You are spouting too much straight forward common sense for me to have much hope. The FAA seems to shut down everyone for little to no reason and takes many years or decades to pass anything. Drones became popular around 2000 and the FAA rules on them in 2014.
Not every system uses just radar. Lidar, computer vision, and sonic sensors would all register an object. The way the sensors are fused may in fact register the cardboard as an object. The fact is simple sensor fusion and khalman filtering isn't as simple as implementing a grad school project.
I have read them and it is typically due to body fluids being trapped extending your exposure. Show me how many toddlers get stds from vaginal sex (vaginal is the only kind there is any evidence for) or that keeping proper hygiene without circumcision is worse for complications then we can talk. Chopping the ends of unsuspecting babies dicks is a brutal practice. Let them chop off thier own dicks at 15 and let them decide for themselves.
Let's call it for what it is - cruise control plus lane following plus automatic braking to prevent running into vehicles in front of them. It does not turn, it does not make smart safety decisions, it cannot handle simple variations in real conditions. It's as close to being an autonomous car as Siri is to being strong AI.
Extensive monitoring and high-resolution cameras will eliminate the need to have a human on board entirely.
Besides commuting, OTR trucking really is the "killer app" for self-driving automobiles, and it's coming sooner than people think.
HaHaHa. Yes you can watch the semi slam on the brakes for a piece of cardboard that gets blown by the wind and creates a multi car pileup. I'm not sure how that helps. I take it you have never worked on any computer vision papers or any teams that have tried vehicle automation? Because even autonomous freeway driving in the USA is far far far off - perhaps 30 years or more. When you see someone with algorithms that can actually do better than the bottom 5-10% of human drivers (under the same apples to apples situation) then we would have something. That something does not exist today.
Mod parent up. It's simply another slightly longer preplanned pre-mapped mountain of manually entered data test. The technology cant even do as well as a below average human in perfect sunny day few cars on the road freeway traffic. In a city it would rack up fatalities like a mountain dewed up teenager playing gtaV.
This seems to me like the best option for delivering high speed internet in remote areas, but I can't help but think the FAA will shut them down at every opportunity. They can probably only do the tests there because of pre-existing FAA agreements. When will the FAA get off its ass and move into the 21st century? The recent legislation is a good start - going after some guy who made less than a dollar off youtube is sheer stupidity.
Actually being circumcised increases your chances of getting STDs. Yes if you never clean your uncircumcised penis, including after sex, the risk is greater. But it's no more than using cellophane to hold bodily fluids against your penis - simply wash yourself and the risks go away. The cdc and American society of pediatricians are put under constant religious pressure to green light the procedure. Thank god it's NOT recommended and therefore not usually covered under insurance. Since toddlers are unlikely to get aids from vaginal sex here is a thought - let them decide at 15. If they want to cut a chunk off their dick that cannot be replaced properly then they have the right, all without any downside - in fact the risks associated with circumcision are worse than the risks associated with good hygiene and no procedure. Next we will recommend pulling all our teeth because if you don't brush you can get infections, left untreated they can be deadly.
The car has a driver. It's nothing more than a slightly longer pre-mapped pre-planned trip with every last detail painstakingly manually entered. The vehicle cannot handle road construction, traffic problems, snow, simple decisions as to what is safer - like running over a blowing plastic bag or slamming on the brakes. I'm all for progress but this is just one more sensational click bait hype article. It's getting almost as bad as solar cell efficiency articles, which if you took them at face value we would be sitting at around one gazillion percent by now.
The national academy of pediatrics in the USA does NOT recommend circumcision. The medical drawbacks outweigh any benefits. The bonus of this honesty is that its a cosmetic/religious procedure and as such usually isn't covered by insurance. I have no idea why it became mainstream, it's not like removing a foreskin makes them a lawyer or banker. Perhaps its left over from the time were it was done purposefully to reduce the pleasure of sex/masturbation to try and keep people from sin.
Er, yes? It makes engineering sense too, put some smarts in the cable and then you don't need to include (for instance) line out amplifiers, or HDMI output, or whatever, in the device itself. Seems reasonable enough to me.
So where are these circuits in USB, FireWire,or typical display port cables? Or 99% of any cables (thunder bolt doesn't count as it's more apple junk)? Why is it called a cable when it isn't just a cable? if you have never used lightning cables they are junk mechanically, they fail quite quickly. Yet cost 30 dollars for a reasonable length one. You have trouble buying knockoffs because of the BS circuitry. It's nothing more than overpriced, bloated garbage. If they actually held up better than regular run of the mill cheap china cables, actually shrunk the size of the peripheral device significantly, or were actually needed for data transfer on idevices maybe they wouldn't be bad. They fail all three yet are required to charge the phone, the primary purpose they are used for 99.95% of the time among users.
Intended for? You mean the motions of the planets in the solar system, the first example of where Newton's laws broke down? Newton's laws don't work where they were first used. Even Newton knew that: he couldn't predict the moon's orbit properly without a fudge factor. Take a deep breath, no one is saying mathematics goes bad. My point is simply that gathering better data, and producing better ideas is how science works.
Scientists try to understand why something happens, not just how it happens. Getting close enough for practical applications and predictions is enough for engineering, but in science you have to get the "why" right.
ok i admit i can't really help myself here. There is no 'why' in science period. There is only how. Why implies a purpose and meaning. If you want that go devote yourself to a ministry or convent somewhere.
Intended for? You mean the motions of the planets in the solar system, the first example of where Newton's laws broke down? Newton's laws don't work where they were first used. Even Newton knew that: he couldn't predict the moon's orbit properly without a fudge factor. Take a deep breath, no one is saying mathematics goes bad. My point is simply that gathering better data, and producing better ideas is how science works.
Scientists try to understand why something happens, not just how it happens. Getting close enough for practical applications and predictions is enough for engineering, but in science you have to get the "why" right.
Do yo have a physics degree? Even an undergrad? Because the problem with orbital mechanics as Newton understood it had far more to do with the N body problem than relativity or the even more remote corrections that dark matter and then even more remote dark energy corrections. Newton knew this because he couldn't solve the problem explicitly. It's due to computational complexity not error in theory. We weren't even able to measure the truly minuscule relativity differences in orbits and other planetary attributes until the very late 1800s to 1900. No you completely missed the entire point. The article is baseless as science has basically never been increasingly getting it wrong since science was created.
It is a proprietary protocol. It was started by Intel, finished by apple and ripped off (changed enough to avoid lawsuits) by sony. At this point apple and intel Look to be reluctantly sharing ownership. It is in no way an open and free standard. It's crap, mostly because its propitery, and going to be dumped and forgotten.
Wow with all the wonderful stuff turning up in investigations such as civil forfeiture (direct theft from citizens to fund departments and even individual cops in some cases), racial harassment, straight up treating all citizens like violent criminals, shooting to kill for minor offenses, I have no idea why people no longer respect them.
However this is a good move by police. Vandalizing Wikipedia pages to push an agenda, while wildly popular, will likely do more harm than good and lower public respect further. I hope they buy self replicating robot armies to police citizens because if they keep up the current bullshit tactics for too many years longer there really will be mass rioting everywhere and more random murders of police. Personally i kind of doubt they will actually pull it together and police effectively and gain back the respect they lost.
They use thunderbolt cables? Or their phones and tablets don't have external memory cards or proper cables? Maybe it's because they treat their entire business model as a closed system locked up tighter than North Korea yet their customers are super happy despite their monopoly; the apple business model isthe envy of CEOs around the world so why ruin a good thing?
No.
The cables used by the iPhone and iPad (only) are called "Lightning" cables, and are nothing like Thunderbolt. They were created to replace the 30-pin cable used previously. The main goals were a reduction in the connector size, and for a connector that could be plugged in in either orientation, unlike any flavor of USB at the time.
Show me where I said they were the same. I mentioned that apple (along with intel) were the ones doing thunderbolt (Coined by apple) and its likely going to die as a system no one will use. Case in point is the new mac.
Further the ligntning and 30 pin cables are pretty stupid cables. Explain why they need multiple circuit boards in the cable? Dynamic redefining of the pins on the lightning? With how fragile they are it smacks more of an attempt to keep it propitery to maximize profit - i see no benefit other than locking out 3rd parties. Charge 30 bucks for a cable that you should be able to sell for 3 dollars and profit.
The whole point is absurd. Anyone with a PHD knows newtons laws will never be disproven for the energy and scale they were intended for. Same goes with relativity and quantum mechanics. Adding on top of them for more extreme examples of scale or energy in no way proves them wrong.
I decided to jailbreak my 3G iphone for just that reason. I kept thinking to myself how insane is was to be missing such an obvious and useful feature. I don't really like apple, and i find many problems with android also. At least there is enough community support you can jailbreak idevices. I'm wondering how long the new watch will take.
I'm not sure if the down votes my parent comment got were because people thought i was serious or too pissed off at America to take any mention lightheartedly.
Dumbest slashdot article of the day. Newtons laws were right in the 1700s, just as they are right today, just as they will still be right in 1,000,000 years. They will never be disproven for the size and energy scales they were intended to describe. Same is true with relativity and quantum mechanics.
They use thunderbolt cables? Or their phones and tablets don't have external memory cards or proper cables? Maybe it's because they treat their entire business model as a closed system locked up tighter than North Korea yet their customers are super happy despite their monopoly; the apple business model isthe envy of CEOs around the world so why ruin a good thing?
Haven't you heard? Newtons laws are no longer valid. F != ma , things don't fall in gravity, objects in motion are government conspiricies! Relativity dosent explain anything either and will be proven wrong once this new fangled dark matter and energy is sorted.
Those losers that were sold on science continually refining the decimal places of calculations while rarely if ever 'disproving' established theory are all chumps. The real truth is the more we know the less we are certain of! Best to stop now before we go back to hunting and gathering groups - hell our spears probably won't work anymore as they have been disproven.
Moores law failing means my new laptop is on par with an atari2600 - just slightly better than the computers Neolithic people's used. Furthermore the earth really is flat and 6000 years old, the space station is the biggest lie next to the moon landings, why else would Pixar and Disney Studios be funded by secret government grants? Global warming - pshhhtt - pure hubris to think we puny humans can change anything. Why my life became so much simpler when I realized the external world is simply my internal world - whatever I believe is therefore true to me and I'm the only one that matters! Double dare you science types to disprove that with your fail sauce 'science'...
Well since I need to type here too maybe we can blame the people who think they have nothing to worry about; the very same people who didn't think through government blackmail of every single politician, CEO, and political activist by using said system.
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It's the evil lube industry who want to circumcise males so they are forever forced to buy lube for their masturbation purposes!
these days I'm not sure which head I'm supposed to put a tin foil hat on.
You are spouting too much straight forward common sense for me to have much hope. The FAA seems to shut down everyone for little to no reason and takes many years or decades to pass anything. Drones became popular around 2000 and the FAA rules on them in 2014.
Not every system uses just radar. Lidar, computer vision, and sonic sensors would all register an object. The way the sensors are fused may in fact register the cardboard as an object. The fact is simple sensor fusion and khalman filtering isn't as simple as implementing a grad school project.
I have read them and it is typically due to body fluids being trapped extending your exposure. Show me how many toddlers get stds from vaginal sex (vaginal is the only kind there is any evidence for) or that keeping proper hygiene without circumcision is worse for complications then we can talk. Chopping the ends of unsuspecting babies dicks is a brutal practice. Let them chop off thier own dicks at 15 and let them decide for themselves.
Let's call it for what it is - cruise control plus lane following plus automatic braking to prevent running into vehicles in front of them. It does not turn, it does not make smart safety decisions, it cannot handle simple variations in real conditions. It's as close to being an autonomous car as Siri is to being strong AI.
Extensive monitoring and high-resolution cameras will eliminate the need to have a human on board entirely.
Besides commuting, OTR trucking really is the "killer app" for self-driving automobiles, and it's coming sooner than people think.
HaHaHa. Yes you can watch the semi slam on the brakes for a piece of cardboard that gets blown by the wind and creates a multi car pileup. I'm not sure how that helps.
I take it you have never worked on any computer vision papers or any teams that have tried vehicle automation? Because even autonomous freeway driving in the USA is far far far off - perhaps 30 years or more. When you see someone with algorithms that can actually do better than the bottom 5-10% of human drivers (under the same apples to apples situation) then we would have something. That something does not exist today.
Mod parent up. It's simply another slightly longer preplanned pre-mapped mountain of manually entered data test. The technology cant even do as well as a below average human in perfect sunny day few cars on the road freeway traffic. In a city it would rack up fatalities like a mountain dewed up teenager playing gtaV.
This seems to me like the best option for delivering high speed internet in remote areas, but I can't help but think the FAA will shut them down at every opportunity. They can probably only do the tests there because of pre-existing FAA agreements. When will the FAA get off its ass and move into the 21st century? The recent legislation is a good start - going after some guy who made less than a dollar off youtube is sheer stupidity.
Actually being circumcised increases your chances of getting STDs. Yes if you never clean your uncircumcised penis, including after sex, the risk is greater. But it's no more than using cellophane to hold bodily fluids against your penis - simply wash yourself and the risks go away. The cdc and American society of pediatricians are put under constant religious pressure to green light the procedure. Thank god it's NOT recommended and therefore not usually covered under insurance. Since toddlers are unlikely to get aids from vaginal sex here is a thought - let them decide at 15. If they want to cut a chunk off their dick that cannot be replaced properly then they have the right, all without any downside - in fact the risks associated with circumcision are worse than the risks associated with good hygiene and no procedure. Next we will recommend pulling all our teeth because if you don't brush you can get infections, left untreated they can be deadly.
The car has a driver. It's nothing more than a slightly longer pre-mapped pre-planned trip with every last detail painstakingly manually entered. The vehicle cannot handle road construction, traffic problems, snow, simple decisions as to what is safer - like running over a blowing plastic bag or slamming on the brakes.
I'm all for progress but this is just one more sensational click bait hype article. It's getting almost as bad as solar cell efficiency articles, which if you took them at face value we would be sitting at around one gazillion percent by now.
The national academy of pediatrics in the USA does NOT recommend circumcision. The medical drawbacks outweigh any benefits. The bonus of this honesty is that its a cosmetic/religious procedure and as such usually isn't covered by insurance. I have no idea why it became mainstream, it's not like removing a foreskin makes them a lawyer or banker. Perhaps its left over from the time were it was done purposefully to reduce the pleasure of sex/masturbation to try and keep people from sin.
Er, yes? It makes engineering sense too, put some smarts in the cable and then you don't need to include (for instance) line out amplifiers, or HDMI output, or whatever, in the device itself. Seems reasonable enough to me.
So where are these circuits in USB, FireWire,or typical display port cables? Or 99% of any cables (thunder bolt doesn't count as it's more apple junk)? Why is it called a cable when it isn't just a cable?
if you have never used lightning cables they are junk mechanically, they fail quite quickly. Yet cost 30 dollars for a reasonable length one. You have trouble buying knockoffs because of the BS circuitry. It's nothing more than overpriced, bloated garbage. If they actually held up better than regular run of the mill cheap china cables, actually shrunk the size of the peripheral device significantly, or were actually needed for data transfer on idevices maybe they wouldn't be bad. They fail all three yet are required to charge the phone, the primary purpose they are used for 99.95% of the time among users.
Intended for? You mean the motions of the planets in the solar system, the first example of where Newton's laws broke down? Newton's laws don't work where they were first used. Even Newton knew that: he couldn't predict the moon's orbit properly without a fudge factor. Take a deep breath, no one is saying mathematics goes bad. My point is simply that gathering better data, and producing better ideas is how science works.
Scientists try to understand why something happens, not just how it happens. Getting close enough for practical applications and predictions is enough for engineering, but in science you have to get the "why" right.
ok i admit i can't really help myself here. There is no 'why' in science period. There is only how. Why implies a purpose and meaning. If you want that go devote yourself to a ministry or convent somewhere.
Intended for? You mean the motions of the planets in the solar system, the first example of where Newton's laws broke down? Newton's laws don't work where they were first used. Even Newton knew that: he couldn't predict the moon's orbit properly without a fudge factor. Take a deep breath, no one is saying mathematics goes bad. My point is simply that gathering better data, and producing better ideas is how science works.
Scientists try to understand why something happens, not just how it happens. Getting close enough for practical applications and predictions is enough for engineering, but in science you have to get the "why" right.
Do yo have a physics degree? Even an undergrad? Because the problem with orbital mechanics as Newton understood it had far more to do with the N body problem than relativity or the even more remote corrections that dark matter and then even more remote dark energy corrections. Newton knew this because he couldn't solve the problem explicitly. It's due to computational complexity not error in theory. We weren't even able to measure the truly minuscule relativity differences in orbits and other planetary attributes until the very late 1800s to 1900.
No you completely missed the entire point. The article is baseless as science has basically never been increasingly getting it wrong since science was created.
It is a proprietary protocol. It was started by Intel, finished by apple and ripped off (changed enough to avoid lawsuits) by sony. At this point apple and intel Look to be reluctantly sharing ownership. It is in no way an open and free standard. It's crap, mostly because its propitery, and going to be dumped and forgotten.
Wow with all the wonderful stuff turning up in investigations such as civil forfeiture (direct theft from citizens to fund departments and even individual cops in some cases), racial harassment, straight up treating all citizens like violent criminals, shooting to kill for minor offenses, I have no idea why people no longer respect them.
However this is a good move by police. Vandalizing Wikipedia pages to push an agenda, while wildly popular, will likely do more harm than good and lower public respect further. I hope they buy self replicating robot armies to police citizens because if they keep up the current bullshit tactics for too many years longer there really will be mass rioting everywhere and more random murders of police. Personally i kind of doubt they will actually pull it together and police effectively and gain back the respect they lost.
They use thunderbolt cables? Or their phones and tablets don't have external memory cards or proper cables? Maybe it's because they treat their entire business model as a closed system locked up tighter than North Korea yet their customers are super happy despite their monopoly; the apple business model isthe envy of CEOs around the world so why ruin a good thing?
No. The cables used by the iPhone and iPad (only) are called "Lightning" cables, and are nothing like Thunderbolt. They were created to replace the 30-pin cable used previously. The main goals were a reduction in the connector size, and for a connector that could be plugged in in either orientation, unlike any flavor of USB at the time.
Show me where I said they were the same. I mentioned that apple (along with intel) were the ones doing thunderbolt (Coined by apple) and its likely going to die as a system no one will use. Case in point is the new mac.
Further the ligntning and 30 pin cables are pretty stupid cables. Explain why they need multiple circuit boards in the cable? Dynamic redefining of the pins on the lightning? With how fragile they are it smacks more of an attempt to keep it propitery to maximize profit - i see no benefit other than locking out 3rd parties. Charge 30 bucks for a cable that you should be able to sell for 3 dollars and profit.
The whole point is absurd. Anyone with a PHD knows newtons laws will never be disproven for the energy and scale they were intended for. Same goes with relativity and quantum mechanics. Adding on top of them for more extreme examples of scale or energy in no way proves them wrong.
I decided to jailbreak my 3G iphone for just that reason. I kept thinking to myself how insane is was to be missing such an obvious and useful feature. I don't really like apple, and i find many problems with android also. At least there is enough community support you can jailbreak idevices. I'm wondering how long the new watch will take.
I'm not sure if the down votes my parent comment got were because people thought i was serious or too pissed off at America to take any mention lightheartedly.
Dumbest slashdot article of the day. Newtons laws were right in the 1700s, just as they are right today, just as they will still be right in 1,000,000 years. They will never be disproven for the size and energy scales they were intended to describe. Same is true with relativity and quantum mechanics.
They use thunderbolt cables? Or their phones and tablets don't have external memory cards or proper cables? Maybe it's because they treat their entire business model as a closed system locked up tighter than North Korea yet their customers are super happy despite their monopoly; the apple business model isthe envy of CEOs around the world so why ruin a good thing?
Haven't you heard? Newtons laws are no longer valid. F != ma , things don't fall in gravity, objects in motion are government conspiricies! Relativity dosent explain anything either and will be proven wrong once this new fangled dark matter and energy is sorted.
Those losers that were sold on science continually refining the decimal places of calculations while rarely if ever 'disproving' established theory are all chumps. The real truth is the more we know the less we are certain of! Best to stop now before we go back to hunting and gathering groups - hell our spears probably won't work anymore as they have been disproven.
Moores law failing means my new laptop is on par with an atari2600 - just slightly better than the computers Neolithic people's used. Furthermore the earth really is flat and 6000 years old, the space station is the biggest lie next to the moon landings, why else would Pixar and Disney Studios be funded by secret government grants? Global warming - pshhhtt - pure hubris to think we puny humans can change anything. Why my life became so much simpler when I realized the external world is simply my internal world - whatever I believe is therefore true to me and I'm the only one that matters!
Double dare you science types to disprove that with your fail sauce 'science'...
Well since I need to type here too maybe we can blame the people who think they have nothing to worry about; the very same people who didn't think through government blackmail of every single politician, CEO, and political activist by using said system.