why not? while it is cool I can think of a lot of why not's for this particular device. e.g. walking off with someones mouse is far too easy, a mouse is a constantly moving item that gets knocked, sits next to your can of coke or cup of hot coffee, it becomes awkward for usb and peripheral connections and would need to be farely low powered otherwise the heat of the device plus the warm hand is going to make a rather uncomfortable device. personally I go for small PC's that I can attach to the back of the monitor, but the form factor options available now make it very interesting. I really like the small devices and I have everything from raspberry Pi's, NUC's and some Lenovo tiny PC's (definitely form factors for different performance needs). Be interested to see what else people come up with for device ideas.
you would be amazed at what people will make formal complaints about. I shit you not we had people submit formal complaints to our organisation over some error messages where we used a few names from greek mythology as they considered it blasphemous that we were using religious icons that did not represent their beliefs. We also received complaints about error number 666 and various other items. Their are so many retards in this world just looking for a reason to feel victimised or insulted, I am surprised some of them have time for anything else in their lives.
This sounds bogus to me, everything from windows to most forums, ISP's and Telco's that I am aware of won't let you use such simple passwords. The only place I know that I could use 123456 or password for me is on one of my work smart cards (I have 3 but only one is so weak on security).
You are more likely to be accidently or intentionally shot in the US than be a victim of a terrorist. over 10,000 people are shot each year in the US. you are hundreds if not thousands of times more likely to be killed in a car accident. you are more likely to win the lotto. Yet you would happily trade your freedom to prevent that 1 in a couple of hundred million chance of dying? the gun lobby and cars are infinitely more dangerous to your young daughter
If a terrorist in this day and age is dumb enough to use open communication channels then he was likely going to get caught anyway. Seriously anyone that actually wants to secure their conversations can do so with very little effort in a manner that the government can never hope to decrypt and it would not require the support of Telco's or government approval or rely on any particular product. I am far more afraid of what the government would do with unfettered access to peoples information than I am of any terrorist.
really you think the first responders to armed sieges or those on rampages with guns should be a couple of cops if their is a SWAT available? you think it is best to get an extra couple of ill prepared people killed first to make sure the threat is real? A SWAT team is far better trained to correctly evaluate a threat than the average cop. Chances are if cops were being sent in first in these situations then we probably would have more fatalities.
Personally I don't believe their are a huge realm of possible punishments once you intentionally risk the lives of others. That is not a minor offense, If he is actually guilty he needs to be charged with attempted murder and receive the appropriate sentence to go with that.
calling emergency services with fake call outs puts peoples lives at risk. The XBL and PSN part was just a mean spirited low scumbag act, the rest is what he should be in Jail for.
No they are being called out for how slow they are, just like when we call out MS when they are slow on patches. It is even worse for google as they like to blow there own trumpet on how important security is to them.
we still don't understand the human brain. We also don't even know if an AI can ever reach a state where it can improve itself at an exponential rate, that is still most definitely in the realms of science fiction even more so than self aware AI itself.
That's why you buy multiple with hot and/or cold standby and you can afford to replace them much more regularly. 2 million provide multiple machines of that spec not one. good design and architecture allow for failures, if you plan for the hardware to fail this isn't a problem and can be a much cheaper approach. Not to mention Mainframes fail as well. we had 3 hardware failures that brought our mainframe down over the past 5 years.
most likely you already have accounts with places that have replaced mainframes and don't even know it, most don't like to publicise it due to bias and ignorance like yours. When we were looking at our mainframe replacement we spoke to banks, government departments and large insurance companies all over the world who had all made the transition but to discuss it every last one of them demanded NDA's, especially the banks. Partly it is they didn't want the competition to be aware of what they are doing, but mostly I think it is they didn't want their customers to know such major changes are happening on the backend as such changes scare people.
you would be amazed at how much stuff has been created to make porting easier, there are even emulators for JCL. Their are migration tools for VSAM too.
Part of the signup for Uber is that you have to have your own insurance. Even if Uber covers them It also becomes interesting how insurance will pay out in circumstances where the drivers are clearly in breach of driving laws, most insurances are not honored in such circumstances, maybe Uber somehow got their insurance to excuse unlicensed drivers. e.g. my AAMI policy states you are not covered if you are driving in breach of your license conditions.
and before you reply whinging about no reference to the insurance stuff. I use AAMI for my car insurance, however this particular line or something similar you will find in all private car insurance PDS in Australia under "What we do not cover" "Hire, fare, reward or courtesy car. your car being used for hire, fare or monetary reward" http://www.aami.com.au/sites/d...
In Australia a driver of ANY public transport needs to go to the local motor registry office. They have to have a police check done, they must pass medical requirements, they must also have a certain amount of driving experience (these rules differ slightly between states but are generally very similar), once you pass the basic requirements you can get your standard license upgraded to a commercial vehicle/public transport license. You also have two types of insurance. private car insurance and commercial car insurance. these are not requirements on Uber, they are requirements for driver/owner of the car. if you are operating your car in a commercial capacity then your private insurance is deemed invalid during that time as you are only covered for use as a private transport. here is the ACT commercial/hire car license application http://www.rego.act.gov.au/__d...
except in most cases they are insured and they are licensed. What's driving this shit is the large cab companies having a shit fit over the fact that this startup has 1/10 the number of cars in the area yet are doing 10x the business.
Problem for EVERYBODY is that the people who issue the licenses are the people who legislate and the people who prosecute. They all piss in the same pot, so if you get onside with the police, you're onside with the city council as well and they will lick your balls if you pay them enough in backhanders (AKA campaign contributions).
if you are operating a hire vehicle without a public transport/taxi/hire vehicle license then you actually aren't licensed or insured. Here in Canberra that license is issued by the local motor registry, cab companies and even local government have no say in who is issued one. If you do the police checks, don't have a criminal history, do the medicals and have the required experience and pay for the license anyone can get one, but if you haven't done that then you are unlicensed and uninsured if you are driving any sort of public transport.
uber drivers are not unlicensed. They have the same drivers license every other driver has. Really, that's all that's needed.
if they have the same license as everyone else then they are unlicensed. Most states and territories in Australia require a commercial or public transport license for operating a hire car, taxi or any other public transport which requires a lot more checks than a standard drivers license such as additional medical requirements, police checks and experience. My sister applied for one a few years ago and got rejected because of the drugs she was on after her chemotherapy.
I don't see how this could work. They need to confirm the driver's identity to issue the fine which they're not going to be able to do without confronting the driver at the time of the ride. Just knowing the vehicle's registration isn't enough.
Could be treated just like speeding and red light camera tickets. The ticket is issued to the registered owner of the car. The owner is then responsible for either paying the ticket or providing details of the person driving at the time, if they can't or won't provide the details then they wear the fine just like normal traffic fines.
"If inspectors can only issue one or two fines before they're blocked then the sting operations will cost more than the fines". ahhh NO. the fines are usually around $1700 a hit. The cost of a phone/sim and card are practically nothing, though it will be inconvenient for them.
Australia has pretty clear guidelines and regulations for operating for hire service including commercial insurance and commercial drivers license. All Uber really have to do is comply with the laws to operate, which many other services do instead here they rant about the laws being their to prevent competition which might be the case elsewhere but doesn't appear to be the case in Australia.
while true that the urban world has changed a lot, blackberries and acorns are probably some of the more likely rather than less likely parts of nature they will come across, both can be found even in many large cities. Be interesting to know if they have kept things that are less common nowadays. hell they put in analogue which is a word, I would think, that a child is far less likely to run into.
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why not? while it is cool I can think of a lot of why not's for this particular device. e.g. walking off with someones mouse is far too easy, a mouse is a constantly moving item that gets knocked, sits next to your can of coke or cup of hot coffee, it becomes awkward for usb and peripheral connections and would need to be farely low powered otherwise the heat of the device plus the warm hand is going to make a rather uncomfortable device. personally I go for small PC's that I can attach to the back of the monitor, but the form factor options available now make it very interesting. I really like the small devices and I have everything from raspberry Pi's, NUC's and some Lenovo tiny PC's (definitely form factors for different performance needs). Be interested to see what else people come up with for device ideas.
you would be amazed at what people will make formal complaints about. I shit you not we had people submit formal complaints to our organisation over some error messages where we used a few names from greek mythology as they considered it blasphemous that we were using religious icons that did not represent their beliefs. We also received complaints about error number 666 and various other items. Their are so many retards in this world just looking for a reason to feel victimised or insulted, I am surprised some of them have time for anything else in their lives.
This sounds bogus to me, everything from windows to most forums, ISP's and Telco's that I am aware of won't let you use such simple passwords. The only place I know that I could use 123456 or password for me is on one of my work smart cards (I have 3 but only one is so weak on security).
You are more likely to be accidently or intentionally shot in the US than be a victim of a terrorist. over 10,000 people are shot each year in the US. you are hundreds if not thousands of times more likely to be killed in a car accident. you are more likely to win the lotto. Yet you would happily trade your freedom to prevent that 1 in a couple of hundred million chance of dying? the gun lobby and cars are infinitely more dangerous to your young daughter
If a terrorist in this day and age is dumb enough to use open communication channels then he was likely going to get caught anyway. Seriously anyone that actually wants to secure their conversations can do so with very little effort in a manner that the government can never hope to decrypt and it would not require the support of Telco's or government approval or rely on any particular product. I am far more afraid of what the government would do with unfettered access to peoples information than I am of any terrorist.
More likely google is struggling hard to justify being duped out of 400 million
really you think the first responders to armed sieges or those on rampages with guns should be a couple of cops if their is a SWAT available? you think it is best to get an extra couple of ill prepared people killed first to make sure the threat is real? A SWAT team is far better trained to correctly evaluate a threat than the average cop. Chances are if cops were being sent in first in these situations then we probably would have more fatalities.
Personally I don't believe their are a huge realm of possible punishments once you intentionally risk the lives of others. That is not a minor offense, If he is actually guilty he needs to be charged with attempted murder and receive the appropriate sentence to go with that.
So you can't even bother to read the full summary let alone the article? The arrest included charges for Swatting and threats to kill.
calling emergency services with fake call outs puts peoples lives at risk. The XBL and PSN part was just a mean spirited low scumbag act, the rest is what he should be in Jail for.
hopefully if he is one of the guilty parties he gets a nice long stay for many years in a very small cell.
They are trying to move you to the broken look and feel of the beta pixel by pixel.
No they are being called out for how slow they are, just like when we call out MS when they are slow on patches. It is even worse for google as they like to blow there own trumpet on how important security is to them.
we still don't understand the human brain. We also don't even know if an AI can ever reach a state where it can improve itself at an exponential rate, that is still most definitely in the realms of science fiction even more so than self aware AI itself.
That's why you buy multiple with hot and/or cold standby and you can afford to replace them much more regularly. 2 million provide multiple machines of that spec not one. good design and architecture allow for failures, if you plan for the hardware to fail this isn't a problem and can be a much cheaper approach. Not to mention Mainframes fail as well. we had 3 hardware failures that brought our mainframe down over the past 5 years.
most likely you already have accounts with places that have replaced mainframes and don't even know it, most don't like to publicise it due to bias and ignorance like yours. When we were looking at our mainframe replacement we spoke to banks, government departments and large insurance companies all over the world who had all made the transition but to discuss it every last one of them demanded NDA's, especially the banks. Partly it is they didn't want the competition to be aware of what they are doing, but mostly I think it is they didn't want their customers to know such major changes are happening on the backend as such changes scare people.
you would be amazed at how much stuff has been created to make porting easier, there are even emulators for JCL. Their are migration tools for VSAM too.
Part of the signup for Uber is that you have to have your own insurance. Even if Uber covers them It also becomes interesting how insurance will pay out in circumstances where the drivers are clearly in breach of driving laws, most insurances are not honored in such circumstances, maybe Uber somehow got their insurance to excuse unlicensed drivers. e.g. my AAMI policy states you are not covered if you are driving in breach of your license conditions.
and before you reply whinging about no reference to the insurance stuff. I use AAMI for my car insurance, however this particular line or something similar you will find in all private car insurance PDS in Australia under "What we do not cover" "Hire, fare, reward or courtesy car. your car being used for hire, fare or monetary reward" http://www.aami.com.au/sites/d...
In Australia a driver of ANY public transport needs to go to the local motor registry office. They have to have a police check done, they must pass medical requirements, they must also have a certain amount of driving experience (these rules differ slightly between states but are generally very similar), once you pass the basic requirements you can get your standard license upgraded to a commercial vehicle/public transport license. You also have two types of insurance. private car insurance and commercial car insurance. these are not requirements on Uber, they are requirements for driver/owner of the car. if you are operating your car in a commercial capacity then your private insurance is deemed invalid during that time as you are only covered for use as a private transport. here is the ACT commercial/hire car license application
http://www.rego.act.gov.au/__d...
except in most cases they are insured and they are licensed. What's driving this shit is the large cab companies having a shit fit over the fact that this startup has 1/10 the number of cars in the area yet are doing 10x the business.
Problem for EVERYBODY is that the people who issue the licenses are the people who legislate and the people who prosecute. They all piss in the same pot, so if you get onside with the police, you're onside with the city council as well and they will lick your balls if you pay them enough in backhanders (AKA campaign contributions).
if you are operating a hire vehicle without a public transport/taxi/hire vehicle license then you actually aren't licensed or insured. Here in Canberra that license is issued by the local motor registry, cab companies and even local government have no say in who is issued one. If you do the police checks, don't have a criminal history, do the medicals and have the required experience and pay for the license anyone can get one, but if you haven't done that then you are unlicensed and uninsured if you are driving any sort of public transport.
uber drivers are not unlicensed. They have the same drivers license every other driver has. Really, that's all that's needed.
if they have the same license as everyone else then they are unlicensed. Most states and territories in Australia require a commercial or public transport license for operating a hire car, taxi or any other public transport which requires a lot more checks than a standard drivers license such as additional medical requirements, police checks and experience. My sister applied for one a few years ago and got rejected because of the drugs she was on after her chemotherapy.
They could also wait a week to issue the fines
I don't see how this could work. They need to confirm the driver's identity to issue the fine which they're not going to be able to do without confronting the driver at the time of the ride. Just knowing the vehicle's registration isn't enough.
Could be treated just like speeding and red light camera tickets. The ticket is issued to the registered owner of the car. The owner is then responsible for either paying the ticket or providing details of the person driving at the time, if they can't or won't provide the details then they wear the fine just like normal traffic fines.
"If inspectors can only issue one or two fines before they're blocked then the sting operations will cost more than the fines". ahhh NO. the fines are usually around $1700 a hit. The cost of a phone/sim and card are practically nothing, though it will be inconvenient for them.
Australia has pretty clear guidelines and regulations for operating for hire service including commercial insurance and commercial drivers license. All Uber really have to do is comply with the laws to operate, which many other services do instead here they rant about the laws being their to prevent competition which might be the case elsewhere but doesn't appear to be the case in Australia.
while true that the urban world has changed a lot, blackberries and acorns are probably some of the more likely rather than less likely parts of nature they will come across, both can be found even in many large cities. Be interesting to know if they have kept things that are less common nowadays. hell they put in analogue which is a word, I would think, that a child is far less likely to run into.