Whaddyamean 'no'? So the working middle class, who the vast majority of which are just trying to make ends meet every month, are supposed to shoulder the burden of housing and feeding the homeless, instead of the 1% who have 99% of the wealth? Or did you just not understand what I meant by that?
It costs way more to keep them in jail rather than help them get back on their feet.
Sure it would, and it could be done. But have you noticed that such things need to be a 'top-down' solution, but instead it seems like 'someone' keeps trying to force people closer to the bottom to solve it instead? It's almost like the rich want to keep reminding the rest of us that we shouldn't complain because it could be made much, much worse for us (e.g., we could be made to 'fall off the ladder', and end up jailed, in essence, for being jobless and homeless -- so you'd better keep your 'proper' place).
One-percenter scumbag. You so worried your multi-million-dollar house will drop a few thousand bucks or something? Or is your problem 'MUH AESTHETICS'? This guy needs to have the shit slapped out of him.
GMOs are bad enough, and with the GMO genie already having escaped from it's bottle, it's too late to even worry about anymore (GMOs will either ruin us or they won't, nothing can stop that now). 'Lab-grown meat', though? At least it can't infect the genome of meat animals. We'll just have to wait and see if this lab-grown stuff ends up ruining people's health.
I don't know if you're kidding or not, but you represent a third of the problem:
The weather is nice where I am, so I don't think the problem is real
Then here's another third of the problem:
The weather is terrible where I am and it used to be fine Followed by: Oh, well, just because it's bad where you are doesn't mean global warming is real
Then the final third of the problem:
Oh hi we're climate scientists! Since you apparently aren't paying attention to what we're saying, we're going to say it louder and be more extreme to try to make you listen! Followed closely by: Oh, well, you're just being alarmists!
This is then exacerbated by extremists on both sides of the equation tossing around their conspiracy theories, pseudo-science, tree-hugging anti-human rhetoric, plain old-fashioned politicking, and the religious types who quietly tell you it's all part of "Gods plan", "the End Times are coming", and "soon there will be Heaven on Earth and none of this will matter anymore", or whatever other nonsense they spout. So nothing actually gets done to prove anything one way or another because everyone just keeps arguing. What will 'decide' if it's real or not will be if it either becomes Too Late To Do Anything About It (at which time everyone will continue to argue, this time about whose fault it is), or it just Goes Away On It's Own (in which case everyone will continue to argue, this time about who was wrong, who was right, and why).
You want the TL;DR version?
Doesn't matter, we're doomed one way or another, because humans are fucking stupid, especially in large groups
There are way too many things that require a human being, and so-called 'AI' is a myth, you can't even have a credible conversation with a machine yet, so I really think there's nothing to worry about. People need to stop spreading FUD about this.
Apparently, your Faith in such an omnipotent, omniscent Creator is sorely lacking, seeing as you aren't even willing to evangelize about Him (Her? Them? It?) using a logged-in account.
Here's a couple points for you to consider, friend: 1. You're assuming that 'forbidding permissions' for anything actually works, or can't be worked around somehow. 2. You're forgetting that the average person either has been brainwashed to not care about their privacy, or doesn't understand that their privacy is being violated in so many ways every single day, or they don't know how to restrict permissions for their very personal data (assuming, again, that even works at all).
So long as all these sorts of devices work with 'The Cloud', you'll never be 100% sure that your very personal data isn't being copied, leaked, or otherwise compromised. The only way that can happen, is if you use devices that don't connect to 'The Cloud' at all, and that you never, ever enter or upload data from such devices to the Internet, ever. Always assume that either by accident or by design, your personal data is getting into the hands of people and organizations that you don't want to have it.
Even it's 'lite' mode is so bloated that you sit there for at least 10 seconds, maybe longer, waiting for it to finish doing everything it needs to do before it even lets you look anything up.
..the 'drone foamers' of Slashdot insist that all restrictions and laws governing and restricting the ownership and use of consumer-grade drones be removed, so they can do whatever the fuck they damn well please with them -- which, according to the growing pile of evidence, seems to indicate that the more they complain about their 'rights' being taken away, the more likely it is that they just want to spy on people, and generally be creepy fucks.
Oh, I'm sorry, does that make you angry? Are you pounding your keyboards in frustration, screaming about how That's Not You? Well guess what? There are enough people out there who are creepy fucks who are the ones 'ruining it' for you and anyone else who isn't a creepy fuck, so how about you go pound on them instead of our legislators and law enforcement, who are only trying to keep the real creepy fucks of the world from being creepy fucks? Of course I'm being generous, here; I firmly believe that there are some genuine creepy drone fucks here on Slashdot, but since this is an anonymous pseudo-news website we'll never know who or how many now will we?
No matter. The fact of the matter is, that since too many couldn't control their base impulses, and the rest of you were either unable or unwilling to police your own, now we live in a world where your hobby is going to be more and more tightly controlled, and will very possibly be banned completely. Again, if that makes you angry, then go take it out on some creepy fucking jackass that's using his drone to spy on someone's teenage (or younger) daughter(s), not lawmakers, not law enforcement, and not me, I'm just the messenger.
..oh, and if you're one of the creepy fucks? Smash your drone with a hammer, go turn yourself in to the cops, and get checked into a mental hospital for the criminally insane. Or just eat a bullet, I don't care which.
One question about this: How does everything living in the ocean feel about this? I don't need to be a marine biologist to understand that completely blocking the sun over huge areas of the ocean probably isn't good for it or the lifeforms living in it.
Know what the most lovely thing is about science versus religion/superstition/mysticism/faith-based beliefs? Science can believe something completely absurd is possible, explore it, discover they're totally wrong about it, it was indeed utterly absurd as predicted, and not only is that okay, it's encouraged behavior. How many 'absurd' things has some researcher in the past believed, that the scientific community (and even the public-at-large for that matter) scoffed at, ridiculed and even ostracised the researcher in question over, and then turned out to be completely and totally correct, turning everyone else on their ear, and revolutionizing the field? So quantum entanglement can't be used for FTL communications; so what? The question had to be asked, the answer had to be sought. Doesn't mean it was wasted time, doesn't mean anyone should have their life ruined over it, doesn't mean that someone isn't going to keep looking for ways to create a way of transmitting information faster than light, either. Who needs to be scoffed at, ridiculed, and ostracised, are people who, through peer pressure and mob thinking, seek to prevent science from 'wasting it's time' by exploring seemingly absurd ideas. Every 'failed experiment' is not a failure if there was something learned from it, even if that amounts to 'X doesn't work'. Sometimes, the journey is more important than where it ultimately takes you.
We already know every single thing about the physics of our Universe, our understanding is perfect and irrefutable, and nothing new will ever be discovered, there's no point in even discussing it, and you'll be mocked and ridiculed endlessly if you don't agree!
I had a Series 2, and now I have a Series 3 HD, and I use it exclusively for OTA broadcast. I'm hoping they don't fuck up the way TiVo works. Without TiVo, I don't think I'd bother watching TV at all anymore, and in fact I wouldn't even be available to watch anything (conflicting schedules). Not intersted in paying for streaming, either.
Better learn to speak Mandarin, or Russian, or something other than English, then, because we won't have an America to ourselves for long with an attitude like that.
I remember that actually. It was some decades ago. He was a recent immigrant from outside the U.S., and actually thought the cruise control was a full-on autopilot. Remarkably no one in the RV was killed.
All 'autopilot' / 'self-driving' systems will be 'wannabes' for at least the next 10 to 20 years or more. It'll take that long to perfect it -- and even then you'll be nuts to let yourself fall asleep at the wheel with it operating -- no matter what they tell you.
Slashdot Mirror
Damnit.. it's T.A.H.I.T.I. Protocol, not just T.A.H.I.T.I.. Mod me down, to (-1, Screwed Up The Joke). :-(
I hear it's a magical place.
Whaddyamean 'no'? So the working middle class, who the vast majority of which are just trying to make ends meet every month, are supposed to shoulder the burden of housing and feeding the homeless, instead of the 1% who have 99% of the wealth? Or did you just not understand what I meant by that?
It costs way more to keep them in jail rather than help them get back on their feet.
Sure it would, and it could be done. But have you noticed that such things need to be a 'top-down' solution, but instead it seems like 'someone' keeps trying to force people closer to the bottom to solve it instead? It's almost like the rich want to keep reminding the rest of us that we shouldn't complain because it could be made much, much worse for us (e.g., we could be made to 'fall off the ladder', and end up jailed, in essence, for being jobless and homeless -- so you'd better keep your 'proper' place).
One-percenter scumbag. You so worried your multi-million-dollar house will drop a few thousand bucks or something? Or is your problem 'MUH AESTHETICS'? This guy needs to have the shit slapped out of him.
GMOs are bad enough, and with the GMO genie already having escaped from it's bottle, it's too late to even worry about anymore (GMOs will either ruin us or they won't, nothing can stop that now). 'Lab-grown meat', though? At least it can't infect the genome of meat animals. We'll just have to wait and see if this lab-grown stuff ends up ruining people's health.
The weather is nice where I am, so I don't think the problem is real
Then here's another third of the problem:
The weather is terrible where I am and it used to be fine
Followed by:
Oh, well, just because it's bad where you are doesn't mean global warming is real
Then the final third of the problem:
Oh hi we're climate scientists! Since you apparently aren't paying attention to what we're saying, we're going to say it louder and be more extreme to try to make you listen!
Followed closely by:
Oh, well, you're just being alarmists!
This is then exacerbated by extremists on both sides of the equation tossing around their conspiracy theories, pseudo-science, tree-hugging anti-human rhetoric, plain old-fashioned politicking, and the religious types who quietly tell you it's all part of "Gods plan", "the End Times are coming", and "soon there will be Heaven on Earth and none of this will matter anymore", or whatever other nonsense they spout. So nothing actually gets done to prove anything one way or another because everyone just keeps arguing. What will 'decide' if it's real or not will be if it either becomes Too Late To Do Anything About It (at which time everyone will continue to argue, this time about whose fault it is), or it just Goes Away On It's Own (in which case everyone will continue to argue, this time about who was wrong, who was right, and why).
You want the TL;DR version?
Doesn't matter, we're doomed one way or another, because humans are fucking stupid, especially in large groups
Not only do they deliver fuel to your vehicle, but they wash all the windows and check the tire pressure, all in under 60 seconds!
There are way too many things that require a human being, and so-called 'AI' is a myth, you can't even have a credible conversation with a machine yet, so I really think there's nothing to worry about. People need to stop spreading FUD about this.
Apparently, your Faith in such an omnipotent, omniscent Creator is sorely lacking, seeing as you aren't even willing to evangelize about Him (Her? Them? It?) using a logged-in account.
Here's a couple points for you to consider, friend:
1. You're assuming that 'forbidding permissions' for anything actually works, or can't be worked around somehow.
2. You're forgetting that the average person either has been brainwashed to not care about their privacy, or doesn't understand that their privacy is being violated in so many ways every single day, or they don't know how to restrict permissions for their very personal data (assuming, again, that even works at all).
So long as all these sorts of devices work with 'The Cloud', you'll never be 100% sure that your very personal data isn't being copied, leaked, or otherwise compromised. The only way that can happen, is if you use devices that don't connect to 'The Cloud' at all, and that you never, ever enter or upload data from such devices to the Internet, ever. Always assume that either by accident or by design, your personal data is getting into the hands of people and organizations that you don't want to have it.
Even it's 'lite' mode is so bloated that you sit there for at least 10 seconds, maybe longer, waiting for it to finish doing everything it needs to do before it even lets you look anything up.
In any case, lets be sceptical until more experiments confirm or refute the claims of that paper.
Scepticism is, of course, part and parcel to all true science.
..the 'drone foamers' of Slashdot insist that all restrictions and laws governing and restricting the ownership and use of consumer-grade drones be removed, so they can do whatever the fuck they damn well please with them -- which, according to the growing pile of evidence, seems to indicate that the more they complain about their 'rights' being taken away, the more likely it is that they just want to spy on people, and generally be creepy fucks.
Oh, I'm sorry, does that make you angry? Are you pounding your keyboards in frustration, screaming about how That's Not You? Well guess what? There are enough people out there who are creepy fucks who are the ones 'ruining it' for you and anyone else who isn't a creepy fuck, so how about you go pound on them instead of our legislators and law enforcement, who are only trying to keep the real creepy fucks of the world from being creepy fucks? Of course I'm being generous, here; I firmly believe that there are some genuine creepy drone fucks here on Slashdot, but since this is an anonymous pseudo-news website we'll never know who or how many now will we?
No matter. The fact of the matter is, that since too many couldn't control their base impulses, and the rest of you were either unable or unwilling to police your own, now we live in a world where your hobby is going to be more and more tightly controlled, and will very possibly be banned completely. Again, if that makes you angry, then go take it out on some creepy fucking jackass that's using his drone to spy on someone's teenage (or younger) daughter(s), not lawmakers, not law enforcement, and not me, I'm just the messenger.
..oh, and if you're one of the creepy fucks? Smash your drone with a hammer, go turn yourself in to the cops, and get checked into a mental hospital for the criminally insane. Or just eat a bullet, I don't care which.
One question about this: How does everything living in the ocean feel about this? I don't need to be a marine biologist to understand that completely blocking the sun over huge areas of the ocean probably isn't good for it or the lifeforms living in it.
Know what the most lovely thing is about science versus religion/superstition/mysticism/faith-based beliefs? Science can believe something completely absurd is possible, explore it, discover they're totally wrong about it, it was indeed utterly absurd as predicted, and not only is that okay, it's encouraged behavior. How many 'absurd' things has some researcher in the past believed, that the scientific community (and even the public-at-large for that matter) scoffed at, ridiculed and even ostracised the researcher in question over, and then turned out to be completely and totally correct, turning everyone else on their ear, and revolutionizing the field? So quantum entanglement can't be used for FTL communications; so what? The question had to be asked, the answer had to be sought. Doesn't mean it was wasted time, doesn't mean anyone should have their life ruined over it, doesn't mean that someone isn't going to keep looking for ways to create a way of transmitting information faster than light, either. Who needs to be scoffed at, ridiculed, and ostracised, are people who, through peer pressure and mob thinking, seek to prevent science from 'wasting it's time' by exploring seemingly absurd ideas. Every 'failed experiment' is not a failure if there was something learned from it, even if that amounts to 'X doesn't work'. Sometimes, the journey is more important than where it ultimately takes you.
We already know every single thing about the physics of our Universe, our understanding is perfect and irrefutable, and nothing new will ever be discovered, there's no point in even discussing it, and you'll be mocked and ridiculed endlessly if you don't agree!
anti-obscenity laws in Utah
That's hilarious. Mormons are some of the biggest hypocrites I've ever seen, and Utah tried to secede from the United States some years ago.
Google and Samsung file for patents for injecting targeted ads directly into your eyeballs, so you can't ignore them even if you close your eyes
And you thought pop-up ads in your web browser were bad.
I had a Series 2, and now I have a Series 3 HD, and I use it exclusively for OTA broadcast. I'm hoping they don't fuck up the way TiVo works. Without TiVo, I don't think I'd bother watching TV at all anymore, and in fact I wouldn't even be available to watch anything (conflicting schedules). Not intersted in paying for streaming, either.
You're a COW, CaseCrash, a sexconker-loving COW. Moo, goes the CaseCrash, Mooo, MOOO!!!!1! You COW, YOU!!!!1!
The system is broken so let's just give up!
Better learn to speak Mandarin, or Russian, or something other than English, then, because we won't have an America to ourselves for long with an attitude like that.
I remember that actually. It was some decades ago. He was a recent immigrant from outside the U.S., and actually thought the cruise control was a full-on autopilot. Remarkably no one in the RV was killed.
All 'autopilot' / 'self-driving' systems will be 'wannabes' for at least the next 10 to 20 years or more. It'll take that long to perfect it -- and even then you'll be nuts to let yourself fall asleep at the wheel with it operating -- no matter what they tell you.
Less representation is better than more
Oh shut the fuck up, troll.