Posts by James 36

better to try and fail than not to try

in honour of the failure I am wearing my LOHAN tshirt

Ad Astra Tabernamque

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from what I have read we have multiple contributory factors

1) the driver, even though he has had issues in the spot before ,was not paying attention (happens in manual cars all the time. You make some huge number of decisions when driving and there is an error rate accidents occur when one or more bad decisions coincide.

2) the Tesla SW and HW was unable to deal with the environment at that spot

3) the road furniture had not been repaired in a timely manner

all three of these contributed to the accident, without one of them the accident may not have happened.

what to do

1) change the sales/marketing guff around "autopilot" call it enhanced cruise control or something else , there will still be idiots who think they can not drive whilst driving I have seen people reading news papers whilst driving normal cars on the motorway FFS

2) tesla look at improving their SW and HW to reduce the risk of this specific issue

3) make sure road furniture is repaired before re-opening the road

it will not stop people dying , it may reduce that sort of accident. People die on the road all the time and there is a constant iteraive process to reduce that . it just takes time.

The main outstanding issue is still one of liability IMHO

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this guy is the new Paul Moller

https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/17-better-ways-to-waste-your-money-than-this-crowdfunde-1458308873

I need a good idea and the ability to unashamedly talk bollards in front of crowds to separate investors from cash.

FFS

have we learned nothing since Moller ?

I want a flying car but this guy was a fraud

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/comp17987.htm

now we have more snake oil in the form of magic leap

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due to fatberg occlusion your service is unavalable

"Disaggregation is complex, in reality it typically takes longer than anticipated (up to 4 years), is resource intensive and needs to be well planned and executed."

and that is totally in line with the way Gov IT procurement likes to work which it is why it has been so successful

I thought this was particularly amusing

"Part of the problem is that no one – particularly the sophisticated United States – wants to agree that something represents an attack when they could also be accused of the same thing.

"If we say something is 'use of force,' it can be used against us," Haines says. "We need a framework where we can go to other countries and say 'this is a problem, you should join us'.""

So it is ok for the good ole USofA cos they are the good guys ?

accidents in teh UK

here is a link to the top 5 causes of RTAs in the UK

http://www.seriousinjurylaw.co.uk/resources/blog/5-major-causes-of-uk-road-traffic-accidents-and-how-to-avoid-them/

which ones do you think could be reduced by removing the meatsack ?

I think it could show an improvement (ie a decrease) in all of them. From my limited understanding the key technologies are in place albeit still costly (eg LIDAR) the things that need work are (in no particular order)

1) security , cos that always needs work

2) legal framework - road traffic laws I think all assume a person is responsible for the control of the vehicle and the decision making process (IANAL)

3) complexities of a mixed environment,, there will always be people like me who want to drive though for fun more that the commute if this does take off, eg the possibility that the autonomous vehicle is capable of making an error must be taken into account in any accident investigation and any claims that is not possible ignored.

getting these things out on the roads has risks associated with it and I think the manufacturers/developers need to take safety as seriously as the Aircraft or space industries do in their designs. If the main selling point is safety then the vehicles had better prove to be safe. I guess the arguments will be around defining "safe" legally and unambiguously. The car industry doesn't have a great track record in independently making things safer. Though as it will be easier to market them as bringing convenience I expect the safety stuff to drop down the priority list under commercial pressure.

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I eagerly await Glasswalls first appearance in the CVE databse

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That sounds a lot but what does it look like as a percentage of the estimated total of C&C networks ?

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this seems to be the nearest thing to reality

https://www.terrafugia.com/the-transition/

drivable planes rather than flying cars, all seem a bit shit though , pity the moller thing was a ponzi scheme they did look good.

If you have the money to invest in one of these flyingcars/driveable planes then surely a helicopter makes sense as you can fly and get to where you need to go without the need for a car.

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Bill Hicks said it best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouE-CcwE8Ls

I do click on the odd ad on this website just to keep you in pennies as I am nice like that

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I think IOT should be renamed to IOVT

Internet of Vulnerable Things

more accurate and should bring some worry with it

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the landing bit was just a test wasn't it ?

so even if it failed it was a success as they will have learnt something. for example one of the lessons learnt from beagle was to have data transmitted back during the descent so if anything went wrong then the team would have something to analyse, like what name it gave that noise or the large thing coming up to meet it and if it pondered whether the thing was friendly or not

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is there a security bolt on that hasn't been compromised or shown to have vulns ?

So the OS is insecure and the tools we add on to add security are also insecure.

Governments pay for vulns to not be released as they are equiv to weapons in cyber warfare

products are pushed out the door with security as an after thought, users/consumers don't understand, don't care until they are bleating about losing money or being blackmailed

sounds like I need to change career to something with cybersec in the job title and ride the gravy train to retirement

Richard Hollis "Dance band on the titanic" sums it up nicely, a summary of his points is below

http://espirian.co.uk/digital-2016/#riskfactory

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I only use these voice commands for making phone calls in the car.

I had to make an alias for my wife as every time I tried calling her by name the phone tried to dial the chap I bought my car from

So I now say "call my wife" and that seems to work. Not bothered with them for anything as if they cannot be relied upon to make a phone call on a phone then more complex tasks would just add to my level of frustration

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the home of Weetabix is Burton Latimer isn't it not Kettering.

I have relatives who live there and the Weetabix factory is on the left as you drive in

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Burton+Latimer/@52.3639646,-0.6962008,3a,66.8y,345.12h,87.56t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sYfP7yZLKy1UGllcQ2YfSDQ!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x487798a6b1b7542d:0x50e1ca8bbc31250

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I though 12000 calories per day whilst training was if you were in the arctic circle ?

I know sweet FA about this though so probably wrong

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“the DCC is a secure, national network for smart meters which is currently being built.”

with millions of insecure wifi hotspots and/or unpatched vulnerable entry points,

I mean, what could possibly go wrong ?

can't non payers already be cut off ?

Doesn't the energy supplier have to jump through some legal hoops first like proving the cut off won't cause any harm ?

hmmmm

doesn't the Government spokesperson's statement at the end contradict the finding of the court ?

Or have I misread it ?

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Holland is one of the safest road network in Europe apparently, really this is just another car crashing into a tree killing the driver. This normally would only get mentioned in local press if at all.

I guess as it is a Tesla it makes for a story.

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for info on tempest

https://www.cesg.gov.uk/scheme/tempest-and-electromagnetic-security

try and get an invite to a demo to see its worth :-)

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Until people make buying choices based on security then this will continue to be the case.

People might start to care if they understood that but at the moment the sales is done before the individual know their P&J is so easily stolen.

Maybe insurance companies should start assessing the security of cars to decide on the risk of theft and then adapt premiums. If I was an underwriter I would be ramping up premiums on VAG cars until the manufacturer fixed the issue and had it independently tested.

Really high insurance helped kill the hot hatch for a while until security got better.

freedom of movement

Does anyone except me think it is a good thing that we can work anywhere in Europe ?

Why is the discussion always about "them" coming over here ?

"We" can go over "there"

hmm

please can someone convert the risk to micromorts ?

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google CESG and TEMPEST

This is a particularly unnerving statement

“We bring the internet to the car. The driver should get all the information he needs while he is driving."

All the info the driver needs for driving comes from the windows, the seat, the wheel, the instruments, the pedals, the sounds and the mirrors not the fucking internet.

Everything else is not important , nice to have at best.

annoying

this language in these articles always annoys me

"Glycidamide is one of the main metabolites resulting from this process and the most likely cause of the gene mutations and tumours seen in animal studies"

How likely is most likely ?

please quantify the actual risk of injesting acrylamide so we can make an informed choice rather than just the usual you are all going to die fat and lonely unless you stop now

RIP

I am reading this at work trying to not to weep at my desk. I love his books and need to reread them.

Another vote for Guards Guards as an intro

for an IT angle what about the troll in the freezer whose intelligence increases as the temperature drops ?

I particularly love small gods.

hyperloop

every time someone mentions the Elon hyperloop I think of the Simpsons Monorail episode

"the romans they go the house ?????

whats that supposed to mean"

what about

those about to fly salute you (I don't know latin)