While I like my iPad and Nexus tablets, there is a lot of room for improvement, especially on the user input side.
I like the idea of a premium tablet that can work with a keyboard, mouse and pressure sensitive stylus. As a bridge device the surface could allow me to deal with the old stuff that is too expensive to modernize but too useful to dump while enjoying the advantages of portability. Surface RT was a waste of time for me, but a perfected surface pro with great battery life could be a useful tool.
probably not science. If they come up with a repeatable experiment or cosmic observation that indicates the existence of a fourth spatial dimension then the interesting theory becomes real, otherwise its just more fiction cloaked in complex math.
What could be more plausible would be to consider space to be defined by 6 dimensions, three for gravity and three for the electrostatic field. Now crush the gravitational field so much that it essentially becomes one dimension and they may have something.
Time to run security scans and make sure our security measures are buttoned up. Its just like a hard drive failure is a reminder to check your backups - its time to break out the security tools and double-check firewall settings. Its gone from script kiddies all the way to military organizations intent on screwing us over. These idiots have decided to wage a war on our computers. WTF
I believe that is exactly what they have, i.e. the ability to completely disable the remote feature. The remote app API stuff is completely separated from the other systems and can easily (and comes disabled by default) be turned off. As a Tesla owner, I'm just trying to get the straight story out. I'm sure there is room for improvement, but is not as though Tesla has somehow done anything stupid here.
I really don't think something like that would go on without being noticed. The first thing a Tesla owner looks at when they get in the car is its range and if was set to range mode or if the charge status was unexpected they would immediately be suspicious. In any case the batteries are covered unconditionally by Tesla for 8 years so the I really wouldn't take a hit.
It is a button press away to turn off remote access on the Tesla S console so if an owner is concerned they can turn the interface off. TFA implies that if you give away your credentials and get hacked, you're screwed for 3 months which is not true. Tesla warns repeatedly to be very careful about who you give your user name and password to, not that doing so creates a danger, they are just trying to educate their owners. Tesla's use of a proprietary system as opposed to OAuth isn't necessarily wrong or less secure. It does however point to a more interesting policy; Tesla will have more of an Apple style walled garden than a wide open Android marketplace for anything that communicates with the car. Finally the whole business of economic loss and damage to the batteries is silly. I seriously doubt that less than a dollars worth of electricity if somebody turns the air or heater on are going to be an issue for the typical Tesla owner. And no, the interface does not allow you to turn on the heater and the air conditioning at the same time - you can set the target temperature for the interior. Nobody is going to put up with this happening all the time and suggesting battery damage by using the car in a way it was designed to do exposes the article for what it is.
Huh, I think my Models P85 handles extremely well. The NTSB certainly couldn't get it to roll over. My other car is a Corvette Z06 so I do know how to appreciate how a car handles.
Its amazing how the most successful science fiction authors are great futurists in disguise. They are usually right on the their predictions and just as often wrong on the time frame. The last sentence in TFA is particularly chilling - only a lucky few will have jobs - glad he's off on that one.
My kids are grown up now, but when they were very young is was a great way for us to see a movie without having to get a baby sitter. Next time you hear a child act up in a theater, think to yourself, gee I wish those parents could take their kid to a drive in.
As a developer in the health care industry (pharmacy point of sale), I can tell you that it is fraught with many non-technical issues.
When do you make these changes? With health care being a political football, you don't want to get started early because Uncle Sam may change his mind.
How do you deal with privacy? In this case every payer would need access to a patients total related out of pocket expenditures. In today's world everybody is scared to death assuming more responsibility for personal health information than is absolutely necessary and sharing what you have gathered with everybody else who needs it is scary too. HIPPA HiTech and security certifications potentially with independent audits are expensive and time consuming.
What exactly are the changes that need to be implemented? As a developer, do you really want your requirements document to be the total text of the Affordable Health Care Act?
These systems are large, complex, and in many cases old. You cannot just edit a few lines of code and slam it into production. Changeing anything at all is a big deal.
Unfortunately its a shitty situation and the problems are deceptively hard to solve. Tweaking this existing monstrosity of a system is a bitch. From a technical perspective, starting from scratch would make more sense.
I personally don't like the idea of government regulation to solve distracted driving. If the public is not educated to the dangers of distracted driving, then there is little hope of avoiding senseless tragedy and the government will be forced to act.
All I'm advocating is that we at least do something such as educating the public. Doing nothing or trying to do too much are both extremes that will get us nowhere.
I wish the girl who rear ended me while talking on the phone as I was stopped at a traffic light last year had RTFA.
Could it be that people talk on their phones regardless of what laws are passed or if they get a discount on usage?
Distracted driving is real - even the cell phone companies agree.
Its distracted driving in any case. I for one don't want my life in the hands of random poor multi-taskers. In case you've missed out on countless tragic stories, check out http://focusdriven.org/
If you do things in a secure manner (e.g. OWASP top 10) this should not be a big deal. Turning off JavaScript IMHO is awfully extreme and few would do it anyway.
Obviously iFrames should be used judiciously because it opens you to a potential for cross site scripting and other undesirable things on your site. Awareness that linking to public libraries is intentional cross site scripting is critical too. Pre-populating content and controls from user supplied text must be filtered, and fields like passwords, credit card numbers and sensitive personal information should never be pre-populated.
Thinking that your site visit history is private even without this attack is grossly delusional as there are already many ways this is already tracked, e.g. ad retargeting and Chrome not in incognito mode.
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Like razorblades - great idea! Can we make vibrating certificates?
While I like my iPad and Nexus tablets, there is a lot of room for improvement, especially on the user input side. I like the idea of a premium tablet that can work with a keyboard, mouse and pressure sensitive stylus. As a bridge device the surface could allow me to deal with the old stuff that is too expensive to modernize but too useful to dump while enjoying the advantages of portability. Surface RT was a waste of time for me, but a perfected surface pro with great battery life could be a useful tool.
The implication of your question is absolutely correct - laws that are not enforced consistently are the root of corruption.
I can delete my spam faster now.
probably not science. If they come up with a repeatable experiment or cosmic observation that indicates the existence of a fourth spatial dimension then the interesting theory becomes real, otherwise its just more fiction cloaked in complex math. What could be more plausible would be to consider space to be defined by 6 dimensions, three for gravity and three for the electrostatic field. Now crush the gravitational field so much that it essentially becomes one dimension and they may have something.
Its a computer with a really nice set of wheels :-)
Time to run security scans and make sure our security measures are buttoned up. Its just like a hard drive failure is a reminder to check your backups - its time to break out the security tools and double-check firewall settings. Its gone from script kiddies all the way to military organizations intent on screwing us over. These idiots have decided to wage a war on our computers. WTF
There is a ton of activity in this area. I think there is a new sulfur based solid anode on the horizon for lithium batteries that is going to reduce cost, increase capacity four-fold and dramatically reduce charge time; see http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/5834/Oak-Ridge-Labs-Scientists-Make-Lithium-Sulfur-Battery-Breakthrough.aspx and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium%E2%80%93sulfur_battery. I also think there is a new graphene technology that is going to make way better supercapacitors; see http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6145/534.abstract. The federal government is pushing this hard too: see http://www.anl.gov/energy/batteries-and-energy-storage.
Maybe they can keep passengers company :-)
My brother in law was a trucker. Now he's an ER Doctor (and a very good one too)
I believe that is exactly what they have, i.e. the ability to completely disable the remote feature. The remote app API stuff is completely separated from the other systems and can easily (and comes disabled by default) be turned off. As a Tesla owner, I'm just trying to get the straight story out. I'm sure there is room for improvement, but is not as though Tesla has somehow done anything stupid here.
I really don't think something like that would go on without being noticed. The first thing a Tesla owner looks at when they get in the car is its range and if was set to range mode or if the charge status was unexpected they would immediately be suspicious. In any case the batteries are covered unconditionally by Tesla for 8 years so the I really wouldn't take a hit.
It is a button press away to turn off remote access on the Tesla S console so if an owner is concerned they can turn the interface off. TFA implies that if you give away your credentials and get hacked, you're screwed for 3 months which is not true. Tesla warns repeatedly to be very careful about who you give your user name and password to, not that doing so creates a danger, they are just trying to educate their owners. Tesla's use of a proprietary system as opposed to OAuth isn't necessarily wrong or less secure. It does however point to a more interesting policy; Tesla will have more of an Apple style walled garden than a wide open Android marketplace for anything that communicates with the car. Finally the whole business of economic loss and damage to the batteries is silly. I seriously doubt that less than a dollars worth of electricity if somebody turns the air or heater on are going to be an issue for the typical Tesla owner. And no, the interface does not allow you to turn on the heater and the air conditioning at the same time - you can set the target temperature for the interior. Nobody is going to put up with this happening all the time and suggesting battery damage by using the car in a way it was designed to do exposes the article for what it is.
Huh, I think my Models P85 handles extremely well. The NTSB certainly couldn't get it to roll over. My other car is a Corvette Z06 so I do know how to appreciate how a car handles.
Its amazing how the most successful science fiction authors are great futurists in disguise. They are usually right on the their predictions and just as often wrong on the time frame. The last sentence in TFA is particularly chilling - only a lucky few will have jobs - glad he's off on that one.
This might help astronauts who lose muscle tone with extended time being weightless
My kids are grown up now, but when they were very young is was a great way for us to see a movie without having to get a baby sitter. Next time you hear a child act up in a theater, think to yourself, gee I wish those parents could take their kid to a drive in.
As a developer in the health care industry (pharmacy point of sale), I can tell you that it is fraught with many non-technical issues. When do you make these changes? With health care being a political football, you don't want to get started early because Uncle Sam may change his mind. How do you deal with privacy? In this case every payer would need access to a patients total related out of pocket expenditures. In today's world everybody is scared to death assuming more responsibility for personal health information than is absolutely necessary and sharing what you have gathered with everybody else who needs it is scary too. HIPPA HiTech and security certifications potentially with independent audits are expensive and time consuming. What exactly are the changes that need to be implemented? As a developer, do you really want your requirements document to be the total text of the Affordable Health Care Act? These systems are large, complex, and in many cases old. You cannot just edit a few lines of code and slam it into production. Changeing anything at all is a big deal. Unfortunately its a shitty situation and the problems are deceptively hard to solve. Tweaking this existing monstrosity of a system is a bitch. From a technical perspective, starting from scratch would make more sense.
I personally don't like the idea of government regulation to solve distracted driving. If the public is not educated to the dangers of distracted driving, then there is little hope of avoiding senseless tragedy and the government will be forced to act. All I'm advocating is that we at least do something such as educating the public. Doing nothing or trying to do too much are both extremes that will get us nowhere.
I actually think we already have public works projects on multigenerational timescales; e.g. New York water supply, Chicago Deep Tunnel, etc.
I wish the girl who rear ended me while talking on the phone as I was stopped at a traffic light last year had RTFA. Could it be that people talk on their phones regardless of what laws are passed or if they get a discount on usage? Distracted driving is real - even the cell phone companies agree.
Its distracted driving in any case. I for one don't want my life in the hands of random poor multi-taskers. In case you've missed out on countless tragic stories, check out http://focusdriven.org/
Huh, I heard he was a pretty cool family guy. He is even known to reply to email from his customers directly. What makes you say he's a douche?
Why not support SD card(s) on the hard drive and let the end user decide how much they need for specific applications?
If you do things in a secure manner (e.g. OWASP top 10) this should not be a big deal. Turning off JavaScript IMHO is awfully extreme and few would do it anyway. Obviously iFrames should be used judiciously because it opens you to a potential for cross site scripting and other undesirable things on your site. Awareness that linking to public libraries is intentional cross site scripting is critical too. Pre-populating content and controls from user supplied text must be filtered, and fields like passwords, credit card numbers and sensitive personal information should never be pre-populated. Thinking that your site visit history is private even without this attack is grossly delusional as there are already many ways this is already tracked, e.g. ad retargeting and Chrome not in incognito mode.