Not unrestricted
It's not unrestricted; there is a restriction, which is set to zero restriction.
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For is it not written in the Proverbs of King Solomon, It is better to meet a mother bear robbed of her cubs than to meet some fool busy with a stupid project.
Someone saw that one coming a few millenia in advance.
I'd be more impressed with an arm that extends from inside the charging point, with a high-current plug on the end, and plugs itself into a socket that way. Or even, as a last resort, have a local domestic mains plug on the end of the arm, and plug itself into any wall socket it can see.
Then the car wouldn't have to be positioned in such an expensively equipped specific place, to be able to get itself charged automatically.
At least she didn't resort to triangular flapjacks.
A cameraless version would have been of interest to me, for a map display while walking in an unfamiliar city in weather cold enough to put me off using a touchscreen phone (the touchscreen-compatible gloves I tried weren't warm enough for all conditions).
Having a camera on the device would put me off though, because people's response to that would damage normal human interaction, e.g. creep them out, piss them off, etc; if I want people to react this way, I'm sure I can do it without augmentation (e.g. talking about politics), but if I don't want them to react this way, I can't do that with augmentation. I don't want to predetermine that by wearing such a device.
The limitations may actually be the point. When kids see something as "a computer" in the modern sense, and think they're going to learn to make it do things like the ones they see computers already doing (e.g. modern games) there's a lot they have to learn to get far enough to stop them thinking that programming is beyond them; and then they will have only just scratched the surface.
But give them something which inherently limits their expectations (for example, having a small grid of LEDs instead of a full colour screen) and they'll have much more chance of taking it as far as their expectations, which is much more rewarding, and likelier to get them to continue to larger systems.
I think the Beeb succeeded because at that time the limits of what you could expect of a computer were much more approachable. Modern desktop systems have so much more in them that making progress that looks significant enough to give encouragement is much harder, and is going to be above more people's thresholds for getting disheartened and giving up.
So where did the attackers fly in from? From their banlieu, of course. Right, let's log and arrest everyone who flies into central Paris from its suburbs.
Paris, obviously. Probably enjoys Oysters and their discount to deter you from buying Underground tickets anonymously.
This wasn't a "mistake"; it was as deliberate as you can get, and they should be made an example of.
As for them not doing it again: at best, it's a matter of them not being able to get away with doing it again. A burglar who is not currently burgling just because he got caught and is in jail is not the same as an honest character.
Unfortunately, even that's optimistic: I expect they'll try again as soon as they can. I hope that enterprise buyers will also avoid their enterprise equipment; after all, who knows what's preloaded on them, that simply hasn't been found and exposed yet?
Linaro have announced a standard for form factor and connector layout for credit card sized SBCs: http://www.linaro.org/news/linaro-announces-96boards-initiative-accelerate-arm-software-development/
And the first board available in this shape is quite decent: https://www.96boards.org/products/hikey/ (8-core A53 (64-bit) at 1.2GHz).
I suspect you're trying to imply that Linux is written largely by hobbyists, with a low level of skill.
In fact, the standard of its developers is high, and many (probably most: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2610207/open-source-software/who-writes-linux--corporations--more-than-ever.html says 80% of kernel patches) are employed to work on it. And many who aren't paid to work on it will be people who are paid to work on some other software.
Not that the correlation between being paid to work at something, and being good at it, is perfect anyway.
I thought it was just a gimmick, until I was trying to find my way around an unfamiliar city in sub-zero weather, when suddenly what I really wanted was a navigational display that I could use without having to hold my phone, and could operate without having to take my gloves off, and I realized that a head-up display with voice control would fit that spec very nicely.
That being said, I could have chosen a coat with a convenient phone pocket on the outside (and just hoped it was secure enough against pickpockets) and conductive gloves so I could operate the touchscreen. And when the weather's cold enough for me to wear gloves, I also wear a hat, so a head-up display in the brim / peak of a hat would have been OK. But I no longer dismiss the Glass as useless.
It may be good for Spaniards (and even better for Basques and Catalans) to get their news about Spain from outside Spain, further from the influence of the Spanish government.
And with governmental behaviour like this, it's no wonder that parts of the country currently constituted as Spain want to get out of it.
It would be a delicious irony if this law is repealed first in the autonomous regions who would like to leave, and the rest of Spain has to get their Spanish online news searches from them.
"I'll get my coat" icon because I hope that the Basques, Catalans, and any other current Spaniards who would like to, can get theirs too.
Well, it would be a start. Some agreement on column headings and even which order they come in. Surely not too difficult for a large industry to agree on... oh wait...
Yes, I'm sure it's not really that simple, but I'm even more sure that what they'll come up will be far more complex than really necessary, and perhaps too complex for almost anyone to use.
Because corruption in Ireland is pretty blatant, but there's probably a lot more material not yet public, that would be excellent for blackmailing senior politicians into compliance with external interests.
Or possibly just to make up a price list to see which ones to buy.
The Chinese government seems very interested in spying on the Chinese people (a bit like the American government being interested in spying on the American people, and the British government in spying on the British people) so if the software isn't found in China, that doesn't suggest it's of Chinese origin.
One company I worked for in the past had an old country house for its main office, which it had to get renovated (OK, the "had to" was the asbestos removal bit, but I digress). The MD was an Aga enthusiast, and the kitchen was next to the machine room, and they looked into cooling the machine room with a heat pump concentrating the heat into an Aga just one wall away. Would have been nice in the winter, not sure about the summer though. And they ended up going for conventionall AC anyway (probably cheaper to install).
It doesn't have to be a plague infecting humans; a widely-adopted GM crop plant becoming relied on for a few years and becoming a significant part of the food supply for some areas of the world, then being hit by a pathogen that wipes it out, could do huge damage. The resulting human destabilization would then take it further.
I'd much rather see USB replaced by Ethernet with a connector that can take a decent power level, has an obviously directional shape, and is genderless (like an Anderson power connector, but smaller and with more than two contacts). Then you won't get distinctions like "A" and "B" connectors, or like USB-on-the-go being different from USB; things can just connect, and let the software/firmware sort out whether they have anything to talk about. NICs are cheap now; from a quick look at the protocols, I think they probably take less silicon to implement, too, and you'd probably get far better performance for most things without the grossly inefficient USB protocol.
For a little extra, make the connection reasonably mechanically robust and it can even hold devices onto each other (e.g. bluetooth/wifi dongles onto phones/computers) without worrying about bending connectors.
Vendors could add value to the products a bit, then we can let market forces push the prices down; tiny NAS units could take the place of USB flash drives, wifi dongles could be routers, and so on.