No one has asked yet, so I guess I have to: is the Perl binary written in Perl?
A fall when a bunch of people can suddenly sell is a normal thing. And those insiders should sell parts of their positions. They are very heavily invested in FB and need to diversify, even if they believe FB is a very…
All of this "giving away" of stuff has stopped our society from reinventing the wheel. Unfortunately, the people "giving away" spend a lot of time reinventing fantastically-different but only-very-marginally-better…
Several times I've been a company that says "the way the rest of the industry does X is stupid." Sometimes we broke the rest of the market, sometimes we captured a really big piece, sometimes we had to give up and do…
"Missing stop signs" is one place where a google car would be great, since they pre-map the area and would know a stop sign has disappeared. Knowing that would cause them to slow down and be even more careful.…
There's a classic science fiction story that I cannot remember now where people do exactly that. If it becomes a problem, the car can transmit images of the jaywalkers to the police.
The people doing this have talked about how their autonomous car met another company's autonomous car. There didn't seem to be a problem. Really, when there are more autonomous cars on the road, each and every one will…
I think $10,000 is a big over-estimate, but even that would be spread out over the life of the car. I'd happily pay $1000 a year to not have to worry about driving.
Remember that the "5%" of the time you use your car is probably the same "5%" of the time every one else wants to use their car, i.e. rush hours.
From what I know it's always known-course. If you were to get a google car today for your commute (you can't), you would first drive to and from work yourself, probably more than once, so it can map everything. Knowing…
Driving at night and the rain will probably be where autonomous cars really outshine humans. Lidar systems don't care if you are wearing all black during a night at new moon. Snow is much harder for the time being. A…
That doesn't seem right to me. A person driving 10K a year will hit 300,000 miles over the course of 30 years. Does the average person really have less than 1 accident every 30 years? Especially when they are younger?
That is very helpful. I'm going to be proposing this to work very soon thanks to you.
Back when cell phones weren't ubiquitous, I once worked at a start-up where one of the really rich technical leads thought it was unfair that he got charged when people called him on his cell phone. I guess he thought…
I think most people are aware that the passwords saved in their browser are, well, saved in their browser, and if someone unkind gains access to the browser they gain access to all the sites with saved passwords.
I think "Security questions" need to be completely destroyed and the earth salted. Then we have a long talk about them before bringing them back in a very careful, limited format. Bank Of America is horrible in this.…
Compared to the other things we're talking about, fraud on credit cards is largely a solved problem. (Yes, there are issues, and I'm sure people actively working on the problem don't consider it solved.) Credit card…
In space, in the inner solar system, solar panels are more power dense than RTGs. The situation might change enough being on planet where the sun is slightly filtered by the thin atmosphere, and the sun doesn't shine…
Once I moved and realized I forgot to cancel my phone and DSL. On the road, I used my cell to call the phone company to cancel. They did it for me immediately. I was relieved it was so easy, but unnerved at how easy it…
Could be. But that's a very different problem. Old-school computer security breaks things down into the CIA categories: Confidentiality is for things you want secret. Integrity is for things you want to not be altered.…
Honestly, the credit cards are the easiest part. I'd much rather someone get my credit card number than my email account.
We need people to be able to regain access after losing a password, and we need only the right people to have that. This is a very hard problem. One thing that we should have is a "cool down" period. If you want to…
the thinking behind the "We are proud to only accept Visa" marketing campaign It's like "for your convenience." "For your convenience, all toilets have been closed."
Not really. If the rover is on the side of Mars facing away from the Sun, it's almost always facing away from the Earth, too, since the Earth is deeper inside the solar system. Facing the Earth and facing the sun are…
And he hasn't released the source code and hardware specs yet. So, although I think he should have contacted the vendor (even if that could have been inconvenient for him) before going public, he still hasn't made it…
No one has asked yet, so I guess I have to: is the Perl binary written in Perl?
A fall when a bunch of people can suddenly sell is a normal thing. And those insiders should sell parts of their positions. They are very heavily invested in FB and need to diversify, even if they believe FB is a very…
All of this "giving away" of stuff has stopped our society from reinventing the wheel. Unfortunately, the people "giving away" spend a lot of time reinventing fantastically-different but only-very-marginally-better…
Several times I've been a company that says "the way the rest of the industry does X is stupid." Sometimes we broke the rest of the market, sometimes we captured a really big piece, sometimes we had to give up and do…
"Missing stop signs" is one place where a google car would be great, since they pre-map the area and would know a stop sign has disappeared. Knowing that would cause them to slow down and be even more careful.…
There's a classic science fiction story that I cannot remember now where people do exactly that. If it becomes a problem, the car can transmit images of the jaywalkers to the police.
The people doing this have talked about how their autonomous car met another company's autonomous car. There didn't seem to be a problem. Really, when there are more autonomous cars on the road, each and every one will…
I think $10,000 is a big over-estimate, but even that would be spread out over the life of the car. I'd happily pay $1000 a year to not have to worry about driving.
Remember that the "5%" of the time you use your car is probably the same "5%" of the time every one else wants to use their car, i.e. rush hours.
From what I know it's always known-course. If you were to get a google car today for your commute (you can't), you would first drive to and from work yourself, probably more than once, so it can map everything. Knowing…
Driving at night and the rain will probably be where autonomous cars really outshine humans. Lidar systems don't care if you are wearing all black during a night at new moon. Snow is much harder for the time being. A…
That doesn't seem right to me. A person driving 10K a year will hit 300,000 miles over the course of 30 years. Does the average person really have less than 1 accident every 30 years? Especially when they are younger?
That is very helpful. I'm going to be proposing this to work very soon thanks to you.
Back when cell phones weren't ubiquitous, I once worked at a start-up where one of the really rich technical leads thought it was unfair that he got charged when people called him on his cell phone. I guess he thought…
I think most people are aware that the passwords saved in their browser are, well, saved in their browser, and if someone unkind gains access to the browser they gain access to all the sites with saved passwords.
I think "Security questions" need to be completely destroyed and the earth salted. Then we have a long talk about them before bringing them back in a very careful, limited format. Bank Of America is horrible in this.…
Compared to the other things we're talking about, fraud on credit cards is largely a solved problem. (Yes, there are issues, and I'm sure people actively working on the problem don't consider it solved.) Credit card…
In space, in the inner solar system, solar panels are more power dense than RTGs. The situation might change enough being on planet where the sun is slightly filtered by the thin atmosphere, and the sun doesn't shine…
Once I moved and realized I forgot to cancel my phone and DSL. On the road, I used my cell to call the phone company to cancel. They did it for me immediately. I was relieved it was so easy, but unnerved at how easy it…
Could be. But that's a very different problem. Old-school computer security breaks things down into the CIA categories: Confidentiality is for things you want secret. Integrity is for things you want to not be altered.…
Honestly, the credit cards are the easiest part. I'd much rather someone get my credit card number than my email account.
We need people to be able to regain access after losing a password, and we need only the right people to have that. This is a very hard problem. One thing that we should have is a "cool down" period. If you want to…
the thinking behind the "We are proud to only accept Visa" marketing campaign It's like "for your convenience." "For your convenience, all toilets have been closed."
Not really. If the rover is on the side of Mars facing away from the Sun, it's almost always facing away from the Earth, too, since the Earth is deeper inside the solar system. Facing the Earth and facing the sun are…
And he hasn't released the source code and hardware specs yet. So, although I think he should have contacted the vendor (even if that could have been inconvenient for him) before going public, he still hasn't made it…