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"then control robotic vehicles" . Aren't robots supposed to be autonomous?
How do we *know* the rate of micrometeorite bombardment is constant and hasn't dropped in intensity by a third in recent (geological/selenological) times?
Why do all the countries and non-Chinese seem to want a say in what services Chinese people get access to? Why is not having Google there to provide info better than having them there? By not having them there all you have is Baidu. How is adding competition to Baidu bad for the Chinese people?
If I'm reading this correctly, the blame for these exploits is being squarely placed on this ThreadX RTOS thing.
Well, you signed up for proprietary operating system, this is what you get when you do that. This is the downside of using code you can't look at and assess yourself, or have it assessed by professionals. You just have to take their word for it that it's security, stable and good. Obviously, this particular proprietary operating system is not secure.
Must say, I'm mildly surprised. Checking out ThreadX RTOS website, they seem to have all sorts of fancy certifications which I have no idea what mean, but surely they mean something? Just not secure and exploit free operating system?
Realtek is the lowest end. Those are the NICs you find on eBay or Amazon for a few bucks that usually have a name randomly generated from a syllable table. You'll also find them rebranded in non-dedicated-IT physical stores for $30. They shift a lot of them because they are the cheapest of the cheap and practically every no-name device has a little RTL crab in it somewhere. Many cheapo all-in-one motherboards have them too and a handful of other integrated devices.
Marvell are still cheap and cheerful but a lot more popular for integrated devices. Marvell not so much for NICs, though I have seen a few. They're a lot more popular in cheap APs and other network devices than RTL as well. A lot more integrated devices are sold these days than discrete NICs.
Atheros, Broadcom and Intel is where midrange (or the low end of enterprise), starts. Atheros and Broadcom do also have a fair representation in the consumer space, but they're seen in the high end enthusiast stuff rather than budget conscious, high volume garbage.
> they seem to have all sorts of fancy certifications which I have no idea what mean, but surely they mean something?
Mostly they mean that you can depend on it running perfectly reliably, so you can trust your $300 million space probe to ThreadX.
You may have also noticed ThreadX takes 2KB of memory.
When your system requirements are the kind of thing ThreadX is designed for, you don't have a ton of options. Maybe three will be worth considering, and likely one will be the best fit, just on technical considerations.
You can interpret data in an incoming packet as code for a domain language in any programming language. There is no language feature which caused this and for which alternatives have been actively researched for decades but held back by curmudgeons.
The same can not be said for buffer overflows.
Furthermore you agree not to use the Services to: (1) [...]; (2) impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, anyone affiliated with 23andMe, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
I suspect if a reporter did submit samples under different names, a court would side with the press against their terms of service. Eventually.
But by using identical twins, you sidesteps the possibility of wasting time, effort, and money because your report has been tied up by a gag order while a court mulls over what to do.
I'm reminded of the opposite story: someone forgets their password to the DNA site, and (instead of resetting the password) creates another account, sends in new DNA... and later calls their kid saying that it's incredible, wonderful, this DNA site has found that I have an identical twin somewhere!
The raw results are not in question. The story itself says that the raw data was nearly identical, as one would expect. It is only the extrapolation of that data to infer ethic lineage that didn't line up so well.
And that's the important point - the interpretation can differ. Yet if you look at all the ads, they imply an exact location. Spit in the tube and you'll find which neighbourhood your ancestors grew up in.
Of course, your results are basically guesses by the site - if you ask it for your real location, the best it can give is your continent. If you want what you see in the ad, you get a guess.
No judge is going to issue a gag order after something has already been published. There's no reason to alert the companies ahead of publication with the exact details of your investigation. In fact, there's no need to even tell the companies ahead of publication. The only reason this is done to some degree is to get the BS public-relations comment that tries to explain away the discrepancy.
Who is the reader going to believe? The DNA experts from Yale or some other university, or the for-profit company trying to defend their reputation?
99.8% between humans and chimpanzees refers to the entire genome (~3 billion base pairs).
23 And Me and related companies only look at about 3 million positions - the positions that are often different between different human populations/races (these are known as Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms).
How certain are they that giving algorithms a sense of uncertainty is a good idea?
The algorithm could handle this uncertainty by computing multiple solutions and then giving humans a menu of options with their associated trade-offs
That's not the algorithms adding uncertainty and making ethical choices, that's a human performing this task and the algorithm being demoted. The idea that having a human involved improves the ethics of the decision is laughable.
"With the Windows 10 Mobile OS end of support, we recommend that customers move to a supported Android or iOS device. Microsoft's mission statement to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, compels us to support our Mobile apps on those platforms and devices."
(bold mine)
And the only way to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is to Open Source Windows 10.
The result would be to stick it to Google/Apple too, which would be "icing on the cake."
Mac if you have money to burn, Linux otherwise.
I worked... or rather TRIED to work as a tester on the Windows 10 Mobile team at Microsoft.
I had 6 bosses. never knowing who to report to for what.
I had 1 SIM card; and no office phone. To test making/receiving calls on. Calling to/from my personal phone was expressly forbidden by 2 of the bosses.
The phones would randomly reboot; this was NOT considered a test failure according to 3 of the bosses.
Their problems right now are in production. You lower the price to get more people to buy your product. But demand already exceeds supply.
This doesn't made sense unless they are trying to do a quasi ponzi scheme through getting more money from more people paying the prepaid down-payment.
At this point I am beginning to doubt Tesla. They have a great product. But for all their troubles their assembly line should be finished as they have had more than enough time. How do other car manufacturers do it and how did the Japanese start their companies after us Americans if it's this hard? I'm not buying it.
I think the truth is the required performance batteries are hard to manufacture at the advertised price point. They are trying to leverage presale numbers to satisfy their investors and expecting a magical manufacturing breakthrough. I think they need a new CEO to put on the breaks and realistically raise prices and or do a limited bankruptcy.
One solution I suggest is selling the auto bodies of their cars without the batteries. Ditch the auto driving feature into another company and let people hack their own cars and hence assume full liability. They are attractive car bodies. Is there no way to retrofit them for a fuel cell engine? Bring the fun back.
The layoff was across the entire company. There's people in the Energy business that are packing their shit out to the parking lot.
This layoff was NOT about car manufacturing.
The market for large luxury cars is too small to be profitable. Tesla kept bragging how they were the leader in that niche, but they were only the leader because other manufacturers had abandoned it.
Now Tesla needs to make cars at a much lower price point. But they are being eaten by fixed costs in a low profit margin market.
LOL. Sure, I totally believe you have internal Tesla documents. Totally. This is my believing-you face. See it? Totally believing you.
You've missed a massive cost sink for ICE cars: Maintenance.
I've now got a few friends with EVs, and they don't really do maintenance. Rotate the tires every now and then, add some washer fluid, and that's about it.
EVs don't have engines, radiators, exhaust systems, or transmissions, and the regenerative braking is extending brake life to 100k+ miles. They are seriously simplified vehicles, and those cost savings just go up with time, when ICE parts would be starting to near their end of life.
I've got a 14 year old car which has always been relatively cheap, but I know that in the next few years I need to drop many thousands of dollars into preventative maintenance that I wouldn't have to put into an EV. I need to fix the heat shield, drop a couple grand into the exhaust, new plugs and wires, a radiator flush, new brakes, etc. etc. And that's what I know. I don't know exactly how good the engine, coolant, and transmission systems are.
I'd happily take none of those but a scheduled battery change every 8-10 years.
The Russians and the Chinese try to hack EVERYONE. All the major corporations, no matter what they produce. All the politicians, no matter what their party. All the banks, all the universities, all the tech firms - all of it.
Trying to play off standard, everyday behaviors as special and indicative of something deeper, as is done here. turns normal news into storytime fiction.
What the fuck are you talking about? The Republicans controlled the house when the shutdown started, dipshit. They had control of the house for two years, and for those two years, the wall didn't seem that important.
Perhaps they should've focused on building the wall instead giving the super rich a tax cut.
The problem with lying, and getting caught, is it tends to wreak havoc on your credibility.
After the BS they pulled with Bernie / Hillary, they are naive ( or arrogant ) to believe that anyone will ever put any faith
into any story they wish to tell. The doubt will be there again in 2020 when they nominate their next candidate and you
can be sure Team Red* is going to make sure everyone and their brother remembers it.
*Not that Team Red is the poster child of truthfulness, mind you, but they will surely throw some fuel on that fire.
At what point will the people decide that the only way forward is to remove the cancer that is our entrenched elected leadership
and start from scratch ? It seems the only ones who have been getting screwed over for the past several decades are us . . . . .
It's a shame the US doesn't have the " No Confidence " rule to remove an incompetent / incapable government.
Col. Jack O'Neill denied any knowledge of the Stargate program or the existence of the SGC, stating "I think you watch too much television."
RIP Don Davis
When you are working on the cutting-edge of scientific theory, it's all crazy stuff. This was merely research into the topics in hope of gaining some insight in the possibility. Communication without wires or sound used to be a fantasy but today most carry devices that utilize it constantly.
Seriously.
Now China will realize why we're not worried about their Moon Base.
Are you talking about Sony, TDK, or Maxell all of which are still in business and making cassette tapes?
I recently found some cassettes of a band I played with in the 80s and was considering getting something to play them back on. Much to my surprise there was still a very large selection of new cassette players on the market.
Didn't you guys watch the movie? It was basically just a 2 hour advertisement for the cassette tape format.
The sequel was also plugging the Microsoft Zune. I think the used Zune prices on ebay will be going up.
6 milliom views and 40,000 likrd?
so less than 1% liked it?