The suicide prank was on the edge, but still on the legal (and tasteful) side since it didn't cause anyone to reasonably believe their life was in danger.
I agree that they never felt that their life was in danger, but the "payoff" for this particular prank was recording the reaction of someone who thought that someone elses life was genuinly in danger and/or dead/badly hurt. To me, that has crossed the line for a prank done in real life.
If a prank starts making people feel uncomfortable, you've completely missed the mark.
This^^^
I remember the original Candid Camera. The best prank I every saw them pull was getting a large box delivered to an office and that box just fitting through the door. While the delivery people were distracted the camera crew added an insert to the door jam and said that the box was delivered to the wrong office. Now when the delivery guys tried to move the box the couldn't get it out of the office and couldn't understand why. Hilarious.
On the other hand I saw another show which had people sitting in an office. Someone would drop a dummy past the window and before the mark could respond and actor would replace the dummy on the ground. Cue a mark who was concerned/worried about seeing potential death/suicide. Even I felt uncomfortable watching it.
I didn't even know there was an issue until I saw this story. So I take it "Widespread" is only widespread for the people who have the specific hardware that is affected.
Sheets gas stations have always had kiosks for ordering food for as long as I can remember. However I find the interface really frustrating to navigate. I only keep coming back because this one Sheetz place is in a convenient location.
I also saw a kiosk in a McDonalds last year. Not sure if it was just a trial or a part of a store revamp.
In my case I was accused of file-sharing some porn film. It was a false positive but that does not make any difference under current German law, if their program says you were file-sharing then that is assumed to be the case.
Considering what some German porn seems to be, I'd be denying it as well.
Also, just to point out GP's point- SAP patched this in 2010. You would have to be at a customer that didn't implement support packs on a system for more than five years.
Never having used SAP, is the system such that a "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality exists? Or in other words does SAP have a history of borking updates?
The manufacturers seem to have a pretty good idea of how they want to do it.
Yeah right, the people making the device get to set the playing field for how the their new, novel device sits in a legal framework. Color me skeptical but I don't buy the manufacturers being altruistic - especially in the US. Case in point GM's ignition switch, or Ford's Pinot.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but we're not quite at the stage where you can just take a car off the road, slap on some sensors and some jazz in the steering wheel/pedals, and the car is ready to self-drive.
Regardless of how soon/distant the mechanics of a self driving car will be along, I would imagine that its going to be the insurance/legal industry that is going to dictate acceptance in the USA (and also for most western countries).
This sort of thing is going require a radical change in their thinking EG if a self driving car fails and causes a death, who is responsible: the owner? the car company? the engineer who signed off on the safety tests? The guy who performed the last software update? Whose insurance pays: the owner? the car company? the bureau that certified the car as safe?
MegaBots is evaluating potential host countries and working with governments that may be interested in and willing to host such an event, and future tournaments.
Translation: Looking for the place with the least restrictive laws and minimal requirements for liability insurance.
Sure you can say that people shouldn't commit crimes. That's easy to say. The hard question to ask is why people are committing crimes at rate much higher than the rest of the world.
We need to ramp up reverse retaliation on stupid people 100x fold to stop shit like this
It's not stupid people.. it's fearful people.
Just look at the number of people in the US who have been kicked off a flight or pulled up for interrogation just because they spoke Arabic or "looked like a certain way".
How does the pilot not get sick when the rocket spins like that?
Umm..
1) The pilot is knocked unconscious by the high launch forces, so never sees anything? 2) The pilot spends hours and hours training on a merry-go-round? 3) The pilot doesn't directly look out the window. Instead he/she watches the video after they de-spin it? 4) The pilot spent man-hours training on FPS video games? 5) or maybe because there is no pilot?
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The suicide prank was on the edge, but still on the legal (and tasteful) side since it didn't cause anyone to reasonably believe their life was in danger.
I agree that they never felt that their life was in danger, but the "payoff" for this particular prank was recording the reaction of someone who thought that someone elses life was genuinly in danger and/or dead/badly hurt. To me, that has crossed the line for a prank done in real life.
If a prank starts making people feel uncomfortable, you've completely missed the mark.
This^^^
I remember the original Candid Camera. The best prank I every saw them pull was getting a large box delivered to an office and that box just fitting through the door. While the delivery people were distracted the camera crew added an insert to the door jam and said that the box was delivered to the wrong office. Now when the delivery guys tried to move the box the couldn't get it out of the office and couldn't understand why. Hilarious.
On the other hand I saw another show which had people sitting in an office. Someone would drop a dummy past the window and before the mark could respond and actor would replace the dummy on the ground. Cue a mark who was concerned/worried about seeing potential death/suicide. Even I felt uncomfortable watching it.
Don't forget the internet. How long did it take for MS just to get properly online?
Work of fiction is shown to be fictional.
Lesson 1. How to pretend that you have anonymity on the internet
Lesson 2. Never talk about Lesson 1
I didn't even know there was an issue until I saw this story. So I take it "Widespread" is only widespread for the people who have the specific hardware that is affected.
Sheets gas stations have always had kiosks for ordering food for as long as I can remember. However I find the interface really frustrating to navigate. I only keep coming back because this one Sheetz place is in a convenient location.
I also saw a kiosk in a McDonalds last year. Not sure if it was just a trial or a part of a store revamp.
In my case I was accused of file-sharing some porn film. It was a false positive but that does not make any difference under current German law, if their program says you were file-sharing then that is assumed to be the case.
Considering what some German porn seems to be, I'd be denying it as well.
...a guest SSID on every AP coming to everything near you!
Just be careful with the name Wi-Fi hot spot called 'Mobile Detonation Device' delays flight
Also, just to point out GP's point- SAP patched this in 2010. You would have to be at a customer that didn't implement support packs on a system for more than five years.
Never having used SAP, is the system such that a "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality exists? Or in other words does SAP have a history of borking updates?
The manufacturers seem to have a pretty good idea of how they want to do it.
Yeah right, the people making the device get to set the playing field for how the their new, novel device sits in a legal framework. Color me skeptical but I don't buy the manufacturers being altruistic - especially in the US. Case in point GM's ignition switch, or Ford's Pinot.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but we're not quite at the stage where you can just take a car off the road, slap on some sensors and some jazz in the steering wheel/pedals, and the car is ready to self-drive.
Regardless of how soon/distant the mechanics of a self driving car will be along, I would imagine that its going to be the insurance/legal industry that is going to dictate acceptance in the USA (and also for most western countries).
This sort of thing is going require a radical change in their thinking EG if a self driving car fails and causes a death, who is responsible: the owner? the car company? the engineer who signed off on the safety tests? The guy who performed the last software update? Whose insurance pays: the owner? the car company? the bureau that certified the car as safe?
What are next week's lotto numbers?
But don't forget the SyFi channel's Robot Combat League
From TFA
MegaBots is evaluating potential host countries and working with governments that may be interested in and willing to host such an event, and future tournaments.
Translation: Looking for the place with the least restrictive laws and minimal requirements for liability insurance.
"Trending News"?
Really? More like FB propaganda.
That's why whenever I see something on FB that is propaganda and/or pure marketing I tag it as offensive/sexually explicit.
I have no idea if that actually dos anything, but it does make me feel good.
US prisons are a systematic violation of basic human rights. They are barbaric, full of horrific atrocities, and there is no excuse for them.
You also need to add in the stats that while the US has 4.4% of the worlds population it has 22% of the worlds prisoners
Sure you can say that people shouldn't commit crimes. That's easy to say. The hard question to ask is why people are committing crimes at rate much higher than the rest of the world.
We need to ramp up reverse retaliation on stupid people 100x fold to stop shit like this
It's not stupid people .. it's fearful people.
Just look at the number of people in the US who have been kicked off a flight or pulled up for interrogation just because they spoke Arabic or "looked like a certain way".
This is the last one that I heard about UC Berkeley student questioned, refused service after speaking Arabic on flight
nope, you can still run a dosbox inside osx
Then you are just shifting the problem, not solving it
I upgraded to 10 to solve this as Microsoft suggested... err well OS X. Close enough, and it did the trick. Suddenly my computer doesn't suck.
Just you wait until you get to know it well! (says the man with 4 apple computers within arms reach)
Every computer systems sucks in some way or another. And if you think that your system doesn't suck, then you haven't been looking hard enough.
Install linux.
And say goodbye to every piece of Windows only software that you own.
Contrary to popular belief the world does not run on Web Browsers.
What sort of newbie are you? He's AC .. I have seen him posting here for over a decade.
Over a decade ago most comments were posted under individual accounts and only goatse trolls posted under AC.
So cut the guy some slack .. he's obviously cleaned up his life.
Suggestion: read the article and details, before making assumptions.
This is Slashdot. You must be new around here.
What sort of newbie are you? He's AC .. I have seen him posting here for over a decade. He was one of the very first people to sign up for an account.
How does the pilot not get sick when the rocket spins like that?
Umm ..
1) The pilot is knocked unconscious by the high launch forces, so never sees anything?
2) The pilot spends hours and hours training on a merry-go-round?
3) The pilot doesn't directly look out the window. Instead he/she watches the video after they de-spin it?
4) The pilot spent man-hours training on FPS video games?
5) or maybe because there is no pilot?
no one is watching the watchers and this is the result of that.
power, unchecked, gets us this.
I know this is slashdot .. but did you miss the part in TFS where the cop GOT THE COURT ORDER FIRST????????