Also, the UPS cargo 747-44AF/SCD had inadequate cockpit/cargo air-handling separation, fire suppression, cargo-cockpit/airframe firewalling, lacked EVAS, isolated oxygen supplies and didn't have per-cargo-container fire detection and suppression.
Whaaa? Isn't this what Tilera and Tabula were chasing? Maybe they were too early and/or didn't have the momentum to drive the industry? It does seem like an inevitable technological evolution direction, however compilers, debuggers and so on will need to optimize for an almost entirely new set of constraints.
The thing with using FPGA's in systems (they're great for low-volume, high-priced items where ASICs would be too costly) is they end up just emulating logic which could be more cheaply implemented as actual execution units (as many modern FPGA's things like cache, ROM, ALUs, etc.). That is, it's expensive flexibility that isn't really all that useful. Sure you could reconfigure a "computer" from doing database things to suddenly add more GPU cores to play games, but how useful or power/cost efficient would that be? Sure it's nice to cut down on ASICs and upgrading them after the fact, but it seems like more like category development than offering practical advantages to solve a real problem. Maybe a super-fast HPC-on-a-chip would be possible, but I don't see that we're storage or compute constrained, however we maybe bandwidth and latency constrained in terms of shrinking clusters to a single rack of ridiculously power-hungry reprogrammable chips.
Instead of infinitely customizable, arbitrary logic, you might have a crap-ton of simplified RISC cores with some memory and lots of interconnected bandwidth or something in-between FPGA and MPPA.
Bring in Robert Reich and Thom Hartman, because the article is yet another piece of low-quality, establishment propaganda aimed at making people feel good about being systematically cheated and glad to incur externalities the rich shift onto everyone else. Furthermore, most new wealth is hyperconcentrating at the very top in a highly unmeritocratic, corrupt fashion, due to advances in technology and the insider-political complex which is able to self-reinforce favorable economic polices at the expense of everyone else, while the middle- and lower-class subsidize the rich with corporate and estate welfare approximately 6x more so than actual welfare. Granted that most jobs and labor can/are being greatly disrupted by technology, people are being freed up to do basically nothing while gains of efficiency aren't being adequately shared to ensure shared survival... there simply isn't enough work to go around any longer while at the same time there is also a massive imbalance in wealth accumulation. I think only a basic guaranteed income, either offered to all citizens voluntarily by the rich or more likely by the state, is one of only a couple of irreducible ways to redistribute money to ensure a minimal standard of living.
(I think the important takeaway isn't what form of government or alternative system might better, but the overwhelming inherent dangers of mob rule. Millions of gullible people wanting something terrible doesn't transmute the morality of genocide.)
It's not so black-and-white as you try to oversimplify a myriad of issues and legalities. It depends. If the man stayed at a reasonable distance, presented ID, approached calmly and slowly and said he needed to check the health of the prisoner because he is both a doctor and required to render aid under Duty to Rescue, and then waited for permission or made his intentions clear if denied, things might've happened differently. Regardless, that jurisdiction is likely to be out a few million to settle this matter and this guy will be slightly richer.
“Citizens may resist unlawful arrest to the point of taking an arresting officer's life if necessary.” Plummer v. State, 136 Ind. 306. This premise was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case: John Bad Elk v. U.S., 177 U.S. 529. The Court stated: “Where the officer is killed in the course of the disorder which naturally accompanies an attempted arrest that is resisted, the law looks with very different eyes upon the transaction, when the officer had the right to make the arrest, from what it does if the officer had no right. What may be murder in the first case might be nothing more than manslaughter in the other, or the facts might show that no offense had been committed.”
“An arrest made with a defective warrant, or one issued without affidavit, or one that fails to allege a crime is within jurisdiction, and one who is being arrested, may resist arrest and break away. lf the arresting officer is killed by one who is so resisting, the killing will be no more than an involuntary manslaughter.” Housh v. People, 75 111. 491; reaffirmed and quoted in State v. Leach, 7 Conn. 452; State v. Gleason, 32 Kan. 245; Ballard v. State, 43 Ohio 349; State v Rousseau, 241 P. 2d 447; State v. Spaulding, 34 Minn. 3621.
“When a person, being without fault, is in a place where he has a right to be, is violently assaulted, he may, without retreating, repel by force, and if, in the reasonable exercise of his right of self defense, his assailant is killed, he is justified.” Runyan v. State, 57 Ind. 80; Miller v. State, 74 Ind. 1.
“These principles apply as well to an officer attempting to make an arrest, who abuses his authority and transcends the bounds thereof by the use of unnecessary force and violence, as they do to a private individual who unlawfully uses such force and violence.” Jones v. State, 26 Tex. App. I; Beaverts v. State, 4 Tex. App. 1 75; Skidmore v. State, 43 Tex. 93, 903.
Fuck Yelp and their extortion tactics. Some "engineering PR" cannot make up for their complete lack of integrity, even if corrupt judiciary happens to legitimize it (judges, DAs are also beholden to campaign donors as well).
Also, the UPS cargo 747-44AF/SCD had inadequate cockpit/cargo air-handling separation, fire suppression, cargo-cockpit/airframe firewalling, lacked EVAS, isolated oxygen supplies and didn't have per-cargo-container fire detection and suppression.