Consumers won't like it unless they get theft and fraud protection equivalent to what the credit card companies offer (and are required by law to offer). I use a credit card b/c "who cares if it gets stolen I'm not liable." Whereas if someone steals money from my bank account I'm going to have show the bank was at fault in order to get the funds *restored.* With credit cards I just call the company, dispute the charge and don't pay the bill. If this group of retailers wants to take on that liability, then I don't see a problem. But I suspect they won't take that (very expensive) liability on, and so you're right that consumers won't like it..
Yeah - well said. I come back to slashdot every once in a while, but in comment threads with an idiot to informed quotient like this one, I won't be back again for a long time.
The plural of anecdote is not data. While your CS class of 250 makes for an interesting story, it is not relevant (pro or con) to discussing the causes of national trends.
Nice hack. I think I've typed on one of those way back when, but I can't remember what for. IIRC, that model has a lighter action than the model M? Still clicky but not that crazy machine crack like the M? Do I remember that right? Pretty cool you've made it last..
There's is a genetic component to intelligence, but it's just a very insignificant one, at least as far as modern science can tell. Read this book to learn more: http://www.amazon.com/Intellig...
The main problem with genetic arguments is that environmental advantages swamp genetic advantages when it comes to human intelligence, however defined. And importantly, how you define intelligence is driven by culture, which unsurprisingly means that the advantaged people in a culture are measured as more intelligent.
I like the way Nisbett goes after this topic b/c he doesn't deny any impact of genetics for intelligence, but he does give strong research evidence that it's not a meaningful measurement, so not really worth worrying about.
As a greybeard who used to write dynamic gopher sites, I really like to write in Ruby/Sinatra now. It gives me access to lots of nice features (I can install activerecord when I need it) and I can build APIs super quickly and everything in between. And I can get down to the bottom of the network stack pretty easily when I want to. I do miss the Ruby/Rails built-in testing framework, but otherwise haven't looked back since switching from that environment.
I think the really interesting issue here is whether the programming should favor the occupants or the overall situation? And how to balance?
If you have the choice between running down a pedestrian or swerving to hit a concrete barrier at high speed, you might want to choose the pedestrian if your goal is to preserve the lives of the occupants who may die if you choose the retaining wall.
But all low speeds, you want to pick the retaining wall because the occupants wouldn't die - it would just damage the car.
Or in the OP example, picking the smaller car to crash into might increase survivability for the passenges of the autonomous car, but increase deaths for the smaller car being hit. Whereas hitting the larger car (more solidly built, more mass) might injure the occupants of the autonomous car more..
Going further OT here.. My understanding is that transactions into and out of some bitcoin exchanges can effectively wash out this "paper" trail? So if the criminal seller and buyer arrange to exchange bitcoins via certain exchanges (designed to wash/hide transaction histories), criminal seller hands over one set of bitcoins and criminal buyer walks way with different bitcoins altogether? Since there's no regulation to my knowledge of money laundering in bitcoin exchanges (yet) this isn't even an illegal business practice?
I disagree - godaddy should not rely on last 4 digits of CC for anything related to security. Paypal giving up the last 4 digits is way less of a problem than godaddy relying on them. The two systems interlocked of course is where this real misery occurred.
Yeah double plus. I just went an enabled two factor on my registrar account. Kind of obvious that having a weak auth there is a major security hole but I hadn't really been paying attention to it.
A treadmill just lets them manage power cables and what not, plus controlling photography etc. That thing is walking autonomously and unsupported, upright on two legs. And regarding the drunk over broken ground, it's almost exactly what a human would look like if they had a blindfold on doing the same task.
Also, even if you have a 1 in 10,000 catastrophic launch failure rate, you will in very short order spray highly radioactive waste all over the upper atmosphere trying to get it to the sun.
Fossil fuels and nuclear don't have the "same issue" -- fossil fuels use emits massive amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere creating catastrophic future warming of the planet endangering the human species' survival as we know it. Nuclear fuel use produces some highly dangerous waste material that has to be stored or eliminated.
Which problem would you rather have society engineer solutions for? I'm voting for nuclear.
I'm not saying you don't know this already, but I am saying that your post gives the wrong impression.
That is false. I live in California and there are people here, including some close to me, who have individual plans and who are keeping their existing plans. A LOT of individual policies in California were cancelled but it is wrong to say that ALL of them are. Plans issued and unchanged prior to a particular date specified in the law are allowed to be grandfathered.
How do you short bitcoin? There are market options for shorting stocks (via contracts I think) and for traditional currency I'm not so sure, but I'd guess similar vehicles are available. Is there a way to short bitcoins?
Lost in the operator game.. The original article talks about *drives* D through I on a Windows machine. Some idiot (appears to be Michael Mimoso) decided that "partition" is a more pro-sounding synonym for "drive" and started using both interchangeably in the article from OP. So we are all left scratching our heads. The point I think is that the thing tries to destroy data on network and attached storage devices, rather than wiping C drive which would give itself away much more quickly..
That's pretty silly. It's true that MS locked in a juicy piece of revenue when it retained ownership of IBM's OS for the original PC. But I don't think a serious argument can be made that all the subsequent successes stem from that one line of revenue or IP. The transition to Windows was based on the Mac's success not the IBM PC. The work with IBM on OS/2 and converted to Win NT was not premised on that DOS license. Office, MS SQL and just keep counting their market successes from there.
I'm not make an arguement about DRM inherently at the moment, but I use the B&N NookBook products. I can read the books any of a number devices. I read on a PC, my Transformer tablet, my B&N e-ink reader and on my Android phone (I'm certain it works on a mac and iphone/pad as well). So while the format is not open (aka w/out DRM) they definitely give you the ability to read the book on a variety of h/w platforms.
You can also side-load books into a device and I believe that works for DRM content so long as you have the inherent DRM access rights associated with that content. So I can copy my DRM'ed epubs right off my e-reader and back them up. Then I can copy then back later and they will work with my account still.
Granted when B&N goes out of business, etc, there may be some problems (not sure how their DRM is operated and whether it needs to check-in with a home base periodically to keep my DRM books open). I've had my device disconnected from the internet for a month with no problems but who knows.
Huh - interesting point. I would have a thought a few exploding bolts would do the job, not a fiery end but would end up with a drone in lots of pieces, instead of a whole stealth drone in the hands of Iran.. Which seems like something they don't want.
That airframe was stealthy apparently so I'd guess it's pretty valuable. Note the seals tried to destroy the airframe of their stealthy (and up to that point unknown) helicopter on the Bin Laden raid, partially successfully.
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Consumers won't like it unless they get theft and fraud protection equivalent to what the credit card companies offer (and are required by law to offer). I use a credit card b/c "who cares if it gets stolen I'm not liable." Whereas if someone steals money from my bank account I'm going to have show the bank was at fault in order to get the funds *restored.* With credit cards I just call the company, dispute the charge and don't pay the bill. If this group of retailers wants to take on that liability, then I don't see a problem. But I suspect they won't take that (very expensive) liability on, and so you're right that consumers won't like it..
Yeah - well said. I come back to slashdot every once in a while, but in comment threads with an idiot to informed quotient like this one, I won't be back again for a long time.
The plural of anecdote is not data. While your CS class of 250 makes for an interesting story, it is not relevant (pro or con) to discussing the causes of national trends.
Nice hack. I think I've typed on one of those way back when, but I can't remember what for. IIRC, that model has a lighter action than the model M? Still clicky but not that crazy machine crack like the M? Do I remember that right? Pretty cool you've made it last..
IIRC Win 98 was an unworkable mess from the start.
Link to save on research: http://www.wuft.org/news/2014/...
There's is a genetic component to intelligence, but it's just a very insignificant one, at least as far as modern science can tell. Read this book to learn more: http://www.amazon.com/Intellig...
The main problem with genetic arguments is that environmental advantages swamp genetic advantages when it comes to human intelligence, however defined. And importantly, how you define intelligence is driven by culture, which unsurprisingly means that the advantaged people in a culture are measured as more intelligent.
I like the way Nisbett goes after this topic b/c he doesn't deny any impact of genetics for intelligence, but he does give strong research evidence that it's not a meaningful measurement, so not really worth worrying about.
As a greybeard who used to write dynamic gopher sites, I really like to write in Ruby/Sinatra now. It gives me access to lots of nice features (I can install activerecord when I need it) and I can build APIs super quickly and everything in between. And I can get down to the bottom of the network stack pretty easily when I want to. I do miss the Ruby/Rails built-in testing framework, but otherwise haven't looked back since switching from that environment.
I think the really interesting issue here is whether the programming should favor the occupants or the overall situation? And how to balance?
If you have the choice between running down a pedestrian or swerving to hit a concrete barrier at high speed, you might want to choose the pedestrian if your goal is to preserve the lives of the occupants who may die if you choose the retaining wall.
But all low speeds, you want to pick the retaining wall because the occupants wouldn't die - it would just damage the car.
Or in the OP example, picking the smaller car to crash into might increase survivability for the passenges of the autonomous car, but increase deaths for the smaller car being hit. Whereas hitting the larger car (more solidly built, more mass) might injure the occupants of the autonomous car more..
Going further OT here.. My understanding is that transactions into and out of some bitcoin exchanges can effectively wash out this "paper" trail? So if the criminal seller and buyer arrange to exchange bitcoins via certain exchanges (designed to wash/hide transaction histories), criminal seller hands over one set of bitcoins and criminal buyer walks way with different bitcoins altogether? Since there's no regulation to my knowledge of money laundering in bitcoin exchanges (yet) this isn't even an illegal business practice?
I disagree - godaddy should not rely on last 4 digits of CC for anything related to security. Paypal giving up the last 4 digits is way less of a problem than godaddy relying on them. The two systems interlocked of course is where this real misery occurred.
How much more expensive? I went to their website and they don't even print their price list anywhere I could see.
Yeah double plus. I just went an enabled two factor on my registrar account. Kind of obvious that having a weak auth there is a major security hole but I hadn't really been paying attention to it.
A treadmill just lets them manage power cables and what not, plus controlling photography etc. That thing is walking autonomously and unsupported, upright on two legs. And regarding the drunk over broken ground, it's almost exactly what a human would look like if they had a blindfold on doing the same task.
Plus 4 legged running: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chPanW0QWhA -- granted not autonomous yet.
Also, even if you have a 1 in 10,000 catastrophic launch failure rate, you will in very short order spray highly radioactive waste all over the upper atmosphere trying to get it to the sun.
Fossil fuels and nuclear don't have the "same issue" -- fossil fuels use emits massive amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere creating catastrophic future warming of the planet endangering the human species' survival as we know it. Nuclear fuel use produces some highly dangerous waste material that has to be stored or eliminated.
Which problem would you rather have society engineer solutions for? I'm voting for nuclear.
I'm not saying you don't know this already, but I am saying that your post gives the wrong impression.
Granted these are controlled experiments with prototypes, but autonomous, two legged walking by robots is not a "way off" - it's been done:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mclbVTIYG8E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD6Okylclb8
And regarding four legs - seems like BD among others seem well past the "barely" stage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3fmFTtP9g
But I guess it's all in your definitions of way off and barely..
That is false. I live in California and there are people here, including some close to me, who have individual plans and who are keeping their existing plans. A LOT of individual policies in California were cancelled but it is wrong to say that ALL of them are. Plans issued and unchanged prior to a particular date specified in the law are allowed to be grandfathered.
Reducto ad absurdum against a straw man is not generally considered a valid way to win an argument.
How do you short bitcoin? There are market options for shorting stocks (via contracts I think) and for traditional currency I'm not so sure, but I'd guess similar vehicles are available. Is there a way to short bitcoins?
Lost in the operator game.. The original article talks about *drives* D through I on a Windows machine. Some idiot (appears to be Michael Mimoso) decided that "partition" is a more pro-sounding synonym for "drive" and started using both interchangeably in the article from OP. So we are all left scratching our heads. The point I think is that the thing tries to destroy data on network and attached storage devices, rather than wiping C drive which would give itself away much more quickly..
That's pretty silly. It's true that MS locked in a juicy piece of revenue when it retained ownership of IBM's OS for the original PC. But I don't think a serious argument can be made that all the subsequent successes stem from that one line of revenue or IP. The transition to Windows was based on the Mac's success not the IBM PC. The work with IBM on OS/2 and converted to Win NT was not premised on that DOS license. Office, MS SQL and just keep counting their market successes from there.
I'm not make an arguement about DRM inherently at the moment, but I use the B&N NookBook products. I can read the books any of a number devices. I read on a PC, my Transformer tablet, my B&N e-ink reader and on my Android phone (I'm certain it works on a mac and iphone/pad as well). So while the format is not open (aka w/out DRM) they definitely give you the ability to read the book on a variety of h/w platforms.
You can also side-load books into a device and I believe that works for DRM content so long as you have the inherent DRM access rights associated with that content. So I can copy my DRM'ed epubs right off my e-reader and back them up. Then I can copy then back later and they will work with my account still.
Granted when B&N goes out of business, etc, there may be some problems (not sure how their DRM is operated and whether it needs to check-in with a home base periodically to keep my DRM books open). I've had my device disconnected from the internet for a month with no problems but who knows.
Huh - interesting point. I would have a thought a few exploding bolts would do the job, not a fiery end but would end up with a drone in lots of pieces, instead of a whole stealth drone in the hands of Iran.. Which seems like something they don't want.
That airframe was stealthy apparently so I'd guess it's pretty valuable. Note the seals tried to destroy the airframe of their stealthy (and up to that point unknown) helicopter on the Bin Laden raid, partially successfully.