You will have to pay for damage caused by your vehicle. Even if the car is driving itself. Autonomous cars won't be viable if the drivers aren't taking responsibility. There will probably be some kind of contact that you'll have to agree to when buying the car. Seems fair to me. If an autonomous car is ten times less likely to get in an accident than a human driver, then your cost for insurance would be way down and the insurance would pay for the accidents caused by the autonomous cars. Accidents caused by unpredictable circumstances as well as software bugs would be covered by insurance.
The first rule it should follow is the traffic law. It shouldn't be swerving into an occupied lane, and if the car in front of it isn't autonomous (your drunk driver car) then it should slow until it has adequate headway to stop without a collision.
1) It's not really for the sake of being "Green". I don't consider longer battery life on my phone to be a "green" attribute. 2) Digital calulations are already estimations (try storing 1/3 in a float). There really is a tolerable threshold, and it does vary by the application. Software engineers already need to understand, and accept this uncertainty. If you could hint to the compiler that you were interested in this Lat Lon coordinate to 8 decimal places, but you weren't interested in the intensity of this floating point image to more than 2 decimal places, then you could allow your processor to speed up, and be more efficient. Another way you could use a hint is that I don't care if 1% of these pixels are completely wrong.
Let them edit it throughout the semester, and then only give access to that site (hosted on a machine on a LAN, not connected to the internet). Then everyone would have the same information base, and they could search for information. You could even keep the information alive through semesters. Make sure it's read only during the test. And you can go through it quickly after writing the test to make sure no information is too helpful.
Even better, or also, you could host a stack exchange like service too, that people can record and exchange information for the projects they do during the semester. Teaching is the best way to learn, after all...
That's OK with me. When I go mountain camping, I don't want to get a phone call. There is a lot of BLM, National Forrest, and regional parks in that part of the US too. It's a lot of forest/mountains/desert if you ask me. I live in Denver, which has very good 3G/4G coverage.
I think most cells in the body are replaced on a regular basis. So are how old are you? By your standard, you are only a couple months old. Bodies are constantly copying cells, and if we could survive like the brooms in fantasia after being chopped into little bits, then I would say that's pretty close to asexual reproduction.
I'd add that this approach has two benefits.
1) You can fill your resume with applicable experience, and be able to answer the question "What were you doing the last six months?"
2) Meeting and working with other software engineers can make a big difference in finding a good job. It's not what you know, it's who you know (and what they think of you).
You might see the warned car beeping, but it might just do things you won't notice.
For example, in that two seconds where it thinks there might be a problem, it could increase the gain on the brakes, and reduce the gain on acceleration. So if you are accelerating towards a stopping vehicle, it will not accelerate as fast, and if you start to brake, it could brake harder. Alternatively, there could be subtle gains to be had as well. In a hybrid vehicle, it might prepare to regenerate the batteries, or if you are in cruise control it could change the speed. There are a lot of complicated things happening under the hood of a modern automobile, and you'd be surprised how little it could take in a lot of cases to reduce fatalities.
Both the examples of less stress involved the mice being less fearful. Wouldn't that make sense, in an evolution sense for the bacteria? Mice with less fear get eaten, by something that will then host the bacteria that reduce fear in their host, so that host will get eaten...
My common sense would say that if the user already gave up control of their PC to the botnet, why should they have any say in keeping the feds from removing the bot? The reason the feds are interesting is (I'm assuming) because the botnet caused harm to others. Just remove the bot, if there are consequences, and they know what they are, then it's their own fault.
But, the federal government is held to a higher standard aren't they?
They are worried about their information escaping, and their network being compromised. If you put the server somewhere else (or use a google calendar or similar), you would not need the network security hole, and you can access it from anywhere (iPhone, hospital computer, etc.) You just have to make sure no proprietary or confidential information ends up in that calendar.
I think they got it backwards, keeping a plant alive is only possible by people who are productive (hence my plant died, and I am posting to slashdot...)
Well, manufacturers often use screws to secure their IP inside the box you just bought. If you can manage to decrypt that security (I would suggest a brute force method, starting with lefty-loosy) then you are just going to get slapped with a DCMA lawsuit. That's why we really should just take our cars to the dealer to get our oil changed. If you do it yourself, you are just asking for trouble.
We are talking about a low powered, portable toy. Face tracking isn't likely to be part of the trick.
1) There's not enough processing to track the face. You could make it work, but I personally don't feel that it fits in with the pattern Nintendo's previous elegant design solutions.
2) The user will naturally keep their face in the 3D focus sweet spot. An HDTV is hard because people are spread across the room. But for Nintendo, the user is always in front of the screen, and they are always within arms reach.
3) You can use the inertial sensors to change the angle of the sweet spot. People are going to want to see around obstacles (and the game makers want to let them). But you can train users to keep their head in one spot, and roll the DS to see around obstacles. With that Parallax screen, you can adjust the sweet spot based on the amount of tilt of the DS.
Is it possible that California is making a big stink about this so they can please the environmentalists with a restriction, while also pushing people who might be interested into buying a new set today instead of 2012, thus pleasing republicans by not raising taxes and helping big business?
In my neighborhood (suburban Colorado) the houses were built in 1980, and there were no such requirements. The new code says any outlets within 6 feet need to have GFCI. I had to put them in my house, but they weren't required by law.
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You will have to pay for damage caused by your vehicle. Even if the car is driving itself. Autonomous cars won't be viable if the drivers aren't taking responsibility. There will probably be some kind of contact that you'll have to agree to when buying the car. Seems fair to me. If an autonomous car is ten times less likely to get in an accident than a human driver, then your cost for insurance would be way down and the insurance would pay for the accidents caused by the autonomous cars. Accidents caused by unpredictable circumstances as well as software bugs would be covered by insurance.
The first rule it should follow is the traffic law. It shouldn't be swerving into an occupied lane, and if the car in front of it isn't autonomous (your drunk driver car) then it should slow until it has adequate headway to stop without a collision.
1) It's not really for the sake of being "Green". I don't consider longer battery life on my phone to be a "green" attribute.
2) Digital calulations are already estimations (try storing 1/3 in a float). There really is a tolerable threshold, and it does vary by the application. Software engineers already need to understand, and accept this uncertainty. If you could hint to the compiler that you were interested in this Lat Lon coordinate to 8 decimal places, but you weren't interested in the intensity of this floating point image to more than 2 decimal places, then you could allow your processor to speed up, and be more efficient. Another way you could use a hint is that I don't care if 1% of these pixels are completely wrong.
I would like to go to a bar with friends without one of them suffering the fate of the designated driver.
On the other hand, if you have a problem with drunk dialing, imagine if you had a car that could drive you to your ex's house with a voice command...
Let them edit it throughout the semester, and then only give access to that site (hosted on a machine on a LAN, not connected to the internet). Then everyone would have the same information base, and they could search for information. You could even keep the information alive through semesters. Make sure it's read only during the test. And you can go through it quickly after writing the test to make sure no information is too helpful.
Even better, or also, you could host a stack exchange like service too, that people can record and exchange information for the projects they do during the semester. Teaching is the best way to learn, after all...
That's OK with me. When I go mountain camping, I don't want to get a phone call. There is a lot of BLM, National Forrest, and regional parks in that part of the US too. It's a lot of forest/mountains/desert if you ask me. I live in Denver, which has very good 3G/4G coverage.
I think most cells in the body are replaced on a regular basis. So are how old are you? By your standard, you are only a couple months old. Bodies are constantly copying cells, and if we could survive like the brooms in fantasia after being chopped into little bits, then I would say that's pretty close to asexual reproduction.
I'd add that this approach has two benefits.
1) You can fill your resume with applicable experience, and be able to answer the question "What were you doing the last six months?"
2) Meeting and working with other software engineers can make a big difference in finding a good job. It's not what you know, it's who you know (and what they think of you).
What's the difference?
Exactly, this is BS, IQ is a measure of how well someone learns, not how much they know. Full disclosure: I failed miserably.
They must be driven to the Hive mind of /.
Ironically, the people I know that like it most hate facebook, and consequently aren't used to using social media (myself included).
For example, in that two seconds where it thinks there might be a problem, it could increase the gain on the brakes, and reduce the gain on acceleration. So if you are accelerating towards a stopping vehicle, it will not accelerate as fast, and if you start to brake, it could brake harder. Alternatively, there could be subtle gains to be had as well. In a hybrid vehicle, it might prepare to regenerate the batteries, or if you are in cruise control it could change the speed. There are a lot of complicated things happening under the hood of a modern automobile, and you'd be surprised how little it could take in a lot of cases to reduce fatalities.
Both the examples of less stress involved the mice being less fearful. Wouldn't that make sense, in an evolution sense for the bacteria? Mice with less fear get eaten, by something that will then host the bacteria that reduce fear in their host, so that host will get eaten...
What's next? A Twisted Transistor?
But, the federal government is held to a higher standard aren't they?
I use a hammer and nail...
They are worried about their information escaping, and their network being compromised. If you put the server somewhere else (or use a google calendar or similar), you would not need the network security hole, and you can access it from anywhere (iPhone, hospital computer, etc.) You just have to make sure no proprietary or confidential information ends up in that calendar.
That's not quite the 1.21 GW needed...
I think they got it backwards, keeping a plant alive is only possible by people who are productive (hence my plant died, and I am posting to slashdot...)
Naw, we can just torrent the part specs from Car-PirateBay.com and get em for free.
You mean PirateGarage.com?
Well, manufacturers often use screws to secure their IP inside the box you just bought. If you can manage to decrypt that security (I would suggest a brute force method, starting with lefty-loosy) then you are just going to get slapped with a DCMA lawsuit. That's why we really should just take our cars to the dealer to get our oil changed. If you do it yourself, you are just asking for trouble.
We are talking about a low powered, portable toy. Face tracking isn't likely to be part of the trick.
1) There's not enough processing to track the face. You could make it work, but I personally don't feel that it fits in with the pattern Nintendo's previous elegant design solutions.
2) The user will naturally keep their face in the 3D focus sweet spot. An HDTV is hard because people are spread across the room. But for Nintendo, the user is always in front of the screen, and they are always within arms reach.
3) You can use the inertial sensors to change the angle of the sweet spot. People are going to want to see around obstacles (and the game makers want to let them). But you can train users to keep their head in one spot, and roll the DS to see around obstacles. With that Parallax screen, you can adjust the sweet spot based on the amount of tilt of the DS.
Is it possible that California is making a big stink about this so they can please the environmentalists with a restriction, while also pushing people who might be interested into buying a new set today instead of 2012, thus pleasing republicans by not raising taxes and helping big business?
In my neighborhood (suburban Colorado) the houses were built in 1980, and there were no such requirements. The new code says any outlets within 6 feet need to have GFCI. I had to put them in my house, but they weren't required by law.