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Seems like a great way to stock up your firewood supply for the next winter, if you manage to target it in a way that doesn't cause half the city to show up, but maybe a little less than that?
It's not. You don't want to burn softwoods; they're resinous and create a ton of smoke.
This is what happens when optimists win and the realists are cut out of the conversation. As a taxi service, I believe I would want to know if I'm about to have a shortage of taxis in any one area of town, and I'd better only have a concentration in one area of town for an event the entire world is talking about, like a reunion tour or a championship game. Even with the hack, the moment all of the taxis started conve…
No one wants this single pair of instances in a Tier 4 datacenter that host a single key-pair authenticated process with dual manual approval and an air-gap that dispatches one taxi (and precisely one taxi) every 30 days on a route where it can be guaranteed to hit its time prediction.
Any fool can build a bridge that stands. It takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.
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I think you are right. I think the unknowns are, how tiny will the script be that commands all the cars into a lake and will it be a cloud hack or a local broadcast hack?
How about just driving you by billboards on, or for, Alphabet controlled properties?
is this the future of self driving cars?
is this the future of self driving cars? My prediction: Ransomware hits self-driving cars. You're locked in the car until you Venmo the bad guys some credits. To encourage compliance, the stereo starts playing the sound of running water.
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It’s already so hard to build a large company, you just don’t have the resources to chase super rare, low pain outcomes. This is the first time this has happened and the total cost of it is at most a few hours revenue. They’ll likely add safeguards to prevent such a thing now, but if they ran the company preparing for every possible way things could go wrong, they’d get absolutely nothing done.
low pain outcomes All your customers thinking your app isn't secure any more isn't "low pain".
When you're a government controlled corporation in an openly fascist state, you couldn't care less what your customers think.
is this the future of self driving cars?
Back in the day (1960s?) two relatives of mine had a prank battle going on. One of them posted an add in the local newspaper offering to buy old Christmas trees, at the address of their adversary. Half the city showed up, were told trees were not in fact being bought, and everybody dumped the trees at their door.