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The dream of autonomous vehicles is that they can avoid human error and save lives, but a new European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) report has found that autonomous vehicles are “highly vulnerable to a wide range of attacks” that could be dangerous for passengers, pedestrians, and people in other vehicles. Anyone not expecting that is in management at Tesla
And the other companies doing "autopilot and connected to the internet" that I'm too lazy to look up now.
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No problem... they are bringing update-over-air to patch things up...
what could go wrong?  
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A team of scientists have successfully tested a solar panel prototype that can theoretically send electricity from space back to anywhere on Earth, CNN reports. Ooops, we missed the receiver again. Sorry about that.
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I remember such ideas from when I was a boy. That is long ago...
They have been repeated at irregular intervals ever since. One issue that more or less was solved is that of aviation: Air crafts used to follow fairly well defined paths. (Is 'paths' what the aviation people call them? I am not a pilot!) Power could be beamed down where there were no such paths. To increase air space capacity, this has been relaxed in recent years. Planes may to a much higher degree go 'wherever they like' ... such as right through a megawatt microwave beam. I am not that worried about the power blackout it could cause; we can handle that.
A 10 watt microwave beam is not a problem, of course. But the cost per watt is not enough to justify it.
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trønderen wrote: Planes may to a much higher degree go 'wherever they like' ... such as right through a megawatt microwave beam.
Don't forget the birds, already being decimated by wind turbines, feral cats, and environmental destruction.
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Marc Clifton wrote: birds
and solar farm heat rays
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Literally, 'decimated' means 'reduced to a tenth'. If nine out of ten of the world's birds are already killed by windmills, we really should look out!
(Which makes me think of a cult novel of my student days, "Even cowgirls get the blues". In those days, the whooping cranes were not killed by windmills, but threatened nevertheless. I have to dig up that book to re-read it; it is 30+ years since last time!)
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No, decimate literally meant reduced by a tenth. When the Romans punished a group of soldiers this way, they couldn't afford to kill 90% of them, or they wouldn't have had an empire for long! 
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trønderen wrote: 'paths'
flight path or route
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Maybe THIS is where the Georgia Congresswoman got the idea?
Yes, I live in Georgia but not her district.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: theoretically
Theoretically, I'm immortal.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Theoretically, I'm immortal.
... so far. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Proving me wrong is illegal; so, my theory stands, for all my life.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Proving me wrong is illegal
No, it's not. I don't have to take any active steps; all I have to do is to outlive you.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: all I have to do is to outlive you.
I am theoretically immortal, how would you outlive me as a mortal?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Theoretical and pratical aproaches are theoretically the same but on the praxis...
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Nelek wrote: Theoretical and pratical aproaches are theoretically the same but on the praxis...
Based on the models I must be utterly immortal.
Never tried it in praxis; that would be arrogant.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Mobilize.Net announced a new automated conversion tool that helps migrate legacy ASP.NET Web Forms applications created with the old Windows-only .NET Framework to the new cross-platform ASP.NET Core framework. Is it called "File > New Project"?
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The customer service for that must be hell. 
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In 1972, two students learning FORTRAN came up with a fantastic new programming language called INTERCAL. INTERCAL is a bit unusual. No, "that one" isn't mentioned
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I think that calling an exclaimation mark a wow is actually a great idea. For starters it's easier to spell, and it's only one syllable.
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A new study explores the common recent trend of Zoom Fatigue and suggests some ways to avoid exhaustion from a day of videoconferencing It's all that zooming around, duh!
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Quote: Everyone is staring at you ... all the time
99% of the time my camera is off.
Quote: The distraction of video
99 % of the time I've got the zoom window minimized.
Quote: You're so good looking ...
Can't see myself if my camera is off!
Quote: A highway-hypnotic semi-attentive fugue
and...
Quote: He figured one of the strengths of audio-only communication was how it enabled people to enter a fugue-like state where they wandered around doing other minor tasks while talking.
Exactly. I often do calls on my phone so I can clean the litterbox, do the dishes, cook something, etc.
Seems to me like people ought to get smarter about their video conferencing calls -- we'd have less of these silly studies, by places like Stanford, no less. Must have been an undergrad project,
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Marc Clifton wrote: Exactly. I often do calls on my phone so I can clean the litterbox, do the dishes, cook something, etc.
I would love too... but have a big reception problem at home.
Additionally it is not that easy to "join" the meetings if not in company net or vpn, so I end attending the meeting using the laptop and the usb speakers.
But camera is off 99% of the time too. I only connect it when body language is important for the moment, i.e. I have an important talk with my boss or something similar and only if the other person / people uses the camera too.
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