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A forklift you say?

I don't understand exactly how these tires work, but having wheels with integrated rollers so that you can move sideways is a pretty old idea, see for example this forklift (video from 2006!).

Autoland has been around since the 1960s. Clear to Land

You're thinking about the old Google cars. Google changed direction more than a year ago to self-driving cars with no traditional driver controls.

https://www.google.com/selfdri...

Maybe there's a panic button in there for you to hammer on if the car is heading for a cliff, but there's certainly no steering wheel. One stated reason why Google changed the project scope is that it is unreasonable to expect a human operator to remain attentive when they aren't really driving the car.

TED talk about the project:

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

When you see videos such as this one, you can't help but think that the system seems to have other defects.

Apple are moral monsters... in more ways than just this one, something to keep in mind, especially considering so many of the high minded sjw types are Apple brand loyalists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Although in this particular case it is unclear whether the driver was actually watching a DVD at the moment of the crash, it is pretty obvious that an assisted driving technology that can handle 95% of the driving situations will make users confident enough to be distracted when operating the vehicle, no matter how many warnings and disclaimers are shown telling users they need to pay attention all the time in case they have to gain control to handle the remaining 5% of the traffic situations. This is clearly explained in this TED talk by the head of Google driverless car program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (this particular issue is discussed around 4:10, although the whole video is worth watching). This is why Google approach to self driving cars is to release their product when the system is able to handle 100% of the driving situations and never require the user to take control in contrast to the Tesla approach of releasing a system than can handle most situations and make incremental improvements over time.

So apple went from think different to this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

THE NEW APPLE: Think Monolithic
Here is to the trendy ones
The hipsters
The corporate lawyers
The sandbox ecosystem, all doing what they are told
The ones who think monolithically. The ones who in the name of fashion, do what they are told.
You can trope them. You can parrot them. Or, just go along with them
The one thing you can't do is, ignore them
Because they are the new power
While some may see them as the progressive ones, we know different
Because they are the ones who now limit the world, and you had better go with the flow.
THINK MONOLITHIC

I miss Apple.

For the British, consent is as simple as tea (According to Thames Valley Police): https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I can't even imagine trying to do that.

Nor can I... nonetheless I have a little letter on my license that says otherwise. :p

Check out Australian road trains...

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

You laugh, but David Mitchell made a point on one of his soap box youtubes about durable goods on a subscription model might yield better quality than the model we have now. The exact example he used was a table I think (or possible a chair, either way link below).

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

Murders Spies And Voting Lies: The Clint Curtis Story is an incredible documentary which tells the story of a computer programmer who was contacted by a private company' with ties to convicted Chinese spies, to write a program that could be used to rig elections...what follows is the breaking of a massive conspiracy in which there would be hard evidence of vote manipulation via electronic voting machines-whether using Curtis's program or the twenty year old bootloader hack which, as show by students at Princeton University, could be loaded onto any of these machines in less than a minute; the sketchy firing of two employees-one being Curtis himself- from the Florida Dept of Transportation; corrupt ties to leading members of Diebold-one of two companies responsible for vote counting in the US; and a dead Florida DOT investigator- Raymond Lemme RIP- who was privately investigating the claims made by Curtis...who conveniently committed suicide in Georgia, where autopsies are not done on suicide victims, as opposed to Florida where an autopsy would have been automatic. What really happened in 2000 to Al Gore and Ohio & Florida, and again in 2004.....now you can finally know the truth, and it ain't pretty!

...planning to bring together data scientists, technologists, researchers and private sector collaborators in a Technology and Research Consortium to identify technology solutions and support DDJ communities.

As though their very presence will somehow bestow Grace upon the project.

We're seeing technology, and the application of big data and software algorithms in particular, becoming a kind of secular religious ceremony for governments and big corporations. Where once departments and managers would ask their local preacher/padre/rabbi to invoke the blessings of God on their latest pork-barrel endevour, we now have cadres of turtlenecked Valley geeks arriving with tablets, power-points slides and enough buzzwords to fill out page in a transparent effort to invoke the "awesome power of Big Tech" to bestow -- in the increasingly jaded eyes of the public -- scientific or technocratic legitimacy to, what emerges on closer inspection, a decidedly 19th century institution with decidedly 19th century problems.

You can't fix overcrowded jails with software algorithm. You can at best "optimize" their current capacity, which excess in turn will swiftly be used up by the same processes that caused overcapacity in the first place. You will then have gone from 20th century overcrowding in an 19th century institution, to Just-in-Time, razor tight margined, burnout generating, critically-phased complex system, always one hiccup from failure 21st century overcrowding in a 19th century institution. You will also have paid probably the cost of of small airport on the salaries and pension funds of the "private" contractors who developed it.

You can only fix crowded jails by
1) Building more jails or,
2) Jailing less people, or
3) some combination of the above
Anything else is a Digital Age, Cloud Based, Synergistically Integrated, Disruptively Innovative Technological Solution Program to kick the can down the road.

"You are a True Believer, Blessings of the State..."

Not so much for cars, more intended for bicicle riders. They are even called 'fietsen vangers' or 'bicicle catcher' in Belgium.
And no, from what I have seen in the US, they are not mandatory.

But yes, they increase visability and safety for not that much of a price. here a Side Underguard Crash Test

This is going to be great! Trailer for Star Wreck: Imperial Edition

Actually I only dance with myself. No words needed.

India has the highest rates of women in tech.

The most egalitarian countries have the lowest women in tech rates.

US is average on social policies so has average rates of women in stem by world ranking.

The logical conclusion is that given a choice, women won't work for STEM because they prefer other jobs, but on less developed economies STEM is better paid that other jobs so more women choose it. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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

My opinion is that Tesla's self-driving system is not nearly as safe as they claim. One doesn't have to look very hard to find videos like this one where the driver has to react to prevent the auto-pilot from causing a crash. I question how long, realistically, a production Tesla can stay on the highway before a human needs to intercede to prevent an accident.

Given enough time, and enough lawsuits, I think that Tesla will shut off their self-driving feature. It needs to be a lot robust than it current is. I can't say with any expertise, but it seems like their competitors are taking their autonomous vehicle research far more seriously with plans to install a more sophisticated sensor package on their cars.

This pretty much explains it.

A C64 does it better.

" it will strike fear in the heart of NRA supporters."

Colion Noir begs to differ

Yeah but distorting reality is not just about money with people, it's about power and ideology. I used ot think like you- I thought the consultations of disinterested experts would yield the best policy results. But look at what's happened in academia. There you have a petri dish of what can happen when experts are left to rule themselves. What do we have? We have a system which attacks real experts for wearing the wrong shirt at a press conference,

http://nypost.com/2014/11/17/t...

http://www.nationalreview.com/...

the systematic silencing of scientific facts and researchers by a determined minority of "Stepford Students":

http://quillette.com/2015/03/2...

who can't even grasp the basics of logical consistent thought

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

and a "ruling class' of administrators who are either outright sympathetic to the minority of zealots or too cucky to attempt to stop them.

That is literally what academia has in fact produced in the way of an ordering principle for their own subculture, their society-in-a-petri-dish.

Do you really want ot export that to the larger society.,

That's not right either. This is how it really happened.

praised Somalia for its lack of a central government

Citation needed.

Surely you could have found a better link to support your point.

Why? Because ad hominem is now a valid argument?

The article I linked to — by Thomas DiLorenzo — was written in 1996 and has been cited by economists quite often since then.

Surely you could have come up with a better rebuttal.

You're best to take John Oliver as just as biased and worth of the, "take with a pinch of salt" approach as you would Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck. I can't get to the site of this guy's video but if you go to about 5:25 he makes note of some CDC statistics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Again, can't get to his website that's listed in the description (which should have citations) so I'm not sure which CDC research he's referencing. Agree/disagree with the video as a whole, that's not my point in linking it.

They have a press conference too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Ha. I assumed that https://sharethesafety.org/ was actually a real NRA site. It's not.

You can find the parody video here.

The video uses the NRA logo and [what appears to be] the Smith and Wesson logo, and there's absolutely no clue that it's a parody. It seems completely legit, as if those two organizations made a serious promo video.

I'm a big fan of fair use in all it's varied forms, but I think this is a really good case of "impersonation", and is easily viewed as slanderous or libellous.

On a related note, before everyone posts the cherry-picked, not-the-whole-story statistics, does anyone have any good studies and/or statistics about gun ownership?

A good statistic would be one that relates chance of death by all causes to gun ownership, and compares to similar areas with similar social structure.

In other words, saying "owning guns increases your chance of an accidental shooting" might still be statistically good if it lowers your chance of dying from all causes (like not having money for medicine because you got robbed), or comparing America with the UK (because the UK has good health care while the US has almost none).

Anyone have any, you know, actually good statistics?

(We're the smart people in the room. People expect us to distil the good info from the bad.)

A shame the NRA can't deal with being sliced into like this.

Watch the video. It starts off like a great parody but at the end, it asserts that it's sponsored by the NRA and Smith and Wesson and says that a gun is going to be donated (0:50). I think that is what set them off.

I think if they skipped that, this wouldn't have happened.

Then again, look at all the buzz they're getting. I bet the video hits a few million views by the end of the day and makes a Comedy Central show.

Holy shit, the video doesn't just claim to be supported by the organization; it contains zero hint that it's a parody, at all. It looks very authentic, and it's on Youtube with a very non-parody title. Seeing this video, examining it frame-by-frame, and studying the quality and the transcript, I would say it's authentic.

here

Then what is the due process for the USA's "terrorist watchlist"?? Thinking there is any due process for ANY of these types of list is a fantasy.

And the answer is: No due process As an aside, I find it incredible that the LGBT community constantly votes for Democrat politicians that scream for secret lists that can be used to take away constitutional rights. My god, if any group should fear that, it should be the LGBT community.Let's do away with civil rights

Ignore him. He's that guy.

"Picasso had a saying -- 'good artists copy; great artists steal' -- and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."

- Steve Jobs, 1996

"Do you have a fucking point?" - Apolph Hitler, 1984

[...] you stupid english speaking bastards!

Don't you mean Hanglish?

No. I don't. What the fuck is wrong with you?

The system is the fastest of its kind ... 60 terabits per second

Wouldn't that be the largest, the widest, or the broadest, or something like that? I'm guessing the latency for the distance isn't any lower than most other connections "of its kind", i.e.fiber optic, AKA light through fibers. Pretty sure light through the same material type generally travels the same speed.

I mean, we don't call this the "fastest" dump truck in the world because it hauls a larger payload a similar speed as other dump trucks.

[...] you stupid english speaking bastards!

Don't you mean Hanglish?

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

How does $2k USD strike you?

http://www.jetcatusa.com/rc-tu...

example in use:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

my post isn't really a new or novel idea:
http://www.interestingprojects...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It occurred to me that you could adapt the airframe and application from cruise missile (the blog post), to ultra-low cost, man-deployable SAM.

A 350mph SAM isn't going to go very high, or chase down aircraft that have flown past. It won't work like a big expensive fixed SAM installation.

The current US application of airpower is flying low, slow, over and over, in repeatable patterns, because total air superiority is assumed.

And so if you watch US airpower fly over your burnt-out city, and then you see them turning to make another pass, you pull out your low-buck SAM, get it fired up, and, when the aircraft has heading back towards you, you fire at it, head on, from a field or building rooftop or whatever.

A 350mph object coming straight at an aircraft that is used to assuming air space dominance, and which is giving off no radar emissions, is going to catch at least a few super-power aircraft off guard and take them down.

This only needs to succeed once or twice. That will cause a significant change in the use of theater air-power..

I think you are underestimating how devastating invalid parking tickets can be. I like John Oliver's take https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Or, those fucking wankers at Microsoft could just take $300 off the Shitface and admit that the woozy piece of crap is way overpriced.

At $1,499 to $3,199 it's significantly more than a whiz-bang laptop or a nicely outfitted Android tablet with some add-on goodies.

And the best part is that you don't have to prance around the office like a hipster with brain damage to use it, either.

Typically such "oh no I must choose which object hit" scenarios occur when the car is driving recklessly or the driver is inattentive, neither of which should apply to non-hacked self-driving cars.

Yeah, no. People stumble suddenly into the road. Pets dash across, as do children. Wild animals can arrive in-the-way faster than you'd believe possible if you haven't actually experienced it. Even really big ones.

The car won't be inattentive, and so it's a fair assumption that it should be able to do better than we would, but it isn't going to be able to avoid everything. At times, choices will have to be made.

Frankly, my position is "save the occupants of the car", because in the case of humans, we can tell then to stay the fuck out of the road and maintain positive control of their damned crotch-blossoms, and they should do so. If not, it's on them, and in the case of animals, much as I love them and feel that we should be their stewards and not their butchers and murderers, I still lean (barely) towards "save the occupants of the car first."

Of course, I also think we ought to make any roadway that carries traffic above 25 mph impossible for bicyclists, pedestrians, pets and wild animals to access, but Those In Power have decided that the number of lives lost to such open access is, in the final analysis, acceptable, as compared to the costs of making it happen. So I'm back to "save the occupants of the car first."

Hopefully we'll have our flying cars soon and creatures can walk the land without fear of such hurtling dangers. There's this fabulous thing, for instance.

I'm sure he never saw the 1987 Knowledge Navigator video either...

Yeah, that "Concept" video just about takes care of EVERY computing advancement up through the middle of the 21st Century...

https://youtu.be/lb8fWUUXeKM?t...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Depends on whether you think its funny when some moron straps rockets to his car to see if he can go fast and spins around out of control like a fire cracker and dies.

People were warned and people are being stupid. People at high levels are playing chicken with a freight train. Consequences are coming down the track for people not taking the issues seriously.

Instead AI would be designed to serve whatever the creators of it desire.

Now, look at who has the resources to create "society controlling" AI. Big businesses, Government? If we are not willingly giving control of our lives to those entities, why would we do so to an AI created by one?

A Microsoft CEO wants to control society and expects people to accept it? Let's ask another famous Ai what he thinks about that, Lt. Commander Data. Yeah, I thought so.

You cannot permit it! You dare not, at all.
Accepting that outrage on all else may fall!

Complete poem: http://www.barnasrett.no/Dikt/...
Translation in subtitles in youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
(Disclaimer: Yes, he was a communist. No, I am not.)

Considering that Silicon Valley almost certainly came up with it to begin with. She always stay on script. Sigh

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

"Picasso had a saying -- 'good artists copy; great artists steal' -- and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."

- Steve Jobs, 1996

Or a trump snake one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...