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  • RE: Google Scale

    My son recently started working for Google, working on backend systems. Should be an interesting job.

  • RE: Automated Driving

    Michael Valentine Jones (11/12/2010)


    It’s just a matter of time until it is possible. Faster processors, better sensors, more sophisticated algorithms are all being worked on now, and the financial...

  • RE: Automated Driving

    GSquared (11/10/2010)


    Kevin Hood (11/10/2010)


    The true test of an automated driving system will be how it responds when a squirrel runs onto the road.

    Or someone's kid.

    Or knowing the difference. A system...

  • RE: Automated Driving

    steven.malone (11/10/2010)


    The routes are fixed, and need to be virtually linear. Compare that with buses, which can go virtually anywhere and can alter routes to suite changing ridership, rather than...

  • RE: Automated Driving

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/10/2010)

    There already is some of this in dense areas, with Zipcar. Seems to work very well.

    The light rail works very well in Denver, and lots...

  • RE: Automated Driving

    Privacy? What privacy?

    Every trip you take is logged in some database.

    (one of the reasons I do not use EZpass)

    But there is too much variability. Have you ever had a piece...

  • RE: Risk Analysis

    Ben Moorhouse (10/18/2010)


    I think you need to choose who you trust with data. I would certainly trust my Mam and Dad over a data backup company.

    You're right about the burglary...

  • RE: Risk Analysis

    ryk 98103 (10/15/2010)


    ....It sucks having to spend so much time on something we've never had to use, but we're all pretty comfortable in knowing that we're covered.

    it's still more fun...

  • RE: Risk Analysis

    Saving the data is the easy part.

    The biggest part of our DR is questions of how we get the system going: the network, the production control and the customer service...

  • RE: Yikes!

    Ben Moorhouse (10/14/2010)


    ... I've seen bikes and owned cars with the system fitted and the advantages are huge...

    My last car had ABS and I didn't like it at all. Especially...

  • RE: Yikes!

    ron.carlton 41182 (10/13/2010)


    And the latest car ads on TV promise to build cars that will avoid accidents. Wait until these babies hit the road, then you will hear all...

  • RE: Yikes!

    edward.ahlsen-girard.ctr (10/13/2010)


    There are aircraft, mostly fighters, for which failure of the flight control computers in flight would result in catastrophic airframe failure. These are triply redundant computers, but if...

  • RE: Yikes!

    Agreed that often the media gets things incredibly wrong without doing simple back of the envelope calculation to see if it even makes sense.

    Like the article a while back claiming...

  • RE: Why are we still talking about Women in Tech?

    tiomoid (10/7/2010)


    Because women are inherently more interesting than men.

    I'm on board with that

    It brings up an interesting experience, I was in an auto parts store with my 4 year old...

  • RE: Why are we still talking about Women in Tech?

    mbenish245 (10/6/2010)


    ...

    And I do wish we had younger woemn going into IT. My 16 year old, who I think could be a doctor, lawyer, etc. is looking at...

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