Fourth, we know from the launch of the car that the guidance systems and engine control are flaky. They failed to put the car on the intended orbit by a few million miles. Buggy software in a rocket is never good, but said buggy software controls the refuelling systems and we've seen where that goes. All over the landscape. Now, SpaceX and NASA want to do this with people on board.
Nothing to do with guidance or engine control. They just let the second stage engine burn to fuel exhaustion and it burned longer than expected. Except for the aborted ride-along satellite with the one ISS servicing mission because of the single engine failure in the first stage, all their launches have been precisely where the client wanted them. Including the spy sats.
And never mind that the car was successfully launched on the FIRST flight of a new rocket. Oh, having the two boosters land at the same time on a bullseye is some really crappy guidance and engine control, too, let's not forget about that...
Isn't California one of those places big on protecting people that "identify" as a certain gender? I'm stockpiling popcorn for when potential board members start identifying as women so they can get hired instead of actual women. Will be funny to see all the liberal heads explode.
As such this form factor pretty much requires the design of the server to be focused on the storage to the exclusion of other concerns.
Well, I got the impression that the 1PB setup would be for dedicated storage enclosures, anyway. Not sure there's many individual servers that need that much storage all to themselves.
I became so jaded eventually that my job morphed from protecting users from malicious actors, to just keeping a running CYA log of poor leadership decisions and whom to attribute them to when the shit hit the fan. no hardened binaries? no standardized two factor? no problem. Just dont expect me to sit quietly in the meeting.
Clueless developers and always getting, "it's too expensive" are what we have to deal with around here. All you can do is the best you can with the resources you have, and make sure keep a record of every stupid order you get from above. Every once in a blue moon, explicitly demanding something in writing (in writing) is enough to make management think twice, because most of them can smell a buck pass from miles away.
Unfortunately, actually getting compromised is about the only way to get the money you need to do anything. My coworkers and I have jokingly said we could best secure the company by hacking it ourselves just to scare management before someone else does... They won't pay for MDM? Start bringing in phones infected with the "Email the CEO's browsing history to everyone" worm. "Well, we brought this risk to your attention last year, but you said there was no money..."
Wait, up to 50.000 high-paying jobs? All I see are stories about how Amazon underpays their employees and how being a warehouse worker is dreadful. So, define high-paying I guess?
They said, "up to." Anything from zero to 50,000 high-paying jobs will satisfy that qualification without technically making them liars.
I'm guessing they're trying to avoid that. It's been 2 years since they've put out a new card. It'll be 3 or 4 by the time they finally do something. That's going to be a major generational leap, and when it happens it's going to render last gen's cards obsolete. They're worried about folks who stop buying cards waiting for the new stuff.
Most of the gamers I know (including me) have ALREADY stopped buying cards until the next gen comes out.
Proponents of the system say it can be used to alert officials to whenever sex offenders, suspended students, fired employees, suspected gang members, or anyone else placed on a school's "blacklist" enters the premises. Do you think facial recognition cameras belong in schools?
More likely it will be used to alert officials whenever the system mis-identifies random students as sex offenders, suspended, fired employees, or gang members.
In fact, if these are in jr. high and high schools, remember that you have a building full of mischievous teenagers that will probably not miss an opportunity to subtly troll the algorithms. If you want to cause disruptions without getting in trouble, what better way than to have the authorities cause the disruption for you? Couple a few of those with parents that have the resources to hire lawyers, and it'll probably cost a lot more than $4M.
...and now that the current lineup is old they will probably be waiting for the next version to come out.
Definitely this... I just built a new gaming rig two weeks ago, and swapped my 3-year-old 970 GTX into the new system. Nothing available right now is a sensible upgrade for the price, and the coy comments about a new GPU might as well have been, "You'd be an idiot to buy the current gen right now. We have new stuff, but it won't be available until we sell the old inventory to suckers."
I know a few others doing the same. They really want to upgrade, but they're not going to buy the current gen, because it's too old now.
If some mad scientist create some lab monster that produces lots of lethal toxins, that synthetic virus is at a high risk of killing the host without having had any chance to spread.
Wouldn't that kind of depend on the toxin? Take something lie acetaminophen: very safe until a threshold is passed, and then it suddenly becomes very deadly (a few hours to get an antidote, or you need a liver transplant to survive). The virus could have plenty of time with no symptoms to spread itself. Probably very hard to pull of something that specific, though, and not very likely to happen.
"Grayshift has gone to great lengths to future proof their technology and stated that they have already defeated this security feature in the beta build"
Umm, if true, how stupid of them to say it.
Or.... they HAVEN'T figured it out, and are trying to get Apple to change something to "fix" it, and possibly introduce a bug/way in with the additional changes...
The best alternative is probably 250 million electric cars with their 100kWh batteries. My back of the envelope calculations (250 million cars, 125 million households, ~30kWh/day/household) means that's enough storage to run the entire residential load for almost a week.
Other interesting thing about cars, is that they tend to congregate where the people are, which is often where the power use is.
This is very true. If you discount the flashy LED displays (which are extremely impressive), the materials and patterns of the interior are very underwhelming considering the price of the car. Step into an equivalently priced Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Jaguar etc. and you'll instantly feel, smell, and see much better quality interiors.
I own an Audi (2015) and a Porsche (2008), and I've been in a Model S (2016). The S is about equivalent to the Audi (a little better, maybe), and much better than the Porsche as far as interior quality goes.
Mercedes, though, (the upper tiers, anyway) generally seem to have better interiors in general, not just compared to Tesla.
My phone has several very good microphones, as does my computer. Both devices also have extremely good cameras.
Neither of those devices are designed with the primary purpose of recording everything that goes on around them at all times, and then sending it off to some third party. They *could* do that, but at least they're not as default behavior.
Tesla is partially at fault for this bad press. They call their system "autopilot", which to the general public means "this thing drives all by itself". But that's explicitly not what it does. It drives without human intervention only in specific conditions.
I expect aircraft pilots to know the difference, but not the general public.
That's the general public's fault for not knowing what an "autopilot" in an aircraft does... It dumbly follows a set heading/altitude/speed, or similarly dumbly follows a GPS route/speed (with an error of much more than the average lane width, probably), and knows enough (with some pilot input) to change direction/altitude within the capabilities of the aircraft. If there's a mountain or other aircraft in the way, it will happily fly right into it for you.
SOME of them can also use a bunch of expensive, precision radios to position themselves accurately enough to land on a runway outfitted with them. In most conditions.
So the only way to get ahead is to use your current job as a spring board into something better.
This has been the case forever. If you're not doing this, you're doing it wrong. When you're looking for a job, you should actually be looking for one that will help you learn what you need for the job after that.
So the design choices not around sound design but design around idiots, how to make a device idiot proof, reliable and low cost. Want to make a Tesla vehicle idiot proof, then don't install the batteries and let the idiots admire the car in their drive way and pose with it in front of passers by.
If only there was a way to prevent installing the idiot...:P
This hasn't been the case for years as processor development has slowed. My desktop is coming up on two years, and it would still crush a new $400 computer Heck, a 5 year old high end computer would still be competitive with a $400 computer in most tasks.
My PC will be three years old this summer... I looked at replacing it, and had a very hard time building something that would have a noticeable performance gain at ANY price (at least given that I need single-core performance for gaming). The only reason I was looking at all was because I need the hardware to replace my old Linux server (which is a 6-7 year old i5/16GB box that's also still perfectly fine, but I need to do a complete OS refresh/rebuild, so I might as well update the hardware at the same time).
Because getting jerked around by a computer sucks.
Implying you're getting jerked around. If this computer is no different than a human, then hang up on them if you're being jerked around. Or maybe they are making an appointment with you for their owner.
Do you hate secretaries too?
There's no way Google would allow this to jerk anyone around, or be anywhere near as abusive as an actual human can be. In fact, I predict the service industry workers will prefer dealing with Duplex rather than rude humans directly.
Just like I disabled TouchID and the passcode. I just want easy access.
I want the opposite - I want to be able to configure those 7 days down to six hours. Or however long I want. So yes, this should be a user decision, not a hardcoded value pulled out of some Apple guy's derriere.
How about zero seconds... If I plug my Android phone into my PC, it won't connect via USB if it's locked, only charge. Doesn't matter if I was on it and hit the lock button two seconds earlier.
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Fourth, we know from the launch of the car that the guidance systems and engine control are flaky. They failed to put the car on the intended orbit by a few million miles. Buggy software in a rocket is never good, but said buggy software controls the refuelling systems and we've seen where that goes. All over the landscape. Now, SpaceX and NASA want to do this with people on board.
Nothing to do with guidance or engine control. They just let the second stage engine burn to fuel exhaustion and it burned longer than expected. Except for the aborted ride-along satellite with the one ISS servicing mission because of the single engine failure in the first stage, all their launches have been precisely where the client wanted them. Including the spy sats.
And never mind that the car was successfully launched on the FIRST flight of a new rocket. Oh, having the two boosters land at the same time on a bullseye is some really crappy guidance and engine control, too, let's not forget about that...
"...Facebook and Google are and aren't doing to stop the spread of viral misinformation."
They're not the ones sharing the stories and making them viral. The idiots complaining about the problem are the ones creating it.
"Socialism has been tried many times on many levels and it simply doesn't work."
It hasn't been tried many times.
Really? My city has socialist police and fire departments that work very well.
Isn't California one of those places big on protecting people that "identify" as a certain gender? I'm stockpiling popcorn for when potential board members start identifying as women so they can get hired instead of actual women. Will be funny to see all the liberal heads explode.
As such this form factor pretty much requires the design of the server to be focused on the storage to the exclusion of other concerns.
Well, I got the impression that the 1PB setup would be for dedicated storage enclosures, anyway. Not sure there's many individual servers that need that much storage all to themselves.
I became so jaded eventually that my job morphed from protecting users from malicious actors, to just keeping a running CYA log of poor leadership decisions and whom to attribute them to when the shit hit the fan. no hardened binaries? no standardized two factor? no problem. Just dont expect me to sit quietly in the meeting.
Clueless developers and always getting, "it's too expensive" are what we have to deal with around here. All you can do is the best you can with the resources you have, and make sure keep a record of every stupid order you get from above. Every once in a blue moon, explicitly demanding something in writing (in writing) is enough to make management think twice, because most of them can smell a buck pass from miles away.
Unfortunately, actually getting compromised is about the only way to get the money you need to do anything. My coworkers and I have jokingly said we could best secure the company by hacking it ourselves just to scare management before someone else does... They won't pay for MDM? Start bringing in phones infected with the "Email the CEO's browsing history to everyone" worm. "Well, we brought this risk to your attention last year, but you said there was no money..."
Wait, up to 50.000 high-paying jobs? All I see are stories about how Amazon underpays their employees and how being a warehouse worker is dreadful. So, define high-paying I guess?
They said, "up to." Anything from zero to 50,000 high-paying jobs will satisfy that qualification without technically making them liars.
"This got waaaay too much publicity, and was making us look bad, so we're going to try again later and be more sneaky about it."
I'm guessing they're trying to avoid that. It's been 2 years since they've put out a new card. It'll be 3 or 4 by the time they finally do something. That's going to be a major generational leap, and when it happens it's going to render last gen's cards obsolete. They're worried about folks who stop buying cards waiting for the new stuff.
Most of the gamers I know (including me) have ALREADY stopped buying cards until the next gen comes out.
The whole FA talks about "selling tickets" next year, but says absolutely nothing about when the purchasers would actually be able to USE them...
Not going to start holding my breath yet.
Proponents of the system say it can be used to alert officials to whenever sex offenders, suspended students, fired employees, suspected gang members, or anyone else placed on a school's "blacklist" enters the premises. Do you think facial recognition cameras belong in schools?
More likely it will be used to alert officials whenever the system mis-identifies random students as sex offenders, suspended, fired employees, or gang members.
In fact, if these are in jr. high and high schools, remember that you have a building full of mischievous teenagers that will probably not miss an opportunity to subtly troll the algorithms. If you want to cause disruptions without getting in trouble, what better way than to have the authorities cause the disruption for you? Couple a few of those with parents that have the resources to hire lawyers, and it'll probably cost a lot more than $4M.
...and now that the current lineup is old they will probably be waiting for the next version to come out.
Definitely this... I just built a new gaming rig two weeks ago, and swapped my 3-year-old 970 GTX into the new system. Nothing available right now is a sensible upgrade for the price, and the coy comments about a new GPU might as well have been, "You'd be an idiot to buy the current gen right now. We have new stuff, but it won't be available until we sell the old inventory to suckers."
I know a few others doing the same. They really want to upgrade, but they're not going to buy the current gen, because it's too old now.
If some mad scientist create some lab monster that produces lots of lethal toxins, that synthetic virus is at a high risk of killing the host without having had any chance to spread.
Wouldn't that kind of depend on the toxin? Take something lie acetaminophen: very safe until a threshold is passed, and then it suddenly becomes very deadly (a few hours to get an antidote, or you need a liver transplant to survive). The virus could have plenty of time with no symptoms to spread itself. Probably very hard to pull of something that specific, though, and not very likely to happen.
"Grayshift has gone to great lengths to future proof their technology and stated that they have already defeated this security feature in the beta build"
Umm, if true, how stupid of them to say it.
Or.... they HAVEN'T figured it out, and are trying to get Apple to change something to "fix" it, and possibly introduce a bug/way in with the additional changes...
I now need a "designated Uber-summoner"? :P
That said, the app is so bad and frustrating (keeps deleting input, etc.) that I probably would look drunk using it even stone sober...
The best alternative is probably 250 million electric cars with their 100kWh batteries. My back of the envelope calculations (250 million cars, 125 million households, ~30kWh/day/household) means that's enough storage to run the entire residential load for almost a week.
Other interesting thing about cars, is that they tend to congregate where the people are, which is often where the power use is.
This is very true. If you discount the flashy LED displays (which are extremely impressive), the materials and patterns of the interior are very underwhelming considering the price of the car. Step into an equivalently priced Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Jaguar etc. and you'll instantly feel, smell, and see much better quality interiors.
I own an Audi (2015) and a Porsche (2008), and I've been in a Model S (2016). The S is about equivalent to the Audi (a little better, maybe), and much better than the Porsche as far as interior quality goes.
Mercedes, though, (the upper tiers, anyway) generally seem to have better interiors in general, not just compared to Tesla.
My phone has several very good microphones, as does my computer. Both devices also have extremely good cameras.
Neither of those devices are designed with the primary purpose of recording everything that goes on around them at all times, and then sending it off to some third party. They *could* do that, but at least they're not as default behavior.
Tesla is partially at fault for this bad press. They call their system "autopilot", which to the general public means "this thing drives all by itself". But that's explicitly not what it does. It drives without human intervention only in specific conditions.
I expect aircraft pilots to know the difference, but not the general public.
That's the general public's fault for not knowing what an "autopilot" in an aircraft does... It dumbly follows a set heading/altitude/speed, or similarly dumbly follows a GPS route/speed (with an error of much more than the average lane width, probably), and knows enough (with some pilot input) to change direction/altitude within the capabilities of the aircraft. If there's a mountain or other aircraft in the way, it will happily fly right into it for you.
SOME of them can also use a bunch of expensive, precision radios to position themselves accurately enough to land on a runway outfitted with them. In most conditions.
So the only way to get ahead is to use your current job as a spring board into something better.
This has been the case forever. If you're not doing this, you're doing it wrong. When you're looking for a job, you should actually be looking for one that will help you learn what you need for the job after that.
So the design choices not around sound design but design around idiots, how to make a device idiot proof, reliable and low cost. Want to make a Tesla vehicle idiot proof, then don't install the batteries and let the idiots admire the car in their drive way and pose with it in front of passers by.
If only there was a way to prevent installing the idiot... :P
This hasn't been the case for years as processor development has slowed. My desktop is coming up on two years, and it would still crush a new $400 computer Heck, a 5 year old high end computer would still be competitive with a $400 computer in most tasks.
My PC will be three years old this summer... I looked at replacing it, and had a very hard time building something that would have a noticeable performance gain at ANY price (at least given that I need single-core performance for gaming). The only reason I was looking at all was because I need the hardware to replace my old Linux server (which is a 6-7 year old i5/16GB box that's also still perfectly fine, but I need to do a complete OS refresh/rebuild, so I might as well update the hardware at the same time).
Use helium gas.
Then at least death row inmates could turn their last minutes into a comedy skit, should they wish.
I'd much prefer sulfur hexaflouride... Much better for making last-minute threats.
Because getting jerked around by a computer sucks.
Implying you're getting jerked around. If this computer is no different than a human, then hang up on them if you're being jerked around. Or maybe they are making an appointment with you for their owner.
Do you hate secretaries too?
There's no way Google would allow this to jerk anyone around, or be anywhere near as abusive as an actual human can be. In fact, I predict the service industry workers will prefer dealing with Duplex rather than rude humans directly.
As long as I can disable it...
Just like I disabled TouchID and the passcode. I just want easy access.
I want the opposite - I want to be able to configure those 7 days down to six hours. Or however long I want.
So yes, this should be a user decision, not a hardcoded value pulled out of some Apple guy's derriere.
How about zero seconds... If I plug my Android phone into my PC, it won't connect via USB if it's locked, only charge. Doesn't matter if I was on it and hit the lock button two seconds earlier.