Do Not Pet!
Sure, the air-gapped system gets infected, BUT the problem is that people connect via USB drive to an infected media and then use that same drive in a “clean” machine! So, for example, maybe I was not sleeping around, but my husband or wife was, and I became infected with an STD through them!
Basically, there should be NO thumb-drive action on an air-gapped system. Because then the system is no longer “gapped.” Unless you use special thumb-drives that have not and will never be in an Internet-connected machine. But even that should be rare and highly supervised.
fire danger is very real. Now it is true that there may soon be some technological advance that will very much reduce the risk. Someday. But today is not that day, to coin a phrase…
I think EVs are great in a lot of ways. My son has a very well-off friend with a Tesla Roadster, and by report that car is out-of-this-world awesome.
But there ARE fire concerns about the battery. Chances are if you have an EV and it has never been flooded, it will be just fine. Chances are…
collapsing faster and further than I had imagined.
And here’s part of it:
And those digital distributors are increasingly seeing “seasonality” in their business — consumers sign up for them in the fall to watch the NFL, and churn them out at the beginning of the year. That’s why YouTube TV lost subscribers for the first time in Q1, and only added 50,000 subscribers in Q2. The service added 300,000 subscribers in the same quarter last year.
No question about it: I myself do YouTubeTV (and would do another service if it made sense) during college football season only. Then I unsubscribe until football starts up again…
work well in VERY specific situations:
Those things don’t alleviate ALL the problems, of course. But I think that under those conditions it could theoretically work.
But fire is a HUGE issue; when those batteries burn it is pretty much impossible to extinguish them. And they are prone to fire after even a minor parking lot ding in the right place. Insurers don’t want to pay for a new $20,000+ battery! And if they are in your garage when they spontaneously combust…
Plus, the batteries are fabricated with slave (usually child slave) labor. Let’s just say that it is morally problematic…
There are very “torquey” vehicles. Motion sickness is a real problem for many. It does help to pipe in artificial revving noises. But even that is not a panacea. My wife and kids, for example, are prone to motion sickness–so an EV is absolutely not in the cards for us.
There are just too many problems for me to list here. But I really don’t think they are ready for primetime, and won’t be until we have a new and better battery technology. Maybe that will come. Yeah, maybe…
A hybrid makes more sense to me from a pure technology standpoint. But that doesn’t alleviate all the problems with the battery…
Let me say that they are great in certain conditions and for when certain performance variables are of the highest value. But heavens, you don’t want one in Minnesota!
military exosuits are just awesome!
BUT, they are NOT an unmitigated good. MOST of the work injury/rehab docs I know won’t often use braces of any kind and generally try to quickly wean people off of them. Why?
Because our muscles atrophy very quickly. And if I use such a device all the time, the muscles in my back atrophy, leaving me FAR more vulnerable to injury than I was.
So this may be GREAT if I am unloading a truck full of ammo. But I need to put the suit on to unload, and then immediately take it off again. They probably understand that. But some in the general population don’t immediately understand that, if used unwisely, this could result in an increase in back injuries!
it does exactly what it was programmed to do. That’s how machines work, my friend. And this, while complex, is just a machine. It doesn’t actually have a conscience or moral agency. It can never know freedom. In fact, it can never “know” anything. It can merely put “data” through a human-inputted algorithm.
that this is the future, right?
And there are both good things and bad things about that. But it doesn’t really matter, because it is rather unavoidable.
For those of us who are disabled, it started with walkers and wheelchairs. Then it progressed to electric scooters and wheelchairs. All of which are wonderful. Even now I can get an electric wheelchair that comes to me when I “call” it with a remote. It is connected to the manufacturer via WiFi, and they can reach in to diagnose problems and do minor software repairs. And I strongly suspect that that is only the beginning.
Just think about what that means for a bit.
The age-old question is this: When is technology assistive and at what point does it become directive?
Maybe you did or said something that “your masters” didn’t approve of. Well, no mobility help for you! Your wheelchair is suddenly “bricked.”
And if you don’t think such “features” don’t often go in a coercive direction, you are simply not paying attention. Just look at Social Media!
a good idea. It appears that we pretty much already have the technology to make this work. We need nuclear backup.
BUT (and you knew that there would be a big “but” here), What would prevent an enemy combatant from knocking out your power source? Just shoot it out of the sky. It could, perhaps, be relatively easily done by all sorts of bad actors! It just seems overly vulnerable to me. I think THAT is the issue that has to be solved in relation to this. Maybe there are thing here that I don’t understand…