Climate scientists are agenda driven. They want to find what the hell is happening with the climate. And they've found out and stated it repeatedly even if loons such as yourself would prefer not to listen.
This information was supplied the last time/. shrilly made a story out of nothing concerning the source code. If within a few weeks there is no sign of the source then there is a story. For the time being I expect Google have enough on their plate just reinstating the old source code on new servers that they want to make sure that is working before moving all the 4.0 stuff over.
Control taken away at federal level and for what purpose? So that the states can implement their own half assed equivalent for additional expense and there be a patch work of implementations that corporations and individuals can run rough shod over. It is the most stupid ill conceived idea yet from a person who keeps them coming.
It does fit the definition of scam. It was frequently promoted as "investment" offering free money to people on the basis of growth of those investing later. It's a ponzi albeit one without a centralized a figure. A crowd sourced ponzi. It incentivized people especially early adopters to lie through their teeth about the viability of the currency, it's stability, it's attractiveness as an investment in order to lure more buyers in presumably so the early ones could exit. That's why everyone was hoarding coins instead of spending them because they perceived it to be an investment.
Because bitcoin had way too many ways it could fail. All of these were obvious a long time ago, many people including myself pointed them out and some of those ways came to fruition. Boosters were hyping it in a dishonest fashion presumably because they had a cache of bitcoins and they knew the more people who invested the easier it would be for them to cash out.
The "it's a gamble" excuse is simply a cop-out. Every participant in a pyramid / ponzi / pump & dump probably thinks it's a gamble too but the reality is the scheme is set up to fail and it is in the interest of early comers to boost the stock so they can exit with a profit to the detriment of later comers. It is a scam pure and simple.
Yup and the funny part was this was all entirely predictable. The idea was interesting but the implementation was naive, insecure and human greed took care to ensure the entire thing collapsed.
Yeah somebody gained. And people gain in pyramid schemes and Ponzis too. Doesn't mean it isn't a scam and it should have been obvious that Bitcoin was exactly that.
People were hoarding these things, not spending them, treating them some kind of security which magically only went up in value. Except of course it was was never anything else than a crowd sourced Ponzi and when people start selling panic takes over and the price plummets. More fool anyone who bought into it and got burned.
1. Most of them. Most people are reasonably observant. Of course they won't be if you allow them to be doing their fingernails, browsing the web, sleeping or whatever instead of driving and are distracted at the moment that the car monumentally fucks up and runs over a person, off the road, into a downed pylon, or whatever. Or because the CPU crashed, or the maps were out of date, or maps said two way when the street was one way, or the junction lights are faulty or the truck in front needed space to turn or a diversion / roadworks was in place or some atypical event occurred and the computer was too stupid to figure it out.
2. It can be observant to an extent, just not enough I believe for it to be as safe as a human.
I have no problem with the idea of a car assisting a human driving, e.g. maintaining a safe distance from the car in front or warning drivers of hazards. That would make for a safer car. I simply don't believe a car can drive itself in the chaotic conditions of every day driving unless the vehicles around it and even the road on which it is driving are all purpose built and can assist the vehicle.
And do these lasers tell the car that there was a gale last night and there might be trees lying just over that hump? That's the point. Humans might not have lasers but they can sense the prevailing conditions and adjust their driving accordingly.
I think it's reasonable too to some extent but I don't see the reason to GPS monitor cars. Many EU countries put vehicles into tax bands and also tax fuel. Between the two I would imagine that you accurately capture the amount of pollution a vehicle causes and can tune your taxes accordingly. Even if it weren't enough I don't see why a simple black box that recorded mileage, fuel consumption, average speed, average trip length etc. couldn't be fitted to a car to augment the system.
To track cars all the time seems extremely intrusive. I expect there is a huge potential for datamining for the public good (e.g. figuring out where new roads need to be based on traffic patterns, where to put public transport etc) but also huge potential for harm, erosion of privacy etc.
Sure they could but jamming would be an overt act of war and presumably Europe could jam back. Until such times, Galileo means Europe isn't dependent on America for a critical piece of infrastructure.
I don't buy that the stated purpose for the system (independence from the US's military) is very credible, given that the US is, you know, part of NATO and whatnot. And if the EU does turn hostile to the US in some sort of bizarro-world, the US possesses capabilities to shoot them down. So it doesn't make a lot of sense along those lines.
I think it's credible. GPS has become critical to Europe and I guess they don't like the idea of being beholden to the US for it.
There is absolutely no way for a car to drive safely by itself short of only permitting it to do so on a "smart" road where all the other traffic is also self driven. The "smart" road would have to relay information to the car about ice, water, fog, traffic ahead, road works, lane closures, diversions, potholes, debris / obstacles, humans, animals etc. Otherwise the "smart" car is going to crest a hill and run smack into a fallen tree whereas an observant human might have taken more notice of the prevailing conditions in the first place.
The best that could be hoped for in the time being is computer assisted where perhaps the driver is still requires to steer the vehicle or at least have their hands on the wheel but some of the braking / acceleration is handled automatically by sensing the distance between cars, reacting more quickly to sudden braking and so on.
I don't know what Ubuntu or other dists will do but I expect the major milestones would be to port QT, port GTK, port a window manager and then 95% of the apps come across fairly easily. For the remainder I expect that X11 will live on over the top of Wayland until they are ported too.
GNOME 3 is perfectly usable as a desktop. It definitely lacks some things it needs (such as almost every setting hidden in the tweak tool) but it works. The workflow is good, it looks great as a desktop and I expect shell extensions will augment it in time too.
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And a pile of other stuff. Konfabulator would be one prominent example.
Climate scientists are agenda driven. They want to find what the hell is happening with the climate. And they've found out and stated it repeatedly even if loons such as yourself would prefer not to listen.
This information was supplied the last time /. shrilly made a story out of nothing concerning the source code. If within a few weeks there is no sign of the source then there is a story. For the time being I expect Google have enough on their plate just reinstating the old source code on new servers that they want to make sure that is working before moving all the 4.0 stuff over.
Control taken away at federal level and for what purpose? So that the states can implement their own half assed equivalent for additional expense and there be a patch work of implementations that corporations and individuals can run rough shod over. It is the most stupid ill conceived idea yet from a person who keeps them coming.
Your points are absurd. States can compete already.
That Tiziano Motti is an idiot and his suggestion will be laughed out of parliament.
It does fit the definition of scam. It was frequently promoted as "investment" offering free money to people on the basis of growth of those investing later. It's a ponzi albeit one without a centralized a figure. A crowd sourced ponzi. It incentivized people especially early adopters to lie through their teeth about the viability of the currency, it's stability, it's attractiveness as an investment in order to lure more buyers in presumably so the early ones could exit. That's why everyone was hoarding coins instead of spending them because they perceived it to be an investment.
People are blinded by the thought of easy money. Look at all the victims of Nigerian scams for example.
Because bitcoin had way too many ways it could fail. All of these were obvious a long time ago, many people including myself pointed them out and some of those ways came to fruition. Boosters were hyping it in a dishonest fashion presumably because they had a cache of bitcoins and they knew the more people who invested the easier it would be for them to cash out.
The "it's a gamble" excuse is simply a cop-out. Every participant in a pyramid / ponzi / pump & dump probably thinks it's a gamble too but the reality is the scheme is set up to fail and it is in the interest of early comers to boost the stock so they can exit with a profit to the detriment of later comers. It is a scam pure and simple.
Damn and I was just about to sink my money into a corrupt, bankrupt African dictatorship.
Yup and the funny part was this was all entirely predictable. The idea was interesting but the implementation was naive, insecure and human greed took care to ensure the entire thing collapsed.
I'm sure it does in normal conditions. The issue is that accidents often occur due to abnormal conditions.
So it's directly comparable except in the sense that Bitcoin lost half its value in 2 days versus 10 years in your handpicked scenario.
Yeah somebody gained. And people gain in pyramid schemes and Ponzis too. Doesn't mean it isn't a scam and it should have been obvious that Bitcoin was exactly that.
People were hoarding these things, not spending them, treating them some kind of security which magically only went up in value. Except of course it was was never anything else than a crowd sourced Ponzi and when people start selling panic takes over and the price plummets. More fool anyone who bought into it and got burned.
2. It can be observant to an extent, just not enough I believe for it to be as safe as a human.
I have no problem with the idea of a car assisting a human driving, e.g. maintaining a safe distance from the car in front or warning drivers of hazards. That would make for a safer car. I simply don't believe a car can drive itself in the chaotic conditions of every day driving unless the vehicles around it and even the road on which it is driving are all purpose built and can assist the vehicle.
And do these lasers tell the car that there was a gale last night and there might be trees lying just over that hump? That's the point. Humans might not have lasers but they can sense the prevailing conditions and adjust their driving accordingly.
To track cars all the time seems extremely intrusive. I expect there is a huge potential for datamining for the public good (e.g. figuring out where new roads need to be based on traffic patterns, where to put public transport etc) but also huge potential for harm, erosion of privacy etc.
Sure they could but jamming would be an overt act of war and presumably Europe could jam back. Until such times, Galileo means Europe isn't dependent on America for a critical piece of infrastructure.
I don't buy that the stated purpose for the system (independence from the US's military) is very credible, given that the US is, you know, part of NATO and whatnot. And if the EU does turn hostile to the US in some sort of bizarro-world, the US possesses capabilities to shoot them down. So it doesn't make a lot of sense along those lines.
I think it's credible. GPS has become critical to Europe and I guess they don't like the idea of being beholden to the US for it.
The best that could be hoped for in the time being is computer assisted where perhaps the driver is still requires to steer the vehicle or at least have their hands on the wheel but some of the braking / acceleration is handled automatically by sensing the distance between cars, reacting more quickly to sudden braking and so on.
I don't know what Ubuntu or other dists will do but I expect the major milestones would be to port QT, port GTK, port a window manager and then 95% of the apps come across fairly easily. For the remainder I expect that X11 will live on over the top of Wayland until they are ported too.
GNOME 3 is perfectly usable as a desktop. It definitely lacks some things it needs (such as almost every setting hidden in the tweak tool) but it works. The workflow is good, it looks great as a desktop and I expect shell extensions will augment it in time too.
Maybe I'm just old, but I think the current direction of development has lost sight of the reason XWindows was created in the first place.
XWindows won't be long for the world either and good riddance to it when it happens.