I would never expect a self driving car to swerve to avoid contact. Computer vision is still very dumb, and it could see a sheet as a wall and decide to swerve into the crowd behind the sheet thinking it was causing less harm.
Plus the false positive causing random swerving around the road when a cloud goes over the road.
Plus it's likely to cause a bigger accident when it hits the gravel edge and flips the car.
If anything get longer range sensors and preempt the conditions ahead and adjust the speed accordingly. This still isn't ideal as it'll mean the driverless cars randomly slow down for no apparent reason.
I don't need/want the IOT stuff getting out of my network. They all go to my own server where I can keep the data to myself.
I guess I'll just have to redirect 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4/1.1.1.1/1.0.0.1 to my DNS server.
I was just forced to reinstall windows after the last update bricked the PC.
Apparently my "Administrator" decided that I can't update settings on my PC, and that I must have a password to open my computer.
It now gives me the kind option of paying to switch to Enterprise to use the functionality that's been standard.
What I'm waiting for is the facebook security camera/doorbell.
They've got facial data for most people on facebook, and have demographic info.
Whenever a "friend" rocks up to the front door, it can send alert.
Your local delivery people can have the door automatically unlock to put the package inside.
When the derelicts rock up, automatically call the cops.
Jehovah witness, send out the alarm to stay away from the front door and windows.
The main issue is that any watch over $200 is expected to last 10-20+ years. A smart watch is designed to last 1-2 years.
I bought a nice citizen watch 10 years ago, and it still works and expect it to last another 10-20 years. If I go for a smart watch of the same price, its expected to be tossed after 2-3 years.
Spose its just me since I've worked on mobile phones for 3 years but I already knew this.
Its not that the messages cost anything like that. its that they can so its done.
If they could still get away with charging $10 per minute for a phone call they would do the same thing.
I wasn't aware of the double deposits. I just noticed that my account was in debit for the day since I had paid a couple larger bills the day before.
Still that kind of thing should never happen since a bank should always keep things in balance at a database level (to prevent software on top doing this exact thing). To have money suddenly appear or go poof, means that there is very poorly designed code or someone intentionally put it in there.
Look at the possible implications for this if it were intentional. the second debits could have gone into someones account with them taking off with the money. Or they could have deposited a lot of money in the days before then withdrawn them before anyone noticed. In either case if it were pulled off the bank could be in deep problems.
I know this case isn't what the main story is talking about. but it is possible to get into very deep trouble if something is added without permission first. I think for a Easter Egg to be added to some software it should be approved first.
Thats kinda scary really if it got through an inspection process.
Just think it could be a bit of JavaScript sending bank and user details to someone.
I would think that banks would be pretty strict on the code being written since their customers rely on it.
Especially when things like a major bank like Commonwealth Bank of Australia takes out a withdrawal twice, and keep the second withdrawal themselves.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,,24703544-2,00.html
Umm why don't they just move some of the people that they still havn't layed off to the project.
And its just like Moto to start another platform because they realize that the other ones have too much crap in them. The problem is that they will manage to stuff it up again, because they will find a problem then say its working as designed because its too much effort to fix, because someone didn't have to foresight to do it right to begin with.
Oh well I don't have to deal with the stupidities that go on with Moto any more (I was in one of the recent rounds of layoffs).
It has a per device public key thats used to encrypt the encryption keys sent to the device, then uses the encryption keys to decrypt. The per device private encryption key is used to decrypt the stored encryption keys.
Its kinda stupid really. if someone wants to obtain the key for a game, all they have to do is write a driver for TPM that does it in software with a known public/private key combo and the game will use that driver for it and download the key to the software TPM.
In other words, its good for encrypting personal data that you want encrypted, but wont work if you dont want something encrypted
I have been using Net Limiter (http://www.netlimiter.com/) for a while. It limits throughput per program, although it runs on each individual computer and requires the settings to be made on the computer, so if he changes or disables the limit, it'll affect speed again.
by the way it will happen again in another 100 years. and who cares about MM/DD/YY;-), only in america do you have everything backwards, the date, the side of the road you drive on, the light switches, the imperial system.
This has been around for at least 5 years in Australia. I think its a bit pointless though, and it seems to add about $5 to the price of the fruit, compaired with just selecting rip ones from the piles they have at the supermarket.
The phones have already been made and the software is being developed. I've had a bit of a play with the PEBL, but its too much of a chick phone for me to get one. I think overall it should be a decent phone when the firmware is finished.
The main reason behind the change is to modularise the phone so large chunks of code don't need to be modified for each different phone. This wont mean that any user software can be loaded because the bootloader won't allow anything except motorola firmware to run. The only way to get around this is to:
1. figure out what the encryption key is.
2. replace the bootloader by changing the bootloader rom with custom rom.
btw the encryption key is kept on the chip that its run on so unless ya got an electron microscope handy you wont be able to extract it.
If they maintained a list of what area each IP range is in it wouldn't be too hard. They would simply have the computer look it up and direct your call to the right spot. The only problem is that they might be going through an international proxy in which case it would be harder to detect.
In this case couldn't they make a slight modification to the standard to have something that sends the IP of the person calling when the conversation starts. I wouldn't think that it would be that hard to make it backwards compatable so that old software still works but have all new software with the new standard.
Anther thing that could be done is to have localised numbers to call for various countries.
If you have a look at the sample pictures they aren't extremely detailed compared to that used by pixar. To get something running near real time at the quality pixar uses you would need hundreds, if not thousands of better and more expensive FPGA's running concurrently to produce a reasonable frame rate. Considering some FPGA's can cost around $1000/piece for the better ones, this could make it too expensive to put together something at the present. While FPGA's are good for designing hardware to handle ray tracing, it would probably be cheaper to design and build a custom chip to do real time ray tracing that would be suitable for commercial use.
The Internet is still way off being suitable for viewing any decent video. Any sites that have streaming video are extremely poor quality. To view anything decent it needs to get to at least digital tv quality which requires around 15-25 Mbit for viewing.
Here in Australia we can currently get 8 Mbit adsl2 Internet right now (will go up to 12 Mbit in the next year or two then to 25 Mbit in a few years) but we get limited to the amount we can download at high speed ($50 for 20 GB per month or $90 for 80 GB). This means that streaming at high speed would cost more than its worth at the present plus needing to pay for each individual movie would make it cheaper to simply rent it from the vid store for $2/movie.
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I would never expect a self driving car to swerve to avoid contact. Computer vision is still very dumb, and it could see a sheet as a wall and decide to swerve into the crowd behind the sheet thinking it was causing less harm. Plus the false positive causing random swerving around the road when a cloud goes over the road. Plus it's likely to cause a bigger accident when it hits the gravel edge and flips the car. If anything get longer range sensors and preempt the conditions ahead and adjust the speed accordingly. This still isn't ideal as it'll mean the driverless cars randomly slow down for no apparent reason.
Some high tech hacking skills are required to put a magnet on a relay.
I don't need/want the IOT stuff getting out of my network. They all go to my own server where I can keep the data to myself. I guess I'll just have to redirect 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4/1.1.1.1/1.0.0.1 to my DNS server.
I was just forced to reinstall windows after the last update bricked the PC. Apparently my "Administrator" decided that I can't update settings on my PC, and that I must have a password to open my computer. It now gives me the kind option of paying to switch to Enterprise to use the functionality that's been standard.
What I'm waiting for is the facebook security camera/doorbell. They've got facial data for most people on facebook, and have demographic info. Whenever a "friend" rocks up to the front door, it can send alert. Your local delivery people can have the door automatically unlock to put the package inside. When the derelicts rock up, automatically call the cops. Jehovah witness, send out the alarm to stay away from the front door and windows.
Its called assembly :-)
The main issue is that any watch over $200 is expected to last 10-20+ years. A smart watch is designed to last 1-2 years. I bought a nice citizen watch 10 years ago, and it still works and expect it to last another 10-20 years. If I go for a smart watch of the same price, its expected to be tossed after 2-3 years.
Spose its just me since I've worked on mobile phones for 3 years but I already knew this. Its not that the messages cost anything like that. its that they can so its done. If they could still get away with charging $10 per minute for a phone call they would do the same thing.
I wasn't aware of the double deposits. I just noticed that my account was in debit for the day since I had paid a couple larger bills the day before.
Still that kind of thing should never happen since a bank should always keep things in balance at a database level (to prevent software on top doing this exact thing). To have money suddenly appear or go poof, means that there is very poorly designed code or someone intentionally put it in there.
Look at the possible implications for this if it were intentional. the second debits could have gone into someones account with them taking off with the money. Or they could have deposited a lot of money in the days before then withdrawn them before anyone noticed. In either case if it were pulled off the bank could be in deep problems.
I know this case isn't what the main story is talking about. but it is possible to get into very deep trouble if something is added without permission first. I think for a Easter Egg to be added to some software it should be approved first.
Thats kinda scary really if it got through an inspection process.
Just think it could be a bit of JavaScript sending bank and user details to someone. I would think that banks would be pretty strict on the code being written since their customers rely on it.
Especially when things like a major bank like Commonwealth Bank of Australia takes out a withdrawal twice, and keep the second withdrawal themselves. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,,24703544-2,00.html
Umm why don't they just move some of the people that they still havn't layed off to the project. And its just like Moto to start another platform because they realize that the other ones have too much crap in them. The problem is that they will manage to stuff it up again, because they will find a problem then say its working as designed because its too much effort to fix, because someone didn't have to foresight to do it right to begin with. Oh well I don't have to deal with the stupidities that go on with Moto any more (I was in one of the recent rounds of layoffs).
Guess that shows how long its been since I've bought a graphics card (or even played games)
is that suppose to be ATI and NVIDIA
It has a per device public key thats used to encrypt the encryption keys sent to the device, then uses the encryption keys to decrypt. The per device private encryption key is used to decrypt the stored encryption keys. Its kinda stupid really. if someone wants to obtain the key for a game, all they have to do is write a driver for TPM that does it in software with a known public/private key combo and the game will use that driver for it and download the key to the software TPM. In other words, its good for encrypting personal data that you want encrypted, but wont work if you dont want something encrypted
I have been using Net Limiter (http://www.netlimiter.com/) for a while. It limits throughput per program, although it runs on each individual computer and requires the settings to be made on the computer, so if he changes or disables the limit, it'll affect speed again.
Anybody else having problems with IE 7 and hotmail. for me it takes about 3 minutes to load a email. FF takes 2-3 seconds.
I was impressed that the thing didnt just flip over and drive itself into the dirt. wonder how it would hold up with a bit of wind.
by the way it will happen again in another 100 years. and who cares about MM/DD/YY ;-), only in america do you have everything backwards, the date, the side of the road you drive on, the light switches, the imperial system.
This has been around for at least 5 years in Australia. I think its a bit pointless though, and it seems to add about $5 to the price of the fruit, compaired with just selecting rip ones from the piles they have at the supermarket.
The phones have already been made and the software is being developed. I've had a bit of a play with the PEBL, but its too much of a chick phone for me to get one. I think overall it should be a decent phone when the firmware is finished.
The main reason behind the change is to modularise the phone so large chunks of code don't need to be modified for each different phone. This wont mean that any user software can be loaded because the bootloader won't allow anything except motorola firmware to run. The only way to get around this is to: 1. figure out what the encryption key is. 2. replace the bootloader by changing the bootloader rom with custom rom. btw the encryption key is kept on the chip that its run on so unless ya got an electron microscope handy you wont be able to extract it.
If they maintained a list of what area each IP range is in it wouldn't be too hard. They would simply have the computer look it up and direct your call to the right spot. The only problem is that they might be going through an international proxy in which case it would be harder to detect.
In this case couldn't they make a slight modification to the standard to have something that sends the IP of the person calling when the conversation starts. I wouldn't think that it would be that hard to make it backwards compatable so that old software still works but have all new software with the new standard.
Anther thing that could be done is to have localised numbers to call for various countries.
We will offer products based on this next generation RIP technology :-)
Does this mean that the technology is already dead
If you have a look at the sample pictures they aren't extremely detailed compared to that used by pixar. To get something running near real time at the quality pixar uses you would need hundreds, if not thousands of better and more expensive FPGA's running concurrently to produce a reasonable frame rate. Considering some FPGA's can cost around $1000/piece for the better ones, this could make it too expensive to put together something at the present. While FPGA's are good for designing hardware to handle ray tracing, it would probably be cheaper to design and build a custom chip to do real time ray tracing that would be suitable for commercial use.
The Internet is still way off being suitable for viewing any decent video. Any sites that have streaming video are extremely poor quality. To view anything decent it needs to get to at least digital tv quality which requires around 15-25 Mbit for viewing. Here in Australia we can currently get 8 Mbit adsl2 Internet right now (will go up to 12 Mbit in the next year or two then to 25 Mbit in a few years) but we get limited to the amount we can download at high speed ($50 for 20 GB per month or $90 for 80 GB). This means that streaming at high speed would cost more than its worth at the present plus needing to pay for each individual movie would make it cheaper to simply rent it from the vid store for $2/movie.