... in which one faction points out that ads are funding much of the (commercial) Web, and if you suppress them, you won't have all that Free Content. Meanwhile another fraction is pointing out the huge waste of bandwidth and human time soaked up by all those annoying ads. And yet another faction takes the "Can't we all just get along" approach, by suggesting that the commercial folks should make their ads less annoying so that people don't suppress them.
Screw annoyance, my ISP charges by the bit! If that's how it's going to be, then you're damn skippy I want more control over what bits get sent down my pipe.
If the advertisers want to bitch, they should bitch to Comcast/Mediacon/whoever.
Neither do human drivers, but that doesn't change the fact they occasionally get themselves into bad situations by putting too much trust into "the computer."
Sensors and image recognition could easily detect incorrect GPS readings and bad map data.
Assuming the computer knows beforehand that the readings are incorrect. There are roads that go into Death's Valley, for example.
The failure mode might not be optimal - perhaps the car would stop and signal an error (including sending a notification to the central office) - but it'd hardly be catastrophic.
Yea, well, we could speculate all day on what *might* happen in that type of situation, but we'll never know for sure until it happens.
Because, eventually, society is going to get fed up with not being able to do anything without having advertisements shoved in their faces every second, and will actively revolt by deliberately avoiding any and all businesses whose adverts pissed them off.
reductio ad absurdum aside (there are more types of government than modern-US-style and Somolian-style), I don't think you understand how a constitutional republic, specifically this one, is designed to operate.
FWIW, the only rights that the People have given up, per the US Constitution, are the powers enumerated to the government in said document. Hell, it evensays as much.
Again, not breaking the letter of the Constitution, but certainly the spirit.
IMO, the spirit of law is the important part.
Said another way, everyone is free to petition the government, but nothing requires the government to listen, so they won't, unless you make it worth their while to listen.
OK, so the I guess the question becomes, how do we common folk make it worth their while? Obviously voting isn't the answer.
Well, sure, but it's worth noting that all too often the cure is worse than the disease. "Public Safety" is a common battle cry of people who want to take away some or all of your rights.
The universal group is a direct result of being unwilling to profile passengers based on criteria such as "males of Middle Eastern origin" or "Muslims" just because 99+% of terrorists fit that profile, because doing so would be Politically Incorrect.
Evidently being part of the "Reality Based Community" doesn't involve being willing to deal with the reality of which ethnic groups the overwhelming majority of terrorists come from.
Right on! Hell, while we're at it, why not round all the bastards up, put little crescent badges on their shirts, then stick 'em in rail cars and ship 'em off to the dea.. er, I mean, "work" camps!
Serious question - if you're going to go so far as to consider an entire ethnic group that consists of billions of people suspect because of a few bad actors, why not go full Nazi on them?
The thing about international terrorism is that they are patient. If you go by profiles and you stop searching 70 year old grannies, eventually they will find a way to radicalize 70 year old grannies. We aren't talking football hooligans here. The 9/11 attackers didn't fit the profile for "professional terrorist" either, they looked like I.T. people in Kakkis.
So... maybe we should, I dunno, stop doing shit that gives people incentive to attack us? Like, say, invading sovereign nations on made-up evidence, or bombing the holy living hell out of civilian populations because we think there might have been a 'terrorist' somewhere in their village?
Oh, right, how could I forget - they don't attack us because we attack them, they do it because Dur, they hates our freedom! That explains why Canada is basically one big crater...
A buddy of mine was just telling me last week that his 3rd grade daughter was suspended for defending herself against a known bully; the school's rationale? She had a conversation with the bully once before, which in their eyes counts as a willing confrontation.
I wonder, sometimes, how much more fucked up these policies can get before the pendulum swings in the other direction.
It is easy enough to make a makeshift weapon past the checkpoints, and the 9/11 hijackers all used makeshift weapons. I am not even plotting an attack and I can think of a half dozen ways to arm myself on the other side of a TSA checkpoint.
Exactly - all the security theater in the world won't do you a lick of good so long as one can still convince an underpaid, disgruntled porter to stash weapons in the terminal for a couple hundred bucks.
Uh, no - the definition of elegance is "pleasingly graceful and stylish in appearance or manner," not "doing the same thing as everyone else, in a slightly different manner."
Nope; the last RWD 'Rolla was the 1987 AE-86 (Hachi Roku) GT-S.
I did, at one point, try to stick a high compression JDM engine in one of my '92s, but the wiring harness and exhaust parts disappeared off the engine during shipping, and were pretty much irreplaceable.:(
The fact that you're such a brainless pot-smoker that you felt compelled to stick "420" in your handle makes me feel better about ignoring pretty much everything you say.
Except the additional step of entering a PIN if you haven't used the print reader in 2 days.
Another example of Apple taking an old idea and applying it in a very elegant fashion.
A) it's not an 'old idea;' tube-amplifiers are an old idea.
B) there's nothing all that elegant about utilizing the latest technology in your gadget. Sure, it's neat, and I look forward to the tech becoming widespread (and inevitably hacked), but calling it 'elegant' smacks of the Reality Distortion Field.
A ballet dancer's movements are elegant; putting modern tech in modern devices is par-for-the-course.
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Screw annoyance, my ISP charges by the bit! If that's how it's going to be, then you're damn skippy I want more control over what bits get sent down my pipe.
If the advertisers want to bitch, they should bitch to Comcast/Mediacon/whoever.
No windows, the entire passenger area covered with advertising screens.
Targeted advertising screens. Not to mention recording your shopping habits and recording anything you say while inside the cab....
Seditious speech detected. Please remain calm and seated as your route is redirected to the nearest government re-education center.
Self-driving cars don't rely on GPS alone
Neither do human drivers, but that doesn't change the fact they occasionally get themselves into bad situations by putting too much trust into "the computer."
Sensors and image recognition could easily detect incorrect GPS readings and bad map data.
Assuming the computer knows beforehand that the readings are incorrect. There are roads that go into Death's Valley, for example.
The failure mode might not be optimal - perhaps the car would stop and signal an error (including sending a notification to the central office) - but it'd hardly be catastrophic.
Yea, well, we could speculate all day on what *might* happen in that type of situation, but we'll never know for sure until it happens.
Because, eventually, society is going to get fed up with not being able to do anything without having advertisements shoved in their faces every second, and will actively revolt by deliberately avoiding any and all businesses whose adverts pissed them off.
At least, in a perfect world, where everyone is just like me.
Don't forget the possibilities of Death by GPS.
Best part of that link is reading through the comments and imagining how they would/would not apply to an auto-car.
That doesn't make any sense.
... a statement which pretty much sums up this summary.
I'm still pissed I was labeled a troll when I mentioned that there was no privacy in the US.
Yea, I'm sure it was because you "mentioned" it; surely you weren't labeled a troll for gems such as:
So give up on the privacy whining.
Or
The only dumbasses who care about privacy are the ones doing something they know to be illegal
Or maybe even
I bet Castro was a privacy advocate.
Now GTF my lawn, you fucking troll you.
Couldn't tell ya; I'm neither a service member nor a rapist.
Although I will say it does sound remarkably similar to the denim defense.
reductio ad absurdum aside (there are more types of government than modern-US-style and Somolian-style), I don't think you understand how a constitutional republic, specifically this one, is designed to operate.
FWIW, the only rights that the People have given up, per the US Constitution, are the powers enumerated to the government in said document. Hell, it even says as much.
Again, not breaking the letter of the Constitution, but certainly the spirit.
IMO, the spirit of law is the important part.
Said another way, everyone is free to petition the government, but nothing requires the government to listen, so they won't, unless you make it worth their while to listen.
OK, so the I guess the question becomes, how do we common folk make it worth their while? Obviously voting isn't the answer.
Well, sure, but it's worth noting that all too often the cure is worse than the disease. "Public Safety" is a common battle cry of people who want to take away some or all of your rights.
Sometimes I hate it when you're right, you know that?
But the next time there is a terrorist act carried out using a commercial flight everyone will be shrieking about how the gov't didn't do enough.
How many mice do you have in that pocket, anyway? Because I know you're not speaking for me or anyone I know with that bullshit rationale.
The universal group is a direct result of being unwilling to profile passengers based on criteria such as "males of Middle Eastern origin" or "Muslims" just because 99+% of terrorists fit that profile, because doing so would be Politically Incorrect.
Evidently being part of the "Reality Based Community" doesn't involve being willing to deal with the reality of which ethnic groups the overwhelming majority of terrorists come from.
Right on! Hell, while we're at it, why not round all the bastards up, put little crescent badges on their shirts, then stick 'em in rail cars and ship 'em off to the dea.. er, I mean, "work" camps!
Serious question - if you're going to go so far as to consider an entire ethnic group that consists of billions of people suspect because of a few bad actors, why not go full Nazi on them?
Potato, Potahto...
The thing about international terrorism is that they are patient. If you go by profiles and you stop searching 70 year old grannies, eventually they will find a way to radicalize 70 year old grannies. We aren't talking football hooligans here. The 9/11 attackers didn't fit the profile for "professional terrorist" either, they looked like I.T. people in Kakkis.
So... maybe we should, I dunno, stop doing shit that gives people incentive to attack us? Like, say, invading sovereign nations on made-up evidence, or bombing the holy living hell out of civilian populations because we think there might have been a 'terrorist' somewhere in their village?
Oh, right, how could I forget - they don't attack us because we attack them, they do it because Dur, they hates our freedom! That explains why Canada is basically one big crater...
dhs was created and given the impossible job of keeping everyone safe all the time.
Ah, well, there's the root of the problem - there is no Constitutionally guaranteed right to safety, or even the illusion of safety.
Dink.
A buddy of mine was just telling me last week that his 3rd grade daughter was suspended for defending herself against a known bully; the school's rationale? She had a conversation with the bully once before, which in their eyes counts as a willing confrontation.
I wonder, sometimes, how much more fucked up these policies can get before the pendulum swings in the other direction.
It is easy enough to make a makeshift weapon past the checkpoints, and the 9/11 hijackers all used makeshift weapons. I am not even plotting an attack and I can think of a half dozen ways to arm myself on the other side of a TSA checkpoint.
Exactly - all the security theater in the world won't do you a lick of good so long as one can still convince an underpaid, disgruntled porter to stash weapons in the terminal for a couple hundred bucks.
I'll concede the point to you, since you actually have a solid, reasonable explanation and aren't responding out of pure fanboy-ism like GP did.
Uh, no - the definition of elegance is "pleasingly graceful and stylish in appearance or manner," not "doing the same thing as everyone else, in a slightly different manner."
Nope; the last RWD 'Rolla was the 1987 AE-86 (Hachi Roku) GT-S.
I did, at one point, try to stick a high compression JDM engine in one of my '92s, but the wiring harness and exhaust parts disappeared off the engine during shipping, and were pretty much irreplaceable. :(
The fact that you're such a brainless pot-smoker that you felt compelled to stick "420" in your handle makes me feel better about ignoring pretty much everything you say.
Go eat some more Doritos, burnout.
So, when a person becomes deceased (or an appendage is removed), every single cell in their body dies instantaneously?
It doesn't add any additional steps for the user.
Except the additional step of entering a PIN if you haven't used the print reader in 2 days.
Another example of Apple taking an old idea and applying it in a very elegant fashion.
A) it's not an 'old idea;' tube-amplifiers are an old idea.
B) there's nothing all that elegant about utilizing the latest technology in your gadget. Sure, it's neat, and I look forward to the tech becoming widespread (and inevitably hacked), but calling it 'elegant' smacks of the Reality Distortion Field.
A ballet dancer's movements are elegant; putting modern tech in modern devices is par-for-the-course.