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Comment Re:the problem is (Score 1) 27

by SandorZoo (#66181888) Attached to: Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App

The problem is that this isn't very hard to do these days. It's pretty near impossible to prevent things that are easy to do.

The Meta device is constantly getting a stream of image frames from the camera in the glasses. Probably their device has enough compute horsepower to detect human faces, smartphones sure do.

This wasn't very hard to do 20 years ago. The Viola-Jones face detection (not recognition) algorithm was first described 25 years. I remember my pre-smartphone digit camera drawing boxes around the faces it could detect in a group photo, and letting me select who to focus on. Here's a 2007 article about it, from one month before the iPhone's launch.

Comment Re:Well hybrid subs are stealthier than nuclear ,, (Score 1) 15

"The UK Navy is already exploring the creation of a hybrid force that incorporates the widespread use of underwater drones to combat Russian threats in the Atlantic. It will run on gasoline and electricity.

In other words WW2 class sub tech, fossil fuels on the surface, recharge the batteries, battery operation below.

Older than that. The UK's first gasoline/electric submarine was launched in 1901.

Comment Re:Say what you will re: free trade or protectioni (Score 1) 129

by SandorZoo (#66160574) Attached to: SpaceX Launches 29 Starlink Satellites on Memorial Day

Well, JWST is a US space project. Sure, it had international participation, but the US is the lead.

That's not how those words work. NASA is the project lead, that's it. It's not a US project.

While technically an international project, it sure feels American:

* NASA payed for 90% of it
* NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center managed the development
* The primary contractor was Northrop Grumman
* It's controlled from Johns Hopkins' Space Telescope Science Institute
* The ground segment uses NASA's deep space network

A good portion of the instruments were designed and/or built by ESA and CSA, and of course it was launched on an Ariane 5.

Comment Re:How much storage is planned in that? (Score 4, Informative) 86

by SandorZoo (#65925990) Attached to: Britain Awards Wind Farm Contracts That Will Power 12 Million Homes

We're at 7.5 GW of storage

Tooth gnashing intensifies! That's power not storage :D

Indeed. I second that gnashing

The figure I got was 6.8 GW / 10.5 GWh.

I think you are both looking only at battery storage. The UK also has about 2.8 GW / 24 GWh of pumped hydro storage (with plans to add more).

Comment Re:Perhaps (Score 1) 43

by SandorZoo (#65864059) Attached to: MI6 Chief: We'll Be as Fluent in Python As We Are in Russian
Yup. The "Russian" bit was made up by El Reg - that was not in the quote at all. What she said was:

Mastery of technology must infuse everything we do. Not just in our labs, but in the field, in our tradecraft, and even more importantly, in the mindset of every officer. We must be as comfortable with lines of code as we are with human sources, as fluent in Python as we are in multiple languages

Comment Re:Always nice to see a launch (Score 4, Informative) 25

by SandorZoo (#65586784) Attached to: ULA Launches First National Security Mission On Vulcan Centaur Rocket

I'm guessing the geostationary orbit was selected to provide a location that is always visible for testing.

Just a nitpick, but the article said geosynchronous, not geostationary. Both are 24-hour orbits, but geosynchronous orbits can be inclined or elliptical, as opposed to geostationary which are circular directly over the equator. Geostationary satellites appear to be in a fixed position in the sky, but geosynchronous satellites appear to move about over a 24 hour period.

Comment Re:Need I say more (Score 2) 112

They matched for road type, vehicle type and location, but not for weather. So yes, the human-driver data may include miles done in weather conditions the driverless cars would refuse to operate in. But the study used data from California, Arizona, and Texas. How much bad weather do those states have? (I genuinely have no idea).

Comment Re:How do they compare to ride-share drivers? (Score 4, Informative) 112

The paper did discuss this in the intro, and said the rates were "similar in magnitude", but Uber/Lyft may be under-reported:

[T]he Waymo crash rate (reported as part of the NHTSA SGO [National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - Standing General Order]) was found to be similar in magnitude to self-reported human transportation network company (TNC) crashes. It’s unclear what definition of a crash is used for the self-reported TNC crash data, and whether that TNC crash definition is well matched to the ADS [Automated Driving Systems] crashes reported as part of the NHTSA SGO. That is, there is an unknown amount of underreporting in the TNC crash data, while the ADS data from the SGO includes any amount of property damage with little to no underreporting. TNC drivers may have incentives to not report low severity collisions, as reported collisions may lead to deactivation from the platform.

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