There seems to be a lot of confusion by folks commenting.
Nest Secure is a home security hub. Nest Thermostat is a thermostat.
The Nest Secure "base station" is a keypad device with various sensors that acts as both a security component as well as a security "base station". Features of the Nest Secure include the ability to listen for "breaking glass", which can be an indicator of a break-in when the alarm is set. Other Nest security components (such as door/window & motion detectors) communicate back to the Nest Secure "base station".
So anyone buying a Nest Secure already knows it listens, as well as tracking their motion, opening/closing of doors, along with whenever they leave or come home... That is the PURPOSE of the damn thing.
As far as inactivate hardware features go - this is not uncommon. The Google Hub shipped as a wifi router, but included additional hardware that could be "software activated" later allowing the Hub to communicate with other protocols such as zigbee & bluetooth (never was). My Tesla model S shipped in 2013 with "inactivate" hardware, such as an onboard wifi AP & 4G LTE that would be enabled at "some future time" (never was). .
A Mooney M20 has a top speed of 165 knots and a typical cruising speed of around 130. If this is intended to provide facts why not show the results of a collision at 100, 130, or 165... nah, letâ(TM)s show almost 250 mph so we can hype the shit out of this and win the argument with people who donâ(TM)t actually know or understand what they are seeing. Maybe for the next test slam a drone into a perfectly perpendicular windshield at 1200 mph, thatâ(TM)ll really scare some folks into supporting more regulations.
Full disclosure: I am a pilot with hundreds of hours of experience. I also fly RC and build my own self piloting aircraft. I have some minor/small concerns about midair collisions with typical consumer drones, but I am far more worried about this power grab by the FAA and the long term impact it will have.
Peter Strozk, the FBI boss in the news for saying he would "stop Trump" from becoming President, was the person who paid Stefan Halper as an FBI informant and placed him inside the Trump campaign.
Stefan Halper then used his influence inside the campaign to recommend and hire Carter Page, who is now accused of being a Russian spy.
So the trail of facts seems to show a very very different story.
1. FBI's boss (Peter Strozk) hires a mole 2. FBI place mole inside Trump campaign (due to fear of russia) 3. FBI Mole recommends and hires a Russian spy (Carter Page) 4. FBI gets warrants to spy on campaign based on Russian spy "infiltrating" the campaign - Peter Strozk (see 1) leads the investigation 5. Opponents claim Trump colluded with Russians and deny FBI bias.
If Occam's razor can provide a better way to interpret these facts, please share.
Google is NOT giving anyone access to users email inboxes. Period. Full stop. End of story. Shame on Slashdot editors for ever allowing this submission.
USERS are giving 3rd party sites access to their own email by clicking "accept" on OAUTH2 requests that explicitly tell the user in big bold letters that by clicking OK they will be giving a 3rd party access to "VIEW MANAGE AND DELETE YOUR EMAIL, COMPOSE AND SEND NEW EMAIL". This isn't misleading, subtle, or accidental access - it is gross incompetence on the part of the user.
Nuclear produces 805 TWh, which makes it hard to be to be excited by 2.5 gigawatts of solar. Total solar output in the US, after two decades of investment, is less than 2 TWh.
Solar may have long term viability in certain use cases, but nuclear is clearly the way to produce massive amounts of reliable and clean energy.
>>"We know they might not mean everything they're saying," said Sarah Meyer, the MTA's customer-service chief. But, "I can't personally change the signaling system."
This response from the MTA media chief defines what is wrong.
When an organization like MTA creates a social media team, they need to empower them and integrate them with senior management and decision makers. What good is getting feedback from your customers if the people getting the feedback are not tightly integrated with management to ensure a good feedback loop.
This isn't customer relations or even PR - its just creating a useless and pointless job. Customers might as well be tweeting to a wall.
For those commenting that Google is discovering that laying fiber is just "too expensive", that is flat out incorrect.
The truth is, laying fiber is the cheap and easy part. The difficult, time consuming and expensive part is dealing with all the politicians and regulations.
It used to cost $3k to deploy fiber to a home, its now down to $500. With a $100/month service, that is a very attractive business model. However, when you spend years arguing with entrenched competitors over right of way on poles and politicians who are unable or unwilling to fix the problem, it is very hard to make progress to reach your potential customers who are begging for competition and options.
In order to determine how many Americans, they would have to "unmask" every individual on every interception, which means identifying everyone - American and non-American. Otherwise, how can you know how many of the intercepted individuals were Americans? Intelligence agencies are forbidden by law from unmasking non-targets of 702 intercepts unless absolutely necessary in order to not violate Fourth Amendment protections.
In seems insane to think we can wiretap an American (well, technically someone who is talking to one or more Americans) but as long as we don't identify the American it isn't spying on them. But, from the legal perspective facing an intelligence Director, I can understand his position.
This whole 702 unmasking feels an awful lot like "fishing expeditions" which, in other situations, are illegal.
In all fairness, I believe you are conflating AI with AGI.
Artificial intelligence has been dramatically improving at a staggering pace and is focused on singular tasks. Artificial "General" Intelligence is still nowhere to be seen on the current technological horizon, and would allow a computer to be amazing at any number of tasks.
That has not stopped writers, who earned their IT chops in a movie theater, from repeatedly suggesting that any AI that can drive a car or beat a World Master Go player is just steps away from initiating a discussion about its personal dreams and ambitions.
"helps enable a world where you don't need to hire a lobbyist"
Billionaires fund a lobby to "help the little guy" with issues that "matter". They are advertising their efforts as altruism, while in reality selling products, corruption and partisan politics.
Meanwhile, the average citizens are sending their money to the ACLU and the NRA to protect the guarantees in the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
"...free education and free healthcare for 700 low-income students from the Palo Alto..."
Low-income in Palo Alto? That is like offering a free house to everyone living on Mars.
A few facts about Palo Alto: Median home value: > $2,500,000 Median Income: $125,000/yr Per Capita Income: $80,000/yr Bachelor's degree or higher: 80% Demographics: 94% white or asian.
I guess this is what passes for poor struggling working class to Billionaires in 2015.
A couple of years ago, your probably asked why a phone needed sensors - like gyros, compass, temperature, motion, fingerprints, cameras, etc.
If you want to do really innovative and cool stuff, you need a way for the computer to be aware of the world around it. If you are a "car" system and you want to make really useful and cool apps for cars, then things like speed, g-forces, braking, turn signals, GPS, temperature and other sensors all become really essential.
As a Googler, I can tell you we ARE taxed for meals, to the tune of $4,650.00 in 2012. The company then pays a 'gross up' to make it a non-event for the employees. So all this complaining about 'free lunches' is entirely off-track, and this Professor of Law has demonstrated he doesn't know how to do basic research before talking.
Parent comment is right on the mark! Except for the 5%... Try 30-40%. And yeah, I bet GroupOn is looking back on that offer from Google and wishing they would have taken it.
A google service that replicates your data to multiple datacenters and dozens of servers, provides tape backup, and gives you easy and secure accessibility from anywhere... that is "the cloud".
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There seems to be a lot of confusion by folks commenting.
Nest Secure is a home security hub.
Nest Thermostat is a thermostat.
The Nest Secure "base station" is a keypad device with various sensors that acts as both a security component as well as a security "base station". Features of the Nest Secure include the ability to listen for "breaking glass", which can be an indicator of a break-in when the alarm is set. Other Nest security components (such as door/window & motion detectors) communicate back to the Nest Secure "base station".
So anyone buying a Nest Secure already knows it listens, as well as tracking their motion, opening/closing of doors, along with whenever they leave or come home... That is the PURPOSE of the damn thing.
As far as inactivate hardware features go - this is not uncommon. The Google Hub shipped as a wifi router, but included additional hardware that could be "software activated" later allowing the Hub to communicate with other protocols such as zigbee & bluetooth (never was). My Tesla model S shipped in 2013 with "inactivate" hardware, such as an onboard wifi AP & 4G LTE that would be enabled at "some future time" (never was).
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>...Bitcoin has been rather dull and stable...
Exactly what one wants to see in a store of value.
Let's reflect on anti-bitcoin sentiment:
Volatile and erratic == bitcoin bad
Dull and stable == bitcoin bad
A Mooney M20 has a top speed of 165 knots and a typical cruising speed of around 130. If this is intended to provide facts why not show the results of a collision at 100, 130, or 165... nah, letâ(TM)s show almost 250 mph so we can hype the shit out of this and win the argument with people who donâ(TM)t actually know or understand what they are seeing. Maybe for the next test slam a drone into a perfectly perpendicular windshield at 1200 mph, thatâ(TM)ll really scare some folks into supporting more regulations.
Full disclosure: I am a pilot with hundreds of hours of experience. I also fly RC and build my own self piloting aircraft. I have some minor/small concerns about midair collisions with typical consumer drones, but I am far more worried about this power grab by the FAA and the long term impact it will have.
It is important to include all relevant facts.
Peter Strozk, the FBI boss in the news for saying he would "stop Trump" from becoming President, was the person who paid Stefan Halper as an FBI informant and placed him inside the Trump campaign.
Stefan Halper then used his influence inside the campaign to recommend and hire Carter Page, who is now accused of being a Russian spy.
So the trail of facts seems to show a very very different story.
1. FBI's boss (Peter Strozk) hires a mole
2. FBI place mole inside Trump campaign (due to fear of russia)
3. FBI Mole recommends and hires a Russian spy (Carter Page)
4. FBI gets warrants to spy on campaign based on Russian spy "infiltrating" the campaign - Peter Strozk (see 1) leads the investigation
5. Opponents claim Trump colluded with Russians and deny FBI bias.
If Occam's razor can provide a better way to interpret these facts, please share.
Google is NOT giving anyone access to users email inboxes. Period. Full stop. End of story. Shame on Slashdot editors for ever allowing this submission.
USERS are giving 3rd party sites access to their own email by clicking "accept" on OAUTH2 requests that explicitly tell the user in big bold letters that by clicking OK they will be giving a 3rd party access to "VIEW MANAGE AND DELETE YOUR EMAIL, COMPOSE AND SEND NEW EMAIL". This isn't misleading, subtle, or accidental access - it is gross incompetence on the part of the user.
Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But fake news generates fake headlines and fake outrage which leads to higher click-thru rates and more ad impressions for the website.
Nuclear produces 805 TWh, which makes it hard to be to be excited by 2.5 gigawatts of solar. Total solar output in the US, after two decades of investment, is less than 2 TWh.
Solar may have long term viability in certain use cases, but nuclear is clearly the way to produce massive amounts of reliable and clean energy.
>$600 per year x 50 years = $30,000. Where do you get interest rates that makes those savings become $1,000,000?
$50/month for 50 years = $30,000
$50/month for 50 years earning 9.99% returns* = $869,950.48 (not a million, but close enough).
In retirement, this can very easily provide and inflation protected $44,000/yr in additional income.
* S&P 500 30 year period returns (http://www.moneychimp.com/calculator/compound_interest_calculator.htm)
1926-1956: +10.77%
1956-1986: +9.63%
1986-2016: +9.99%
** 7% growth - 2% inflation = 5% or $44,000/yr
"...watching more than 7 hours and 50 minutes per household per day"
I suspect people aren't "watching" as much as just leaving a TV playing in the background. To Nielsen, they would appear as the same thing.
>>"We know they might not mean everything they're saying," said Sarah Meyer, the MTA's customer-service chief. But, "I can't personally change the signaling system."
This response from the MTA media chief defines what is wrong.
When an organization like MTA creates a social media team, they need to empower them and integrate them with senior management and decision makers. What good is getting feedback from your customers if the people getting the feedback are not tightly integrated with management to ensure a good feedback loop.
This isn't customer relations or even PR - its just creating a useless and pointless job. Customers might as well be tweeting to a wall.
For those commenting that Google is discovering that laying fiber is just "too expensive", that is flat out incorrect.
The truth is, laying fiber is the cheap and easy part.
The difficult, time consuming and expensive part is dealing with all the politicians and regulations.
It used to cost $3k to deploy fiber to a home, its now down to $500. With a $100/month service, that is a very attractive business model. However, when you spend years arguing with entrenched competitors over right of way on poles and politicians who are unable or unwilling to fix the problem, it is very hard to make progress to reach your potential customers who are begging for competition and options.
"...they want the FCC to do its job and address the problem Congress created when it repealed..."
This is a grossly false assertion.
The FCC's job is to implement the law as directed by Congress, not the other way around.
>> "Infeasible", as in you just don't know?
In order to determine how many Americans, they would have to "unmask" every individual on every interception, which means identifying everyone - American and non-American. Otherwise, how can you know how many of the intercepted individuals were Americans? Intelligence agencies are forbidden by law from unmasking non-targets of 702 intercepts unless absolutely necessary in order to not violate Fourth Amendment protections.
In seems insane to think we can wiretap an American (well, technically someone who is talking to one or more Americans) but as long as we don't identify the American it isn't spying on them. But, from the legal perspective facing an intelligence Director, I can understand his position.
This whole 702 unmasking feels an awful lot like "fishing expeditions" which, in other situations, are illegal.
In all fairness, I believe you are conflating AI with AGI.
Artificial intelligence has been dramatically improving at a staggering pace and is focused on singular tasks. Artificial "General" Intelligence is still nowhere to be seen on the current technological horizon, and would allow a computer to be amazing at any number of tasks.
That has not stopped writers, who earned their IT chops in a movie theater, from repeatedly suggesting that any AI that can drive a car or beat a World Master Go player is just steps away from initiating a discussion about its personal dreams and ambitions.
"helps enable a world where you don't need to hire a lobbyist"
Billionaires fund a lobby to "help the little guy" with issues that "matter". They are advertising their efforts as altruism, while in reality selling products, corruption and partisan politics.
Meanwhile, the average citizens are sending their money to the ACLU and the NRA to protect the guarantees in the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
"...free education and free healthcare for 700 low-income students from the Palo Alto..."
Low-income in Palo Alto? That is like offering a free house to everyone living on Mars.
A few facts about Palo Alto:
Median home value: > $2,500,000
Median Income: $125,000/yr
Per Capita Income: $80,000/yr
Bachelor's degree or higher: 80%
Demographics: 94% white or asian.
I guess this is what passes for poor struggling working class to Billionaires in 2015.
A couple of years ago, your probably asked why a phone needed sensors - like gyros, compass, temperature, motion, fingerprints, cameras, etc.
If you want to do really innovative and cool stuff, you need a way for the computer to be aware of the world around it. If you are a "car" system and you want to make really useful and cool apps for cars, then things like speed, g-forces, braking, turn signals, GPS, temperature and other sensors all become really essential.
11 yr google veteran who has done 600+ interviews, confirming parent's statement.
As a Googler, I can tell you we ARE taxed for meals, to the tune of $4,650.00 in 2012. The company then pays a 'gross up' to make it a non-event for the employees. So all this complaining about 'free lunches' is entirely off-track, and this Professor of Law has demonstrated he doesn't know how to do basic research before talking.
Parent comment is right on the mark! Except for the 5%... Try 30-40%. And yeah, I bet GroupOn is looking back on that offer from Google and wishing they would have taken it.
Somewhat misleading. Read Google's actual comments: http://www.google.com/webelements/#!/translate
"For website translations, we encourage you to use the Google Translate Element."
http://www.google.com/webelements/#!/translate
So its not really gone, just a new way to use it.
Your local ISP's FTP server is not "the cloud".
A google service that replicates your data to multiple datacenters and dozens of servers, provides tape backup, and gives you easy and secure accessibility from anywhere... that is "the cloud".
and when you do go looking for it, those little ad boxes on the right come in real handy...
I put on my Druid robe and hat...
That is the same philosophy that said never try to stop airplane hijackers, just do what they say and you'll eventually be let go.
Of course, if the pirates read this they are going to say - 'hey, great idea. Why chase down these ships when we can just disable them.'
Now you can just use google maps as your GPS device to plan your trip.
Its awesome.