Posts by Solarflare 330 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Dec 2016
Under the proposed legislation, American automakers will be able to ask the US Department of Transport for exemptions to safety standards, allowing them to get autonomous vehicles onto the streets for testing and deployment faster.
Manufacturers able to put mostly untested, several tonne, computer controlled, high speed vehicles on the road without much oversight? Well, that gives another good reason not to travel to the good ol' US of A...
In all fairness I'd far prefer that Java updates were better rather than faster. As it stands so much software written off the bacj of java only supports a specific version or update. You can upgrade if there's a security concern and it might work, but of course, you'll be voiding your support...
What would happen if the sun went out tomorrow?
Our planet would cool (though there would be residual warmth for a while due to our core providing geothermal energy) and eventually we would end up being a lifeless rock.
What does that have to do with Climate Change though? That's like saying "If the sun doesn't shine on my conservatory, it is cold during the day! Therefore the heaters I have in there can't possibly have an effect on the temperature"
I would expect this will be twofold:
1. ID mobile is a network run by Carphone (which uses 3). They will have higher costs as a result of the legislation >> hits profits.
2. Network providers have to pay extra and can't directly charge this to the customers >> they charge the sellers more
"If an accident is unavoidable, the self-driving ride must not make any choices over who to save – it can't wipe out an elderly person to save a kid, for instance. No decisions should be made on age, sex, race, disabilities, and so on; all human lives matter."
Great! Now what about amounts? Does 2 adults trump a child? Does say the POTUS or the Queen trump a us ordinary folk? What about the car driving itself off of a cliff to avoid a crash with a pedestrain, is that OK as there is a chance the occupants might survive if there are lots of airbags? What about it there is a horse and rider? Will the car plough into the horse, kill the animal and hope the rider lands on a soft crumple zone?
"Ultimately, drivers will still bear responsibility if their autonomous charabanc crashes, unless it was caused by a system failure, in which case the manufacturer is on the hook."
Sorry? Am I responsible if I am a passenger on the underground? I'm pretty sure I'm not. If it is an autonomous vehicle then I have zero control and should not be held responsible if there is an accident. If the car is driving itself then by definition I am not the driver.
Scholtz's thought process here appears to be on the lines of "well, companies with a lot of risk have big security teams, right? So if you make your security team reeeeeally small, you basically have no risk! Easy peasy."
Personally I think having "a guy" in each function who drives security might work, but there would have to be something central looking to govern the entire thing as well or there would be no coordination and you would end up with huge "not my job that one guv'nor!" holes throughout the estate...
The Great Unwashed don't see a breach as a big problem. I have had many a frustrating conversation with people about how much data there is on them and how big a deal things like this are. In general, they just don't care. Unless it hits them financially, people are happy to just ignore this sort of thing.
Everything uses frameworks now. Everything chases the latest and greatest system/language. Most of the people who do the work taught themselves to code, so don't necessarily have an idea of how it should be done properly. That's why day in and day out there are breaches, hacks and vulnerabilities galore.
100 miles? Oh you lucky little nipper! In my day I had to walk 200 miles to school and 300 back. A mile was far longer back then too. All you youngun's with your modern conveniences like traininers and shoes and boots...Boots! In my day, we didn't even have feet!
You don't know you're born, the lot of you.
None of this appeals to me at all - I don't use cortana )I actually surgically removed her, but that's beside the point) and I don't fancy connecting my phone to my PC for a minor convenience of being able to open up a page in a browser slightly quicker. That said, I can see that both of these would appeal to some, even if neither are new or groundbreaking.
A Microsoft spokesperson told The Register that "many of of the MS Paint features people know and love" such as "photo editing and 2D creation" are in the free Paint3D, Paint's replacement.
What's Paint 3D? I mean, sure i can work out exactly what it is, but before now I hadn't heard of it at all...
About a decade ago, on a night out and having consumed a decent percentage of my bodyweight in alcohol I managed to leave my wallet in the taxi on the way home. It was a hackney cab so I couldn't even call the taxi company to see if it had been handed in. I duly wrote it off as a loss, cancelled cards etc...A few days later I received a package through the mail - my wallet, with all the cards and the (admittedly small amount of) notes and change still in there and a note from the Post Office saying the taxi driver had handed it in to them and they had sent it over to the address on my driver's license.
There are good people out there and the thought of an 'anti-thief' camera seems insulting to me too.
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