Umm, from the same page I linked, road fatalities per billion vehicle-km; USA 7.6, UK 4.3, France 6.3, Germany 4.9. Pretty much the same proportions, and the USA is still way worse than the major European countries.
However Americans are far better drivers than Europe and most of the traffic come from people who do not live in the city.
Lol, what a ridiculous thing to say. Europe is a big place (as is America), and driving standards vary a lot across the many countries it comprises, so it's completely meaningful to talk as if there is one standard of driving. I'm sure standards vary across the USA also, but it's not my experience that Americans are better drivers than the Europeans I'm familiar with.
The UK has a stringent driving test (far more stringent than what I understand is typical in the USA), and I have been to few places with driving standards that come close; certainly not the parts of the USA where I've driven. Germany is possibly better inside cities, but there are some lunatics on the autobahns. France and Italy, I grant you, there are a lot of questionable drivers in the cities, but I would say the average standard is quite good. I can only judge eastern Europe from all the dashcam footage on youtube, and let's just say that I hope that isn't too representative.
Of course, that's just my empirical view, but simply looking at the stats, we can see that the since USA has 11.6 road fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants per year, while the UK is on 3.5, Germany 4.3, France 4.9, Italy 6.2, Russia 18.6, my empirical observations seem to be in line with reality.
Seems a bit harsh. You can only go with the information available at the time. You're not going to be able to pick up on longer term wear-and-tear issues until the products have actually been around for a while. Now that that information is available, they've updated their opinion to factor it in. That seems eminently reasonable and honest to me. I guess they could refuse to give an opinion on anything until it has been around for a year or two...
The cheat may not actually be necessary to comply with EU regulations, in which case the fix would just mean removing it. The VW exec that was questioned by parliament here recently stated that the fix would not reduce performance or fuel economy, so if they lied about that too, then VW are storing up even more trouble for themselves. But I'm for sure going to wait for confirmation before I let them "fix" my car.
The IP in question, U.S. Patent No. 5,781,752 for a "Table based data speculation circuit for parallel processing computer," was granted to a University of Wisconsin team led by Dr. Gurindar Sohi in 1998. According to WARF and original patent claims, the '752 patent focuses on improving power efficiency and overall performance in modern computer processor designs by utilizing "data speculation" circuit, also known as a branch predictor.
I guess it depends what kind of sci-fi you like. I happen to agree with you, most of the shows you listed are decent, plus others like Heroes, Orphan Black etc - plenty of good stuff in the last decade. However of all those shows, only BSG is primarily space-based, so if that's what you're after, pickings are a bit slimmer. Sure, there are cheap-and-cheesy shows like Dark Matter, and I'm sure others that weren't memorable enough for me to remember their names right now. Someone looking to replace the likes of Trek, Farscape, Babylon 5, Firefly, etc though might well feel there's not been much for them.
This. I replaced my 2012 Nexus 7 with a Z3 Tablet Compact around Christmas time. I replaced the Sony launcher and keyboard with the Google ones, but otherwise didn't have to do much to it. And Sony have delivered a few OS updates since I've had it, they seem to be pretty decent with that these days. Due to the smaller bezel, it is barely bigger in length and width than the Nexus 7 despite the larger screen, and the screen is way better. I bought the official Style cover, and the Sony inside that cover is barely thicker than the Nexus 7 with no cover; without the cover, the Sony is amazingly thin and light. And it has a microsd slot.
It's not a given that forests act as carbon sinks, or at least as good ones. See for example this article;
"Conventional wisdom has long held that tropical rainforests act as a sink for carbon dioxide, cleansing the atmosphere of a major greenhouse gas. However, biologists studying the forests of Costa Rica are finding that rising temperatures are causing trees to grow less and to pump out more carbon dioxide, adding to an accelerating pattern of global warming."
Added to variations in the amount of carbon sequestered by trees are variations in soil emissions. Warmer climates can cause the organisms in the soild to release more carbon dioxide and methane from the soil. Complicated stuff.
It is old news that thermal imaging cameras can be used to steal PINs. What I guess is news is that you can get a $250 phone add-on that's up to the task; I'm pretty sure that wasn't the case until quite recently.
I question the practicality of this technique for ATMs; you still need a clone of the card to use the PIN. And if you're going to install a card skimmer to clone cards, the traditional technique of using a pinhole camera to record the PIN entry works just fine, and probably way more reliable. So I'm not sure what the use-case is for this technique; maybe door-entry systems that only require a PIN, I guess.
Yes. What's he going to do with them, scan them? I didn't get anything from the links except that he's trying to "save" them, no explanation of what for. If he's just going to store them somewhere else, then I have to wonder what the point is, as the chances of them ever falling in to the hands of someone who is going to find them useful are pretty small. At least if they're scanned and OCRed, there's a decent chance at least some of them will end up being useful.
I read about this a few days ago on The Register, according to one user there, this particular issue is to do with DKIM and mailing lists (the stuff Linus had issues with was all Linux kernel mailing list messages);
bhtooefr "Basically, Google's enforcing DKIM from certain domains, and if a message is "from" someone whose e-mail host provides proper DKIM, but it's missing it, Google (and Yahoo) servers reject it. Mailing lists aren't usually set up to properly handle DKIM (being, effectively, a relay), and therefore get rejected.
The workaround that I saw one mailing list use was to resend the e-mail from the mailing list's address, append "via (mailing list name)" to the name on the from field, and just have both the mailing list and the original author in reply-to."
Seems like people running mailing lists need to take a look at how spam filters work, rather than mail providers changing anything. If I understand correctly, the policy is sensible and blocks a likely spam vector, and legit mailing lists could easily be set up to not fail that particular check.
For regular mail, I'm like you guys, Google's spam filtering does a fantastic job. I never check my spam folder any more, unless I'm expecting an email and it doesn't arrive, but it's been ages since I had a false positive.
In his honor, I plan to launch a streaming burials site, where you can watch people being laid to rest 24/7. No, I will not pay any royalties to the families of the deceased.
We won't know unless is actually comes to market, but let's no talk as if they're unaware of the economic aspects. FTA:
"Every aircraft has to be designed to meet specific mission requirements including range, number of passengers, speed, payload, high performance (fighter jets), fuel efficiency and cost. Unfortunately, there are always trade-offs. If you have high performance, you typically don’t have fuel efficiency. If you have carry a high number of passengers you lose out on speed or range. These trade-offs have to be juggled to design an aircraft that can be engineered, manufactured and sold at a price customers will pay for. The engineers spend a lot of time coming up with solutions and then seeing how that impacts the other flight characteristics. The sales team then explores the trade-offs with customers to gauge market requirements and potential.
That is exactly the process that the Spike S-512 Supersonic Jet has gone through. As we continue our engineering efforts, there will likely be additional changes to the aircraft that optimize flight and performance characteristics. The latest design meets at the intersection of engineering, business requirements and market demand for an incredible supersonic business jet."
They clearly think there is a viable market for a supersonic business jet, but only time will tell if their numbers add up.
I feel for those workers; I had to train my replacement once, when the company I worked for was bought up by an American company, and the UK locations closed down. Fucking soul-destroying.
It's not proven that any particular pesticide or agro-chemical is to blame. The fact that urban bees are thiving in cities such as Paris and London, despite all the pollution in those environments, is inteesting. One mooted possibile reason is that cities have lots of different species of plants in their gardens and parks, blooming at differing times, so that there is always nectar available from some of them. In the countryside by contrast, with modern, vast, single-crop farms, it may be that there is only one species of plant in the bees environment, and once that crop finishes blooming, in sometimes a pretty small window of time, there is no more nectar. So it could be farming practices and lack of rural biodiversity that are to blame, at least in significant part.
CO2 emissions are proportional to fuel consumption, so I guess there's no point measuring that figure; the fuel efficiency of vehicles is a known quantity. I guess it would have been interesting to have CO2 figures included for comparison with the other numbers though.
CO2 level was actually used to automatically identify the exhast gasses in the study, so maybe they actually had those figures, without reading the full paper it's hard to say. From the abstract;
"Based on carbon dioxide measurements, over 100 000 vehicle-related plumes were automatically identified and fuel-based emission factors for nitrogen oxides; carbon monoxide; particle number, black carbon; benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX); and methanol were determined for each plume."
Among other things the Commission plans “to end unjustified geo-blocking,” which it describes as “a discriminatory practice used for commercial reasons.”
We only have to wait to find out what kind of geo-blocking is classed as "justified", but I'd bet on most of the kinds that really cause problems for people.
It's being augmented reality does not have any bearing on whether it is holographic or not; augmented reality means that the generated display is overlayed on the real world, so that the user sees both real and virtual objects simultaneously. This could be done with a holographic display as well as with a conventional stereoscopic display.
Heven't seen any convincing info that Microsoft is using a light-field display in HoloLens, although they are trying to make out that they are doing something clever, but the chances are it's not actually holographic.
OTOH if mobile-friendly happened to mean, amongst other things, no Flash, I for one would not be unhappy about this. That is the one thing still sadly common on "desktop" sites, that is not supported on mobile browsers. I suppose I will have to go and read the article to see what kind of mobile-friendly we are really talking about here.
"Fortunately the UK has judges of the calibre of Lords Gill, Neuberger and Hodge who, on trusts, would require an actual criminal offence or some other lawful reason, and evidence sufficient to meet the requisite standard of proof, before deporting anyone."
It's important to note that the British courts have already upheld Assange's extradition at all levels up to the highest courts in the land, and so all of those judges you list would also chuck him out in a second if he wasn't hiding behind diplomatic protection in the Ecuadorian embassy. Actually it's more correct to say that they already have done that, since no further legal action is required or indeed possible to effect his extradition. But I take your point on my opinions of Assange, that wasn't the most constructive bit of the post.
Firstly, the UK judiciary is not the UK government. I case you haven't grasped the concept of an independant judiciary, this is something we take quite seriously in the UK, and judges fiercly defend their independence from government (often to the chagrin of the government, c.f. the governments struggles to deport certain islamic preachers).
Secondly, what part of "Mr Assange is, as a matter of law, currently a fugitive from justice" do you not understand? That is a legal fact, and judges are bound to act appropriately. It would be entirely inappropriate for judges to sit there and be addressed by someone who has a current valid arrest warrant for a serious crime outstanding against them.
Thirdly, speak for yourself. I don't like Assange, and I'm certainly not the only person in the UK who feels that way. WikiLeaks may have done some good by bringing certain information to light (although even there it could have done better, a bit more care about what was released and how it was released would have given a lot less ammunition to people who don't want to respect people's freedoms and rights, and possibly lead to better outcomes for people like Bradley Manning), but Assange himself is a hypocrite and a coward, and I'd deport him in a second if I had any say in the matter.
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Umm, from the same page I linked, road fatalities per billion vehicle-km; USA 7.6, UK 4.3, France 6.3, Germany 4.9. Pretty much the same proportions, and the USA is still way worse than the major European countries.
However Americans are far better drivers than Europe and most of the traffic come from people who do not live in the city.
Lol, what a ridiculous thing to say. Europe is a big place (as is America), and driving standards vary a lot across the many countries it comprises, so it's completely meaningful to talk as if there is one standard of driving. I'm sure standards vary across the USA also, but it's not my experience that Americans are better drivers than the Europeans I'm familiar with.
The UK has a stringent driving test (far more stringent than what I understand is typical in the USA), and I have been to few places with driving standards that come close; certainly not the parts of the USA where I've driven. Germany is possibly better inside cities, but there are some lunatics on the autobahns. France and Italy, I grant you, there are a lot of questionable drivers in the cities, but I would say the average standard is quite good. I can only judge eastern Europe from all the dashcam footage on youtube, and let's just say that I hope that isn't too representative.
Of course, that's just my empirical view, but simply looking at the stats, we can see that the since USA has 11.6 road fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants per year, while the UK is on 3.5, Germany 4.3, France 4.9, Italy 6.2, Russia 18.6, my empirical observations seem to be in line with reality.
Seems a bit harsh. You can only go with the information available at the time. You're not going to be able to pick up on longer term wear-and-tear issues until the products have actually been around for a while. Now that that information is available, they've updated their opinion to factor it in. That seems eminently reasonable and honest to me. I guess they could refuse to give an opinion on anything until it has been around for a year or two...
The cheat may not actually be necessary to comply with EU regulations, in which case the fix would just mean removing it. The VW exec that was questioned by parliament here recently stated that the fix would not reduce performance or fuel economy, so if they lied about that too, then VW are storing up even more trouble for themselves. But I'm for sure going to wait for confirmation before I let them "fix" my car.
Yup. I'm in the UK, and I got a letter from VW yesterday onfirming my car will need a fix. No details except that the are working on it.
Here you go.
The IP in question, U.S. Patent No. 5,781,752 for a "Table based data speculation circuit for parallel processing computer," was granted to a University of Wisconsin team led by Dr. Gurindar Sohi in 1998. According to WARF and original patent claims, the '752 patent focuses on improving power efficiency and overall performance in modern computer processor designs by utilizing "data speculation" circuit, also known as a branch predictor.
I guess it depends what kind of sci-fi you like. I happen to agree with you, most of the shows you listed are decent, plus others like Heroes, Orphan Black etc - plenty of good stuff in the last decade. However of all those shows, only BSG is primarily space-based, so if that's what you're after, pickings are a bit slimmer. Sure, there are cheap-and-cheesy shows like Dark Matter, and I'm sure others that weren't memorable enough for me to remember their names right now. Someone looking to replace the likes of Trek, Farscape, Babylon 5, Firefly, etc though might well feel there's not been much for them.
For once, you are 100% on topic.
Linux? Pah! There's a reason why Microsoft owns WindowsPowersHell.org.
This. I replaced my 2012 Nexus 7 with a Z3 Tablet Compact around Christmas time. I replaced the Sony launcher and keyboard with the Google ones, but otherwise didn't have to do much to it. And Sony have delivered a few OS updates since I've had it, they seem to be pretty decent with that these days. Due to the smaller bezel, it is barely bigger in length and width than the Nexus 7 despite the larger screen, and the screen is way better. I bought the official Style cover, and the Sony inside that cover is barely thicker than the Nexus 7 with no cover; without the cover, the Sony is amazingly thin and light. And it has a microsd slot.
It's not a given that forests act as carbon sinks, or at least as good ones. See for example this article;
"Conventional wisdom has long held that tropical rainforests act as a sink for carbon dioxide, cleansing the atmosphere of a major greenhouse gas. However, biologists studying the forests of Costa Rica are finding that rising temperatures are causing trees to grow less and to pump out more carbon dioxide, adding to an accelerating pattern of global warming."
Added to variations in the amount of carbon sequestered by trees are variations in soil emissions. Warmer climates can cause the organisms in the soild to release more carbon dioxide and methane from the soil. Complicated stuff.
It is old news that thermal imaging cameras can be used to steal PINs. What I guess is news is that you can get a $250 phone add-on that's up to the task; I'm pretty sure that wasn't the case until quite recently.
I question the practicality of this technique for ATMs; you still need a clone of the card to use the PIN. And if you're going to install a card skimmer to clone cards, the traditional technique of using a pinhole camera to record the PIN entry works just fine, and probably way more reliable. So I'm not sure what the use-case is for this technique; maybe door-entry systems that only require a PIN, I guess.
Yes. What's he going to do with them, scan them? I didn't get anything from the links except that he's trying to "save" them, no explanation of what for. If he's just going to store them somewhere else, then I have to wonder what the point is, as the chances of them ever falling in to the hands of someone who is going to find them useful are pretty small. At least if they're scanned and OCRed, there's a decent chance at least some of them will end up being useful.
I read about this a few days ago on The Register, according to one user there, this particular issue is to do with DKIM and mailing lists (the stuff Linus had issues with was all Linux kernel mailing list messages);
bhtooefr "Basically, Google's enforcing DKIM from certain domains, and if a message is "from" someone whose e-mail host provides proper DKIM, but it's missing it, Google (and Yahoo) servers reject it. Mailing lists aren't usually set up to properly handle DKIM (being, effectively, a relay), and therefore get rejected.
The workaround that I saw one mailing list use was to resend the e-mail from the mailing list's address, append "via (mailing list name)" to the name on the from field, and just have both the mailing list and the original author in reply-to."
Seems like people running mailing lists need to take a look at how spam filters work, rather than mail providers changing anything. If I understand correctly, the policy is sensible and blocks a likely spam vector, and legit mailing lists could easily be set up to not fail that particular check.
For regular mail, I'm like you guys, Google's spam filtering does a fantastic job. I never check my spam folder any more, unless I'm expecting an email and it doesn't arrive, but it's been ages since I had a false positive.
In his honor, I plan to launch a streaming burials site, where you can watch people being laid to rest 24/7. No, I will not pay any royalties to the families of the deceased.
I plan to call the site "GraveShark".
We won't know unless is actually comes to market, but let's no talk as if they're unaware of the economic aspects. FTA:
"Every aircraft has to be designed to meet specific mission requirements including range, number of passengers, speed, payload, high performance (fighter jets), fuel efficiency and cost. Unfortunately, there are always trade-offs. If you have high performance, you typically don’t have fuel efficiency. If you have carry a high number of passengers you lose out on speed or range. These trade-offs have to be juggled to design an aircraft that can be engineered, manufactured and sold at a price customers will pay for. The engineers spend a lot of time coming up with solutions and then seeing how that impacts the other flight characteristics. The sales team then explores the trade-offs with customers to gauge market requirements and potential.
That is exactly the process that the Spike S-512 Supersonic Jet has gone through. As we continue our engineering efforts, there will likely be additional changes to the aircraft that optimize flight and performance characteristics. The latest design meets at the intersection of engineering, business requirements and market demand for an incredible supersonic business jet."
They clearly think there is a viable market for a supersonic business jet, but only time will tell if their numbers add up.
That is sound reasoning.
I feel for those workers; I had to train my replacement once, when the company I worked for was bought up by an American company, and the UK locations closed down. Fucking soul-destroying.
It's not proven that any particular pesticide or agro-chemical is to blame. The fact that urban bees are thiving in cities such as Paris and London, despite all the pollution in those environments, is inteesting. One mooted possibile reason is that cities have lots of different species of plants in their gardens and parks, blooming at differing times, so that there is always nectar available from some of them. In the countryside by contrast, with modern, vast, single-crop farms, it may be that there is only one species of plant in the bees environment, and once that crop finishes blooming, in sometimes a pretty small window of time, there is no more nectar. So it could be farming practices and lack of rural biodiversity that are to blame, at least in significant part.
CO2 emissions are proportional to fuel consumption, so I guess there's no point measuring that figure; the fuel efficiency of vehicles is a known quantity. I guess it would have been interesting to have CO2 figures included for comparison with the other numbers though.
CO2 level was actually used to automatically identify the exhast gasses in the study, so maybe they actually had those figures, without reading the full paper it's hard to say. From the abstract;
"Based on carbon dioxide measurements, over 100 000 vehicle-related plumes were automatically identified and fuel-based emission factors for nitrogen oxides; carbon monoxide; particle number, black carbon; benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX); and methanol were determined for each plume."
The loophole is right there in the article;
Among other things the Commission plans “to end unjustified geo-blocking,” which it describes as “a discriminatory practice used for commercial reasons.”
We only have to wait to find out what kind of geo-blocking is classed as "justified", but I'd bet on most of the kinds that really cause problems for people.
It's being augmented reality does not have any bearing on whether it is holographic or not; augmented reality means that the generated display is overlayed on the real world, so that the user sees both real and virtual objects simultaneously. This could be done with a holographic display as well as with a conventional stereoscopic display.
Heven't seen any convincing info that Microsoft is using a light-field display in HoloLens, although they are trying to make out that they are doing something clever, but the chances are it's not actually holographic.
OTOH if mobile-friendly happened to mean, amongst other things, no Flash, I for one would not be unhappy about this. That is the one thing still sadly common on "desktop" sites, that is not supported on mobile browsers. I suppose I will have to go and read the article to see what kind of mobile-friendly we are really talking about here.
"Fortunately the UK has judges of the calibre of Lords Gill, Neuberger and Hodge who, on trusts, would require an actual criminal offence or some other lawful reason, and evidence sufficient to meet the requisite standard of proof, before deporting anyone."
It's important to note that the British courts have already upheld Assange's extradition at all levels up to the highest courts in the land, and so all of those judges you list would also chuck him out in a second if he wasn't hiding behind diplomatic protection in the Ecuadorian embassy. Actually it's more correct to say that they already have done that, since no further legal action is required or indeed possible to effect his extradition. But I take your point on my opinions of Assange, that wasn't the most constructive bit of the post.
Firstly, the UK judiciary is not the UK government. I case you haven't grasped the concept of an independant judiciary, this is something we take quite seriously in the UK, and judges fiercly defend their independence from government (often to the chagrin of the government, c.f. the governments struggles to deport certain islamic preachers).
Secondly, what part of "Mr Assange is, as a matter of law, currently a fugitive from justice" do you not understand? That is a legal fact, and judges are bound to act appropriately. It would be entirely inappropriate for judges to sit there and be addressed by someone who has a current valid arrest warrant for a serious crime outstanding against them.
Thirdly, speak for yourself. I don't like Assange, and I'm certainly not the only person in the UK who feels that way. WikiLeaks may have done some good by bringing certain information to light (although even there it could have done better, a bit more care about what was released and how it was released would have given a lot less ammunition to people who don't want to respect people's freedoms and rights, and possibly lead to better outcomes for people like Bradley Manning), but Assange himself is a hypocrite and a coward, and I'd deport him in a second if I had any say in the matter.