Actually Uber's argument is that their technology is not really fully autonomous and it's more like Tesla calling their system auto pilot.
So if you have Teslas driving on california why can't you have Ubers'?
Aside from the point that you seem to be conflating production vehicles with test rigs, how about the fact that Tesla went and got their $150/year permit in CA?
The following companies have their CA permits. Only Uber is being an uber douchebag about it.
Volkswagen Group of America Mercedes Benz Google Delphi Automotive Tesla Motors Bosch Nissan GM Cruise LLC BMW Honda Ford Zoox Inc. Drive.ai Inc. Faraday & Future Inc. Baidu USA LLC Wheego Electric Cars Inc. Valeo North America, Inc. NextEV USA, Inc. Telenav, Inc. NVIDIA Corporation
The robot is a freagin' joke. This is a publicity stunt. The only way this thing works is with the support crane
The cane is obviously there to stop the dam thing crashing to the ground if it over balances for whatever reason. Even Boston Dynamics does that with their prototypes.
As is it has absolutely ZERO real world application and even less than zero in a combat situation, short of maybe something in a movie.
I am running El Capitan on my Macbook pro, yet sitting in the Applications folder is a 4.78 GB installer for macOS Sierra that I never authorized to download.
Saying that there is too much TV implies that I should be trying to watch every show on TV. But if different segments of the population watch different types of shows then who cares how many shows there are on TV? That's simply called having a choice.
Unless of course you mean all those "reality" shows that have* to die.
* note that my list of shows that have to die may differ from other peoples lists. But here on/. I'm pretty sure that I can safely say that every damn ghost hunter/big foot hunter/alien hunter etc reality show needs to die a painful death.
The CA DMV has this page listing the requirements for testing self driving cars. They are not onerous. Speculate as you will why Uber doesn't want to comply. It could be anything from having to report incidents on a per yearly basis to not allowing commercial operation (eg not picking up actual customers) or even just a general "fuck you, we're Uber".
At the same time AAA-games are becoming more like movies with less interaction and more passive watching of cutscenes, and this will continue until there is no distinguishing element between film and game left.
I agree with you. I think if they took something like the Assassin's Creed movie and cut it down and added some gameplay they'd end up with a pretty good video game.
been like that for years now. Apple would be dumb to delay a MBP launch to work on a product a lot less people are going to buy.
And in case you haven't noticed, Apple also seems to be doing all it can to kill off their laptops as well. Reduced ports, non-upgradeable, crummy keyboards. And that's not even to start on the touch bar which removes physical keys from the keyboards of high end users - the one most likely to want to use physical keys.
And as other people have pointed out, the Mac Mini seems absent from Tim's prognostications.
All in all Apple is going downhill fast*
* Says me with a MacBook Pro, iMac, iPad, Mac Mini, iPod x2
Trump is hobbling the EPA so badly that by the time he's done our smog will be so bad that we can't land airplanes either.
We'll have the best smog. The yugest smog. We're going to bring 1,000,000 smog manufacturing jobs back to this country.. Our smog will be so great that even the Chinese will be envious.
And not only that I'll build a wall to stop our smog going to Mexico! If Mexican's want our smog they'll have to pay for it!
Do you mean that Yahoo account I started way back when with the fake personal details just so I could use Yahoo messenger? One one I never use for email? That one?
The real damage here is the negative publicity they received, and the huge hit on the brand. I'm guessing most people will not trust them any longer with their personal data.
I vaguely remember seeing some story after the data breach that claimed they were still signing on new members.
and they could add new encrypted photos/videos to it using the public key, but they couldn't view old stuff.
[Setting: A border crossing station in a nondescript, corrupt nation. Definitely not the US. No sir, not the USA] Border Guard: Is this your camera? Photog: Yes it is. BG: I just have to take it to this back room to inspect it. Ph:... OK [5 mins later] BoG: You are under arrest! Ph: What for? BG: For the possession of child pornography that we found on your camera.
is that really a skill you want in your programmers?
Maybe not the malicious part, but I can see them coveting the part that implies you know the language and systems so well that you can see where assumptions would break down and have the intelligence to exploit them in novel ways. That shows a level of mastery that few people have (otherwise we all would have won such competitions).
Whether you apply your powers for good or for evil is a different conversation.
You wouldn't be American by any chance would you? Just to help you out I've provided a translation for you.
8/19/2016 PwC contacted 8/22/2016 Meeting with PwC, informed them about the impact and the details of the vulnerability and responsible disclosure 9/5/2016 Asked PwC about updates and whether a patch is available 9/13/2016 Received a Cease & Desist letter from PwC lawyers 11/18/2016 Informed that 90 days have passed and ESNC is planning to release a security advisory; asked for any details PwC can share about this matter including risk, affected versions, how to obtain a patch 11/22/2016 Received another Cease & Desist letter from PwC lawyers 12/7/12.2016 Public disclosure
That would suggest that, his angry demeanor notwithstanding, he makes strategic decisions based on emotional impulse. His current achievements would suggest otherwise.
Dumps on Boing after Boeing CEO talks about trade with China Dumps on Carrier union rep after said rep call's him out for misleading figures Dumps on SNL just because he doesn't like their parody of him. Dumps Megan Kelly because he didn't think she treated him fairly.
* If there is no car in front of me I still have to wait for the light to turn green (and then some in the US to avoid red light runners) * If there is a car ahead of me I still have to wait for them to move before I can move. * If I have a car that shuts the engine down when stopped (and I have driven such cars), the engine already instantly comes on when my foot lifts from the brake pedal (and if it doesn't it won't happen with the App either) * If you are driving in traffic you still can't beat the dynamics of all those other people (and traffic doesn't/can't act like plug flow in a pipe unless you build in major automated convoy support) * If it is just you on a main road then it tries to keep the traffic flowing by defaulting to green lights in your direction (and it's those pesky side road drivers who screw up your green lights) * If it is just you on a side road then the lights will be defaulted against you anyway.
So what are they really trying to solve? They already have a bunch of sensors/cameras that can be used to sample traffic and tell you what the current traffic patterns are.
I agree that it doesn't seem to apply in this particular case*, but the OP was positing a new golden era based on playing hardball - which was what I was replying to.
* The interesting thing is that from the article you linked:
It was not immediately clear how much of SoftBank's investment has been disclosed before. Softbank said on Nov. 7, the day before the U.S. election, it planned to make future large-scale investments via the $100 billion tech fund, rather than on its own, to avoid growing already bloated debt.
So it seem that Trump is taking advantage of something that wasn't his doing.
I can also see the Dem's having a field day about Saudi money financing Trump's desires.
For the past 30 years we've been rolling over and playing dead. Maybe try something else for a bit?
I have no problem with trying something different, but extremism is always ill-advised.
Just imagine the state of affairs 1 year down the track if Trump issues some scorched earth policy that somehow pisses off the middle east* and in response OPEC suddenly ramps up oil production and destroys Trump's attempt to boost the US oil industry and causing a major meltdown in employment in the midwest.
* Given his Taiwan excursion this week (planned or unplanned - you make the call), pissing off other countries is not to be unexpected.
BTW starting various wars and invading various countries hardly sounds like playing dead.
Trump is going to take the world by the balls and basically start squeezing and say "stop fucking us over OR ELSE. Now would you like to talk?"
The problem is that while Trump may think he has his hands on the world's balls, he doesn't realize that the world also has it's hands on the US's balls. Trade doesn't exist in a vacuum and playing chicken with the economy is not something to look forward to.
You need to watch the video. The store works by scanning a QR code on your phone in order to let you through a turnstile. That means that there is one person per phone in the store. But in reply to your reply.
1. They show alcohol being sold. 2. A group of people can't enter and shop as one unit. Imagine what that means for families. 3. There is shitload more surveillance going on in this store compared to a website. Stuff gets added/emoved from your "cart" as it is picked up/placed back on the shelves. 4. May not be an issue for Uber, but retail has always had the cash option. People have been using CC's for years in Taxis. 5. So history is repeating itself with potential Balkanization of stores. 6. You can only get in with QR code supplied by the App. 7. The video emphasizes walk in/walk out with no interactions and nobody at the exit/entrance.
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Actually Uber's argument is that their technology is not really fully autonomous and it's more like Tesla calling their system auto pilot.
So if you have Teslas driving on california why can't you have Ubers'?
Aside from the point that you seem to be conflating production vehicles with test rigs, how about the fact that Tesla went and got their $150/year permit in CA?
The following companies have their CA permits. Only Uber is being an uber douchebag about it.
Volkswagen Group of America
Mercedes Benz
Google
Delphi Automotive
Tesla Motors
Bosch
Nissan
GM Cruise LLC
BMW
Honda
Ford
Zoox Inc.
Drive.ai Inc.
Faraday & Future Inc.
Baidu USA LLC
Wheego Electric Cars Inc.
Valeo North America, Inc.
NextEV USA, Inc.
Telenav, Inc.
NVIDIA Corporation
Taken from the CA DMV site Application Requirements for Autonomous Vehicle Tester Program
The robot is a freagin' joke. This is a publicity stunt. The only way this thing works is with the support crane
The cane is obviously there to stop the dam thing crashing to the ground if it over balances for whatever reason. Even Boston Dynamics does that with their prototypes.
As is it has absolutely ZERO real world application and even less than zero in a combat situation, short of maybe something in a movie.
We need to come up with the robotic equivalent of
No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
I am running El Capitan on my Macbook pro, yet sitting in the Applications folder is a 4.78 GB installer for macOS Sierra that I never authorized to download.
Also, let's be fair, the typo is a direct quote from the article.
Yeah well, Sydneysiders. 'nough said.
There is no class north of the border. (and go one notch further north and there is even less class. Unless you count pumpkin scones)
Nazis are leftist.
Really? Do tell!
Saying that there is too much TV implies that I should be trying to watch every show on TV. But if different segments of the population watch different types of shows then who cares how many shows there are on TV? That's simply called having a choice.
Unless of course you mean all those "reality" shows that have* to die.
* note that my list of shows that have to die may differ from other peoples lists. But here on /. I'm pretty sure that I can safely say that every damn ghost hunter/big foot hunter/alien hunter etc reality show needs to die a painful death.
Or it could be that Uber doesn't believe their cars are Autonomous since they still need drivers.
Given that the DMV has the power revoke the registration of the Uber vehicles (and has done so in this case), what Uber thinks is irrelevant.
Given that Uber has not even tried to appeal this and is instead pulling out of CA suggests that Uber knows how tenuous their claim is.
The CA DMV has this page listing the requirements for testing self driving cars. They are not onerous. Speculate as you will why Uber doesn't want to comply. It could be anything from having to report incidents on a per yearly basis to not allowing commercial operation (eg not picking up actual customers) or even just a general "fuck you, we're Uber".
Application Requirements for Autonomous Vehicle Tester Program
At the same time AAA-games are becoming more like movies with less interaction and more passive watching of cutscenes, and this will continue until there is no distinguishing element between film and game left.
I agree with you. I think if they took something like the Assassin's Creed movie and cut it down and added some gameplay they'd end up with a pretty good video game.
been like that for years now. Apple would be dumb to delay a MBP launch to work on a product a lot less people are going to buy.
And in case you haven't noticed, Apple also seems to be doing all it can to kill off their laptops as well. Reduced ports, non-upgradeable, crummy keyboards. And that's not even to start on the touch bar which removes physical keys from the keyboards of high end users - the one most likely to want to use physical keys.
And as other people have pointed out, the Mac Mini seems absent from Tim's prognostications.
All in all Apple is going downhill fast*
* Says me with a MacBook Pro, iMac, iPad, Mac Mini, iPod x2
Trump is hobbling the EPA so badly that by the time he's done our smog will be so bad that we can't land airplanes either.
We'll have the best smog. The yugest smog. We're going to bring 1,000,000 smog manufacturing jobs back to this country.. Our smog will be so great that even the Chinese will be envious.
And not only that I'll build a wall to stop our smog going to Mexico! If Mexican's want our smog they'll have to pay for it!
Do you mean that Yahoo account I started way back when with the fake personal details just so I could use Yahoo messenger? One one I never use for email? That one?
(Makes me wonder what happened to my ICQ account)
The real damage here is the negative publicity they received, and the huge hit on the brand. I'm guessing most people will not trust them any longer with their personal data.
I vaguely remember seeing some story after the data breach that claimed they were still signing on new members.
and they could add new encrypted photos/videos to it using the public key, but they couldn't view old stuff.
[Setting: A border crossing station in a nondescript, corrupt nation. Definitely not the US. No sir, not the USA] ... OK
Border Guard: Is this your camera?
Photog: Yes it is.
BG: I just have to take it to this back room to inspect it.
Ph:
[5 mins later]
BoG: You are under arrest!
Ph: What for?
BG: For the possession of child pornography that we found on your camera.
is that really a skill you want in your programmers?
Maybe not the malicious part, but I can see them coveting the part that implies you know the language and systems so well that you can see where assumptions would break down and have the intelligence to exploit them in novel ways. That shows a level of mastery that few people have (otherwise we all would have won such competitions).
Whether you apply your powers for good or for evil is a different conversation.
dates too hard to read; stopped trying
You wouldn't be American by any chance would you? Just to help you out I've provided a translation for you.
8/19/2016 PwC contacted
8/22/2016 Meeting with PwC, informed them about the impact and the details
of the vulnerability and responsible disclosure
9/5/2016 Asked PwC about updates and whether a patch is available
9/13/2016 Received a Cease & Desist letter from PwC lawyers
11/18/2016 Informed that 90 days have passed and ESNC is planning to
release a security advisory; asked for any details PwC can share about this
matter including risk, affected versions, how to obtain a patch
11/22/2016 Received another Cease & Desist letter from PwC lawyers
12/7/12.2016 Public disclosure
Once you get a couple of Indian folks into management positions they just tend to recruit other Indian people and gradually remove whites.
This is a bit OT for TFA but Indians have been taking over the US hotel business for at least the last 20-30 years. From a random article from 2012
Nearly half of the motels in the U.S. are owned by Indian Americans.
Why Indian Americans Dominate the U.S. Motel Industry
That would suggest that, his angry demeanor notwithstanding, he makes strategic decisions based on emotional impulse. His current achievements would suggest otherwise.
Dumps on Boing after Boeing CEO talks about trade with China
Dumps on Carrier union rep after said rep call's him out for misleading figures
Dumps on SNL just because he doesn't like their parody of him.
Dumps Megan Kelly because he didn't think she treated him fairly.
Which of these is strategic and not emotional?
* If there is no car in front of me I still have to wait for the light to turn green (and then some in the US to avoid red light runners) /can't act like plug flow in a pipe unless you build in major automated convoy support)
* If there is a car ahead of me I still have to wait for them to move before I can move.
* If I have a car that shuts the engine down when stopped (and I have driven such cars), the engine already instantly comes on when my foot lifts from the brake pedal (and if it doesn't it won't happen with the App either)
* If you are driving in traffic you still can't beat the dynamics of all those other people (and traffic doesn't
* If it is just you on a main road then it tries to keep the traffic flowing by defaulting to green lights in your direction (and it's those pesky side road drivers who screw up your green lights)
* If it is just you on a side road then the lights will be defaulted against you anyway.
So what are they really trying to solve? They already have a bunch of sensors/cameras that can be used to sample traffic and tell you what the current traffic patterns are.
I agree that it doesn't seem to apply in this particular case*, but the OP was positing a new golden era based on playing hardball - which was what I was replying to.
* The interesting thing is that from the article you linked:
It was not immediately clear how much of SoftBank's investment has been disclosed before. Softbank said on Nov. 7, the day before the U.S. election, it planned to make future large-scale investments via the $100 billion tech fund, rather than on its own, to avoid growing already bloated debt.
So it seem that Trump is taking advantage of something that wasn't his doing.
I can also see the Dem's having a field day about Saudi money financing Trump's desires.
For the past 30 years we've been rolling over and playing dead. Maybe try something else for a bit?
I have no problem with trying something different, but extremism is always ill-advised.
Just imagine the state of affairs 1 year down the track if Trump issues some scorched earth policy that somehow pisses off the middle east* and in response OPEC suddenly ramps up oil production and destroys Trump's attempt to boost the US oil industry and causing a major meltdown in employment in the midwest.
* Given his Taiwan excursion this week (planned or unplanned - you make the call), pissing off other countries is not to be unexpected.
BTW starting various wars and invading various countries hardly sounds like playing dead.
The jobs will be filled by Russian chatbots.
Nah, who needs Russian chatbots when MS produced the advanced Trump supporter chatbot, codename Tay
/rimshot
Trump is going to take the world by the balls and basically start squeezing and say "stop fucking us over OR ELSE. Now would you like to talk?"
The problem is that while Trump may think he has his hands on the world's balls, he doesn't realize that the world also has it's hands on the US's balls. Trade doesn't exist in a vacuum and playing chicken with the economy is not something to look forward to.
Yeah! People, stop fat-shaming my one year old phone! It's not how thin your phone is, wide phones can be beautiful too.
It really is disingenuous to fat shame phones. Samsung unequivocally proved that no-one wants a hottie smart phone.
You need to watch the video. The store works by scanning a QR code on your phone in order to let you through a turnstile. That means that there is one person per phone in the store. But in reply to your reply.
1. They show alcohol being sold.
2. A group of people can't enter and shop as one unit. Imagine what that means for families.
3. There is shitload more surveillance going on in this store compared to a website. Stuff gets added/emoved from your "cart" as it is picked up/placed back on the shelves.
4. May not be an issue for Uber, but retail has always had the cash option. People have been using CC's for years in Taxis.
5. So history is repeating itself with potential Balkanization of stores.
6. You can only get in with QR code supplied by the App.
7. The video emphasizes walk in/walk out with no interactions and nobody at the exit/entrance.