Re: Use the right tool for the job
When all you have is a hammer...
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Well maybe the US should stop calling them automobiles...
And we should stop selling automatic washing machines...
Auto pilot is a feature, sold and described to its users. The fact that it has an appropriate name that is grossly misunderstood by a proportion of the public is irrelevant.
The fact that people buy it, then ignore it's capabilities and go and do something else in the car instead is not a Tesla problem, it's a driver problem - and all the more evidence we need to get the nut behind the wheel out of the loop as fast as possible
Given that they say it at every opportunity, mention it when you start autopilot, bong and alert if you don't at least let the car know you are there every few seconds...
When else do you think they should be saying this?
So, this is somewhat slimmer than your pelican, probably easier and longer battery life, still has USB for serial (though I imagine you could expose gpio pins for direct serial if you are so inclined).
Might need to grab a VGA-HDMI conversion box for older servers...
Seems a lot more convenient to me.
Oh, Ethernet - maybe grab a tiny router with ddwrt - that’ll let you piggy back onto any chosen vlan.
To answer my own question - The normal compute module has 4GB on board, the Lite version exposes the SD card pins to the socket.
Given that the device already has an SD card slot I'd suggest that either should be easily achievable. Then you have a useful bit of kit for plugging into headless devices anywhere, a reasonably competent laptop (for basic use) which you can easily take in and out of the states, just drop a new SD card in... (then download the image and reburn once there.
It’s not the standard for ‘anything’ or even for ‘changing the status quo’
It’s a relatively arbitrary (but common) line for ‘irreversible action’
We can create and remove a Welsh Senned. We can appoint and remove MPs, change taxes, change the amount we spend on the military, the welfare state.
We can’t do that here, if we leave we cannot go back (in anything even vaguely like our current state).
For that reason (the irreversibility of the action) I support a supermajority requirement.
At least we need to check again now that people have an actual three options to choose between rather than a plethora of incompatible promises which.
It might have been a 'simple majority' threshold, but it was actually passed by a greater than 2/3rds majority.
That's a supermajority, even if it didn't require it.
Any claim that the basically drawn poll in 2016 is the largest mandate ever is a bare faced lie.
* Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.
You don't necessarily have to validate anything yourself - but the availability of the source code means that anyone can.
Yes, this includes the black hats - but it also includes the white hats (in this case sponsored by the EU).
With closed source (deliberately not conflating commercial/non-commercial with closed/open source) you can't do this nearly as easily.
Open source doesn't guarantee security any more than closed source does - but one thing is for sure. If there is an open source program which people rely on, and it has a security bug - it will get fixed.
If it's closed source and the company has decided that there is more money in the latest shiny thing - then you're completely out of luck.
It's that OSS is *more* secure than closed source, but then it isn't natively less secure either. Certainly at or around EOL then OSS becomes much more secure-able.
Paul - just look at the road...
There has been one, well published, fatality as a result of a <disable libel legislation>knowingly negligent</libel legislation activated> company disabling safety systems.
Their particular software was also way behind the capabilities of other vendors, and they had decided that they didn't need both a test operator and a safety driver.
How many people have been killed on the roads in the couple of minutes it's taken me to write this comment - it's more than have been killed by even uncertified autonomous systems.
What we don't know is how many people already *haven't* been killed as a result of self driving and/or driver assistance features...
(Yes I know there have been cases of driver assistance programs being blindly trusted to death, but that's different from an actually self driving vehicle.)
"That restriction sounds specifically tailored to exclude certain teams or groups. Can anyone think of a valid reason for it?"
Statistical analysis on small groups is pointless... but it might also be that 99% of their employees are in larger groups. It would be interesting to know how many people were excluded from the analysis based on the <30 or the <5...
It's a way to get to anything in LEO - at the moment the ISS is the only reasonable destination, but with the IDA likely to be reused there is no reason that future stations - whether military, scientific or commercial, shouldn't be able to use the dragon.
The concept of doing Apollo style take off/ return at the "Earth end" of any voyage does have some benefits.
There is a (large) gap between the evidence they need and the data they will take - they are also claiming consent when none can be given.
Why not just acknowledge that it’s non consensual, but a requirement of the application.
They could just take a letter from a GP/consultant, but they don’t.
“We need a lot of the things SystemD provides. We don't need them executed poorly.”
We probably don’t *need* most of them, but we certainly don’t need them to be poorly implemented...
But most of the objections I have and see are not to do with the implementation but are either ‘it’s change’ or ‘Poettering is an arse’
"By all means have e-mail communication as an opt-in service, but for the sake of those who can't grasp the technology well-enough, keep the old methods as well."
And for those who can grasp the technology, and want nothing to do with it.
I can see a 'there's something in your GP portal to look at' email/sms/letter being a reasonable way of getting digital comms out - but that only deals with the people who can use digital comms..
"Until then, I would just be buying something that will be unusable in ~2 years once no updated images are released.
If I wanted to buy something immediately obsolete, I would just buy Apple products!"
I'd buy android...
After all the fruity device my son uses for audiobooks etc is now more than 4 years old, and is asking for the latest software version to be installed.
Whereas many android devices are 'fire and forget' from their manufacturers, never seeing any updates.
You'll always need a device specific kernel, or maybe you should steer clear of x86 specific images as well?
Nightmare of linux patching?
What, updates that don't require a reboot, and can be easily done at any convenient time.
Cross site DHCP and IPAM are all available on linux - I made my living doing such things for a while. And yes there are options, that's not necessarily the bad ting you make it out to be.
It's not as if ISC dhcp and dnsmasq (the two obvious 'other' candidates) have never had a bug.
If you run a primarily AD system then using that genuinely does make sense...
I say that as someone who hasn't used MS professionally for over a decade, and who used to sell DNS/DHCP servers/services (not MS based).
But it also comes down *really* slowly... The speed at which that thing started flying was nice and low (minimise energy expenditure cutting through the air.
You could probably catch it without too much difficulty - Mr Steven would be fast enough...
... and what's the power budget of the payload (assuming that it draws power from the batteries that power the craft as well).
Was also rather disappointed by their 'plane/stratosphere/orbit' comparison... you'd have thought that scale would be important in that animation...
“F*** O** all advertisers. You are leeches on society and contribute less than zero to it.”
Whilst I roughly agree with your sentiment... my life has been transformed in the last year by a product advertised to me. That I wouldn’t have thought about going looking for.
Adverts that are a plain small image and some text with a link to an actual product (or product family) page are fine. It’s the user tracking that’s both useless (if I have just bought item A, why do you think I need to buy another) and deeply disturbing.
If I’m on a site with specific interests then advertise around that interest.
If I’m in a general site then advertise like a poster on a wall.
But in neither case should the advert flash, make noise, jump about, overlay itself in any actual content...
"Still, you seem to be worried,"
I'm not worried, I was just wondering...
In the same way we once thought the oceans to be infinite in their capacity to deal with whatever we threw at them - at some point the amount of crap we leave lying around interplanetary shipping lanes might cause an issue.
"The space between stuff in space is mind-boggling"
Indeed it is, but we're quite likely to start doing this more often, and always targeting 'at or about' planetary orbits, so these will probably be moving with an aphelion somewhere at or beyond mars orbit and a perihelion at or about earth orbit - and on a well aligned plane.
Given that we will always want to be launching for an efficient transfer, and could start launching alot more than a couple of these things... the density will always be miniscule, but something to either make them *really easy* to identify (passive reflectors) or plotting their course to include either aero- or litho- braking at some defined point beyond their mission doesn't seem completely impossible.
It does, which is why you limit the reach of software. You don't need to log with root level rights.
You get sent data by all and sundry, write it to disk.
Why does that need root privs? (ignore for the moment the perfectly good text based logging we used to have)
systemD might make sense in a few (mostly laptop related) cases, but it make serious compromises in terms of clarity and usability IMHO. No need for it on a vaguely stable system.