Interesting how of the top 5 sellers Telsa's products take #1, #3, and #4 spots. Maybe we will now enjoy fewer postings now about how delusional and corrupt Elon Musk is and how he will go bankrupt before he delivers.
Most hybrid technology is obsolete. A lot of those patents have to do with things like power switching and control and distributing torque among multiple providers on a drive train. Most of that disappears in an EV vehicle.
So I guess someone figured pitching that IP portfolio to the wind would have greater PR benefit than trying to protect and maintain it.
The car I drive, a Ford Escape Hybrid was succeeded in the Ford product line with an all ICE version of itself. No more Hybrid available. The ICE version ended up getting within 10% of the fuel economy of the Hybrid it replaced and you don't have the battery cost problems.
Although you do get better fuel efficiency with a hybrid it always has been a very marginal and temporary proposition. The only reason they have had the success they have had is because nobody had been willing to do with Musk had done, which was to 1) single-handedly multiply the global production of LiON batteries and 2) invest in improving them for EV use.
He was never going to make a true computer from hard metal- and he knew this.
I highly recommend if you can when you are in the San Jose Area and have a free afternoon you can go see a full implementation of the Babbage machine in operation at the Computer History Museum. They say there is one in London as well.
If I were driving Hauwei at this point I would open-source all the software running on my devices. Their competitive edge is in slave-labor manufacturing and insane levels of customer financing, not technical innovation.
Of course they would still have to address the possibility of silicon or FPGA based backdoors but that might be worked out in a similar way.
> These two are paid with taxpayer dollars to advise the president.
That statement is patently false - they do not take government salary of any kind.
"first daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump, son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner and intergovernmental and technology aide Reed Cordish — take home no pay from taxpayers, according to the disclosure." - https://www.politico.com/story...
Thank you for falling for my trap. It was so obvious I thought nobody would bite. But given that you seem to be paying some attention...
Here is Newsweek:Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner Made More Than $82 Million While Working at White House.
So, you consider this OK? You think there are no conflicts of interest here?
I remember when Republicans were so morally outraged by someone losing $52K on a real estate deal called Whitewater before they were eleccted that they spent $70M+ of taxpayer dollars investigating it.
I remember when Republicans insisted that an elected president sell off his peanut farm, in his family for generations.
But Republicans don't seem to care about any of this: Trump just sold (less than a month ago) a condo for $2.9M -- highest prices in that building ever -- to a foreign interest willing to pay a way-above market price for what reason do you suppose. Don't waste time pretending it is something DJT delegated -- his own signature is on the document. It is speculated that he needed the money to pay off fines (the same amount, roughly) that the Republicans don't care much about either.
So I get it that Republicans don't care beyond an occasional harumph on cable news. Trump appoints the far-right judges they want and signs off on tax breaks. What I don't get is the partisan morons that support this even though it has nothing to do with their own self interest.
The very first month Trump is in office he blows up Israeli intelligence assets out in the open. It was made known that Israel's security officials now considered anything "leaked" to the U.S. president is at risk. It hasn't gotten any better since then but domestic intelligence has adopted the practice of withholding things from him.
Over every objection by each and every U.S. intelligence agency Ivanka and Jared are given security clearances. These two are paid with taxpayer dollars to advise the president.
I & J have been revealed to be in conflict of interest in multiple instances involving foreign entities, both government and private. The entire family has been shown to be skirting the law and is most likely open to blackmail.
Now we have many posts in this thread that state with absolute confidence that I & J could not possibly have anything worth investigating and by no means could have possibly have compromised anything. The mind reels.
I'm a fan. If you do anything even moderately complex in JavaScript you should look at Typescript. It eases a lot of the pain of using JavaScript.
Count me in as a fan as well.
I never really cared for programming in JavaScript myself although I did it because that was the job at hand.
Then I started learning Angular, and learned Typescript by following the Angular lessons. Rarely did I have to go back to the Typescript reference page. And predictably enough my JavaScript skills improved because I was writing more of it to integrate JavaScript libraries into my Angular applications.
What I learned really was that strong type checking is really really helpful when dealing with a lot of interfaces. The IDE (I use WebStorm) auto-completion and parameter/type checking in enormously more efficient than having to continually go back to documentation (or the original source code) for what you can't remember.
At the same time they didn't give up the option of weak type checking for when that is a better way to write things. Win-win.
Since the Bush years we often had to deal with tech seminars and conferences where they were moved out of the U.S. because many of the participants couldn't deal with U.S. Customs and Border enforcement. If you weren't a white European you were basically treated like shit and assumed to be a terrorist unless you could prove otherwise.
The profit-driven pharmaceutical industry is going to capture this bacteria, culture it, and formulate some new medication that will "save thousands of lives."
Everyone happy, right?
Maybe. That's not the end. Right now that magical cure is "right underneath your feet" (TFA). What they will ignore are those bacteria are part of a complex ecosystem where the parts are interconnected and dependent on each other. But they can't package and make a profit on an ecosystem just some molecule or gene sequence that they can isolate and mass produce to have some immediate effect.
Then they will proceed to hype the threat, scaring hundreds of millions into thinking they must have their product or die a horrible death.
Result: it will be way over-prescribed and recklessly used (because hey, insurance covers it, right?) so that the harmful pathogens circulating will evolve into something resistant to it. Any side effects of the new wonder drug will be downplayed and anyone pointing any of this out will be ridiculed as anti-science.
There is no information in TFA. It is all happymarketingspeak:
“CommunityBridge is the platform to solve critical challenges and fuel open source innovation and sustainability by empowering people — all in one place.”
You don't seem to understand the available technology very well.
The list of all votes should be publicly accessible, countable by everyone and anyone. One URL per precinct, for example.
Each vote is anonymous but has a digital signature. Anyone can verify any vote for which they have the key which is on the receipt they got when they voted. That could be either online or at the polling place on a cheap-ass voting machine. (A Raspberry Pi with a display and mouse could do it.) But the local voters will decide what is the legal way to vote.
If fraud is suspected, which is possible but unlikely, many people will check their votes and complain if it looks like their vote is altered. If enough people raise a verifiable objection the authorities will be compelled to take action as directed by statute.
If someone manages to steal keys it will be an issue of voter privacy but not anything to do with altering the outcome of the election.
These are simple concepts that may be implemented by any of thousands (millions?) of unremarkable software coders using all open-source tools downloadable in minutes.
The only reason this isn't done is a general illiteracy among the general population, the officials, and political leaders in some combination that make it nearly impossible to move forward. After all, everyone "knows" it is impossible to have 100% secure systems. What is hard to make them understand is that although you want to have your systems as secure as you can possibly make them the key to having high-integrity elections is not that -- it is having a 1) publicly accessible verification system that would detect any fraud that matters, and 2) election laws that would respond to any fraud or error that actually occurs.
First point: score one for open-source-based economy. The problem can now get fixed without the usual denials from the usual vested interests.
Question: The article says the backdoor allows changes to be "undetected." If the voting system is online isn't there a way that you can go back and verify that your vote was counted correctly?
As usual I see the back-and-forth between Windows/Linux/MacOS. Everything said has been said before many many times.
Including this.
I have MacOS but I also have Windows in VM. Some applications just don't have a MacOS version like Solidworks, The Citrix Xen VM manager and a number of tools like that and accounting packages.
I have lots of Linux systems around so I don't need a Linux VM but if I did I could have one in a few minutes.
In this day and age crusading for one favored OS over another is just retarded. So is arguing that it is too hard to switch.
But.
MacOS hosts Windows and Linux and BSD as guest VMs far better than any other OS hosts its rivals. And by "better" I mean not only do the over-boundary features work but it is much easier to install and maintain.
So if you are a serious multi-system developer you don't need MacOS but you would prefer it if you care about productivity.
I am typing this on a Apple bluetooth keyboard paired to my MacPro-2015. I would say 90% of my heavy-typing work is done at my desk where the keyboard is. The laptop itself is closed and driving an external display which also provides me a wired mouse.
The only time when I even open the laptop is when I take it somewhere. And then I use the keyboard that still looks new after four years. All laptops that are lightweight have keyboard problems eventually don't fool yourself. Anyone who pounds on one at their desk by default is just asking for it.
He relates a story about taking his motorcycle in for a repair. The staff there has heavy rock music blasting over the speakers on the shop floor. They do a shitty job on his bike. He explains the connection -- the workers at the shop really don't care about their craftsmanship and one indication of that (other than doing a shitty job) is that they think their work environment has to have this head-banging entertainment to be palatable. He goes on from there.
You are by far not the only one that hasn't read that particular book. It had points to make but it wasn't that big a deal even in its heyday so don't worry about it.
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Interesting how of the top 5 sellers Telsa's products take #1, #3, and #4 spots. Maybe we will now enjoy fewer postings now about how delusional and corrupt Elon Musk is and how he will go bankrupt before he delivers.
Then again, maybe not.
I thought the NSA already was charged with this. Wasn't the whole reason for the NSA is to manage communications security in the first place? In 1952.
This thing really does look like something the Soviets would build. Or try to build.
Most hybrid technology is obsolete. A lot of those patents have to do with things like power switching and control and distributing torque among multiple providers on a drive train. Most of that disappears in an EV vehicle.
So I guess someone figured pitching that IP portfolio to the wind would have greater PR benefit than trying to protect and maintain it.
The car I drive, a Ford Escape Hybrid was succeeded in the Ford product line with an all ICE version of itself. No more Hybrid available. The ICE version ended up getting within 10% of the fuel economy of the Hybrid it replaced and you don't have the battery cost problems.
Although you do get better fuel efficiency with a hybrid it always has been a very marginal and temporary proposition. The only reason they have had the success they have had is because nobody had been willing to do with Musk had done, which was to 1) single-handedly multiply the global production of LiON batteries and 2) invest in improving them for EV use.
Will it boot MS-DOS 5.0?
He was never going to make a true computer from hard metal- and he knew this.
I highly recommend if you can when you are in the San Jose Area and have a free afternoon you can go see a full implementation of the Babbage machine in operation at the Computer History Museum. They say there is one in London as well.
If I were driving Hauwei at this point I would open-source all the software running on my devices. Their competitive edge is in slave-labor manufacturing and insane levels of customer financing, not technical innovation.
Of course they would still have to address the possibility of silicon or FPGA based backdoors but that might be worked out in a similar way.
I tried to read the paper but my brain melted about halfway through it.
Can someone produce a lay explanation?
> These two are paid with taxpayer dollars to advise the president.
That statement is patently false - they do not take government salary of any kind.
"first daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump, son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner and intergovernmental and technology aide Reed Cordish — take home no pay from taxpayers, according to the disclosure." - https://www.politico.com/story...
Thank you for falling for my trap. It was so obvious I thought nobody would bite. But given that you seem to be paying some attention...
Here is Newsweek: Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner Made More Than $82 Million While Working at White House.
So, you consider this OK? You think there are no conflicts of interest here?
I remember when Republicans were so morally outraged by someone losing $52K on a real estate deal called Whitewater before they were eleccted that they spent $70M+ of taxpayer dollars investigating it.
I remember when Republicans insisted that an elected president sell off his peanut farm, in his family for generations.
But Republicans don't seem to care about any of this: Trump just sold (less than a month ago) a condo for $2.9M -- highest prices in that building ever -- to a foreign interest willing to pay a way-above market price for what reason do you suppose. Don't waste time pretending it is something DJT delegated -- his own signature is on the document. It is speculated that he needed the money to pay off fines (the same amount, roughly) that the Republicans don't care much about either.
So I get it that Republicans don't care beyond an occasional harumph on cable news. Trump appoints the far-right judges they want and signs off on tax breaks. What I don't get is the partisan morons that support this even though it has nothing to do with their own self interest.
As I said: partisan morons. And Buttery Males.
The very first month Trump is in office he blows up Israeli intelligence assets out in the open. It was made known that Israel's security officials now considered anything "leaked" to the U.S. president is at risk. It hasn't gotten any better since then but domestic intelligence has adopted the practice of withholding things from him.
Over every objection by each and every U.S. intelligence agency Ivanka and Jared are given security clearances. These two are paid with taxpayer dollars to advise the president.
I & J have been revealed to be in conflict of interest in multiple instances involving foreign entities, both government and private. The entire family has been shown to be skirting the law and is most likely open to blackmail.
Now we have many posts in this thread that state with absolute confidence that I & J could not possibly have anything worth investigating and by no means could have possibly have compromised anything. The mind reels.
Buttery Males.
I remember a while back that it was damn near impossible to get a resume for an engineer that didn't have Televideo on it.
I'm a fan. If you do anything even moderately complex in JavaScript you should look at Typescript. It eases a lot of the pain of using JavaScript.
Count me in as a fan as well.
I never really cared for programming in JavaScript myself although I did it because that was the job at hand.
Then I started learning Angular, and learned Typescript by following the Angular lessons. Rarely did I have to go back to the Typescript reference page. And predictably enough my JavaScript skills improved because I was writing more of it to integrate JavaScript libraries into my Angular applications.
What I learned really was that strong type checking is really really helpful when dealing with a lot of interfaces. The IDE (I use WebStorm) auto-completion and parameter/type checking in enormously more efficient than having to continually go back to documentation (or the original source code) for what you can't remember.
At the same time they didn't give up the option of weak type checking for when that is a better way to write things. Win-win.
They call it a "transpiler."
That's been going on for some time.
Since the Bush years we often had to deal with tech seminars and conferences where they were moved out of the U.S. because many of the participants couldn't deal with U.S. Customs and Border enforcement. If you weren't a white European you were basically treated like shit and assumed to be a terrorist unless you could prove otherwise.
Does anyone happen to know if the failure mode has been successfully recreated in an simulator?
I found it scary as well. How long before they are able to culture a lizard's brain? A mouse? A dog's? Then ....
I can see where this is going.
The profit-driven pharmaceutical industry is going to capture this bacteria, culture it, and formulate some new medication that will "save thousands of lives."
Everyone happy, right?
Maybe. That's not the end. Right now that magical cure is "right underneath your feet" (TFA). What they will ignore are those bacteria are part of a complex ecosystem where the parts are interconnected and dependent on each other. But they can't package and make a profit on an ecosystem just some molecule or gene sequence that they can isolate and mass produce to have some immediate effect.
Then they will proceed to hype the threat, scaring hundreds of millions into thinking they must have their product or die a horrible death.
Result: it will be way over-prescribed and recklessly used (because hey, insurance covers it, right?) so that the harmful pathogens circulating will evolve into something resistant to it. Any side effects of the new wonder drug will be downplayed and anyone pointing any of this out will be ridiculed as anti-science.
You read it here first, folks.
There is no information in TFA. It is all happymarketingspeak:
“CommunityBridge is the platform to solve critical challenges and fuel open source innovation and sustainability by empowering people — all in one place.”
Yeahhh.. That'd be great.
You don't seem to understand the available technology very well.
The list of all votes should be publicly accessible, countable by everyone and anyone. One URL per precinct, for example.
Each vote is anonymous but has a digital signature. Anyone can verify any vote for which they have the key which is on the receipt they got when they voted. That could be either online or at the polling place on a cheap-ass voting machine. (A Raspberry Pi with a display and mouse could do it.) But the local voters will decide what is the legal way to vote.
If fraud is suspected, which is possible but unlikely, many people will check their votes and complain if it looks like their vote is altered. If enough people raise a verifiable objection the authorities will be compelled to take action as directed by statute.
If someone manages to steal keys it will be an issue of voter privacy but not anything to do with altering the outcome of the election.
These are simple concepts that may be implemented by any of thousands (millions?) of unremarkable software coders using all open-source tools downloadable in minutes.
The only reason this isn't done is a general illiteracy among the general population, the officials, and political leaders in some combination that make it nearly impossible to move forward. After all, everyone "knows" it is impossible to have 100% secure systems. What is hard to make them understand is that although you want to have your systems as secure as you can possibly make them the key to having high-integrity elections is not that -- it is having a 1) publicly accessible verification system that would detect any fraud that matters, and 2) election laws that would respond to any fraud or error that actually occurs.
I can verify each and every ATM transaction and online banking transaction I ever made. Have for millions of dollars of transactions over decades.
And the system has made mistakes. I see them, call up, and they are corrected. Sometimes the bank corrects them before I even notice.
Not just me. Billions of customers world wide have the same capability.
And we can't have a secure online voting system. Really.
First point: score one for open-source-based economy. The problem can now get fixed without the usual denials from the usual vested interests.
Question: The article says the backdoor allows changes to be "undetected." If the voting system is online isn't there a way that you can go back and verify that your vote was counted correctly?
As usual I see the back-and-forth between Windows/Linux/MacOS. Everything said has been said before many many times.
Including this.
I have MacOS but I also have Windows in VM. Some applications just don't have a MacOS version like Solidworks, The Citrix Xen VM manager and a number of tools like that and accounting packages.
I have lots of Linux systems around so I don't need a Linux VM but if I did I could have one in a few minutes.
In this day and age crusading for one favored OS over another is just retarded. So is arguing that it is too hard to switch.
But.
MacOS hosts Windows and Linux and BSD as guest VMs far better than any other OS hosts its rivals. And by "better" I mean not only do the over-boundary features work but it is much easier to install and maintain.
So if you are a serious multi-system developer you don't need MacOS but you would prefer it if you care about productivity.
A lot of bellyaching about keyboards here.
I am typing this on a Apple bluetooth keyboard paired to my MacPro-2015. I would say 90% of my heavy-typing work is done at my desk where the keyboard is. The laptop itself is closed and driving an external display which also provides me a wired mouse.
The only time when I even open the laptop is when I take it somewhere. And then I use the keyboard that still looks new after four years. All laptops that are lightweight have keyboard problems eventually don't fool yourself. Anyone who pounds on one at their desk by default is just asking for it.
No they have to get the Windows 3 clock out of the way first.
TL;DR version.
He relates a story about taking his motorcycle in for a repair. The staff there has heavy rock music blasting over the speakers on the shop floor. They do a shitty job on his bike. He explains the connection -- the workers at the shop really don't care about their craftsmanship and one indication of that (other than doing a shitty job) is that they think their work environment has to have this head-banging entertainment to be palatable. He goes on from there.
You are by far not the only one that hasn't read that particular book. It had points to make but it wasn't that big a deal even in its heyday so don't worry about it.