Security! Seriously, Worry about the whole damn RF signal as it is probably the only 900 MHz around for miles. Even if it is spread spectrum it should not be too hard to track in the Savannah.
ECDIS does much more than just simple google style nav. ECDIS also understands ship draft, water depth, turning radius, etc and is designed to keep the ship from doing something stupid like the Valdez did. ECDIS also looks for dynamic collision dangers fro other ships with radar feeds. So even if a ship has paper charts, the regulators, insurers or owners will not risk a drowsy watch running into a rock thus risking life, limb or billion dollar damage/fine payout. Would you fly intercontinental if you knew the plane only had paper charts and a sextant?
Currently, the gentrification process is 1) upgrade buildings then 2) import gentry. I would propose that we 1) Upgrade the people in-place then, 2) upgrade the buildings. Lets invest in the people that already live somewhere and then let them upgrade their buildings. Give that rundown neighborhoods tend to have rundown schools we owe these residents a lot for failing to invest in them while they were young.
W3Woody,
All good points as GPS is such a weak signal it does offer lots of opportunity for mischief. There is also the risk of someone with physical access reprogramming the avionics - think cleaning crew. Change one byte on a scaling coefficient on a fuel calculation then 1000 miles from land you are suddenly running on fumes. There are also multiple RF data links to the ground, but most of them are relatively low band width. Of course there is the whole electronic flight bag used to replace maps, that are basically just PCs and ripe to get hacked - don't connect to the plane, but still pilots base many decisions on them. The Internet connection everyone thinks about in the pax cabin is air-gaped from the avionics except for a one-way serial connection feeding nav data from the avionics to the IFE (In Flight Entertainment) to display the you are here map.
The tech community in general is more educated and mere diverse (in some ways) than the general population and hence much less will to support trump. Plus tech CEOs are not psychologically the types to kiss the kings ring so yes, he is about to screw tech for both fun and profit. Probably he will use as leverage to extort more personal gain out of Beijing.
Finally, one less thing to root around for in the morning to make me late for work. I really want to throw away my keys and wallet. I can remember arcane bits of 60's sitcom trivia and Maxwell's equations, but I never seem to remember where I put and keys and wallet the night before. There have been halting efforts for digital driver's licenses. Of course, loose your phone then and you are deeply hosed. With no wallet, good luck getting money from the bank to buy a new phone (master digital token) to bootstrap you life back. Plus, I've always hated badges ("we don't need..."). Once everyone is opening doors with phones there will less and less argument for those horrible status symbols hanging off your belt - and one less thing to forget in the morning.
To be a bit pedantic, they do not interoperate as they need a bridge device that can receive/translate a message form one protocol to the other and retransmit it. Completely different modulation, etc. Plus most consumer IEEE-802.15.4/ZigBee devices are going to run at 2.45 GHz (ZigBee does have a few channels at 902) and Z-Wave runs at 902MHz.
Indeed, uCos has always seemed interesting, I've just never had a an opportunity to use.it. There are several great RTOS' out there that can live on a real low power embedded processor.
Seriously, an A7 and Linux for an IoT thermostat or glass break sensor? Linux is wonderful and all for servers and even little routers, but real IoT devices live on a dirt cheap processor in a few kbytes, not Mbytes or GBytes and last for a year on a single battery. FreeRTOS that just received support from Amazon is a likely solution for IoT. A survey by EE Times suggests that new embedded projects are adopting FreeRTOS and a slightly higher rate for new products than even Linux (page 63) while embedded linux still has a small lead for existing projects. I'll bet this pig ships will mono and C# built into it and that is why they pushing linux.
Probably could be fixed at the rule level without congress. I believe the law had an exception for "small hand-held cameras." I don't know if Space Man's camera qualifies as hand held, but clearly congressional intent was to exclude low res non-photogrametric grade devices. I suspect the real problem is that this administration has so blown-up and chocked the bureaucracy that there is no one left to process even a trivial bit of paper work. Let alone promulgate a trivial amendment a to make this moot by say declaring 100 m resolution equivalent to a small handheld cameras. These simple fixes are why we need a functioning executive branch. This is what bureaucrats do!
If by "Your energy taxes are so insanely high and convoluted" you mean we have some of the lowest electricity prices on the planet then yep bring on the "insanely high and convoluted" taxes because I like living in a place with clean air without coal smokestacks and almost free power.
I seem to recall that the Romans invented iron wrist bands that were able to direct employees (slaves) with an attached communication link (chains). They also had a neck and ankle versions too.
Yep we used test monkeys at a couple of places where I worked on games. Both cafeteria looked like the bar scene from Star Wars. Oh wait, Disney did buy Lucus, didn't they. Never mind. What, not *that* type of test monkeys, never, never mind.
What the EU/US-Justice did to microsoft's browser business very effective broke a monopoly on browsers and allowed chrome/Firefox a way forward. But when you have companies that are monopolies/dominant in multiple business segments using their strength to lock competitors out of a market then no you are not limiting choice. You are creating a level playing field that fosters many choices through fair competition.
If the cable/teleco companies keep consolidating and strangling access to the internet how long do you think you will have any choice on what product you can buy? I'm old enough to remember Ma Bell and having no choice who I got my phone from.
On the surface, say Apple looks like a tightly focused widget (phones, tables & computer) company, but look a little deeper and you see them using their monopoly positions to capture new markets much like Microsoft did with the browser business before they were forced to open up the desktop. In Apple's case their music business is tightly integrated into their product as is their back-up storage business. Apples does not provide an API so that others can provide music for their music player and ios does not have an API to allow you to select any cloud storage company. These interfaces would be easy to write. Just look at their mail client. They are abusing their dominant position on the phone to force/coerce you into paying to use their ancillary services. DOn't think me an APple hater as I am writing this on a Mac and have an iPhone in my pocket. Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Verizon, etc are just as guilty of abusing their monopolistic positions and will also need to have their hands slapped or have the whole company dismembered from time to time. Don't worry they will keep growing and be able to abuse their position again. Creating unfair sustainable advantages is what most MBAs seem to do. Capitalism will survive a little adult supervision.
Even with a bit higher capital costs between sources when you have to compete against an essentially zero fuel cost you are bound to fail. If I were making big bets today, I would be looking for a few narrow canyons I cold buy to put in some pumped hydro. That type of base storage is where the next gold rush will be found. Cool thing about pulped hydro is that you can reuse the water over and over. I also remember hearing about some group looking into reusing old mine railways as they tend to be steeper than commercial rail. They were going to put loaded cars with an electric engine/generator to act as gravity storage. Who says those old coal mines can't produce (or at least store) clean energy
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Security! Seriously, Worry about the whole damn RF signal as it is probably the only 900 MHz around for miles. Even if it is spread spectrum it should not be too hard to track in the Savannah.
This is news?
I'd swear that bad actors use The Onion for ideas.
ECDIS does much more than just simple google style nav. ECDIS also understands ship draft, water depth, turning radius, etc and is designed to keep the ship from doing something stupid like the Valdez did. ECDIS also looks for dynamic collision dangers fro other ships with radar feeds. So even if a ship has paper charts, the regulators, insurers or owners will not risk a drowsy watch running into a rock thus risking life, limb or billion dollar damage/fine payout. Would you fly intercontinental if you knew the plane only had paper charts and a sextant?
Currently, the gentrification process is 1) upgrade buildings then 2) import gentry. I would propose that we 1) Upgrade the people in-place then, 2) upgrade the buildings. Lets invest in the people that already live somewhere and then let them upgrade their buildings. Give that rundown neighborhoods tend to have rundown schools we owe these residents a lot for failing to invest in them while they were young.
Run GCC and have enough memory to compile its own Android OS. If not it is not a "real" computer.
W3Woody,
All good points as GPS is such a weak signal it does offer lots of opportunity for mischief. There is also the risk of someone with physical access reprogramming the avionics - think cleaning crew. Change one byte on a scaling coefficient on a fuel calculation then 1000 miles from land you are suddenly running on fumes. There are also multiple RF data links to the ground, but most of them are relatively low band width. Of course there is the whole electronic flight bag used to replace maps, that are basically just PCs and ripe to get hacked - don't connect to the plane, but still pilots base many decisions on them. The Internet connection everyone thinks about in the pax cabin is air-gaped from the avionics except for a one-way serial connection feeding nav data from the avionics to the IFE (In Flight Entertainment) to display the you are here map.
The tech community in general is more educated and mere diverse (in some ways) than the general population and hence much less will to support trump. Plus tech CEOs are not psychologically the types to kiss the kings ring so yes, he is about to screw tech for both fun and profit. Probably he will use as leverage to extort more personal gain out of Beijing.
Finally, one less thing to root around for in the morning to make me late for work. I really want to throw away my keys and wallet. I can remember arcane bits of 60's sitcom trivia and Maxwell's equations, but I never seem to remember where I put and keys and wallet the night before. There have been halting efforts for digital driver's licenses. Of course, loose your phone then and you are deeply hosed. With no wallet, good luck getting money from the bank to buy a new phone (master digital token) to bootstrap you life back. Plus, I've always hated badges ("we don't need..."). Once everyone is opening doors with phones there will less and less argument for those horrible status symbols hanging off your belt - and one less thing to forget in the morning.
To be a bit pedantic, they do not interoperate as they need a bridge device that can receive/translate a message form one protocol to the other and retransmit it. Completely different modulation, etc. Plus most consumer IEEE-802.15.4/ZigBee devices are going to run at 2.45 GHz (ZigBee does have a few channels at 902) and Z-Wave runs at 902MHz.
I think 10 bumper stickers should be more than enough to uniquely identify most cars.
You obviously have not visited the Fremont area of Seattle.
Indeed, uCos has always seemed interesting, I've just never had a an opportunity to use.it. There are several great RTOS' out there that can live on a real low power embedded processor.
Seriously, an A7 and Linux for an IoT thermostat or glass break sensor? Linux is wonderful and all for servers and even little routers, but real IoT devices live on a dirt cheap processor in a few kbytes, not Mbytes or GBytes and last for a year on a single battery. FreeRTOS that just received support from Amazon is a likely solution for IoT. A survey by EE Times suggests that new embedded projects are adopting FreeRTOS and a slightly higher rate for new products than even Linux (page 63) while embedded linux still has a small lead for existing projects. I'll bet this pig ships will mono and C# built into it and that is why they pushing linux.
Probably could be fixed at the rule level without congress. I believe the law had an exception for "small hand-held cameras." I don't know if Space Man's camera qualifies as hand held, but clearly congressional intent was to exclude low res non-photogrametric grade devices. I suspect the real problem is that this administration has so blown-up and chocked the bureaucracy that there is no one left to process even a trivial bit of paper work. Let alone promulgate a trivial amendment a to make this moot by say declaring 100 m resolution equivalent to a small handheld cameras. These simple fixes are why we need a functioning executive branch. This is what bureaucrats do!
Pumped hydro is a utility scale solution to storage that is proven reliable and cost effective.
If by "Your energy taxes are so insanely high and convoluted" you mean we have some of the lowest electricity prices on the planet then yep bring on the "insanely high and convoluted" taxes because I like living in a place with clean air without coal smokestacks and almost free power.
I want 10 memberships from this guy
I seem to recall that the Romans invented iron wrist bands that were able to direct employees (slaves) with an attached communication link (chains). They also had a neck and ankle versions too.
Yep we used test monkeys at a couple of places where I worked on games. Both cafeteria looked like the bar scene from Star Wars. Oh wait, Disney did buy Lucus, didn't they. Never mind.
What, not *that* type of test monkeys, never, never mind.
If the cable/teleco companies keep consolidating and strangling access to the internet how long do you think you will have any choice on what product you can buy? I'm old enough to remember Ma Bell and having no choice who I got my phone from.
On the surface, say Apple looks like a tightly focused widget (phones, tables & computer) company, but look a little deeper and you see them using their monopoly positions to capture new markets much like Microsoft did with the browser business before they were forced to open up the desktop. In Apple's case their music business is tightly integrated into their product as is their back-up storage business. Apples does not provide an API so that others can provide music for their music player and ios does not have an API to allow you to select any cloud storage company. These interfaces would be easy to write. Just look at their mail client. They are abusing their dominant position on the phone to force/coerce you into paying to use their ancillary services. DOn't think me an APple hater as I am writing this on a Mac and have an iPhone in my pocket. Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Verizon, etc are just as guilty of abusing their monopolistic positions and will also need to have their hands slapped or have the whole company dismembered from time to time. Don't worry they will keep growing and be able to abuse their position again. Creating unfair sustainable advantages is what most MBAs seem to do. Capitalism will survive a little adult supervision.
I will use every means I have, even beyond the line of duty, to restrain my Army comrades from actions disgraceful to themselves and to the uniform.
So I guess now you are now supposed to support your Army and comrades in committing actions disgraceful to themselves and to the uniform.
So quickly we forget the lessons of history.
" Replicants are like any other machine, are either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit it's not my problem."
Water and pesticide for cotton production is mind-blowing high. Compared to most food production it is off the charts.
Even with a bit higher capital costs between sources when you have to compete against an essentially zero fuel cost you are bound to fail.
If I were making big bets today, I would be looking for a few narrow canyons I cold buy to put in some pumped hydro. That type of base storage is where the next gold rush will be found. Cool thing about pulped hydro is that you can reuse the water over and over.
I also remember hearing about some group looking into reusing old mine railways as they tend to be steeper than commercial rail. They were going to put loaded cars with an electric engine/generator to act as gravity storage. Who says those old coal mines can't produce (or at least store) clean energy