What the summary fails to mention is that most of the people who left Reddit went over to Voat. They were not silenced, just asked to leave the venue and take their speech somewhere else.
If you really want to indulge in some fat-hate you can still get your fix. Are you really arguing that Reddit should host whatever you deem fit to post? It's there any line that should not be crossed?
The problem with Usenet is that there is no effective way to block people. All you have is a useless plonk file, which is trivially defeated by changing username/email.
I guess if you like reading at -1 all the time that sounds great, but most people want some kind of filter.
Isn't there any provision in law for design flaws? In most European countries if there are design flaws the liability extends well beyond the warranty period, because the warranty is only for manufacturing defects that result in premature failure. Design flaws are considered a failure to disclose the true MTBF.
That's why Apple's prices in Europe and Australia are a rip-off. It doesn't cost them what AppleCare costs to extend the warranty, unless the failure rate is insane... Oh, wait.
Your logic is faulty though. If they have to factor the price of an extended warranty into the retail price because their quality control is crap, it will reduce their sales. They pick the sales price not on manufacturing cost + margin, but on what they calculate will maximize profit. Being forced to move away from the maximum profit sweet spot is clearly going to result in less than maximum profit.
In this case it's a design flaw. It's the worse kind of problem for manufacturers, because potentially every unit sold is affected and needs to be fixed/replaced. Apple could be faced with repairing or replacing hundreds of millions of phones.
I imagine they will do what they normally do. Deny deny deny and then quietly roll out a free repair programme "at their discretion" (i.e. how much noise you make in the Apple Store). By the time it happens most people will have given up and bought a new phone anyway.
Why accept such shitty consumer protection? You should demand European style protections - minimum 2 year warranty and where a device is tied to a contract it must last at least as long as the contract or the contract ends.
Why do you put up with this crap? Do you think it saves you money?
When I saw this story on the front page I knew instantly that the first comment would be claiming that 4k is pointless.
Personally it's glaringly obvious to me, but maybe I'm some kind of eagle-eyed mutant. Sadly my super powers don't allow me to shoot lasers out of my eyes.
The report is pretty damning. Over a period of 37 minutes he had his hands on the wheel for 25 seconds, and the car didn't stop or force him to pay attention.
If all you need to defeat their attention test is to touch the wheel for 25 seconds out of every 37 minutes, that's not going to stop anyone playing with their phone or taking a nap.
You realize that Abrams directed the last one, and after it's massive success (one of the most profitable movies of all time) it's spawned not only two sequels but at least two spin-offs and likely many more.
If that's killing a franchise then what do you consider success?
Rei: Goes from no powers to mind control followed by using the force to fling things around before even getting off the planet they were fleeing, proceeds to kill a Kylo Ren who had been perfecting his powers for years under a Sith master.
Your argument would be more convincing if you managed to get basic details about the movie correct.
Rei's mind control powers only emerged after Kylo Ren had demonstrated them to her when trying to interrogate her. At the time she was strapped to an interrogation table waiting to be tortured, implying that the stress pushed her to use force powers. That's consistent with how force powers manifested for other users, e.g. Luke when he needs to make that critical shot, or contact his sister to be rescued after losing to Vader. It's well established that stress and powerful emotions like anger interact with force abilities.
Rei also failed to kill Kylo Ren. The battle ended in something of a stalemate, and Ren started out carrying an injury.
Ren's force powers seem to be relatively weak. He doesn't demonstrate anything like the power that other trained users did, and none of the typical dark side stuff like lightning or force-choking. His light sabre is also pretty poor quality, unable to form a solid steady beam. It's not clear how much training he has had, that hasn't been revealed yet, he seems to lack the discipline that Vader and other Sith had, being prone to emotional outbursts and still struggling with links to his family (which is why killing Han is so important).
Even after a few weeks of training his skill level is still basic. He then proceeds to get his arse kicked.
Right, because he didn't have enough training. After that he trains by himself, with no guidance, for an unspecified period of time but it only seems to be a year at most between ESB and ROTJ. At that point he has got good enough not only to beat Vader but the Emperor as well, at the same time.
Maybe, as every DBZ fan eventually realizes, power levels are bullshit.
There were no warnings in the two minutes leading up to the crash. Even if there had been, their driver attentiveness detection system is flawed - just having your hand on the wheel doesn't mean you are paying attention. You can easily have one hand on the wheel and the other on your phone, or sleep in that position.
Tesla need to do much more than that. Just having your hand on the wheel is meaningless - there are videos of people sleeping with one hand on the wheel on YouTube, as their Tesla drives on auto.
Since they can't retrofit gaze tracking cameras to every existing car, it's not clear what they can do to make them safe.
They really seem to be selling this way before it is ready. They had a big set back with the AP2 hardware, and yet are already selling people full self driving capability with a promised software update.
Other manufacturers are using gaze tracking cameras. If the driver closes their eyes or isn't looking at the surrounding road for more than a few seconds (I think 15 is the industry standard) the car alerts them. If that fails to get their attention the car is supposed to stop, but if it pulls over to just comes to a halt in the fast lane depends on the manufacturer.
While Rey's development is a bit rushed, it was probably a consequence of Mark Hamil getting old more than anything. If he were younger the central character would probably have been Luke fighting a resurgence of the Sith/Empire.
Having said that, what extraordinary abilities does she actually demonstrate during that film? She manages to pilot the Falcon reasonably well, and barely escape a fight with Kylo Ren without really beating him, and of course Ren's abilities are nothing like as developed as Vader's were - even his light sabre is a crude imitation, unable to produce the smooth, controlled beam that well made ones could. The "guard" actually seems to be an exhaust of some sort for the poorly controlled power supply.
Hopefully the next film will explain a lot more about who Rey is and why she has strong force powers. My guess would be that she is related to Luke somehow, or maybe Kylo.
Kylo Ren is no Darth Vader. He aspires to be, but he's a long way from there in the movie. And don't forget that Vader lost to Obi Wan pretty decisively, losing three limbs and nearly dying, when a similar age to Ren. And Ren is already injured when the fight gets started.
I think the bottom line is that when force sensitive individuals start waving light sabres around, a weapon that will hack of a limb with a mere touch, all bets are off.
Good phones already have edge touch rejection that handles this. Samsung has had it the longest, but now it's pretty standard on high end android devices.
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What the summary fails to mention is that most of the people who left Reddit went over to Voat. They were not silenced, just asked to leave the venue and take their speech somewhere else.
If you really want to indulge in some fat-hate you can still get your fix. Are you really arguing that Reddit should host whatever you deem fit to post? It's there any line that should not be crossed?
Moderation is just another way for trolls to troll. Meta-moderation was supposed to fix that, but it doesn't work any more.
The problem with Usenet is that there is no effective way to block people. All you have is a useless plonk file, which is trivially defeated by changing username/email.
I guess if you like reading at -1 all the time that sounds great, but most people want some kind of filter.
Isn't there any provision in law for design flaws? In most European countries if there are design flaws the liability extends well beyond the warranty period, because the warranty is only for manufacturing defects that result in premature failure. Design flaws are considered a failure to disclose the true MTBF.
That's why Apple's prices in Europe and Australia are a rip-off. It doesn't cost them what AppleCare costs to extend the warranty, unless the failure rate is insane... Oh, wait.
Your logic is faulty though. If they have to factor the price of an extended warranty into the retail price because their quality control is crap, it will reduce their sales. They pick the sales price not on manufacturing cost + margin, but on what they calculate will maximize profit. Being forced to move away from the maximum profit sweet spot is clearly going to result in less than maximum profit.
In this case it's a design flaw. It's the worse kind of problem for manufacturers, because potentially every unit sold is affected and needs to be fixed/replaced. Apple could be faced with repairing or replacing hundreds of millions of phones.
I imagine they will do what they normally do. Deny deny deny and then quietly roll out a free repair programme "at their discretion" (i.e. how much noise you make in the Apple Store). By the time it happens most people will have given up and bought a new phone anyway.
I get a lot of mod-bombing.
Why accept such shitty consumer protection? You should demand European style protections - minimum 2 year warranty and where a device is tied to a contract it must last at least as long as the contract or the contract ends.
Why do you put up with this crap? Do you think it saves you money?
When I saw this story on the front page I knew instantly that the first comment would be claiming that 4k is pointless.
Personally it's glaringly obvious to me, but maybe I'm some kind of eagle-eyed mutant. Sadly my super powers don't allow me to shoot lasers out of my eyes.
The report is pretty damning. Over a period of 37 minutes he had his hands on the wheel for 25 seconds, and the car didn't stop or force him to pay attention.
If all you need to defeat their attention test is to touch the wheel for 25 seconds out of every 37 minutes, that's not going to stop anyone playing with their phone or taking a nap.
It seems like they would be better used to heat water, since even in summer people want hot water.
I carefully name all my variables so that I can type no more than 3 characters and use tab to auto-complete.
If the IDE doesn't have auto-complete, I just use 3 letter variable names.
I find this avoids many common spelling errors.
You realize that Abrams directed the last one, and after it's massive success (one of the most profitable movies of all time) it's spawned not only two sequels but at least two spin-offs and likely many more.
If that's killing a franchise then what do you consider success?
Rei: Goes from no powers to mind control followed by using the force to fling things around before even getting off the planet they were fleeing, proceeds to kill a Kylo Ren who had been perfecting his powers for years under a Sith master.
Your argument would be more convincing if you managed to get basic details about the movie correct.
Rei's mind control powers only emerged after Kylo Ren had demonstrated them to her when trying to interrogate her. At the time she was strapped to an interrogation table waiting to be tortured, implying that the stress pushed her to use force powers. That's consistent with how force powers manifested for other users, e.g. Luke when he needs to make that critical shot, or contact his sister to be rescued after losing to Vader. It's well established that stress and powerful emotions like anger interact with force abilities.
Rei also failed to kill Kylo Ren. The battle ended in something of a stalemate, and Ren started out carrying an injury.
Ren's force powers seem to be relatively weak. He doesn't demonstrate anything like the power that other trained users did, and none of the typical dark side stuff like lightning or force-choking. His light sabre is also pretty poor quality, unable to form a solid steady beam. It's not clear how much training he has had, that hasn't been revealed yet, he seems to lack the discipline that Vader and other Sith had, being prone to emotional outbursts and still struggling with links to his family (which is why killing Han is so important).
Even after a few weeks of training his skill level is still basic. He then proceeds to get his arse kicked.
Right, because he didn't have enough training. After that he trains by himself, with no guidance, for an unspecified period of time but it only seems to be a year at most between ESB and ROTJ. At that point he has got good enough not only to beat Vader but the Emperor as well, at the same time.
Maybe, as every DBZ fan eventually realizes, power levels are bullshit.
Slashdot: where disagreeing about your favourite sci-fi franchise is -1 Flamebait.
This is why it's damn near impossible to debate anything around here any more. The echo chamber is getting worse every day.
There were no warnings in the two minutes leading up to the crash. Even if there had been, their driver attentiveness detection system is flawed - just having your hand on the wheel doesn't mean you are paying attention. You can easily have one hand on the wheel and the other on your phone, or sleep in that position.
Look at this guy: https://youtu.be/sXls4cdEv7c
Tesla need to do much more than that. Just having your hand on the wheel is meaningless - there are videos of people sleeping with one hand on the wheel on YouTube, as their Tesla drives on auto.
Since they can't retrofit gaze tracking cameras to every existing car, it's not clear what they can do to make them safe.
They really seem to be selling this way before it is ready. They had a big set back with the AP2 hardware, and yet are already selling people full self driving capability with a promised software update.
Seriously though, will it work through dark sunglasses. Gaze tracking is kind of pointless if all I can see is glare from the road and sun.
Other manufacturers are using gaze tracking cameras. If the driver closes their eyes or isn't looking at the surrounding road for more than a few seconds (I think 15 is the industry standard) the car alerts them. If that fails to get their attention the car is supposed to stop, but if it pulls over to just comes to a halt in the fast lane depends on the manufacturer.
That sounds like the plot of a TNG episode. I'd watch that.
While Rey's development is a bit rushed, it was probably a consequence of Mark Hamil getting old more than anything. If he were younger the central character would probably have been Luke fighting a resurgence of the Sith/Empire.
Having said that, what extraordinary abilities does she actually demonstrate during that film? She manages to pilot the Falcon reasonably well, and barely escape a fight with Kylo Ren without really beating him, and of course Ren's abilities are nothing like as developed as Vader's were - even his light sabre is a crude imitation, unable to produce the smooth, controlled beam that well made ones could. The "guard" actually seems to be an exhaust of some sort for the poorly controlled power supply.
Hopefully the next film will explain a lot more about who Rey is and why she has strong force powers. My guess would be that she is related to Luke somehow, or maybe Kylo.
Kylo Ren is no Darth Vader. He aspires to be, but he's a long way from there in the movie. And don't forget that Vader lost to Obi Wan pretty decisively, losing three limbs and nearly dying, when a similar age to Ren. And Ren is already injured when the fight gets started.
I think the bottom line is that when force sensitive individuals start waving light sabres around, a weapon that will hack of a limb with a mere touch, all bets are off.
Gonna suck for identical twins too.
It's gonna be funny watching people try to hold the phone to the terminal and get their face in view at the same time.
Good phones already have edge touch rejection that handles this. Samsung has had it the longest, but now it's pretty standard on high end android devices.