why so cheap?
IPv4 addresses have been running out for years, with much wailing and prophecying of doom, so why are they only worth 20 dollars ? You can't even buy a toilet roll for that.
Posts by Zack Mollusc
460 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jul 2008
Internet samurai says he'll sell 14,700,000 IPv4 addresses worth $300m-plus, plow it all into Asia-Pacific connectivity
Boss planning to tear you a new one? Google Glass is back: Weird workwear aimed at devs, but on sale to all
Microsoft takes us to 2004 with new Windows 10 so you don't mistake it for Server 2003
Tonight on Tales from the Crypto: It lives! GPU flinger Nvidia bouncing back after miner affair
Remember the Uber self-driving car that killed a woman crossing the street? The AI had no clue about jaywalkers
Wednesday 6th November 2019 21:27 GMT
Re: What's the standard for success?
The person had almost completed crossing a three lane road before impact. The car was probably not in sight on the empty road when the person began crossing. The published logs of the car have it first detect the person over five seconds before impact. Plenty of time to either fully stop or change lanes to go behind the person.
Wednesday 6th November 2019 08:54 GMT
Re: Don't forget the orientation
I agree that the car was not trying to track possible threats before trying to identify them, I contend that the sensory input has not the resolution nor accuracy to reveal the course and speed of the possible threats and that sufficiently sensitive input would give too much data to process in real time with computational resources that would be practical to fit in a car.
Wednesday 6th November 2019 08:42 GMT
Re: Surely
Well put. I would add that the AI seems quite relaxed about vaious objects teleporting into existance near it while it is travelling at 44mph. "Pfft, that thing that I have only just become aware of will probably stay out of my way. Oh, I can't see it any more, maybe the road is haunted or something. Ooh, a different thing has appeared even closer to me, well it might stay where it is or something, oh good it seems to have vanished again so i can just forget about it, hey another thing has appeared even closer to me and even closer to my path, i assume it is nothing to worry about..."
Wednesday 6th November 2019 08:01 GMT
Don't forget the orientation
The person was pushing a bicycle across the street, thus the bicycle and its shiny hard metal surfaces was broadside on to the car's sensors, giving the best possible chance for detection.
A cynic might think that the problem is data processing. If you give the car enough sensors to give a detailed and accurate picture of its environment, the computers needed to interpret all that information in real time won't fit in a car (or maybe cannot be built).
The eagle has handed.... scientists a serious text message bill after flying through Iran, Pakistan
We're going deeper Underground: Vulture clicks claws over London's hidden tracks
Sunday 20th October 2019 11:38 GMT
building roads tends not to decrease traffic congestion. All it does is increase traffic.
"building roads tends not to decrease traffic congestion. All it does is increase traffic"
I think it more a case of building roads at a slower rate than the population increases tends not to decrease traffic congestion. All it does is increase traffic .
Inrcementally increasing bandwidth on a saturated channel will not eliminate contentiion when the demand is also inrcementing.
Oh dear... AI models used to flag hate speech online are, er, racist against black people
Multitasking is a myth: It means doing lots of things equally badly
Wednesday 9th October 2019 11:21 GMT
Re: Agree with the myth comment.
You seem to be under the impression that management cares about efficiency and profit. This is an easy mistake to make, because management spend a great deal of time screaming that they care about efficiency and profit. Management cares about underlings doing what they are told.
Time to check in again on the Atari retro console… dear God, it’s actually got worse
Cloud, internet biz will take a Yellowhammer to the head in 'worst case' no-deal Brexit
Friday 13th September 2019 19:06 GMT
Re: What's in a name?
I am just trying to rationalise the Brexit position.
Assuming the Remain position "the EU isn't perfect, nobody claims it is, but any brexit option from a "deal" to "no deal" is clearly going to impact our economy to a lesser or greater extent. Together with the loss of workers rights and the threat to our institutions like the NHS, we would be insane to leave the EU" is entirely factually correct and based on the application of massive intellects to all the pertinant facts, why any Brexit votes ?
Is it more likely that Brexiters feel that they get shafted by the economy whether it goes up or down, and the NHS and workers rights are threatened anyway, or that Brexiters were temporarily afflicted by racism and now bitterly oppose Brexit and long for a second vote?
Thursday 12th September 2019 15:54 GMT
Re: What's in a name?
In this alternate history where the referendum went the other way by the same margin, the Brexiteers would not be abiding by the result of the referendum and would be implementing the Brexitting . Pretty sure the referendum-victorious Remainers would be screaming at, threatening and physically attacking the Brexit camp.
Anyway, you have hit the nail on the head. Democracy is being able to change your mind. Democracy said leave. We leave. And perhaps in a few years time there would be another referendum to see whether opinion had changed.
Mystery database left open turns out to be at heart of a huge Groupon ticket fraud ring
The time a Commodore CDTV disc proved its worth as something other than a coaster
Bus pass or bus ass? Hackers peeved about public transport claim to have reverse engineered ticket app for free rides
Rebel Galaxy Outlaw: Well, lookie here! For once a space game that doesn't promise the universe
The top three attributes for getting injured on e-scooters? Having no helmet, being drunk or drugged, oddly enough
Eight-hour comms lags and shock discoveries: 30 years after Voyager 2 visited gas giant Neptune
Got a burning desire for a Hololens 2.0? Microsoft insists its math coprocessor won't be too hot for headgear
Electric vehicles won't help UK meet emissions targets: Time to get out and walk, warn MPs
It's a fullblown Crysis: Gamers press pause on PC purchases, shipments freeze
Thursday 15th August 2019 10:43 GMT
Over(st/cl)ocked gpus
I was just testing out a ouiji board that had been re- laquered and got through to an A Smith. I didn't really understand everything as economics is pretty complex and technical, but he seemed to be suggesting that if Nvidia lowered their prices, there would be more people willing to buy their products ? Does that sound right? I don't know how much people will pay Nvidia to keep their products in warehouses for months then scrap them, so maybe that would be better? Anyhoo, just passing that along.
Science and engineering hit worst as Euroboffins do a little Brexit of their own from British universities
Tuesday 13th August 2019 18:44 GMT
Re: Brexit bollocks
Of course, those old people you villify grew up before the UK joined the common market, heard all the propaganda about how awesome it would be to join the common market, saw how that panned out , saw how the common market transformed into a superstate, saw how that panned out and then got an unprecedented chance to vote to leave.
The young who will have to live with the results have only experienced life within the EU and so are wary of any change.
1Gbps, 4K streaming, buffering a thing of the past – but do Brits really even want full fibre?
Ouch. Reinstalling Windows 10 again? By 2020, a 'cloud download' may be all you need
Meet ELIoT – the EU project that wants to commercialize Internet-over-lightbulb
Fix LibreOffice now to thwart silent macro viruses – and here's how to pwn those who haven't
If at first you don't succeed, Fold? Nope. Samsung redesigns bendy screen for fresh launch in September
Friday 26th July 2019 14:08 GMT 
Larger screens are pointless
Larger screens seem like a good idea. You have a certain amount of information on a screen, you naively think that a larger screen would hold more information. In the real world, huge amounts of money and man-hours are spent on increasing whitespace, forcing font sizes, preventing zooming, splitting content across pages and forcing ads inside, instead of, and in front of content.
Boeing's 737 Max woes trigger BEEELLIONS in losses – and that's just for the latest quarter
Wednesday 24th July 2019 19:41 GMT
The closest I have been to piloting an aircraft is standing on a stepladder, but it seems really odd that the TRIM can have a bigger effect on the aircraft than the CONTROL SURFACE.
Is this normal for aircraft ?
I imagined the control surfaces controlled where the aircraft pointed and the trim would be just fine tuning of those.
Crappy car analogy : tracking==trim steering==elevators your tracking can be way out but you can override it with steering input.
Apple strips clips of WWDC devs booing that $999 monitor stand from the web using copyright claims. Fear not, you can listen again here...
It was that gosh-darn anomaly again, says SpaceX as smoke billows from Crew Dragon test site
Idiot admits destroying scores of college PCs using USB Killer gizmo, filming himself doing it
Only one Huawei? We pitted the P30 Pro against Samsung and Apple's best – and this is what we found
Sunday 7th April 2019 13:50 GMT
regarding phone lenses
just wondering how 'deep' a ccd/lens unit would have to be to make it much better ?
If, say, an optically far superior unit was fitted that was an inch 'deeper', the phone could be made an inch thicker, with the extra space used for a battery of 7 times the capacity, a faraday cage credit card cubby hole etc.
Uber won't face criminal charges after its robo-car killed woman crossing street
Thursday 7th March 2019 11:05 GMT
timing
judging by how long it took the pedestrian to cross one lane from the dashcam footage, it seems that they began crossing the road before the car was in sight. When the car spotted that there was _something_ in the road, it lacked the resolution/accuracy/intelligence to predict the course and speed of the something and realise that it was on a collision course.
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