They do know everyone selling data + advertising already does this, right? This is a VERY obvious use of aggregated data.
Before you make such a judgement, you might want to actually read the patent. Slashdot summaries almost always completely misrepresent what is actually covered in the claims section of the patent.
There is absolutely no point taking medication (FFS) to control your bad habits.
You are wrong. Nicotine patches have helped millions of people quit smoking. These diet pills have also been shown, in controlled studies, to help many people achieve long term weight loss. Yes, people need to change their habits. But what you are missing, is that the drugs can help them do that. By achieving some weight loss, it can start them on the cycle of positive reinforcement.
I don't see that as any different than someone not properly maintaining their manual car.
I see a big difference: with an automated car, the car will know that it needs maintenance. If it is a safely issue, it can limit its speed, or refuse to drive until the problem is fixed. Otherwise, it can automatically drive itself to a maintenance center while you are at work or sleeping.
What if it suddenly veers into a wall or oncoming truck due to an incorrect or faulty instruction. Fuck autonomous!
You are obviously not an embedded system engineer with mission critical design experience. The proper way to design a system like this is to have multiple processes running on at least two separate CPUs. The most powerful CPU computes the car's speed and path, and another process running on a separate CPU performs sanity checks on the results. If something is clearly wrong (like steering into oncoming traffic), then the backup program applies the brakes and pulls off the road. Bits can be flipped by cosmic rays, or whatever, and a system like this is designed to deal with that. This is standard critical system engineering. Then you put it on the test track, and throw all the crap you can at it: turn off sensors at random, put corrupt data on the bus, flip bits in memory, etc. Keep hammering it and fixing the problems until it can handle any failure as safely as possible.
As a side effect, this will finally, finally, FINALLY put an end to the dreaded find-a-parking-space-in-a-busy-city-on-Friday-night drill.
Self-driving cars can not only use remote parking lots, they can also make much better use of parking lot space. They are unoccupied when they self-park, so there is no need to leave room for people to exit. So they can park just an inch apart, and the absence of side mirrors will make that very close. Less space is needed for lanes, since the cars can steer optimally and coordinate their movements. Cars could park directly in front and behind each other, then when summoned by its owner, a car could signal for the blocking cars to move. The capacity of a parking lot can easily be doubled or tripled.
In the business, this is called duty cycle, and there are significant MTBF differences between enterprise quality drives (FC, SAS) and consumer drivers (SATA, NL-SAS) at high duty cycles.
No there isn't. This article was just more confirmation that there is NO difference between "enterprise" and "consumer" other than the price. Plenty of other people have looked at the data and reached the same conclusion. Also: the MTBF number on the side of the box has no connection to reality. It is just a number made up by the marketing department.
Even my old 4-banger (gutless) 1997 Saturn SL1 sees a difference in pickup between 87 and 89 octane fuels when at highway speeds.
You are deluding yourself. Unless your car uses high or variable compression (it doesn't), there is no benefit whatsoever to higher octane gasoline.
Too much to expect from some people in charge.
It is also too much to expect from journalists and Slashdot editors. 1KW/hr is a meaningless unit. It is clear from context that it is supposed to be just "1kw".
Perhaps you are missing this part:
Enterprise drives do have one advantage: longer warranties...
Businesses want longer warranties especially these days
The warranties are just more evidence that "enterprise drives" are a scam. Warranties are almost never worth the price you pay for them. If they were, few companies would be foolish enough to offer them.
What? There's absolutely difference between 87 octane and 92+ octane.
For 99% of cars, there is no difference. Unless a car is specifically designed to use a higher compression ratio, there is no benefit whatsoever to a higher octane rating. Besides, you are assuming that the premium gas actually has a higher octane rating. Years ago, it actually cost more to make high octane gas. Today the octane rating can be tweaked with cheap additives. So it is common to just make it all 92, then just use one tanker truck to make the delivery and just fill all the tanks with identical gas.
I thought this was already common knowledge. "Enterprise" drives are just a way to separate stupid people from their money. Sort of like "premium" gasoline.
There's just something egregiously wrong when you can be fined $183,000 and get two years probation for something like participating in a short-lived denial of service attack. That's a wildly disproportionate punishment!
D=P*S-B, or Deterrence = (Probability of getting caught) * (Severity of punishment) - Benefit.
Since very few participants in a DDoS get caught, the punishment must be severe to have much deterrence.
As an American, you were probably allowed only into the better schools.
I lived in Gubei, which is a nice neighborhood in Puxi (western Shanghai), so the school was probably above average. It was the official public school for our area. There was nothing fancy about it. There was no heat or AC. Shanghai is hot and humid in the summer, and often below freezing in the winter. The kids use gloves with the fingertips removed, so they can keep their hands warm but still write. I have nieces and nephews in other parts of China, and while the facilities vary, the discipline and high expectations do not.
One of the great myths of our time is that "equality" is the same as "identicality."
So in Javascript terms, you are saying that equality is "==" but not "==="?
The study is flawed because it takes into account the same crappy tests that utterly fail to test for any sort of understanding of the material. This is not "education," unless you consider pure rote memorization to be education.
Baloney. Have you even looked at the test? Here are some example questions. The questions involve a lot more than "rote memorization".
And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. -- David Jones
