really should be mandatory given north america's average weight
Yeah, because 2h per week of gym at school is going to do very much to the weight, ha ha ha. All you need to do to undo it is to drink a couple cans of a soft drink, even if they really did work out like crazy for the entirety of those 2h.
For tax purposes, the immigration status matters very, very little. You're either nonresident or resident for tax purposes. That's *it*. You can be a resident for tax purposes but illegally present from the point of view of immigration law, for example.
He already hacked someone's account, they didn't care (the "not a bug" reply) - it apparently wasn't a person important enough. They acted like idiots. That's all. Does it take a fucking genius to understand that there is a language barrier and to do the due diligence?
The link was not broken, it demonstrated that the bug was indeed there. The Facebook imbeciles didn't follow through with proper administrative access: they had to view the private profile of a third party, you can't just do that without being logged in administrative impersonation mode. I mean, how stupid can one be?
We have had semi-automated and automated railway systems for decades. Railways are fail-safe (simply stop all trains), cars will be as well. Aeroplanes are the exception.
Even that is a bit untrue. There have been a lot of plane crashes that were caused by the pilots not putting down the plane on the nearest capable airstrip (or ditching in water). SR111 and the 2nd IL-62 crash in Poland come immediately to my mind, I'm sure there's many more.
You are sitting there watching a movie as your car drives you down the street. A child pops out from between parked cars and... your automation software had no way of "seeing ahead" that this would happen. The best it can do is sense something in the road and slam on the brakes. The car behind you... has no way of "seeing ahead" that your car would slam on the brakes.
But wait, it was only a dog. The choice of running over a dog versus creating a collision with the car behind you (and the one behind it...) a human could make. What will your automation software do?
In case of your typical permanently distracted driver who is likely to kill the kid and kill the dog no matter what, I'd take being rear ended, thank you very much.
You've just made the best argument so far why automated cars shouldn't be allowed on the streets. You have to pay attention so you can take over in case of trouble anyway, why bother with the automation?
Nope. The automation must be designed so that when you need to take over, the car is in a safe state. That's like man-machine interface 101. The whole reason for automation is so that you don't need to pay attention at all, and when you do, you can take your time.
Anyone who thinks that human-created automated driving systems will be perfect and never require instant human attention to avert disaster is the one with zero clue.
This only makes sense if you're a doofus who thinks humans are much better. Nope, they aren't, they kill thousands each month in the U.S. alone, all people with good intentions, all people who think of themselves as above average. Yes, you still have no clue, and you keep showing it left right and center.
Automation doesn't have to be perfect. It only needs to be a bit better than humans in the average case. If all automation does is cut the fatalities-per-mile rate in half, it's a win. It will be much better than that, it won't ever be perfect. Beating humans at the driving game isn't all that hard.
Good luck heating the concrete basement or other adjoining walls to 45C, as that would be necessary to really kill them
That's apparently exactly what they do... but it is also apparently a VERY costly operation.
It doesn't matter how much you wish to pay for it, it's simply infeasible with the building still in the ground. It may work by chance for buildings where the heating rate is high enough that the bed bugs won't reach the basement from a floor high up, but otherwise it's hopeless, especially in single-family residential scenarios. As soon as you have a finished basement with drywall covering the foundation walls, you're screwed - you won't ever heat the walls to anything nearly bad for bed bugs. No way. You have a big thermal resistance between the room air and the wall, and a small thermal resistance between the wall and the soil. The soil of course has some thermal resistance as well, so you could eventually heat it up enough, but it'd take weeks, and the inside of the building would need to be at 80C or so, about as high as you can go without melting stuff. Oh, and good luck exposing the inside of the entirety of concrete underground walls in any building that got offices and other finished spaces underground.
Don't worry, all that money is going to be spent on other things, spiraling into a $120,000 a day deficit in a year or two. That's usually how it goes in the U.S. People have no clue how to manage their own finances, so why would you expect them to manage big budgets any better?
In this case it's not an all or nothing dichotomy. Manually messing with ignition is just like manually messing with anything else on the car. No false dichotomy - there's just no good reason not to let the automation do everything it can.
Huh? You let go of the stick, it'll hover all right. How's that unstable, I wouldn't know.
In an all-axis-unstable plane, when you let go of the stick, you follow a chaotic-looking trajectory into the ground. Said trajectory won't even have the decency to look like a corkscrew.
1. He's not muslim, you blathering idiot. 2. He's not taking bombs on planes, nor murdering anyone, nor flying anything into buildings. He'd be dead by now. 3. If things were up to you, taken to their logical conclusion, Your Holiness would be the last person standing on this planet.
I mean, come on, how fucking stupid can you get? You win the stupid for today.
In the U.S.? Pray tell, what company is it? I only know of USAA. The mutual insurance companies don't count, they offer horrible rates, every one of them, I don't know why but they do.
$2000/year should cover 5 cars with reasonably good drivers, at a quite decent coverage - say $500k bodily injury, $50k property damage, $1000 deductible comprehensive and collision, and some odd perks.
That's if you assume that insurance=insurance. Only the minimum coverage is legally required, and such coverage is quite silly - I wouldn't feel comfortable not having at least 10x that. Just to give you an idea from the state I'm in. You need $13k per person, $25k per incident bodily injury liability and $8k property damage liability coverages. $13k pays for a day in the hospital and a simple surgery. $8k pays, maybe, for a median car. Both are really inadequate if you want some peace of mind. There's quite a bit of competition in auto insurance, and the variations in prices are quite crazy. I've seen up to 3x difference in same coverage from different sources. On top of that, various minimum-coverage-only providers, who cater to low income people, charge for said minimum coverage like a mainstream insurer would for 5-10x that.
Ha ha ha. You know what will happen? In any large city, this scenario will happen every couple of seconds, and the law enforcement system will be simply incapable of coping with it.
There will ALWAYS be situations where the automation software can't cope with a particular scenario and you have to take the wheel in a split second.
That will never be a viable option. It simply doesn't work that way. It's well known from aviation and industrial control rooms that if the human is out of the loop, it takes much, much longer than a "split second" for the human to get back into the loop. Sometimes entire minutes are not enough, I kid you not.
The automation software has capacity to "see ahead", so to speak, and can and should get the vehicle into a safe state when it looks like a handover is inevitable. The split second taking over of a wheel is your fantasy, it's basically impossible unless you're paying full attention the entire time - at that point you might as well drive the car anyway, why bother with automation. If you pay any less attention than you would if you actually drove the car, there'll be no split-second handovers. I'm serious. You simply have zero clue what you're talking about.
My microwave and my fridge run my own code, you insensitive clod. The factory interface was too stupidly done for my taste, so I've replaced the installed OTP chips with their flash counterparts and wrote my own code from scratch. I'm thinking of doing the same thing for my dishwasher next, and then perhaps for the washing machine. And I do have a copy of IEC-60730, and am not afraid to use it, thank you very much:)
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really should be mandatory given north america's average weight
Yeah, because 2h per week of gym at school is going to do very much to the weight, ha ha ha. All you need to do to undo it is to drink a couple cans of a soft drink, even if they really did work out like crazy for the entirety of those 2h.
For tax purposes, the immigration status matters very, very little. You're either nonresident or resident for tax purposes. That's *it*. You can be a resident for tax purposes but illegally present from the point of view of immigration law, for example.
The problem is that the rules are phenomenally complex.
So, which 501c3 do you run, so that you're oh so on the forefront of teh rulez? Because I think you're just making it all up.
Sounds about as lame as lame can get :(
Man, if they can't get the log for exactly what transpired when they see a messed up entry, they are fucked already.
He already hacked someone's account, they didn't care (the "not a bug" reply) - it apparently wasn't a person important enough. They acted like idiots. That's all. Does it take a fucking genius to understand that there is a language barrier and to do the due diligence?
The link was not broken, it demonstrated that the bug was indeed there. The Facebook imbeciles didn't follow through with proper administrative access: they had to view the private profile of a third party, you can't just do that without being logged in administrative impersonation mode. I mean, how stupid can one be?
Protip: there are no names. Nobody will ever identify themselves to you, other than with a numerical badge id.
The obvious solution: wreck your credit so badly that no one will let you, or anyone else, open a credit card ;)
We have had semi-automated and automated railway systems for decades. Railways are fail-safe (simply stop all trains), cars will be as well. Aeroplanes are the exception.
Even that is a bit untrue. There have been a lot of plane crashes that were caused by the pilots not putting down the plane on the nearest capable airstrip (or ditching in water). SR111 and the 2nd IL-62 crash in Poland come immediately to my mind, I'm sure there's many more.
You are sitting there watching a movie as your car drives you down the street. A child pops out from between parked cars and ... your automation software had no way of "seeing ahead" that this would happen. The best it can do is sense something in the road and slam on the brakes. The car behind you ... has no way of "seeing ahead" that your car would slam on the brakes.
But wait, it was only a dog. The choice of running over a dog versus creating a collision with the car behind you (and the one behind it...) a human could make. What will your automation software do?
In case of your typical permanently distracted driver who is likely to kill the kid and kill the dog no matter what, I'd take being rear ended, thank you very much.
You've just made the best argument so far why automated cars shouldn't be allowed on the streets. You have to pay attention so you can take over in case of trouble anyway, why bother with the automation?
Nope. The automation must be designed so that when you need to take over, the car is in a safe state. That's like man-machine interface 101. The whole reason for automation is so that you don't need to pay attention at all, and when you do, you can take your time.
Anyone who thinks that human-created automated driving systems will be perfect and never require instant human attention to avert disaster is the one with zero clue.
This only makes sense if you're a doofus who thinks humans are much better. Nope, they aren't, they kill thousands each month in the U.S. alone, all people with good intentions, all people who think of themselves as above average. Yes, you still have no clue, and you keep showing it left right and center.
Automation doesn't have to be perfect. It only needs to be a bit better than humans in the average case. If all automation does is cut the fatalities-per-mile rate in half, it's a win. It will be much better than that, it won't ever be perfect. Beating humans at the driving game isn't all that hard.
Good luck heating the concrete basement or other adjoining walls to 45C, as that would be necessary to really kill them
That's apparently exactly what they do... but it is also apparently a VERY costly operation.
It doesn't matter how much you wish to pay for it, it's simply infeasible with the building still in the ground. It may work by chance for buildings where the heating rate is high enough that the bed bugs won't reach the basement from a floor high up, but otherwise it's hopeless, especially in single-family residential scenarios. As soon as you have a finished basement with drywall covering the foundation walls, you're screwed - you won't ever heat the walls to anything nearly bad for bed bugs. No way. You have a big thermal resistance between the room air and the wall, and a small thermal resistance between the wall and the soil. The soil of course has some thermal resistance as well, so you could eventually heat it up enough, but it'd take weeks, and the inside of the building would need to be at 80C or so, about as high as you can go without melting stuff. Oh, and good luck exposing the inside of the entirety of concrete underground walls in any building that got offices and other finished spaces underground.
Don't worry, all that money is going to be spent on other things, spiraling into a $120,000 a day deficit in a year or two. That's usually how it goes in the U.S. People have no clue how to manage their own finances, so why would you expect them to manage big budgets any better?
In this case it's not an all or nothing dichotomy. Manually messing with ignition is just like manually messing with anything else on the car. No false dichotomy - there's just no good reason not to let the automation do everything it can.
Huh? You let go of the stick, it'll hover all right. How's that unstable, I wouldn't know.
In an all-axis-unstable plane, when you let go of the stick, you follow a chaotic-looking trajectory into the ground. Said trajectory won't even have the decency to look like a corkscrew.
1. He's not muslim, you blathering idiot.
2. He's not taking bombs on planes, nor murdering anyone, nor flying anything into buildings. He'd be dead by now.
3. If things were up to you, taken to their logical conclusion, Your Holiness would be the last person standing on this planet.
I mean, come on, how fucking stupid can you get? You win the stupid for today.
Agreed. There probably is a second strap, just not in use. It's just recklessness, cubed.
In the U.S.? Pray tell, what company is it? I only know of USAA. The mutual insurance companies don't count, they offer horrible rates, every one of them, I don't know why but they do.
$2000/year should cover 5 cars with reasonably good drivers, at a quite decent coverage - say $500k bodily injury, $50k property damage, $1000 deductible comprehensive and collision, and some odd perks.
That's if you assume that insurance=insurance. Only the minimum coverage is legally required, and such coverage is quite silly - I wouldn't feel comfortable not having at least 10x that. Just to give you an idea from the state I'm in. You need $13k per person, $25k per incident bodily injury liability and $8k property damage liability coverages. $13k pays for a day in the hospital and a simple surgery. $8k pays, maybe, for a median car. Both are really inadequate if you want some peace of mind. There's quite a bit of competition in auto insurance, and the variations in prices are quite crazy. I've seen up to 3x difference in same coverage from different sources. On top of that, various minimum-coverage-only providers, who cater to low income people, charge for said minimum coverage like a mainstream insurer would for 5-10x that.
Congratulations, you've just figured out the root password to all those macho "but I want to be in control" guys who are against them. :)
With great power comes great responsibility :)
Requiring a driver to be ready to take over from the computer at all times
That is a fantasy. Humans don't work this way. It's simply an impossible thing to expect. I'm serious.
Ha ha ha. You know what will happen? In any large city, this scenario will happen every couple of seconds, and the law enforcement system will be simply incapable of coping with it.
There will ALWAYS be situations where the automation software can't cope with a particular scenario and you have to take the wheel in a split second.
That will never be a viable option. It simply doesn't work that way. It's well known from aviation and industrial control rooms that if the human is out of the loop, it takes much, much longer than a "split second" for the human to get back into the loop. Sometimes entire minutes are not enough, I kid you not.
The automation software has capacity to "see ahead", so to speak, and can and should get the vehicle into a safe state when it looks like a handover is inevitable. The split second taking over of a wheel is your fantasy, it's basically impossible unless you're paying full attention the entire time - at that point you might as well drive the car anyway, why bother with automation. If you pay any less attention than you would if you actually drove the car, there'll be no split-second handovers. I'm serious. You simply have zero clue what you're talking about.
My microwave and my fridge run my own code, you insensitive clod. The factory interface was too stupidly done for my taste, so I've replaced the installed OTP chips with their flash counterparts and wrote my own code from scratch. I'm thinking of doing the same thing for my dishwasher next, and then perhaps for the washing machine. And I do have a copy of IEC-60730, and am not afraid to use it, thank you very much :)