The chances of it coming with a version of windows that doesn't send any data back home to mama is pretty much nil.
It should be able to download security patches without sending any identifying information, tell you when it wants to do it, and be highly selective about what it does download from windows update servers.
But if my system isn't sending back any data, how will Microsoft know when to phone me and tell me when they've found viruses on my computer?
It's so helpful when that nice foreign sounding gentleman calls me to help me get everything fixed up..... which reminds me.. I hope he rings again soon, after the last time, I don't seem to be able to log into my email or Bitcoin wallet:/
For cars that can be driven by a human.
Farmers for example, how does a self driving car manage to get off road and find its way to where they need to go. Transport trucks, backing a 40ft trailer to a bay door. People who tow boats or camper trailers or any traler for that matter.
Those aren't very difficult problems for autonomous car technology to solve. A farmer could easily train his SUV or tractor by feeding it data about his farm's layout and topography. The vehicle might even train itself by looking up the farm on Google Earth.
Reversing at low speed is a relatively trivial problem for an AI truck. Self parking cars are already commonplace and the technology required for trucks is virtually identical. A self parking truck will always be at least as good at precision reversing as any human driver.
Ditto trailer towing. It takes quite a bit of practice and good natural spacial awareness for a human driver to be consistently accurate when backing a trailer. On the other hand an AI driver just has to do the math!
I do see some other situations where the usage model that many people are suggesting (You don't own an AI car outright, just summon one on demand) would be unsuitable for some people. Cars have other practical uses beyond just taking people and things from one place to another. For example I live in a very small house with little spare storage space so I store all my tools in the back of my small hatchback car (I always have the rear seat folded down, so it's more like a 2 seater small van) I use these tools at work on construction sites and it's handy to be able to keep the tools in the car until needed, then they're also available when I get home in case I need to do any work around the house.
A taxi style 'car on demand' service might suit an office commuter or shopper, but it wouldn't make a very good toolshed!
What about motorcycles? Where do you buy petrol after all the cars are gone?
Electric motorcycles with performance to rival ICE bikes are already available. The bike in this video is a pure prototype built by Japanese motor racing specialist company Mugen specifically to compete in the "Zero" race at the Isle of Man TT, but given Mugen's close ties to Honda, it's a given that the technology being trialled on the Mugen Shinden machine is going to end up in a battery powered Fireblade equivalent before very long.
You're assuming that's something they actually need. They don't. People in general survived just fine before social media became a thing. It's not a necessity.
And you're assuming that it's something they don't need, when you have no idea if that's true. People in general have had to cope alone with all sorts of problems since time immemorial, but that's not a very good argument for saying that they should have to keep coping alone now that social media exists.
I'm an Isle of Man TT marshal. Specifically I'm the Deputy Sector Marshal for Cronk-Y-Voddy Crossroads where the superbikes flash past at around 180mph less than 2 feet away from the spectators! Current TT absolute lap record holder Bruce Anstey set an average lap speed of 132.298mph In the 2014 Superbike race.
More to the point of the electrically powered racing theme of this thread, the TT festival also includes a single lap (37.74 mile) race for electric powered bikes called TT Zero and this race was won in 2014 by John McGuinness on a prototype Mugen Shinden setting a record breaking lap of 117.366mph average speed.
or they could just force you to create an account on iPlayer that's tied to your TV license.
You only need a TV licence to watch programs that are being broadcast in real time on iPlayer. (ie if you are watching a show on iPlayer that you could also watch simultanuously on a TV.
I don't think the concept was ever intended to be taken seriously. See also the Yosemite Sam dig to China joke. It's just a "rhetorical flourish" to say a really deep hole, when really deep may be nowhere near the depth of a typical open cut coal mine let alone an undergound one.
Exactly. It was just theatrical exaggeration to paint a vivid image in people's minds of the core being so fearsomely hot that it could burn through anything. No one in the nuclear industry or even serious opponents of nuclear who actually understand the physics would seriously suggest the material would burn all the way through to the other side.
I used to work in construction as a groundworker here in the UK and my foreman one day marked out a square of earth and asked me to hand dig a test hole (to check the ground condition/composition.) When I asked him how deep the hole should be he quipped "Stop digging when you smell kangaroo shit."
I've read about this sometimes happening, but I thought it was just a myth. You actually found a real example in the wild? What an amazing discovery lmao
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." Col. Jeff Cooper
And to someone with a hammer every problem is a nail...
Col Jeff Cooper seems to be under the impression that evil is a tangible enemy that can be fought with physical weapons. To my mind the only real evil is the fact that we're all so scared of our fellow human beings' different ways of life that we'd rather shoot them dead than have our own 'perfect' culture contaminated by their strange foreign outlook.
I've only had one of these calls. Someone claiming to be "From Microsoft" informed me that they'd detected some "errors" on my computer.
My first question was: (something like) "Oh you've detected some errors....Which operating system am I using?" (I use Ubuntu, but I didn't mention that.)
Scammer hung up immediately I asked the awkward question.
I rarely used my landline anyway as anyone who knows me would ring my mobile first, but after that call and a couple of other cold calling sales calls, I switched off the handset and haven't used it since.
Undeterred by the manufacturing issues mentioned in TFA. Researchers from Spain have now found that by inserting little "islands" of lead, or more precisely lead atoms, into the hexagonal graphene structure, they can make the material highly magnetic.
Gasoline in liquid form doesn't make much of a bomb, but as a vapour mixed with air it can cause some pretty serious destruction. For energy density it doesn't compete with a nuclear weapon, but you still wouldn't want to be close to a fuel/air explosion.
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The chances of it coming with a version of windows that doesn't send any data back home to mama is pretty much nil.
It should be able to download security patches without sending any identifying information, tell you when it wants to do it, and be highly selective about what it does download from windows update servers.
But if my system isn't sending back any data, how will Microsoft know when to phone me and tell me when they've found viruses on my computer?
:/
It's so helpful when that nice foreign sounding gentleman calls me to help me get everything fixed up..... which reminds me.. I hope he rings again soon, after the last time, I don't seem to be able to log into my email or Bitcoin wallet
For cars that can be driven by a human. Farmers for example, how does a self driving car manage to get off road and find its way to where they need to go. Transport trucks, backing a 40ft trailer to a bay door. People who tow boats or camper trailers or any traler for that matter.
Those aren't very difficult problems for autonomous car technology to solve. A farmer could easily train his SUV or tractor by feeding it data about his farm's layout and topography. The vehicle might even train itself by looking up the farm on Google Earth.
Reversing at low speed is a relatively trivial problem for an AI truck. Self parking cars are already commonplace and the technology required for trucks is virtually identical. A self parking truck will always be at least as good at precision reversing as any human driver.
Ditto trailer towing. It takes quite a bit of practice and good natural spacial awareness for a human driver to be consistently accurate when backing a trailer. On the other hand an AI driver just has to do the math!
I do see some other situations where the usage model that many people are suggesting (You don't own an AI car outright, just summon one on demand) would be unsuitable for some people. Cars have other practical uses beyond just taking people and things from one place to another. For example I live in a very small house with little spare storage space so I store all my tools in the back of my small hatchback car (I always have the rear seat folded down, so it's more like a 2 seater small van) I use these tools at work on construction sites and it's handy to be able to keep the tools in the car until needed, then they're also available when I get home in case I need to do any work around the house.
A taxi style 'car on demand' service might suit an office commuter or shopper, but it wouldn't make a very good toolshed!
It means I'm probably a terrorist.
What about motorcycles? Where do you buy petrol after all the cars are gone?
Electric motorcycles with performance to rival ICE bikes are already available. The bike in this video is a pure prototype built by Japanese motor racing specialist company Mugen specifically to compete in the "Zero" race at the Isle of Man TT, but given Mugen's close ties to Honda, it's a given that the technology being trialled on the Mugen Shinden machine is going to end up in a battery powered Fireblade equivalent before very long.
You're assuming that's something they actually need. They don't. People in general survived just fine before social media became a thing. It's not a necessity.
And you're assuming that it's something they don't need, when you have no idea if that's true. People in general have had to cope alone with all sorts of problems since time immemorial, but that's not a very good argument for saying that they should have to keep coping alone now that social media exists.
Yes, pretty amazing. People are standing right next to the road where race cars are travelling at up to 150 mph.
So? People are standing right next to the road where race bikes are traveling at 200+ mph - (Isle of Man) Average is higher than measly 150mph
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I'm an Isle of Man TT marshal. Specifically I'm the Deputy Sector Marshal for Cronk-Y-Voddy Crossroads where the superbikes flash past at around 180mph less than 2 feet away from the spectators!
Current TT absolute lap record holder Bruce Anstey set an average lap speed of 132.298mph In the 2014 Superbike race.
More to the point of the electrically powered racing theme of this thread, the TT festival also includes a single lap (37.74 mile) race for electric powered bikes called TT Zero and this race was won in 2014 by John McGuinness on a prototype Mugen Shinden setting a record breaking lap of 117.366mph average speed.
Compare that to this single lap demonstration run by rally driver Mark Higgins in a stock Subaru Impreza WRX STI at a very similar average speed to the electric bike. ICE engined bikes still hold a huge advantage in terms of range and a smaller advantage in terms of absolute speed, but the gap is closing.
BBC should fix this by requiring people to authenticate their TV license to use the site.
That would be great except you don't actually need a licence to watch programs on iPlayer..
If you only ever watch ‘on demand’ programmes, you don’t need a TV Licence. On demand includes catch-up TV, streaming or downloading programmes after they’ve been shown on live TV, or programmes available online before being shown on TV."
or they could just force you to create an account on iPlayer that's tied to your TV license.
You only need a TV licence to watch programs that are being broadcast in real time on iPlayer. (ie if you are watching a show on iPlayer that you could also watch simultanuously on a TV.
"If you only ever watch ‘on demand’ programmes, you don’t need a TV Licence. On demand includes catch-up TV, streaming or downloading programmes after they’ve been shown on live TV, or programmes available online before being shown on TV."
I don't think the concept was ever intended to be taken seriously. See also the Yosemite Sam dig to China joke. It's just a "rhetorical flourish" to say a really deep hole, when really deep may be nowhere near the depth of a typical open cut coal mine let alone an undergound one.
Exactly. It was just theatrical exaggeration to paint a vivid image in people's minds of the core being so fearsomely hot that it could burn through anything. No one in the nuclear industry or even serious opponents of nuclear who actually understand the physics would seriously suggest the material would burn all the way through to the other side.
I used to work in construction as a groundworker here in the UK and my foreman one day marked out a square of earth and asked me to hand dig a test hole (to check the ground condition/composition.) When I asked him how deep the hole should be he quipped "Stop digging when you smell kangaroo shit."
But really a woman visiting porn, who knew ?
I've read about this sometimes happening, but I thought it was just a myth. You actually found a real example in the wild? What an amazing discovery lmao
Does your food contain DNA? Why aren't there mandatory warning labels for foods containing DNA?
They need to ban those nasty Amino Acids too!
It's the only place that isn't full of niggers.
Looks like we have a volunteer for the first solo one way mission to explore the interstellar void. Have fun and don't hurry back..
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." Col. Jeff Cooper And to someone with a hammer every problem is a nail...
Col Jeff Cooper seems to be under the impression that evil is a tangible enemy that can be fought with physical weapons.
To my mind the only real evil is the fact that we're all so scared of our fellow human beings' different ways of life that we'd rather shoot them dead than have our own 'perfect' culture contaminated by their strange foreign outlook.
I've only had one of these calls. Someone claiming to be "From Microsoft" informed me that they'd detected some "errors" on my computer.
My first question was: (something like) "Oh you've detected some errors....Which operating system am I using?" (I use Ubuntu, but I didn't mention that.)
Scammer hung up immediately I asked the awkward question.
I rarely used my landline anyway as anyone who knows me would ring my mobile first, but after that call and a couple of other cold calling sales calls, I switched off the handset and haven't used it since.
Undeterred by the manufacturing issues mentioned in TFA. Researchers from Spain have now found that by inserting little "islands" of lead, or more precisely lead atoms, into the hexagonal graphene structure, they can make the material highly magnetic.
Gasoline in liquid form doesn't make much of a bomb, but as a vapour mixed with air it can cause some pretty serious destruction.
For energy density it doesn't compete with a nuclear weapon, but you still wouldn't want to be close to a fuel/air explosion.