HilleBille - Slashdot User

Comment Install a secure delivery box at your home (Score 1) 98

by HilleBille on Saturday January 25, 2020 @11:41PM (#59656730) Attached to: What Happens When 'Ring Neighbors' Are Always Watching?

Think of the security of delivering physical packages as the same problem as delivering data to you. You need a physical space dedicated to you either at your own home or at a rented space. Only you can pick up stuff from it, and the delivery companies can only put stuff in it when you expect it (this differs from a traditional mailbox where everybody can put mail in your mailbox). As more and more stuff are bought including delivery to our homes, this should be a common thing. Install that large mailbox with room for the majority of your packages and let the delivery guys put stuff in it when you expect it. Also make it cooled when groceries are delivered to you.

Comment Re:And better for the enviroment (Score 1) 274

by HilleBille on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @01:50PM (#52037295) Attached to: Lab-Grown Meat Is In Your Future, and It May Be Healthier Than the Real Stuff

This! The Danish Ethics Council even proposes a tax on red meat for these reasons. Read about it here.

Submission + - Airline Pilots Rely Too Much on Automation Says Safety Panel

Submitted by Hugh Pickens DOT Com on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @11:26AM

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: Nearly all people connected to the aviation industry agree that automation has helped to dramatically improve airline safety over the past 30 years but Tom Costello reports at NBC News that according to a new Federal Aviation Administration report commercial airline pilots rely too much on automation in the cockpit and are losing basic flying skills. Relying too heavily on computer-driven flight decks now pose the biggest threats to airliner safety world-wide, the study concluded. The results can range from degraded manual-flying skills to poor decision-making to possible erosion of confidence among some aviators when automation abruptly malfunctions or disconnects during an emergency. “Pilots sometimes rely too much on automated systems," says the report adding that some pilots “lack sufficient or in-depth knowledge and skills” to properly control their plane’s trajectory. Basic piloting errors are thought to have contributed to the crash of an Air France Airbus A330 plane over the Atlantic in 2009, which killed all 228 aboard, as well as a commuter plane crash in Buffalo, NY, that same year. Tom Casey, a retired airline pilot who flew the giant Boeing 777, said he once kept track of how rarely he had to touch the controls on an auto-pilot flight from New York to London. From takeoff to landing, he said he only had to touch the controls seven times. "There were seven moments when I actually touched the airplane — and the plane flew beautifully,” he said. “Now that is being in command of a system, of wonderful computers that do a great job — but that isn’t flying." Real flying is exemplified by Capt. Chesley Sullenberger, says Casey, who famously landed his US Airways plane without engines on the Hudson River and saved all the passengers in what came to be known as the “Miracle on the Hudson.” The new report calls for more manual flying by pilots — in the cockpit and in simulations. The FAA says the agency and industry representatives will work on next steps to make training programs stronger in the interest of safety.

Submission + - Wikimedia Sends Cease And Desist Letter to Firm Providing Paid Editing Services

Submitted by Hugh Pickens DOT Com on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @11:05AM

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: For months, Wikipedia has been battling a company called “Wiki-PR,” which purportedly sells paid editing services on Wikipedia and in October announced it had blocked or banned hundreds of Wiki-PR's sockpuppet accounts in response. Now Cyrus Farivar reports at Ars Technica that the Wikimedia Foundation (which runs Wikipedia) is escalating its game issuing a cease and desist letter to Wiki-PR, demanding that the company immediately halt editing Wikipedia “unless and until [Wiki-PR has] fully complied with the terms and conditions outlined by the Wikimedia Community.” The attorney representing the Wikimedia Foundation, Patrick Gunn, wrote that "you admitted that Wiki-PR has continued to actively market paid advocacy editing services despite the ban—consistent with evidence that we have discovered independently." "Should you fail to comply with the terms of this cease and desist letter, Wikimedia Foundation is prepared to take any necessary legal action to protect its rights."

Comment Re:FICS (Score 1) 279

by HilleBille on Thursday February 14, 2013 @09:00AM (#42894669) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Really Short Time Wasters?

Also, there is Gomoku (five-in-a-row). I've spend quite some time playing a version of that called Brain Cells (for iOS). Takes a minute per game, adaptive AI, quite addictive...

Comment Re:If the technical sets still existed... (Score 1) 425

by HilleBille on Sunday December 23, 2012 @02:57PM (#42376305) Attached to: Has Lego Sold Out?

You can buy both Mindstorms and Technics sets. I've bought Mindstorms for my son and me for this Christmas, and today I bought a small Technics set. I guess we're gonna fight a lot about these toys in the hollidays - and I'm gonna win because he doesn't have a computer and he is not allowed to use mine.

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