I don't see how autonomous cars will ever be able to do things that require taking the initiative and forcing your way in, like when you have a stop sign and the perpendicular traffic does not, and because of some obstruction you can't see what's coming, so you essentially just have to stick your nose out and edge into traffic until you can crane your neck forward trying to get a glimpse or just go, hoping for the best, which frequently requires gunning it. I see autonomous cars being much like the Griswolds from European Vacation, trying to merge into the outer circle of that roundabout for hours, to no avail, while appreciating Big Ben every time they go round. Picture yourself merging onto a very crowded fast-moving highway, having to make your own space by wedging yourself in, how can an autonomous car do that, simply because if it goes wrong, it's your liability. "My car did that dangerous move, not me, ticket and sue the engineers" sounds like a future common refrain. Obviously the engineers aren't going to make the car aggressive enough like that, so I forsee a possibly worse problem of these cars coming to a halt when merging, which is even more dangerous, makes traffic worse, and draws the ire of drivers all around you.
Of course the solution is to make all cars autonomous and aware of each other, but can anyone imagine that happening in our car culture?
I agree, laundering money for terrorist organizations like the case you cite should land all knowingly involved in a deeper jail than even a true believer, simply because you are doing it for purely selfish reasons to make money, and are indifferent to the very real deadly consequences of your actions. But I think it's naive to think that in such a huge case that there wasn't something else going on, that many of the right people knew about it for a long time and then used it for good purpose. Why scare away the moths if they're all burning themselves to death on your flame?
Yes, you have my complete internet posting history, understand some of my distant past rhetorical techniques and are repeating them back to me, and you know who I am but I don't know who you are. That's the power of the internet, and I accept it, and do not live in paranoia of it. Rather, I am glad there are different people/groups/entities who make it their business, for whatever reason, to do such things. It's a form of checks and balances. The key though is to understand that it's a two-way street. You may know who I am, but others know who you are, and (so far) sanction your actions. We're all a lot more connected and vulnerable than we allow ourselves to accept.
For what it's worth, I hope you have a good day, and if you want to contact me I'd be up for it, if that was on your mind. But, if you want to "stay hidden," from me, at least, then, well, okay, I guess. Take it easy. Aren't you lonely though? This hiding behind anonymity thing while demonstrating knowledge of another, with with you, I sense, is just another form of "getting over" which is really about exerting a sense of control over others, and enjoying making other people suffer, which is ultimately unfulfilling and isolating, and is a kind of addiction. I don't engage in this though, so I might be the kind of person you'd want to know. At any rate, it'd be interesting. Hope to hear from you.
So close, but yet so far away. It's cruel for those like us.
This guy knew straight-up he was funding terrorist activities, and is trying to use a technicality to get out of it. This is an abuse of our legal system, but, that just goes to show what a good legal system we have. As insulting as it is that we have to entertain this "appeal", we are entertaining it, entirely seriously, which goes to show who we are as a nation and our commitment to the rule of law and justice.
That's quite a blatant yet sneaky way to get these blokes' addresses and credit card infos -- tshirt+shipping is likely over $12.50. Know thine whitehat.
Looking at all the downright vitriolic anti-RMS, anti-GPL, anit-Libre comments here, it is clear that a solid tiny activist subset of longtime slashdotters suffer from RMSDS, as well as GPLDS, or GPL Derangement Syndrome, or even GNU Not Unix Derangement Syndrome, or GNUDS.
Just goes to show, try to do something to help the world and be successful, and there will always be a few people that will tear you down and claim you've done nothing or the opposite, regardless.
Happy Birthday GNU, thank you for improving the world for all. Please keep developing and contributing.
Yes, why do we ever mention Bill Gates, or Steve Jobs either? Unless you have proof of a changelog to a major project within the last 24 hours, you are irrelevant and you have no legacy or point of any kind.
They lack the technology, talent, funds, infrastructure, government apparatus, and even the will to do it themselves, so we're doing it for them, for free, and they complain? It's hard to understand there is a reason why your economy didn't tank overnight every night, or terrorists don't murder your family, or hackers didn't take down your antiquated power grid any given second of the day.
It's a pretty simple concept, we're all so interconnected now, anybody leaving their own pants down leaves the pants down for everybody, and I don't know about you, but I prefer to walk around with my pants on; I'm not a saggin' kind of guy.
Much more likely, their government has known we've been carrying the load for them, but for obvious reasons couldn't admit it her citizens, so when the news broke, they had to act all offended and condemn it.
Of course NASDAQ could have fixed it immediately, but what very valuable information did they gather during the two-week window from first report to fixing it?
Why, all the info on all the zero-day crackers giving it a go during that period -- a massive sort of honeypot operation.
Think about it. Easy to plan the protocol for. Like flies to honey.
No it's more we don't want our kids going to school with the kids of the people we buy our drugs from, because we're "better" than that. If it isn't drugs, insert porn, prostitutes, domestic service, fast food worker, whatever one daily relies on the lower classes to provide us. Classism, pure and simple -- it's not like that has magically gone away in our wonderful high-tech society. If anything, it's only more conveniently hidden.
Ethical people simply would not do something like Snowden did. It might occur to them, but they just wouldn't do it. That's why nobody else did it, but Snowden did. This was a failure of the vetting process for security clearance, which was done by an outside contractor.
And since when is using your root access to change your userid something to be called "brilliant"? Gosh, slashdot is full of full-on genuises then!
I'd be very interested to hear a more detailed narrative about how the math broke down. Why couldn't Taiwan do the same automation with the same number of people, and still beat you by costing a fraction of the labor? Presumably the company could take all the systems you implemented and just send those over too.
...is nothing more than the complete insanity and utter humility the most well-positioned (interpreted broadly) people must eventually go through in order to come to the new way of thinking lots of others are already exploring.
It's only a singularity for you personally because your preferred way of thinking has no stable projection into the future past a certain timepoint. It's a lot about acceptance; or your lack thereof. A rediagonalization of our personal and collective sense of self.
If you RTFA it specifically says that the selected set is almost exclusively true positives, therefore I said the few false positives are allowable. That's the entire goal of any detection system, be it in physics or not. If you selected everyone as test-positive in the original set, as you say, then there is no data reduction and it is as if you never tested the group at all, so you my as well not run the test at all, which means you don't ever use the test, which means it's tossed in the garbage and you find a new test.
This is a better process than waterboarding everyone, don't you think?
Of course that's not useless. False positives in the selected set are okay as long as the true positives are all in the selected set as well -- letting go of a terrorist is bad. Once the event has been resolved, the false positives should be exonerated quite quickly.
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I don't see how autonomous cars will ever be able to do things that require taking the initiative and forcing your way in, like when you have a stop sign and the perpendicular traffic does not, and because of some obstruction you can't see what's coming, so you essentially just have to stick your nose out and edge into traffic until you can crane your neck forward trying to get a glimpse or just go, hoping for the best, which frequently requires gunning it. I see autonomous cars being much like the Griswolds from European Vacation, trying to merge into the outer circle of that roundabout for hours, to no avail, while appreciating Big Ben every time they go round. Picture yourself merging onto a very crowded fast-moving highway, having to make your own space by wedging yourself in, how can an autonomous car do that, simply because if it goes wrong, it's your liability. "My car did that dangerous move, not me, ticket and sue the engineers" sounds like a future common refrain. Obviously the engineers aren't going to make the car aggressive enough like that, so I forsee a possibly worse problem of these cars coming to a halt when merging, which is even more dangerous, makes traffic worse, and draws the ire of drivers all around you.
Of course the solution is to make all cars autonomous and aware of each other, but can anyone imagine that happening in our car culture?
I agree, laundering money for terrorist organizations like the case you cite should land all knowingly involved in a deeper jail than even a true believer, simply because you are doing it for purely selfish reasons to make money, and are indifferent to the very real deadly consequences of your actions. But I think it's naive to think that in such a huge case that there wasn't something else going on, that many of the right people knew about it for a long time and then used it for good purpose. Why scare away the moths if they're all burning themselves to death on your flame?
Yes, you have my complete internet posting history, understand some of my distant past rhetorical techniques and are repeating them back to me, and you know who I am but I don't know who you are. That's the power of the internet, and I accept it, and do not live in paranoia of it. Rather, I am glad there are different people/groups/entities who make it their business, for whatever reason, to do such things. It's a form of checks and balances. The key though is to understand that it's a two-way street. You may know who I am, but others know who you are, and (so far) sanction your actions. We're all a lot more connected and vulnerable than we allow ourselves to accept.
For what it's worth, I hope you have a good day, and if you want to contact me I'd be up for it, if that was on your mind. But, if you want to "stay hidden," from me, at least, then, well, okay, I guess. Take it easy. Aren't you lonely though? This hiding behind anonymity thing while demonstrating knowledge of another, with with you, I sense, is just another form of "getting over" which is really about exerting a sense of control over others, and enjoying making other people suffer, which is ultimately unfulfilling and isolating, and is a kind of addiction. I don't engage in this though, so I might be the kind of person you'd want to know. At any rate, it'd be interesting. Hope to hear from you.
So close, but yet so far away. It's cruel for those like us.
This guy knew straight-up he was funding terrorist activities, and is trying to use a technicality to get out of it. This is an abuse of our legal system, but, that just goes to show what a good legal system we have. As insulting as it is that we have to entertain this "appeal", we are entertaining it, entirely seriously, which goes to show who we are as a nation and our commitment to the rule of law and justice.
Read up on the case, it's enlightening: http://www.fbi.gov/sandiego/press-releases/2013/san-diego-jury-convicts-four-somali-immigrants-of-providing-support-to-foreign-terrorists
... to use frequencies over a few hundred kilohertz, to spare the bats, bugs, and dogs. Couldn't find that in the article.
Crackers, not hackers.
That's quite a blatant yet sneaky way to get these blokes' addresses and credit card infos -- tshirt+shipping is likely over $12.50. Know thine whitehat.
Looking at all the downright vitriolic anti-RMS, anti-GPL, anit-Libre comments here, it is clear that a solid tiny activist subset of longtime slashdotters suffer from RMSDS, as well as GPLDS, or GPL Derangement Syndrome, or even GNU Not Unix Derangement Syndrome, or GNUDS.
Just goes to show, try to do something to help the world and be successful, and there will always be a few people that will tear you down and claim you've done nothing or the opposite, regardless.
Happy Birthday GNU, thank you for improving the world for all. Please keep developing and contributing.
Troll.
They lack the technology, talent, funds, infrastructure, government apparatus, and even the will to do it themselves, so we're doing it for them, for free, and they complain? It's hard to understand there is a reason why your economy didn't tank overnight every night, or terrorists don't murder your family, or hackers didn't take down your antiquated power grid any given second of the day.
It's a pretty simple concept, we're all so interconnected now, anybody leaving their own pants down leaves the pants down for everybody, and I don't know about you, but I prefer to walk around with my pants on; I'm not a saggin' kind of guy.
Much more likely, their government has known we've been carrying the load for them, but for obvious reasons couldn't admit it her citizens, so when the news broke, they had to act all offended and condemn it.
Of course NASDAQ could have fixed it immediately, but what very valuable information did they gather during the two-week window from first report to fixing it?
Why, all the info on all the zero-day crackers giving it a go during that period -- a massive sort of honeypot operation.
Think about it. Easy to plan the protocol for. Like flies to honey.
No it's more we don't want our kids going to school with the kids of the people we buy our drugs from, because we're "better" than that. If it isn't drugs, insert porn, prostitutes, domestic service, fast food worker, whatever one daily relies on the lower classes to provide us. Classism, pure and simple -- it's not like that has magically gone away in our wonderful high-tech society. If anything, it's only more conveniently hidden.
Ethical people simply would not do something like Snowden did. It might occur to them, but they just wouldn't do it. That's why nobody else did it, but Snowden did. This was a failure of the vetting process for security clearance, which was done by an outside contractor.
And since when is using your root access to change your userid something to be called "brilliant"? Gosh, slashdot is full of full-on genuises then!
I'd be very interested to hear a more detailed narrative about how the math broke down. Why couldn't Taiwan do the same automation with the same number of people, and still beat you by costing a fraction of the labor? Presumably the company could take all the systems you implemented and just send those over too.
...is nothing more than the complete insanity and utter humility the most well-positioned (interpreted broadly) people must eventually go through in order to come to the new way of thinking lots of others are already exploring.
It's only a singularity for you personally because your preferred way of thinking has no stable projection into the future past a certain timepoint. It's a lot about acceptance; or your lack thereof. A rediagonalization of our personal and collective sense of self.
It's scary, but real heroic change always is.
If you RTFA it specifically says that the selected set is almost exclusively true positives, therefore I said the few false positives are allowable. That's the entire goal of any detection system, be it in physics or not. If you selected everyone as test-positive in the original set, as you say, then there is no data reduction and it is as if you never tested the group at all, so you my as well not run the test at all, which means you don't ever use the test, which means it's tossed in the garbage and you find a new test.
This is a better process than waterboarding everyone, don't you think?
Of course that's not useless. False positives in the selected set are okay as long as the true positives are all in the selected set as well -- letting go of a terrorist is bad. Once the event has been resolved, the false positives should be exonerated quite quickly.