Pass the bottle. After being randomly accused of wanting to control people's speech for the Nth time, despite being a bigger proponent of most of these freeze peach losers who want to stop people disagreeing with them because it might have consequences, I really can't be bothered.
I'll happily have an honest dialogue, but I've been here before and I don't think cascadingstylesheet will believe it if I tell him that's not at all what I meant. And I have little faith that they would respond in good faith, rather than just making further accusations based on their own misconceptions about me.
We can try a little experiment if you like. My explanation is that I was talking about what people feel able to say openly in society. For example most people would probably be embarrassed to discuss their sex life in public, especially on national TV. Not saying that's a good thing, it would actually be better if we could talk about it more. What I'm observing is that due to people like UKIP recycling Nazi propaganda it's become socially acceptable to repeat certain myths or say really quite bigoted stuff. Again, that's their right, free speech means they can say it (if they accept the consequences), all I'm doing is observing that the Russians were working to make this happen as a way to divide us.
In short people used to be embarrassed to be racists and we mostly got along, now they are open about it the country is massively divided. How could it not be, when racism in particular is often very personal?
I think they vastly underestimated the processing power needed for their vision system. Even with stereo vision you really need temporal spacing to do decent depth perception. At the moment their neural nets only consider one image at a time and the hardware is barely powerful enough for that.
That's where LIDAR really helps. The processing power needed to get the depth and motion information is vastly reduced.
As for charging, I don't know what they can do really... They won't want to put something in the ground because that is expensive, but it might be a solution. Maybe something on/under the rear bumper so they can back up to the charger.
Sorry, I typed on my phone and screwed up. I did mean $3k. I think that won't be enough for the upgrades they will need, particularly when they realize they need to add lidar and self-cleaning capability for the cameras. Wouldn't want your Tesla to get stuck 2000 miles away because it picked up some dirt from a passing truck.
I expect the charge port will be upgraded too, to help it plug in automatically. The snake thing they showed off was totally impractical.
Counterfeit implies that it is supposed to pass as the original, which would mean it would need the logo on it... But as you say, it's not clear if that is what these are.
The 'threat' of printed guns is being trotted out entirely for political purposes. It's not a real, credible threat or risk to anyone.
Not yet. But the printers keep getting better and cheaper, and you have to assume that we are headed towards something like a Star Trek replicator where it just makes arbitrary stuff for you.
Same thing happened with 2D printers. Once colour printing became affordable there was a possibility of printing things like money. Photoshop has code that detects money and stops you editing/printing it, for example. Laser printers put hidden yellow dots on the page so it can be traced.
I'm not saying those are good things, what I'm saying is that some regulation is inevitable and it's better that we discuss it like adults and find some kind of compromise that allows us to own high end 3D printers.
1. They will have to upgrade every car that buys it. They are currently on V2.5 of their autopilot hardware but have already said that V3 is coming. Everyone who pre-ordered gets a free upgrade. When you factor in labour and hardware, loan vehicle, the fact that thousands of people will be queuing up for it then the $3,000 they are charging probably doesn't even cover their costs.
2. They don't know when it will be available and are worried about lawsuits. The current estimate from Musk is 2020 (bumped up from the original 2017). If you bought FSD back in 2016 your car will be hitting 5 years old by the time the feature enters beta, and who knows how old before it's really working as they described on their web site.
They Prunella probably realised that the upgrades they need to add to the cars are going to cost more than 2k.
Plus the date keeps getting pushed back, and people are going to be pissed off when they have waited 5 years for a beta and hardware upgrade after having pre-paid.
Oh god not another one obsessed with the freeze peach...
I'm not even going to bother explain why you have no fucking idea what you are talking about, I've learned how futile that is when someone has these preconceptions.
It was never meant to be free, this was the intended outcome. Google gives manufacturers the option to pay for it or to ship Chrome/Google Search as the defaults. Having a choice is the point.
Without getting in to the merits or otherwise of allowing organizations to campaign in elections, the fact that they are domestic means they are subject to domestic laws. If it was legal for foreign organizations to interfere then they would all just set up shell companies in the Caribbean and there would be no way to control them.
I'm not an expert on the US but there are rules around stating who paid for ads and stuff like that, right? And in the UK there are strict spending limits.
Europe varies a lot... In the UK for example, female nudity is a lot less controversial than male nudity. Women can be shown aroused on TV, but not men.
In France you get topless women in the ads for beauty products... In fact I remember years ago seeing one with a mother and her ~12 year old child topless in it. They really don't seem to mind.
Extreme porn isn't really the issue for kids though, it's the potential consequences.
Sex can get someone pregnant, a pretty serious state of affairs with life long ramifications. We have to teach kids about it and how to be responsible, and we tend to be bad at doing that. Also porn can cause mental health problems for kids due to body image issues and pressure to act a certain way or do certain things. Again education helps but we are somewhat bad at it.
Violence is of course also quite serious, but kids tend to be exposed to it quite early on regardless of the movies they watch, and develop an understanding of the consequences and responsibilities. Socially it's easier to talk about and to teach kids about.
We have all those things. Maybe you need to STFU and listen?
First develop even better renewable energy tech, including batteries. Figure out how to make them cheaper and more durable. There is a lot of money to be made doing that.
Also develop some new batteries that are lighter weight and higher energy density so we can have electric aircraft. Design us some even higher power chargers.
Now engineer us some CO2 capture devices that either store or convert CO2, to fit the atmosphere. Make them cheap and high capacity.
Some ultra efficient buildings would be great, no need to waste so much energy heating and cooling them.
Oh and while you are at it get fusion power working too.
As you can see the recent small increase is a correction from the large drop due to the financial crisis. You have used the classic climate change skeptic technique of cherry picking years to make your point.
Of course we need to keep pushing hard, but don't use this as an excuse for not acting or a target for your what-about-ism, and don't pretend great efforts are not being made.
The one big issue no-one has managed to solve yet with desktops is starting apps. Apparently it's a really hard problem.
In the early days you just had to navigate the file manager to the place on your hard drive where the app was installed and open it. On some systems that was actually pretty good because you could easily move apps around to organize them (e.g. RISC OS). Unfortunately on many systems it breaks the app if it isn't installed under the expected path, and it's also something of a security issue.
Then Windows introduced the start menu and the desktop. Both were a pain to organize. The desktop just because a sea of unorganized icons, apps and documents mixed together until your screen was full. The start menu was unstructured and often apps were hard to find because they created a "Generic Soft 347" subfolder to hide in. You could organize manually but that broke when you tried to update or remove apps.
Mobile systems and Ubuntu have a kind of app drawer, but it suffers from the same basic problems as the desktop and start menu. Search only kinda helps... I'm sure I installed a drawing app, but what was it called... "1nkur" or something...
At least with mobile systems you can have folders on your home screen/desktop to organize with. Since the invention of the desktop in the 70s that's been about the biggest innovation in app management.
It's a shame we don't have more evidence of how these techniques are actually used in practice. For example we know that the Russians organized events in the US via their fake social media accounts, which people went to. I'd imagine that GCHQ does the same but would love to see an example.
It's also a way to avoid Twitter bans and to help get Russian news sources some visibility through increased numbers of followers and retweets.
The determination that the account is part of the troll farm is not just based on content or association, it's also stuff that Twitter has like IP addresses, operating times (Russian office hours), use of stolen profile images and occasional screw-ups like forgetting to remove the geolocation metadata from images that are posted.
We know for a fact that GCHQ uses these tactics because their manual on how to do it was leaked.
However, it doesn't appear that the west does it on anything like the scale that Russia does. You can't really hide something that large, Russia certainly can't. It doesn't matter though, it works because people see a meme or post confirming their existing biases and making them feel that it's okay to say those things, and don't pause to ask "is this a Russian fake account?" or wonder if they are being manipulated.
I'm not saying that the US/UK/etc are any better, just more subtle and clandestine about it. They tend to target smaller groups and individuals with specific goals in mind, rather than carpet bombing social media to cause maximum division and chaos.
The UK equivalent, Maplin, lost out to Amazon and bigger high street retailers. The nerds left it long ago because it was 500x more expensive for components than other suppliers.
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Pass the bottle. After being randomly accused of wanting to control people's speech for the Nth time, despite being a bigger proponent of most of these freeze peach losers who want to stop people disagreeing with them because it might have consequences, I really can't be bothered.
I'll happily have an honest dialogue, but I've been here before and I don't think cascadingstylesheet will believe it if I tell him that's not at all what I meant. And I have little faith that they would respond in good faith, rather than just making further accusations based on their own misconceptions about me.
We can try a little experiment if you like. My explanation is that I was talking about what people feel able to say openly in society. For example most people would probably be embarrassed to discuss their sex life in public, especially on national TV. Not saying that's a good thing, it would actually be better if we could talk about it more. What I'm observing is that due to people like UKIP recycling Nazi propaganda it's become socially acceptable to repeat certain myths or say really quite bigoted stuff. Again, that's their right, free speech means they can say it (if they accept the consequences), all I'm doing is observing that the Russians were working to make this happen as a way to divide us.
In short people used to be embarrassed to be racists and we mostly got along, now they are open about it the country is massively divided. How could it not be, when racism in particular is often very personal?
I think they vastly underestimated the processing power needed for their vision system. Even with stereo vision you really need temporal spacing to do decent depth perception. At the moment their neural nets only consider one image at a time and the hardware is barely powerful enough for that.
That's where LIDAR really helps. The processing power needed to get the depth and motion information is vastly reduced.
As for charging, I don't know what they can do really... They won't want to put something in the ground because that is expensive, but it might be a solution. Maybe something on/under the rear bumper so they can back up to the charger.
Sorry, I typed on my phone and screwed up. I did mean $3k. I think that won't be enough for the upgrades they will need, particularly when they realize they need to add lidar and self-cleaning capability for the cameras. Wouldn't want your Tesla to get stuck 2000 miles away because it picked up some dirt from a passing truck.
I expect the charge port will be upgraded too, to help it plug in automatically. The snake thing they showed off was totally impractical.
Counterfeit implies that it is supposed to pass as the original, which would mean it would need the logo on it... But as you say, it's not clear if that is what these are.
The 'threat' of printed guns is being trotted out entirely for political purposes. It's not a real, credible threat or risk to anyone.
Not yet. But the printers keep getting better and cheaper, and you have to assume that we are headed towards something like a Star Trek replicator where it just makes arbitrary stuff for you.
Same thing happened with 2D printers. Once colour printing became affordable there was a possibility of printing things like money. Photoshop has code that detects money and stops you editing/printing it, for example. Laser printers put hidden yellow dots on the page so it can be traced.
I'm not saying those are good things, what I'm saying is that some regulation is inevitable and it's better that we discuss it like adults and find some kind of compromise that allows us to own high end 3D printers.
They stopped pre-orders for two reasons.
1. They will have to upgrade every car that buys it. They are currently on V2.5 of their autopilot hardware but have already said that V3 is coming. Everyone who pre-ordered gets a free upgrade. When you factor in labour and hardware, loan vehicle, the fact that thousands of people will be queuing up for it then the $3,000 they are charging probably doesn't even cover their costs.
2. They don't know when it will be available and are worried about lawsuits. The current estimate from Musk is 2020 (bumped up from the original 2017). If you bought FSD back in 2016 your car will be hitting 5 years old by the time the feature enters beta, and who knows how old before it's really working as they described on their web site.
They Prunella probably realised that the upgrades they need to add to the cars are going to cost more than 2k.
Plus the date keeps getting pushed back, and people are going to be pissed off when they have waited 5 years for a beta and hardware upgrade after having pre-paid.
Oh god not another one obsessed with the freeze peach...
I'm not even going to bother explain why you have no fucking idea what you are talking about, I've learned how futile that is when someone has these preconceptions.
It was never meant to be free, this was the intended outcome. Google gives manufacturers the option to pay for it or to ship Chrome/Google Search as the defaults. Having a choice is the point.
Problem for humans... The effects on the environment and plants/animals are much better understood.
Without getting in to the merits or otherwise of allowing organizations to campaign in elections, the fact that they are domestic means they are subject to domestic laws. If it was legal for foreign organizations to interfere then they would all just set up shell companies in the Caribbean and there would be no way to control them.
I'm not an expert on the US but there are rules around stating who paid for ads and stuff like that, right? And in the UK there are strict spending limits.
Also, WTF was that last sentence?
Europe varies a lot... In the UK for example, female nudity is a lot less controversial than male nudity. Women can be shown aroused on TV, but not men.
In France you get topless women in the ads for beauty products... In fact I remember years ago seeing one with a mother and her ~12 year old child topless in it. They really don't seem to mind.
Extreme porn isn't really the issue for kids though, it's the potential consequences.
Sex can get someone pregnant, a pretty serious state of affairs with life long ramifications. We have to teach kids about it and how to be responsible, and we tend to be bad at doing that. Also porn can cause mental health problems for kids due to body image issues and pressure to act a certain way or do certain things. Again education helps but we are somewhat bad at it.
Violence is of course also quite serious, but kids tend to be exposed to it quite early on regardless of the movies they watch, and develop an understanding of the consequences and responsibilities. Socially it's easier to talk about and to teach kids about.
We have all those things. Maybe you need to STFU and listen?
First develop even better renewable energy tech, including batteries. Figure out how to make them cheaper and more durable. There is a lot of money to be made doing that.
Also develop some new batteries that are lighter weight and higher energy density so we can have electric aircraft. Design us some even higher power chargers.
Now engineer us some CO2 capture devices that either store or convert CO2, to fit the atmosphere. Make them cheap and high capacity.
Some ultra efficient buildings would be great, no need to waste so much energy heating and cooling them.
Oh and while you are at it get fusion power working too.
Simple googling the title of this document leads you to multiple, convincing debunkings:
https://blog.ucsusa.org/brenda...
https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch...
Graph of EU emissions since 1990: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/...
As you can see the recent small increase is a correction from the large drop due to the financial crisis. You have used the classic climate change skeptic technique of cherry picking years to make your point.
Of course we need to keep pushing hard, but don't use this as an excuse for not acting or a target for your what-about-ism, and don't pretend great efforts are not being made.
The one big issue no-one has managed to solve yet with desktops is starting apps. Apparently it's a really hard problem.
In the early days you just had to navigate the file manager to the place on your hard drive where the app was installed and open it. On some systems that was actually pretty good because you could easily move apps around to organize them (e.g. RISC OS). Unfortunately on many systems it breaks the app if it isn't installed under the expected path, and it's also something of a security issue.
Then Windows introduced the start menu and the desktop. Both were a pain to organize. The desktop just because a sea of unorganized icons, apps and documents mixed together until your screen was full. The start menu was unstructured and often apps were hard to find because they created a "Generic Soft 347" subfolder to hide in. You could organize manually but that broke when you tried to update or remove apps.
Mobile systems and Ubuntu have a kind of app drawer, but it suffers from the same basic problems as the desktop and start menu. Search only kinda helps... I'm sure I installed a drawing app, but what was it called... "1nkur" or something...
At least with mobile systems you can have folders on your home screen/desktop to organize with. Since the invention of the desktop in the 70s that's been about the biggest innovation in app management.
I don't understand how Gnome is even supposed to work. What is the workflow supposed to be?
It's a shame we don't have more evidence of how these techniques are actually used in practice. For example we know that the Russians organized events in the US via their fake social media accounts, which people went to. I'd imagine that GCHQ does the same but would love to see an example.
It's also a way to avoid Twitter bans and to help get Russian news sources some visibility through increased numbers of followers and retweets.
The determination that the account is part of the troll farm is not just based on content or association, it's also stuff that Twitter has like IP addresses, operating times (Russian office hours), use of stolen profile images and occasional screw-ups like forgetting to remove the geolocation metadata from images that are posted.
We know for a fact that GCHQ uses these tactics because their manual on how to do it was leaked.
However, it doesn't appear that the west does it on anything like the scale that Russia does. You can't really hide something that large, Russia certainly can't. It doesn't matter though, it works because people see a meme or post confirming their existing biases and making them feel that it's okay to say those things, and don't pause to ask "is this a Russian fake account?" or wonder if they are being manipulated.
I'm not saying that the US/UK/etc are any better, just more subtle and clandestine about it. They tend to target smaller groups and individuals with specific goals in mind, rather than carpet bombing social media to cause maximum division and chaos.
ISIS don't bother to disguise their posts with fake accounts. That's the issue here, not the content but the deception.
Also, PROTIP, when attempting what-about-ism don't put "what about" in the title of your post. Best to be at least a little bit subtle.
Yes according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The UK equivalent, Maplin, lost out to Amazon and bigger high street retailers. The nerds left it long ago because it was 500x more expensive for components than other suppliers.
Have you been to China? European cars are extremely popular.
Some of them are refurbished, but some are new as well.