Yes it is.
Production Desktop Down = Company loses $X/hr in Dev salary until it is available again.
$X is generally $50-100/hr, more if you need someone in Ops to help you out.
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Production Desktop Down = Company loses $X/hr in Dev salary until it is available again.
$X is generally $50-100/hr, more if you need someone in Ops to help you out.
If you can replace a driver you are paying ~$20,800 [$10/hr] every year, that is ~$100k of savings [I'm assuming the more complex car also costs ~$100k to service over 10 years, so it may be more than that if I'm being overly conservative].
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/12/0...
Right now, its ~$100k to produce a self driving car. If they can get it down to $50k and maintenance costs of ~$5k/year ... it is much, much cheaper than any human driver.
Its local encryption then copies the resulting blob to SpiderOak. Lose your password, lose your ability to decrypt as you need it to decrypt locally.
What is the advantage of this over SpiderOak?
https://spideroak.com/solutions/spideroak-one
> SpiderOakONE is the leading private backup solution and is 100% Zero Knowledge. Get a ton of space for only $12 a month.
To me, it seems like a more expensive version.
To me, at least, that seems like a use case where you'd need drones.
1) Replacing taxi drivers.
2) Replacing commuters who don't want to drive.
Both of those problems exist on the scale of hundreds of thousands / millions of people. Solving them with good margins is a business model.
Tbh, I don't think Tesla cares. They have a ~$276 million dollar interest free loan with which to build the first wave of Model 3s. They just need to make enough on those sales to finance the next round until they get through everyone who wants one.
The goal is primarily to pay for the initial production run so they don't have to get outside financing.
http://bgr.com/2016/04/03/model-3-reservations-elon-musk-276...
> Earlier on Saturday, Musk indicated that Model 3 reservations checked in at about 232,000. That being the case, if the pace of reservations keeps up, it wouldn’t be much of a surprise to see Tesla report 300,000 reservations sometime later this week. And while the $1,000 deposits for the Model 3 are completely refundable, Tesla has effectively secured a $276 million interest free loan from eager buyers.
1) Grid strain - By the time EV cars are popular enough for this to be an issue, installed home solar capacity is likely to be large enough that it is likely to look more like this:
2 kW worth of solar panels
1 Battery Pack (possibly interchangeable with the car)
Battery pack is drained when you get home and charge the car.
This will cost you ~$15,000 which is cheaper than the car and will last ~20 years (minus the battery pack which you'll need to replace every 5-10 years). This might go as low as $7.5k depending on technology improvements, incentives, sunny days, etc.
On cloudy days, it'll just charge from the grid over 6-8 hours while people are at work.
You'll want a system like this with 1+ EVs simply because you'll be using enough power it'll start making financial sense in most of the US.
4) Sharing will largely also be a non-issue since even when utilization goes up, we are talking ~3 hours of drive time to ~1 hour of charge time. You'd need to have greater than 50% utilization before charge time is likely to create issues. Similarly, as tech improves, that ratio will improve.
6) This is largely solved by the fact EVs are primarily going to be local commuter cars. Replacing commuter cars, in and of itself, is a worthy goal as it improves city air quality substantially which is linked to problems like asthma and cancer. I honestly don't care if long distance trucks which largely are spending their time in rural areas remain fossil fueled. I care about city air quality.
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/news/world-health-organization-... http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/... http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/air-pollution-s-im... http://discovermagazine.com/2013/julyaug/19-californias-air-...
> In 2013, U.K. leader David Cameron urged his country’s overseas territories — including the British Virgin Islands — to work with him to “get our own houses in order” and join the fight against tax evasion and offshore secrecy.
> He could have looked no further than his late father to see how challenging that would be.
> Ian Cameron, a stockbroker and multimillionaire, was a Mossack Fonseca client who used the law firm to shield his investment fund, Blairmore Holdings, Inc., from U.K. taxes.
I doubt it was anyone related to David Cameron if that is what you are thinking. ;)
Step #1 - Report on the people who can't sue you effectively.
Step #2 - Verify.
Step #3 - Report on what you can verify in regards to people who can sue you.
I'd give them a month before crying bias.
Gawker exploited this loop to a degree by skipping #2 and we've seen how well that turned out for them. However, it was largely their own hubris that created the problem that might sink them (Hulk Hogan). Most of the rest of the lawsuits they were able to bat away.
As much as I'd prefer some actual firebrand journalism which is willing to report with less verification (in regards to the people in power, not the general population), I can understand caution.
https://panamapapers.icij.org/20160403-panama-papers-global-...
HSBC, Credit Suisse, etc. are named so its not like they are completely ignoring the West.
It also mentions David Cameron's father:
> Ian Cameron, a stockbroker and multimillionaire, was a Mossack Fonseca client who used the law firm to shield his investment fund, Blairmore Holdings, Inc., from U.K. taxes.
https://www.cloudflare.com/features-security/
> In addition to CloudFlare’s automatic detection, you can easily add an IP address, IP ranges or entire countries to your Trust and Block list.
Umm, vast majority is non-paying I take it since I believe its available on every paid plain?
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170056-W...
> A low security setting will challenge only the most threatening visitors. A high security setting will challenge all visitors that have exhibited threatening behavior within the last 14 days.
I'm guessing you mean the "Essentially Off" option which implies Cloudflare basically stops providing security?
The need for incentive you mention is silly. The website operator [much like a job searcher with a resume] wants to be in front of as many non-malicious people as possible. And while you might argue .04% of malicious traffic comes over Tor, I've operated sites where 20%+ came over some sort of proxy with poor IP reputation.
You know what?
Fuck it. I'll just build my own site that doesn't use Cloudflare for such a purpose.
Similarly, if you block cookies/supercookies/etc to avoid being tracked ... you'll be challenged every view.
So, essentially, Cloudflare relies on defense in depth as a security company but as a side effect of this is Tor [and IP anonymity services in general] are affected.
Fair enough but you may want to seriously consider just giving the availability to ignore IP reputation altogether [except during a DDoS] to your customers since it isn't just Tor but also VPNs, etc. that are impacted by this sort of strategy.
Adding what is effectively the price of another car ($15-20k) onto that is a luxury. Pretty much paying double the price you need to pay is something I'd consider a luxury regardless of the class of good.
Source: I paid $12k for a 2 year old car.
Honda Fit, etc as well are in that price range new:
http://automobiles.honda.com/tools/build-price/trims.aspx?Mo...
Honestly, Clinton should at a minimum be banned from handling classified information in the future.
Yes. However, they swing things in a single election cycle for marginal supporters of a candidate [which are the folks that really control the outcome in the US. The majority of the states are consistent.].
http://www.luc.edu/quinlan/stories/archive/why-attack-ads-wo...
> Roughly 14 percent of the students said the attack on their candidate made them support him even more, the researchers found. But an equal percentage of students said the advertisement weakened their support and caused them to move closer to the opponent—the one who ran the negative ad.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergan...
> •Just giving medical students pens with a drug's name on them made the students significantly more favorably disposed toward the medication than otherwise, despite their immersion in classes aimed at letting them rationally evaluate drug benefits, found a 2009 Archives of Internal Medicinereport.
> •Remember shaking hands with Bugs Bunny at Disneyland? Roughly a third of people presented with a fake ad depicting a visit to Disneyland that featured a handshake with Bugs later remembered or knew the meet up with the 'wascally wabbit' had happened to them, according to a 2001 University of Washington study. Even though Bugs is owned by Warner Brothers and verboten at a Disney facility, so it couldn't have happened.
It is largely a question of Cost adjusted by Risk v. Reward.
Running attack ads, social media sockpuppet operations, etc. are legal, effective, and have similar costs. Similarly, you have a nation-wide machine who you endanger when you fuck with the integrity of that machine [i.e. being caught doing anything illegal] already. You've got plenty of options to spend your money on, from the preceding election(s) to seize local and state voting mechanisms to run the game in those states [legally] with tactics that are clearly unethical and immoral [voter suppression, deploying outright lies/euphemisms in the name of controlling the voting population].
These mechanisms are much, much more powerful than "hacking" voting machines due their lack of risk, similar costs, and provide you with a foundation with which to influence future elections. Kansas shifted the vote [~2%] greater than Obama's margin of victory in Florida [.88%] with a single law.
Consider the current situation nationally:
http://www.luc.edu/quinlan/stories/archive/why-attack-ads-wo...
> Although no one jumped from “definitely Bush” to “definitely Kerry,” some students who were leaning toward one candidate did switch to the other side. And in a tightly contested race, like this year’s presidential election, getting even a few people to change their vote can make all the difference in the world.
> They then showed the students one of four political ads and asked them to re-rate their levels of support. Roughly 14 percent of the students said the attack on their candidate made them support him even more, the researchers found. But an equal percentage of students said the advertisement weakened their support and caused them to move closer to the opponent—the one who ran the negative ad.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-democrats-suppress-t...
> In the ongoing fight between Democrats and Republicans over election procedures like voter ID and early voting, the Democrats are supposedly the champions of higher turnout and reducing barriers to participation. But when it comes to scheduling off-cycle elections1 like those taking place today, the Democratic Party is the champion of voter suppression. > Scheduling local elections at odd times appears to be a deliberate strategy aimed at keeping turnout low, which gives more influence to groups like teachers unions that have a direct stake in the election’s outcome.
http://billmoyers.com/2014/10/24/voter-discrimination/
> Governor Chris Christie: Same-Day Voter Registration Is a “Trick” and GOP Needs to Win Gubernatorial Races So They Control “Voting Mechanisms” > Fran Millar: Georgia Senator Complains About Polling Place Being Too Convenient for Black Voters > Doug Preis: An Ohio GOP Chair Says We Shouldn’t Accommodate the “Urban — Read African-American — Voter-Turnout Machine” > Greg Abbott: Texas AG Says Partisan Districting Decisions Are Legal, Even if There Are “Incidental Effects” on Minority Voters > Don Yelton: North Carolina GOP Precinct Chair: Voter ID Law Will “Kick Democrats in the Butt” and Hurt “Lazy Blacks”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/catherine-rampell-vo...
> In the state’s nail-biting gubernatorial race, Republican incumbent Sam Brownback bested his Democratic challenger, Paul Davis, by a mere 33,000 votes out of nearly 850,000 cast. Now, compare that with the estimated effects of Kansas’s new restrictions on voting.
> We know that more than 21,000 people tried to register but failed because they lacked the necessary “documentary proof of citizenship” required by a new Kansas law. The state’s separate, strict voter ID law also had an effect: Applying findings from a recent Government Accountability Office report that examined how the voter ID law affected the state’s turnout in 2012, Weiser estimates that it probably reduced turnout this time around by about 17,000 votes.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/02/02/3745296/major-vo...
> For example, the researchers found that in primary elections, “a strict ID law could be expected to depress Latino turnout by 9.3 points, Black turnout by 8.6 points, and Asian American turnout by 12.5 points.”
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> 1) Hacking voting machines to a significant extent would require a team of people, not just one guy, which dramatically increases the risk of exposure.
I don't agree with Burkman on that. It'd be relatively easy to hack them with a couple guys in a swing state who drops devices at target locations. You can get a partnership with decent security to function in this regard.
http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/04/16/399986...
> When state auditors investigated, though, they didn't find that particular problem. Instead, they found something more disturbing. While using their smartphones, they were able to connect to the voting machines' wireless network, which is used to tally votes. > Other state investigators easily guessed the system's passwords — in one case, it was "abcde" — and were then able to change the vote counts remotely without detection.
> 2) The reported vote count is usually very close to the predicted vote count, and always very close to exit polling results. The hacked results would need to be very close to the real results, or be combined with control over a huge number of people in the polling industry.
This is a larger problem that can only be surmounted in 1-2 swing states in a given election. You can't push the needle more than a few basis points with these tricks or you'll get all sorts of accusations flying, recounts, Bush v. Gore, etc. etc.
Weird statistical outliers simply don't happen often enough at the precinct/county level and the shift in state results are the results of an aggregation of events in multiple precincts. So I highly suspect you could flip one or two precincts this way as well as shift the whole state a few basis points on top of that but if you swing more than 1-1.5% this way I'm pretty sure you'll fail due to recounts and other safeguards.
The target states for this would be the usual "swing states":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele... [ .88% ]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele... [ 2.98% ]
You aren't going to be able to pull this off in Ohio but you could in Florida. You'd also need to be able to predict which states you could swing this way and do so without triggering a recount.
So you push Florida to +.62% Romney and sabotage things when your opponent demands a recount. The risk of detection is really, really high. If detected swinging this one state, you lose the election due to being on trial for criminal conspiray, etc. etc.
I'm active in there under a trolling account and I've had some serious conversations with some of the people outside of Reddit.
I don't want to spook my current employer due to long term job prospects being poor.
However, outside of refactoring, I've never found them to be cost effective time wise compared to other automated testing options.
I'm talking about the clickbait, tabloid-quality reporting, sponsored content, etc. Aka the stuff directly embedded as an "article" on the site
I'm pretty sure this is a "yellow journalism period" on the internet but it will get worse before it gets better since the common man needs to completely lose faith in these rags like they did with tabloids.
Clickbait is alot like the tabloids and yellow journalism of print media, honestly.
> Where will the money come from?
Subscriptions most likely. It'll be newspapers written to favor the desires/biases of the upper middle class who would consider dropping $100/year for such a thing.
2) Windows is using shady tactics to push Windows 10. They are doing this due to using it as a conduit to increase Bing results [among other reasons]. They've been smacked for similar tactics before for reasonable sums. [1] [2]
3) The reason Google and later other parties funded Firefox is because the default search engine on a browser is a relatively sticky proposition as many people don't change it.
4) Desktop is more profitable than mobile which is why Google's CPC numbers are eroding. [3]
[1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/22/bing-is-profitable/ > However, while all that is nice, it’s the second bullet point that matters more than the first. Microsoft derived one out of every five dollars it made in search from Windows 10 devices. Windows 10 has a far smaller footprint than the larger Windows world, due in no small part to its relative age.
[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01... > The court fined Microsoft more than $600 million and ordered it to offer a version of Windows in Europe without the Media Player software and to share communications code with rivals.
[3] http://www.rimmkaufman.com/blog/google-mobile-cpc/11032011/ > We found that mobile CPCs are a median 41% lower than desktop CPCs for the same term with the same bid, copy, matchtype, network targeting and landing page. These results were quite consistent across a sample of clients with the standard deviation at 5%.