I'm just curious (no, didn't read your link)... Does this X-10 thing require special bulbs for setting colouration (RGB, light-temperature etc), or can it do that with regular off-the-shelf bulbs?
To be fair, with autonomous cars, they do not need to be perfect, just more reliable then human drivers.
I think you're underestimating people's reaction when the first incident involving autonomous cars result in a person's death. There will be a severe reaction, and lots of, "See, machine dangerous, must destroy machine", independently of whether they are 100x more reliable and safe.
Am thinking a killswitch, accessible en-mass via a carrier would make an interesting target for hackers - being able to inform a party that they have 72hrs to pay a sum money to a russian account, or have 10.000 customer-phones wiped.......gotta be someone out there ready to try this.
Here it would fall under the general rules regarding selling electronics - the firmware is specifically stated as being part of the electronic device, and therefore subject to the same requirements. If you've chosen to live in a 3rd world country where you can sign away consumer rights, and where known (severe) flaws are ignored trivially, thats really a reflection on you, not the party selling you a phone.
There is an unofficial Cyanogenmod version for my phone - the instructions for installing it is incomplete, and refers to multiple articles that basically lead in circles.
Not exactly QED: Most Android phones are unpatchable due to the carrier not giving a damn (for various reasons), the phone hardware being too old (or too low-end), and/or the manufactuer not giving a damn (they'd prefer you buy a new phone from them instead).
Should be trivial enough to remind the relevant party that if you get hacked from a severe bug they are aware of and not fixing, that you will hold them liable...
Try the music-video option on the PS3: 1 song per 2 ads, and the ads often are the same, or at least from the same company. (have let it run for a couple of hours, only getting ads for Braun!)
I'm not sure why anyone would use the stock firmware.
I'm going to go with, "because we want to buy a box, at a given price, and be done with it". Tinkering is all good and fine, but the majority of end-users just want shit that works.
From experience, Belkin also has a nice feature whereby wifi stops working after a certain amount of data has been transferred over it, requiring you to have a scheduled reboot setup for at least once a week.
yes - box was opened, inside was a building-brick. The other boxes were checked, contained actual laptops. Was a fun joke, at least for those of us that didn't have to call up the Dell Account Manager and explain it.
It was 7 years ago, while I was visiting an American client's factory in an African country (company of 120K+ employees) - they had, at the time, Dell as a significant (but not exclusive) contractor for PCs, Laptops and servers. I do not know where the laptops were sent from, but they were ordered directly from Dell via the company's contract with Dell. (i.e., it may have been an intermediary, that "swapped things around", but any such agent would have been contracted by Dell and thus still Dell's responsibility).
Having literally seen a brick received in a Dell laptop box, instead of the purchased laptop, I'm thinking you're expecting too much of Dell's Q/A process.
(note: the 3 other boxes contained actual laptops.)
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I'm just curious (no, didn't read your link)...
Does this X-10 thing require special bulbs for setting colouration (RGB, light-temperature etc), or can it do that with regular off-the-shelf bulbs?
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1000mA, at least for some of the devices I have....
Note: I think Apple is "in compliance", since they have a 29.99 EUR adapter last I checked.
I'm still not 100% sure as to WHY we should work on changing their minds ...
There was (is?) specifically a plugin for Google Maps to put a Beta logo on it, for those that miss the days it was in Beta.....
To be fair, with autonomous cars, they do not need to be perfect, just more reliable then human drivers.
I think you're underestimating people's reaction when the first incident involving autonomous cars result in a person's death. There will be a severe reaction, and lots of, "See, machine dangerous, must destroy machine", independently of whether they are 100x more reliable and safe.
See: Scott Manly's attemp at orbit using SRBs - did pretty OK.
I'm still trying to figure out a seperatron-based launch-system.
I have AdBlock set to block a couple of facebook domains wholesale ... that sped up my browser quite noticeably.
Warning label: Phone may spontaneously combust if stolen.
Am thinking a killswitch, accessible en-mass via a carrier would make an interesting target for hackers - being able to inform a party that they have 72hrs to pay a sum money to a russian account, or have 10.000 customer-phones wiped .... ...gotta be someone out there ready to try this.
Shite, that map is scary - if the water raises 1 mm, the fjord where I grew up will be flooded! All that water, covered by 1mm water ...
Here it would fall under the general rules regarding selling electronics - the firmware is specifically stated as being part of the electronic device, and therefore subject to the same requirements.
If you've chosen to live in a 3rd world country where you can sign away consumer rights, and where known (severe) flaws are ignored trivially, thats really a reflection on you, not the party selling you a phone.
There is an unofficial Cyanogenmod version for my phone - the instructions for installing it is incomplete, and refers to multiple articles that basically lead in circles.
Not exactly QED: Most Android phones are unpatchable due to the carrier not giving a damn (for various reasons), the phone hardware being too old (or too low-end), and/or the manufactuer not giving a damn (they'd prefer you buy a new phone from them instead).
Should be trivial enough to remind the relevant party that if you get hacked from a severe bug they are aware of and not fixing, that you will hold them liable...
Try the music-video option on the PS3: 1 song per 2 ads, and the ads often are the same, or at least from the same company.
(have let it run for a couple of hours, only getting ads for Braun!)
I'm not sure why anyone would use the stock firmware.
I'm going to go with, "because we want to buy a box, at a given price, and be done with it".
Tinkering is all good and fine, but the majority of end-users just want shit that works.
Because I am an American [...], I didn't want to be presumptuous.
So much ... this is ... words ... brain ... that ...
Welcome to American politics, where politicians say they are for something, but are really just out for their own self interest.
Curious: Why did you include the word "American" in that sentence?
Start out with being not-stupid about reusing some of the waste (Nuclear reprocessing).
Then at least, you have a lot less waste.
From experience, Belkin also has a nice feature whereby wifi stops working after a certain amount of data has been transferred over it, requiring you to have a scheduled reboot setup for at least once a week.
Propose legislation that says people, incl lawmakers, are responsible for their own stupidity, when imposed on others...
yes - box was opened, inside was a building-brick. The other boxes were checked, contained actual laptops.
Was a fun joke, at least for those of us that didn't have to call up the Dell Account Manager and explain it.
It was 7 years ago, while I was visiting an American client's factory in an African country (company of 120K+ employees) - they had, at the time, Dell as a significant (but not exclusive) contractor for PCs, Laptops and servers. I do not know where the laptops were sent from, but they were ordered directly from Dell via the company's contract with Dell.
(i.e., it may have been an intermediary, that "swapped things around", but any such agent would have been contracted by Dell and thus still Dell's responsibility).
I'd see if I can dig out the picture, but I'd observe that you're an anonymous coward, so making it hard to put up picture.
Meanwhile, yes, it DID happen.
Having literally seen a brick received in a Dell laptop box, instead of the purchased laptop, I'm thinking you're expecting too much of Dell's Q/A process.
(note: the 3 other boxes contained actual laptops.)