And yet from almost the day that the "autopilot" feature became available, videos started circulating online of actual Tesla drivers doing stupid stuff like jumping into the passenger seat or back seat while letting the car "drive."
What makes the Tesla a little bit different is not the name, so much as the fact that the Car doesn't instantly disengage the assist features if the driver removes hands from the wheel.
So you are fine with only being informed about the capabilities of a product with a price tag of a car.
The brand name Autopilot is Not automatically deceptive, just because some people have a false idea in their brain about what an autopilot refers to. Besides, it's not even proven that a substantial proportion of the population have this false idea. You haven't presented any scientific survey to prove it, so I would say that a few people on Slashdot are probably the only people who hold this misconception as a complete idea.
The Tesla vehicles are not a consumer commodity, or an item presented for sale expecting consumers to not appropriately research their purchase --- You don't spend 5 minutes looking at the sales pitch and then buy a Car or House --- you look it over, ask questions, and get information disclosed from the seller to weigh on your complex decision. Plenty of information has been published by Tesla and 3rd parties about the Autopilot, and consumers can discuss the capabilities of the AutoPilot and other Tesla features with the salespeople before committing to a purchase.
As with all major purchases: the burden of the appropriate Due Dilligence in regards to your purchase lies with the buyer, not the seller. The seller, in this case, has more detailed disclosures available of the capabilities of their product.
I'm actually surprised that they haven't been sued for false advertising instead just like the cell phone companies have for "unlimited". It should be called "Driver Assist" until the driver is allowed to nap.
The brand name of a product such as AutoPilot is not a legal representation of what its capabilities are.
Even if that were the case, the name is not inaccurate. Some members of the public have a misconception of what Auto Pilot means, and are of the false belief that an Auto Pilot refers to a complete hands-off system that replaces the need for a human operator: That is not the case, and Tesla is not responsible for public misconceptions by people purchasing their product ---- Instead, Tesla's only required to provide truthful information regarding the description of their product, And they are truthful..... Tesla is not lying in their advertising and not announcing that they have a fully self-driving car with no requirement for human monitoring and management.
Wouldn't disengaging the autopilot when the driver's hands are off the wheel cause more crashes?
Well, they can do a forced transition back to driver control by having the system refuse to maintain speed and start applying brakes, until either the vehicle reaches a complete stop and remains stopped, or the driver puts their hands back on the wheel, and transition is then completed.
On his third day in office President Grant revoked two pardons that had been granted by President Andrew Johnson. President Nixon also undid a pardon that had been granted by President Lyndon Johnson. There may be other examples of this, as these two have somewhat accidentally come up in a discussion focused on numerous examples of presidents undoing pardons that they had themselves granted, something the current president did last week. (See http://pardonpower.com/ ). In 2001, President George W. Bush's lawyers advised him that he could undo a pardon that President Clinton had granted.
Much of the discussion of this history of revoking pardons deals with the question of whether a pardon can still be revoked after actually reaching the hands of the pardonee, or after various other obscure lines are crossed in the process of issuing and enforcing of the pardon. If President Bush issues blanket pardons to dozens of criminals in his administration for crimes that he himself authorized, he will probably -- with the exception of Libby -- not even name them, much less initiate any processes through which they are each formally notified of the pardons. He will be pardoning people of crimes they have not yet been charged with, so the question of timing is something you are unlikely to have to worry about (except perhaps with Libby).
Virtually none of the discussion of these matters ever addresses the appropriateness or legitimacy of the pardons involved or of the revoking of them. The history would appear to establish that you will have the power to revoke Bush's pardons. I want to stress that you will also have a moral responsibility to do so and a legal requirement to do so. Morally and legally, you have no choice in this matter. When you take the oath of office, you will be promising to faithfully execute the laws of the land.
Unless there's an ironclad agreement in place that I have to turn over all security credentials 'in my brain' after my termination [SNIP]
It's not after termination. A sysadmin has no right to have created and fail to disclose security credentials for someone else's property (company systems) in the first place. The actual trespass on company property occurred while the person was still employed, At the very moment the admin created or changed the password without permission and didn't provide that to management, they committed an act of sabotage.
You should be so lucky IF you turn over all the security credentials in your brain, then your employer may agree not to sue you for everything you own and more.
my ex-employer is going to pay dearly for that information.
Nope. You're going to pay dearly, in many ways, if you fail to provide that ex-employer that information. Also, Demanding payment for something you were legally required to have told them and/or had permission to do is Called Extortion or Ransom. That makes you no different than the Bloody CryptoLocker that scrambles peoples' files and demands Cash in exchange for the unlock key... in fact it's 99% almost exactly the darned same thing.
Unless there's an ironclad agreement in place that I have to turn over all security credentials 'in my brain' after my termination (and I would never agree to such an agreement),
Such agreement is in the standard Employee manual verbiage these days. Chances are you have already agreed.
it would be entirely reasonable to wipe it to eliminate any possibility of using it to access work materials illegally.
MAYBE. But their former employee is still under the obligation to deliver all their company security credentials and information; passwords, etc, in their brain or in their possession, required for their operation to continue after the employee is released. And acting to destroy any of the above would clearly be malicious justifying charges against their former employee.
Also MAYBE. But there are a lot of otherwise "entirely reasonable" courses of action which are Illegal.
I mean if you don't have as much $$$ as you want, then it's "perfectly reasonable" to go take somebody else's $$$, But that's why this country has Laws.... and that's defined to be Theft, and it's strongly discouraged.
The burden on not accessing work materials illegally is on the former employee; that doesn't permit them to destroy work data or work computers' operating system installs in doing so.
That's no excuse for writing a promise and then breaking it. Twitter allows more than enough characters to include the words "Full pardon" or "release immediately"
If Twitter doesn't give you enough words, then Either don't post it, or post a link. No excuses.
Assange posted he'd turn himself in IF Manning was granted clemency. The words "Immediate release" are not in the Tweet.
Obama could have signed a Pardon to reduce the 35 sentence to 34 years, And that would still be clemency requiring Assange to turn himself in.
Assange broke his promise and proves he can't be trusted.
Now that Assange is playing dirty, the US probably just needs to play dirty and send some thugs out in the dark at night to sneak into the embassy and capture assange to extradite, whatever the risks.....
Interesting.... How come their website says Configurable up to 16GB then when showing all iMac products? Were they lying? Is there an error on their Website? Did they support 32GB briefly and then knock it back down ?
The only thing that can kill the PC is a better product, with a more reliable operating system, and I see nothing on the horizon that prohibits that evolutional step.
You could say the same thing about the Automobile or the personal car or boat. Nothing on the horizon prohibits that evolutional step.
Nothing on the horizon shows that evolutional step will happen, either.
The demand for PCs will still exist, Until such time as a superior replacement can meet all the demand. An open platform for software development, running software, and creating things, are some of the things PCs are demanded for that nothing else provides.
Even if PCs become a niche market whose buyers are only computer scientists, engineers, makers, and other tinkerers, they still exist.
Just because the exponential growth of sales has ended, thus the PC is now in structural decline.... does not mean the PC is dead.
All it means is that New people who never owned computers before are no longer getting in at a fast rate. There's a huge population now who have purchased desktops more than 4 years ago, but less than 8 years ago, who already have all the Laptops and Desktops they will need for years to come. We're largely still running Windows XP and Windows 7, if we can, or perhaps Linux, and we don't like changes Microsoft made in Windows 8 and Windows 10. New operating systems are no longer a reason to upgrade hardware.
Our personal computers are lasting longer between upgrade cycles, and we need new ones less often.
This is a good thing for consumers, and a terrible thing for the hardware and software industry.
Industry in decline, or no longer exponentially growing does NOT mean the product is dead, it means a thing called Market saturation was reached, new growth will not be possible, since everyone who would demand it has already has bought it, and does not mean there is no future demand for PCs. They are rather ubiquitous in fact.....
They can't change the contract at literally anytime but next month they can refuse to offer you this month's contract terms.
If they want, they can cancel your agreement mid-cycle and decide to just not bill you for that month, and your only recourse is to switch carriers....
Whites still earn dramatically more than Blacks and Latinos, reflecting the legacy of discrimination for jobs, education and housing.
No argument or data is given for this claim. This is one of the things that we mean, when we say the media is biased. Somebody's irrelevent personal opinion is given as the supposed cause for a thing.
As if it's proven or self-evident that discrimination is still rampant today and the reason for a purported wage difference.
If you know how to do any of that, you're not taking your computer to Best Buy to be fixed.
Why? You're implying anyone with the software knowledge is able to do something better for every situation?
It's all hypothetical, because there's no Best Buy in less than a couple hour's drive away.
I might have someone bring them a Laptop that won't power on, because I don't want to fool with it. It would have to be almost brand new, but out of warranty for some reason.. (I don't currently own a laptop that's new enough and expensive enough to justify the inevitable costs, but imagine I went out and bought a $3000 laptop, and then 1 year later, one day after the warranty expired, the hardware stopped working -- maybe the vendor slipped a component in set to self-destruct in the Motherboard.)
You need to take out like 50 screws if you just want to just catch a glimpse of the CPU --- replacing a component on the motherboard, or the whole board itself is definitely something you pay somebody to do, in order to save 30 hours or more of headache.
Best buy is one of the few companies left you can pay to take a look at it; if you have one in your area, anyways.
They won't lift a finger because "They don't do data recovery"
Even if you have a 100% working unscathed HDD or SDD on an Apple computer or iPhone, which won't boot because of damage to the system board; the Apple people will not so much as provide you a copy or transfer the drive or data to the replacement system. Even if you were willing to pay $10,000 for the additional service; they won't do it.
What about if you have legal adult naked videos/pictures of yourself having sex with your wife
You best keep personal files encrypted at all times. Windows Encrypting filesystem works if you NEVER give out your account password (Be sure to backup your Files and EFS credentials).
Plan Ahead. Create and maintain a separate Admin username/password you can provide to a technician if necessary have that in place before the system even breaks.
That's just one of the things Sprint has to do to get/keep some customers, because their network is Inferior to any of the others'. You can bet your arse that if Sprint improved their network to the level of T-Mobile, ATT, or Verizon, their Unlimited offerings would disappear in short order.
If a company signs a contract...they shouldn't be held to that contract?
Any unlimited contract has long expired and gone to a month to month plan, which the only reason Verizon didn't force everyone to change was in order to keep them as a customer.
You heard it here ladies and gentlemen (and sorry, those are the only two genders): Calling Gender Dysphoria a mental illness - when it is a mental illness -- somehow means the following:
* You wish to physically assault and / or murder people suffering from this mental illness.
* You believe this mental illness is by choice, like no other mental illness in the history of the world.
Because some folks have an agenda where they wish to call transgenderism, or people changing their genders as "Normal".
Just like it's normal for people to walk around with seeing-eye dogs and canes. Therefore, calling "Blindness" a disease shall henceforth be banned as well. And don't even think of causing nearsightedness or need to wear glasses as an illness.
No.... One person involved with Libreboot (the maintainer) decided the Libreboot community would leave GNU in protest citing frivolous claims of transgender discrimination as a reason for requiring the project to dissasociate with GNU --- That is, unsubstantiated claims, which the Maintainer of Libreboot has personally maintained to have some basis, but which by all rational accounts and published details seem to be unfounded or lacking believable evidence for valid basis.
Since some involved with Libreboot have demonstrated themselves to be political activists that see the manner they conduct the Libreboot project as a means to furthering their goals. If the claims of TG discrimination were not in fact so Unfounded, you just know they would surely have lawyers All over this.... to swarm GNU, to bring them into submission and apology, or to make a civil case against them.....
Slashdot Mirror
Tell them that next time the fine will be $200,000 per complaint, or ~$10 Billion.
And yet from almost the day that the "autopilot" feature became available, videos started circulating online of actual Tesla drivers doing stupid stuff like jumping into the passenger seat or back seat while letting the car "drive."
That's not because of the name.... People do stupid stuff period. E.g. People do stupid stuff with LaneAssist too, and AutoPilot is not in the name.
What makes the Tesla a little bit different is not the name, so much as the fact that the Car doesn't instantly disengage the assist features if the driver removes hands from the wheel.
So you are fine with only being informed about the capabilities of a product with a price tag of a car .
The brand name Autopilot is Not automatically deceptive, just because some people have a false idea in their brain about what an autopilot refers to. Besides, it's not even proven that a substantial proportion of the population have this false idea. You haven't presented any scientific survey to prove it, so I would say that a few people on Slashdot are probably the only people who hold this misconception as a complete idea.
The Tesla vehicles are not a consumer commodity, or an item presented for sale expecting consumers to not appropriately research their purchase --- You don't spend 5 minutes looking at the sales pitch and then buy a Car or House --- you look it over, ask questions, and get information disclosed from the seller to weigh on your complex decision. Plenty of information has been published by Tesla and 3rd parties about the Autopilot, and consumers can discuss the capabilities of the AutoPilot and other Tesla features with the salespeople before committing to a purchase.
As with all major purchases: the burden of the appropriate Due Dilligence in regards to your purchase lies with the buyer, not the seller. The seller, in this case, has more detailed disclosures available of the capabilities of their product.
I'm actually surprised that they haven't been sued for false advertising instead just like the cell phone companies have for "unlimited". It should be called "Driver Assist" until the driver is allowed to nap.
The brand name of a product such as AutoPilot is not a legal representation of what its capabilities are.
Even if that were the case, the name is not inaccurate. Some members of the public have a misconception of what Auto Pilot means, and are of the false belief that an Auto Pilot refers to a complete hands-off system that replaces the need for a human operator: That is not the case, and Tesla is not responsible for public misconceptions by people purchasing their product ---- Instead, Tesla's only required to provide truthful information regarding the description of their product, And they are truthful..... Tesla is not lying in their advertising and not announcing that they have a fully self-driving car with no requirement for human monitoring and management.
Wouldn't disengaging the autopilot when the driver's hands are off the wheel cause more crashes?
Well, they can do a forced transition back to driver control by having the system refuse to maintain speed and start applying brakes, until either the vehicle reaches a complete stop and remains stopped, or the driver puts their hands back on the wheel, and transition is then completed.
All said and done.... Obama probably didn't even weigh Assange's offer into this.
If he did.... He could have granted a "Full pardon", and then go back and revoke the pardon a couple days later after Assange was in custody.
can he (or his successor) commute the sentence back to its original time in a few days?
The president has the power to rescind a pardon made in the past, But it has been rarely exercised.
See: http://www.democrats.com/node/...
Unless there's an ironclad agreement in place that I have to turn over all security credentials 'in my brain' after my termination [SNIP]
It's not after termination. A sysadmin has no right to have created and fail to disclose security credentials
for someone else's property (company systems) in the first place. The actual trespass on company property occurred while the person was still employed, At the very moment the admin created or changed the password without permission and didn't provide that to management, they committed an act of sabotage.
You should be so lucky IF you turn over all the security credentials in your brain, then your employer may agree not to sue you for everything you own and more.
my ex-employer is going to pay dearly for that information.
Nope. You're going to pay dearly, in many ways, if you fail to provide that ex-employer that information.
Also, Demanding payment for something you were legally required to have told them and/or had permission to do is Called Extortion or Ransom. That makes you no different than the Bloody CryptoLocker that scrambles peoples' files and demands Cash in exchange for the unlock key... in fact it's 99% almost exactly the darned same thing.
Unless there's an ironclad agreement in place that I have to turn over all security credentials 'in my brain' after my termination (and I would never agree to such an agreement),
Such agreement is in the standard Employee manual verbiage these days.
Chances are you have already agreed.
it would be entirely reasonable to wipe it to eliminate any possibility of using it to access work materials illegally.
MAYBE. But their former employee is still under the obligation to deliver all their company security credentials and information; passwords, etc, in their brain or in their possession, required for their operation to continue after the employee is released. And acting to destroy any of the above would clearly be malicious justifying charges against their former employee.
Also MAYBE. But there are a lot of otherwise "entirely reasonable" courses of action which are Illegal.
I mean if you don't have as much $$$ as you want, then it's "perfectly reasonable" to go take somebody else's $$$, But that's why this country has Laws.... and that's defined to be Theft, and it's strongly discouraged.
The burden on not accessing work materials illegally is on the former employee; that doesn't permit them to destroy work data or work computers' operating system installs in doing so.
That's no excuse for writing a promise and then breaking it. Twitter allows more than enough characters to include the words "Full pardon" or "release immediately"
If Twitter doesn't give you enough words, then Either don't post it, or post a link. No excuses.
Assange posted he'd turn himself in IF Manning was granted clemency.
The words "Immediate release" are not in the Tweet.
Obama could have signed a Pardon to reduce the 35 sentence to 34 years,
And that would still be clemency requiring Assange to turn himself in.
Assange broke his promise and proves he can't be trusted.
Now that Assange is playing dirty, the US probably just needs to play dirty and send some thugs out in the dark at night to sneak into the embassy and capture assange to extradite, whatever the risks.....
Interesting.... How come their website says Configurable up to 16GB then when showing all iMac products?
Were they lying? Is there an error on their Website? Did they support 32GB briefly and then knock it back down ?
video and photographic professionals who legitimately have needs for that memory it really was a strange move.
Even the latest iMacs and Mac Minis have no 32GB of RAM option.
Of all the products Apple sells.... only the Mac Pro is configurable up to 64GB.
And the hardware's still all a generation behind PC hardware.
The only thing that can kill the PC is a better product, with a more reliable operating system, and I see nothing on the horizon that prohibits that evolutional step.
You could say the same thing about the Automobile or the personal car or boat. Nothing on the horizon prohibits that evolutional step.
Nothing on the horizon shows that evolutional step will happen, either.
The demand for PCs will still exist, Until such time as a superior replacement can meet all the demand. An open platform for software development, running software, and creating things, are some of the things PCs are demanded for that nothing else provides.
Even if PCs become a niche market whose buyers are only computer scientists, engineers, makers, and other tinkerers, they still exist.
Just because the exponential growth of sales has ended, thus the PC is now in structural decline....
does not mean the PC is dead.
All it means is that New people who never owned computers before are no longer getting in at a fast rate.
There's a huge population now who have purchased desktops more than 4 years ago, but less than 8 years ago,
who already have all the Laptops and Desktops they will need for years to come. We're largely still running Windows XP and
Windows 7, if we can, or perhaps Linux, and we don't like changes Microsoft made in Windows 8 and Windows 10.
New operating systems are no longer a reason to upgrade hardware.
Our personal computers are lasting longer between upgrade cycles, and we need new ones less often.
This is a good thing for consumers, and a terrible thing for the hardware and software industry.
Industry in decline, or no longer exponentially growing does NOT mean the product is dead, it means a thing called
Market saturation was reached, new growth will not be possible, since everyone who would demand it has already
has bought it, and does not mean there is no future demand for PCs. They are rather ubiquitous in fact.....
They can't change the contract at literally anytime but next month they can refuse to offer you this month's contract terms.
If they want, they can cancel your agreement mid-cycle and decide to just not bill you for that month, and your only recourse is to switch carriers....
No argument or data is given for this claim.
This is one of the things that we mean, when we say the media is biased.
Somebody's irrelevent personal opinion is given as the supposed cause for a thing.
As if it's proven or self-evident that discrimination is still rampant today and the reason for a purported wage difference.
If you know how to do any of that, you're not taking your computer to Best Buy to be fixed.
Why? You're implying anyone with the software knowledge is able to do something better for every situation?
It's all hypothetical, because there's no Best Buy in less than a couple hour's drive away.
I might have someone bring them a Laptop that won't power on, because I don't want to fool with it.
It would have to be almost brand new, but out of warranty for some reason..
(I don't currently own a laptop that's new enough and expensive enough to justify the inevitable costs, but imagine I went out
and bought a $3000 laptop, and then 1 year later, one day after the warranty expired, the hardware stopped working -- maybe the vendor slipped a component in set to self-destruct in the Motherboard.)
You need to take out like 50 screws if you just want to just catch a glimpse of the CPU --- replacing a component on the motherboard, or the whole board itself is definitely something you pay somebody to do, in order to save 30 hours or more of headache.
Best buy is one of the few companies left you can pay to take a look at it; if you have one in your area, anyways.
They won't lift a finger because "They don't do data recovery"
Even if you have a 100% working unscathed HDD or SDD on an Apple computer or iPhone, which won't boot because of damage to the system board;
the Apple people will not so much as provide you a copy or transfer the drive or data to the replacement system. Even if you were willing to pay $10,000 for the additional service; they won't do it.
What about if you have legal adult naked videos/pictures of yourself having sex with your wife
You best keep personal files encrypted at all times. Windows Encrypting filesystem works if you NEVER give out your account password (Be sure to backup your Files and EFS credentials).
Plan Ahead. Create and maintain a separate Admin username/password you can provide to a technician if necessary
have that in place before the system even breaks.
That's just one of the things Sprint has to do to get/keep some customers, because their network is Inferior to any of the others'. You can bet your arse that if Sprint improved their network to the level of T-Mobile, ATT, or Verizon, their Unlimited offerings would disappear in short order.
Except Verizon wants to keep their customers, so they let them keep their Unlimited data plans, as long as they don't actually use them.
If you use enough data where it would be profitable to Verizon for you to upgrade, then eventually, Verizon is going to strong-arm you into upgrading.
If a company signs a contract...they shouldn't be held to that contract?
Any unlimited contract has long expired and gone to a month to month plan, which the only reason Verizon didn't force everyone to change was in order to keep them as a customer.
You heard it here ladies and gentlemen (and sorry, those are the only two genders): Calling Gender Dysphoria a mental illness - when it is a mental illness -- somehow means the following:
* You wish to physically assault and / or murder people suffering from this mental illness.
* You believe this mental illness is by choice, like no other mental illness in the history of the world.
Because some folks have an agenda where they wish to call transgenderism, or people changing their genders as "Normal".
Just like it's normal for people to walk around with seeing-eye dogs and canes. Therefore, calling "Blindness" a disease shall henceforth be banned as well. And don't even think of causing nearsightedness or need to wear glasses as an illness.
No.... One person involved with Libreboot (the maintainer) decided the Libreboot community would leave GNU in protest citing frivolous claims of transgender discrimination as a reason for requiring the project to dissasociate with GNU --- That is, unsubstantiated claims, which the Maintainer of Libreboot has personally maintained to have some basis, but which by all rational accounts and published details seem to be unfounded or lacking believable evidence for valid basis.
Since some involved with Libreboot have demonstrated themselves to be political activists that see the manner they conduct the Libreboot project as a means to furthering their goals. If the claims of TG discrimination were not in fact so Unfounded, you just know they would surely have lawyers All over this.... to swarm GNU, to bring them into submission and apology, or to make a civil case against them.....