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Been done before but the Ford setup is much more convincing.

Don't know about that. Toyota's was pretty good.

Did you attend the last GUADEC?

The desktop was perfectly usable two decades ago.

GNOME devs felt the same way, until the Sun Microsystems conducted the usability study of GNOME in 2000. It was not useable, it was a confusing mess. Who do you think the GNOME people are going to believe, some AC on slashdot or actual usability studies? If you in particular prefer different desktop environment, good for you, there are others out there.

Only 5 year olds are impressed by whirring, popping up, animated things.

A rather informative presentation on this subject was given in GUADEC by Jakub Steiner, about how animations improve usability.

As for the rest of your rant. I hope you find another desktop that fits your needs. Why you want other people to fail, if they don't serve you for free, is beyond me.

Where does the dividing line come?

Here in the US most of our roadways were designed around cars. Even in older cities, the pre-automobile streets tend to be wider than their counterparts in older, say European cities. That's what drives our mania for large cars that simply would be impractical in many countries.

Japan has a lot of ancient roadways that are extremely narrow and sometimes windy. This has prompted the evolution of motor vehicles that seem amusingly tiny to American eyes, but are in fact the only practical solution in many cases for getting a motorized vehicle where it has to go.

If you want a bus that will reach rural elderly people on the other side of a bridge that was built just wide enough to accomodate a tractor, it's got to be a very small bus -- more the size that Americans would consider normal for a car, and not maybe not even a large car at that. But it is a bus in that it plays the role of a bus.

Japanese engineers seem to be more willing to think outside the box when it comes to system concepts; or perhaps Japanese consumers are more open-minded than American consumers. It's not just that they're good at miniaturization; they're also good at making ridiculously large things. Size is something that culturally speaking they're more at home playing with.

You are the kind of fanboi being mocked.

r1 was okay

No, it really wasn't.

Kyle Katarn retrieved the plans for the Death Star, not some little girl and her group of karate experts who can kill armoured stormtroopers with a fucking stick.

You are the kind of fanboi being mocked.

r1 was okay

No, it really wasn't.

Kyle Katarn retrieved the plans for the Death Star, not some little girl and her group of karate experts who can kill armoured stormtroopers with a fucking stick.

You are the kind of fanboi being mocked.

r1 was okay

No, it really wasn't.

Kyle Katarn retrieved the plans for the Death Star, not some little girl and her group of karate experts who can kill armoured stormtroopers with a fucking stick.

You are the kind of fanboi being mocked.

r1 was okay

No, it really wasn't.

Kyle Katarn retrieved the plans for the Death Star, not some little girl and her group of karate experts who can kill armoured stormtroopers with a fucking stick.

My question is... where does the First Amendment end and overt bribery begin?

Speech alone inherently cannot be bribery.

As it stands now, the CU verdict has pretty much put any electable seat in the country up for sale.

No, it really hasn't. There have been many elections since CU that put this notion completely to rest. During Colorado's state senatorial recall election, John Morse outspent his opponent 11 to 1, and still lost anyways. Hillary's campaign + superpacs outspent Trump's by 6 to 1, and look how that turned out.

But most importantly, remember Larry Lessig's Mayday PAC? I remember myself saying that it's not going to work here on slashdot, and he and his contributors found this out the hard way: The only politicians his PAC supported that got elected were already likely to win anyways without his help, and all of the rest of them lost.

In other words, advertising dollars only go so far to win elections, but if your candidate is less popular than their opponent, then all of the money in the world won't change a thing.

Or, do we just want to say that the invisible hand will take care of all this, as we ride down the lassez faire ideology into another Great Depression?

Actually the economy wasn't at all laissez-faire before the great depression. In fact, after the stock market crash, the economy began to recover until the government tried to "fix" the situation by adding tariffs, and that's where things really went wrong. Thomas Sowell describes it quite well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Bana Alabed is a seven-year-old Syrian Girl. She's also a pawn in the propaganda war. CNN manufactured a story of a seven-year-old Syrian girl asking America to liberate Syria from its tyrant president. Problem is, she doesn't understand English, so her CNN interview is implausible.

https://www.youtube.com/result...

The VW trailer assist video was pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

... Trump does stupid shit?

Trump & Billy Bush lewd conversation about women Donald Trump On Tape: I Grab Women "By The Pussy” - YouTube

They tried with drive throughs (with an invisible driver):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Milton Friedman even said the Free Market Enterprise system is far from perfect and we should endeavor to make it better. He challenged critics to present a better system. To my knowledge, no one has ever done so.

Uhh... what do you call regulation?

There has always been some amount of regulation in free market economics, Milton Friedman even acknowledged this. Watch the video about the Ford Pinto. A liberal calls for the Ford Pinto to be recalled. Milton Friedman argues let the consumer decide whether they want to take the risk and that what's at issue is whether the producer adequately discloses all the information to allow the consumer to make an informed choice. Not doing so is fraud. If no consumers choose the product, the market has sorted out the problem. Having laws against things like fraud is a form of regulation. You'd like to think Libertarians are anarchists or support completely unregulated Capitalism but that's simply not true. That's just misinformation and demagoguery.

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Don't worry because the face recognition doesn't even work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Watch the videos that have been posted. Teslas frequently fail to avoid accidents that humans would not.

Fixed that for you.

What happens when people ignore the "please grab the wheel?"

Well, in one worst-case scenario something like this happens.

[...] NTSB said the truck driver and the Tesla driver "had at least 10 seconds to observe and respond to each other."

Slightly off-topic, this probably makes me a terrible person but after that last sentence I couldn't help picturing the encounter going down like this.

What happens when people ignore the "please grab the wheel?"

Well, in one worst-case scenario something like this happens.

[...] NTSB said the truck driver and the Tesla driver "had at least 10 seconds to observe and respond to each other."

Slightly off-topic, this probably makes me a terrible person but after that last sentence I couldn't help picturing the encounter going down like this.

Indeed, but interestingly large parts of textbook macroeconomics performed (and continue to perform) very well during the crisis. ISLM / ISMP style models have accurately predicted the behavior of economic actors of all different scales this past decade. Some economic programs had neglected these approaches for some time, while others had continued them, but moved them onto a more rigorous mathematical framework. (See for example Romer's treatment of ISMP).

IMHO any movement in economics towards empirical validation and towards more robust models (i.e. less overfitting) is for the better.

Umm... ;)

Throwing a bit of shit to the wind and possibly verging into troll territory here but my guess.. Americans just feel entitled to democracy. They've always had it and therefore they assume they always will have it and forget that its something they have to continually fight for, even if the "fight" is as simple as exercising their right to vote every couple of years.

As for two parties, check out this video. The guy has quite a few interesting videos on voting systems as well as a bunch of other topics, but that one gets into why the US system tends to naturally drive towards two parties (not just in the US of course -- other places use the same system and are or have trended toward two parties as well.)

I'll just stick with playing this for my kids every Christmas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"Read: Karl Marx good, Adam Smith Bad"

The real adam smith decried capitalism as we understand it, the real adam smith was considered a radical in his time. It's nice how you try to claim adam smith but adam smith was against the kind of massive abuses going on throughout the world.

The real adam smith

Exactly.

The "amateurs" are doing a MUCH better job then the paid shills. Who can forget:

* Mr Plinkett's Star Wars Phantom Menice review, and
* Cinema Sins

When the commentary is better then that crap that passes for movies you know there is a serious problem!

> There are awesome movies out there, but many of them are just as awesome at home on TV.

Just having control over the volume, drinks & snacks, and CC alone makes it worthwhile to stay home.

--
"Fuck Movie Theaters - they suck." -- Unknown Soldier 2017

Exactly.

The "amateurs" are doing a MUCH better job then the paid shills. Who can forget:

* Mr Plinkett's Star Wars Phantom Menice review, and
* Cinema Sins

When the commentary is better then that crap that passes for movies you know there is a serious problem!

> There are awesome movies out there, but many of them are just as awesome at home on TV.

Just having control over the volume, drinks & snacks, and CC alone makes it worthwhile to stay home.

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"Fuck Movie Theaters - they suck." -- Unknown Soldier 2017

The grammar nazis take over and Google spends all their time making sure 'that' is the correct place .
Actual example you may want to read https://developers.google.com/... .
The API picker lists the most common things you may want to do. (Bad)
The API picker lists the most common things that you may want to do.(Good)
College Humor video , Grammar is very important to Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Indeed. Hollywood loves to play the blame game. Why is it always ...

* Piracy
* Social Media and Internet review sites ... that are blamed for commercial "failures".

Here's a fucking radical idea:

* Stop remaking the same fucking movies (List of Film Remakes)
* Stop blowing your shitty movie budget on VFX (Gods of Egypt (2016)
* Stop insulting your audience's intelligence by doing dumb shit (Everything Wrong With Prometheus In 4 Minutes Or Less)
* Stop the mindless violence (Everything Wrong With John Wick Chapter 2) and grow the fuck up already.

Great movies I've seen this year, sorted alphabetically: (Yeah they are from last year, whatever)

* Branded
* Carrie Pilby
* Concussion
* Deadpool
* Dunkirk
* Manchester by the Sea (boring as fuck for the first hour, but gets good)
* Silence

Over-rated movies in 2016 but still enjoyable

* Arrival
* Doctor Strange
* Secret Life of Pets
* Zootopia

Indeed. Hollywood loves to play the blame game. Why is it always ...

* Piracy
* Social Media and Internet review sites ... that are blamed for commercial "failures".

Here's a fucking radical idea:

* Stop remaking the same fucking movies (List of Film Remakes)
* Stop blowing your shitty movie budget on VFX (Gods of Egypt (2016)
* Stop insulting your audience's intelligence by doing dumb shit (Everything Wrong With Prometheus In 4 Minutes Or Less)
* Stop the mindless violence (Everything Wrong With John Wick Chapter 2) and grow the fuck up already.

Great movies I've seen this year, sorted alphabetically: (Yeah they are from last year, whatever)

* Branded
* Carrie Pilby
* Concussion
* Deadpool
* Dunkirk
* Manchester by the Sea (boring as fuck for the first hour, but gets good)
* Silence

Over-rated movies in 2016 but still enjoyable

* Arrival
* Doctor Strange
* Secret Life of Pets
* Zootopia

SNL predicted this in 2005.

It appears that the Equifax Mobile app was launched in various countries starting in March 2017... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Mar 27 http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/n... June 2 http://www.cardtrak.com/data/9... June 13 https://blog.intelliquote.com/... Jul 11

You can't build integrity where it will be discarded at the earliest convenience. The issues you describe are not an issue caused by the machine, but an issue caused by it's operators. No amount of print outs or checksums, (inb4 blockchain) will save you if the hardware is compromised, or the person receiving or reporting the data is untrustworthy.

Go look at California, there were claims of voting precinct managers taking home the filled out voting cards / printouts / etc. after the election.* Hell, there were claims of the voting machines sitting at the manager's homes the night before the election. What makes you think ANY of that should be considered trustworthy?

As always we have a bunch of people trying to throw tech at a societal issue, in misguided hopes that tech will "fix" the problem for them, instead of actually fixing the problem. Yes, you don't want to fix the problem because it's harder to do, but fixing the problem requires much less complexity than throwing tech at it, and fixing the problem doesn't introduce a new "authoritative" point of failure to be abused by the real problem that tech does.

Of course we can't even agree to disagree on the fact that the problem exists in the first place, because there is still too many people blinded by the letter next to the person's name. So, this fixing this hasn't gone anywhere. I just hope people are paying attention to what happens when they choose to not fix issues, because otherwise this country won't be around much longer to justify worrying about it.

*WARNING: As the video is political in nature, children who are triggered by it should go watch PBS instead.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Where did I blame the hurricane on the media? Where?

Seriously? Re-read what you wrote in one of your sentences:

Do you watch the media, or just read web sites that talk about it? They are bunch of whores. It's no wonder so many people stay behind.

So what you are telling me is that if people die because they stay behind, it is the media's fault. After all if the media wasn't those bunch of whores, people would believe them. But since they are, people are willing to die for their beliefs.

Look, I get it. you have need for a hate target, and you do not want at all to hear see or read about anything that does not fit with your world view.

And just for your other question, I get my news from NPR, BBC, NBC, ABC, RT, MSNBC and Breitbart.

You see, this is going to sound strange to you, but there is so much "news" in the world that any organization that presents news is going to have a bias, by simply choosing what to report in it's limited time and space to report it. Some of these sites and stations are obviously liberal, some conservative.

I get my weather from NOAA, Accuweather, and TWC, but mostly NOAA.

But what do you think about the Governor of Florida Rick Scott, who has been on the television frequently telling people to Get out? https://www.youtube.com/result... Is he a media whore? Or should he stand at a podium in an empty room and exercise his right to free speech, but in your utopia where people get tired of him ( as a whore of the media) they just stay there and die for their hatred of the media?

And how long was it before the Hurricane was politicized? One second? Half a second?

I well and truly don't give a damn Scarlett! If someone wants to blame the hurricane on Trump, or if someone wants to claim that gawd is punishing America for legalizing gay marriage, it's all just kooks to me. Trump, or Obama, or even gawd didn't cause the hurricane, it is weather. I do not allow kooks to determine my outlook or reaction unless one is threatening me with bodily harm.

How long before it was "Oh here comes Trumps Katrina?"

Once again, I have not a care to give. As noted before, there are kooks in this world. And one skates on terribly thin ice when listening to them. Because when we listen to them, we become kooks ourselves.

How long before the global warming questions were raised? One quarter of a second?

Once again, the idea in any sort of disaster is for safety people to keep people safe. It is possible that people might over react. It's also possible that the people who rescue people that are near their death might die themselves. But when you get a big hurricane, there might not be enough people to rescue people who need it. It was a big hurricane, covered the whole state, and you make the almost unbelievably irrational claim that people would stay there and that death as an acceptable outcome - because of "the media".

A very close family member lost their house in Harvey and barely got out with their lives.

And my sister who lives near Fort Meyers lost her place. What's your point? She listened to "the media" and bugged out. She's insured, and her and her pets are fine.

Fuck off. You're an internet ass of the worst sort.

Oh yes. I know myself. And I'm an asshole. If I might proffer some advice though, you might try not allowing others to dictate you you think and act. I don't. That is a big part of what makes me an asshole in many people's eyes. Once others can activate a core of hatred in a person, they can get you to act in ways that are counterproductive to your best interests. And when you think it is understandable that the media can somehow legitimately cause people to stay and very possibly die because of "the media", which is telling them - along with their governor - to leave, your core of hatred has been well and truly activated, and probably is in an advanced state. And you are being controlled by others. Have a nice weekend.

Protect your Precious Bodily Fluids, dude.

Now you can have a Jesus booth from THX 1138 in real life. It can read your facial expression and ask you "What's Wrong?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If you really want to see how much some people want cookies, you need to see Little Ol' Bosko and the Cannibals. Just remember, this was made back in the '30s, when people's attitudes were different, and don't be too quick to take offense.

Poor argument.

Listen to the other side: { joke }

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Poker has this interesting result, you can play perfectly, and still lose.

However, if you play perfectly, all the time, the times you lose won't matter nearly as much as the times you win.

That, and I really like this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The smartest robot in the world is still dumber than an amoeba. We have a long way to go before AI can replace people. AI is mostly well defined problems and pattern recognition. Even something as trivial as "unpacking and sorting a box" like in the summary is impossible for robots currently.

I agree with you on the home scale... on the industrial scale? Take a look at Amazon Robotics Challenge 2017 and compare them to Amazon Picking Challenge 2015 to see how rapid progress is. Odd assortment of about 30 things where half was revealed shortly before the test, winners can now pick up about 90% of them mostly through a combination of suction cups and grabbers. That's hard things, soft things, odd shapes, transparent items, items with holes etc. you can look at a screenshot here you can see they're not making it easy. Full video of runner-up here, couldn't find one of the winner. Note that it's at 4x speed, they had half an hour to sort the box.

And here's the thing, it doesn't have to be super fast or perfect to be useful for Amazon. They just have to flag goods as "auto-pickable" and you can start pre-loading boxes with those first and possibly fill some orders entirely. My guesstimate is that a human would maybe sort it in three minutes, if you're doing that all day long and include all the little breaks. Now the human works eight hours a day five days a week, the robot 24x7. I'd assume the person is working minimum wage, the cost estimates for the picker were around $25k. So it's doing about $15k*4.2 (working hours)*0.10 (productivity) = $6.3k worth of work each year, ~4 years for down payment.

Give it a few more years of R&D, five more years for industrialization and roll-out... I think it's a pretty generous guess for the humans when I think that almost nothing will be hand-picked in Amazon's warehouses by 2025. Don't also forget that they have such volume that if something turns out to be particularly troublesome they could probably get some kind of tweak to the packaging for the picker to grab onto, if they promise to buy a big bulk order manufacturers won't object too hard. This is exactly the type of job that's going to disappear, they're automating all the way around the human so they can be more efficient pickers but eventually there's nothing left to automate but the picking itself.

Home automation is so much harder because we do so little of each, there are experiments with robots chefs. But are they going to end up in an industrial kitchen serving hundreds of guests a day or your house cooking a few meals a day? It doesn't really make sense at home until it can do a little of a hundred different things. But hey, if they get autonomous cars going I expect I'll order out more...

"The wars of the future ... will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots."

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I work for one of those collection societies and this is exactly what is required (i even know exactly how this would work but is had major issues becuase of the record companies and the way they operate). The problem is that none of the major record companies can even begin to add suitable attribution information and pass that onto the collection societies (or tights metadata to the likes of Spotify), hell, they can't even get basic information correct half the time, even what the tracks are even called and you expect that the'll transition to a model that allows money to not even get paid to them (and subsequently kept by them due to bad rights management)...

OK, that sounds not-entirely-bad at first pass, but that doesn't sound like what's being talked about here.

From the article: The ripple effects go beyond money, too. Panay points to all the apps built on Twitter's API and says the flow of data within the music industry could encourage entrepreneurs to start new companies, developers to build new experiences, and musicians to get more creative with how they sample and produce music.

âoeYou can envision a world where any sound that's ever been createdâ"any guitar lick, any drum loop, any synth line, any vocalâ"is accounted for,â Panay says. âoeIf you have attribution to underlying contributors, you can imagine an explosion of creativity.â

We tried that in the 80s. We had an explosion of creativity - until the music industry shut everything down because the people actually creating music weren't paying to license their samples. One of those artists even wrote a song about it.

Music - not just rap/R&B, but the whole sample-heavy dance/megamix scene - changed pretty radically as a result. The explosion of creativity was snuffed out until underground/bootleg DJs said "Fuck it," and ushered in the era of the mashup around 20 years later.

As a music fan, I love the idea of having an API or standardized format for this stuff, because it would beat the hell out of having to manually trawl through whosampled.com and hope that the crowdsourced folks got it right.

But as an equally fervent music fan, I fear that the push towards full attribution -- a world in which "any guitar lick, any drum loop, any synth line, any vocalâ"is accounted for -- is going to be a world without its next Vanilla Ice or Public Enemy. You cannot have explosions of creativity when, to extend the analogy to the written word, I've just paid $0.02 to the Wired author, and $0.01 to Beerklee because its VP of Innovation and Strategy, Panos A. Panay, said "explosions of creativity" on behalf of his employer and got quoted in Wired.

No disrespect to Ted Nelson's other work, but we've tried that approach of making sure every creator gets a little micropayment every time someone clicks on a link in hypertext: the reason few people have heard of Project Xanadu is because it was a failure in 1960, a failure in 1980, a failure in 2000, and will be a failure in 2020.

Moore's Law is very much about energy use. In fact, the ability to decrease transistor size is directly tied to the ability to control the energy these transistors consume.

Moore's Law is about the economics of increasing integration. If we had some way to make silicon area cheaper, which has happened on a small scale, then we could duplicate Moore's Law with increasingly large integrated circuits without decreasing transistor size. Moore's Law is not even about performance which was reduced during some process generations.

In recent fabrication generations for integrated circuits, power has become important because it limits transistor density. Above a certain power per area, removing heat becomes uneconomical. So again, it is about the price per transistor.

ISSCC 2016: William M. Holt, Moore's Law: A Path Forward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

.. with no supporting facts. Important things like how long can you "fly" a device that weighs 100 mg? How do you control the device with even a 3 mph wind?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/rise-insect-drones#page-2

Aryans From Space!

You need the skull, or at least the front half of it, to form the 'facial tissue' over the bone structure.

If you're going to cut their face off, better just to behead them. Plus, there's a long tradition behind beheading, whereas 'Steal Your Face' wasn't released until 1976.

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For.

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