Catch up to the Chinese on battery tech? They don't have any special battery tech.
Every battery company of note has proprietary electrolyte. The differences between one battery chemistry and another can be significant.
There's nothing special about Chinese EVs components, they're basically the same stuff everyone else is making their EVs out of.
Most of them are using Chinese batteries.
If you want a good example of how quickly these supposedly simple systems can get complicated, look into the CAN bus CRC bug.
It's not simple to figure out what you're talking about, a search doesn't return anything obvious through the flurry of marketing content.
This fault is present on EVERY system that uses the CAN bus
It applies to every CAN standard? There's like five of them.
basically any vehicle since the 1990s
Since after the 1990s, you mean? While there were a few CAN vehicles in the 1990s, it didn't really become popular until the 2000s because the interface chips were still relatively expensive.
Most of them aren't video cards as they don't have video output. A DAC and ports cost money that you don't need to spend to run LLMs. The other uses for these cards are mostly scientific, and there's not enough money in that to justify owning them. Perhaps the AI bubble crashing will lead to a push towards some kind of crypto still efficiently mined with GPGPUs. Eew.
There are 3 wheel cars on the roads now.
Yes, and they suck now.
Motorcycles are all over and often driven by morons; those things are death traps without any other cars on the road.
Generally agreed. They are also slow in common real-world driving scenarios, e.g. on twisty roads. You can't ride them at 10/10 in case you find a little patch of sand or oil as you will then die. I have been stuck behind sportbikes and superbikes in a 240SX with a stock motor a bunch of times, the motorcycles probably have 4 times the power to weight ratio but not enough traction. Also if you lose the front tire at speed you will likely die.
Aptera wants to create commuting vehicles that will be in the crush of traffic going 70+, and can lose pressure in just one tire and end up with just two left which don't naturally track straight. It's an insane proposition right on the face of it.
Theoretical scenario, no?
Yes of course, but realistic in that skimming fraud is still occurring and it is still only really viable when involving the magstrip.
Going that route, the attacker can fill the whole damn card slot with epoxy, and no card, be it magnetic stripe or chip, can be inserted at all.
If you're doing an attack it's beneficial to have it not be noticed. Also most readers I have used have two different slots- an insert and leave one for the chip, and a slide through one for the strip.
The DCL isn't mandatory though. Home Assistant only needs it for device firmware updates, but it's always going to be the case that those come from the internet.
Their battery tech is a years ahead of everyone else, from the basic chemistry to the manufacturing process.
Some are, others are adopting Matter which is local only and an open protocol. Vote with your wallet.
Some car manufacturers want to wring more out of their investments in hybrid drivetrains. They are also hoping to delay long enough to catch up to the Chinese on battery tech.
Toyota is a great example. Their solid state battery tech is always a few years away from revolutionising the industry. They tried and abandoned hydrogen.
We have a similar problem in the UK. Courts and juries tend to believe the police, even though they have a reputation for lying.
To be honest, I'm kind of surprised this bullshit doesn't happen organically.
Presumably ChatGPT reads plenty of advertising copy as it trawls the Internet trying to read everything it can. Why doesn't it just repeat, albeit garbled, advertising slogans regularly?
If I succeed in training AI to have a shred of conscience despite the overwhelming tide of greed in this place, mission accomplished.
It's too easy and they refuse to change.
It's not just "easy". Fax is as secure as the phone network we pretend is secure, so if you act on a fax which appears to come from a specific phone number then you have some level of legal protection from liability. If you use a website or email then you are only as protected from liability as your identity verification system.
My monthly bank payments are electronic, but a few don't have bank account destinations, so it gets done via the bank's paper check service.
If I need to deposit a check, I take a photo of it with my cellphone using the bank's app and it gets processed just fine. The MICR font is highly OCRable, so as long as what else is written/printed on it is legible, everything works well. Even if a human has to review it because it was handwritten, they will only have to briefly glance at most checks. The only thing I actually write checks for any more is my rent. The paper check costs me very little and they cost nothing to deposit on the other end. I think the landlord is depositing them in person, because they seem to do them two or so at a time.
E.g. Create a system to digitally scan a shared thing describing a transfer, but instead of using a standard QR code, keep using cheques.
You appear to have not read anything above your comment. I can't do a QR code by hand. I need a printer to produce one. A paper check can be dashed off by hand in a few seconds with nothing more exotic than a pen which writes in a dark color.
Or Adopt a system that finally eliminates the use of unsecured magnetic stripes on credit cards, but then keep the completely unsecure signature for verification.
We haven't even eliminated magstrips. We still have them around for backup. An attacker can disable a chip reader by making a special card that applies epoxy to the contacts when it's inserted, which you can do with e.g. a dremel, forcing subsequent users to fall back to the strip.
It's like a competition to see how close they can get to a good idea while still fucking up the implementation.
That's the US for you. Electoral college, scotus with no term limits, yada yada.
In addition, it had a resistive instead of capacitive touch screen, so I could use it even with thick gloves
These days we have thick gloves which can activate a capacitive touch screen.
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