Posts by ClarkMills

Child hit by car among videos 'captured by Tesla vehicles, shared among staff'

Human error

As long as humans are involved there will be this sort of silliness.

I suppose you could strip search all employees as they enter and exit a facility and have no interfaces exposed for the USN thumb bum...

China may have to reassess chip strategy in face of US sanctions

Capitalisim ≠ competition

The US once expounded competition, equal rights, unwavering justice.

Seems corporate America runs the roost. This is just another trade war tactic to try prevent china's inevitable rise.

Tesla expands Powerwall-to-grid program to cover most of California

A good start... but V2G is better...

V2G (Vehicle 2 Grid, bidirectional charging actually) would be way more useful; cars typically have 5x to 10x the capacity of a Powerwall.

The fly in the ointment is that Tesla's aren't currently wired to feed power out - so no software update is going to "fix" this.

Still, it's a good start and perhaps the non-Tesla-plug versions, CCS, might have the tweaked hardware to allow this?

Tesla sues former engineer, claims he stole Dojo supercomputer trade secrets

Dojo is a supercomputer aimed at neural net processing, not just FSD

While Tesla's planned new supercomputer is expected to be used for Full Self Driving (FSD), that's not the only use of the computer design. Some people seem to think that this new supercomputer is FSD specific, which it isn't though it may be tuned more to Tesla's specific needs.

OneWeb turns to SpaceX for satellite launches

The extra cost and substandard service matters not...

...when what you are buying is your own carrier network. It's a bit harder for others to turn off your network if you own it.

A bit like owning your own servers and using the cloud[s]; a mix for redundancy has its value though there are significant price differences between the two.

Alibaba Cloud slapped by Chinese ministry for mishandling Log4j

A lesson for all...

... as I'm pretty most superpowers will have been bailout to have that weapon in their warchest.

They did well to release it to the apache foundation; perhaps with an anonymous account or apache having an anonymous drop web page that doesn't need an account. No credits though and work filtering the junk submitted I suppose.

US distrust of Huawei linked in part to malicious software update in 2012

Another Bloomberg "article"

Remember this article from Bloomberg? Turned out to be unsubstantiated as well.

A trade war dressed up as subversion.

Does Your Motherboard Have a Secret Chinese Spy Chip?

A Bloomberg news story claiming that China has been secretly planting a spy chip in server motherboards used by US companies has prompted a rush by security researchers to try and find it, amid denials from the companies affected.

October 5, 2018

Russia's orbital insanity is almost beyond redemption – but there's space for improvement

Kill lots of birds with one stone?

Russia is a little annoyed with SpaceX; maybe this crapshoot is to pepper the Starlink satellites as well as test their toy?

What, Uber charges disabled people fees for taking a while to get into their ride? Doesn't seem fair, says Uncle Sam

Send fair

In a user pays environment where a car, driver and time have real world costs this seems fair. If the users don't like the terms of service then either adapt and don't be late or go elsewhere.

SpaceX Starship struts its stack to show it has the right stuff

Quite a beast...

Blue Origin: 18m

Apollo 11: 110m

StarShip: 120m

And StarShip is the same diameter all the way up as compared to Apollo 11; quite a beast! :)

Regardless of what happens it's going to be a very interesting launch...

Elon will probably be on Mars before SLS gets to have a human make it to the so called ISS.

Tesla battery fire finally flamed out after four-day conflagration

fire suppression entry pipe per container?

Something that the fire department or even the site staff can hook a hose up to and completely fill the problem battery container?

Obviously after the problem battery is first disconnected.

Annoyed US regulator warns it might knock SpaceX's shiny new Texas tower down

Elon, move to China...

...based on the speed of the Tesla factory build and the quality of the cars coming out of there... you'd be on Mars by christmas. :)

RISC-V boffins lay out a plan for bringing the architecture to high-performance computing

Re: OpenRISC

From what I understand... RISC-V is open from the ground up. The others have opened up to varying degrees their legacy IP; but apparently not all of their IP. Also technology has advanced since those earlier processors were released and RISC-V has cherry-picked the best and navigated around the worst.

China's ISCAS to build 2,000 RISC-V laptops by the end of 2022 as nation seeks to cut reliance on Arm, Intel chips

Interesting thought...

Let's assume that both the US and China backdoor their implementations. So long as the processors pass the qualification tests, running the same code the outputs should be the same. We could run dual core in parallel an if there's any discrepancy in logic a fault condition can be flagged. It's improbable that both backdoors or magic packets will be the same...

I'll buy one.

Coming from Linux this core is the next logical step.

And this one won't come with the US backdoors built in... ;)

Yotaphone 2: The two-faced pocket-stroker with '100 hours' batt life

Readable in full sunlight (real advantage there!). Battery replacable? MicroSD?

The real advantage of this is that you can read your ebook or The Register in full sun. On a normal screen you need to max-brightness the display and even then the results suboptimal on top of your massive battery drain. They don't seem to promote this for some reason which is a major oversight IMHO.

Also, does the phone open? Is there somewhere for a microSD card or battery swap-out? Probably not and not a massive big deal but I am curious.

Bottom line: I would buy one; useful innovation.

Samsung Galaxy Note 4: Spawn of Galaxy Alpha and a Note 3 unveiled

Hi Res/no button good for Oculus Rift

My 50+ yo eyes will NOT appreciate the hi res BUT if I were to don a headseat then I would.

Also the lack of h/w buttons frontside is a big plus.

Add to that that my last screen (glass) broke where the button hole is, I deem it a weak point first-hand.