I'm in favor of TPP, and of trade agreements generally.
Great to hear your in favor of a deal you haven't read.
On the other hand, a kind of knee-jerk hatred to trade agreements in general appears to drive much of the opposition, and I think of those anti-trade arguments as having no moral standing, just like the ones put forth by the sugar lobby.
Knee-jerk hatred, knee-jerk acceptance whats the difference?
While I appreciate patriotism,
Patriotism is stupid.
I personally feel that we should be trying to make life better for humanity in general, rather than greedily holding onto wealth in the USA.
Globalization like capitalism only works when coupled with serious efforts to manage losers. In the absence of a serious will to do so blanket statements about moral imperatives favoring any and all trade deals simply because more trade = more good fall flat.
VR is dead, sorry. Early adopters might pay 350$ for the headset, if only they have the necessary 4000$ PC to run it.
There are a number of 'Oculus ready' PCs advertised on the Oculus website for 1k.
This thing is not going to be usable on a a 300$ PC/Console anytime soon.
Your Ignorance of PC gaming industry is amusing.
It requires 120fps per eye to not make people sick.
Lots of things make people sick in VR. Lag, moving cameras, change in rate of motion, change in direction without commensurate forces felt in real life. For Oculus the target is 90fps because this matches the refresh rate of the display. Any disparity will make the experience suck. There are schemes like timewarp that try and make up for minor performance dips but you really need to sustain 90fps.
For most part sickness is a problem which more than anything has to be worked around in software... Sitting in cockpits of airplanes, space ships and race cars are probably going to be sort of games that work the best in VR for quite some time.
Current mid-range video cards don't even do 60fps on a single card.
I get that things add up, but I'll put this in perspective - I work for a company that is supplying them, and I know what we're charging (very low piece prices, and we're expensive compared to our competitors that do larger volumes). I also have access to price sheets from the kinds of suppliers that they're working with. Let's put it this way - there's no legitimate reason that they can't make a 4K rift with all the sensors they have, sell it for $200-$250, and still make a profit. So, either they've gotten a little top-heavy in the salary department, or they're getting greedy. Or both.
My understanding one of the practical limiting factor is HDMI 1.3... there simply isn't an interface you can currently physically plug into that will drive a 4k display at 90hz even if you had a cheap GPU that could drive it.
Anyone, ANYONE that argues to the contrary of Exchange's ease of use, has not administered Exchange. This from someone that loves Postfix and sometimes puts Postfix in front of Exchange for free spam/virus filtering or special routing needs.
Exchange is something I never understood. The first version I screwed with was about 20 years ago before an official SMTP connector even existed. Since that time I've tried some of the new releases and it is always the same crap. Runs for a while and then something gets stuck in a queue some process gets a memory leak or crashes constantly, a datastore (f'ing Jet) gets corrupted, syncs mysteriously failing. It was an endless parade of failure and this was only a few people screwing around. There was always SOMETHING wrong with exchange and always someone complaining about it... I can understand the feature set and appeal for business users yet something just doesn't add up.
To anyone who manages exchange in a serious environment is exchange reliable for you or are you constantly having to deal with bullshit? To contrast also used Zimbra and never had even a single problem with shit breaking.
Courts only need to get involved in contractual disputes when there is a *dispute* about the terms of the contract. The standard Apple developer account terms expressly forbid the distribution of information prior to the release of a product. It also explicitly indicates that revocation of the developer account is one of the possible consequences of violating those terms.
Just because Rumpelstiltskin is written in a contract does not make it valid or enforceable. Most employment contracts are unenforceable. This scheme appears to me to be similarly unconscionable.
If we enter into a contract in which I mow your lawn, and in exchange you pay me $20, I don't need to get the courts involved to send you the bill for $20 once I've mowed your lawn. Courts are only needed when one party refuses to abide by the terms of the contract, and the contractual 'punishment' involves activities that the injured party cannot enact on their own.
What if the contract said if I don't pay $20 in 3 days after my lawn is mowed you are allowed to come and break every window of my house and take possession of anything and everything you want? It's in the contract I signed...right?
When you are an all powerful deity with the ability to tell hundreds of millions of people what software they may or may not run there must be constraints on a corporations ability to throw their weight around when it comes to non-negotiable contracts and terms or the result is tyranny.
I don't understand why an "informational" website would be done as an iOS app instead. Why give Apple that level of control over yourself? Just make a regular website, and then they can't pull the plug on your content!
Websites are a drag... you can't steal nearly as much data from a website as you can from an app.
They very publicly break the NDA for personal profit and expect no action? They're lucky the actions by Apple weren't more sever honestly.
You break our rules and we prevent your software from executing on anyone's computers. Seems fair. I mean if someone with an App wronged me in some way I could just as easily prevent their software from executing... oh wait...
What if ifixit.com did something an ISP didn't like? Should they feel free to blackhole networks associated with people they feel have wronged them or violated an NDA? Can they just block access to ifixit.com altogether?
What about a power or water utility? If you break an NDA your utility can just shut off the power to your business as punishment...right?
Anyone who supports vigilante justice and corporations leveraging their unique and monopoly powers in such ways don't be surprised when its ultimately used against you.
Windows Phone: - No way to use GPS locally without sending location to Microsoft - No way to use WiFi locally without forced participation in location crowd sourcing - No way to practically use device / install software without a Microsoft account - No way to prevent windows phone with Microsoft account from transmitting location data to Microsoft - No way to maintain a local address book without having it all automatically sent to Microsoft - No way to prevent device specific identifiers from being sent (in the clear I might add) to Microsoft servers.
Windows: - No way to prevent transmission of telemetry (Windows 10 non-enterprise SKUs) - No way to prevent connections to MS servers (vortext, data, settings) when everything CEIP, updates, everything has been completely disabled (Windows 7) - No way to disable automatic updates (Windows 10) - No way to prevent CRL queries when CRL checking has been disabled (Windows 7) - No user reachable knobs to disable mostly annoying and counterproductive NLA queries - Disrespectful defaults and intentional UX elements such as misleading appearance of MS account requirement to trick people into using a MS account to access their local systems (windows 10)
Lies applicable to TFA:
"In the past, Windows could be thought of as software existing only on your device. Now with Windows 10, important parts of Windows are based in the cloud, interacting with online services"
This is non-specific BS to setup excuses for unacceptable privacy violations enumerated later in TFA.
"When you communicate with your friends, family, and business associates, like text messaging (SMS, MMS, etc.) on a Windows device, we have to get the content of the message to deliver it to your inbox, display it to you, enable you to reply to it, and store it for you until you delete it."
I'll leave this nonsense speak for itself.
"For real-time communications, a phone-calling app needs to know the phone number of the contact you want to reach. "
This is priceless because the calling app does not have a local store. What it really effectively means if you want to call anyone Microsoft needs to know the number.
"If you lose your phone, you can locate your Windows phone on a map using Find My Phone at https://account.microsoft.com.... Even if you have turned off all other access to the location service on the phone, this feature can still work. "
This is the problem there is no effective way to opt out even up front when initially setting up the device. The only possible option is to not associate a MS account which effectively renders the device a brick/feature phone.
I would like to see range figures for a typical commuter.. In summer and winter. Unfortunately they are priced high enough we won't see that.
A range calculator is built into the Tesla website. No idea about its accuracy. You can change outdoor temperature, toggle AC/heating and speed. http://www.teslamotors.com/mod...
The basic problem with measuring performance is once there is a specific technical objective function for success established people will work to achieve it in any way possible regardless of whether it is ultimately in the best interests of the company or anyone else. Workers have more incentive, time and energy to find ways to game the system than its designers.
To use TFA's example the result of ratings oriented journalism is apparent to everyone. The media has transformed itself into little more than a professional trolling organization. What is news are stories that push peoples buttons and stoke maximal controversy. They will say, show or print anything for ratings regardless of its information value or relationship to reality. The result is like watching the history channel to learn about history. Few interested in obtaining objectively useful information are willing to bother translating media nonsense into reality.
A way to stop giant bags of mostly water from gaining destructive momentum is to add structures which limit how much energy is allowed to accumulate before such energy is harmlessly limited by an obstruction. The way to fix this isn't removing barriers it is adding them... lots and lots and lots and lots of them. With many thousands of stampede deaths the only acceptable solution should be an inherently safe one rather than depending on everyone following instructions.
Thinking people will respond to whatever signals you are piping out in the exceptional but predictable instances when fear takes over a crowd is idiotic in and of itself. The only worse thing I can imagine would be to leverage such delusions as an excuse to enable you to "safely" cram in even more.
Why the hell wouldn't any advanced civilisation be communicating using quantum entanglement, quantum tanneling, gravitonic/proto-singularity channels and a host of other real-time, instantaneous-irrespective-of-distance alterantives, (e.g. paired meson?) that operate point-to-point rather than broadcast, that we could not possibly intercept, detect or connect with even if we knew they were occurring?
I believe most space aliens use fluid routers for instantaneous communications across the universe. Rumor has it you can top up your sim with super correlated liquid helium at any of the 23,452,187 "Zorg Shack" kiosks thought the galaxy.
Assuming that early to mid 20th Century communications technology will be in use in such civilations represents the height of arrogance, ignorance and blindness that seems to be characteristic of our species. If there are alien civilisations, we are probably the local neighbourhood's primitive bogans... not the uncrowned technolgical geniuses of the known universe we assume we are.
In the real world you are required to make assumptions in order to get anything accomplished. You can chose to base your assumptions on available evidence or opt for possibilities for which no evidence exists (e.g. quantum nonsense). Your choice.
For all the snorting over Windows 10 and privacy... it is nothing compared to this nonsense...
Newflash for those who don't already know: The Internet is insecure. There is no way to change this without assured failure and or imposition of tyranny.
Those who want security across a global communication network run by those with interests unaligned with their own must take responsibility for their communications by establishing trust and deploying end to end security.
Denying passive, untargeted en-masse Internet surveillance to the worlds governments, Intelligence agencies and (criminal) enterprises is a relatively trivial undertaking. We have only ourselves to blame for allowing this bullshit to persist.
What you do locally on your own computer on the other hand is none of the operating system vendors business. There is no ethical reason to intentionally leak information about you or what you are doing to the operating system vendor and by extension governments and criminal enterprises. This can be stopped by ditching the offending operating system.
The test mode was triggered by monitoring which wheels were turning, position of the steering wheel, etc.
Basically they wanted to avoid the cost of installing a urea injection system so they cheated instead. Honda engineers were reported to be perplexed about how they managed to do this miraculous feat of engineering.
Here's a good article about what is known so far:
Finally an article containing something other than the imagination of the author.
I'm trying to understand WTF happened because currently nothing is making sense. Currently the only fact I am sure of is cars were observed to emit more pollution than allowed.
What additional facts exist that provide evidence of intentional cheating?
Around here emissions testing consists of plugging in an OBD-II cable waiting a few seconds and being charged $30 for the whole ordeal.
The articles say things like "For years, millions of Volkswagenâ(TM)s deisel cars contained software that turned their pollution controls on only when the cars were being tested by regulators"...
Even TFA has no clue how the triggering works it just assumes it must be triggered maliciously in response to detecting an emissions test and dreaming up "single line of code" because it sounded good to the author. What is the basis for these beliefs aside from imagination of the authors? Has a specific reproducible emissions testing trigger been found?
What if there was just a glitch in a fuel trim or something that presents after driving around for awhile? What actual facts exist that provide evidence this was an intentional malicious act?
Ahmed Mohamed, not white, made a home-brew device of some sort. -has anyone not noticed how paranoid, racist and over-the-top police in America is?
Isn't this the very same error in judgement made by the school and police? In your case you assume without any specific evidence that racism played a role while simultaneously making general statements about an entire class of people based on a specific incident.
What is the difference between assuming racism and assuming bomb when there is no specific evidence of either?
Hardware wise there is no comparison between Cisco business & infrastructure devices and what people normally load a variant of Linux on. I'm not saying it couldn't be done, but the Cisco IOS (and Juniper's OS) is an extremely specialized OS designed along with the hardware to serve a specific function.
IOS is a monolithic disaster that runs completely in ring 0. Hardly something to be proud of. Juniper is BSD with a much more sane architecture.
Now I will say that lately they are moving to more modular application based products (layer 4+) which are far more software based on marked up hardware, but for Core routers and switches (later 2/3 devices) there isn't really a quality substitute other than like in kind vendors hardware. At this point you just can't really "build your own" hardware and OS combo which can truly compete and be open source at the same time.
The only thing general purpose computers don't have are specialized ASICs to perform table lookups and forward at scale. The way things are going with SDN routers will be nothing more than GPU like express interface cards that connect to a chassis backplane before too long.
When everyone can code there will be no such thing as a "web service" API because enough people would have been smart enough to spend their time developing useful transports rather than always relying on the lowest common denominator/lowest hanging fruit (e.g. http).
When everyone can code APIs will be designed properly as abstract interfaces that will not break every time something changes.
When everyone can code people will leverage the Internet to communicate directly among themselves as they see fit on their own terms. They will refuse to be limited, harassed, spied upon, sold and censored by massive content companies (Google, facebook, linkedin, twitter...etc) which currently are relied upon to facilitate most communication.
When everyone can code all of the mobile platforms will be completely open and free with no restrictions. They will maximally protect the interests of the user rather than interests of vendors and app vendors.
When everyone can code entire classes of vulnerabilities will become impossible due to sufficient effort having been spent on constraint based systems to avoid and detect problems with certainty.
When everyone can code DSLs will have displaced general purpose languages for most coders allowing them to operate more efficiently in their domains of interest. Coders will be grateful rather than whine about having to learn yet another language.
When everyone can code hell will have frozen completely over and re-purposed as a skating rink for angels.
If you work in a Fortune 500 datacenter and you can't handle this sort of outage, get the fuck out. You're the reason shit's going downhill. Also if a Cisco 3650 or 3850 bring down your datacenter, see previous negative asshole sentiment or get a new job if your manager is responsible for the confines of such a clusterfuck. No participation trophy for such asshattery.
In your Fortune 500 datacenter what happens when a high density edge switch with lots of ports fries? Are all of those systems dead until a monkey pulls all the cables out and replaces the hardware? Do you have redundant connections to every system just to guard against this?
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I'm in favor of TPP, and of trade agreements generally.
Great to hear your in favor of a deal you haven't read.
On the other hand, a kind of knee-jerk hatred to trade agreements in general appears to drive much of the opposition, and I think of those anti-trade arguments as having no moral standing, just like the ones put forth by the sugar lobby.
Knee-jerk hatred, knee-jerk acceptance whats the difference?
While I appreciate patriotism,
Patriotism is stupid.
I personally feel that we should be trying to make life better for humanity in general, rather than greedily holding onto wealth in the USA.
Globalization like capitalism only works when coupled with serious efforts to manage losers. In the absence of a serious will to do so blanket statements about moral imperatives favoring any and all trade deals simply because more trade = more good fall flat.
Even the insane 4K screens Sony is putting in their new smart phones are much too big, and the pixels there are already TINY.
You said it yourself - they do exist! The rift screen is a phone, and 4K phones exist.
DK2 is a phone screen, CV1 display is customized for VR with much higher fill factor.
VR is dead, sorry. Early adopters might pay 350$ for the headset, if only they have the necessary 4000$ PC to run it.
There are a number of 'Oculus ready' PCs advertised on the Oculus website for 1k.
This thing is not going to be usable on a a 300$ PC/Console anytime soon.
Your Ignorance of PC gaming industry is amusing.
It requires 120fps per eye to not make people sick.
Lots of things make people sick in VR. Lag, moving cameras, change in rate of motion, change in direction without commensurate forces felt in real life. For Oculus the target is 90fps because this matches the refresh rate of the display. Any disparity will make the experience suck. There are schemes like timewarp that try and make up for minor performance dips but you really need to sustain 90fps.
For most part sickness is a problem which more than anything has to be worked around in software... Sitting in cockpits of airplanes, space ships and race cars are probably going to be sort of games that work the best in VR for quite some time.
Current mid-range video cards don't even do 60fps on a single card.
Oculus requires a high end card. 90fps or bust.
I get that things add up, but I'll put this in perspective - I work for a company that is supplying them, and I know what we're charging (very low piece prices, and we're expensive compared to our competitors that do larger volumes). I also have access to price sheets from the kinds of suppliers that they're working with. Let's put it this way - there's no legitimate reason that they can't make a 4K rift with all the sensors they have, sell it for $200-$250, and still make a profit. So, either they've gotten a little top-heavy in the salary department, or they're getting greedy. Or both.
My understanding one of the practical limiting factor is HDMI 1.3... there simply isn't an interface you can currently physically plug into that will drive a 4k display at 90hz even if you had a cheap GPU that could drive it.
Anyone, ANYONE that argues to the contrary of Exchange's ease of use, has not administered Exchange. This from someone that loves Postfix and sometimes puts Postfix in front of Exchange for free spam/virus filtering or special routing needs.
Exchange is something I never understood. The first version I screwed with was about 20 years ago before an official SMTP connector even existed. Since that time I've tried some of the new releases and it is always the same crap. Runs for a while and then something gets stuck in a queue some process gets a memory leak or crashes constantly, a datastore (f'ing Jet) gets corrupted, syncs mysteriously failing. It was an endless parade of failure and this was only a few people screwing around. There was always SOMETHING wrong with exchange and always someone complaining about it ... I can understand the feature set and appeal for business users yet something just doesn't add up.
To anyone who manages exchange in a serious environment is exchange reliable for you or are you constantly having to deal with bullshit? To contrast also used Zimbra and never had even a single problem with shit breaking.
Courts only need to get involved in contractual disputes when there is a *dispute* about the terms of the contract. The standard Apple developer account terms expressly forbid the distribution of information prior to the release of a product. It also explicitly indicates that revocation of the developer account is one of the possible consequences of violating those terms.
Just because Rumpelstiltskin is written in a contract does not make it valid or enforceable. Most employment contracts are unenforceable. This scheme appears to me to be similarly unconscionable.
If we enter into a contract in which I mow your lawn, and in exchange you pay me $20, I don't need to get the courts involved to send you the bill for $20 once I've mowed your lawn. Courts are only needed when one party refuses to abide by the terms of the contract, and the contractual 'punishment' involves activities that the injured party cannot enact on their own.
What if the contract said if I don't pay $20 in 3 days after my lawn is mowed you are allowed to come and break every window of my house and take possession of anything and everything you want? It's in the contract I signed...right?
When you are an all powerful deity with the ability to tell hundreds of millions of people what software they may or may not run there must be constraints on a corporations ability to throw their weight around when it comes to non-negotiable contracts and terms or the result is tyranny.
But was the NDA valid?
Regardless of legal standing why is Apple dispatching justice? Isn't this what the legal system is for?
I don't understand why an "informational" website would be done as an iOS app instead. Why give Apple that level of control over yourself? Just make a regular website, and then they can't pull the plug on your content!
Websites are a drag... you can't steal nearly as much data from a website as you can from an app.
They very publicly break the NDA for personal profit and expect no action? They're lucky the actions by Apple weren't more sever honestly.
You break our rules and we prevent your software from executing on anyone's computers. Seems fair. I mean if someone with an App wronged me in some way I could just as easily prevent their software from executing... oh wait...
What if ifixit.com did something an ISP didn't like? Should they feel free to blackhole networks associated with people they feel have wronged them or violated an NDA? Can they just block access to ifixit.com altogether?
What about a power or water utility? If you break an NDA your utility can just shut off the power to your business as punishment...right?
Anyone who supports vigilante justice and corporations leveraging their unique and monopoly powers in such ways don't be surprised when its ultimately used against you.
Windows Phone:
- No way to use GPS locally without sending location to Microsoft
- No way to use WiFi locally without forced participation in location crowd sourcing
- No way to practically use device / install software without a Microsoft account
- No way to prevent windows phone with Microsoft account from transmitting location data to Microsoft
- No way to maintain a local address book without having it all automatically sent to Microsoft
- No way to prevent device specific identifiers from being sent (in the clear I might add) to Microsoft servers.
Windows:
- No way to prevent transmission of telemetry (Windows 10 non-enterprise SKUs)
- No way to prevent connections to MS servers (vortext, data, settings) when everything CEIP, updates, everything has been completely disabled (Windows 7)
- No way to disable automatic updates (Windows 10)
- No way to prevent CRL queries when CRL checking has been disabled (Windows 7)
- No user reachable knobs to disable mostly annoying and counterproductive NLA queries
- Disrespectful defaults and intentional UX elements such as misleading appearance of MS account requirement to trick people into using a MS account to access their local systems (windows 10)
Lies applicable to TFA:
"In the past, Windows could be thought of as software existing only on your device. Now with Windows 10, important parts of Windows are based in the cloud, interacting with online services"
This is non-specific BS to setup excuses for unacceptable privacy violations enumerated later in TFA.
"When you communicate with your friends, family, and business associates, like text messaging (SMS, MMS, etc.) on a Windows device, we have to get the content of the message to deliver it to your inbox, display it to you, enable you to reply to it, and store it for you until you delete it."
I'll leave this nonsense speak for itself.
"For real-time communications, a phone-calling app needs to know the phone number of the contact you want to reach. "
This is priceless because the calling app does not have a local store. What it really effectively means if you want to call anyone Microsoft needs to know the number.
"If you lose your phone, you can locate your Windows phone on a map using Find My Phone at https://account.microsoft.com.... Even if you have turned off all other access to the location service on the phone, this feature can still work. "
This is the problem there is no effective way to opt out even up front when initially setting up the device. The only possible option is to not associate a MS account which effectively renders the device a brick/feature phone.
I would like to see range figures for a typical commuter.. In summer and winter. Unfortunately they are priced high enough we won't see that.
A range calculator is built into the Tesla website. No idea about its accuracy. You can change outdoor temperature, toggle AC/heating and speed. http://www.teslamotors.com/mod...
The basic problem with measuring performance is once there is a specific technical objective function for success established people will work to achieve it in any way possible regardless of whether it is ultimately in the best interests of the company or anyone else. Workers have more incentive, time and energy to find ways to game the system than its designers.
To use TFA's example the result of ratings oriented journalism is apparent to everyone. The media has transformed itself into little more than a professional trolling organization. What is news are stories that push peoples buttons and stoke maximal controversy. They will say, show or print anything for ratings regardless of its information value or relationship to reality. The result is like watching the history channel to learn about history. Few interested in obtaining objectively useful information are willing to bother translating media nonsense into reality.
A way to stop giant bags of mostly water from gaining destructive momentum is to add structures which limit how much energy is allowed to accumulate before such energy is harmlessly limited by an obstruction. The way to fix this isn't removing barriers it is adding them... lots and lots and lots and lots of them. With many thousands of stampede deaths the only acceptable solution should be an inherently safe one rather than depending on everyone following instructions.
Thinking people will respond to whatever signals you are piping out in the exceptional but predictable instances when fear takes over a crowd is idiotic in and of itself. The only worse thing I can imagine would be to leverage such delusions as an excuse to enable you to "safely" cram in even more.
Why the hell wouldn't any advanced civilisation be communicating using quantum entanglement, quantum tanneling, gravitonic/proto-singularity channels and a host of other real-time, instantaneous-irrespective-of-distance alterantives, (e.g. paired meson?) that operate point-to-point rather than broadcast, that we could not possibly intercept, detect or connect with even if we knew they were occurring?
I believe most space aliens use fluid routers for instantaneous communications across the universe. Rumor has it you can top up your sim with super correlated liquid helium at any of the 23,452,187 "Zorg Shack" kiosks thought the galaxy.
Assuming that early to mid 20th Century communications technology will be in use in such civilations represents the height of arrogance, ignorance and blindness that seems to be characteristic of our species. If there are alien civilisations, we are probably the local neighbourhood's primitive bogans ... not the uncrowned technolgical geniuses of the known universe we assume we are.
In the real world you are required to make assumptions in order to get anything accomplished. You can chose to base your assumptions on available evidence or opt for possibilities for which no evidence exists (e.g. quantum nonsense). Your choice.
For all the snorting over Windows 10 and privacy... it is nothing compared to this nonsense...
Newflash for those who don't already know: The Internet is insecure. There is no way to change this without assured failure and or imposition of tyranny.
Those who want security across a global communication network run by those with interests unaligned with their own must take responsibility for their communications by establishing trust and deploying end to end security.
Denying passive, untargeted en-masse Internet surveillance to the worlds governments, Intelligence agencies and (criminal) enterprises is a relatively trivial undertaking. We have only ourselves to blame for allowing this bullshit to persist.
What you do locally on your own computer on the other hand is none of the operating system vendors business. There is no ethical reason to intentionally leak information about you or what you are doing to the operating system vendor and by extension governments and criminal enterprises. This can be stopped by ditching the offending operating system.
The test mode was triggered by monitoring which wheels were turning, position of the steering wheel, etc.
Basically they wanted to avoid the cost of installing a urea injection system so they cheated instead. Honda engineers were reported to be perplexed about how they managed to do this miraculous feat of engineering.
Here's a good article about what is known so far:
Finally an article containing something other than the imagination of the author.
I'm trying to understand WTF happened because currently nothing is making sense. Currently the only fact I am sure of is cars were observed to emit more pollution than allowed.
What additional facts exist that provide evidence of intentional cheating?
Around here emissions testing consists of plugging in an OBD-II cable waiting a few seconds and being charged $30 for the whole ordeal.
The articles say things like "For years, millions of Volkswagenâ(TM)s deisel cars contained software that turned their pollution controls on only when the cars were being tested by regulators" ...
Even TFA has no clue how the triggering works it just assumes it must be triggered maliciously in response to detecting an emissions test and dreaming up "single line of code" because it sounded good to the author. What is the basis for these beliefs aside from imagination of the authors? Has a specific reproducible emissions testing trigger been found?
What if there was just a glitch in a fuel trim or something that presents after driving around for awhile? What actual facts exist that provide evidence this was an intentional malicious act?
The thing is that this kind of attack can be done quickly and un-detectably. Some access-layer switch
Ditto for lighting a match and walking away.
Way to destroy your brand. It will be amusing to watch other virus and malware scanner pushing updated definitions to detect and remove AVG.
Ahmed Mohamed, not white, made a home-brew device of some sort. -has anyone not noticed how paranoid, racist and over-the-top police in America is?
Isn't this the very same error in judgement made by the school and police? In your case you assume without any specific evidence that racism played a role while simultaneously making general statements about an entire class of people based on a specific incident.
What is the difference between assuming racism and assuming bomb when there is no specific evidence of either?
http://www.amazon.com/4M-4568-...
Don't kid yourself kids. Potatoes are oozing with radon 226 and potassium 40 making them the perfect radiological weapons of mass destruction.
Hardware wise there is no comparison between Cisco business & infrastructure devices and what people normally load a variant of Linux on. I'm not saying it couldn't be done, but the Cisco IOS (and Juniper's OS) is an extremely specialized OS designed along with the hardware to serve a specific function.
IOS is a monolithic disaster that runs completely in ring 0. Hardly something to be proud of. Juniper is BSD with a much more sane architecture.
Now I will say that lately they are moving to more modular application based products (layer 4+) which are far more software based on marked up hardware, but for Core routers and switches (later 2/3 devices) there isn't really a quality substitute other than like in kind vendors hardware. At this point you just can't really "build your own" hardware and OS combo which can truly compete and be open source at the same time.
The only thing general purpose computers don't have are specialized ASICs to perform table lookups and forward at scale. The way things are going with SDN routers will be nothing more than GPU like express interface cards that connect to a chassis backplane before too long.
When everyone can code there will be no such thing as a "web service" API because enough people would have been smart enough to spend their time developing useful transports rather than always relying on the lowest common denominator/lowest hanging fruit (e.g. http).
When everyone can code APIs will be designed properly as abstract interfaces that will not break every time something changes.
When everyone can code people will leverage the Internet to communicate directly among themselves as they see fit on their own terms. They will refuse to be limited, harassed, spied upon, sold and censored by massive content companies (Google, facebook, linkedin, twitter...etc) which currently are relied upon to facilitate most communication.
When everyone can code all of the mobile platforms will be completely open and free with no restrictions. They will maximally protect the interests of the user rather than interests of vendors and app vendors.
When everyone can code entire classes of vulnerabilities will become impossible due to sufficient effort having been spent on constraint based systems to avoid and detect problems with certainty.
When everyone can code DSLs will have displaced general purpose languages for most coders allowing them to operate more efficiently in their domains of interest. Coders will be grateful rather than whine about having to learn yet another language.
When everyone can code hell will have frozen completely over and re-purposed as a skating rink for angels.
google cardboard pretty much makes this tech obsolete. my cell phone plus $20 headset and I have the same thing.
Cell phone graphics is the definition of obsolete.
If you work in a Fortune 500 datacenter and you can't handle this sort of outage, get the fuck out. You're the reason shit's going downhill. Also if a Cisco 3650 or 3850 bring down your datacenter, see previous negative asshole sentiment or get a new job if your manager is responsible for the confines of such a clusterfuck. No participation trophy for such asshattery.
In your Fortune 500 datacenter what happens when a high density edge switch with lots of ports fries? Are all of those systems dead until a monkey pulls all the cables out and replaces the hardware? Do you have redundant connections to every system just to guard against this?