mostly Citroen C-Zero) you definitely need to return the car in a specific station that has a corresponding high-speed charger (battery full within 30min, so by the time the next renter comes, the car is good to go).
- Catch-a-car (CH): Completely random. Within a region where that service is available (usually a dense city), you pick cars whenever you find them and leave them wherever you want (as long as they are correctly parked, and within the geographic region - a.k.a. the above mentionned city). It's even more freedom than your typically bicycle sharing service (it's closer to how anonymous bicycle might be informally handled on big campuses:-P )
- Auto'lib (FR) I don't remember clearly, I think the friends mentioned that you can roam between stations... (like the Mobility pilot project).
Are the keys in it?
Usually: yes. The first time to unlock and unblock the car (the same kind of blocking normally used by the car's alarm system on privately owned car), you open the car using a RFID card. Then you use the keys (usually waiting for you in the glove box or some other similar place) for the remainder of your rental. At the end of the rental, you leave the key in their stash, and re-lock/re-block the car using the RFID card.
The exception: some modern car (e.g.: the electric Renault Zoe) don't have keys at all, but exclusively use a wireless fob. On these car, the rental computer is connected to the wireless fob system, and you always use the RFID.
Is there limitations on drive length?
On the complete random system: Nope. Drive for as long as wish. As soon you take a car, the car is marked *unavailable* in the system. Once you finish and re-lock it with the RFID or the App, the car is marked again as *available for rental* in the system. Using the App, you can *pre-book* a car : Say you don't stumble upon a car in your street. You fire up the app, find that there's a car 2 blocks aways. You can book it from the app and the car will be reserved for you and unavailable to other in the system, as if you've already taken it - rental timer starts ticking right away, so you're also paying as if you've already taken it.
On "Catch-a-car", you pay by the minute, with 2 different prices depending if you're driving the car, or if the car is waiting for you parked somewhere (i.e.: you prebooked it, or you haven't returned it *available for rental* again).
The thing is, the hostage is the only bargaining chip that the criminal has. They won't automatically shoot the hostage at the slightest police apparition, that would be them losing they only hope for a way out. They would rather *threat* to shoot, and try to see what they can leverage to try to save their asses. But once the hostage is dead, they'd lose all mean for negociations.
So the most likely way the situation unfolds would be : *bang* *bang* *bang* "This is the police. Open the door, we have a warrant" *keeps door closed* "Stay out of here! I have a hostage! If you entire I'll kill them! And find me a helicopter and enough fuel to Cuba, or I start to chop fingers!" *police calls in reinforcement, negociators, etc. and tries to find a way out that minimizes losses*
As opposed to the SWAT approaches: *over armed and under trained police* [Storms in] [all starting shooting everywhere] [high risk that the hostages get harmed during the mess]
ECC Memory isn't the only added cost, you also need a motherboard and processor that supports it.
For your information, ever since AMD's Athlon 64, most x86 compatible hardware has had its Northbridge *inside the processor package*.
That means that the memory controller is inside the package of your CPU. The mother board is basically only traces that connect your CPU and the memory slots directly. A glorified cable/connector. (In practice, there is a bit more, regarding powering the RAM slots, etc. but you got the general idea : not much smarts in the motherboard between RAM and CPU. Smarts is in the "Southbridge" : between the CPU and peripherals)
On the AMD side of things, nearly every CPU has ECC capability in its build-in memory controller. For a motherboard to support ECC, it basically means just having a few instruction to activate it in the EFI/BIOS.
On the Intel side of things, it's marketed as an enterprise feature, so it's only available on the more expensive business/workstation hardware.
The kernel is Linux, most of the rest of a "Linux system" is GNU.
Not necessarily. On one of the few desktop systems running Linux mentionned in the summary : yes, the rest will be GNU. On most of the clusters, webservers, etc. : Yes, again, the rest will be GNU
BUT
On smartphone, with a few corner case exception (Sailfish OS, Tizen and other Maemo/Meego/Mer based OSes ; Ubuntu Touch ; in the past also HP/Palm WebOS ; etc.) everything will run a Linux kernel, but coupled with the Android user space (uses Google's own Bionic as a C library, and then runs their own "I can't believe it's not Java(tm)" userspace in place of the usual user-space daemon and tools that you'll find on a regular GNU-Linux platform). This even required Jolla, the maker of Sailfish OS, to develop "libhybris", so that critical drivers and firmware for smartphone normally designed for the Android userspace could actually be used on a classical GNU-Linux OS stack.
On embed platforms (e.g.: the dozen of wifi routers with which your smartphone has interacted since you woke up this morning), you'll also find a Linux kernel, but it's going to use an alternative user-space, usually something with a much smaller ressource footprint. (busybox, instead of GNU tools ; dropbear instead of SSH, etc.) though those userspace tools are designed to be as close to and as compatible with the usual "GNU" as possible within the resource limitations of the embed platform.
So yes, there's a difference between the Linux kernel and a whole Linux machine : - GNU Linux - Android/Linux - Busybox/Linux 3 different popular combo of userspace and linux kernel.
(And also since recently, Microsoft has gifted us with a sort of GNU/WindowsNT with their "WSL")
Meanwhile, there are tons of car-sharing programs in Europe (book a car online, find the car, open with your RFID card or app, ride it, return it... think "car rental" except by the hours instead of the day, and entirely between you, the car and an online webapp, without ever needing to speak to an actual human)
Not a single human interaction needed along the line. Yet, there are still no endemic problems of people taking dumps into the cars.
I have used such system in Switzerland (Mobility, Catch-a-Car, ElectricEasy,...), Germany (DB-Carsharing). I've had friends use such systems in France (Autolib'). Again, these are systems that already exist in the wild *right now* (and have existed for the past decade) where one can enter a car, without ever needing to interract with a human. None of us has ever found one of those "shit-filled" cars that haunts the nightmares of/. readers whenever such a thing (a car that can be accessed without another human watching) gets mentioned.
The only subtle difference is that these cars are non-autonomous, which require : - the driver / "renter" to have a valid driving license. - said driver to not be completely drunk to avoid losing the above mentioned license and/or causing accidents.
So maybe *autonomous* shared cars would see a slight increase of user who got extra charged for cleaning the car, because they puked into it. And users who need to pay for a *26-hours* long rental and/or overtime, because they passed out drunk and overslept in the car.
It's like holding up a sign that says "Totally nothing illegal here investigate the hell out of me!"
The Pirate Bay it self doesn't hold any copyrighted item. It just lists torrent hashes, and comments and metadata about the content associated with those hashes (again, the content isn't hosted there. Only the comments and the hashes). In several jurisdiction, that's not even considered illegal.
You're not using Tor to access illegal material (say non consensual porn, like child porn ; or to access a platform to buy banned goods like weapons and drugs) You're using tor to get around a blockade.
That's completely fine and that's what Tor was designed for (getting around blockade, as much anonymously as possible. E.g.: to circumvent censorship like China's great firewall).
The more people use tor for anything, the better the chance that tor will be considered normal traffic on the internet, instead of the tell-tale sign of a criminal sharing child abuse.
Honestly, I don't even use the radio in my car anymore. It's been ten years or more since I listened to the radio.
On the other side of the atlantic pond, radio in cars tends to be used a lot, specially for traffic information. Last time I listened to the car's radio has been lat time I drove it : the car automatically suspended the music we were listening to announce some traffic jams and incident on the highway. Most GPS (specially the in-car built-ins) are also able to leverage the digital information (TMC signal on the RDS on FM radios) to also display and take into account such traffic information.
So radio on portable devices can be useful for such traffic informations.
The only thing is, as far as I know, most smartphone with disabled radio chips only have *FM*-Radio (i.e.: plain old analog. Sometimes not even with support for digital metadata over RDS). Whereas lots of European regions are moving to DAB/DAB+ Radio (digital radio, transmitted as MP2 or AAC digital stream respectively), which is not directly supported on purely FM chips, and would be quite taxing on the battery life if attempting to decode on CPU in software (SDR - software defined radio).
given that The Pirate Bay has a.onion address that is still working no matter what, such kind of block could actually increase awareness of Tor and increase its usage.
(Which in turn is good for Tor : The more the traffic, and the more the relay nodes, the better).
My android phone has two "soft" buttons next to a physical home button, and I hate those little fuckers.
Other device did it better :
- more recent android device have no physical button or touch zone, just a bigger screen. It's either 3 clickable button displayed at the bottom of the screen. Or full screen, with the button appearing if you touch the screen (used for gaming and movie watching). They are handled by the same code that handles most UI button on the OS, so a little bit better handled than the "a fly could click on it" older softbutton you mention.
- before that, Palm/HP WebOS used to produced devices that started using gestures on the touch area under the screen. Harder to confuse a touch with a gesture, than a touch with a click.
- Sailfish OS (Meego/Maemo/Mer descendant, cousin of Tizen, full blown GNU/Linux under the hood) has completely abandoned system button. Applications always display full screen, and users use some type of swipes (starting for the screen's edge) to do commands that would require buttons on other phones. (Except when running android apps in the emulator that still require button. For those it goes to the software displayed soft button like android)
My preference goes for the later 2 (webOS and Sailfish)
Note that, neither Tesla's Autopilot, nor the countless other camera/lidar based solution sold by countless other manufacturer nowadays are self-driving.
At best, they are exactly what is called an Autopilot for planes and ships : some travelling is automated up to some level by the onboard electronic, but the vessel still must remain under the supervision of the plane's/ship's captain. (i.e.: the captain can't go take a nap. only the electronics is relieveing them from needing to mind the minute detail of piloting). Hence the logical name "autopilot" used by Tesla marketing. Though stupid people are stupid and somewhat mis-interpret what "autopilot" means.
At worst, they are simply collision avoidance technologies (the driver is in full charge of steering the vehicle, but the car is able to sound an alert and to an emergency braking to avoid a crash).
Self-driving is *still* limited to small scale experiments (google cars and similar technologies tested by startups)
With Musk the right question is never 'will it work?" but 'will it make any sense factoring in the costs?'
Well, at least it did made sense for several European cities that decided to have their highway bypass *underground*.
And that not counting the huge number of cities that have their public transportation underground.
So yeah, definitely worth a try.
Now will Elon manage to bring something new to the table (e.g.: similar to how SpaceX brought back the idea of reusable space vessels) ?
Or at least open a new market for some current technology? (e.g.: similar to how Tesla manage to introduce the north-american market - much more range-anxious than the densely populated areas (eu/japan) where electric cars where previously being deployed) (though elon Top-down instead of bottom-up approach was innovative : he went with big ranges from the beginning, while progressively building progressively cheaper (more affordable) normal-range cars (roadster -> Model S/X -> Model 3) whereas European constructor usually went for a range of normal vehicle (e.g.: the whole Zero-emission platform of Renault) with prograssively bigger batteries and better ranges (all companies ended-up meeting half-way at same price and mileage category than Model 3)
java applet sandboxing is (in theory) granted by the virtual environment provided by the JVM. In theory, all the applet could be running in the same process.
chromium's sandboxing is hardware segragation provided by the CPU hardware itself (memory protection, and similar bread and butter of multi-processoring) from the CPU 's perpesctive, each tab sandbox is an entirely different process.
and if you check the links of patent mentioned here around on this/. thread, this is exactly what is covered : using hardware multi-processing to isolate tasks. so the prior art isn't Java in 1995, but much older big iron mainframes of past era.
BUT, I suppose that, because the patent says "...but on a home computer/workstation" (in claim 1) suddenly all the prior art on mainframes and minicomps doesn't count. (Kind of like all the "...but on the internet !" business patents).
Case in point that the whole idea of software patent is completely b0rked. (Happy to live in a european country !)
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Yup,
I switched to the "Lite" versions of Skype/Facebook/Messenger because they were designed for 2G networks in BRICS coutries.
(Thus they phone back less to the mothership. And subsequently wake up less often).
And as for the jailing : webos powered Pre phones did attempt a bit the jailing idea.
Given that modern kernels have even better isolation features (containers like LXC and Systemd nspan), that should be even easier.
(Having each container's network connected to different types of bridges, some of them disabled when you leave for the weekend and don't want our battery to die).
So... Does this mean that we can make Pluto a planet again? I'm pretty sure that if you asked the majority of the public, their world view would be that it is.
And, right the next day after your comment, comes this /. story about making pluto a planet again.
Awww, did someone call you a faggot? He's a meanie!
There's solid data showing that suicide rate is higher among bi- and homo- sexual youth (teens and young adult) than among their heterosexual peers.
This is believed to be strongly linked to the difficulty of feeling accepted. The more a young individual with an unorthodox sexuality and/or gender identity feels rejected by the surrounding society, the higher the risks of suicide.
Check again the summary, it was not a young internet shouting homophobic slurs at a senior officer, it was the other way around.
By keeping a climate were "being [homophobic slur]" is considered as a bad thing, that senior officer is actively contributing in a small part in the lack of self acceptance and higher suicide rates among non-heterosexual young people.
It's not about being ridiculously excessively nice to people so they feel special snowflake.
It's avoid to keep a general situation were young persons feel so much rejected by the society that suicide seems a better alternative.
For those of us who would be happy using less bandwidth stateside,
What part of "also uses India's controversial Aadhaar biometric authentication" did you not understand?
And you, what part of stateside didn't you understand ?
US citizen (and in my case european) aren't very likely to have their biometrics database in an Indian government database.
Users can still log-in using normal Microsoft credentials (as far as I know) and completely ignore that microsoft offers to Indian the possibility to log using biometrics they stored into a database that leaks private informations all over the place.
Yup it's basically that.
With the additional peculiarity that here, "www.knownquestionablesite.com" will spit a valid page with suggestions, no matter what you throw as a name afterward (even if "big.name.move.html" isn't in their database, it would still give a list of not necessarily related download links).
So they are not exactly issuing DMCA about links that don't even exist (these URLs do not return 404s), only DMCA about links that are not in google database (random links that elict a random answer from the website).
The claim is borderline bogus because, as mentioned, the website return random non related download suggestions. So the website is not necessarily infringing on the DMCA submitter's IP. On the other hand, as the result page is random, Google can't prove that the submitter didn't get their IP showing by random chance on the result page on the precise occurence when they tested the URLs about which they decided to file the complain.
So currently Google is deciding to accept the submissions. But that could easily get changed in the future.
not all humans are capable of staying focused on the ride while not involved in it
Hence some strategies of asking to keep the hands ready on the wheel (and other similar micro-involvements)
(And there is experience, coming from the world of train automation, that suggest that this works (a bit).
e.g.: TGV train operators are required by the system to periodically hold the thrust control wheel)
Also in my personal experience, you still remain involved in the driving :
- even if the adaptive cruise control is taking care of keeping distance with the car in front, you need to periodically adjust target speed depending on the limitations of the local part of the highway. And in a city settings you still need to react to traffic lights, stop signs, yield, etc.
- even if your car has a lane keeping system, you still need to initiate overtakes (even Tesla's Autopilot 's lane change isn't good enough to be done without supervision. The car's sonars have a very short range and might miss a car coming fast from far away in the target line) and over all handle the whole highway entry/exists, and city crossing.
and what is the point of that anyway?
the same as having a friend in the passenger seat also watching the road :
additional checks.
Machine are never distracted : the LIDAR, cams and radar are always on, their input constantly processed. The car's computer will never lose focus.
Computer excel at boring repetitive tasks. The car will always be ready to execute an emergency braking if there's a risk of collision.
So, compared to just a lone diver steering the car, an autopilot ("Level 2" in official parlance) in addition to the human watching is always better (redundancy against possible accident), even better if driver AND passenger watch the road in addition to the AI.
Playing the devil's advocate
There was a time people believed combustion was "phlogiston" exiting the material;
Which isn't entirely wrong. It's just the same usual equations but with an arbitrary minus sign in front of the oxygen.
(Just as you could mathematically describe orbits with a complex bunch of circles, but using ellipses makes it way much simpler for everyone).
blood was generated and consumed in the body (not circulated);
(medieval dark-age medecine hardly qualifies as a science. more of a superstition.
christian middle-age somewhat focused on a very small subset of the knowledge (mainly Aristotle) available in antiquity that happen to play nicer with their religious believes.)
(Real notion of blood circulation can already be found in many other greek scientist and as far back as egyptian antiquity.
Middle age just settled on Aristotle body humors for an arbitrary reason)
the Sun revolved around the Earth;
and then Einstein came and declared that everything is relative and it's only a matter of referential.
(You can pretty much put whatever you want in "your center", all relativist equation remain valid).
All of these ideas were eventually discarded through a process that was not incremental, but revolutionary.
and which yet still build-up on several other smaller past discoveries to arrive at the big conclusion:
mice could be "created" by leaving some food and rags alone in a bucket in a barn for a few days, while fly maggots were "generated" in meat.
the disproving of which requires both preliminary advances in chemistry (e.g.: Le Chatelier - matter can't just pop up into existence) and general understanding of evolution (e.g.: Darwin - mice must come from other mices or at least ancestrors close to modern mices) and in turn has interesting implication in germ theory (Pasteur - bacteria can't just pop into existence, exactly as mice can't neither) and for medecin (Koch and the identification of agents causing diseases).
Around Maxwell`s days it was believed aether was needed for the propagation of electromagnetic waves
And yet Maxell didn't competely invent electro magnetism out of the blue. (again, e.g.: Volta for a much older contributor) Even the word Electrictiy come from old Greek "electron" =amber, i.e.: the thing that you need to rub with cloth to generate static electricity.
And in turn his models were perfected by Einstein, and then further into quantum physics (Heisenberg and co).
and the age of the Earth was under estimated because the radio active processes preventing a more rapid cooling down were unknown.
yet, some geologists did came to differing conclusion due to plate tectonics.
And you needed the advance by the Curies couple to then be able to advance calculation of the Earth thermal cooling. And isotope dating too.
Yup. Some steps are wider than others, but they still built upon all the knowledge that was accumulated up to this point and start as far back as when the first monkey-man lifted up his nose and started wondering about the stars in the sky instead of just thinking about where to get the next fruit.
It's not a terribly difficult problem to get to work 99.5% of the time, but with lives at risk most people aren't too happy with that number.
Depends.
If the system works even 90% of time and there's a human backup that is alert and focused, then it's good already.
(like autopilots found in airplanes, boats, some modern high-speed train.
Autopilots help automating some minute detail of the driving/sailing/flying.
But autopilots are still under the supervision of a human in charge.
It just relieves the human of part of the stupid hard gruntwork.
That's also were Tesla's autopilot and Google's prototypes on highway fell in).
If the system works even 99.9% of time, and the human is asleep, that's an entirely different can of worm.
You need well established public awareness that the autonomous driver is better and cause far less accidents than the humans.
(The small scale slow driving google cars with no steering wheel fall in this category).
Cue in citation about standing on giants' shoulders by Sir Isaac Newton.
Yup in reality - unlike what TV show and glamour media want you to think - there isn't such a thing as a "revolution" and "geniuses" in science.
Science is mainly an iterative process that build upon what was known and possible up to now and pushes the boundary a little bit further on each step.
It's not powered by "geniuses", but by brilliant humans that are able to notice what is available to them and how to combine these things to push the above mentioned boundaries.
That means that you can't trace back the "smartphone" as a single revolution started by one single person.
Countless scientists have each added their small brick to the Great Wall.
(e.g.: We could also add Volta : all current gizmo are electricity powered).
The flip side of this is that geeks and nerds tend to never be amazed by new technology.
We tend to realise that the latest over hyped and marketing pushed "revolution", is basically an evolution of what we've done in the past decade, only a tiny bit better.
(Nope, Apple's iPhone didn't start the smartphone. Only the mass-marketed smartphone craze. Idea of portable computers have been in the wild for quite some time with companies producing PDAs like Palm, Apple's own Newton, Psion, etc.)
The *yawn* reaction that you get from /. isn't merely condescending. It's just that we are better aware on which giant's shoulder the latest craze is standing.
Sadly, it's exactly the kind of real-world bribery nightmare that your company had endured that brings credibility to the various "I'm jail over seas and I need your help" scams/identity theft that often flourish on the social media.
1. Europe. 2. Asia. 3 Africa. 4 Australia. 5 North America 6. South America 7 Antarctica.
8 New Zealand?
In the common every day usage, yes. (Although most people skip Antartica).
The thing is, when you look into details and apply scientific definition (plate tectonics), lots of things shift aroudn :
Europe and asia are part of the same eurasia plate.
India is its own separate plate (and himalaya is the bump caused by both plates colliding)
California is actually on the same pacific plate as hawaii, not on the nothern american plate as the rest of the continental USA (hance the san andreas fault)
etc.
I learned in school, 40 years ago, a continent is a big plate floating on the earth magma. That is actually a pretty strict definition. Plates are called "continental shelf", mere islands like Hawaii or Japan are not on a continental shelf.
No idea why the english/american wikipedia article disagrees, I guess because it is written by hobbyists?
The problem with this definition is that California would be on a different continent than the rest of the continental USA.
(The San Andreas fault separates the north american plate from the pacific plate)
So I suppose that's why everyday american-english wants to use different continent classifications than official scientific ?
And similarily. India is its own separate plate from the rest of eurasia. Also, traditionally europe and asia have been considered different continents, although they are on the same eurasian plate.
All in all, people have get used to some world view (list of continent), and it's hard to ask them to change as more details emerge and the scientific view shifts a bit.
(see: reptile and birds and mammals
in the common use : turtles and lizards are reptiles, the rest are not.
from an evolutionnary and classification point of view: if you include both turtles and lizards the thing you call "reptile" is such a big chunk of the tree, that birds and mammals appear actually inside of it as sub-branches)
Meanwhile, there are tons of car-sharing programs in Europe
(book a car online, find the car, open with your RFID card or app, ride it, return it...
think "car rental" except by the hours instead of the day, and entirely between you, the car and an online webapp, without ever needing to speak to an actual human)
Not a single human interaction needed along the line.
Really interesting, I have a few questions - When you say find it, you mean that it's located some where at random, or there is a garage or some similar place.
Several different system exists. :
Exemple
- Mobility (CH) and DB Carsharing (DE)
The car are normally waiting for you at their respective station. (There are lots of them. At least at each train station. In big cities you can find a station in lots of big underground city parking). You take the car for this station, and at the end of your micro-rental, put it back at the same station.
(A little bit more stringent than what you've used with bicycles : you need to return it to its corresponding station).
Though there exist pilot projects to allow you to commute between stations, typically along some frequented path where every single individual only goes one way (e.g.: one way trips between the city and the airport).
Given that there are all-electric drive cars in the fleets of some companies (Mobility do have a few Renault Zoe in their fleet, Electriceasy has a 100% electric fleet, mostly Citroen C-Zero) you definitely need to return the car in a specific station that has a corresponding high-speed charger (battery full within 30min, so by the time the next renter comes, the car is good to go).
- Catch-a-car (CH) : :-P )
Completely random. Within a region where that service is available (usually a dense city), you pick cars whenever you find them and leave them wherever you want (as long as they are correctly parked, and within the geographic region - a.k.a. the above mentionned city).
It's even more freedom than your typically bicycle sharing service (it's closer to how anonymous bicycle might be informally handled on big campuses
- Auto'lib (FR)
I don't remember clearly, I think the friends mentioned that you can roam between stations... (like the Mobility pilot project).
Are the keys in it?
Usually: yes.
The first time to unlock and unblock the car (the same kind of blocking normally used by the car's alarm system on privately owned car), you open the car using a RFID card. Then you use the keys (usually waiting for you in the glove box or some other similar place) for the remainder of your rental.
At the end of the rental, you leave the key in their stash, and re-lock/re-block the car using the RFID card.
The exception: some modern car (e.g.: the electric Renault Zoe) don't have keys at all, but exclusively use a wireless fob.
On these car, the rental computer is connected to the wireless fob system, and you always use the RFID.
Is there limitations on drive length?
On the complete random system :
Nope. Drive for as long as wish.
As soon you take a car, the car is marked *unavailable* in the system.
Once you finish and re-lock it with the RFID or the App, the car is marked again as *available for rental* in the system.
Using the App, you can *pre-book* a car : Say you don't stumble upon a car in your street. You fire up the app, find that there's a car 2 blocks aways. You can book it from the app and the car will be reserved for you and unavailable to other in the system, as if you've already taken it - rental timer starts ticking right away, so you're also paying as if you've already taken it.
On "Catch-a-car", you pay by the minute, with 2 different prices depending if you're driving the car, or if the car is waiting for you parked somewhere (i.e.: you prebooked it, or you haven't returned it *available for rental* again).
On the systems
The thing is, the hostage is the only bargaining chip that the criminal has.
They won't automatically shoot the hostage at the slightest police apparition, that would be them losing they only hope for a way out.
They would rather *threat* to shoot, and try to see what they can leverage to try to save their asses.
But once the hostage is dead, they'd lose all mean for negociations.
So the most likely way the situation unfolds would be :
*bang* *bang* *bang* "This is the police. Open the door, we have a warrant"
*keeps door closed*
"Stay out of here! I have a hostage! If you entire I'll kill them! And find me a helicopter and enough fuel to Cuba, or I start to chop fingers!"
*police calls in reinforcement, negociators, etc. and tries to find a way out that minimizes losses*
As opposed to the SWAT approaches:
*over armed and under trained police* [Storms in]
[all starting shooting everywhere]
[high risk that the hostages get harmed during the mess]
ECC Memory isn't the only added cost, you also need a motherboard and processor that supports it.
For your information, ever since AMD's Athlon 64, most x86 compatible hardware has had its Northbridge *inside the processor package*.
That means that the memory controller is inside the package of your CPU.
The mother board is basically only traces that connect your CPU and the memory slots directly.
A glorified cable/connector.
(In practice, there is a bit more, regarding powering the RAM slots, etc. but you got the general idea : not much smarts in the motherboard between RAM and CPU.
Smarts is in the "Southbridge" : between the CPU and peripherals)
On the AMD side of things, nearly every CPU has ECC capability in its build-in memory controller.
For a motherboard to support ECC, it basically means just having a few instruction to activate it in the EFI/BIOS.
On the Intel side of things, it's marketed as an enterprise feature, so it's only available on the more expensive business/workstation hardware.
The kernel is Linux, most of the rest of a "Linux system" is GNU.
Not necessarily.
On one of the few desktop systems running Linux mentionned in the summary : yes, the rest will be GNU.
On most of the clusters, webservers, etc. : Yes, again, the rest will be GNU
BUT
On smartphone, with a few corner case exception (Sailfish OS, Tizen and other Maemo/Meego/Mer based OSes ; Ubuntu Touch ; in the past also HP/Palm WebOS ; etc.) everything will run a Linux kernel, but coupled with the Android user space (uses Google's own Bionic as a C library, and then runs their own "I can't believe it's not Java(tm)" userspace in place of the usual user-space daemon and tools that you'll find on a regular GNU-Linux platform).
This even required Jolla, the maker of Sailfish OS, to develop "libhybris", so that critical drivers and firmware for smartphone normally designed for the Android userspace could actually be used on a classical GNU-Linux OS stack.
On embed platforms (e.g.: the dozen of wifi routers with which your smartphone has interacted since you woke up this morning), you'll also find a Linux kernel, but it's going to use an alternative user-space, usually something with a much smaller ressource footprint.
(busybox, instead of GNU tools ; dropbear instead of SSH, etc.)
though those userspace tools are designed to be as close to and as compatible with the usual "GNU" as possible within the resource limitations of the embed platform.
So yes, there's a difference between the Linux kernel and a whole Linux machine :
- GNU Linux
- Android/Linux
- Busybox/Linux
3 different popular combo of userspace and linux kernel.
(And also since recently, Microsoft has gifted us with a sort of GNU/WindowsNT with their "WSL")
Meanwhile, there are tons of car-sharing programs in Europe
(book a car online, find the car, open with your RFID card or app, ride it, return it...
think "car rental" except by the hours instead of the day, and entirely between you, the car and an online webapp, without ever needing to speak to an actual human)
Not a single human interaction needed along the line.
Yet, there are still no endemic problems of people taking dumps into the cars.
I have used such system in Switzerland (Mobility, Catch-a-Car, ElectricEasy, ...), Germany (DB-Carsharing). /. readers whenever such a thing (a car that can be accessed without another human watching) gets mentioned.
I've had friends use such systems in France (Autolib').
Again, these are systems that already exist in the wild *right now* (and have existed for the past decade) where one can enter a car, without ever needing to interract with a human.
None of us has ever found one of those "shit-filled" cars that haunts the nightmares of
The only subtle difference is that these cars are non-autonomous, which require :
- the driver / "renter" to have a valid driving license.
- said driver to not be completely drunk to avoid losing the above mentioned license and/or causing accidents.
So maybe *autonomous* shared cars would see a slight increase of user who got extra charged for cleaning the car, because they puked into it.
And users who need to pay for a *26-hours* long rental and/or overtime, because they passed out drunk and overslept in the car.
It's like holding up a sign that says "Totally nothing illegal here investigate the hell out of me!"
The Pirate Bay it self doesn't hold any copyrighted item. It just lists torrent hashes, and comments and metadata about the content associated with those hashes
(again, the content isn't hosted there. Only the comments and the hashes).
In several jurisdiction, that's not even considered illegal.
You're not using Tor to access illegal material (say non consensual porn, like child porn ; or to access a platform to buy banned goods like weapons and drugs)
You're using tor to get around a blockade.
That's completely fine and that's what Tor was designed for (getting around blockade, as much anonymously as possible. E.g.: to circumvent censorship like China's great firewall).
The more people use tor for anything, the better the chance that tor will be considered normal traffic on the internet, instead of the tell-tale sign of a criminal sharing child abuse.
Meanwhile, The Pirate Bay has .onion address on TOR, and that one was still running during the whole situation.
(It can't technically be blocked that easily.)
Honestly, I don't even use the radio in my car anymore. It's been ten years or more since I listened to the radio.
On the other side of the atlantic pond, radio in cars tends to be used a lot, specially for traffic information.
Last time I listened to the car's radio has been lat time I drove it :
the car automatically suspended the music we were listening to announce some traffic jams and incident on the highway.
Most GPS (specially the in-car built-ins) are also able to leverage the digital information (TMC signal on the RDS on FM radios) to also display and take into account such traffic information.
So radio on portable devices can be useful for such traffic informations.
The only thing is, as far as I know, most smartphone with disabled radio chips only have *FM*-Radio (i.e.: plain old analog. Sometimes not even with support for digital metadata over RDS).
Whereas lots of European regions are moving to DAB/DAB+ Radio (digital radio, transmitted as MP2 or AAC digital stream respectively), which is not directly supported on purely FM chips, and would be quite taxing on the battery life if attempting to decode on CPU in software (SDR - software defined radio).
given that The Pirate Bay has a .onion address that is still working no matter what,
such kind of block could actually increase awareness of Tor and increase its usage.
(Which in turn is good for Tor : The more the traffic, and the more the relay nodes, the better).
My android phone has two "soft" buttons next to a physical home button, and I hate those little fuckers.
Other device did it better :
- more recent android device have no physical button or touch zone, just a bigger screen. It's either 3 clickable button displayed at the bottom of the screen.
Or full screen, with the button appearing if you touch the screen (used for gaming and movie watching). They are handled by the same code that handles most UI button on the OS, so a little bit better handled than the "a fly could click on it" older softbutton you mention.
- before that, Palm/HP WebOS used to produced devices that started using gestures on the touch area under the screen.
Harder to confuse a touch with a gesture, than a touch with a click.
- Sailfish OS (Meego/Maemo/Mer descendant, cousin of Tizen, full blown GNU/Linux under the hood) has completely abandoned system button. Applications always display full screen, and users use some type of swipes (starting for the screen's edge) to do commands that would require buttons on other phones.
(Except when running android apps in the emulator that still require button. For those it goes to the software displayed soft button like android)
My preference goes for the later 2 (webOS and Sailfish)
Note that, neither Tesla's Autopilot, nor the countless other camera/lidar based solution sold by countless other manufacturer nowadays are self-driving.
At best, they are exactly what is called an Autopilot for planes and ships : some travelling is automated up to some level by the onboard electronic, but the vessel still must remain under the supervision of the plane's/ship's captain. (i.e.: the captain can't go take a nap. only the electronics is relieveing them from needing to mind the minute detail of piloting).
Hence the logical name "autopilot" used by Tesla marketing. Though stupid people are stupid and somewhat mis-interpret what "autopilot" means.
At worst, they are simply collision avoidance technologies (the driver is in full charge of steering the vehicle, but the car is able to sound an alert and to an emergency braking to avoid a crash).
Self-driving is *still* limited to small scale experiments (google cars and similar technologies tested by startups)
With Musk the right question is never 'will it work?" but 'will it make any sense factoring in the costs?'
Well, at least it did made sense for several European cities that decided to have their highway bypass *underground*.
And that not counting the huge number of cities that have their public transportation underground.
So yeah, definitely worth a try.
Now will Elon manage to bring something new to the table (e.g.: similar to how SpaceX brought back the idea of reusable space vessels) ?
Or at least open a new market for some current technology?
(e.g.: similar to how Tesla manage to introduce the north-american market - much more range-anxious than the densely populated areas (eu/japan) where electric cars where previously being deployed) (though elon Top-down instead of bottom-up approach was innovative : he went with big ranges from the beginning, while progressively building progressively cheaper (more affordable) normal-range cars (roadster -> Model S/X -> Model 3) whereas European constructor usually went for a range of normal vehicle (e.g.: the whole Zero-emission platform of Renault) with prograssively bigger batteries and better ranges (all companies ended-up meeting half-way at same price and mileage category than Model 3)
Or will it be a giant "meh?"
who knows ? nobody until he tries.
java applet sandboxing is (in theory) granted by the virtual environment provided by the JVM.
In theory, all the applet could be running in the same process.
chromium's sandboxing is hardware segragation provided by the CPU hardware itself (memory protection, and similar bread and butter of multi-processoring)
from the CPU 's perpesctive, each tab sandbox is an entirely different process.
and if you check the links of patent mentioned here around on this /. thread, this is exactly what is covered : using hardware multi-processing to isolate tasks.
so the prior art isn't Java in 1995, but much older big iron mainframes of past era.
BUT, I suppose that, because the patent says "...but on a home computer/workstation" (in claim 1) suddenly all the prior art on mainframes and minicomps doesn't count.
(Kind of like all the "...but on the internet !" business patents).
Case in point that the whole idea of software patent is completely b0rked.
(Happy to live in a european country !)