Over here they don't even give you the option to get a passport without that chip (Switzerland does, though, but not the EU countries). In fact, I'm legally required to have an "ID card" that also contains that chip and has to be fingerprinted for even though it's not even valid for travel outside the EU. I'm also required to carry it with me always--it's an offence to be unable to produce it upon request by the relevant authorities. That's cops and other government types, but includes many (but not all) kinds of rent-a-cops since they do have some sort of legal status. Everyone 14 years old and up is required to comply. Thus this convenient vehicle of chipping passports spread its effects far and wide.
Where is that? Not in the UK, but then we never fully played by the rules. Now we don't even want to play the game apparently but I digress. I've never seen a biomentric pass card thing. The idea gets bandied about now and again but usually shut down pretty quick. I know there's a general EU ID card thing but never heard that it or something similar was mandatory.
Hmmm, travel to the USA anywhere else on the planet. Tough choice but I'll go with anywhere else on the planet. I've pretty much been up and down Asia, continental Europe, UK and the Middle East. The USA was on my todo list (just never got around to it, came close in 2010), looks like it's now off it.
My work's on about sending me to India for two weeks for some shit. It sounds like a real bad time, but still better than having to go to the US. I'm sure once you get in it's fine but the whole process just makes me want to run the fuck away.
You obviously don't use windows phone. You can't even add email address to it. Still though. Two fucking misplaced apostrophes. Take them as spares for all the ones that get missed. You people need to chill the fuck out.
If you read the full sentence you quoted you'd realise I show that I know what it means. Still, how is being disinclined to reading related to two autocorrect related misplaced apostrophes'?
Maybe, but as I'm choosing to read this site and misplaced apostrophes' is a spelling issue rather than a reading one his choice of alliterate is maybe not the best. Furthermore people choose to read Facebook and all these gossip rags so maybe alliterate is not the best choice for them either as that's who he's obviously trying to compare me too when their posts are barely legible and illiterate is a much better choice of contrived insult. But what do I know? He probably has a degree in the arts.
I hope you don't have better things to do. Wow, two misplaced apostrophes'. With all the shitty grammar around here that's what you choose. I also hope you never type from a mobile device that switches it's for its and who's for whos unless you go back and correct the autocorrect lest you suffer the massive embarrassment I have at the hands of such a literary master as yourself. Let it go, kid.
Also, alliterate? Surely you mean illiterate? It's fairly obvious I choose to read.
Before the data can be stored, it'll be automatically scanned to make sure it provides the minimum required amount of social justice material
And isn't just copyrighted content ripped off from everywhere because spoiler alert. that's what teaching materials are. Cue **IAA vs fair use in 3...2...
It's not funny, that's actually what the new Windows 10 Upgrade dialog looks like, happened to me personally.
It just said tomorrow it will upgrade to windows 10, if you don't access this dialog by then, it will go on automatically.
If I was gone over the weekend, as I usually leave my computer on in case I need to remote in, by the time I was back, it would have upgraded without any interaction.
The level of lack of respect from Microsoft is truly incredible.
Could you not just remote in and stop it? Surely if you're tech savvy enough to remote into anything you'd be aware of this issue and want to nip it in the bud.
You cannot agree to have your computer fucked up in an automatic update in an EULA. It seems like the judge agreed.
You can choose to ignore system messages without reading them though. I'm not saying ms are right or even not massive dicks about this but she will have been told about it. Especially as she's using this computer to run a business, depending on the size she should have someone who's job that is or be vaguely aware of her mission critical equipment. In it's height you could barely open facebook without a bunch of people moaning that it happened to them seemingly oblivious to everyone else it happened to.
You're right, it is a shit scenario but the best I could do off the top of my head. The point still stands though, for the moment at least. Visual recognition of things, especially in a high speed dynamic environment like driving is very difficult for computer but very easy for people. That will obviously change as computers get more powerful and access to more sensor types but that's all in the future.
Well on some level though we have already made these moral decisions as a society. Paramedics and ER docs are trained to triage. Yes they do address the people who are in the most immediate jeopardy of life first, but of those they focus on the ones the suspect can be saved and the ones they suspect are to badly injured are moved to the back of the line at least within the class of people immediately endangered.
That's the point though isn't it. Paramedics and that are trained to take the humanity out of it and act on rational judgement. I'm sure some of them have terrible issues over things they've done or not done but ultimately have done the right thing. Regular people just flap around and everyone dies. In this instance it's the regular people now that want control over the cold hard calculations that need doing. The person who calls the paramedic does't even try to tell them what to do so why should they now?
My opinion is that the car should try and save it's own occupants above all else, if that causes a collision with another vehicle then they have to count on their own systems to save them, pedestrians also have their own built in systems that kick in. No system is going to be perfect but as long as it results in less total deaths it's a win.
I really hate this whole line of AI driver philosophy, because it seems to me to be largely pointless blather about nothing. We live in a world where gigahertz processors are cheap and plentyful. To a computer, that can take data samples thousands of times per second, a 60 mph car is traveling at a glacial speed.
That may be true but does nothing to alter the laws of physics.
Say you're going down a busy two way street AI driving. Traffic coming the other way is fairly solid and steady moving. As you're happily driving along some prick in a car pulls out in front of you (closer than a manually driven car would be because the ai has the reaction time and judgement to slot perfectly into the traffic) but at the same moment something happens in front of them which forces him to stop dead inside your braking distance. Then what? Your vehicle is faced with swerve into oncoming traffic, swerve into pedestrian occupied sidewalk or continue into collision. It may have all the time in the world (relatively) to pick one but it has to pick and physics says it's going to hit something. Unlikely scenario, true but stranger things have happened at sea.
In a manual transmission, putting the car in gear is the parking brake. If parked facing uphill, you put your vehicle in first, if you're parking facing downhill, put the vehicle in reverse.
Handbrake isn't even necessary, and in fact I simply never touch it.
The thing is the gearbox isn't a brake. It's a gearbox. The brake is a brake is is for, well braking.
The truth is the computer has to assess the situation exactly like a human brain using sensors which have a finite accuracy and some uncertainity on the readings.
Yes and no. Yes, it has to assess the situation much like a human brain would by taking inputs and choosing a course of action. No, it isn't at all like a human brain. For one thing, an autonomous car has a lot more information at its disposal than a human brain does. In particular, it has multiple cameras, so it doesn't have to look to see if the left lane is clear for an emergency evasion. It already knows. Those critical milliseconds can often make the difference between a good outcome and a bad one.
The problem with that is, at the moment at least, analysing those images not easy for a computer to do whereas you and I do it automatically. Say your car has gone off the road for some reason as is heading toward a solid wall with a car sized gate in it. A human is instantly going to recognise the gate and try to steer the car at it. How long is it going to take the computer to detect that? It's like that xkcd where some guy is saying we need this app to detect if a picture was taken in a national park and the programmer is like "sure, gimmie 5 minutes and a list of coordinates" and then the next frame says we need this app to recogise if it's a picture of a bird and the response is "sure, I'll need a research team and five years".
And notice that this is the same issue behind the Will Smith film, "I, Robot". Will's character is rescued from drowning by a robot that lets a little girl drown instead. The robot had calculated the chances of saving each and Will won the AI lottery.
That's the whole point though. Who decides who's life is worth more and should be saved first? It's like, I can save this one and the other will die or I can try the save the other and both will die. It's cold but you have to take the morality out of it and act on numbers.
Why would they teach that nonsense? Add a trailer to a loaded truck, and the handbrake might not actually be capable of holding the whole thing on a modest incline, whereas the boosted brakes will, without a doubt.
Probably because it's just the standard test not part of truck school.
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Over here they don't even give you the option to get a passport without that chip (Switzerland does, though, but not the EU countries). In fact, I'm legally required to have an "ID card" that also contains that chip and has to be fingerprinted for even though it's not even valid for travel outside the EU. I'm also required to carry it with me always--it's an offence to be unable to produce it upon request by the relevant authorities. That's cops and other government types, but includes many (but not all) kinds of rent-a-cops since they do have some sort of legal status. Everyone 14 years old and up is required to comply. Thus this convenient vehicle of chipping passports spread its effects far and wide.
Where is that? Not in the UK, but then we never fully played by the rules. Now we don't even want to play the game apparently but I digress. I've never seen a biomentric pass card thing. The idea gets bandied about now and again but usually shut down pretty quick. I know there's a general EU ID card thing but never heard that it or something similar was mandatory.
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Hmmm, travel to the USA anywhere else on the planet. Tough choice but I'll go with anywhere else on the planet. I've pretty much been up and down Asia, continental Europe, UK and the Middle East. The USA was on my todo list (just never got around to it, came close in 2010), looks like it's now off it.
My work's on about sending me to India for two weeks for some shit. It sounds like a real bad time, but still better than having to go to the US. I'm sure once you get in it's fine but the whole process just makes me want to run the fuck away.
You obviously don't use windows phone. You can't even add email address to it. Still though. Two fucking misplaced apostrophes. Take them as spares for all the ones that get missed. You people need to chill the fuck out.
If you read the full sentence you quoted you'd realise I show that I know what it means. Still, how is being disinclined to reading related to two autocorrect related misplaced apostrophes'?
Maybe, but as I'm choosing to read this site and misplaced apostrophes' is a spelling issue rather than a reading one his choice of alliterate is maybe not the best. Furthermore people choose to read Facebook and all these gossip rags so maybe alliterate is not the best choice for them either as that's who he's obviously trying to compare me too when their posts are barely legible and illiterate is a much better choice of contrived insult. But what do I know? He probably has a degree in the arts.
I hope you don't have better things to do. Wow, two misplaced apostrophes'. With all the shitty grammar around here that's what you choose. I also hope you never type from a mobile device that switches it's for its and who's for whos unless you go back and correct the autocorrect lest you suffer the massive embarrassment I have at the hands of such a literary master as yourself. Let it go, kid.
Also, alliterate? Surely you mean illiterate? It's fairly obvious I choose to read.
Before the data can be stored, it'll be automatically scanned to make sure it provides the minimum required amount of social justice material
And isn't just copyrighted content ripped off from everywhere because spoiler alert. that's what teaching materials are. Cue **IAA vs fair use in 3...2...
It's not funny, that's actually what the new Windows 10 Upgrade dialog looks like, happened to me personally. It just said tomorrow it will upgrade to windows 10, if you don't access this dialog by then, it will go on automatically. If I was gone over the weekend, as I usually leave my computer on in case I need to remote in, by the time I was back, it would have upgraded without any interaction. The level of lack of respect from Microsoft is truly incredible.
Could you not just remote in and stop it? Surely if you're tech savvy enough to remote into anything you'd be aware of this issue and want to nip it in the bud.
But then he flaps a bit of paper in your face that you've signed saying he can do exactly that.
You cannot agree to have your computer fucked up in an automatic update in an EULA. It seems like the judge agreed.
You can choose to ignore system messages without reading them though. I'm not saying ms are right or even not massive dicks about this but she will have been told about it. Especially as she's using this computer to run a business, depending on the size she should have someone who's job that is or be vaguely aware of her mission critical equipment. In it's height you could barely open facebook without a bunch of people moaning that it happened to them seemingly oblivious to everyone else it happened to.
I'm not a coder and you leave my crabs out of this!
Apart from mine. And my boy's. And my dog's. Fuck the rest of you.
You're right, it is a shit scenario but the best I could do off the top of my head. The point still stands though, for the moment at least. Visual recognition of things, especially in a high speed dynamic environment like driving is very difficult for computer but very easy for people. That will obviously change as computers get more powerful and access to more sensor types but that's all in the future.
Well on some level though we have already made these moral decisions as a society. Paramedics and ER docs are trained to triage. Yes they do address the people who are in the most immediate jeopardy of life first, but of those they focus on the ones the suspect can be saved and the ones they suspect are to badly injured are moved to the back of the line at least within the class of people immediately endangered.
That's the point though isn't it. Paramedics and that are trained to take the humanity out of it and act on rational judgement. I'm sure some of them have terrible issues over things they've done or not done but ultimately have done the right thing. Regular people just flap around and everyone dies. In this instance it's the regular people now that want control over the cold hard calculations that need doing. The person who calls the paramedic does't even try to tell them what to do so why should they now?
My opinion is that the car should try and save it's own occupants above all else, if that causes a collision with another vehicle then they have to count on their own systems to save them, pedestrians also have their own built in systems that kick in. No system is going to be perfect but as long as it results in less total deaths it's a win.
Well, the context of split second accident avoidance/reduction is a little different but if you say so.
I really hate this whole line of AI driver philosophy, because it seems to me to be largely pointless blather about nothing. We live in a world where gigahertz processors are cheap and plentyful. To a computer, that can take data samples thousands of times per second, a 60 mph car is traveling at a glacial speed.
That may be true but does nothing to alter the laws of physics.
Say you're going down a busy two way street AI driving. Traffic coming the other way is fairly solid and steady moving. As you're happily driving along some prick in a car pulls out in front of you (closer than a manually driven car would be because the ai has the reaction time and judgement to slot perfectly into the traffic) but at the same moment something happens in front of them which forces him to stop dead inside your braking distance. Then what? Your vehicle is faced with swerve into oncoming traffic, swerve into pedestrian occupied sidewalk or continue into collision. It may have all the time in the world (relatively) to pick one but it has to pick and physics says it's going to hit something. Unlikely scenario, true but stranger things have happened at sea.
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In a manual transmission, putting the car in gear is the parking brake. If parked facing uphill, you put your vehicle in first, if you're parking facing downhill, put the vehicle in reverse.
Handbrake isn't even necessary, and in fact I simply never touch it.
The thing is the gearbox isn't a brake. It's a gearbox. The brake is a brake is is for, well braking.
Yes and no. Yes, it has to assess the situation much like a human brain would by taking inputs and choosing a course of action. No, it isn't at all like a human brain. For one thing, an autonomous car has a lot more information at its disposal than a human brain does. In particular, it has multiple cameras, so it doesn't have to look to see if the left lane is clear for an emergency evasion. It already knows. Those critical milliseconds can often make the difference between a good outcome and a bad one.
The problem with that is, at the moment at least, analysing those images not easy for a computer to do whereas you and I do it automatically. Say your car has gone off the road for some reason as is heading toward a solid wall with a car sized gate in it. A human is instantly going to recognise the gate and try to steer the car at it. How long is it going to take the computer to detect that? It's like that xkcd where some guy is saying we need this app to detect if a picture was taken in a national park and the programmer is like "sure, gimmie 5 minutes and a list of coordinates" and then the next frame says we need this app to recogise if it's a picture of a bird and the response is "sure, I'll need a research team and five years".
And notice that this is the same issue behind the Will Smith film, "I, Robot". Will's character is rescued from drowning by a robot that lets a little girl drown instead. The robot had calculated the chances of saving each and Will won the AI lottery.
That's the whole point though. Who decides who's life is worth more and should be saved first? It's like, I can save this one and the other will die or I can try the save the other and both will die. It's cold but you have to take the morality out of it and act on numbers.
If you vote Leave to say "fuck the establishment and especially fuck the Tories" that's your right.
That should be it's own option.
Him: Should I vote for the UK to leave the EU?
Me: Yes, absolutely.
Him: Why?
Me:Because if you don't, nothing will change
You - Should I set my house on fire?
Me - Yes
You - Why
Me - Because if you don't, nothing will change
None of them either had the power to make the claim. It's about as valid as me saying the money will be used to buy every one a brand new ferrari.
Why would they teach that nonsense? Add a trailer to a loaded truck, and the handbrake might not actually be capable of holding the whole thing on a modest incline, whereas the boosted brakes will, without a doubt.
Probably because it's just the standard test not part of truck school.