Still used on brand new computers in fact for eye tracker software, includes a TCP/IP stack for communications with other computers. Also frequently seen in embedded x86-based devices.
No it puts you at the behest of a guy that takes $100 out of your paycheck and then still manages to bargain your job away. Carrier and GM was run by unions, neither of them prevented (and according to many it actually accelerated) the run to cheaper countries.
What 'prevents' these kinds of runs is for people to just hand in their resignation the minute they hear about a 'knowledge transfer'.
You don't seem to be aware that the income taxes alone in the first year cover the tax break given to Carrier over the next 10y not to speak about the load a few hundred unemployed would set on the social system.
The rest of your comment is off topic yet it doesn't seem like North Korea or Russia are stopping to build up their arsenal, in the mean time the US nuclear arsenal is ran by 5.25" floppies and a hope and a prayer.
The FAA has rules around that. If you get bumped from your flight you are eligible for 4x the ticket price of the entire trip and they have to accommodate alternative travel or housing. You may have to take them to small claims to get it, they often only give vouchers up to 2x the ticket price.
The problem is that this isn't "true" two factor authentication. This is just an (extra) client-side key embedded in a USB stick, you can do the same (much more universally) with SSL keys which is better than a password but in no way is it either foolproof nor 2 factor authentication, both of the items are passwords, you're just saving a really complicated password in a keychain.
A good TFA requires something two out of something you have, something you know and something you are. Something you have should be separated from and not influenced by the machine you're using to authenticate with.
What do you mean can't add? They either give subsidies so people can generate their own power or they do stuff like this so people will continue to be reliant on large energy companies for their power.
For any tax funded power generation project like this, you can fund several times that amount in small hyperlocal, independent power generation.
Even high school physics can debunk these claims. The problem is that any tests so far have been thoroughly debunked. The Chinese had a 'success' which couldn't be reproduced. NASA had a success but when moved to a vacuum chamber to account for the thermal reaction it suddenly stopped working so well, the problem being that we can't get a space-like vacuum nor lack of gravity on earth.
One of the later tests could change the direction of thrust simply by changing the springs on the measurement apparatus and half the tests have measured thrust in one direction while others have measured thrust in the opposite direction it's supposed to go.
Various measurements have shown that the shape of the box doesn't matter and the direction has been different in some of the measurements. According to Wikipedia: Of seven tests, four produced a measured force in the intended direction and three produced thrust in the opposite direction. Furthermore, in one test, thrust could be produced in either direction by varying the spring constants in the measuring apparatus.
This tells me that we're dealing with measurement errors. Sure, pumping energy into something will cause something to happen for various reasons but the forces acting upon it will be uniform in every direction thus cancelling out the energy used. It's like throwing a ball at a wall in a room. You are converting energy into forces on the ball and you are 'thrusted' in the opposite direction but then your ball hits the wall which is going to be exerting a force in the exact opposite direction (Newton figured that out a few centuries ago), even in a vacuum of space, if you have an enclosed room you can throw a ball at any wall repeatedly and it won't do shit because you're just cancelling out the forces, the only way you'll be exerting a force in any direction is by throwing balls out of an open window (expelling the mass and thus leaving you with a net thrust force in whatever opposite direction)
It hasn't been successful at all. The only tests seem to describe micronewtons of force in exchange for ~100Wh of energy consumed, a far cry from the flying car engine it's creators promised. The micronewtons aren't enough to go up against earth or sun gravity so useless to propel anything anywhere and the energy source would have to be massive.
Most of those test seem to be also both in the range of error and the results have very low confidence by the researchers themselves, if there were anything useful, you'd be sure as hell this would already be up to being tested in space. There were some hyped up news stories about this drive but nothing useful so far.
Depending on the city and the circumstance, if it's not your fault that you fell (eg. your shoes were untied and you fell is your own fault) and it's reasonable to assume you didn't notice or couldn't avoid the danger, either the city could be responsible (just like they're responsible for potholes) or whoever is responsible for the maintenance for that portion of street (in some cases an HOA or an institution that owns the property adjacent to the sidewalk may have agreed to maintain the sidewalk and thus could be made responsible).
The thing is that it isn't illegal, yet I highly doubt that it's a covered peril by your insurance. There is literally no wording in the law and probably not in your insurance policy either that you are not allowed to put a motor on your steering wheel and pedals and make a computer control them. That does mean it IS legal (by definition, in the US at least, laws can only restrict you from doing things, you're free to do anything else that's not directly infringing on other people's rights) to have a computer drive your car unless there is a law that says otherwise, your insurance however probably covers you as the driver as a peril and the occasional user of your car, a computer is neither so you'd either have to cover it with your insurance like you do your significant other, children or friends that regularly use your car.
Not any more, you can build iOS apps on pretty much any platform these days, the IDE's and compilers both are available for Linux and perhaps even for Windows (if you can get a compiler to work on Windows).
Where do you get these babies that sleep 2.5h at a time for years? Both of my children did that for less than a month, then they started sleeping longer and longer periods between 4 and 6 hours until ~6 months they both were sleeping 6-8h unless something is wrong. If you timed it just right, you could put them to sleep early evening, have them wake around midnight for a feeding and sleep until at least 6am.
It is the case if you activate a pin and register your phone with Apple, also report it stolen afterwards to police and Apple. It also can give it's location among other things. Many people don't know that though and many thieves target and get away with unlocked phones and many people don't bother reporting thefts like that to police.
On the other hand, a nice iPhone is always good for it's parts, a car is relatively 'unstealable' as well between VIN numbers and online registries, that doesn't mean that stolen cars don't have value.
Most of the "good" stuff doesn't even require 'the cloud'. Building in IP/WiFi stacks on switches and outlets is a bit too expensive (still) and doesn't do well in metal housings (which is often what electrical outlets are built in)
Given he built an iOS application, there is an entire home control integration framework in iOS, I am currently using it. My home also responds to voice controls (fairly efficiently at about 90% success rate) and can turn lights on/off, alarm, thermostat and computer control.
I've been working on these things as a hobby for the last 7 years, voice control and all. Initially using X10, now with Insteon and ZWave as well. Nothing new Zuckerberg and my house costs probably 1% of yours.
I used to live in the EU - shipping is also 5-10x more expensive for shorter distances than the US. You can get a package delivered for ~$5 anywhere in the US, the same package delivered across Belgium costs $25
Carriers won't put the effort of putting anything in a box or unlock anything. They literally toss it stuff at your front door from a distance, it doesn't matter anyway, it's all insured. You not the sender are going to be out of money, just out of time and the carrier charges enough to cover the claims.
It is, that's why I'm personally not worried if my package goes missing, I just call the seller, they file a claim with the carrier for the value and I get my package a few days later.
Our carriers will literally toss the package over the porch railing because walking up the steps and ringing a doorbell is hard work.
You can get sued if you consistently verify ID's of only particular groups of people.
You either have to have a policy in place and verify everyone that applies for a job (and carry the associated $150/query costs) or get sued for discrimination even if those persons were found out to be illegal. Even if you do verify everyone but you don't have a written policy around it or don't keep track of the results, you can end up being sued.
And even if they end up losing the suit, you're out thousands of dollars because those 'high risk populations' have the backing of organizations with deeper pockets than you.
A simple job opening can quickly cost you $5000 in e-verify and associated legal/documentation costs if you intend to use it because the results aren't always complete so you then have to file other paperwork and wait for it to come back.
Office theft is more than a few pens and some papers, we're talking about laptops, desktops, wireless access points, switches and other hardware that goes missing, especially portable peripherals or spare parts that 'get lost'.
I do think there is a legitimate problem with our climate and that us humans are more than capable of influencing it for good or for worse even if it was an entirely natural cycle, if nothing else we should be able to ensure our survival.
The problem I see is indeed the politicized parts of it. We are donating large swaths of money in the form of carbon credits to the very nations that should be improving their situation, but instead we export our "dirty air" and allow them to make it worse even though Chinese smog particles are now affecting coastal cities in the US. In the end it's just a taxation to offset debts and improve their economy and when it comes time for "them" to pay up they'll just back out of whatever agreement they signed, just like Trump wants to do.
This doesn't mean that software updates aren't necessary.
Your mainframe software is probably rife with bugs and issues and would be very insecure if it were connected to the Internet in the same way it was in the 1970's. Back then, we "knew" the person (often by name) who was responsible simply based on IP address and thus vandalism/criminal intent wasn't as much as an issue. The bits don't age indeed but the methods, underlying hardware platforms and security models behind it do.
The only reason we have code that still runs on old IBM mainframes is because the code is often closed source or (if available) encumbered with copyright, if it were possible to migrate code simply by recompiling and some minor fixes, we wouldn't have governments that are still tied to IBM contracts from the 80s where they are literally charging thousands of dollars just for running THEIR OWN binaries on emulators on Linux clusters.
I agree with you regarding the problems software updates bring and I think that's a very good reason to have open, user-compilable code with a (very idealistic) separation of existing function and new features. Kind of like keeping certain versions of KDE/Gnome alive in parallel with newer versions. The Firefox/Chrome/Windows model is indeed broken and the only reason that we have Firefox clones with minimal features are because of open source, it would be ideal to have it as a compile-time switch.
Same goes for a car, you can try fixing it yourself and often you end up with a problem that your car doesn't start 'mysteriously' because you left the spark plugs out or something stupid like that. Even mechanics at garages have this problem, although less often and are able to fix it quicker.
If you absolutely need a car when it needs fixing, rent one or get a second one and don't try to fix it yourself if you don't know what you're doing. Would you leave your car without an oil change just because you can't spare it for a day?
If you don't know what caused a software upgrade to go wrong, you probably can't "see" what exactly is going wrong and fix it yourself, that means, as I said, you should be demanding from the software manufacturers that they don't weld the hood shut.
Most people just install software like they would a washing machine, once it's in, they don't touch it anymore except to run it, after all, a washing machine has a strong motor, some controls, valves and a belt, there is virtually no maintenance necessary and if it ever does, it's cheap enough and long-lasting enough you can just throw it out and replace it.
Maintenance is a necessary part of anything that is a very complex machine and is not protected. A car is a good example, it sits outside so it needs to be protected against burglary but also against the elements, salt and accidents as well as regular maintenance to replace worn and outdated parts.
Computer systems are as complex and vulnerable as cars, they sit 'outside' on the Internet, where they have to be protected against 'bad people' and just regular outdatedness but often they are considered as dumb appliances (if not actually called that by a vendor).
People need to pay more attention and fund their "computer-mechanics", not just the manufacturers of their "car" and demand that they are able to inspect and repair their own stuff regardless of who invented it.
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Still used on brand new computers in fact for eye tracker software, includes a TCP/IP stack for communications with other computers. Also frequently seen in embedded x86-based devices.
No it puts you at the behest of a guy that takes $100 out of your paycheck and then still manages to bargain your job away. Carrier and GM was run by unions, neither of them prevented (and according to many it actually accelerated) the run to cheaper countries.
What 'prevents' these kinds of runs is for people to just hand in their resignation the minute they hear about a 'knowledge transfer'.
You don't seem to be aware that the income taxes alone in the first year cover the tax break given to Carrier over the next 10y not to speak about the load a few hundred unemployed would set on the social system.
The rest of your comment is off topic yet it doesn't seem like North Korea or Russia are stopping to build up their arsenal, in the mean time the US nuclear arsenal is ran by 5.25" floppies and a hope and a prayer.
The FAA has rules around that. If you get bumped from your flight you are eligible for 4x the ticket price of the entire trip and they have to accommodate alternative travel or housing. You may have to take them to small claims to get it, they often only give vouchers up to 2x the ticket price.
The problem is that this isn't "true" two factor authentication. This is just an (extra) client-side key embedded in a USB stick, you can do the same (much more universally) with SSL keys which is better than a password but in no way is it either foolproof nor 2 factor authentication, both of the items are passwords, you're just saving a really complicated password in a keychain.
A good TFA requires something two out of something you have, something you know and something you are. Something you have should be separated from and not influenced by the machine you're using to authenticate with.
What do you mean can't add? They either give subsidies so people can generate their own power or they do stuff like this so people will continue to be reliant on large energy companies for their power.
For any tax funded power generation project like this, you can fund several times that amount in small hyperlocal, independent power generation.
Even high school physics can debunk these claims. The problem is that any tests so far have been thoroughly debunked. The Chinese had a 'success' which couldn't be reproduced. NASA had a success but when moved to a vacuum chamber to account for the thermal reaction it suddenly stopped working so well, the problem being that we can't get a space-like vacuum nor lack of gravity on earth.
One of the later tests could change the direction of thrust simply by changing the springs on the measurement apparatus and half the tests have measured thrust in one direction while others have measured thrust in the opposite direction it's supposed to go.
Various measurements have shown that the shape of the box doesn't matter and the direction has been different in some of the measurements. According to Wikipedia: Of seven tests, four produced a measured force in the intended direction and three produced thrust in the opposite direction. Furthermore, in one test, thrust could be produced in either direction by varying the spring constants in the measuring apparatus.
This tells me that we're dealing with measurement errors. Sure, pumping energy into something will cause something to happen for various reasons but the forces acting upon it will be uniform in every direction thus cancelling out the energy used. It's like throwing a ball at a wall in a room. You are converting energy into forces on the ball and you are 'thrusted' in the opposite direction but then your ball hits the wall which is going to be exerting a force in the exact opposite direction (Newton figured that out a few centuries ago), even in a vacuum of space, if you have an enclosed room you can throw a ball at any wall repeatedly and it won't do shit because you're just cancelling out the forces, the only way you'll be exerting a force in any direction is by throwing balls out of an open window (expelling the mass and thus leaving you with a net thrust force in whatever opposite direction)
It hasn't been successful at all. The only tests seem to describe micronewtons of force in exchange for ~100Wh of energy consumed, a far cry from the flying car engine it's creators promised. The micronewtons aren't enough to go up against earth or sun gravity so useless to propel anything anywhere and the energy source would have to be massive.
Most of those test seem to be also both in the range of error and the results have very low confidence by the researchers themselves, if there were anything useful, you'd be sure as hell this would already be up to being tested in space. There were some hyped up news stories about this drive but nothing useful so far.
Depending on the city and the circumstance, if it's not your fault that you fell (eg. your shoes were untied and you fell is your own fault) and it's reasonable to assume you didn't notice or couldn't avoid the danger, either the city could be responsible (just like they're responsible for potholes) or whoever is responsible for the maintenance for that portion of street (in some cases an HOA or an institution that owns the property adjacent to the sidewalk may have agreed to maintain the sidewalk and thus could be made responsible).
The thing is that it isn't illegal, yet I highly doubt that it's a covered peril by your insurance. There is literally no wording in the law and probably not in your insurance policy either that you are not allowed to put a motor on your steering wheel and pedals and make a computer control them. That does mean it IS legal (by definition, in the US at least, laws can only restrict you from doing things, you're free to do anything else that's not directly infringing on other people's rights) to have a computer drive your car unless there is a law that says otherwise, your insurance however probably covers you as the driver as a peril and the occasional user of your car, a computer is neither so you'd either have to cover it with your insurance like you do your significant other, children or friends that regularly use your car.
Not any more, you can build iOS apps on pretty much any platform these days, the IDE's and compilers both are available for Linux and perhaps even for Windows (if you can get a compiler to work on Windows).
Where do you get these babies that sleep 2.5h at a time for years? Both of my children did that for less than a month, then they started sleeping longer and longer periods between 4 and 6 hours until ~6 months they both were sleeping 6-8h unless something is wrong. If you timed it just right, you could put them to sleep early evening, have them wake around midnight for a feeding and sleep until at least 6am.
It is the case if you activate a pin and register your phone with Apple, also report it stolen afterwards to police and Apple. It also can give it's location among other things. Many people don't know that though and many thieves target and get away with unlocked phones and many people don't bother reporting thefts like that to police.
On the other hand, a nice iPhone is always good for it's parts, a car is relatively 'unstealable' as well between VIN numbers and online registries, that doesn't mean that stolen cars don't have value.
Most of the "good" stuff doesn't even require 'the cloud'. Building in IP/WiFi stacks on switches and outlets is a bit too expensive (still) and doesn't do well in metal housings (which is often what electrical outlets are built in)
Given he built an iOS application, there is an entire home control integration framework in iOS, I am currently using it. My home also responds to voice controls (fairly efficiently at about 90% success rate) and can turn lights on/off, alarm, thermostat and computer control.
I've been working on these things as a hobby for the last 7 years, voice control and all. Initially using X10, now with Insteon and ZWave as well. Nothing new Zuckerberg and my house costs probably 1% of yours.
I used to live in the EU - shipping is also 5-10x more expensive for shorter distances than the US. You can get a package delivered for ~$5 anywhere in the US, the same package delivered across Belgium costs $25
Carriers won't put the effort of putting anything in a box or unlock anything. They literally toss it stuff at your front door from a distance, it doesn't matter anyway, it's all insured. You not the sender are going to be out of money, just out of time and the carrier charges enough to cover the claims.
It is, that's why I'm personally not worried if my package goes missing, I just call the seller, they file a claim with the carrier for the value and I get my package a few days later.
Our carriers will literally toss the package over the porch railing because walking up the steps and ringing a doorbell is hard work.
You can get sued if you consistently verify ID's of only particular groups of people.
You either have to have a policy in place and verify everyone that applies for a job (and carry the associated $150/query costs) or get sued for discrimination even if those persons were found out to be illegal. Even if you do verify everyone but you don't have a written policy around it or don't keep track of the results, you can end up being sued.
And even if they end up losing the suit, you're out thousands of dollars because those 'high risk populations' have the backing of organizations with deeper pockets than you.
A simple job opening can quickly cost you $5000 in e-verify and associated legal/documentation costs if you intend to use it because the results aren't always complete so you then have to file other paperwork and wait for it to come back.
Office theft is more than a few pens and some papers, we're talking about laptops, desktops, wireless access points, switches and other hardware that goes missing, especially portable peripherals or spare parts that 'get lost'.
I do think there is a legitimate problem with our climate and that us humans are more than capable of influencing it for good or for worse even if it was an entirely natural cycle, if nothing else we should be able to ensure our survival.
The problem I see is indeed the politicized parts of it. We are donating large swaths of money in the form of carbon credits to the very nations that should be improving their situation, but instead we export our "dirty air" and allow them to make it worse even though Chinese smog particles are now affecting coastal cities in the US. In the end it's just a taxation to offset debts and improve their economy and when it comes time for "them" to pay up they'll just back out of whatever agreement they signed, just like Trump wants to do.
This doesn't mean that software updates aren't necessary.
Your mainframe software is probably rife with bugs and issues and would be very insecure if it were connected to the Internet in the same way it was in the 1970's. Back then, we "knew" the person (often by name) who was responsible simply based on IP address and thus vandalism/criminal intent wasn't as much as an issue. The bits don't age indeed but the methods, underlying hardware platforms and security models behind it do.
The only reason we have code that still runs on old IBM mainframes is because the code is often closed source or (if available) encumbered with copyright, if it were possible to migrate code simply by recompiling and some minor fixes, we wouldn't have governments that are still tied to IBM contracts from the 80s where they are literally charging thousands of dollars just for running THEIR OWN binaries on emulators on Linux clusters.
I agree with you regarding the problems software updates bring and I think that's a very good reason to have open, user-compilable code with a (very idealistic) separation of existing function and new features. Kind of like keeping certain versions of KDE/Gnome alive in parallel with newer versions. The Firefox/Chrome/Windows model is indeed broken and the only reason that we have Firefox clones with minimal features are because of open source, it would be ideal to have it as a compile-time switch.
Same goes for a car, you can try fixing it yourself and often you end up with a problem that your car doesn't start 'mysteriously' because you left the spark plugs out or something stupid like that. Even mechanics at garages have this problem, although less often and are able to fix it quicker.
If you absolutely need a car when it needs fixing, rent one or get a second one and don't try to fix it yourself if you don't know what you're doing. Would you leave your car without an oil change just because you can't spare it for a day?
If you don't know what caused a software upgrade to go wrong, you probably can't "see" what exactly is going wrong and fix it yourself, that means, as I said, you should be demanding from the software manufacturers that they don't weld the hood shut.
Most people just install software like they would a washing machine, once it's in, they don't touch it anymore except to run it, after all, a washing machine has a strong motor, some controls, valves and a belt, there is virtually no maintenance necessary and if it ever does, it's cheap enough and long-lasting enough you can just throw it out and replace it.
Maintenance is a necessary part of anything that is a very complex machine and is not protected. A car is a good example, it sits outside so it needs to be protected against burglary but also against the elements, salt and accidents as well as regular maintenance to replace worn and outdated parts.
Computer systems are as complex and vulnerable as cars, they sit 'outside' on the Internet, where they have to be protected against 'bad people' and just regular outdatedness but often they are considered as dumb appliances (if not actually called that by a vendor).
People need to pay more attention and fund their "computer-mechanics", not just the manufacturers of their "car" and demand that they are able to inspect and repair their own stuff regardless of who invented it.