I don't think the true "PowerGlove" successor has come yet.
A smart glove like this could turn any ordinary squeeze ball into a chording keyboard. With Google Glass and other similar technologies chording keyboards and wearable tech would work for rapid next input without voice. Anyone that has played GuitarHero knows how a chording keyboard can work.
It would actually be a perfect device for simulating the EPA test cycle. It would be a perfect way to sell it legally. The EPA cycle is "the" test for cars in the US so there are plenty of professionals that would love a tool. Some simulation software starts at $5k/license. (CANalyzer). No one says you have to sell your device with 'encryption' so that the EPA cycle would be replaced with whatever cycle you wanted.
Or you could just do it with a cheap uC board these days. These guys are building a engine EFI controller with a $14 circuit board as the base. Even having to spoof their own messages With an ODB/CAN simulator you could easily
And maybe someone would then finally make a legitimate cheap CAN/ODBBluetooth reader instead of clones of clones or a chip that is ages old to read data as well. USBCAN cables from good vendors start at $500 even though the functionality is built into a lot of new chips.
The Bord do not reproduce... No borg gives birth however
The first does not necessarily follow from the first. They've encountered lots of species with cloning technology. It's never stated on-screen that they don't make use of this. The Borg nursery scene could easily be interpreted as showing newly cloned Borg with their first cybernetic implants (disregarding the Voyager stuff, where they changed the premise of the Borg beyond all recognition). In particular, they claim that 'We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own' - given that most species become extinct after encountering the Borg, this would be a very short-term strategy if they were not preserving genetic samples for cloning - you get a few decades of life out of the new intake and then you no longer have their biological distinctiveness.
If they do not continue to assimilate they will eventually exhaust their current supply of organic hosts and die out.
Even if they didn't normally reproduce in this way, they seem good at adapting. I doubt that it would take long before they adapted in response to the threat of a lack of new species to assimilate.
To be fair, your engine management system should have been designed with security in mind.
Should be? Sure. Is? Absolutely not, in any shipping design.
Anyone who didn't vote for them because they've not read the Revelation Space series should go away and read it now.
if one looks in-universe, the Borg have to assimilate because if they do not assimilate, they will go into decline and eventually cease to exist
Why? In the first episode showing the Borg, they found a creche with Borg children, so they were still able to reproduce their biological components. Given how quickly they adapted without assimilating their enemies (and repaired damage), they also seemed more than capable of improving their technological abilities. You could argue that they couldn't survive without external stimulus, but that's pretty common for most lifeforms.
The point was that there was only one true mind in the Collective, so there was no dissent to be authoritarian against, and the individual Borg units were just appendages of the Collective
That's not entirely clear from the canon. Some of the dialog indicates that, within the collective, there are individual viewpoints, but that the whole acts based on the consensus view. With direct neural interfaces, there's a lot of time to debate possible courses of action before any decision has to be made.
A device can run arbitrary malicious code and is connected to a physical link to your car, to a system that has physical links to your engine management system, and was not written with security in mind, what's the worst that can happen?
Why not have almost all school children complete the equivalent of pre-caclulus, Calc I and Calc II, and intro to statistics by age 16?
Because calculus is a massively overrated part of mathematics. It is emphasised in the British education system because, when it was introduced, having accurate artillery tables was seen as important. It is emphasised in the US education system because, when it was introduced, being able to put a satellite into orbit with incredibly primitive computers (that might fail) was considered important.
there's an app that doesn't run on IOS that I know he would like to have access to
So the real question is, what is that app and are you SURE there's nothing like it on IOS?
There are a LOT of tablet specific apps, and many of them integrate well with iOS accessibility.
Frankly that "After Dentist" kid is exactly how I feel about five minutes into any president's State Of the Union speech...
It would be great to see the wigged out kid and the biting baby / sibling behind the president as he gave the speech though. I can hear the young britsih accent now, faintly from the back... "Charlie, that man is really boring".
Different apps. I haven't been in Cydia recently, but I'd wager that the variety of apps that leverage the "rootedness" of an Android phone outnumber what's on an iPhone. Similarly, there are a number of apps (Rocketdial, GoSMS, etc.) that require a jailbreak on iOS
I'm not sure that's the case... besides there are more app options for things that do not require jailbreaking (like custom keyboards for example).
As for the example of apps that require jailbreaking... since the basic assumption is rooted/jailbroken system, why is that an issue? You get to use them if you like either way then.
Well, at initial setup, there's not much that Google can ascertain - your Gmail address, your cell number, your phone carrier, and your location...
Whereas with an Apple tablet all it's going to get is your IP during activation (it asks on first run if you are OK with it collecting location info).
Because if you're rooting, and more specifically installing a custom ROM, carrier updates become irrelevant.
I'm not talking about carrier updates, I'm talking about installing new Google releases, which may have some new collection mechanisms you have not yet blocked or otherwise break your privacy software.
tl;dr: Android sucks, except for all the alternatives.
For out of the box privacy (esp. for the non-technical user) iOS is 1000x better than Android.
For jailbroken privacy for a very technical user, iOS is a tad better. But again it's a matter than the OS is not going to care that it's not collecting your data to transmit back.
The study shows people not making hiring decisions in a technical job. A lab technician in a biolab IS a technical job.
Not in the sense were are talking about on Slashdot, and as others have noted it's a pretty flawed study (including the interesting fact that women supposedly had the same bias, which means it's not men you should be worried about).
At this point you're engaging in outright denialism.
Basing your entire worldview on a single flawed study seems to be way more in denial to me, you simply don't want to admit the real world works differently than preconceptions you hold dearly.
However, your ORIGINAL claim is that people are rational.
*Technical workers*, and yes they are - outside silicon valley.
If you want to convince me, show me some evidence that people are in fact rational.
Get a job and see for yourself.
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is the Latin for office automation?
