Sure, but there are better ways to solve those issues. For example, the EU introduces the RoHS rules that limited the amount of harmful substances in products, and started considering carbon emissions from factories in China making products for EU companies. That helped clean up China quite a bit, and the Chinese government is very receptive to such measures because it too is trying hard to improve the environment there.
If you just start a trade war it will only result in more tariffs being put on US products. Maybe more of them will be sold in the US to make up for that, but the Chinese market is huge and experiencing rapid growth so that's far from certain. And of course the Chinese put tariffs on US goods in a way designed to cause maximum pain, rather than make the system fairer.
Even if you disable HTML5 video those fuckers will just send you an animated GIF, and if that fails to play a stream of JPEGs updated by Javascript.
Fortunately some combination of Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, uBlockOrigin Extra, CanvasFingerprintBlock, Video Autoplay Blocker and Disable WebGL seems to kill it. That lot is blocking at least 23 items on this Slashdot comment page...
You answered your own question there. She didn't murder anyone, she injured a few and then killed herself. It seems likely that only having a handgun limited her ability to murder people, which is what many calling for tighter gun control want.
If anything this story should have been put out in January, back when they had just missed the deadline for their promised cross-country antonymous drive. Or maybe when Elon put out that tweet pushing FSD back to 2020. People say that the sales reps were telling them it would be within a few months, mid 2018 at the latest.
Ignoring the danger of advertising delivered malware, the risk from being tracked is that it is used to screw you over.
They know you are interested in a new widget. They know you have seen it advertised for âX. So now they know that you want it, and what you think the going rate is for it, and approximately where you live thanks to your geolocated IP address and closest CDN server, and can tailor their "offers" to you.
If you come along with no tracking info, they have much less information to screw you with. I've seen it happen - I had an airline site that only worked in IE, and they kept jacking the price up over a few hours and days. I scrubbed all data from IE, switched VPN endpoints and the price went back down again.
Seems very bad for trade too. There are two ways to address the trade imbalance with China: reduce overall trade until both sides are down to the same level, or build up US exports to match Chinese imports. It seems like, as usual, this trade war is pushing for the first option.
Well, one of your links is to a blog called "radtransfem" and Meghan Murphy is fair radical too.
I think it's also important to understand these lists of behaviours, like the one you link to, are just examples and not meant to remove the need for some judgement. When it lists winking as an example of potential sexual harassment, along side licking your lips, it clearly doesn't mean winking to indicate humour or licking that delicious sauce off your face. And it's listing it as examples of things you should avoid doing, not a list of arbitrary actions you can be hung for.
I'm happy to have a discussion of these issues if you want. Really, I am. But for that to happen both sides have to give the benefit of the doubt and not try to interpret everything in the worst possible way, because otherwise language becomes a minefield and no-one can express any complex ideas.
So in this case I'd say rather than picking one or two words out of what seems like a very reasonable document, can you point to actual, documented examples of people being sanctioned for non-sexual winking? There probably are some, and I'll condemn them now just to avoid doubt, but they are mistakes rather than the intended implementation.
This. Tesla sold the capability of the car to go find a parking space and then return when you summon it later. There are all sorts of edge cases that a human would be able to deal with easily, like poor road markings or someone else parked badly or road works, but which AI will struggle with.
Considering they can't even get the system to drive straight in the middle of a lane yet (it's prone to ping-ponging between the lines) the current estimate of 2020 for this feature (that they have been selling since 2016) seems optimistic.
No, Tesla sold it as "get out of your car and it parks itself". People won't be happy if they get an alert on their phone from the car pleading for help because it's stuck in a car park and doesn't know what to do and there is a long queue of human drivers behind it getting angry can you please get an Uber and save it.
Informally Musk promised you would be able to summon the car from the other side of the country. It's got to be damn near 100%.
It's actually worse than TFA makes out. The original web page was promising it would take your kids to school for you. They have since been editing it to reduce the promised functionality, but anyone who bought it with the old text (and there are plenty who kept screenshots) is in a position to sue if they don't deliver it.
Musk is saying 2020 now, by which time people who bought it shortly after launch will have had it for five years. Many of them will have run out their lease periods by then. Many of the cars will have been written off or scrapped. And based on Musk's previous statements, next year he will push it out to 2021. It's always 2 years away.
On top of that, it's not clear if the current hardware will ever be capable of full self driving. They may have to do expensive upgrades on a lot of vehicles.
It didn't know about all streaming services and didn't seem to keep up with Netflix's monthly changes. While it did tailor results to your region, the results were often useless anyway.
I still have an optical drive. It lives in a drawer and never gets used. But even so, why bother wasting time ripping, checking, downloading artwork and metadata etc. when someone has already done it?
I guess I could buy a digital copy instead of a physical one and get that stuff, but the digital copy is usually the same price and you get less for your money.
I agree, if they don't have a published bug bounty scheme to indicate they have a clue and welcome reports it's not worth the risk of contacting them. Since it's a government web site an anonymous tip to a journalist might be a better idea.
Typically you went to the site, typed in what you wanted and it would tell you something like:
- Not available in your region - Buy a Sky subscription and an add-on package (£30/month, minimum 1 year commitment, requires satellite dish and receiver) - Available on a streaming service that isn't compatible with your TV - Buy it on DVD for 5x the maximum amount you are willing to pay, in 9 months when we release it in your region
Usually you were better off just going to Amazon or Rakuten and buying the DVD for a fraction of retail price, and after that most people never went back. Their SEO efforts paled in comparison to the big retailers anyway.
When I buy CDs and very occasionally DVD/BluRay discs I also download a rip. No point getting out the USB optical drive and wasting energy on ripping/encoding, scanning artwork etc. Other people have already done and checked their work for me.
But yeah, other times there is no good option to buy or stream legitimately so I just pirate it. Life is too short.
This doesn't seem like an insurmountable problem. Just get the states to simplify a bit, maybe by having a single mail-order tax rate, or at least a free zip-code to tax rate database.
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The ethernet/wifi connections are not mandatory, you don't have to plug them in.
Sure, but there are better ways to solve those issues. For example, the EU introduces the RoHS rules that limited the amount of harmful substances in products, and started considering carbon emissions from factories in China making products for EU companies. That helped clean up China quite a bit, and the Chinese government is very receptive to such measures because it too is trying hard to improve the environment there.
If you just start a trade war it will only result in more tariffs being put on US products. Maybe more of them will be sold in the US to make up for that, but the Chinese market is huge and experiencing rapid growth so that's far from certain. And of course the Chinese put tariffs on US goods in a way designed to cause maximum pain, rather than make the system fairer.
Even if you disable HTML5 video those fuckers will just send you an animated GIF, and if that fails to play a stream of JPEGs updated by Javascript.
Fortunately some combination of Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, uBlockOrigin Extra, CanvasFingerprintBlock, Video Autoplay Blocker and Disable WebGL seems to kill it. That lot is blocking at least 23 items on this Slashdot comment page...
You answered your own question there. She didn't murder anyone, she injured a few and then killed herself. It seems likely that only having a handgun limited her ability to murder people, which is what many calling for tighter gun control want.
As for her gender, only a few people seem to care.
If anything this story should have been put out in January, back when they had just missed the deadline for their promised cross-country antonymous drive. Or maybe when Elon put out that tweet pushing FSD back to 2020. People say that the sales reps were telling them it would be within a few months, mid 2018 at the latest.
Ignoring the danger of advertising delivered malware, the risk from being tracked is that it is used to screw you over.
They know you are interested in a new widget. They know you have seen it advertised for âX. So now they know that you want it, and what you think the going rate is for it, and approximately where you live thanks to your geolocated IP address and closest CDN server, and can tailor their "offers" to you.
If you come along with no tracking info, they have much less information to screw you with. I've seen it happen - I had an airline site that only worked in IE, and they kept jacking the price up over a few hours and days. I scrubbed all data from IE, switched VPN endpoints and the price went back down again.
Seems very bad for trade too. There are two ways to address the trade imbalance with China: reduce overall trade until both sides are down to the same level, or build up US exports to match Chinese imports. It seems like, as usual, this trade war is pushing for the first option.
Well, one of your links is to a blog called "radtransfem" and Meghan Murphy is fair radical too.
I think it's also important to understand these lists of behaviours, like the one you link to, are just examples and not meant to remove the need for some judgement. When it lists winking as an example of potential sexual harassment, along side licking your lips, it clearly doesn't mean winking to indicate humour or licking that delicious sauce off your face. And it's listing it as examples of things you should avoid doing, not a list of arbitrary actions you can be hung for.
I'm happy to have a discussion of these issues if you want. Really, I am. But for that to happen both sides have to give the benefit of the doubt and not try to interpret everything in the worst possible way, because otherwise language becomes a minefield and no-one can express any complex ideas.
So in this case I'd say rather than picking one or two words out of what seems like a very reasonable document, can you point to actual, documented examples of people being sanctioned for non-sexual winking? There probably are some, and I'll condemn them now just to avoid doubt, but they are mistakes rather than the intended implementation.
This. Tesla sold the capability of the car to go find a parking space and then return when you summon it later. There are all sorts of edge cases that a human would be able to deal with easily, like poor road markings or someone else parked badly or road works, but which AI will struggle with.
Considering they can't even get the system to drive straight in the middle of a lane yet (it's prone to ping-ponging between the lines) the current estimate of 2020 for this feature (that they have been selling since 2016) seems optimistic.
No, Tesla sold it as "get out of your car and it parks itself". People won't be happy if they get an alert on their phone from the car pleading for help because it's stuck in a car park and doesn't know what to do and there is a long queue of human drivers behind it getting angry can you please get an Uber and save it.
Informally Musk promised you would be able to summon the car from the other side of the country. It's got to be damn near 100%.
It's actually worse than TFA makes out. The original web page was promising it would take your kids to school for you. They have since been editing it to reduce the promised functionality, but anyone who bought it with the old text (and there are plenty who kept screenshots) is in a position to sue if they don't deliver it.
Musk is saying 2020 now, by which time people who bought it shortly after launch will have had it for five years. Many of them will have run out their lease periods by then. Many of the cars will have been written off or scrapped. And based on Musk's previous statements, next year he will push it out to 2021. It's always 2 years away.
On top of that, it's not clear if the current hardware will ever be capable of full self driving. They may have to do expensive upgrades on a lot of vehicles.
One simple question. Do you know what "radical" means?
I'm going to investigate that, thanks.
The only down side being that they could get shut down or maybe even jail time in the UK.
An object that just happens to be perfectly shaped for penetrating the human body and causing fatal injuries.
I've never had anything I felt was a serious death threat in my life. Even on the internet. And I'm Amimojo.
It didn't know about all streaming services and didn't seem to keep up with Netflix's monthly changes. While it did tailor results to your region, the results were often useless anyway.
I still have an optical drive. It lives in a drawer and never gets used. But even so, why bother wasting time ripping, checking, downloading artwork and metadata etc. when someone has already done it?
I guess I could buy a digital copy instead of a physical one and get that stuff, but the digital copy is usually the same price and you get less for your money.
I agree, if they don't have a published bug bounty scheme to indicate they have a clue and welcome reports it's not worth the risk of contacting them. Since it's a government web site an anonymous tip to a journalist might be a better idea.
Typically you went to the site, typed in what you wanted and it would tell you something like:
- Not available in your region
- Buy a Sky subscription and an add-on package (£30/month, minimum 1 year commitment, requires satellite dish and receiver)
- Available on a streaming service that isn't compatible with your TV
- Buy it on DVD for 5x the maximum amount you are willing to pay, in 9 months when we release it in your region
Usually you were better off just going to Amazon or Rakuten and buying the DVD for a fraction of retail price, and after that most people never went back. Their SEO efforts paled in comparison to the big retailers anyway.
Which is why it is a shame it never got to court, because then the authenticity of the emails could have been verified.
When I buy CDs and very occasionally DVD/BluRay discs I also download a rip. No point getting out the USB optical drive and wasting energy on ripping/encoding, scanning artwork etc. Other people have already done and checked their work for me.
But yeah, other times there is no good option to buy or stream legitimately so I just pirate it. Life is too short.
I wish there was a good cross platform GUI framework for .NET. Like WPF but works well on multiple platforms.
Can't see it happening though, because every new GUI is obsessed with being usable on both desktop and touch interfaces and so ends up being shit.
This doesn't seem like an insurmountable problem. Just get the states to simplify a bit, maybe by having a single mail-order tax rate, or at least a free zip-code to tax rate database.
Actually yes, if you discovered such a flaw and exploited it to get lots of free coke, you likely would be prosecuted for theft.
You know, like how fraud is still fraud even if the victim agreed to it.