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I find it hilarious that the entire internet tracking and surveylance industry simply thinks it is entitled to this level of information now.

This is apparently a feature, not a bug.

I saw these errors the one time I tried Prime Video and laughed out loud, and ended the trial on the spot. It was like being turned away by a bouncer from a awful looking bar because they didn't like your shoes. Thus ends our relationship!

Post-edit-window-edit: I retract "re-enabled autopilot" - . There was whole procedure required if there were residual airspeed discrepencies on all three sensors. e.g. Autopilot would only help if at least two were non-iced. AF447 may have had zero.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/airbus-gives-new-warning-on-sp...

http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=e7851...

Well, in aviation, they do go to great lengths to let the pilot know which mode they're flying in and transition into and out of that mode has it's own protocol, training and feedback. Indeed the whole surepticious engagement of the MCAS system on the 787-MAX aircraft, and in particular not including updates for pilots in training to deal with what to do when that system fails -- i.e. awareness -- is probably going to end a few careers at Boeing. That seems to be an example very close to the Tesla situation. The AF447 crash in 2009 has a spookily similar pathology -- confusion about automated flight control modes. Both incidents were awareness of automation issues, one with it being on, one with it being off (more or less).

Tesla is banking on a beep and/or input control shake covering them for mode change awareness for a completely novice, untrained and uncertified driver. Is that a reasonably assumption?

Edit: There were other (tragic) factors in the AF447 crash, but in that case, if they'd re-enabled autopilot and let go of the controls, they would have very likely survived.

... well there goes my weekend. Great looking site!

A quick note to anyone working to reproduce this: the automated stupidity that caused this is of the same variety that will CANCEL YOUR GOOGLE ACCOUNT without recourse if your stats lean a certain way. Tread carefully.

For everyone boggling at the tone of the email, stop for a moment and have a guess at how many different sources of software they think the average large corp has on their books let alone on their infra. It can literally be hundreds or thousands of different sources. And each of those will have their own topology.

This is clearly a scatter-gun survey because they're realised they really have no idea of their exposure. (And before you re-boggle at that, there's a whole business ecosystem in just being able to answer that question let alone do anything about security issues.)

Sigh. There is literally nothing I like about the changes in Android 12 versus 11. This seems like yet another shoe-horning in of "cleverness" when it wasn't invited and in this case appears to be outright broken.

After disabling every single assistant or enrichment option I could find, Android is still putting auto-reply prompts into any notification that has a reply button. GO AWAY!

Bouncing via the system clipboard does feel a little sketchy, yes. The other is the password generation feature is entirely missing on Android, so I need to use another good source of randomn characters or delay until I'm at my desktop. It's really only these two features that are missing for me, but since I create new password relatively rarely (once or twice a month), I find just having it there to be the winning feature. Also the 'copy these random files' as a back-up mechanism for disaster recover seems a bit ... like something I would design, so not great.

Can anyone talk me out of the Firefox password manager? It has a poor "general" use case for non-website passwords and treats mobile as a second-class satellite, but it seems to just work and the sync between mobile and desktop is very handy.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/

I read and understood just enough of this when it was published to know it would make the foundation an object of ridicule if it was ill-conceived, but I obviously rely on implementation details being tickety boo.

It is expert defence against charges like this that will undo the whole nearly-but-not-quite autonomous driving industry. And rightly so. I am stunned the industry thinks effectively an [OK] click through is going to save them here.

(And before anyone quotes million of miles per fatality stats, this is a legal question on a single case, generalities don't cleanly apply.

Edit: I think Tesla and co. will need to show that it is reasonable to assume a driver can quickly notice and respond to a hazard particularly after being lulled into passivity for what could be hours by the drive system. Good luck.)

Mate, you're going to spit blood when you hear about all the roads, hospitals and armed forces you're paying for but not directly using.

No, it's just a pronoun flex. Spend as many cycles on that as you think it deserves.

Dispersion matters, as does exposure time. A single inhalation of recently expelled air can be enough. You might waft past someone in Costco, but you could be sitting in the air current of someone shedding virus particles for hours on end, even if the particles are eventually being filtered by A/C.

I switched to N95 some months ago after being called back into the office. It is incredibly clear upon first wear that air has a much great chance of going through this style mask instead of around it. Basically, if the mask fabric isn't slightly inflating and deflating on each breath, you're wearing it wrong.

It's stunning to me that literally billions of pounds are being spent on now futile testing without getting this basic stuff right.

Station keeping, yes, is probably going to need the lion's share, but I have no idea by what factor. I have read that dealing with reaction wheel saturation is also another fuel consumer though. Perfect reaction wheels attached to a spherical cow would use no fuel. As would perfectly balanced solar pressure engineering etc. It basically all ends up nibbling some fuel.

.. and 99% of those probably spend 100% of their time trying to sit utterly still in their orbit, staring down at Earth, maybe twitching around to point a bit if they're doing spy work.

JWST pivots the entire spacecraft to point the 6 meter mirror. I'm sure they've optimized the consumables on the schedule, but it simply 'costs resources' to do this sort of work. I assure you there are gruellingly dense and optimized observations plans afoot.

Compare to e.g. the very successful Herschel Space Observatory -- it too went out to L2(-ish), did everything it was meant to do in its three year mission, and managed to extend to four before (drum roll) running out of fuel, this time for cooling. JSWT solves this cooling issue by some incredibly funky mechanical resonance cooling. Herschel "only" cost about $1 billion, and it will be interesting to compare the science results.

Then you're going to be disappointed by all satellites I'm afraid. They all need to do station-keeping, and have a way to maintain orientation when they spin-down their reaction wheels. "Solar-powered" thrusters use fuel too but use an electric field to accelerate it.

20 years is still a rather long time. Expect something else fragile to fail before then. And that's still double the target life time! (And unless they've made it almost maliciously difficult to add fuel, I'm sure there will be some Space Bro who'll offer to refuel it for likes / tax reasons.)

I noticed at the start of the WhatsApp T.O.S. change frog-marching that https://www.whatsapp.com had (edit: AND STILL HAS!) a single click 'Accept' and some weaselling links about 'Checking your Browser settings'. Super--and I might even go so far as to say--hella assymetrical.

Is there some exception for 'meta services' like this? It's not the service/app itself, but is required if you want to read T.O.S. details, get help, etc for WhatsApp itself. Or should Facebook open their checkbook again?

Proof of waste cryto currencies are a malignancy on society. The people involved (even indirectly) are going to find themselves viewed and treated very similarly to other malign forces as time goes on regardless of how justified and practical they think they're being right now. In my mind they're right besides smallpox blanket givers. It's just business!

Good.

Well, up-front he says he reported the crash. If he said to the FAA / NTSB "I deliberately flew on an empty tank so I could jump out for YouTube views" he's probably only going to lose his license, otherwise it's going to be his liberty.

> but I just can't fathom someone would do it for the views.

Do have a look at his other video titles. He seems to do a fair bit of unfathomable stuff.

o Why did he hike to the crash site to where all the GoPro memory cards were, and where all the flight controls were still set to where they were when he baile---Ooooh.

Yeah. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO.

Oh great, now I'm on eBay looking for Minox cameras again ...

Your example does not seem to be an extravegantly wasteful activity though. Perhaps you missed my point?

Bitcoin is around 1,000 pounds of CO2 per transaction. That's about a 1,000 mile journey for an average US car, or nearer 2,000 in Europe. For a single operation on a currency?

Is this cool with you?

You have accepted.

You have accepted.

Never accepted it. Moved to Signal. Didn't install WhatsApp when I upgraded my phone a few months ago. "unfriended" absolutely everyone on Facebook and manually destroyed all my Facebook activities going back to the creation of my account there. Absolutely all of it. The more difficult the process became, the more I realized how coercive they were in welding you into their network. I maintain an empty shell of an account filled with "creative" metadata due to some public groups and clubs that do not have the resources to manage their own presence online.

Suffice to say I did not respond well to the TOS change.