First they take 1984 and treat it like a user manual and now they are attempting to go full on minority report pre-crime? It's getting harder and harder to just laugh off that dystopian future.
Apple has had non-user replaceable batteries since the original iPhone (almost 10 years now) and they haven't lost a billion in valuation due to that.
iPhones have had battery recalls. Moreover many iPhones, pods and pads have suffered unusually short battery lifetimes. My kids had two iPod touch 5th generation both purchased at the same Apple Store on the same day and both used nearly identically and charged on the same charger the same amount of time yet one battery failed within 6 months and the other is fine after two years. Apple has been lucky with fires and they did lose stock value over the issues with iPhone 5, just not a billion dollars like Samsung.
You are far too high up for a cell phone to work on a typical flight. Only during takeoff and landing would you be close enough to towers. Also if you are moving too fast that may cause issues as well.
It can't be that dangerous because fully 1/4 of people never shut off their phone and at least one in twenty is texting, updating Facebook, or straight up placing a call on take offs and landings. I fly a lot and it's amusing how low the level of compliance is.
I know it helps with water resistance ease of manufacturing, but when will phone manufacturers reconsider the whole non removable battery issue? Apple was a leading "innovator" of this, now it's being adopted industry wide and we are seeing losses exceeding a billion dollars of valuation. A user removable battery would streamline much of a recall process while adding safety to boot.
Now if only a lack of a USB card and headphone jack would start fires we may see some actual positive changes.
I'm pretty sure most readers here will agree medical devices in critical applications need to be regulated and tested to a high degree. But the system was never designed around devices with internet connectivity and other communication technology. There isn't even a realistic way to upgrade the security or install patches on these devices without repeating the entire certification process in most cases. The medical community needs to update thier security in some sane and reasonable way. I mean they were almost unable to get 21st century databases (still don't in many cases) the security on devices should be the next big area to be reformed.
You're simply not afraid of what you think you understand to be harmless
Fixed that for you. Most people are unduly afraid of many things they don't understand like gluten in foods (for people without celiac or an actual allergy). Most people also are terrible at risk assessment and minimizing risk; most everyone thinks actuarials are boring and serve a nearly pointless function. Reality is always what you believe it to be, it's a basic tautology. However when that perceived reality does not line up with what is actually real, something few people are taught since birth is extremely important, that's when the massive inadvertent harm really starts.
I had considered Johnson as a third party even though I'm not really a libertarian but he is so clueless on international matters and the practical side of the POTUS I just can't do it.
Not a Trump supporter but few large corporations pay lots of taxes. Many pay almost none sheltering themselves in shell corporations and oversea tax havens. But typical fashion the orange one made it about himself during the debate. If he was smart he would have spun it to something along the lines of "all smart large business owners pay no taxes and that's something I could reform better than anyone else". Anyine know if there is a 4th party canadate worth voting for? Because I cannot bring myself to vote for either of them.
Next step is to include a free wire so you don't lose those wireless earbuds.
This is Apple we're talking about. "Free"? Expect to pay $39.99 for a iWire, and have to put up with standing in line waiting for a Genius install it for you.
Of course, but that's for the Apple iwire. Though these third party wires don't provide nearly the same sound quality or social status, they are cheap.
I fly in my back yard all of time time. I'm well within shotgun range of 4 neighbors. Does that mean I'm automatically an asshole and automatically trying to get a peek at my neighbors daughters? Or is the possibility that I'm learning how to fly, in MY backyard, during reasonable hours? Why should I need to go get permission from my neighbor to fly a quad in my back yard?
What's wrong with the criminal process as it is today? If the neighbor thinks I am taking pictures of his daughter (whether from a quad, or from my deck using a camera with a nice zoom on it) he can call the police, and they can do their job. If I'm disturbing their peace (by flying my quad, using a chainsaw, or playing loud music) there are legal avenues for that too.
None of these situations need to involve shotguns or willful destruction of property. People taking the law into their hands is never a good thing.
Where in the thread is anyone saying you can't fly over your own property? If you fly your drone over their property and within a few tens of feet of people and dwelling windows yes your drone deserves a shotgun blast because you are being an asshole. No one is saying you can't do what you want on your own property as your straw man arguments suggest.
I'm not sure how you can argue it was not invading privacy when it was downed with a shotgun. The maximum effective range is around 75 yards and you can pretty much shoot at people 300 yards away and pose no danger (do not do this obviously). If the wreckage was examined you could know roughly how close it was to the shotgun without resorting to any telemetry from the drone captured prior to it being downed.
While the law may be somewhat incomplete, you are an asshole if you fly a drone close people or their dwelling on their property. Get permission from the property owner first, it seems to be the ease of use of drones and the entitled attitudes some few people have ruined it for everyone and make new laws necessary.
You'd think that, that many views would tell apple that people would like the headphone jack to remain. But I know they don't care. Hopefully other manufacturers will realize this and not remove it too. Regardless, I have no plans to get a new phone until my currently 2 generation old phone dies.
Yep just like how the non-removable battery didn't catch on. I mean how could a non-removable battery be a safety issue or cost a company billions in lost stock value?
Statistically insignificant. Tesla stats will only matter when tens of thousands, if not millions, of trips have been made under autopilot. Then compare accident rates. If Tesla turns out to be safer, it won't be because of AI, because we have no idea how humans drive in the first place. It will be because of image processing and predictive algorithms, combined with pre-ordained decision trees. And there may well be major unforeseen consequences, such as cascading failures and catastrophic feedback loop interactions between vehicles.
Apples to oranges - almost no one uses autopilot in the most adverse conditions where many If not most driving fatalities occur such as icy roads.
Funny but technically the tesla battery is probably the most advanced and capable electric vehicle battery on the market. It would most likely just heat the conductor you are shorting it with and have no internal issues.
It's not like a galaxy note 7.
Instead, this is a research exercise. Uber wants to learn and refine how self driving cars act in the real world. That includes how the cars react to passengers -- and how passengers react to them. "How do drivers in cars next to us react to us? How do passengers who get into the backseat who are experiencing our hardware and software fully experience it for the first time, and what does that really mean?" said Raffi Krikorian, director of Uber ATC.
From an actual customare review later this year:
Well the autonomous driver is pretty bad at giving people the traditional driving hand gestures, but actually quite good at recieving them. I wasn't sure how safe I was or who was actually driving with one guy huddled over the controls like a nervous wreck, but it did seem like whoever was driving was just learning the rules of the road so that, at least, felt familiar.
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Caffeine, the drug we give to children specifically to make them high, is the real gateway drug.
First they take 1984 and treat it like a user manual and now they are attempting to go full on minority report pre-crime? It's getting harder and harder to just laugh off that dystopian future.
Apple has had non-user replaceable batteries since the original iPhone (almost 10 years now) and they haven't lost a billion in valuation due to that.
iPhones have had battery recalls. Moreover many iPhones, pods and pads have suffered unusually short battery lifetimes. My kids had two iPod touch 5th generation both purchased at the same Apple Store on the same day and both used nearly identically and charged on the same charger the same amount of time yet one battery failed within 6 months and the other is fine after two years. Apple has been lucky with fires and they did lose stock value over the issues with iPhone 5, just not a billion dollars like Samsung.
You are far too high up for a cell phone to work on a typical flight. Only during takeoff and landing would you be close enough to towers. Also if you are moving too fast that may cause issues as well.
It can't be that dangerous because fully 1/4 of people never shut off their phone and at least one in twenty is texting, updating Facebook, or straight up placing a call on take offs and landings. I fly a lot and it's amusing how low the level of compliance is.
I know it helps with water resistance ease of manufacturing, but when will phone manufacturers reconsider the whole non removable battery issue? Apple was a leading "innovator" of this, now it's being adopted industry wide and we are seeing losses exceeding a billion dollars of valuation. A user removable battery would streamline much of a recall process while adding safety to boot.
Now if only a lack of a USB card and headphone jack would start fires we may see some actual positive changes.
I did cash in my Nutella isn't healthy for you class action settlement check because I was out of Nutella.
I'm pretty sure most readers here will agree medical devices in critical applications need to be regulated and tested to a high degree. But the system was never designed around devices with internet connectivity and other communication technology. There isn't even a realistic way to upgrade the security or install patches on these devices without repeating the entire certification process in most cases. The medical community needs to update thier security in some sane and reasonable way. I mean they were almost unable to get 21st century databases (still don't in many cases) the security on devices should be the next big area to be reformed.
You're simply not afraid of what you think you understand to be harmless
Fixed that for you. Most people are unduly afraid of many things they don't understand like gluten in foods (for people without celiac or an actual allergy). Most people also are terrible at risk assessment and minimizing risk; most everyone thinks actuarials are boring and serve a nearly pointless function. Reality is always what you believe it to be, it's a basic tautology. However when that perceived reality does not line up with what is actually real, something few people are taught since birth is extremely important, that's when the massive inadvertent harm really starts.
I had considered Johnson as a third party even though I'm not really a libertarian but he is so clueless on international matters and the practical side of the POTUS I just can't do it.
Read it as "the Microsoft brand is dead"? It was a letdown reading the rest of the story.
Not a Trump supporter but few large corporations pay lots of taxes. Many pay almost none sheltering themselves in shell corporations and oversea tax havens. But typical fashion the orange one made it about himself during the debate. If he was smart he would have spun it to something along the lines of "all smart large business owners pay no taxes and that's something I could reform better than anyone else". Anyine know if there is a 4th party canadate worth voting for? Because I cannot bring myself to vote for either of them.
If it was actually a meteorite impact. Now that would be funny.
Next step is to include a free wire so you don't lose those wireless earbuds.
This is Apple we're talking about. "Free"? Expect to pay $39.99 for a iWire, and have to put up with standing in line waiting for a Genius install it for you.
Of course, but that's for the Apple iwire. Though these third party wires don't provide nearly the same sound quality or social status, they are cheap.
Next step is to include a free wire so you don't lose those wireless earbuds.
It was going to be called e-coin. Should be released early May.
I fly in my back yard all of time time. I'm well within shotgun range of 4 neighbors. Does that mean I'm automatically an asshole and automatically trying to get a peek at my neighbors daughters? Or is the possibility that I'm learning how to fly, in MY backyard, during reasonable hours? Why should I need to go get permission from my neighbor to fly a quad in my back yard?
What's wrong with the criminal process as it is today? If the neighbor thinks I am taking pictures of his daughter (whether from a quad, or from my deck using a camera with a nice zoom on it) he can call the police, and they can do their job. If I'm disturbing their peace (by flying my quad, using a chainsaw, or playing loud music) there are legal avenues for that too.
None of these situations need to involve shotguns or willful destruction of property. People taking the law into their hands is never a good thing.
Where in the thread is anyone saying you can't fly over your own property? If you fly your drone over their property and within a few tens of feet of people and dwelling windows yes your drone deserves a shotgun blast because you are being an asshole. No one is saying you can't do what you want on your own property as your straw man arguments suggest.
I'm not sure how you can argue it was not invading privacy when it was downed with a shotgun. The maximum effective range is around 75 yards and you can pretty much shoot at people 300 yards away and pose no danger (do not do this obviously). If the wreckage was examined you could know roughly how close it was to the shotgun without resorting to any telemetry from the drone captured prior to it being downed.
While the law may be somewhat incomplete, you are an asshole if you fly a drone close people or their dwelling on their property. Get permission from the property owner first, it seems to be the ease of use of drones and the entitled attitudes some few people have ruined it for everyone and make new laws necessary.
You'd think that, that many views would tell apple that people would like the headphone jack to remain. But I know they don't care. Hopefully other manufacturers will realize this and not remove it too. Regardless, I have no plans to get a new phone until my currently 2 generation old phone dies.
Yep just like how the non-removable battery didn't catch on. I mean how could a non-removable battery be a safety issue or cost a company billions in lost stock value?
How did horses get ahold of a set of cymbols and how did they ever bang them together.
I think this is what they have in mind.
Statistically insignificant. Tesla stats will only matter when tens of thousands, if not millions, of trips have been made under autopilot. Then compare accident rates. If Tesla turns out to be safer, it won't be because of AI, because we have no idea how humans drive in the first place. It will be because of image processing and predictive algorithms, combined with pre-ordained decision trees. And there may well be major unforeseen consequences, such as cascading failures and catastrophic feedback loop interactions between vehicles.
Apples to oranges - almost no one uses autopilot in the most adverse conditions where many If not most driving fatalities occur such as icy roads.
Funny but technically the tesla battery is probably the most advanced and capable electric vehicle battery on the market. It would most likely just heat the conductor you are shorting it with and have no internal issues. It's not like a galaxy note 7.
It comes with free room and board, the orange suits are free too.
They detect obstacles in the middle of the road, regardless of their ability to comprehend signs.
One tesla owner who was watching Harry Potter on a portable DVD player instead of hovering over the controls is no longer around to disagree.
Instead, this is a research exercise. Uber wants to learn and refine how self driving cars act in the real world. That includes how the cars react to passengers -- and how passengers react to them. "How do drivers in cars next to us react to us? How do passengers who get into the backseat who are experiencing our hardware and software fully experience it for the first time, and what does that really mean?" said Raffi Krikorian, director of Uber ATC.
From an actual customare review later this year:
Well the autonomous driver is pretty bad at giving people the traditional driving hand gestures, but actually quite good at recieving them. I wasn't sure how safe I was or who was actually driving with one guy huddled over the controls like a nervous wreck, but it did seem like whoever was driving was just learning the rules of the road so that, at least, felt familiar.