We don't have nothing. A number of rockets could be man-rated within a year if it were essential. Also most of the science return in our space program comes from unmanned missions, for which there is no shortage of US and EU launchers. It also actually turns out keeping Russians employed in our space program is a plus for world peace. Manned spaceflight is just not interesting enough to put in more resources. If we had a shuttle replacement, what would be use it for? going to the space station. Not exactly a need to hurry there.
Even the "safety driver" probably expected the vehicle to see this pedestrian. If the car is only expected to react at the last possible moment, then there is literally no time for the safety driver to evaluate and take action. As you are indicating, this points to a flaw in the entire concept of a safety driver. This is also why the driver is not necessarily at fault here. If the LIDAR were malfunctioning so badly that it did not see this pedestrian, that car should not have been self-driving at all. If the system failed to detect this internal fault, then it was homicidally unsafe even with a safety driver. Either someone made the decision to run this car in a broken state and they should go to jail, or Uber's self-driving car division should be put out of business because they are recklessly endangering the public. I think even Telsa autopilot (Level 2) would have avoided killing this person even if the driver wasn't paying attention. This appears to be exactly the kind of situation that auto-braking commercials show. Is that level 1?
You should look up hubzilla, since they've done what you suggest but you appear oblivious to it. The goal is to create an open protocol so that the person providing your data management service can be changed but without you having to abandon your data and connections. If they show signs of misusing your data, you move to someone else.
We need an environment in which we can work together (collaboratively work on files, pages, documents, calendars, etc) without it being centered around an account on a particular website or company or having to be in public. That's the goal of hubzilla.
You are assuming that the demand for shipping is independent of its cost. Another possibility is that the total amount spent on shipping is the thing that is more fixed, so that as shipping becomes less expensive per item due to robots, more items get shipped. If the principle cost of shipping is labor (be it doing the work or making/maintaining the robots) then the number of "jobs" doesn't change, the amount that can be shipped for the same cost increases instead.
So... don't believe everything you read, especially if someone has paid for you to read it (targeted ads). Seems fairly obvious. It seems to me that the "new" thing is the effectiveness of targeting and that finding accurate information on platforms that optimize engagement may be disfavored. Hint: once a user finds solid info, they stop looking, so that solid info is likely to be suppressed by a system optimizing engagement. Reporters know perfectly well how to properly source their articles. That's why we have a term for it... journalism. But finding a properly sourced article these days can be surprisingly hard.
Wait so you're saying that having other countries trash their environment to sell us cheap goods is bad for US? I'm for trying to get other countries to improve their environmental regulations, but claiming that doing so will help our economy is voodoo.
Yep, that's it. Those Chinese are so much more commie, let's become more commie and show 'em how its done. But seriously... Shouldn't we WANT them investing their capital in our nation instead of theirs? Then we get to benefit from it! Any kind of "local intermediary" rule is just corruption anyway. Oh wait, we were talking about Trump right, so I guess you're good with corruption too. Government control of private ownership and legislated corruption -- sorry but I'd rather not become Russia.
My bet: Third-party location-based tracking. Moral: any app you download, turn off location access. This started by ad-supported apps asking for your location to target ads based on your current location, but has turned into snarfing your location history and targeting based on analysis of that (e.g. correlation with other people, where you sleep, etc) which is insanely invasive.
And the winner is: actual security! Apple and other vendors should fix vulnerabilities like this. What, do we want the tools outlawed and security research with it? Now there is an issue if these companies are hiding the vulnerabilities from the vendor, but it's quite possible that they are problems that Apple knows about but are tricky to fix (e.g. electronic or physical design or manufacturing issues). Timing/heating/monitoring attacks can be very hard to defend against. You know if it only costs $15k there is a good chance the black hats can already do it for a sufficiently worthwhile target.
Apple was fine with locking you to AT&T (they did!). It was Google who forced the carriers off carrier-locking by putting up the reserve bid on what became the LTE band.
Okay, I'll bite, how do you get a cryptocurrency without an ICO? How are ICO's different from issuing private banknotes and why should they not be regulated similarly to prevent fraud and malfeasance? Cryptocurrency hacks seem to think they invented something totally new, but from a monetary point of view it's mostly just a digital version of a promissory note, which for general exchange purposes was abandoned long ago in favor of fiat currencies for good reasons.
Your sarcasm implies that regulation is unnecessary because other investments are not regulated. Except they are. So you have no point. Decent strawman though.
What are they going to do, take away his guns? But that would require gun regulations... I don't think this is about laziness. Our criminal justice system has become so broken going after non-violent offenders, that actual threats, which should be treated as a crime, just get ignored. This guy should have been charged with making a substantial threat multiple times, and his access to firearms removed as a result. (i.e. not only could he not buy them, he could not possess them.) But that would require a working, effective criminal justice system and some sort of firearm ownership regulations. Neither of which we have in the U.S.
Well the FISA court in the end rejected blanket open-ended surveillance, it was the republican-controlled congress that passed a special law for it. You can complain that Obama should have rejected that, but using that a a bludgeon against all democrats is disingenuous.
That quote seems like a dodge. At its base the encryption question is one of ability, not willingness. i.e. should hardware vendors ship intentionally broken devices? Possibly the only way that should ever happen is through some governmental process. But it may be that he is being more subtle in that he is saying that Apple shouldn't make a big show about resisting the FBI compelling them to hack into their own product and instead make an honest effort and treat it as a government-funded penetration test. Then improve the next device. That is, make the security the bad guy, not themselves. If they succeed in breaking their own device, that may negatively impact their sales in the short term, but it keeps them on the side of the "good guys" and forces the FBI to fight the backdooring fight abstractly on the public stage rather than being able to vilify individual vendors. One wants to make it as clear as possible that any backdoor is much more likely to be used for criminal instead of law enforcement purposes.
I think outside of formal legal proceedings, which are as much about limitations on police power as innocence/guilt, "fruit of the poisonous tree" is meaningless. And if the republicans think that collusion with foreign agents is less like treason because of some technical chain of evidence BS about how it was discovered, I think they will be sorely mistaken. It may keep some of them out of jail, but it won't keep them from being traitors.
You are confusing the office of the president with the person of the president. And that is the difference between us and a dictatorship. The FBI and DOJ's function is based on LAWS not the opinion of the current president. If anything, the FBI/DOJ kept this under wraps long enough to not influence the election. As a result, it has become much more complicated to prosecute the criminals because some of them and/or their associates are now in the government. Remind me again... why are Trump's children running the government? isn't nepotism an obvious form of corruption? Where did all the moral, patriotic republicans go?
Slashdot Mirror
We don't have nothing. A number of rockets could be man-rated within a year if it were essential. Also most of the science return in our space program comes from unmanned missions, for which there is no shortage of US and EU launchers. It also actually turns out keeping Russians employed in our space program is a plus for world peace. Manned spaceflight is just not interesting enough to put in more resources. If we had a shuttle replacement, what would be use it for? going to the space station. Not exactly a need to hurry there.
Even the "safety driver" probably expected the vehicle to see this pedestrian. If the car is only expected to react at the last possible moment, then there is literally no time for the safety driver to evaluate and take action. As you are indicating, this points to a flaw in the entire concept of a safety driver. This is also why the driver is not necessarily at fault here. If the LIDAR were malfunctioning so badly that it did not see this pedestrian, that car should not have been self-driving at all. If the system failed to detect this internal fault, then it was homicidally unsafe even with a safety driver. Either someone made the decision to run this car in a broken state and they should go to jail, or Uber's self-driving car division should be put out of business because they are recklessly endangering the public. I think even Telsa autopilot (Level 2) would have avoided killing this person even if the driver wasn't paying attention. This appears to be exactly the kind of situation that auto-braking commercials show. Is that level 1?
You should look up hubzilla, since they've done what you suggest but you appear oblivious to it. The goal is to create an open protocol so that the person providing your data management service can be changed but without you having to abandon your data and connections. If they show signs of misusing your data, you move to someone else. We need an environment in which we can work together (collaboratively work on files, pages, documents, calendars, etc) without it being centered around an account on a particular website or company or having to be in public. That's the goal of hubzilla.
You are assuming that the demand for shipping is independent of its cost. Another possibility is that the total amount spent on shipping is the thing that is more fixed, so that as shipping becomes less expensive per item due to robots, more items get shipped. If the principle cost of shipping is labor (be it doing the work or making/maintaining the robots) then the number of "jobs" doesn't change, the amount that can be shipped for the same cost increases instead.
So... don't believe everything you read, especially if someone has paid for you to read it (targeted ads). Seems fairly obvious. It seems to me that the "new" thing is the effectiveness of targeting and that finding accurate information on platforms that optimize engagement may be disfavored. Hint: once a user finds solid info, they stop looking, so that solid info is likely to be suppressed by a system optimizing engagement. Reporters know perfectly well how to properly source their articles. That's why we have a term for it... journalism. But finding a properly sourced article these days can be surprisingly hard.
Yep, I think regulatory capture is the applicable term here, which is typically thought of as a form of corruption.
Wait so you're saying that having other countries trash their environment to sell us cheap goods is bad for US? I'm for trying to get other countries to improve their environmental regulations, but claiming that doing so will help our economy is voodoo.
Yep, that's it. Those Chinese are so much more commie, let's become more commie and show 'em how its done. But seriously... Shouldn't we WANT them investing their capital in our nation instead of theirs? Then we get to benefit from it! Any kind of "local intermediary" rule is just corruption anyway. Oh wait, we were talking about Trump right, so I guess you're good with corruption too. Government control of private ownership and legislated corruption -- sorry but I'd rather not become Russia.
My bet: Third-party location-based tracking. Moral: any app you download, turn off location access. This started by ad-supported apps asking for your location to target ads based on your current location, but has turned into snarfing your location history and targeting based on analysis of that (e.g. correlation with other people, where you sleep, etc) which is insanely invasive.
And the winner is: actual security! Apple and other vendors should fix vulnerabilities like this. What, do we want the tools outlawed and security research with it? Now there is an issue if these companies are hiding the vulnerabilities from the vendor, but it's quite possible that they are problems that Apple knows about but are tricky to fix (e.g. electronic or physical design or manufacturing issues). Timing/heating/monitoring attacks can be very hard to defend against. You know if it only costs $15k there is a good chance the black hats can already do it for a sufficiently worthwhile target.
Apple was fine with locking you to AT&T (they did!). It was Google who forced the carriers off carrier-locking by putting up the reserve bid on what became the LTE band.
Okay, I'll bite, how do you get a cryptocurrency without an ICO? How are ICO's different from issuing private banknotes and why should they not be regulated similarly to prevent fraud and malfeasance? Cryptocurrency hacks seem to think they invented something totally new, but from a monetary point of view it's mostly just a digital version of a promissory note, which for general exchange purposes was abandoned long ago in favor of fiat currencies for good reasons.
Yep, because what we really want is a world where things like the great depression happen all the time. Starving people, etc. Good times.
Great, then guy who lost it all can shoot you instead of me when he is starving in the street. You said it should be painful.
Your sarcasm implies that regulation is unnecessary because other investments are not regulated. Except they are. So you have no point. Decent strawman though.
What are they going to do, take away his guns? But that would require gun regulations... I don't think this is about laziness. Our criminal justice system has become so broken going after non-violent offenders, that actual threats, which should be treated as a crime, just get ignored. This guy should have been charged with making a substantial threat multiple times, and his access to firearms removed as a result. (i.e. not only could he not buy them, he could not possess them.) But that would require a working, effective criminal justice system and some sort of firearm ownership regulations. Neither of which we have in the U.S.
The difference between selling user data and selling microtargeted ads based on user data, while existing, is not really relevant here.
Well the FISA court in the end rejected blanket open-ended surveillance, it was the republican-controlled congress that passed a special law for it. You can complain that Obama should have rejected that, but using that a a bludgeon against all democrats is disingenuous.
That quote seems like a dodge. At its base the encryption question is one of ability, not willingness. i.e. should hardware vendors ship intentionally broken devices? Possibly the only way that should ever happen is through some governmental process. But it may be that he is being more subtle in that he is saying that Apple shouldn't make a big show about resisting the FBI compelling them to hack into their own product and instead make an honest effort and treat it as a government-funded penetration test. Then improve the next device. That is, make the security the bad guy, not themselves. If they succeed in breaking their own device, that may negatively impact their sales in the short term, but it keeps them on the side of the "good guys" and forces the FBI to fight the backdooring fight abstractly on the public stage rather than being able to vilify individual vendors. One wants to make it as clear as possible that any backdoor is much more likely to be used for criminal instead of law enforcement purposes.
Even if the vaccine doesn't prevent this flu, it makes it much less likely that you will die of it.
I would argue it shouldn't even be available in the app stores. We only pretend it isn't spyware/malware.
I use cookie autodelete too. Tracking isn't confined to ads.
Nice try. Restricting access by the public and press is not the same as solitary confinement.
I think outside of formal legal proceedings, which are as much about limitations on police power as innocence/guilt, "fruit of the poisonous tree" is meaningless. And if the republicans think that collusion with foreign agents is less like treason because of some technical chain of evidence BS about how it was discovered, I think they will be sorely mistaken. It may keep some of them out of jail, but it won't keep them from being traitors.
You are confusing the office of the president with the person of the president. And that is the difference between us and a dictatorship. The FBI and DOJ's function is based on LAWS not the opinion of the current president. If anything, the FBI/DOJ kept this under wraps long enough to not influence the election. As a result, it has become much more complicated to prosecute the criminals because some of them and/or their associates are now in the government. Remind me again... why are Trump's children running the government? isn't nepotism an obvious form of corruption? Where did all the moral, patriotic republicans go?