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Qualcomm's Connected Car Reference Platform To Connect Smart Cars To Everything (networkworld.com) 110

Posted by BeauHD from the integrated-wireless-technologies dept.
An anonymous reader writes: Qualcomm wants to supply the next generation of autonomous and connected cars with networking to connect everything inside and outside of the cars. That means 5G, WiFi, Bluetooth, GNSS, DSRC, V2X, OABR, CAN, etc. ... [Networkworld reports: "Qualcomm today announced its Connected Car Reference Platform intended for the car industry to use to build prototypes of the next-generation connected car. Every category from economy to luxury car will be much smarter than the connected luxury car of today, creating a big opportunity for Qualcomm to supply semiconductors to automakers and suppliers. Qualcomm described the following features of the Connected Car Reference Platform in its release:

Scalability: Using a common framework that scales from a basic telematics control unit (TCU) up to a highly integrated wireless gateway, connecting multiple electronic control units (ECUs) within the car and supporting critical functions, such as over-the-air software upgrades and data collection and analytics.
Future-proofing: Allowing the vehicleâ(TM)s connectivity hardware and software to be upgraded through its life cycle, providing automakers with a migration path from Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) to hybrid/cellular V2X and from 4G LTE to 5G.
Wireless coexistence: Managing concurrent operation of multiple wireless technologies using the same spectrum frequencies, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy.
OEM and third-party applications support: Providing a secure framework for the development and execution of custom applications."]
Android

Op-ed: Oracle Attorney Says Google's Court Victory Might Kill the GPL (arstechnica.com) 357

Posted by msmash from the the-other-side-of-the-coin dept.
Annette Hurst, an attorney at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe who represented Oracle in the recent Oracle v. Google trial, has written an opinion piece for Ars Technica in which she urges developers and creators to not celebrate Google's win in the hard-fought copyright case as the decision -- if remains intact -- is poised to make them "suffer" everywhere and also the free software movement itself "now faces substantial jeopardy." As you're aware, in a verdict earlier this week, a federal court announced that Google's Android operating system didn't infringe on Oracle-owned copyrights because its re-implementation of 37 Java APIs is protected by "fair use." Hurst writes: No business trying to commercialize software with any element of open software can afford to ignore this verdict. Dual licensing models are very common and have long depended upon a delicate balance between free use and commercial use. Royalties from licensed commercial exploitation fuel continued development and innovation of an open and free option. The balance depends upon adherence to the license restrictions in the open and free option. This jury's verdict suggests that such restrictions are now meaningless, since disregarding them is simply a matter of claiming "fair use." It is hard to see how GPL can survive such a result. In fact, it is hard to see how ownership of a copy of any software protected by copyright can survive this result. Software businesses now must accelerate their move to the cloud where everything can be controlled as a service rather than software. Consumers can expect to find decreasing options to own anything for themselves, decreasing options to control their data, decreasing options to protect their privacy.

Comment Cisco's opinion is worthless in this context (Score 1) 36

Cisco basically says you can use Open Source software on your device (the one you're manufacturing) as long as it's not something like GPL3-licensed. Because that would require you to make the software updatable for the user. Their opinion has no bearing on using the likes of OpenWRT or derived AP offerings. None at all.

Anyone who's actually taken a closer look at the relevant FCC regulation (or its equally restrictive ETSI counterpart) will struggle to come up with ways to fully comply with this regulation without locking down the firmware. If you have a WLAN chip that has efuses/internal EEPROM that contain country settings, and if the chip reads them instead of the driver, then all is good. In every other case, it's very difficult.

Of course, neither FCC nor ETSI care about that at all. And manufacturers will probably come up with intentionally lousy ways to lock down their firmware because they still want to sell their products and nobody really wants the default firmware :p
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Former First Lady Nancy Reagan Dead At 94 (nbcnews.com) 216

Posted by BeauHD from the rest-in-peace dept.
An anonymous reader writes: Former first lady Nancy Reagan has died, according to a spokeswoman with the Reagan Library. She was 94. The cause of death was congestive heart failure, according to her rep Joanne Drake. "Mrs. Reagan will be buried at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, next to her husband, Ronald Wilson Reagan, who died on June 5, 2004," Drake wrote in a statement. May she rest in peace.

Comment Re:Germany (Score 2) 602

by soccerisgod (#51467969) Attached to: Are Roads Safer With No Central White Lines?
Most? Absolutely not. This, from my personal experience, is definitely false. Most roads have lines. They just don't bother with some rural roads that don't see much usage and that're in such bad condition that nobody in their right mind would speed there anyway.

Comment Re:Bet Alsop isn't used to being fired (Score 1) 339

He should have been made to wait much longer. If you compare the size of a Tesla car with that of an iPhone and if you consider the lines of people forming in front of the Apple store and the waiting times involved every time a new model is released, well, he should've been made to wait in line a few weeks! Bad marketing! Baaaaaaaaaaad!
Bug

Ask Slashdot: Fixing UVC Camera Issues Under Windows? 148

Posted by timothy from the you-get-to-keep-both-pieces dept.
Khyber writes: I bought some cheap Chinese camera glasses with built-in microphones. These are (supposedly) UVC cameras manufactured in 2015. Under Windows XP, these cameras are seen perfectly fine and work as web cameras; even the microphones work. Under Windows 7, the camera appears to install just fine, however I get the 'This device can perform faster if you connect to USB 2.0' (which it is connected to) and when I try to load it up with any camera viewer such as manycam or any chat program's built-in previewer, I cannot receive any video from the camera. I can get audio from the camera microphones under Windows 7, so I am wondering if the camera device is having problems enumerating as a USB 2.0 device due to some change in Windows 7 (which it doesn't seem to have issues doing under XP,) or if the UVC driver for Windows 7 is missing something in comparison to the one used for Windows XP. Anybody else had issues getting newer UVC cameras to work in newer operating systems?

Comment Re:How to tell a regulation has failed utterly (Score 5, Informative) 147

by soccerisgod (#51327415) Attached to: Opel Dealers Accused of Modyfing the Software of Polluting Cars

If in reality car emissions are higher than overly ambitious standards, but still low enough that air quality is OK - should the cars be "fixed" (as in the pet related term, neutered) or instead should the regulations be brought to realistic levels based on what cars are actually emitting today?

Air quality is anything but okay. I can't speak for the US, but here in Europe, we have serious problems with it. In China it's so bad in some areas you can actually only register a new car if it's electric - that's actually an important reason why electric cars are getting more attention now.

Comment Re:Terrorist Negotiations are strong. (Score 4, Insightful) 563

by soccerisgod (#51129373) Attached to: Go To Jail For Visiting a Web Site? Top Law Prof Talks Up the Idea
I also love how this is treated as a new problem ("A new quality of terrorism", as an European politician put it a short while ago), as if there never was an Unabomber, an IRA, a RAF, an ETA or a "top terrorist" Carlos The Jackal. And the fact that a mass shooting totally changes everything because it was political, in contrast to the several hundred other shootings that weren't ;-)

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