@nadnerB said in Smart cars + smart phones = bad.:

@scottalanmiller said in Smart cars + smart phones = bad.:

@nadnerB said in Smart cars + smart phones = bad.:

@Breffni-Potter said in Smart cars + smart phones = bad.:

Nothing wrong with a smart car.

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Fun fact: Probationary drivers in New South Wales can't drive them (state law). They have a super charged engine.

However if you fitted a Suzuki Hayabusa engine... 😉

So New South Wales bases their laws on the tools under the hood, not on the results? Sounds like a government confusing their goals.

Yep. No one uses a power to weight ratio. They have been know to legislate like a they can't tell their collective arses from their elbows.

So naturally aspirated Ferrari or an electric Tesla that will distort your eyeballs are okay, but highly fuel efficient cars are outlawed.

I think I know who paid for that law.

@Dashrender said in Morgan Freeman Now Voices Google Waze GPS Navigation System:

@scottalanmiller said in Morgan Freeman Now Voices Google Waze GPS Navigation System:

@Dashrender said in Morgan Freeman Now Voices Google Waze GPS Navigation System:

I have had a few of the bad experiences that Scott talks about with Google Maps. I don't have an Apple anything, so I have no idea if it's better.

What I've found is that...

Google errs on the side of having roads, bridges and things that don't exist. Apple errs on the side of lacking really obvious roads that clearly have long existed.

Waze, at least used to be, is more like Apple in your statement.

I never find out, it's so hard to use that I give up. It might give great directions, but I can't stand the interface to the point of avoiding it. I assumed, probably incorrectly, that it data shared with Google.

@scottalanmiller said in Citrix spins off GoTo line to company called GetGo:

@travisdh1 said in Citrix spins off GoTo line to company called GetGo:

@stacksofplates said in Citrix spins off GoTo line to company called GetGo:

@travisdh1 said in Citrix spins off GoTo line to company called GetGo:

GetGo? That's a fuel station around here. What am I gonna do, fix a users computer remotely and fill up my tank at the same time?

You have Giant Eagle over there?

Well, in the larger towns when you head towards Cleveland or Columbus, yes. Wooster and Millersburg aren't big enough to attract them yet.

My cousin works in Wooster.

It's my kind of town. Large enough to have everything you need, but small enough that you can drive by it in a couple minutes.

@Kelly said in OpenDNS, Now Part of Cisco:

Actually, given the comma placement it means that OpenDNS is now part of both Cisco and an entity called Forrester on Ransomware. This is a very confusing line.

Great catch, I knew that something further was wrong. So wrong.

What? Why do we need another place to get software from? I don't want more things to have to manage!

It was a German closed source company back in the mid-1980s. It's a very, very old product. Sun open sourced it when they purchased it and renamed it to OpenOffice after the switch in code licensing. I suspect that it has been primarily LibreOffice longer now than it was OpenOffice!

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VMware Unveils New Cross-Cloud Architecture™ to Give Customers Cloud Freedom and Control

At VMworld in Las Vegas, we announced the extension of the company’s hybrid cloud strategy with the new VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture™, enabling customers to run, manage, connect, and secure their applications across clouds and devices in a common operating environment.

VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture™ is delivered through VMware Cloud Foundation™, a new set of Cross-Cloud services™ VMware is developing, and the vRealize® cloud management platform.

VMware Cloud Foundation, a unified Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) platform that integrates VMware compute, storage and network virtualization for private and public clouds. You get the visibility and tools to see and manage resources, workloads and operations across all clouds. Cloud Foundation will be made available on-premises on certified hardware, or as a service from IBM today and VMware vCloud® Air™ and vCloud Air Network partners in the future, giving you unprecedented choice in your infrastructure decisions. Cross-Cloud services, previewed at VMworld, are in development to give you the ability to manage, govern and secure applications running in private and public clouds, including AWS, Azure and IBM Cloud. VMware vRealize Suite delivers a comprehensive enterprise-ready cloud management platform (CMP) that speeds up IT service delivery, improves IT operations and delivers end-user choice with control, across heterogeneous, multi-cloud environments (VMware vSphere® and non-vSphere).

Don't have any idea what this sat was for. But FB is so big that they could have simple needs like wanting a dedicated line with zero third party costs or leaks that can move tremendous data between two countries internally without hitting an ISP.

@travisdh1 said in Python versus C for Embedded Development:

@scottalanmiller said in Python versus C for Embedded Development:

It does...

http://playground.arduino.cc/CommonTopics/PyMite

Really? Cool!

Haven't used it myself. But it is out there and specially designed for this use case. Can call C libraries directly too.

@mlnews Nice!

Beta 1 has been working great!

@dafyre said in OpenSuse Leap 42.2 Hits Beta:

I played with the first OpenSuse Leap release. It was pretty cool. My only OpenSuse server at the moment is a web server and it runs Tumbleweed.

Yup, I worked with it too, it's a great product.

@coliver said in Red Hat Virtualization Announced, Rebranding RHEV:

@scottalanmiller said in Red Hat Virtualization Announced, Rebranding RHEV:

@coliver said in Red Hat Virtualization Announced, Rebranding RHEV:

Wasn't Redhat supporting KVM? Or is this the commercial version of KVM?

This is RH's packaged KVM product. KVM is just the hypervisor, not the virtualization platform (think ESXi instead of vSphere, Xen instead of XenServer, etc.)

Ah, ok that makes sense. So this is an appliance or OS version of KVM. Thanks for the clarification.

Ya kind of like how they took Gluster and made Red Hat Storage. So if you want the glusterfs-server package, it's not in the repos.....annoying.

@DustinB3403 said in SETI Investigating Deep Space Signal:

@marcinozga said in SETI Investigating Deep Space Signal:

@DustinB3403 said in SETI Investigating Deep Space Signal:

@marcinozga said in SETI Investigating Deep Space Signal:

Not exactly. All you have to do is to jump-start the whole process by sending robots and mining equipment to a small planet. Getting raw materials to orbit would be relatively easy, because of lower gravity force, and initial harvested energy would be delivered to mining equipment on the planet, greatly increasing output over time, as more and more energy collectors orbit the sun. Once you're done with one planet, move to another. Rinse and repeat.

The harvesting of the raw materials is easy in comparison, but you still need power to do it (an unbelievable amount of power). You can't be spending centuries chewing through a planet.

It would have to be done in a scale of a few years (worst case). Longer than that and you get into the "fix it stage" where your equipment is breaking down so often that you can't possibly replace it fast enough to keep a forward going pace.

Not possible in a few years right now, but closer to a century. If things break, that's what you have robots for. And once we have the capability to actually send robotic mining crew to a different planet, I think we would be capable of building them to last a few decades.

You have all the power available already, from nearby star.

Solar power is great, but this only goes so far, you have storms/clouds etc on planets. All of which effect solar power. If we're talking CrapWars death-planet thing, this is completely unreasonable, as discussed.

Planet like Mercury hardly has any atmosphere so solar power is perfectly applicable there. Venus would be more challenging, but we can always convert solar into microwave and beam it to the station on surface. Sulphuric acid in atmosphere poses bigger problem than supplying energy there.

Originally we were talking about Kardaschew Type II civilization, which could potentially build Dyson sphere (rather impossible), but more realistically would build Dyson swarm, and that's something even humans could build in about a century.

@scottalanmiller said in Iran Creates Domestic Internet:

@Dashrender said in Iran Creates Domestic Internet:

Though, @scottalanmiller how would you enforce that? Do you believe that they are using some other protocol besides IP?

I expect IP, but they certainly don't have to. I'm guessing IPv6, that would be the most sensible. They could leapfrog the DARPA network in technology by doing that.

They can enforce anything that they want, think of it like your LAN in the office... they own every port.

yeah I realized that as I was typing it.

@scottalanmiller said in Apple May Face Epic Tax Bill:

@nadnerB said in Apple May Face Epic Tax Bill:

Why are the EU only coming after them now? Could it be that the EU is clutching at straws for more money post Brexit?

All things like this take a long time.

Yup, this is the result of an investigation ongoing since 2013 http://www.afr.com/technology/mobiles-and-tablets/apple/apples-tax-secrets-hidden-in-australian-filings-may-have-helped-the-european-commission-20160831-gr5e2x

@scottalanmiller said in Kim Dotcom Wins Right to Livestream Appeal:

As well as a 20 minute delay, in which some details can be beeped out from what goes out on the internet, the judge has also ruled that once the six-week hearing is over it cannot be kept online forever.

Yeah, good luck with that Judge Streisand.