Many people are brought up to blindly accept authority and facts without evidence or actually thinking it over for themselves. Facts are taught as subjective, with an emphasis that reality itself is subjective. This is problematic because it starts with their family at infancy.
Further, those who excel at education or in more extreme cases even participate are ostracized and in more severe cases physically beaten for the simple crime of thinking for themselves. It is considered "uncool" to be smart in many circles and further being violent and stupid are sought after qualities. Is it any wonder that these groups tend to have the worst track records with reality acceptance and actual societal productivity?
Sure everyone has an agenda but until all our youth are universally allowed and encouraged to fact find and think for themselves, it will be easy to pull the BS over their eyes and turn them into puppets.
That last few sentences were really inacceptable.
Could someone edit this?
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"Those last few sentences were really unacceptable".
FTFY. There will be no charge.
You, sir, have been banned for life as a slashdot editor. That's not the kind of quality we have come to expect nor the kind that has made slashdot famous.
Humans typically starving and suffering malnutrition most of the time for over a hundred thousand years, and before that our ancestor species back more than a billion years. Our appetite craves the sugar and fat that helped humans stave off death. Now with cheap, abundant, and tasty foods everywhere through technological advances we have to deal with whole populations being over fed. People actually complain food is too easy to consume like processed and fast foods. Many poor people eat better than kings just 1000 years ago.
I love it! There simply isn't a better time to be alive. Give me diabetes and obesity any day over dying at 12 from starvation. I, for one, am grateful to our new corpulent overlords.
India electric cars pollute CO2 at 20 mpg equivelant. I guess it would be good for particulates at street level, but electrics pollute greenhouse gasses 2-2.5x more than fuel efficient diesels or 2.5-3x more than hybrids. If they get off coal by 2030 it would be good, a terrible mistake otherwise.
> You go to school and college to prove you know something.
Which shows that, in your case, you should have stayed in your mom's basement and saved her a lot of money.
I, however, got to learn programming from Jerry Sussman, physiology from Jerry Lettvin, and Calculus from Bob Rose. Sussman was one of the authors of Scheme, Lettvin discovered how color vision really works, and Bob Rose was a co-author of the calculus text book we used. And you had better *believe* I learned a lot from those people, along with a lot from the students I got to study with and work. And I was expected to return that teaching, in spades, which I did. Class participation, tutoring with other students, and quite a lot of bleeding edge medical research after college paid off that hefty investment.
Hahaha. I founded an urban warfare robotics company and dropped out of college with only my masters degree to pursue it. The worst people we had in the robotics lab and at the company had straight A averages and were only concerned about grades. The best performing ones may have had an A average but all learned on their own time and had those interests outside of work or school.
The biggest mistake you can make in your education is to go to an institution to "learn something". You go to school and college to prove you know something. Learn on your own time through your own interests, it's far more valuable in terms of actual education. People that only learn in class and can't wait for it to be over, never learning or doing on their own, tend to be terrible at their jobs in any science and engineering field.
How is this outsourcing different from any other type of job? Might as well tell them to not bother with getting educated at all because "India". It makes about as much sense.
When they buy the phones hours before the attack it will be completely pointless. Yet another win for terrorists as this will likely prevent nothing related to terrorism whatsoever.
It throws Hispanics (who aren't white in the majority of Americans views) and native Americans under the bus. Both of those groups are treated just as badly by police, including being gunned down in cold blood. Further it throws poor white people under the bus as well, just because someone's skin color is white when they are needlessly gunned down and killed for no reason is not a reason to treat them as worthless.
While it is difficult, the article addresses information 10 years out of date. With enough computational power and progress in algorithms this will likely become less and less of an issue. Also it is trivial to cut away data you may not be interested in once you actually have some focus rather than treating it as a black box pre-crime device. An example is the phone data - while it may be impractical to speech to text every call over the last 14 years and use it to determine future attacks, having a pool of known terrorists and using the contact metadata going back that entire time may be extremely useful and very simple (by comparison) to piece together working relationships.
Many of these manufacturers plan on creating autonomous vehicles as well. Yet they DGAF about security, sometimes on this embarrassing of a level. I'm eager to see how that plays out, except perhaps for the inevitable deaths.
All of the above climate info in the op is extremely basic. I'm surprised you haven't seen any sources of this. And no the earth has never seen this rapid climate change except perhaps from extinction event impacts, basically the entire point of this article. I know, no one reads these.
In no way am I denying the effects of CO2 in the lower atmosphere or the effects on ocean acidity, those are simple and obvious science facts. However, what should ring some alarm bells in your head is the fact less money and energy has been spent on the entire history of climate research than a single year of the global shoe market or even a single year of a single popular sport. For a problem of this magnitude it is insane more effort has not been put forth, our whole species is insane.
What we critically need are better scientific instruments both in space and here on earth to vastly improve our data for the computer models. We need far far more bright and unfettered minds helping to work out what will likely happen on a regional basis. If you have been following the research for the last 20-30 years what is extremely disturbing is how many changes have been made as our understanding grows, it is my personal opinion the error bars are not well defined in the models which, while likely accurate for what mechanisms they do model, leave out too many variables to be very reliable regionally and that is where a major push has been lately. For the last 15 years I've been of the mindset it may actually be far far worse than predicted.
Further I see this as easily being an apocalypse worthy event for the simple reason it will shift sea levels a bit and play around with regional weather. What will happen if regions of the Middle East go from near 0% humidity (or quite low) to near saturation as some predict - what will happen to Iran or Pakistan if nearly the entire country is 120F and 100% humidity and no longer livable by humans? Will they roll over and take it or launch nukes in an attempt to claim new habitable land? This is exactly the kind of destabilization that will likely result in mass wars, perhaps even a World War III. The real risk of climate change is the change part, and while it's obvious there will be areas of the planet well suited to habitation and argiculture, those regions will change and humans are very very bad at accepting this without a fight.
In 2124, after the Florida government gives up on trying to remove several cities built atop tall stilts, Miami and many other low lying areas succeeded and formed our 53rd state. Everyone commutes on electric busses and barges and loves thier new sea homes. You can fish off your porch and the ocean is never more than a block away from everyone, not just the 1%.
F=ma so if a is small then F, the force from the robots, can also be small. With over inflated tires and a smooth flat surface the rolling friction F needs to overcome can be quite small. Even a small child could push a 3900lb vehicle under the right circumstances. It would be far more useful (and less impressive to the masses) if an actual figure of force was given, much less any other relevant information.
With all the talk of how it's impossible for a computer to have an accident and how terrible humans are at driving...
how safe would you feel in an autonomous vehicle that gets shut off by harsh weather conditions (like a snowstorm) or catastrophic loss of roadway and leaves you completely unable to even have a chance to navigate to safety?
Would you feel safe on roads occupied by autonomous vehilcles with malware and trojans installed in them?
How many years after mainstream driverless cars are developed will a hack cause more than one thousand simultaneous deaths?
Will autonomous vehicles allow suicide bombers to become repeat offenders?
How easy will it be to simply reprogram the autopilot and send it on a killing spree like running through a parade at 100mph or taking out a whole major interstate highway?
With greater technology comes greater ability to use it for good or ill. I for one am not convinced that autonomous cars are actually safer when you take all possible uses into account.
Trump is like a loose cannon on a ship. We don't know what direction he's going to fire in or what damage he'll do. The direction he's currently pointed in, however, is right at the hull of the ship and if he goes off in that direction he'll sink us all.
And yes, lots of other stuff in the Constitution is just a mess, especially the Electoral College bit. Face it, the document is archaic and needs to be replaced with something newer. It was a good try in the late 1700s when there weren't many other non-monarchy republics around, but other countries have had several centuries now to try out other stuff and they've found some better ways.
Then I suggest every eligible American to vote and cast a firm suggestion for president.
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Many people are brought up to blindly accept authority and facts without evidence or actually thinking it over for themselves. Facts are taught as subjective, with an emphasis that reality itself is subjective. This is problematic because it starts with their family at infancy.
Further, those who excel at education or in more extreme cases even participate are ostracized and in more severe cases physically beaten for the simple crime of thinking for themselves. It is considered "uncool" to be smart in many circles and further being violent and stupid are sought after qualities. Is it any wonder that these groups tend to have the worst track records with reality acceptance and actual societal productivity?
Sure everyone has an agenda but until all our youth are universally allowed and encouraged to fact find and think for themselves, it will be easy to pull the BS over their eyes and turn them into puppets.
That last few sentences were really inacceptable. Could someone edit this?
OK.
"Those last few sentences were really unacceptable".
FTFY. There will be no charge.
You, sir, have been banned for life as a slashdot editor. That's not the kind of quality we have come to expect nor the kind that has made slashdot famous.
Humans typically starving and suffering malnutrition most of the time for over a hundred thousand years, and before that our ancestor species back more than a billion years. Our appetite craves the sugar and fat that helped humans stave off death. Now with cheap, abundant, and tasty foods everywhere through technological advances we have to deal with whole populations being over fed. People actually complain food is too easy to consume like processed and fast foods. Many poor people eat better than kings just 1000 years ago.
I love it! There simply isn't a better time to be alive. Give me diabetes and obesity any day over dying at 12 from starvation. I, for one, am grateful to our new corpulent overlords.
India electric cars pollute CO2 at 20 mpg equivelant. I guess it would be good for particulates at street level, but electrics pollute greenhouse gasses 2-2.5x more than fuel efficient diesels or 2.5-3x more than hybrids. If they get off coal by 2030 it would be good, a terrible mistake otherwise.
> You go to school and college to prove you know something.
Which shows that, in your case, you should have stayed in your mom's basement and saved her a lot of money.
I, however, got to learn programming from Jerry Sussman, physiology from Jerry Lettvin, and Calculus from Bob Rose. Sussman was one of the authors of Scheme, Lettvin discovered how color vision really works, and Bob Rose was a co-author of the calculus text book we used. And you had better *believe* I learned a lot from those people, along with a lot from the students I got to study with and work. And I was expected to return that teaching, in spades, which I did. Class participation, tutoring with other students, and quite a lot of bleeding edge medical research after college paid off that hefty investment.
Hahaha. I founded an urban warfare robotics company and dropped out of college with only my masters degree to pursue it. The worst people we had in the robotics lab and at the company had straight A averages and were only concerned about grades. The best performing ones may have had an A average but all learned on their own time and had those interests outside of work or school.
The biggest mistake you can make in your education is to go to an institution to "learn something". You go to school and college to prove you know something. Learn on your own time through your own interests, it's far more valuable in terms of actual education. People that only learn in class and can't wait for it to be over, never learning or doing on their own, tend to be terrible at their jobs in any science and engineering field.
How is this outsourcing different from any other type of job? Might as well tell them to not bother with getting educated at all because "India". It makes about as much sense.
Nope they will ban 3-d printers, then only criminals will have them.
When they buy the phones hours before the attack it will be completely pointless. Yet another win for terrorists as this will likely prevent nothing related to terrorism whatsoever.
It throws Hispanics (who aren't white in the majority of Americans views) and native Americans under the bus. Both of those groups are treated just as badly by police, including being gunned down in cold blood. Further it throws poor white people under the bus as well, just because someone's skin color is white when they are needlessly gunned down and killed for no reason is not a reason to treat them as worthless.
having a pool of known terrorists
If we know who they are, why do we need all that data too?
To find many more of them, any private or corporate or state supporters, and all associated people including family.
While it is difficult, the article addresses information 10 years out of date. With enough computational power and progress in algorithms this will likely become less and less of an issue. Also it is trivial to cut away data you may not be interested in once you actually have some focus rather than treating it as a black box pre-crime device. An example is the phone data - while it may be impractical to speech to text every call over the last 14 years and use it to determine future attacks, having a pool of known terrorists and using the contact metadata going back that entire time may be extremely useful and very simple (by comparison) to piece together working relationships.
Web pages will take forever to load, not to mention my memory latency will shoot through the roof!
Many of these manufacturers plan on creating autonomous vehicles as well. Yet they DGAF about security, sometimes on this embarrassing of a level. I'm eager to see how that plays out, except perhaps for the inevitable deaths.
Pretty much every point is summed up here
All of the above climate info in the op is extremely basic. I'm surprised you haven't seen any sources of this. And no the earth has never seen this rapid climate change except perhaps from extinction event impacts, basically the entire point of this article. I know, no one reads these.
In no way am I denying the effects of CO2 in the lower atmosphere or the effects on ocean acidity, those are simple and obvious science facts. However, what should ring some alarm bells in your head is the fact less money and energy has been spent on the entire history of climate research than a single year of the global shoe market or even a single year of a single popular sport. For a problem of this magnitude it is insane more effort has not been put forth, our whole species is insane.
What we critically need are better scientific instruments both in space and here on earth to vastly improve our data for the computer models. We need far far more bright and unfettered minds helping to work out what will likely happen on a regional basis. If you have been following the research for the last 20-30 years what is extremely disturbing is how many changes have been made as our understanding grows, it is my personal opinion the error bars are not well defined in the models which, while likely accurate for what mechanisms they do model, leave out too many variables to be very reliable regionally and that is where a major push has been lately. For the last 15 years I've been of the mindset it may actually be far far worse than predicted.
Further I see this as easily being an apocalypse worthy event for the simple reason it will shift sea levels a bit and play around with regional weather. What will happen if regions of the Middle East go from near 0% humidity (or quite low) to near saturation as some predict - what will happen to Iran or Pakistan if nearly the entire country is 120F and 100% humidity and no longer livable by humans? Will they roll over and take it or launch nukes in an attempt to claim new habitable land? This is exactly the kind of destabilization that will likely result in mass wars, perhaps even a World War III. The real risk of climate change is the change part, and while it's obvious there will be areas of the planet well suited to habitation and argiculture, those regions will change and humans are very very bad at accepting this without a fight.
In 2124, after the Florida government gives up on trying to remove several cities built atop tall stilts, Miami and many other low lying areas succeeded and formed our 53rd state. Everyone commutes on electric busses and barges and loves thier new sea homes. You can fish off your porch and the ocean is never more than a block away from everyone, not just the 1%.
Now I have to worry about ninja kill bots in addition to the comming apocalypse.
There are 10 kinds of people who understand binary. Those who do and those who don't.
F=ma so if a is small then F, the force from the robots, can also be small. With over inflated tires and a smooth flat surface the rolling friction F needs to overcome can be quite small. Even a small child could push a 3900lb vehicle under the right circumstances. It would be far more useful (and less impressive to the masses) if an actual figure of force was given, much less any other relevant information.
With all the talk of how it's impossible for a computer to have an accident and how terrible humans are at driving...
how safe would you feel in an autonomous vehicle that gets shut off by harsh weather conditions (like a snowstorm) or catastrophic loss of roadway and leaves you completely unable to even have a chance to navigate to safety?
Would you feel safe on roads occupied by autonomous vehilcles with malware and trojans installed in them?
How many years after mainstream driverless cars are developed will a hack cause more than one thousand simultaneous deaths?
Will autonomous vehicles allow suicide bombers to become repeat offenders?
How easy will it be to simply reprogram the autopilot and send it on a killing spree like running through a parade at 100mph or taking out a whole major interstate highway?
With greater technology comes greater ability to use it for good or ill. I for one am not convinced that autonomous cars are actually safer when you take all possible uses into account.
They will bring back the wildly successful and hearlded "duck and cover" campaign.
Trump is like a loose cannon on a ship. We don't know what direction he's going to fire in or what damage he'll do. The direction he's currently pointed in, however, is right at the hull of the ship and if he goes off in that direction he'll sink us all.
You may want to have an escape plan by boat
I wouldn't hold my breath.
That's where you are going wrong. Next time hold your breath for at least a few seconds.
And yes, lots of other stuff in the Constitution is just a mess, especially the Electoral College bit. Face it, the document is archaic and needs to be replaced with something newer. It was a good try in the late 1700s when there weren't many other non-monarchy republics around, but other countries have had several centuries now to try out other stuff and they've found some better ways.
Then I suggest every eligible American to vote and cast a firm suggestion for president.