" I'm really hoping the next design fad comes along asap."
Amen Brother!!! And let's hope it includes using higher contrast colors. I'm really tired of light-blue and/or light-gray on white. Can't imagine why anyone thinks that's an appropriate way to present content..
IF I were the email provider, I'd hire lawyer and pay him/her to tell me what to do. Most likely, he/she will contact the authorities, outline the options, and let THEM decide what to do. No matter what they do, said email provider will almost certainly be sued by someone -- very likely lots of someones.
How about a proper control group? You know, like a group of people who has a smartphone but is not addicted to it?
The group of non-addicted smartphone users is the Null Set.
Seriously, I imagine the study is flawed. But I'd like it to be true. I never anticipated the extent to which cell phones in general and smart phones in particular were going to be a monumental annoyance to those who share the planet with their users.
5. The Windows configuration screens are pretty opaque. If you know you have to turn SMB1 off, it's probably not hard to do, but how would anyone not gifted with clairvoyance know months or years ago when the camera was set up to do that?. 6. Turning stuff off with no good reason often is a great way to break things that appears to be unrelated Example: Turning off icmp on a router breaks PMTUD thereby probably leading to blackhole routing failures for those trying to talk through the router.
"But for this type of non user device why on earth would you put a desktop OS on it?"
Reasonable question, but go check the Internet and see how many images you can find in 3 minutes of BSOD screens on kiosks, airport arrival/departure screens, ATMs, etc.
You do need an OS for most everything except carefully hand crafted embedded systems. And even there you need an OS for development and maintenance. It's not surprising that sometimes the OS is Windows although -- all other things being equal -- it wouldn't be my first choice.
The problem is described as repeated camera reboots. Quite likely the cameras worked as well as ever (not necessarily all that well) when they were working. They just weren't working much of the time. If it is established that's the case, probably the tickets will be reissued. If, OTOH there's any chance that the reboots cause a problem. If for example, there is a recalibration period after reboot that turns out upon scrutiny to be too short, the tickets presumably won't be reissued.
I expect if you program in a bit of security, by far the easiest attack is to inject a few spurious messages that causes a few cars to shut down. Ordinary congestion will take care of everything else. The result. Complete gridlock.
This is a very good idea. Without this, vehicles will have to rely on turn signals and other more subtle cues to determine the probable actions of other cars. I imagine they'll be pretty good at guessing because initially, most cars will not have V2V communications.
One thing though. How does your 2025 Belchfire 2600 know that the vehicle it is negotiatiating right of way with is the car now entering the intersection and not the car three cars back traveling in the opposite direction?
Milankovic perturbations don't cause the Earth to get less sun. They cause the sunlight to be experienced in somewhat different places in different seasons. The total irradiation received by the Earth doesn't change. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Was a time when the academics were rioting to prevent "nuclear winter" because it would have, they claimed, exactly the same results they are now trying to cause."
Richard Feynman on Nuclear Winter. "I don't think these people know what they are talking about." And it turns out -- based on the very limited global impact of the Kuwaiti oil well fires -- that Feynman was largely right, (Caveat: Presumably the nuclear winter folks learned something and have a better grip today).
"I have a better idea. They should leave this planet in one piece and go test their experimental climate change devices on Venus."
Well, they're hardly likely to make Venus LESS habitable. The current record for a probe on Venus is what? 2 hours?. Note that even if they can get rid of most of the crushing atmosphere and the sulfuric acid, Venus is awfully close to the sun and also rotates quite slowly. Doesn't seem to be a good candidate for terraforming.
"Do nothing, and the nanoparticles will return to earth in several years,"
Could be.
What if they don't?
And, incidentally, won't the perpetrators of this scheme be sued for the damages caused by every anomalous weather event on the planet? (or at least in the US where lawsuits are our national hobby)
What we need is a second Earth where we can production test ideas like this. Let's build one. Doing so would be only slightly more difficult than most of the ideas being batted around be "futurists". I'm sure Elon Musk can promise to build it for less than $150B (roughly the cost in current dollars of Apollo, the Space Shuttle, and the ISS).
No reflection on Linus Torvalds who I greatly admire, but BTL who created Unix and GNU who cloned the Unix core utilities as open source software surely deserve a large share of the credit.for modern Linux.
"The problem is that animals cannot talk to us. We are too stupid to understand them."
A point that our dogs have made to us (non-verbally) on numerous occasions. But their feeling seems to be that even though the average human ranks somewhere between cats and carrots on the native intelligence scale, it is sometimes possible to convey a few basic thoughts to us by repeating the same actions over and over... and over..
Some (I think most) dogs understand words -- often quite a few of them. We talk to ours all the time. We didn't realize how much we depended on verbal communication with our dogs until our old terrier went deaf. The German Shepard that preceded the terrier understood perfectly well that words prefixed with "Do" were commands/suggestions directed to her.
The terrier is gone now and has been replaced by a six year old terrier from the animal shelter who clearly is not used to verbal communication. But she's catching on fast.
Yes, if you plan to build something that fits properly, you need to know that the advertised dimensions are not accurate and allow for it. That doesn't obviate the fact that the bastards are lying. In general, manufacturers are not allowed to redefine units of measure. If they shrink your soft drink from 12 fl oz (355ml) to 10fl oz (296ml), the label will say so. Lumber is an unhappy exception.
Would you care to bet that, barring interference from the legal system, 50 years from now, standard 2x4s won't be significantly smaller than today's standards?
Earthquakes floods, termites and very high winds take care of a few as well. But wooden buildings stand up to earth motion -- unlike masonry. BTW, are bricks shrinking also? Wouldn't surprise me. Another lawsuit there if this one succeeds?
But to make the analogy closer to lumber, a 20GB drive would have had 19GB usable in 2011, 18GB in 2013, 16GB in 2014, and 14GB usable today. There really are buildings out there built say 80 years ago where the 2x4s actually measure 2 inches by four inches.
The military does lots of stuff in similar problem domains with little or no need for AI. There are lots of problems where Artificial Intelligence might produce great results, but commanding large, powerful, vehicles in a complex space with huge liability concerns isn't one that I personally would be all that comfortable with.
There are a number of vehicles in the $25K-$33K price range that have forward collision warning systems (and lane keeping?) that probably work as well as Tesla's. Maybe better. And they don't mislead you into thinking the car will drive itself. Heck, there are aftermarket systems that you can probably install in a 1950 Plymouth if you really want to. (Google RD-149) They cost $1000-$2000USD. Do they work? Damned if I know.
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" I'm really hoping the next design fad comes along asap."
Amen Brother!!! And let's hope it includes using higher contrast colors. I'm really tired of light-blue and/or light-gray on white. Can't imagine why anyone thinks that's an appropriate way to present content..
IF I were the email provider, I'd hire lawyer and pay him/her to tell me what to do. Most likely, he/she will contact the authorities, outline the options, and let THEM decide what to do. No matter what they do, said email provider will almost certainly be sued by someone -- very likely lots of someones.
The group of non-addicted smartphone users is the Null Set.
Seriously, I imagine the study is flawed. But I'd like it to be true. I never anticipated the extent to which cell phones in general and smart phones in particular were going to be a monumental annoyance to those who share the planet with their users.
The weren't using it. But it was within 20 meters and not secured in its Kryptonite case.
5. The Windows configuration screens are pretty opaque. If you know you have to turn SMB1 off, it's probably not hard to do, but how would anyone not gifted with clairvoyance know months or years ago when the camera was set up to do that?.
6. Turning stuff off with no good reason often is a great way to break things that appears to be unrelated Example: Turning off icmp on a router breaks PMTUD thereby probably leading to blackhole routing failures for those trying to talk through the router.
"But for this type of non user device why on earth would you put a desktop OS on it?"
Reasonable question, but go check the Internet and see how many images you can find in 3 minutes of BSOD screens on kiosks, airport arrival/departure screens, ATMs, etc.
You do need an OS for most everything except carefully hand crafted embedded systems. And even there you need an OS for development and maintenance. It's not surprising that sometimes the OS is Windows although -- all other things being equal -- it wouldn't be my first choice.
The problem is described as repeated camera reboots. Quite likely the cameras worked as well as ever (not necessarily all that well) when they were working. They just weren't working much of the time. If it is established that's the case, probably the tickets will be reissued. If, OTOH there's any chance that the reboots cause a problem. If for example, there is a recalibration period after reboot that turns out upon scrutiny to be too short, the tickets presumably won't be reissued.
I expect if you program in a bit of security, by far the easiest attack is to inject a few spurious messages that causes a few cars to shut down. Ordinary congestion will take care of everything else. The result. Complete gridlock.
This is a very good idea. Without this, vehicles will have to rely on turn signals and other more subtle cues to determine the probable actions of other cars. I imagine they'll be pretty good at guessing because initially, most cars will not have V2V communications.
One thing though. How does your 2025 Belchfire 2600 know that the vehicle it is negotiatiating right of way with is the car now entering the intersection and not the car three cars back traveling in the opposite direction?
Milankovic perturbations don't cause the Earth to get less sun. They cause the sunlight to be experienced in somewhat different places in different seasons. The total irradiation received by the Earth doesn't change. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Was a time when the academics were rioting to prevent "nuclear winter" because it would have, they claimed, exactly the same results they are now trying to cause."
Richard Feynman on Nuclear Winter. "I don't think these people know what they are talking about." And it turns out -- based on the very limited global impact of the Kuwaiti oil well fires -- that Feynman was largely right, (Caveat: Presumably the nuclear winter folks learned something and have a better grip today).
"I have a better idea. They should leave this planet in one piece and go test their experimental climate change devices on Venus."
Well, they're hardly likely to make Venus LESS habitable. The current record for a probe on Venus is what? 2 hours?. Note that even if they can get rid of most of the crushing atmosphere and the sulfuric acid, Venus is awfully close to the sun and also rotates quite slowly. Doesn't seem to be a good candidate for terraforming.
"Do nothing, and the nanoparticles will return to earth in several years,"
Could be.
What if they don't?
And, incidentally, won't the perpetrators of this scheme be sued for the damages caused by every anomalous weather event on the planet? (or at least in the US where lawsuits are our national hobby)
What we need is a second Earth where we can production test ideas like this. Let's build one. Doing so would be only slightly more difficult than most of the ideas being batted around be "futurists". I'm sure Elon Musk can promise to build it for less than $150B (roughly the cost in current dollars of Apollo, the Space Shuttle, and the ISS).
Canada -- the second largest nation on the planet -- makes out pretty well for the same reasons.
I don't really understand this all that well, but it sounds kinda ... well ...awkward
Are you folks absolutely sure that using the Internet for anything other than entertainment, research, and casual conversation is prudent?
No reflection on Linus Torvalds who I greatly admire, but BTL who created Unix and GNU who cloned the Unix core utilities as open source software surely deserve a large share of the credit.for modern Linux.
"The problem is that animals cannot talk to us. We are too stupid to understand them."
A point that our dogs have made to us (non-verbally) on numerous occasions. But their feeling seems to be that even though the average human ranks somewhere between cats and carrots on the native intelligence scale, it is sometimes possible to convey a few basic thoughts to us by repeating the same actions over and over ... and over..
Some (I think most) dogs understand words -- often quite a few of them. We talk to ours all the time. We didn't realize how much we depended on verbal communication with our dogs until our old terrier went deaf. The German Shepard that preceded the terrier understood perfectly well that words prefixed with "Do" were commands/suggestions directed to her.
The terrier is gone now and has been replaced by a six year old terrier from the animal shelter who clearly is not used to verbal communication. But she's catching on fast.
Yes, if you plan to build something that fits properly, you need to know that the advertised dimensions are not accurate and allow for it. That doesn't obviate the fact that the bastards are lying. In general, manufacturers are not allowed to redefine units of measure. If they shrink your soft drink from 12 fl oz (355ml) to 10fl oz (296ml), the label will say so. Lumber is an unhappy exception.
Would you care to bet that, barring interference from the legal system, 50 years from now, standard 2x4s won't be significantly smaller than today's standards?
"American house building methods are astonishingly slipshod."
You're probably giving them too much credit.
"Oh every now and then a fire burns one down,"
Earthquakes floods, termites and very high winds take care of a few as well. But wooden buildings stand up to earth motion -- unlike masonry. BTW, are bricks shrinking also? Wouldn't surprise me. Another lawsuit there if this one succeeds?
But to make the analogy closer to lumber, a 20GB drive would have had 19GB usable in 2011, 18GB in 2013, 16GB in 2014, and 14GB usable today. There really are buildings out there built say 80 years ago where the 2x4s actually measure 2 inches by four inches.
The military does lots of stuff in similar problem domains with little or no need for AI. There are lots of problems where Artificial Intelligence might produce great results, but commanding large, powerful, vehicles in a complex space with huge liability concerns isn't one that I personally would be all that comfortable with.
"At the moment it can't even stay in lane properly..." OK in Boston, but might be a drawback elsewhere.
There are a number of vehicles in the $25K-$33K price range that have forward collision warning systems (and lane keeping?) that probably work as well as Tesla's. Maybe better. And they don't mislead you into thinking the car will drive itself. Heck, there are aftermarket systems that you can probably install in a 1950 Plymouth if you really want to. (Google RD-149) They cost $1000-$2000USD. Do they work? Damned if I know.