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by PinguTS 11y ago
The QA is in the same boat. Because the goal is not set to an engineer as a person but to a department and team.
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by PinguTS 11y ago
So what Tesla is doing is not lobbying to sell more Teslas at the end, because they fulfill the requirements while those others aren't?
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by PinguTS 11y ago
> Perhaps Boeing and Airbus are overengineering their aircraft and baking in economic rent to a degree that makes the airlines fundamentally incapable of sustaining a profitable business model. Perhaps this industry can't actually s
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by PinguTS 11y ago
In many countries in Europe a taxi is required to have an alarm on board, which is connected to the police. That is one of "poor" regulations of the taxi business that Uber claims is old and not appropriate anymore.
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by PinguTS 11y ago
Don't know what you like to say with that. Because it is a German company with the German Data Protection laws.
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by PinguTS 11y ago
Maybe ResearchGate is a way to change that? (Not affiliated with. Just discovered it recently and found out, that 2 of my papers very cited without my knowledge.)
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by PinguTS 11y ago
But not, if you write in a language that is not English but a native language to the country you are living in, like German, French, Spanish, Portugeese, Italy, Polish, … Maybe with the exception of Spanish (Middle and South America) and Fr
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by PinguTS 11y ago
This article has also some misinformation. This article, as I read it, seems to imply that the engineers where technically unable to comply with the regulations, that why they cheating. But it seems to be getting more clear over the last da
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by PinguTS 11y ago
Exactly, that was my first thought. I have an OpenVPN endpoint on different ports over UDP and TCP available. My experience is, that UDP is also blocked like TCP. The only possible work around is then IP over DNS, which works but with very
550.
by PinguTS 11y ago
I don't know about the US. In Germany there is the general rule that you not pay more than 30% of your income for rent, if you want to have decent living. May be in the US it is different because there are diffrent costs for food. 50%
551.
by PinguTS 11y ago
That is a feature, which is standard for any premium car brand. Just wondering, why the Tesla S didn't hat this feature in the first place.
552.
by PinguTS 11y ago
The Volvo XC90 has 7 seats.
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by PinguTS 11y ago
Yes and no. Yes, it makes no sense to use them for real world. No, they provide a comparable environment to compare different models and different OEMs. It is the same difference like conformance testing and performance testing. A piece of
554.
by PinguTS 11y ago
First sentence in the article: "Automakers argue that it’s unlawful for independent researchers to look at the code that controls vehicles without the manufacturer’s permission."
555.
by PinguTS 11y ago
>> The question: why did the engineers implemented a detection of the test environment? > Yknow, maybe because they knew they didn't have to worry about people reviewing their code. You read the rest of the comment? You NEED t
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by PinguTS 11y ago
To be honest, that is pure populism by the EFF. I am a supporter of EFF and against the DMCA. But that saying is BS. There are many different ECUs within a car (about 40 in a current Volkswagen Golf). Does EFF really thinks that someone wou
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by PinguTS 11y ago
As I am involved in defining such standards for industrial applications as an expert at the German national committee, I can tell you, the US has the same standards. Because those standards are harmonized within the IEC.
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Car hacking made easy or the Cuckoo's egg in every car(s.ts76.eu)
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by PinguTS 11y ago
Nope. At least in Europe, there are working on to get their own frequency. There are also first contacts made to regulating bodies. But we learned, it is very complicated with lots of intransparent groups and clubs of those regulating bodie
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by PinguTS 11y ago
Actually, that is not really a car hack. He intercepted the communication from the app. So it is an app hack like we have seen numerous times. It my be different, but it sound like cookie stealing what was possible with the Facebook app and
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by PinguTS 11y ago
Just to remark, there is much more than Wifi and Bluetooth in the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz going. There other users like ZigBee and many industrial users as well. Especially the industrial users have problems. Because there is no licensed band for
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by PinguTS 11y ago
V-men = under cover men To explain the joke with the "removed water taps". It happened that the water taps in the new building in Berlin for the secret service had been removed, which resulted in a large damage because of the flow
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by PinguTS 11y ago
Get a German car and you will not have such problems from what I know from my people. ;)
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by PinguTS 11y ago
They are simpler to fix and cheaper to fix. If you ignore a lot of things. My current car, 2001 Volvo S60, which I still drive as the first owner with now 200.000 km. I had one issue with the drive train, the clutch broke. Everything else
565.
by PinguTS 11y ago
The problem is, all the calculation I have seen so far (by different members and friends of the Pirate Party Germany) included also the benefits for people with disabilities, and other illnesses. It included also the money currently used to
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by PinguTS 11y ago
Basic income is a nice theory, but completely ignores the financing part. The money has to come from somewhere. I would be really fine with receiving a basic income. From the social side I would support it. People can do what they like, lik
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by PinguTS 11y ago
I am from engineering background and not soley a software guy, so forgive me my different view on this topic. I learned, that every error you can fix early on will cost you about 10x to fix in the next stage. All the new principles like Agi
568.
by PinguTS 11y ago
So, you are saying "Developers don't want to deliver quality."? If that it true, than I don't want to work with them.
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by PinguTS 11y ago
Safety critical and security critical share a lot of goals like: sanity checking of input data, buffer overflows, …
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by PinguTS 11y ago
Following some or all of those rules would be wise to be used by any developer, especially Web developers. That would eliminate a number of bugs. Bugs, that seems get fixed over and over again.

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