People love Ferraris even more than EVs, but almost nobody is driving them. Why? Because they are costly and unreliable if you don't give them the costly maintenance. They have limited range and limited luggage space, you can't pull trailers and hitches with them, etc. etc. Or maybe it is about the fact that the people that currently drive them love them, but the rest doesn't? Ask anybody not driving a pickup truck if they love them and why they're not driving them. You'll probably get the same line of answers you'll get about EVs. Just loving a car isn't enough, people tend to be rather practical about their purchases when it comes to cars, apart from a small list of arguments that varies from person to person.
For a gasoline car, a 5 year battery life is normal. However, a battery only costs $50-150 to replace on those. If you have a 5 year battery life on your EV and you have to replace $5000-$15000 of batteries, you get worried. That's the point. More so, EV batteries use chemicals that are common in our laptops and portable devices. Most don't last 5 year there, especially if you want at least 80% of the "range" you get from a new battery.
Sabotage comes from the French word Sabot; that means clog, wooden shoe. It is said that sabotage originates from workers used to throw clogs in machinery to make the masters machine fail. I'd say they probably just bashed with their wooden shoes or kicked it, since they wouldn't want to go barefoot, but that's just a minor detail.
Most modern cars can (or could if the manufacturer would have put in the effort) be made to run *better* on ethanol than on gasoline. While the ethanol production methods aren't really viable and older cars have serious trouble with ethanol because their fuel system simply disintegrates, in any car you buy new, you get more power and a cleaner burn from the E10 than from "premium" or "regular" classic fuel.
I agree that it would be good for owners of older cars to have the option to buy "pure" fuel so they don't have to deal with fuel hoses and pumps breaking on them. I agree that the current production methods don't actually make E10 a competitive fuel since they need government subsidies to make them affordable. However, I don't agree that E10 isn't "the good stuff" for most cars on the road, if you purely look at what your car runs best on.
Dell can't vow to do only wintel, since a big part of their server systems are sold to run Linux or some hypervisor. They have to have Linux knowledge and support available anyway, so it doesn't hurt to every once in a while toss a laptop that has 100% linux supported components out there for the shops that like/require those. It's more or less a token effort, since they aren't vowing to support Linux on all their devices, or even to strive to get to that point in a certain time frame. As long as there's a profit in doing this sort of offerings every once in a while, they keep their options open, MicroSoft sharp(er) in their sponsoring and a few more customers happy. See it as them offering both AMD and Intel chips in their servers. They hardly sell AMD, but it makes the Intel systems so much cheaper to buy parts for that it's worth producing them. Same applies to having multiple RAM and storage vendors. If you go exclusive, you can't play the competitors against each other.
Most desktops or laptops that replace them have the unavoidable office related stuff open as well. With what you have opened, you are no doubt working with companies that require doc(x) support on a level that LibreOffice isn't yet giving, exchange mail and you most likely will have browser windows open somewhere. I'm getting the impression you have an extra machine to do all of those.
Chrome has a nice rendering engine, in such that it is fast and relatively safe. However, the big brother phone home all my actions behaviour is putting me off. The fact that they want me to log into my browser makes me want to dowse it in gasoline and light it, just to disinfect my computer from malware. Now they are actually trying to take over control over what application I use for things that are not web pages. FU google, you're just as evil as all the others.
What really scares me isn't that the Americans themselves don't seem to care a lot. Europe has been a prime target of all this and even there the reaction is "meh". How many USA ambassadors have been summoned to explain and apologize? The USA has treated their allies worse than most of Europe would treat their enemies and still nothing came of this. It turns out Europe isn't that different after all....
The Zoe is an electric only car that is marketed at European "company lease" users. Actual drivers don't "own" the cars, nor do their employers. To keep costs nice and predictable, Renault had to do this. Even the few private "owners" of these cars got scared of battery replacement costs of several hybrids we've had for the last ten years or so in Europe, but lease companies have started demanding warranties for the full duration from manufacturers to even consider the cars in their programs.
The fact that a manufacturer can remotely shut down your car using GPRS/3G is scary and not something you'd want. However, given the financial model and the amount of things that can go wrong in such an "experimental vehicle" it may be for the best. Failing throttles and brakes and no way to shut down the car is not what you want. Maybe Renaults *will* catch on fire spontaneously, who knows?
Try those in the UK legal system. They are absolutely horrible laws, since you can even sue someone and win if they have only stated facts. Just because you actively did something to make them look less good, not by slander or falsely claiming they did something illegal, you're committing a crime.
While your theory is sound, in practice, you never hit an exact identical car exactly head on. Statistically, smaller, nimble cars with attentive drivers tend to be more able to avoid you than big trucks and school buses. This leaves the amount of big vehicles in distraction-caused collisions larger than you'd expect from the amount of them on the road. The amount of failed avoidances is also pretty high, when you're in multi-vehicle crash statistics. That means that almost all crashes in which you hit another vehicle while being distracted will have acceleration forces of both cars play a role. A lot of those will even each other out, but you will also see that the forces will make things worse. Think of cars going sideways hitting other cars and objects, flipping over and even rolling because of "whiplash" effects.
Apart from that, frontal crashes tend to be a significant portion of the result of distraction, but they are hardly the only thing. There are plenty of other scenarios where you get into a seriously life threatening situation, like rolling the car a few times or flicking something and doing a sideways slide into a tree or lantern post. At speeds over 35 mph those can easily be lethal since air bags can't protect you effectively. Think of the added anxiety of not knowing what sort of crash you are going to be "simulating" to teach people not to fondle their phone while driving.
How are we ever going to get the amount of helium required to fill such a large tunnel? The LHC is already using a large amount of all the helium we have on this planet. It is going to become awfully expensive at least to get that much helium together, if we can manage it at all.
The "well known" paid for and free porn sites try hard to keep their servers free from malware. It's the ad servers they use to generate income that usually get infected. The other way to get malware from going to porn sites, is going to malware sites that use the promise of free porn to get you to click on stuff.
The best way to prevent this from happening if you can't do anything about the browsing habits of your users, is to block all ad servers, regardless of what site they serve ads on on your firewalls and web proxies. We all have seen regular stories of some big "normal" web site spreading malware because the company they use for serving ads has slipped up or got hacked. As long as ad services aren't careful enough, they deserve to be blocked. That may mean that websites that have a business model that provides content paid for by ads, will not have any income. They can solve that by selling ads served on their own servers again, until the ad serving businesses get the message and start paying serious attention to malware.
That still leaves you with people going to malware sites. There are filter lists and appliances for that, but they are never 100%, just like virus scanners are. It takes people getting infected and the industry reacting to those before some form of block can be established. If you can't educate your users, this will always remain a problem, until someone comes up with some smart technology to prevent it.
There is a small group of people that see a problem in this and I personally think their arguments are valid. The thing is, over 90% of people just use technology like a supermarket. Milk comes from supermarkets, it tastes the way the supermarket makes it taste and they know what taste of milk is best for you. The whole thing about starting your own diary farm and breeding cows and such is totally lost to these people. Once the nations largest supermarket starts adding bath salts to the milk, to keep people coming back for more groceries, those 90% will not complain and even actively defend the super market, because they like bath salts added to the milk and you should get your own cow and sell the excess milk if you don't like it.
I might be slightly exaggerating here, but you're defending a company that is trying to pull "a MicroSoft" on us all. Once Google has control of the UI we all use and the API, they get to say what applications run on it, who makes the money and who gets all the juicy information about the users of these products. Don't forget that currently, all NaCL applications are approved by Google and are exclusively distributed by "Google Play". You may say there are alternative markets, but those are fragmented and most are riddled with malware and pirated software. Anything commercially viable, apart from maybe Cydia is run and/or controlled by Google.
People that own an official Android device will in the near future have the ability to use all their Android apps on all their devices, providing they run Google's Chrome, not some other browser that just happens to support NaCl. This will mean a very large domination of the application market for Google, rendering all other web browsers and end-user operating systems insignificant. With Google being the only party to effectively censor what applications we get to use and who gets what slice of the pie, I think we have a right to be worried here. It's not about the ability, but the viability of a fork. Even if it were technically superior, it'd still lose.
Why would that have anything to do with this native client thing? Active X were a bunch of DLLs that would only run on windows/X86 and the standard was such that only IE would be able to run the applications. I don't see a bytecode, VM or architecture independence happening with ActiveX, while those are the main characteristics of NaCL. The only thing in common here is the ability to run code on the client. I don't really see ActiveX being "such a good idea" compared to NaCL, regardless of who made it.
I see a whole plethora of problems with this, one of them being Google being in control of the "operating system" that the Chrome browser is becoming this way, but purely from a technological stand point, ActiveX is far worse than NaCl.
NaCl tries to do the same as java, but with marginally less attack surface and a static compile. The marginally less attack surface is considered "safe" because JavaScript has the same surface and we all trust that.
This seems to me as Google's attempt to kill java. NodeJS is already gaining popularity on the server side and once the version of V7 that is in NodeJS will be able to do NaCL, it will be able to replace it both on the server and the client side. Even though I agree with the conclusion that Java is a steaming pile when it comes to security, having Google replace it with something marginally less steaming doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
How will they fertilize this? Are they using desert ground, or are they just using the location and using fertile ground or hydroponics? I know that Australia's attempt to irrigate desert ground to grow crops turned whole regions so saline that even desert plants won't grow there anymore.
Swedish prisoners have a better life in general than people in the USA in a minimum wage job. They get better housing, food and work hours, plus they get education, health care and all, so they have a chance to stay out of prison once their punishment is over. Bonus: they get to keep their voting rights after they are out, so they are still part of the democratic process that is the base of the laws that put them in prison in the first place.
Maybe it's time the USA starts looking at how Sweden gets this accomplished and use that as an inspiration to improve. If even the prisoners there have it better than over a quarter of the free people in the USA, you'd say there should be improvements to be found.
Journalists that don't have a reporting permit for the gear they bring, including amateur *and* pro gear, will be kicked out and lose their permits for the rest of the event. Athletes and athlete helper staff will not be allowed to record anything at all, even for study/training/re-evaluation purposes. Anyone caught recording "behind the scenes" stuff will be kicked out as well. This is total censorship for anyone that has a chance to be in places other than the public stands.
Carefully reading TFA, leads me to believe that Kasperski never said that ISS got infected with stuxnet, or that he implied that this infection was a recent event. It could very well be that he is referring to the original infection in 2009 or so that lead to the windows systems being replaced with linux. This still means that TFA is a load of bullocks and that the journalist writing it is bad at fact checking and biased as hell.
Speed times mass square. Nothing more, nothing less is what determines impact energy. Go look it up in your high school text books if you doubt this.
Distances from whatever other bodies have no significant influence whatsoever. They may slightly influence the speed at which the object travels with their gravitational fields, just as the gravitational field from the moon itself may increase the speed once an object is getting closer to the moon. Looking at what currently is flying around our solar system, almost anything is coming from the outer belts and is pulled in by the combined gravitational fields of all our planets and the sun. Anything not prematurely being sucked up by the big gas giants further out, has speeds of thousands of kilometres per second by the time it gets close to the earth and the gravitation fields from both the earth and the moon have no significant effect on the impact energy any more.
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People love Ferraris even more than EVs, but almost nobody is driving them. Why? Because they are costly and unreliable if you don't give them the costly maintenance. They have limited range and limited luggage space, you can't pull trailers and hitches with them, etc. etc. Or maybe it is about the fact that the people that currently drive them love them, but the rest doesn't? Ask anybody not driving a pickup truck if they love them and why they're not driving them. You'll probably get the same line of answers you'll get about EVs. Just loving a car isn't enough, people tend to be rather practical about their purchases when it comes to cars, apart from a small list of arguments that varies from person to person.
For a gasoline car, a 5 year battery life is normal. However, a battery only costs $50-150 to replace on those. If you have a 5 year battery life on your EV and you have to replace $5000-$15000 of batteries, you get worried. That's the point. More so, EV batteries use chemicals that are common in our laptops and portable devices. Most don't last 5 year there, especially if you want at least 80% of the "range" you get from a new battery.
Sabotage comes from the French word Sabot; that means clog, wooden shoe. It is said that sabotage originates from workers used to throw clogs in machinery to make the masters machine fail. I'd say they probably just bashed with their wooden shoes or kicked it, since they wouldn't want to go barefoot, but that's just a minor detail.
Most modern cars can (or could if the manufacturer would have put in the effort) be made to run *better* on ethanol than on gasoline. While the ethanol production methods aren't really viable and older cars have serious trouble with ethanol because their fuel system simply disintegrates, in any car you buy new, you get more power and a cleaner burn from the E10 than from "premium" or "regular" classic fuel.
I agree that it would be good for owners of older cars to have the option to buy "pure" fuel so they don't have to deal with fuel hoses and pumps breaking on them. I agree that the current production methods don't actually make E10 a competitive fuel since they need government subsidies to make them affordable. However, I don't agree that E10 isn't "the good stuff" for most cars on the road, if you purely look at what your car runs best on.
Dell can't vow to do only wintel, since a big part of their server systems are sold to run Linux or some hypervisor. They have to have Linux knowledge and support available anyway, so it doesn't hurt to every once in a while toss a laptop that has 100% linux supported components out there for the shops that like/require those. It's more or less a token effort, since they aren't vowing to support Linux on all their devices, or even to strive to get to that point in a certain time frame. As long as there's a profit in doing this sort of offerings every once in a while, they keep their options open, MicroSoft sharp(er) in their sponsoring and a few more customers happy. See it as them offering both AMD and Intel chips in their servers. They hardly sell AMD, but it makes the Intel systems so much cheaper to buy parts for that it's worth producing them. Same applies to having multiple RAM and storage vendors. If you go exclusive, you can't play the competitors against each other.
Most desktops or laptops that replace them have the unavoidable office related stuff open as well. With what you have opened, you are no doubt working with companies that require doc(x) support on a level that LibreOffice isn't yet giving, exchange mail and you most likely will have browser windows open somewhere. I'm getting the impression you have an extra machine to do all of those.
Chrome has a nice rendering engine, in such that it is fast and relatively safe. However, the big brother phone home all my actions behaviour is putting me off. The fact that they want me to log into my browser makes me want to dowse it in gasoline and light it, just to disinfect my computer from malware. Now they are actually trying to take over control over what application I use for things that are not web pages. FU google, you're just as evil as all the others.
What really scares me isn't that the Americans themselves don't seem to care a lot. Europe has been a prime target of all this and even there the reaction is "meh". How many USA ambassadors have been summoned to explain and apologize? The USA has treated their allies worse than most of Europe would treat their enemies and still nothing came of this. It turns out Europe isn't that different after all....
Some people only believe it if the ATF tells them it's true...
The Zoe is an electric only car that is marketed at European "company lease" users. Actual drivers don't "own" the cars, nor do their employers. To keep costs nice and predictable, Renault had to do this. Even the few private "owners" of these cars got scared of battery replacement costs of several hybrids we've had for the last ten years or so in Europe, but lease companies have started demanding warranties for the full duration from manufacturers to even consider the cars in their programs.
The fact that a manufacturer can remotely shut down your car using GPRS/3G is scary and not something you'd want. However, given the financial model and the amount of things that can go wrong in such an "experimental vehicle" it may be for the best. Failing throttles and brakes and no way to shut down the car is not what you want. Maybe Renaults *will* catch on fire spontaneously, who knows?
Try those in the UK legal system. They are absolutely horrible laws, since you can even sue someone and win if they have only stated facts. Just because you actively did something to make them look less good, not by slander or falsely claiming they did something illegal, you're committing a crime.
While your theory is sound, in practice, you never hit an exact identical car exactly head on. Statistically, smaller, nimble cars with attentive drivers tend to be more able to avoid you than big trucks and school buses. This leaves the amount of big vehicles in distraction-caused collisions larger than you'd expect from the amount of them on the road. The amount of failed avoidances is also pretty high, when you're in multi-vehicle crash statistics. That means that almost all crashes in which you hit another vehicle while being distracted will have acceleration forces of both cars play a role. A lot of those will even each other out, but you will also see that the forces will make things worse. Think of cars going sideways hitting other cars and objects, flipping over and even rolling because of "whiplash" effects.
Apart from that, frontal crashes tend to be a significant portion of the result of distraction, but they are hardly the only thing. There are plenty of other scenarios where you get into a seriously life threatening situation, like rolling the car a few times or flicking something and doing a sideways slide into a tree or lantern post. At speeds over 35 mph those can easily be lethal since air bags can't protect you effectively. Think of the added anxiety of not knowing what sort of crash you are going to be "simulating" to teach people not to fondle their phone while driving.
How are we ever going to get the amount of helium required to fill such a large tunnel? The LHC is already using a large amount of all the helium we have on this planet. It is going to become awfully expensive at least to get that much helium together, if we can manage it at all.
The "well known" paid for and free porn sites try hard to keep their servers free from malware. It's the ad servers they use to generate income that usually get infected. The other way to get malware from going to porn sites, is going to malware sites that use the promise of free porn to get you to click on stuff.
The best way to prevent this from happening if you can't do anything about the browsing habits of your users, is to block all ad servers, regardless of what site they serve ads on on your firewalls and web proxies. We all have seen regular stories of some big "normal" web site spreading malware because the company they use for serving ads has slipped up or got hacked. As long as ad services aren't careful enough, they deserve to be blocked. That may mean that websites that have a business model that provides content paid for by ads, will not have any income. They can solve that by selling ads served on their own servers again, until the ad serving businesses get the message and start paying serious attention to malware.
That still leaves you with people going to malware sites. There are filter lists and appliances for that, but they are never 100%, just like virus scanners are. It takes people getting infected and the industry reacting to those before some form of block can be established. If you can't educate your users, this will always remain a problem, until someone comes up with some smart technology to prevent it.
There is a small group of people that see a problem in this and I personally think their arguments are valid. The thing is, over 90% of people just use technology like a supermarket. Milk comes from supermarkets, it tastes the way the supermarket makes it taste and they know what taste of milk is best for you. The whole thing about starting your own diary farm and breeding cows and such is totally lost to these people. Once the nations largest supermarket starts adding bath salts to the milk, to keep people coming back for more groceries, those 90% will not complain and even actively defend the super market, because they like bath salts added to the milk and you should get your own cow and sell the excess milk if you don't like it.
I might be slightly exaggerating here, but you're defending a company that is trying to pull "a MicroSoft" on us all. Once Google has control of the UI we all use and the API, they get to say what applications run on it, who makes the money and who gets all the juicy information about the users of these products. Don't forget that currently, all NaCL applications are approved by Google and are exclusively distributed by "Google Play". You may say there are alternative markets, but those are fragmented and most are riddled with malware and pirated software. Anything commercially viable, apart from maybe Cydia is run and/or controlled by Google.
People that own an official Android device will in the near future have the ability to use all their Android apps on all their devices, providing they run Google's Chrome, not some other browser that just happens to support NaCl. This will mean a very large domination of the application market for Google, rendering all other web browsers and end-user operating systems insignificant. With Google being the only party to effectively censor what applications we get to use and who gets what slice of the pie, I think we have a right to be worried here. It's not about the ability, but the viability of a fork. Even if it were technically superior, it'd still lose.
Why would that have anything to do with this native client thing? Active X were a bunch of DLLs that would only run on windows/X86 and the standard was such that only IE would be able to run the applications. I don't see a bytecode, VM or architecture independence happening with ActiveX, while those are the main characteristics of NaCL. The only thing in common here is the ability to run code on the client. I don't really see ActiveX being "such a good idea" compared to NaCL, regardless of who made it.
I see a whole plethora of problems with this, one of them being Google being in control of the "operating system" that the Chrome browser is becoming this way, but purely from a technological stand point, ActiveX is far worse than NaCl.
Basically you are saying this:
NaCl tries to do the same as java, but with marginally less attack surface and a static compile. The marginally less attack surface is considered "safe" because JavaScript has the same surface and we all trust that.
This seems to me as Google's attempt to kill java. NodeJS is already gaining popularity on the server side and once the version of V7 that is in NodeJS will be able to do NaCL, it will be able to replace it both on the server and the client side. Even though I agree with the conclusion that Java is a steaming pile when it comes to security, having Google replace it with something marginally less steaming doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
How will they fertilize this? Are they using desert ground, or are they just using the location and using fertile ground or hydroponics? I know that Australia's attempt to irrigate desert ground to grow crops turned whole regions so saline that even desert plants won't grow there anymore.
Swedish prisoners have a better life in general than people in the USA in a minimum wage job. They get better housing, food and work hours, plus they get education, health care and all, so they have a chance to stay out of prison once their punishment is over. Bonus: they get to keep their voting rights after they are out, so they are still part of the democratic process that is the base of the laws that put them in prison in the first place.
Maybe it's time the USA starts looking at how Sweden gets this accomplished and use that as an inspiration to improve. If even the prisoners there have it better than over a quarter of the free people in the USA, you'd say there should be improvements to be found.
Athletes and helpers are also blocked from using any equipment to record even their own performance for re-evaluation purposes.
Journalists that don't have a reporting permit for the gear they bring, including amateur *and* pro gear, will be kicked out and lose their permits for the rest of the event. Athletes and athlete helper staff will not be allowed to record anything at all, even for study/training/re-evaluation purposes. Anyone caught recording "behind the scenes" stuff will be kicked out as well. This is total censorship for anyone that has a chance to be in places other than the public stands.
Carefully reading TFA, leads me to believe that Kasperski never said that ISS got infected with stuxnet, or that he implied that this infection was a recent event. It could very well be that he is referring to the original infection in 2009 or so that lead to the windows systems being replaced with linux. This still means that TFA is a load of bullocks and that the journalist writing it is bad at fact checking and biased as hell.
Since TFA is obviously a load of bollocks, it'd be nice if someone would get us actual facts. Does NASA have anything to mention about this yet?
You just have to study if malware infections are at all influenced by gravity, if only to rule out that is of any influence at all. right?
Speed times mass square. Nothing more, nothing less is what determines impact energy. Go look it up in your high school text books if you doubt this.
Distances from whatever other bodies have no significant influence whatsoever. They may slightly influence the speed at which the object travels with their gravitational fields, just as the gravitational field from the moon itself may increase the speed once an object is getting closer to the moon. Looking at what currently is flying around our solar system, almost anything is coming from the outer belts and is pulled in by the combined gravitational fields of all our planets and the sun. Anything not prematurely being sucked up by the big gas giants further out, has speeds of thousands of kilometres per second by the time it gets close to the earth and the gravitation fields from both the earth and the moon have no significant effect on the impact energy any more.