Controlling a real helicopter at slow speed is quite difficult. But the quadcopters have a lot of smarts in their controllers, so that their operators just say up down left etc. and the machine does it. Years ago I talked to someone that was putting similar capability into some military helicopters.
So this takes the technical skill out of flying them, so that anyone can do it. Converting musicians into disk jockeys.
Taxis gave up voice communication years ago. It is surprising that we still use VHF voice for aircraft. And security could hardly be worse -- anybody with a $100 VHF radio can pretend to be a pilot or ATC if they know the lingo.
Once it goes digital, it can link to aircraft systems directly. So it can tell the pilot when they are doing something wrong. Or just program the autopilots directly.
Chinese government and companies employ many thousands of people to censor.
And no, the Chinese do not tell Google or others what to censor, at least not very often. Google and others decide what to censor, and if the Chinese do not like it then they threaten to shut Google down. If Google does an excellent job then they might be granted a few favors.
Companies like WeChat employ most of the censors. They use a combination of patterns and terms. The spend their lives monitoring the internet, and become quite good at it.
If any censor is caught letting something through then they may have to write a self-criticism. And maybe lose their job. Possibly, although most unlikely, something worse.
But Chinese respect authority. It would never occur to them that they are doing anything wrong. They are just maintaining social harmony.
Google operating in China is very dangerous. It will affect their operations in the USA. Partly just though culture, as more of their engineering is done in China. But also overtly -- if China does not like Google's US search results they can penalize Google China. And Google is (now) all about making money.
I like the line about wanting to write in Perl because it is more elegant than PHP. Pot calling kettle black!
I use some PHP for my small site. Because it is there. Installed, ready to go on my basic hosting provider. Sure it is ugly. But not nearly as ugly as Java or.Net to configure for small sites.
And yes, I guard against SQL injection and Html injection.
Being open source is less horrible, but there will still be plenty of opportunity of hacking. Most of this hacking is done by (elected) election officials, not Russians. And the Republicans are far better at it than the Dems.
Go for simple paper ballots. Counted in front of scrutineers appointed by the candidates. The scrutineers then report numbers back to their candidates independently from the official system, so no room for fudging.
This is what happens in Australia. And all the votes are counted by hand within a couple of hours of closing the booths. It is a quick and painless process.
I might add in Australia we also have a slightly more complex preferential system, where you order 1, 2, 3 instead of just one X. This avoids the vote splitting issues that the USA has. But it does require a population that knows how to count, even if they lived in a poor school district.
Maybe that is the point. Make this a GMail only feature. Only works to SEND to a known GMail account, perhaps with a bit of encryption and key held by Google.
Most Android users already use GMail. GMail is growing in corporates, together with Microsoft. Google could probably do a deal with Apple.
Email is the one that got away. Not controlled by any one centeralized authority, or maybe 3. Maybe this is one step in the move to rail that in. EMail should be single server based and controlled, just like Facebook Messenger.
The phone calls are all recorded, and voice recognition technology makes them just as searchable as text. Better to have a face to face meeting. In a bunker.
It lives in a very, very complex sandbox, with a huge attack surface. But it is just as much an installed app as anything else.
What is needed is Secure HTML. It would not support everything that flashes and spins. No JavaScript. Not much CSS. Very limited interactions with non-origin sites. Such a thing could be made reasonably secure, and still support the all-important Material Design.
But nobody cares.
As to an "App" having access to all a users files, you are thinking too much of *nix. The world changed when Apple introduced basic sand boxing in IoS. It is long over due that I should be able to easily run installed Linux apps without giving them control over everything that I own.
As to micro kernels, it would seem that they are maybe 10% slower. And nobody wants an operating system that is 10% slower just because it is more secure.
The final piece is the C/++ programming language. And ungly mess that actively encourages buffer overflows and other joys. Most of the code in an O/S can be written using something decent. All the non-micro kernel bits anyway.
This was actually an issue for agents during WW2. Marks got agents to stop using memorized encryption keys and instead use one time codes written on silk, with instructions to burn each piece after use.
That way the Nazis could not torture there code out of them and then read their back traffic, which could be very serious.
Who determines the CEO's salary? Not the mum and dad share holder. Not even the institutional ones unless the salary is completely outrageous. It is a board. And who is on that board? A bunch of mates that nobody really knows.
That is what creates the high salaries. Nobody is really accountable for them. And the CEO is probably on the board of other large companies.
So, the CEO needs to be basically competent, at least at managing the board. But nobody knows who is or is not good at managing the company. Whether it is doing well because or despite the CEO.
The exception is probably CEOs that actually built the company. Bill Gates comes to mind. Love or hate him, he was clearly competent.
The rest of the world puts a chip on the cards with a secret that never leave it. Almost impossible to clone.
I visited California recently and found my credit card being used to take out cash. Bank will deal with it, but I am without a card for a week. Only possible due to use of magnetic stripe.
China's GDP is already greater than that of the USA in purchasing parity terms, which is what counts if you want to purchase air craft carriers. It will soon overtake the USA in absolute terms. Xi Jinping is has said that he wants to build up their military and their influence. And what Emperor Xi says is what happens.
VPNs are illegal in China. You will not go to jail at the moment, but you will loose a lot of social credit points if they government catches you with an illegal one. Would you really risk that just to read Redit?
Under Xi, China has become much more oppressive over the last couple of years. The screws are tightening, and soon I think illegal VPNs will become dangerous to run, and so become very rare.
The speed of change is truly amazing. When I was a kid, some 30,000,000 Chinese had starved under Mou's Great Leap Forward. Then the Cultural revolution. Then the huge opening up under Deng Xiaoping. And the hope and expectation of a move to democracy. And now the crack down by Xi, And all this time the unimaginable economic growth.
In the west, we live roughly the same as our parents did, excluding computers. In China it is unimaginably different.
Which is important there. They also have plenty of mining equipment on hand to dig the holes. They still cost more than an above ground house. But in the heat, you want to be down. Most are dug into the side of a hill.
Cooper Pedy is a wild, unruly place. Lots of people living on the edge trying to strike it rich by finding that one rich seam of opal. Many small mines owner operated. Everybody secretive about what they find. You do not want to be too curious wondering around the mine sites or you might end up joining the many bodies thought to be buried under various shafts.
Took a huge battle. Both Labor and Liberals (conservatives) were for it. But in the end the huge backlash won.
That said, Labor will agree with any government moves on security. Tough on terror. Labor will have the worst aspects watered down, but will not disagree.
You see, they have been invited to top secret security briefings in top secret rooms in which top secret people gravely discuss vague threats. Works every time.
There has been steady increase in the power of security forces at the expense of our rights with no real justification as to why they are suddenly necessary. I do not see this as being any different.
And they generally get though our vigorous internal security scans just fine (i.e. the code generally compiles). And none of this fake bugs, my decoy bugs are real ones. Genuine bugs. Lots of then.
So many that even the most determined hacker is unlikely to figure out how to make the software work correctly, let alone hack it.
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Controlling a real helicopter at slow speed is quite difficult. But the quadcopters have a lot of smarts in their controllers, so that their operators just say up down left etc. and the machine does it. Years ago I talked to someone that was putting similar capability into some military helicopters.
So this takes the technical skill out of flying them, so that anyone can do it. Converting musicians into disk jockeys.
Taxis gave up voice communication years ago. It is surprising that we still use VHF voice for aircraft. And security could hardly be worse -- anybody with a $100 VHF radio can pretend to be a pilot or ATC if they know the lingo.
Once it goes digital, it can link to aircraft systems directly. So it can tell the pilot when they are doing something wrong. Or just program the autopilots directly.
What could possibly go wrong?
Chinese government and companies employ many thousands of people to censor.
And no, the Chinese do not tell Google or others what to censor, at least not very often. Google and others decide what to censor, and if the Chinese do not like it then they threaten to shut Google down. If Google does an excellent job then they might be granted a few favors.
Companies like WeChat employ most of the censors. They use a combination of patterns and terms. The spend their lives monitoring the internet, and become quite good at it.
If any censor is caught letting something through then they may have to write a self-criticism. And maybe lose their job. Possibly, although most unlikely, something worse.
But Chinese respect authority. It would never occur to them that they are doing anything wrong. They are just maintaining social harmony.
Google operating in China is very dangerous. It will affect their operations in the USA. Partly just though culture, as more of their engineering is done in China. But also overtly -- if China does not like Google's US search results they can penalize Google China. And Google is (now) all about making money.
I like the line about wanting to write in Perl because it is more elegant than PHP. Pot calling kettle black!
I use some PHP for my small site. Because it is there. Installed, ready to go on my basic hosting provider. Sure it is ugly. But not nearly as ugly as Java or .Net to configure for small sites.
And yes, I guard against SQL injection and Html injection.
Being open source is less horrible, but there will still be plenty of opportunity of hacking. Most of this hacking is done by (elected) election officials, not Russians. And the Republicans are far better at it than the Dems.
Go for simple paper ballots. Counted in front of scrutineers appointed by the candidates. The scrutineers then report numbers back to their candidates independently from the official system, so no room for fudging.
This is what happens in Australia. And all the votes are counted by hand within a couple of hours of closing the booths. It is a quick and painless process.
I might add in Australia we also have a slightly more complex preferential system, where you order 1, 2, 3 instead of just one X. This avoids the vote splitting issues that the USA has. But it does require a population that knows how to count, even if they lived in a poor school district.
There is a difference between the lights going out and being blown to bits. So not the same thing.
The USA legitimized cyber war with Stutnex.
Now, when those atomic drones get taken over by an enemy, things get more interesting...
Maybe that is the point. Make this a GMail only feature. Only works to SEND to a known GMail account, perhaps with a bit of encryption and key held by Google.
Most Android users already use GMail. GMail is growing in corporates, together with Microsoft. Google could probably do a deal with Apple.
Email is the one that got away. Not controlled by any one centeralized authority, or maybe 3. Maybe this is one step in the move to rail that in. EMail should be single server based and controlled, just like Facebook Messenger.
The phone calls are all recorded, and voice recognition technology makes them just as searchable as text. Better to have a face to face meeting. In a bunker.
It lives in a very, very complex sandbox, with a huge attack surface. But it is just as much an installed app as anything else.
What is needed is Secure HTML. It would not support everything that flashes and spins. No JavaScript. Not much CSS. Very limited interactions with non-origin sites. Such a thing could be made reasonably secure, and still support the all-important Material Design.
But nobody cares.
As to an "App" having access to all a users files, you are thinking too much of *nix. The world changed when Apple introduced basic sand boxing in IoS. It is long over due that I should be able to easily run installed Linux apps without giving them control over everything that I own.
As to micro kernels, it would seem that they are maybe 10% slower. And nobody wants an operating system that is 10% slower just because it is more secure.
The final piece is the C/++ programming language. And ungly mess that actively encourages buffer overflows and other joys. Most of the code in an O/S can be written using something decent. All the non-micro kernel bits anyway.
This was actually an issue for agents during WW2. Marks got agents to stop using memorized encryption keys and instead use one time codes written on silk, with instructions to burn each piece after use.
That way the Nazis could not torture there code out of them and then read their back traffic, which could be very serious.
Who determines the CEO's salary? Not the mum and dad share holder. Not even the institutional ones unless the salary is completely outrageous. It is a board. And who is on that board? A bunch of mates that nobody really knows.
That is what creates the high salaries. Nobody is really accountable for them. And the CEO is probably on the board of other large companies.
So, the CEO needs to be basically competent, at least at managing the board. But nobody knows who is or is not good at managing the company. Whether it is doing well because or despite the CEO.
The exception is probably CEOs that actually built the company. Bill Gates comes to mind. Love or hate him, he was clearly competent.
Does it need to be chained to a tree?
An Australian court will at most give the kid a suspended sentence. Probably not even that.
But if they get him to the USA it is a long stretch in jail and a ruined life.
So that is extradition that is the key issue here. And of course he can never visit the USA.
In several decades time, when the robots can program themselves, why would they want human children around?
The rest of the world puts a chip on the cards with a secret that never leave it. Almost impossible to clone.
I visited California recently and found my credit card being used to take out cash. Bank will deal with it, but I am without a card for a week. Only possible due to use of magnetic stripe.
China's GDP is already greater than that of the USA in purchasing parity terms, which is what counts if you want to purchase air craft carriers. It will soon overtake the USA in absolute terms. Xi Jinping is has said that he wants to build up their military and their influence. And what Emperor Xi says is what happens.
VPNs are illegal in China. You will not go to jail at the moment, but you will loose a lot of social credit points if they government catches you with an illegal one. Would you really risk that just to read Redit?
Under Xi, China has become much more oppressive over the last couple of years. The screws are tightening, and soon I think illegal VPNs will become dangerous to run, and so become very rare.
The speed of change is truly amazing. When I was a kid, some 30,000,000 Chinese had starved under Mou's Great Leap Forward. Then the Cultural revolution. Then the huge opening up under Deng Xiaoping. And the hope and expectation of a move to democracy. And now the crack down by Xi, And all this time the unimaginable economic growth.
In the west, we live roughly the same as our parents did, excluding computers. In China it is unimaginably different.
Which is important there. They also have plenty of mining equipment on hand to dig the holes. They still cost more than an above ground house. But in the heat, you want to be down. Most are dug into the side of a hill.
Cooper Pedy is a wild, unruly place. Lots of people living on the edge trying to strike it rich by finding that one rich seam of opal. Many small mines owner operated. Everybody secretive about what they find. You do not want to be too curious wondering around the mine sites or you might end up joining the many bodies thought to be buried under various shafts.
Worth a visit.
Took a huge battle. Both Labor and Liberals (conservatives) were for it. But in the end the huge backlash won.
That said, Labor will agree with any government moves on security. Tough on terror. Labor will have the worst aspects watered down, but will not disagree.
You see, they have been invited to top secret security briefings in top secret rooms in which top secret people gravely discuss vague threats. Works every time.
There has been steady increase in the power of security forces at the expense of our rights with no real justification as to why they are suddenly necessary. I do not see this as being any different.
Our gift to America, burn very well due to their oil.
Eucalypts. They have lots of oil in their leaves and burn really hot. Our gift to America...
For many species the seeds will only germinate after a fire. So regular fires keep them going in the longer term.
Just shows how stupid the previous administration was to appoint Pai.
The Right would never do such a thing, they always appoint reliable people.
By posting Facebook articles.
Words and meanings are only loosely connected.
The Right are much better than the Left at doing both X and Y.
Where X=dodgy deals and Y=getting (evil) things done
The Left would love to do more of X and even Y, but they just don't have the gumption.
Nice fellow, that Obama.
And they generally get though our vigorous internal security scans just fine (i.e. the code generally compiles). And none of this fake bugs, my decoy bugs are real ones. Genuine bugs. Lots of then.
So many that even the most determined hacker is unlikely to figure out how to make the software work correctly, let alone hack it.
I use it for international phone calls.