На втором месте в рейтинге инфлюэнсеров среди россиян в возрасте 14-21 год Егор Крид, на третьем - Антон Птушкин. Также в топ-10 попали Анастасия Ивлеева, Константин Ивлев, Тимур Юнусов (Тимати), Артем Дзюба, Гарик Харламов, Дмитрий Борисов и Ида Галич.
Такие данные были получены в результате исследования мнения молодых респондентов (год рождения с 2000 по 2007) в российских городах с населением более 100 тысяч человек. Ни один из участников рейтинга топ-10 самых уважаемых общественных фигур среди молодежи не вошел в общероссийский топ-10 для всех возрастных групп.
Лидер молодежного рейтинга Алишер Моргенштерн занимает 47-е место в общероссийском списке самых уважаемых общественных деятелей.
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T-Mobile recently suffered a significant data breach that saw sensitive data from more than 50 million current, prospective, and former customers stolen.
John Binns, a 21-year-old American who lives in Turkey, told The Wall Street Journal that he is responsible for the attack. Binns said that he discovered an unprotected router in July after scanning T-Mobile's known internet addresses for weak spots.
He used the unprotected router to access T-Mobile's data center located in Washington, where stored credentials provided him access to over 100 servers. He said he initially panicked because he "had access to something big," and went on to claim that T-Mobile's "security is awful."
It took him about a week to sort through the servers to find the personal data on millions of customers, and he downloaded the data on August 4. On August 13, T-Mobile was informed that someone was selling T-Mobile customer data, and T-Mobile confirmed the breach just days later.
T-Mobile has since said that data from more than 50 million customers was accessed. Stolen data includes customer names, dates of birth, SSNs, ID cards, and licenses. The Wall Street Journal took steps to confirm that the hacker selling the data was Binns, using his IRDev online alias.
Binns told The Wall Street Journal that he hacked T-Mobile to "generate noise" and get attention as he had allegedly been the victim of an illegal kidnapping that saw him taken to a fake mental hospital in Germany. Binns would not say whether he had sold any of the data that he stole, and it is not clear if he had accomplices. The Seattle office of the FBI is investigating the hack.
Affected T-Mobile customers can receive two years of free identity protection services through McAfee's ID Theft Protection Service and can implement Account Takeover Protection features.
Spencer Elden, now 30, is suing over the iconic Nevermind album art. | Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images
The iconic nude baby photographed for the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind album is all grown up and suing the band, alleging the image violates child pornography laws. Spencer Elden, now 30, is seeking $150,000 from each of 17 named defendants, including record executives, Nirvana band members, and Courtney Love, the former wife and executor of Kurt Cobain’s estate, according to Variety.
The lawsuit, a copy of which was obtained by Variety, claims that the defendants knowingly exploited young Elden to increase attention and boost sales.
“Defendants intentionally commercially marketed Spencer’s child pornography and leveraged the shocking nature of his image to promote themselves and their music at his expense,” reads the lawsuit. “Defendants used child pornography depicting Spencer as an essential element of a record promotion scheme commonly utilized in the music industry to get attention, wherein album covers posed children in a sexually provocative manner to gain notoriety, drive sales, and garner media attention, and critical reviews.”
As a result, the lawsuit contends that Elden “has suffered and will continue to suffer lifelong damages.”
Elden’s parents were paid $200 for the photo, but never signed a release authorizing its use, according to the lawsuit. In past interviews, Elden has expressed mixed feelings over the photo but had never described it as pornographic, according to Variety, while regularly celebrating its existence. Not only does he have a “Nevermind” tattoo emblazoned across his chest, he’s also recreated the pose on several occasions (always wearing a swimsuit) to mark the album’s major anniversaries.
When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be Whisper words of wisdom, let it be And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree There will be an answer, let it be For though they may be parted, there is still a chance that they will see There will be an answer, let it be Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be There will be an answer, let it be Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be Whisper words of wisdom, let it be Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be Whisper words of wisdom, let it be, be And when the night is cloudy there is still a light that shines on me Shinin' until tomorrow, let it be I wake up to the sound of music, Mother Mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be And let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be Whisper words of wisdom, let it be And let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be Whisper words of wisdom, let it be
Songwriters: Paul McCartney / John Lennon
Paul McCartney — Blüthner piano John Lennon — bass Billy Preston — Fender Rhodes electric piano George Harrison — guitar Ringo Starr — drums
У технологической биржи NASDAQ новое требование: любые компании, торгующиеся на ней, обязаны иметь в совете директоров представителей ЛГБТ или небинарной ориентации.
Это касается "Яндекса", "Озона", МТС и целого ряда других российских компаний.
Plano ISD approves temporary mask mandate, with exceptions, at emergency meeting
Tensions were high as parents and community members pushed for and against face coverings.
Masks will be temporarily required inside Plano schools, trustees voted Monday after a tense emergency board meeting.
Plano ISD’s mask mandate will begin Thursday and last until Sept. 24 -- or until there’s movement in the ongoing legal battles between local governments and Gov. Greg Abbott, who issued an executive order banning mask mandates.
The trustees’ decision allows for exceptions to the mask mandate, including for medical or philosophical reasons. The 6-1 vote came after several hours of discussions with legal counsel in closed session and passionate pleas from parents during public comment.
“We are in a surge situation that we can not ignore,” board president David Stolle said before the vote.
School districts across the state held meetings Monday where families came to speak out on mask mandates, both imploring officials to reinstate them and begging leaders to keep them optional.
Several districts -- including Dallas and Richardson -- are defying Abbott by requiring masks in school, as a spike of COVID-19 cases driven by the highly contagious delta variant coincides with the start of the new school year.
Roughly 90 parents and community members testified during Plano’s emergency meeting before trustees went into closed session.
Even before the Plano meeting began, tensions were high. People in support of a mask mandate stood on one side of the building, imploring families to follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance that recommends universal masking in schools. They said it was necessary to keep all children safe, especially those too young to receive the vaccine. More than half of public school students are under 12 years old.
“Protect our kids until they can be vaccinated,” said Julie Jennings, the mother of an immunocompromised 5-year-old and a 9-year-old.
On the other side, parents chanted, “What do we want? Choice,” and shouted that families should be able to make their own decisions about whether children wear masks to school.
Meghan Vecchio said her sons were miserable last year when they had to wear masks each day. One of her children “cried every Sunday night before returning to school,” she said, urging the board to follow Abbott’s order and leave the choice up to parents.
One man mocked those who were pro-mask, jeering at them for not standing six-feet apart while outdoors. Others said they couldn’t hear their points from under a mask, while another jokingly suggested a woman wear three masks. Those who wanted a mask mandate were called “sheep.”
Plano parents will have to fill out an online form explaining why they want a mask exception for either medical, religious or philosophical reasons.
As the Rev. Kayla Coffee-Prose watched the meeting unfold, it amazed her “the different worlds we occupy.” Speakers on both sides of the issue held up data they argued would back up their argument.
“We’re split,” Coffee-Prose said, “we’re just so split.”
She said her congregation also struggled with what to do about mask mandates. She knows not everyone is in agreement that they should be required. But her 10-year-old daughter can’t get vaccinated yet and she needs to be in school.
“Public health measures require us all to work together. This is more than personal responsibility or individual choice,” Coffee-Prose said. “We are all part of the same community. We are responsible to one another. We have to put the well-being of the community first, and in this case, that means requiring masks.”
Still, Dawn Smith, the mother of a Plano high schooler, said it’s important to respect families’ sense of choice.
“It goes beyond a mask mandate,” she said. “It goes to: It’s our kids, and we have to decide what’s best for them.
School boards across Texas are at the center of a bitter and highly politicized fight over mask mandates. Attorney General Ken Paxton has pledged to sue the school districts who move ahead with requiring masks.
In Southlake, parents crowded the Carroll ISD meeting Monday night. During the public comment portion of their meeting, some speakers said it sent the wrong message to students for the district to flout the governor’s orders and that masks hurt their children’s educational experience.
But healthcare workers also stood up to tell stories of crowded hospitals and rising case counts, encouraging the trustees to bring back masks in line with public health guidance.
Supporters of mask mandates line up waiting to enter the Carroll ISD school board meeting on Monday, Aug. 23, 2021, in Southlake, Texas. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News)(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)
Coppell ISD trustees discussed the governor’s order in closed session for less than an hour before preparing to listen to dozens of speakers who signed up to discuss the issue. But the board had no plans to address the district’s stance on mask policies at Monday’s meeting, board president Nichole Bentley clarified.
Coppell does not currently require masks. In a recent email to parents, Superintendent Brad Hunt said he believes in the freedom to choose about masks.
In Plano, the new mandate is contingent on further guidance “as a result of ongoing state and federal litigation or legislative action.” It’s also possible the Legislature takes up the issue during its special session.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins is locked in a legal fight with the state over his decision to impose a local mask mandate for businesses and schools. Though the Texas Supreme Court temporarily restricted his order, Jenkins amended it to remove penalties for businesses.
Collin County Judge Chris Hill said he has no plans to issue an order requiring masks.
A Travis County judge issued a separate order that temporarily blocks Abbott from prohibiting mask mandates in public schools, which some districts are using as the legal basis for continuing to enforce their own mask mandate. The Texas Supreme Court has kept it in place for now.
The Texas Education Agency’s most recent health guidance for schools notes that the ban on mask mandates is not being enforced because of an ongoing legal battle.
Jenna Royal, a lawyer representing families suing over the governor’s mandate, said because of recent court action, Plano trustees’ hands are “no longer tied” by Abbott.
The Plano school district has recorded more than 200 COVID-19 cases among students and staff as of Friday, with dozens more over the weekend. The first day of school was Aug. 11. More students have tested positive so far this year than during the district’s previous peak.
More than 50,000 students enrolled in Plano schools last year.
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Водители, которые по контракту доставляют посылки Amazon по территории США, придумали новый способ получать больше заказов: для этого они развешивают телефоны на деревьях.
Подобно Uber, сервис Amazon Flex позволяет владельцам машин развозить грузы на собственных автомобилях. Диспетчерская система Amazon определяет, какие водители ближе всего к точке подбора посылки и направляет уведомления на телефоны их владельцев. На фоне вирусной самоизоляции конкуренция за такие заказы идет весьма ожесточенная и посылки разбирают очень быстро. Поэтому преимущество достается водителям, которые могут мгновенно ответить на вызов или находятся ближе других к точке получения груза.
И здесь на сцене появляются телефоны на деревьях. Водители вешают смартфоны вблизи популярных магазинов с доставкой еды и станций выдачи Amazon. Затем они синхронизируют собственный аппарат с этими телефонами и ждут заказа. Диспетчерская система Amazon определяет, что «телефоны на деревьях» находятся совсем рядом к точке получения груза и направляет на них уведомления. Это позволяет предприимчивым водителям принять такой заказ раньше конкурентов.
Это не первый случай, когда водители автомобилей находят путь в обход правил доставки Amazon. В электронном письме, попавшем в распоряжение издания Bloomberg, говорится, что Amazon намерен предпринять расследование в отношении этой схемы, но не станет делиться его результатами с водителями.
Главный техногений современности Илон Бендерович Маск представил своё новейшее детище. Это гуманоидный робот. Естественно, он будет самым умным, самым обучаемым, самым безопасным, и ещё тысячу всяких "самым".
На профильных сайтах и в группах вроде Атео уже ковровая яэкуляция со сладострастным стоном. Как же, очередной рывок в будущее.
Мы хотели вначале спросить, когда поедет гиперлуп, как там поживает Тесла–трак, сколько новых станций Тесла–метро построили за прошедший год, насколько удешевились запуски на орбиту и каково количество миллионеров, пассивно разбогатевших на заблаговременно купленных пауэрволлах.
Но зачем? Понятно, что мы тупая вата и просто завидуем
China has passed a new data protection law, according to the country’s Xinhua state media outlet. The newly enacted Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) lays out a comprehensive set of rules around how companies collect, process and protect user data. Like GDPR, the law enshrines data minimization, the practice of limiting data collection to only the information needed for a specific purpose. It also mandates companies give users control over how their personal information is used. For instance, they’re allowed to opt out of targeted advertising.
Per Reuters, another requirement put forward by PIPL is that companies designate someone who is personally responsible for user data protection. Platforms must also submit themselves to periodic audits to ensure compliance. Any foreign company operating in the country that handles the data of Chinese citizens must comply with those same rules, making the law extraterritorial in much the same way that GDPR is.
PIPL comes as China has worked to rein in its tech giants. The company recently sued Tencent over WeChat’s “youth mode,” alleging the feature violates laws protecting children. What’s more, the country recently implemented new anti-monopoly measures aimed at companies like Alibaba, Didi and Tencent. PIPL is slated to go into effect on November 1st.
Премьер РФ Михаил Мишустин, находясь с визитом в Казахстане, прозрачно намекнул властям страны, что не надо делать из Казахстана вторую Украину.
Казахстан разделён по языковому вопросу
Так же, как и Украина, Казахстан разделён по языковому вопросу. По данным Агентства по делам государственной службы Казахстана, 56,9% государственных услуг (70 услуг, оказываемых всеми государственными органами и Государственной корпорацией "Правительство для граждан") в Казахстане в 2020 году были оказаны на русском языке.
Русский язык при получении госуслуг преобладал в девяти регионах из 17, включая обе столицы. Казахским языком при обращении в госорганы воспользовались 43,1% граждан, сообщает energyprom.kz.
При этом в региональном аспекте русский преобладал в северных, восточных и центральных регионах страны, а казахский - в южных и западных (исключение - Западно-Казахстанская область).
В число регионов, где русский язык при получении госуслуг занимал львиную долю, вошли:
Северо-Казахстанская область - на русском разговаривают 91,5% взрослого населения,
Суд Алма-Аты признал русофила и общественника Ермека Тайчибекова виновным в разжигании межнациональной розни и осудил на семь лет максимальной безопасности (строгого режима).
Об этом "ПолитНавигатору" сообщил брат осужденного - Марлен Тайчибеков.
По его словам, адвокаты до последнего были уверены, что их подзащитному будет вынесен оправдательный приговор, поскольку натянутое обвинение разваливалось на глазах. Напомним, что политического узника обвиняли в разжигании межнациональной розни на основании интервью российскому порталу "Украина.ру", где он критиковал казахстанские власти за выдавливание русских из страны, а также израильскому Iton.TV, где он рассказал как те потворствовали погромам дунган.
"Мой брат, который защищал людей, которых громили по национальному признаку, будет сидеть, а погромщики, убивавшие людей, отсидев в СИЗО, сейчас на свободе, пьют пиво, радуются, - сказал Тайчибеков. - Где справедливость в этом мире? В Казахстане ее точно нет. Одна надежда на Россию".
Приговор русофилу вынес судья Данияр Сембаев.
При этом в ходе вчерашнего визита премьер-министра Михаила Мишустина в Казахстан вопросы Ермека Тайчибекова, а также так называемых "языковых патрулей", участники которых привязываются к местным русским, не говорящим на казахском языке, публично не поднимались.
Ермек Тайчибеков - последовательный пророссийский общественный деятель и правозащитник Казахстана. Выступает за возрождение единой страны в форме Российской империи или СССР, подал в парламент Казахстана собравшую 200 тысяч подписей петицию о придании русскому языку статуса государственного (на сегодняшний день за русским языком в Казахстане закреплен статус официального языка).
Называет тех казахов, что выступают против интеграции с Россией "сепаратистами", напоминает, что русские дали казахам цивилизационные основы и помогли им состояться как нации, считает Казахстан неотъемлемой частью России, поддерживает ЛНР и ДНР.
Имеет финансовое образование, работал в банках, вел бизнес. В ноябре 2015 года был арестован, а в декабре того же года осужден на четыре года по обвинению в "разжигании межнациональной розни".
Тайчибекова пытались признать невменяемым, но экспертиза показала, что он дееспособен и психически адекватен. Через два года вышел по УДО.
Комитет финансового мониторинга Министерства финансов и Генеральная прокуратура Республики Казахстан наложили на Тайчибекова пожизненные санкции: ему запрещено заниматься предпринимательской деятельностью, работать в госструктурах, официально получать материальную помощь.
Имущество активиста было конфисковано и изъято в счёт государства, он находится в "черном списке" банков Казахстана, в регистрирующих органах, как лицо, финансирующие международный терроризм (поддержка ЛДНР).
После освобождения разочаровался во внешней политике России и сконцентрировался на консультационной защите прав русского населения Казахстана и борьбой с коррупцией и произволом органов власти в отношении своих соплеменников.
В сентябре прошлого года Ермек Тайчибеков был арестован в Алма-Ате за активность в соцсетях, интервью российскому порталу Украина.ру и израильскому телеканалу ITON TV.
One of the millions of college students forced to study at home due to the pandemic, this photographer returned to a state of childhood play—this time swapping imaginary games for images.
There’s something surreal about the fact that Emily Allen photographs reflections, and here I am, another Emily, profiling her. In an earlier project Echos, Emily (the photographer—not me, the other Emily writing about her) captures tree branches, cityscapes, flowers, and people reflected in glass, water, or mirrors. She’s described these reflections as “echoes of our surroundings, allowing us to glimpse into a world slightly different than our own.” In so many ways, this is how I think of photography. We, the viewers, look at an image and recognize something while at the same time seeing a world that isn’t entirely ours.
In Thin Places, Allen’s most recent project, she captures her childhood home and the surrounding area during the pandemic. It’s a scene that feels so familiar now after many months of staying home. Will we ever look at photographs of interior spaces or emptiness and not be reminded of sheltering in place? Yet, that’s the trick photography plays on the viewer. It’s difficult to look at an image and not attach our own story to it, not to see some version of ourselves reflected back. And that’s not to say attaching one’s own experience to images is wrong in any way. I find this to be the magic of photography; it has the ability to create empathy. But there are many ways of looking, and Thin Places, while relatable, also allows viewers to glimpse Allen’s world—one both real and made up.
Allen began this project early in 2020 after being sent home from college in the middle of the semester. Like so many students at that time, she adjusted to virtual classes and quarantine routines. She also had to adjust to a home she hadn’t lived in for two years. Returning to the house she grew up in was like being “transported back,” she says, “to a time when my sister and I would spend our days constructing imaginary worlds. A time when the real world was beyond our grasp.”
This time, with the world beyond their grasp in a very different sense, Allen and her sister created images instead of imaginary games. The sisters set up shots together and discussed ideas. “This project felt a little like one of our games,” she explains. Knowing this detail allows some of the images in the project to feel slightly playful. In Untitled, Portrait of my great grandmother and her sister we see a framed photo of two girls staring directly at us in a way that Allen and her sister never do. Their faces are always slightly obscured, turned away, or hidden in the shadow of a scrap of lace, but here we get to look dead on at something that is not unlike a reflection of the current-day sisters—accentuated by the literal reflection we see in the image. The glass framing the portrait catches the glow of an overhead lamp and frames what is presumably Allen’s tripod squarely in the body of one of the sisters.
Water and reflection are elements that run through all of Allen’s projects. In a self-portrait taken for Thin Places, Allen placed herself in front of various glasses of water, and her sister prompted her to dip her hand into the nearest vase. The photographer’s face looks back at us from various angles, trapped inside each vessel. When asked if any of the images in Thin Places directly reference memories or games she and her sister shared as children, Allen explains she didn’t purposefully frame the shots to allude to a memory but sometimes, looking back on the project, she can connect a couple of the photographs to something from their youth.
This self-portrait reminds her of a game she and her sister constructed as kids. The point of the game was to navigate their way through their home relying only on a hand mirror pointed up to reflect the ceiling. “We would run around the house this way avoiding the obstacles on the ceiling,” Allen recalls. “We sometimes ended up running into walls or tripping down the stairs, but eventually we became so accustomed to being aware of both the ceiling and the floor that we could successfully traverse the house on the ceiling.” Hearing this, I can’t help but think about how the photographer has been studying different ways of looking at things since she was a child. Even in her own home, a space that can often blur with familiarity, she discovers new ways of tripping—of being surprised by what she thought she knew.
In a way, this childhood game plays out in her current work. She often focuses her lens in the opposite direction of the busy world and in doing so, reflects it. “Nine times out of ten you’ll find me photographing a little flower on the side of the road instead of the bustling city scene,” Allen tells me. She often shoots with both large apertures and tighter frames, leading her images to hone in on something and erase everything else. She’s also meticulous about focusing, so being at home, a place where she could take her time “without the pressure of eyes”, gave her all the more space to fixate on what she wanted her viewers to see.
This is one of the things Allen appreciates about photography. “You can play with reality and the imaginary.” She thinks about the assumption that images are real, the way viewers give so much of their trust to photography because the thing they are looking at—the thing in the photograph—actually exists. Using this assumption, Allen looks for ways of carving out her own space in the assumed ‘real-ness’ of images. “Artists take the world and transform it somehow, they make it about something. It’s fascinating to me to see how photographers transform the world using only the world itself,” she says.
Allen never seems to take this for granted. In images like Untitled, Childhood bedroom we get to gaze at a room full of things that were left behind and then returned to. Or maybe it’s her sister’s room. Or maybe it’s not even a bedroom, but she has made it into one. Whatever the ‘real’ identity of this room is, the one Allen gives it is nostalgic and fleeting. A teddy bear rests at the foot of the unmade bed, a precariously placed guitar appears to have just been set down. Everything in the sun-filled space feels recently touched, like someone’s breath might still be hanging in the air. And yet the paper cranes hanging from the ceiling by string that catches the light are perfect in their stillness. It’s a bedroom just as full as it is empty. When I asked Allen about what was on her mind when working through this project, she said, “I’m thinking a lot about how things change without me being there.” Being back with her sister, back in her old home, she noticed how “even though everything was changing, suddenly everything was the same again”.
Thin Places cartwheels through these themes of absence, change, and return in every image. I found it easy to attach myself to these themes, like the images were sticky in their relatability. Here was Allen’s view from her driveway, but in my head I also conjured up my own childhood driveway, layering it onto what I was looking at as a way of trying to get closer. The intimacy of her focus makes you want to curl up, to fill the vacated spaces she captures. Or maybe just add another reflection to all the mirrors and shadows being cast. And this reminds me of something Allen told me. Looking back at Thin Places, she described the images more as pieces of herself than still lifes or portraits. “I felt like a visitor in my own past. I think the images of hands and shadows were my attempt to insert my present self into this past that I couldn’t quite reach.”
Editor’s note: Thin Places was a jurors’ pick in our HOME International Photography Prize 2021. For new discoveries, check out all the other winners, jurors’ picks and finalists here.
Потрясающий артефакт купил сегодня в немецком магазине. Литва усиленно борется с советским прошлым: переписывает историю, сносит памятники, запрещает русский язык.
Но люди все равно хотят покупать мороженное, которое называется "СОВЕТСКОЕ".
Senators Ed Markey (D-MA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) have asked new Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan to investigate Tesla’s marketing of its advanced driver assistance system, Autopilot. The Senators are particularly concerned with how Tesla has been charging customers thousands of dollars for what it refers to as “Full Self-Driving capability,” despite the fact that buying that package does not make the company’s cars fully autonomous.
“Tesla’s marketing has repeatedly overstated the capabilities of its vehicles, and these statements increasingly pose a threat to motorists and other users of the road,” the senators wrote in a letter published Wednesday. “Accordingly, we urge you to open an investigation into potentially deceptive and unfair practices in Tesla’s advertising and marketing of its driving automation systems and take appropriate enforcement action to ensure the safety of all drivers on the road.”
The letter comes as the Biden administration has been steadily increasing the scrutiny of tech companies. Much of that focus to date has been through the lens of antitrust policy — especially at the FTC under Khan — but Tesla has drawn some heat as well. Earlier this week, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced an investigation into Autopilot’s tendency to crash into parked emergency vehicles.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has spent years claiming that his company’s cars were on the verge of being able to drive themselves without any human intervention, though that functionality has never arrived. In 2015, he said fully autonomous Teslas were just two years away. In 2016, Tesla announced that all its new cars had the hardware required to accomplish this, and that the company just needed a little more time to dial in the software. That turned out to not be true, as Tesla has since created a new computer that these older cars would need.
At the same time, Tesla started offering customers a “Full Self-Driving” option when they bought their cars, essentially asking them to prepay for one day having a fully autonomous car. In exchange, these owners would get more advanced capabilities than what is offered in the standard Autopilot suite as Tesla developed them.
Since then, Tesla has continued to charge money for the “Full Self-Driving” option — the price currently stands at $10,000 if you buy it when you buy one of the company’s cars, though Tesla also recently started selling “subscriptions” to the Full Self-Driving package if owners want it after purchase. The company is explicit on its website that the option does not make its cars fully autonomous, though as of writing it still promises the functionality will be available by year’s end.
Even then, Musk now says a “feature-complete” version of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software is defined as the car being able to drive someone from home to work “most likely without interventions,” which does not describe a fully autonomous vehicle.
Tesla has been beta testing this more “feature-complete” version of the Full Self-Driving software for months now, with a few thousand owners in the program running the software on roads across the country. Many of these owners have filmed their experiences with the software, which gets updated every few weeks or months. The results are a mixed bag; for every intervention-free video of a Tesla gliding through a cityscape, there’s another where the car refuses to take a left turn or dives toward oncoming traffic.
Musk’s many claims, as well as the beta, and a video released in 2019 showing an early version of the Full Self-Driving software navigating roads in the San Francisco Bay Area make up the bulk of what the Senators cite in their letter. They also say Tesla has been misleading in its advertising of Autopilot and Full Self-Driving — though the company doesn’t engage in traditional advertising.
“We fear that Tesla’s Autopilot and FSD features are not as mature and reliable as the company pitches to the public,” the Senators wrote. “Tesla drivers listen to these claims and believe their vehicles are equipped to drive themselves – with potentially deadly consequences.”
Safety advocates and other regulators have long pushed for more scrutiny over the way Tesla treats its driver assistance technology. In early 2020, the National Transportation Board found that the design of Autopilot and overconfidence in its abilities were what led to a fatal crash in Mountain View, California. Musk has even admitted that drivers can get too complacent when using Tesla’s driver assistance features. But for years, he’s only allowed a passive form of driver monitoring when Autopilot is engaged.
Charging thousands of dollars for a feature that doesn’t wholly exist while also beta testing it in the real world, after spending years of moving the target for creating an autonomous car, is certainly still causing confusion like the kind that once made Musk step back from the Full Self-Driving option. In Wednesday’s letter, Markey and Blumenthal mistakenly say that the Full Self-Driving beta software is now available to “all Tesla owners” through a subscription. That promise, like many others Musk has made, has not yet been fulfilled.
Афганистан немедленно вернулся в своё равновесное состояние без единого выстрела. Армия не только не сражалась с талибами, она сама была талибами. Это показывает, что нельзя перепрыгнуть из 14–го века в 21–ый. Немного раньше, то же произошло с Чехией, Польшей, а потом с Прибалтийскими странами — они мгновенно стали европейскими государствами, как только русские ушли. Западная Германия в 45–м стала нормальной страной, с умными инженерами и умелыми рабочими, какой она и была до Гитлера, а в Италии продолжался привычный и милый ей бардак. Других примеров масса, возьмите тот же Иран. Внешний толчок может подтолкнуть страну к естественному положению устойчивого равновесия, но само это положение определяется ментальностью населения, а она, в свою очередь, историей и географией.
Россия сейчас возвращается к мягкой форме сталинского террора, когда нельзя говорить что думаешь, и лучше вообще не думать. А то посадят. Могут и без этого посадить, если не повезет. Нужно любить главного отравителя, а то отравят. Нужно ненавидеть весь мир, особенно соседей, издеваться над ними и мечтать их убивать, это называется патриотизм. Нужно гордиться пушками, ракетами, танками и другими орудиями убийства, хотя произвести хороший холодильник или автомобиль страна не в состоянии. Во многом, такое положение напоминает также крепостное рабство (люби своего природного барина) и логику империй 18–го века (Гром победы раздавайся). Возможно, что это естественное равновесное положение России сегодня.
Равновесия тоже меняются, но не быстро. Единица измерения — поколение. Как правило, люди цементируют свои позиции до 30 лет, а следующие 30–40 лет их реализуют. Поэтому никакие революции сами по себе не развивают страну.
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