I think this AI assisted driving should be taken out of the cars. This technology is not ready for the real world. It's just too tempting to turn this gadget on and doze off or some other totally stupid behavior, thinking the car can deal with driving on it's own.
Having this incomplete technology in service could hamper efforts to convince government entities that self-driving cars can and will be safe, when an immature technology is turning out to be not so safe. And trust me, regulators are looking at this and saying to themselves, "If this can happen, this technology is not safe."
Trust me, I want a self-driving car like yesterday, but the technology needs to mature more, more testing, in more situations needs to be done before this is ready for the end-user who's going to take a nap while his/her car drives itself.
Audio books. Maps. Alarm clock. World clock. SMS. Instant Messaging, Telephone. Calendar. Music player. Hand-held gaming. Videos. Reference (web browser.) Reviews. Finding movie times. 'Remembering' where you parked your car.
Just touching on the video market topic you stepped in.
I personally like where the video market is going. Moving everything online is great stuff. No more discs cluttering up my house. No more factories making all those discs we have to put somewhere. No more transporting CD's over oceans and roads, consuming fuel. Ever move a box of CD's? Those things are HEAVY in quantity.
Video going to virtual goods is fantastic for sustainability. So no brownie for you.
I disagree with this wholeheartedly. Smartphones are fantastic devices, a nearly full featured PC in your pocket? You gotta be insane so say these things are not one of man's greatest inventions.
Where we do agree is the use of them. If you have look at your cell phone every 5 minutes, there's a problem. It's not really the technology, it's the user. Supply this same person any addictive substance that's illegal, and I'm pretty sure you're going to have a drug addict in very little time.
Me personally, I find my pocket computer makes my life a lot easier. It can amuse me while I'm on the shitter. It's absolutely invaluable when travelling. The maps, GPS and route planning alone make it wonderful. And if you break down, well, you can call for help. I really could go on and on about how nifty these devices are, just as you've gone on and on about how they're used inappropriately and irresponsibly. Like many of our other great inventions, it is both good and evil simultaneously, depending on the human using it.
sounds like the guy who came up with this should grow some balls and put his foot down and say no to his kids instead of relying on the government to make a law so he can have an excuse
This. I'm not for legislating parenting techniques. If smartphones are causing kids to become reclusive, then educate the public about it. No need for a ban. Just teach parents that smartphone use for children needs to be monitored and limited. I personally believe it should be limited like any other electronic entertainment, like television, video games, and computers. But a law? No.
If you use it a lot, the battery will be shot in just a few years, rendering a very expensive device to the landfill.
This is where I become sad. I am in the electronics recycling business and it's sad times to see manufacturers making devices in such a way that they will never be viable for re-use, by design. So much for striving for sustainability. So much sad. This is wrong on so many levels, I really wish people would look at the big picture when considering purchasing one of these abominations. I don't give a flying F how well it works, when you design something so no one can fix it, you are broken and flawed and need to go away.
It's up to the IT departments that buy this shit to make a statement. You're either for sustainability, or you're not. This product is a slap in the face to sustainability.
I don't think the electronics were small enough back then for this application. Maybe. Doubt it. Certainly battery technology back in the 40's was vastly inferior than what we have now.
I mean, just think about what they produced in the 80's, those frick brickphones. And our electronics advanced by 30 years. Even then, it really did take another 20 years of advances in batteries, electronics and miniaturization to get where we were in the early 2000's, and it's advanced even wildly faster since then.
In any other industry, something that fails to perform it's claimed function is often called fraud, snakeoil, a ripoff.
Does Denuvo's creator guarantee this crap is going to work? Why do publishers keep falling for this snakeoil? DRM has NEVER worked, not even once. EVER.
DRM is pure insanity. Insanity is often defined by doing the same exact thing and expecting a different result.
Will they ever learn? DRM is not useful. It does not protect your content. It annoys your legitimate users, and does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to curtail, hinder, or even discourage piracy. Hell, I'm going to go as far as to say it ENCOURAGES PIRACY. Those cracker dude, they just love a challenge. Nothing to crack? Borrringgg..
Sadly, Windows is a brand, a familiar name to pretty much everyone. Linux is getting there too, but the unfortunate part is Linux has a reputation of being 'geeky, technical, difficult to use, not for end-users.' Which is really sad and completely wrong, the Linux Mint team have put together one of the easiest to use systems I've seen. It's not perfect, but it's definitely easy to use.
Linux needs to work on it's reputation with the general public. I'm not sure how we go about doing that other than educating everyone we as IT goons come into contact with. I've personally 'converted' a handful of people from Windows to Linux Mint, it's pretty amazing when people realize, 'wow, this is actually just as easy as windows. i never knew.'
Mint has a long way to go, however. Out of the box it's fantastic, but installing anything becomes quickly overwhelming for end users. I suppose if you're on the side of the fence that says 'Windows must die!' the best thing you could do is contribute to Mint's development. And show it to everyone you meet.
Microsoft might self-destruct if they push Windows S too hard, that is just a nightmare. That'll drive everyone toward Linux in a hurry. Please do it, Microsoft. Push Windows S harder.
Automatic updates are great and all, until the update becomes a problem in itself, breaking something.
Microsoft really should have two update paths: CRITICAL (and take it seriously, no more stupid updates labeled as CRITICAL) And: Non-CRITICAL (everything else goes here, especially driver updates!!!!)
Make one optional, make one mandatory. Problem solved, assuming M$ can adhere to a fairly strict no-nonsense policy to what gets flagged critical.
Don't these institutions have IT security? Don't people understand how to design networks that are isolated from the internet, minimizing the attack surface of unpatched or intentionally held back machines?
Not trying to blame the victims here, well, ok I am, this is totally avoidable with some proper network design and isolation of critical and potentially vulnerable 'held back' systems.
Nothing inherently wrong with saying, "I don't want this machine's OS changed, cuz it works perfectly now." Where the problem lies is when you say, "Let's expose this known-vulnerable machine to the INTERNET." That is just stupid. I don't even expose my Windows 10 machine to the internet, directly. I don't even expose my Linux machines, except for a dedicated firewall.
Are you blind man? If this crap succeeds, it'll just be forced unto the rest of the PC world until no Windows PC runs anything outside Microsoft Store.
There are some pros to this, mainly much increased resistance to malware and such, but ugh, no no no no 1000 times more no!
Though, honestly, if Microsoft dares try that, it would be the end of them.
Along with many other antiquated protocols, FTP is now going the way of gopher, telnet and other such early protocols the internet used.
FTP was a neat tool in its day, with lots of anonymous-enabled repositories of free software (and sometimes not-so-free.) Gone are the days of highjacking a server with lots of disk to make it a file dump via FTP.
As more repositories close down, I wonder how they will be replaced? I have not seen much in the way of clearing houses for free software in web-page format, yet. Sure, a lot of linux distros are hosted up on websites, but rarely do you find indexes like you can with FTP easily.
I'll miss the days of using somewhat questionable 'ftp search' websites that tried to scrape as much info as they could from anonymous-enabled FTP servers around the globe.
I already hated humanity pretty much. Social media just reinforces my belief that 95% of humans are dull uninteresting creatures I want nothing to do with.
The use of robots.txt only makes the internet somewhat harder to search. I fucking hate it when some scientific publisher haplessly uses robots.txt, only to make search of their published content nearly impossible to find. Fuck that, fuck robots.txt and the train it came with.
Keep in mind, if the world collectively decides to ignore robots.txt, a polite and easy way to tell indexers to go away, people will take stronger measures to prevent indexers from doing unwanted things with content they don't own and have no rights to, right up to blocking indexer sourced requests outright, no robots.txt, no http, just the middle finger of 'connection closed by foreign host.'
robots.txt is a polite way of saying "please don't"
But your website is there for the world to see. If someone, anyone chooses to ignore your polite request, well, so what? Why did you put your content up there for the world to see?
This right here need elaboration. Sure, I can put my stuff on a webserver for the world to see. But you see, what I didn't sign up for is every search engine to download all my webpages and make them available in search results. Feel free to poke my website as a human, but not as a indexer, hence robots.txt asking robots to bother someone else.
A public act by an organization ignoring robots.txt will only lead to the justification of other organizations ignoring robots.txt. Effectively ignoring it erodes the value of robots.txt. Sure, some underhanded people will ignore it but I don't see organizations openly ignoring it.
If you have an example of an organization completely ignoring robots.txt, do tell.
I gotta agree with this. The mechanism of robots.txt needs to be respected in all cases, lest it become obsolete and ignored if big enough players decide it is meaningless and ignorable.
I personally don't give a hoot about my page(s) appearing in an archive, what I don't want, is Google, Bing, Yahoo, or anyone else, indexing my pages so they might appear in search results with terms that may be present on my pages. Not hiding anything, frankly there's almost nothing on my webserver (visible at least), even if robots.txt was absent. It's just my choice, and I rather like that it is respected.
This time around, I think the big players learned their lesson. Keep the stuff under wraps, freedom is not profitable, restrictions are. It's annoying.
There is no reason we don't have decent GP mobile computer that's not tethered to a manufacturer and/or carrier. I mean no reason technologically. So the big players are probably actively quashing any attempts to bring something game changing to market, because they like the game exactly as it is.
Meanwhile, Microsoft and Intel are slowly but surely linking our PC's to themselves so they can eventually start tightening the screws. Windows Cloud is a sneak peak of the world in Microsoft's long-dreamed of Walled Garden that Apple has enjoyed for so long.
Someone else in this thread said 'When there's sufficient demand." but what I think they are missing, is the big players are actively taking steps to ensure that demand is insignificant. What they are doing is creating more demand for the restrictive products because most people just don't give a hoot, if it works they're happy.
One piece of good news in it all.. the DIY SOC offerings are getting smaller and more powerful with every iteration. These seem like good GP computing platforms in a small package with no bullshit (they seem to mostly run Linux, totally open specs.) So there's that at least. Frankly all they're missing is the cellular modem and some form of portable small display.
Once again proving that those that do evil deed are typically pretty stupid and leave obvious clues.
Na, just proves the stupid evil doers are still stupid. We never hear about the smart evil doers. If there is such a thing.:D We'll never know, if they're smart enough.
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I think this AI assisted driving should be taken out of the cars. This technology is not ready for the real world. It's just too tempting to turn this gadget on and doze off or some other totally stupid behavior, thinking the car can deal with driving on it's own.
Having this incomplete technology in service could hamper efforts to convince government entities that self-driving cars can and will be safe, when an immature technology is turning out to be not so safe. And trust me, regulators are looking at this and saying to themselves, "If this can happen, this technology is not safe."
Trust me, I want a self-driving car like yesterday, but the technology needs to mature more, more testing, in more situations needs to be done before this is ready for the end-user who's going to take a nap while his/her car drives itself.
One nuclear plant shut down because it thought it hadn't received an update from the temperature guages in over a hundred years.
Wow, who would've thunk we had nuclear power plants before we even figured out how to split the atom.
Audio books. Maps. Alarm clock. World clock. SMS. Instant Messaging, Telephone. Calendar. Music player. Hand-held gaming. Videos. Reference (web browser.) Reviews. Finding movie times. 'Remembering' where you parked your car.
Should I go on?
Just touching on the video market topic you stepped in.
I personally like where the video market is going. Moving everything online is great stuff. No more discs cluttering up my house. No more factories making all those discs we have to put somewhere. No more transporting CD's over oceans and roads, consuming fuel. Ever move a box of CD's? Those things are HEAVY in quantity.
Video going to virtual goods is fantastic for sustainability. So no brownie for you.
I disagree with this wholeheartedly. Smartphones are fantastic devices, a nearly full featured PC in your pocket? You gotta be insane so say these things are not one of man's greatest inventions.
Where we do agree is the use of them. If you have look at your cell phone every 5 minutes, there's a problem. It's not really the technology, it's the user. Supply this same person any addictive substance that's illegal, and I'm pretty sure you're going to have a drug addict in very little time.
Me personally, I find my pocket computer makes my life a lot easier. It can amuse me while I'm on the shitter. It's absolutely invaluable when travelling. The maps, GPS and route planning alone make it wonderful. And if you break down, well, you can call for help. I really could go on and on about how nifty these devices are, just as you've gone on and on about how they're used inappropriately and irresponsibly. Like many of our other great inventions, it is both good and evil simultaneously, depending on the human using it.
sounds like the guy who came up with this should grow some balls and put his foot down and say no to his kids instead of relying on the government to make a law so he can have an excuse
This. I'm not for legislating parenting techniques. If smartphones are causing kids to become reclusive, then educate the public about it. No need for a ban. Just teach parents that smartphone use for children needs to be monitored and limited. I personally believe it should be limited like any other electronic entertainment, like television, video games, and computers. But a law? No.
If you use it a lot, the battery will be shot in just a few years, rendering a very expensive device to the landfill.
This is where I become sad. I am in the electronics recycling business and it's sad times to see manufacturers making devices in such a way that they will never be viable for re-use, by design. So much for striving for sustainability. So much sad. This is wrong on so many levels, I really wish people would look at the big picture when considering purchasing one of these abominations. I don't give a flying F how well it works, when you design something so no one can fix it, you are broken and flawed and need to go away.
It's up to the IT departments that buy this shit to make a statement. You're either for sustainability, or you're not. This product is a slap in the face to sustainability.
Follow in the steps of Ms. Secretary Clinton and put together your own private email server!
I did that like 20 years ago when it wasn't as popular.
I don't think the electronics were small enough back then for this application. Maybe. Doubt it. Certainly battery technology back in the 40's was vastly inferior than what we have now.
I mean, just think about what they produced in the 80's, those frick brickphones. And our electronics advanced by 30 years. Even then, it really did take another 20 years of advances in batteries, electronics and miniaturization to get where we were in the early 2000's, and it's advanced even wildly faster since then.
So I'd say this one is a huge maybe.
Hulu. Netflix. Amazon Web Services.
In any other industry, something that fails to perform it's claimed function is often called fraud, snakeoil, a ripoff.
Does Denuvo's creator guarantee this crap is going to work? Why do publishers keep falling for this snakeoil? DRM has NEVER worked, not even once. EVER.
Are they really that stupid?
DRM is pure insanity. Insanity is often defined by doing the same exact thing and expecting a different result.
Will they ever learn? DRM is not useful. It does not protect your content. It annoys your legitimate users, and does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to curtail, hinder, or even discourage piracy. Hell, I'm going to go as far as to say it ENCOURAGES PIRACY. Those cracker dude, they just love a challenge. Nothing to crack? Borrringgg..
Sadly, Windows is a brand, a familiar name to pretty much everyone. Linux is getting there too, but the unfortunate part is Linux has a reputation of being 'geeky, technical, difficult to use, not for end-users.' Which is really sad and completely wrong, the Linux Mint team have put together one of the easiest to use systems I've seen. It's not perfect, but it's definitely easy to use.
Linux needs to work on it's reputation with the general public. I'm not sure how we go about doing that other than educating everyone we as IT goons come into contact with. I've personally 'converted' a handful of people from Windows to Linux Mint, it's pretty amazing when people realize, 'wow, this is actually just as easy as windows. i never knew.'
Mint has a long way to go, however. Out of the box it's fantastic, but installing anything becomes quickly overwhelming for end users. I suppose if you're on the side of the fence that says 'Windows must die!' the best thing you could do is contribute to Mint's development. And show it to everyone you meet.
Microsoft might self-destruct if they push Windows S too hard, that is just a nightmare. That'll drive everyone toward Linux in a hurry. Please do it, Microsoft. Push Windows S harder.
Automatic updates are great and all, until the update becomes a problem in itself, breaking something.
Microsoft really should have two update paths: CRITICAL (and take it seriously, no more stupid updates labeled as CRITICAL)
And: Non-CRITICAL (everything else goes here, especially driver updates!!!!)
Make one optional, make one mandatory. Problem solved, assuming M$ can adhere to a fairly strict no-nonsense policy to what gets flagged critical.
Don't these institutions have IT security? Don't people understand how to design networks that are isolated from the internet, minimizing the attack surface of unpatched or intentionally held back machines?
Not trying to blame the victims here, well, ok I am, this is totally avoidable with some proper network design and isolation of critical and potentially vulnerable 'held back' systems.
Nothing inherently wrong with saying, "I don't want this machine's OS changed, cuz it works perfectly now." Where the problem lies is when you say, "Let's expose this known-vulnerable machine to the INTERNET." That is just stupid. I don't even expose my Windows 10 machine to the internet, directly. I don't even expose my Linux machines, except for a dedicated firewall.
Are you blind man? If this crap succeeds, it'll just be forced unto the rest of the PC world until no Windows PC runs anything outside Microsoft Store.
There are some pros to this, mainly much increased resistance to malware and such, but ugh, no no no no 1000 times more no!
Though, honestly, if Microsoft dares try that, it would be the end of them.
how else would you download Firefox without IE/Edge?
With another computer, of course.
Along with many other antiquated protocols, FTP is now going the way of gopher, telnet and other such early protocols the internet used.
FTP was a neat tool in its day, with lots of anonymous-enabled repositories of free software (and sometimes not-so-free.) Gone are the days of highjacking a server with lots of disk to make it a file dump via FTP.
As more repositories close down, I wonder how they will be replaced? I have not seen much in the way of clearing houses for free software in web-page format, yet. Sure, a lot of linux distros are hosted up on websites, but rarely do you find indexes like you can with FTP easily.
I'll miss the days of using somewhat questionable 'ftp search' websites that tried to scrape as much info as they could from anonymous-enabled FTP servers around the globe.
You'll be missed, good ol' FTP.
I already hated humanity pretty much. Social media just reinforces my belief that 95% of humans are dull uninteresting creatures I want nothing to do with.
The use of robots.txt only makes the internet somewhat harder to search. I fucking hate it when some scientific publisher haplessly uses robots.txt, only to make search of their published content nearly impossible to find. Fuck that, fuck robots.txt and the train it came with.
Keep in mind, if the world collectively decides to ignore robots.txt, a polite and easy way to tell indexers to go away, people will take stronger measures to prevent indexers from doing unwanted things with content they don't own and have no rights to, right up to blocking indexer sourced requests outright, no robots.txt, no http, just the middle finger of 'connection closed by foreign host.'
robots.txt is a polite way of saying "please don't"
But your website is there for the world to see. If someone, anyone chooses to ignore your polite request, well, so what? Why did you put your content up there for the world to see?
This right here need elaboration. Sure, I can put my stuff on a webserver for the world to see. But you see, what I didn't sign up for is every search engine to download all my webpages and make them available in search results. Feel free to poke my website as a human, but not as a indexer, hence robots.txt asking robots to bother someone else.
A public act by an organization ignoring robots.txt will only lead to the justification of other organizations ignoring robots.txt. Effectively ignoring it erodes the value of robots.txt. Sure, some underhanded people will ignore it but I don't see organizations openly ignoring it.
If you have an example of an organization completely ignoring robots.txt, do tell.
I gotta agree with this. The mechanism of robots.txt needs to be respected in all cases, lest it become obsolete and ignored if big enough players decide it is meaningless and ignorable.
I personally don't give a hoot about my page(s) appearing in an archive, what I don't want, is Google, Bing, Yahoo, or anyone else, indexing my pages so they might appear in search results with terms that may be present on my pages. Not hiding anything, frankly there's almost nothing on my webserver (visible at least), even if robots.txt was absent. It's just my choice, and I rather like that it is respected.
Network transparency. X11 has it. Wayland doesn't.
Yeah, this is pretty much a showstopper from my perspective. IMHO, that's probably X's *BEST* feature is it's ability to render across networks.
This time around, I think the big players learned their lesson. Keep the stuff under wraps, freedom is not profitable, restrictions are. It's annoying.
There is no reason we don't have decent GP mobile computer that's not tethered to a manufacturer and/or carrier. I mean no reason technologically. So the big players are probably actively quashing any attempts to bring something game changing to market, because they like the game exactly as it is.
Meanwhile, Microsoft and Intel are slowly but surely linking our PC's to themselves so they can eventually start tightening the screws. Windows Cloud is a sneak peak of the world in Microsoft's long-dreamed of Walled Garden that Apple has enjoyed for so long.
Someone else in this thread said 'When there's sufficient demand." but what I think they are missing, is the big players are actively taking steps to ensure that demand is insignificant. What they are doing is creating more demand for the restrictive products because most people just don't give a hoot, if it works they're happy.
One piece of good news in it all.. the DIY SOC offerings are getting smaller and more powerful with every iteration. These seem like good GP computing platforms in a small package with no bullshit (they seem to mostly run Linux, totally open specs.) So there's that at least. Frankly all they're missing is the cellular modem and some form of portable small display.
Once again proving that those that do evil deed are typically pretty stupid and leave obvious clues.
Na, just proves the stupid evil doers are still stupid. We never hear about the smart evil doers. If there is such a thing. :D We'll never know, if they're smart enough.