People are drinking less and less every year, this is a real thing with lots of data and has no correlation with religion. This is Denver, one of the first cities in the world to decriminalize marijuana and the first state to legalize it completely, you think the prudes did that?
The one thing about getting old that I really enjoy is telling people about how things used to be and having them not believe me. Like how I browsed the web for years before it had any advertising on it.
This week it's the story about how insulin was $20 a month when I was in high school, I remember it well because I had two friends who needed insulin and they complained about this $20 constantly.
Americans under a certain age just flat out refuse to believe that it was ever possible to get important medicine that cheaply. I've had people call me a liar and been branded with various political slurs for making this $20 claim. It's hilarious.
It's disheartening to see parent downvoted, but executive overreach and emergency powers have been normalized for a while now. Republicans are a lost cause here too, but Democrats despite constant screeching about "constitutional norms" seemingly don't care about war powers either (perhaps the most important constitutional power).
There are many 10+ year old linux kernels in embedded devices all over the place, and much less secure systems and services on top of that. It's often called the internet of shitty things.
Right, but it's surprising that Tesla would be one of those vendors since they have an ongoing obligation to the security of their devices.
It looks like their open source disclosure of the kernel source is a 4.4 kernel, so something weird is going on there. Maybe they got off 2.6 since the time the vulnerability was discovered?
I see something saying they moved to 4.4 in the 8.1 update in June 2017, which is confusing because it suggests the vulnerability was never live.
But I also see they have multiple CPUs running Linux and don't update the kernel on all of them at the same time, so perhaps the CPU running the 8686 driver wasn't updated?
A former Tesla software engineer posted a thread on twitter a few months ago describing their development/release process and it was a total mess of hacky bad practices that barely worked at all.
It does not seem like software is much of a priority for them.
Most car manufacturers are reactive, like the Jeep hack a few years ago. Cyber Security should be on the forefront of their radar, but takes a back seat. So having outdated software is not that big of a surprise. I have a 3 year old phone that functions fine, but i might need to get a new one since it is full of security holes and no updates.
I find myself conflicted since i love the technology behind the new cars, but my paranoia about the lack of security and the inability of myself to do anything about it.
If only they had cameras in the cars so while they are applying the brakes when you are on the interstate they can collect that classic picture of horror on your face....
>If only they had cameras in the cars so while they are applying the brakes when you are on the interstate they can collect that classic picture of horror on your face....
They already do. IIRC Model 3 has about 6 external cameras and one internal one. However, the internal one is currently disabled and isn't used for anything, which is a subject to change for when they decide what to do with it and push it in an update.
If you are looking for some wtf road videos, we are bound to see more of them soon due to the most recent update Tesla pushed. It added the "save on honk" option, which (if enabled) saves some footage right before the honk, as well as about 5 seconds after the honk. With how much spicy footage the sentry mode update has provided in less than a year, I expect nothing less from the "save on honk" update.
As a sidenote, it isn't as bad as it seems in terms of privacy, because all videos (on-honk ones, or manual ones, or the sentry mode accidents) only get saved locally on your HDD/SSD/usb-drive/etc (whatever you have inserted into one of the front USB ports).
Oh please, they sold us on a fake problem and then the cure by removing ports. That's not innovation. That's not a platform.
iPhones could all have usb ports and audio jacks and removable storage. Nothing is preventing any of that. Stop pretending Apple is moving the ball forward here.
Wires get tangled. To switch from your iPhone to Mac, you unplug the wire and plug it in again. Then there is the question of having to remain within wires length of the machine. AirPods actually made wireless headphones usable and dead simple.
> To switch from your iPhone to Mac, you unplug the wire and plug it in again.
So you are saying there is a standard-mechanism for interoperability between units from any vendor, and it’s mirrored in a highly discoverable physical interface which always reflects how things are connected, so there’s never any confusion or need for debugging? And no need for firmware updates or charging?
That sounds just about perfect to me, like a dream come true! When will the iPhone support this amazing, new technology without the need for proprietary dongles? I can’t wait!
The first time I bought wireless headphones was in 1998. It's great that they got smaller and sleeker and more reliable since then, but removing ports and then forcing people to buy another accessory that you then boast about how good the margins are on in your earnings call is not innovation.
I'm just getting quite tired of companies taking two steps backward, one step forward, and then marketing the hell out of this process to pretend like they made things better for us.
I'm not merely anti-Apple, it feels like half the tech industry is stalled and just forcing nonsense like this on us while pretending it's "innovation" and "progress". It's innovating in how high the margins can go, nothing more.
There are many things that are "standard industry practice" that will be illegal some day, and using some other company as a defense for anything is supremely lazy.
Did you miss that the complete headline is actually 'Google execs reportedly debated getting out of cloud computing, but instead set a goal of being a top-two player by 2023'?
I thought Bloomberg banned their journalists from discussing the democratic side of the field?
Regardless, any political commentary about any topic coming out of this organization is highly suspect and shouldn't really be linked to while Michael Bloomberg is in the race or in office.
The divide in this society is becoming so deep stories like this almost seem like a parody.
If you're at a high enough level you get paid in equity-based compensation or benefit from a close relationship where someone gets paid in equity, then you're golden. These are the greatest times in history, every number keeps going up and everything keeps improving. Endlessly increasing buybacks and endlessly increasing equity compensation is doing nothing but accelerate this massive growth at the high level.
For everyone else it's a nightmarish hellscape of gig jobs and poverty and debt and zero healthcare. It's such a different experience that rich people might as well be living on the moon.
Not disagreeing with you but is the relative inequality better or worse than other periods in history? I would argue the world is more fair today for more people than it ever has been before. Of course there is inequality, there always has been, but its getting better.
>Not disagreeing with you but is the relative inequality better or worse than other periods in history?
Is the available wealth and technological means to eradicate inequality "better or worse than other periods in history"?
That's the important question, not whether a 2019 country that sends people to the moon and has access to nuclear power, communications, computing, etc, is better off than a 1500 A.D. feudal kingdom or a 10.000 B.C. cave...
Much, much worse. We passed the legendary inequality of the gilded age about 15 years ago, and the rate at which the divide has been growing has been increasing ever since. We created the richest people who have ever lived by a wide margin, and all trends point to the margin increasing.
It is drowning out real investment, this conclusion is correct because the companies themselves are saying so in their statements. Some companies are taking on huge debt to keep up in the buyback races despite having bad products that are losing market share. Oracle is probably the biggest example of this buyback insanity via debt, but there are many other companies doing the same thing.
Other companies have committed in their financial statements to "returning 100% of free cash flow to investors via buybacks and dividends", so they are actually committing to not invest in the company at all regardless of how much money they make. Chevron and Texas Instruments are two big examples of this, there are dozens of other companies with similar buyback first strategies.
That's very interesting because that is what you would do if you wanted to liquidate a company and shut it down (on a leisurely timescale). Exactly how much of the US economy is being wound down? Maybe this is a great opportunity for new businesses with an appetite for R&D risk, maybe this is the US laying down so that China will replace it faster.
Absolutely. What we are witnessing is people extracting as much money as possible from healthy and unhealthy companies just because they can. This has been going on in the private equity/hedge fund world for decades, buybacks are the mechanism that is now being used on the public markets in similar, unethical ways.
Oracle is betting on not having a future, they are extracting as much money as possible from the vehicle before it goes off a cliff.
Based on what I know about Oracle's software quality to customer inertia ratio, they're probably betting right. I wonder if the future is as legitimately bleak for all of the other buyback companies.
Take a look at balance sheets. Price to Book ratio has been growing on major company names. Book value is the equity remaining after assets - liabilities. Assets are dwindling/remaining constant and liabilities are growing due to debt funded buybacks. There will be no equity left many big names in the public markets due to the debt load.
It’s all a big wealth transfer game. The entire world is along for the ride hooked on index funds owning enormous stakes in these large companies and will be left with the bag in any downturn. No downturn can ever happen now and everyone knows it, especially the Fed. The current system can never correct otherwise it would implode. CEOs are exploiting this fact to full potential and will be gone/dead before any consequences arise.
