Organization didn't do it. The US has a growing, baby-rich core of know-nothing racists, religious fundies and Randites that took the steering wheel (literally with SD cars!) out of our hands. Trump is their Messiah.
Seems the anti-teacher religion spread through the US/UK/Australian/NZ, starting with the anti-intellectual US. The infection is complete; it is second gen and permanent.
The US famously has no history. It makes it up to suit itself. Now: outsourcing happened because we're greedy, stipid and lazy. It was always thus, five minutes ago. Nothing to do with corporate greed.
The US has decided teachers are overpaid unionized swine, and have created a new paradigm of minimum wage private corporate schools to pauperize them. At the same time, they're blamed for everything wrong with education, even to the point of blaming them for bring stretched too thin. And idiots have decided they will install testing and useless grinding work over their objections. Who the HELL would want to be a teacher?
And, oh yes, other posters are spot on: you fired us all and replaced us with H1Bs. Or shipped the jobs out overseas. And are jamming all channels with desperate measures to generate scads of new CS grads so you all can drive wages down with a massive oversupply of coders that speak local English.
Why no interest? It's a boring subject. Requires math that breaks the mind, and is mostly not used anyway. It is largely a male, nerdy profession. It's socially isolating. It's full of hardcore Ayn Randite bosses. Big one: you are, if you haven't become an executive or started your own compamy by the age of 30-35, in for a a VERY short career. One of those businesses where a 22 year old is always superior to a 30 year old come startup or promotion time. So, we say goodbye and good riddance to Dilbert land, and go somewhere where people have sex. With other people.
Amazing how hard they're going after Bitcoin-like entities. Or not really all that amazing. Keep in mind they are tracking the serial numbers on the paper bills from the ATMs. If you really want anonymity, pay with metal coins - no serial numbers.
A cash-free society means the banks, and any business or government or person with juice, knows what everyone is doing. If you have no problem with this, build your next house with glass walls, and put a streaming camera and mic on your person.
All this, contrast to corporations and governments. Corporations aren't people, so you can't really spy on those. Corporations are now freeer, and now don't even have to declare a nationality. Their banking is private, if they desire. Derivative markets are untrackable and untaxed. They don't pay taxes. Yet they demand we give it all up to them, because ???? we're idiots.
Governments? The US, UK, Australia and NZ are frothing at the mouth to destroy any whistleblowers who rat them out. Assange is STILL in jail, no charges other than trying to get away from retribution. Wikileaks supporters have problems flying in airplanes and crossing borders. And the governments have no problem spying on everyone else and demanding that right. And the Cayman Islands secret banking system is left alone, because the CIA, the mob, and corporations like their privacy.
Ain't the first time. Hell, most of the country was stolen, by the light of our own laws. (Treaties have the force of the Constitution, so are supreme law). No one seems to sweat that. And outside, we've Puerto Rico, Guam, sorta Cuba (we viewed it as ours), the Phillipines (before the Japanese shook them loose by reconquering them).. all were stolen. Iraq and it's oil. Hawaii. Nothing new about our own people and our own government stealing what they want.
"strong and unforeseen interference on the operating frequency"
Really. Who could have foreseen that. Strong and unforeseen interference is the problem with gadgets that roll or fly around actual human beings; it WILL happen, and the drone (winged or wheeled on a highway) will go gaga. The real world will defeat every clever gadget that tries to outwit it. Chaos finds a way.
Redesign the drones to be a bouncy ball, at least a shell that emulates one. Duct and cover them rotors. Too many cuisinarts flying around.
Every place on the planet is shared space, or private space. By your logic, we've no rights to privacy anywhere, ANYwhere at all because someone, sometime, might hurt someone and get away with it.
How would you know if anyone's car falsely colluded with police to fabricate evidence? By definition meaningless. Once it's possible, it will be done. It's like trying to prove you've been spied on so you can sue for being spied on. You CAN'T. What would stop a car, momentarily overriden and driven by a hostile, from being driven into a crowd, then driven away, for instance?
About as voluntary and known as any EULA. In other words, consent is meaningless, as your alternative is to not-use vehicles. You are free to never move around if that makes you happy, otherwise you are in a vehicle spying on you.
Already has. You could ask political activists in Egypt, for instance, during the Arab Spring, but you can't, because the government tracked them down to their posting computers, dragged them to torture chambers, and killed them. This tech will be used to control populations.
Bus I was on last week: computer wouldn't let the back door close. Bus driver, acting from experience apparently, shut the bus off, then turned it back on to reboot the computer and get the bus going again.
Some day the crime will be 'inciting a riot' through writing an insightful article, or annoying a politician, or being a member of an opposition party. Your car's systems can be instructed to lie, you know; it just doesn't occur to geeks that computers can be told to fake a result.
A university study was just published last week that self-driving cars crash about 4-8 times more often than humans, and the crashes cause more serious injuries. The publishers were at pains to point out that only a few million miles were on record, so they hedged the obvious conclusion that humans drive better. Utter nonsense. People REALLY want to believe that robots drive better. A million miles or hundred million, the numbers are in. Self-driving cars aren't working. A million miles are more than enough data.
The real thrust of getting this onto the road is to fire truck drivers. End of story - they want to keep all da money. Uber outright admits it wants to fire the Uber "contractors" and replace them with robots. This is about money, bub. Hundreds of billions of fat, juicy dollars for businesses, and armies of newly unemployed. They hate paying people money to do jobs when they can keep it all.
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Organization didn't do it. The US has a growing, baby-rich core of know-nothing racists, religious fundies and Randites that took the steering wheel (literally with SD cars!) out of our hands. Trump is their Messiah.
Seems the anti-teacher religion spread through the US/UK/Australian/NZ, starting with the anti-intellectual US. The infection is complete; it is second gen and permanent.
The US famously has no history. It makes it up to suit itself. Now: outsourcing happened because we're greedy, stipid and lazy. It was always thus, five minutes ago. Nothing to do with corporate greed.
The US has decided teachers are overpaid unionized swine, and have created a new paradigm of minimum wage private corporate schools to pauperize them. At the same time, they're blamed for everything wrong with education, even to the point of blaming them for bring stretched too thin. And idiots have decided they will install testing and useless grinding work over their objections. Who the HELL would want to be a teacher?
And, oh yes, other posters are spot on: you fired us all and replaced us with H1Bs. Or shipped the jobs out overseas. And are jamming all channels with desperate measures to generate scads of new CS grads so you all can drive wages down with a massive oversupply of coders that speak local English.
Why no interest?
It's a boring subject.
Requires math that breaks the mind, and is mostly not used anyway.
It is largely a male, nerdy profession.
It's socially isolating.
It's full of hardcore Ayn Randite bosses.
Big one: you are, if you haven't become an executive or started your own compamy by the age of 30-35, in for a a VERY short career. One of those businesses where a 22 year old is always superior to a 30 year old come startup or promotion time.
So, we say goodbye and good riddance to Dilbert land, and go somewhere where people have sex. With other people.
Amazing how hard they're going after Bitcoin-like entities. Or not really all that amazing.
Keep in mind they are tracking the serial numbers on the paper bills from the ATMs. If you really want anonymity, pay with metal coins - no serial numbers.
A cash-free society means the banks, and any business or government or person with juice, knows what everyone is doing. If you have no problem with this, build your next house with glass walls, and put a streaming camera and mic on your person.
All this, contrast to corporations and governments. Corporations aren't people, so you can't really spy on those. Corporations are now freeer, and now don't even have to declare a nationality. Their banking is private, if they desire. Derivative markets are untrackable and untaxed. They don't pay taxes. Yet they demand we give it all up to them, because ???? we're idiots.
Governments? The US, UK, Australia and NZ are frothing at the mouth to destroy any whistleblowers who rat them out. Assange is STILL in jail, no charges other than trying to get away from retribution. Wikileaks supporters have problems flying in airplanes and crossing borders. And the governments have no problem spying on everyone else and demanding that right. And the Cayman Islands secret banking system is left alone, because the CIA, the mob, and corporations like their privacy.
Ain't the first time. Hell, most of the country was stolen, by the light of our own laws. (Treaties have the force of the Constitution, so are supreme law). No one seems to sweat that. And outside, we've Puerto Rico, Guam, sorta Cuba (we viewed it as ours), the Phillipines (before the Japanese shook them loose by reconquering them).. all were stolen. Iraq and it's oil. Hawaii. Nothing new about our own people and our own government stealing what they want.
Self-driving cars. Imagine those crashes.
"strong and unforeseen interference on the operating frequency"
Really. Who could have foreseen that. Strong and unforeseen interference is the problem with gadgets that roll or fly around actual human beings; it WILL happen, and the drone (winged or wheeled on a highway) will go gaga. The real world will defeat every clever gadget that tries to outwit it. Chaos finds a way.
Redesign the drones to be a bouncy ball, at least a shell that emulates one. Duct and cover them rotors. Too many cuisinarts flying around.
Burn a flag and a bible in Colorado Springs, see what happens to you.
Or by the New Order's Planet Sun Cannon.
Truck usually is fine, as it used its mass to crush the car it runs into, and saved the truck's driver by using the car as a de facto crushbag.
Every place on the planet is shared space, or private space. By your logic, we've no rights to privacy anywhere, ANYwhere at all because someone, sometime, might hurt someone and get away with it.
What laws are those?
How would you know if anyone's car falsely colluded with police to fabricate evidence? By definition meaningless. Once it's possible, it will be done. It's like trying to prove you've been spied on so you can sue for being spied on. You CAN'T.
What would stop a car, momentarily overriden and driven by a hostile, from being driven into a crowd, then driven away, for instance?
About as voluntary and known as any EULA. In other words, consent is meaningless, as your alternative is to not-use vehicles. You are free to never move around if that makes you happy, otherwise you are in a vehicle spying on you.
It's not worth the cost.
Already has. You could ask political activists in Egypt, for instance, during the Arab Spring, but you can't, because the government tracked them down to their posting computers, dragged them to torture chambers, and killed them. This tech will be used to control populations.
Bus I was on last week: computer wouldn't let the back door close. Bus driver, acting from experience apparently, shut the bus off, then turned it back on to reboot the computer and get the bus going again.
Some day the crime will be 'inciting a riot' through writing an insightful article, or annoying a politician, or being a member of an opposition party. Your car's systems can be instructed to lie, you know; it just doesn't occur to geeks that computers can be told to fake a result.
Could have, and you might have slept through it.
A university study was just published last week that self-driving cars crash about 4-8 times more often than humans, and the crashes cause more serious injuries.
The publishers were at pains to point out that only a few million miles were on record, so they hedged the obvious conclusion that humans drive better. Utter nonsense. People REALLY want to believe that robots drive better. A million miles or hundred million, the numbers are in. Self-driving cars aren't working. A million miles are more than enough data.
The real thrust of getting this onto the road is to fire truck drivers. End of story - they want to keep all da money. Uber outright admits it wants to fire the Uber "contractors" and replace them with robots. This is about money, bub. Hundreds of billions of fat, juicy dollars for businesses, and armies of newly unemployed. They hate paying people money to do jobs when they can keep it all.
They don't respond well to "road closed" signs, either. GPS sort of just insists you drive through.