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  1. Good luck explaining that to a jury though.

  2. Yeah, try explaining why your finger print is all over a crime scene.

  3. Re:Competition is heating up on Google Spin-Off's Newest Self-Driving Minivans Start Road Tests This Month (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I have seen humans drive in bad weather (I had to drive across Colorado in one), humans are horrible at unexpected and unprepared situations.

  4. Re:Competition is heating up on Google Spin-Off's Newest Self-Driving Minivans Start Road Tests This Month (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    All it takes in one self driving car to cause a jam, likewise all it takes is one over confident idiot to cause a jam. I dont think it would be that different to be honest.

    And no, there wont be a minimum speed limit. If a bunch of people (or even a single person) decides 5 miles per hour is the speed for the conditions, 5 mph it will be.

    You have too much faith in the present. I am as pessimistic about the present and the future.

  5. Re:Competition is heating up on Google Spin-Off's Newest Self-Driving Minivans Start Road Tests This Month (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They wont be adopted if the machine is being unreasonable. Not that depressing outcome. I dont see why it would be unreasonable though. Insurance companies expect pile ups everytime there is bad weather already.

  6. Re:Competition is heating up on Google Spin-Off's Newest Self-Driving Minivans Start Road Tests This Month (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No, that is not what I said. The car will decide when you give it the destination (so presumably your drive way or parking lot or whatever). In rare cases if it notices something only when driving, it will do whatever a human will do when they notice black ice when driving (drive slowly, safely, or if that is impossible, yeah just block all cars in the road, which is safer for everyone right? If you think the machine is malfunctioning, you call a tow, just like you would when your car is malfunctioning). Yeah, I do say that if the machine says so or the human in front of you says so, you deal with it.

    Of course this only applies for fully self driving vehicles, with no option to manual drive. Presumably you know how to drive, and can handle a hybrid. It wont apply to you, right?

    You always deal with decisions of other humans (some of them not with a sound mind), and to an extend machines already. Why is purely machine decisions any more depressing?

  7. Re:Dolls houses on Huawei Snubs Google, Ships An Android Phone With Alexa (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it wouldnt ask for any of the Amazon Choice items. It is a preselected item, so you dont have to listen to a list of matches and choose one just by the name. The point is to "make it easy to order", right? That is exactly what they are doing. They may have removed doll house, temporarily from the list, because of news going around, but it will work for the rest of items on Amazon Choice.

    And PIN not being compulsory is certainly Amazon's fault. Even if you know how to set a pin, it will affect many other users. Not a good idea to ship with a phone.

  8. Re:Competition is heating up on Google Spin-Off's Newest Self-Driving Minivans Start Road Tests This Month (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No, if it is unsafe for the car to drive itself, it is unsafe for you to drive too. I am sure your boss will prefer you stay home when roads are filled with black ice and snow. You should be looking for a new boss, if not.

  9. Re:Competition is heating up on Google Spin-Off's Newest Self-Driving Minivans Start Road Tests This Month (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably nothing makes him think self driving car would do better in that scenario. Not sure where you got that from. His point is self driving cars would be no worse than humans in bad weather conditions. It may be better in some cases (it may refuse to start driving in such bad weather, avoiding routes with bad weather for long distance trips), worse in some cases too, overall I dont think it would be a lot better.

  10. Re:Titanium and gold are two different metals - si on Norton Announces Core, a Smart Router To Protect Domestic IoT Devices (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No one has to follow CERN writing guidelines.

  11. Re:Titanium and gold are two different metals - si on Norton Announces Core, a Smart Router To Protect Domestic IoT Devices (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Alloy

  12. Re:Heartwarming on Family Sues Apple For Not Making Thing It Patented (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, duh. The description/design in the patent can certainly be implemented.

  13. My point is that it is newsworthy. I think you agree that it is newsworthy, just that sometimes it has not gone reported. The problem is not with this story though.

  14. I have heard of it for what its worth. Likely from the news. How did you hear about it anyways, if it did not make the news? Inside sources?

  15. It is news when taxi drivers do this too. You think underage prostitution being caught wont make the news? Do you even think of the children bro?

  16. Re:Exploitative by design? on Does Amazon's Clickworker Platform Exploit Its Workers? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I used to do turk when I was in college (years ago). All I did was academic surveys and tests for academic studies. I dont think it was anywhere close to minimum wage, but I had fun and I enjoyed doing it. Some of them will also invite me for follow up studies. I can tell for sure those researchers did not intent to exploit, nor did I felt exploited. It would good beer money.

  17. Re:'No such thing as free shipping' on Struggling Workers Found Sleeping In Tents Behind Amazon's Warehouse (thecourier.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No, they are and will be.

  18. Re:'No such thing as free shipping' on Struggling Workers Found Sleeping In Tents Behind Amazon's Warehouse (thecourier.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Amazon is profitable FYI. Any moron that can sell a $1 bill for $0.90 and still profit out of it, is alright by me.

  19. Re:"Amazon be ashamed pay their workers so little" on Struggling Workers Found Sleeping In Tents Behind Amazon's Warehouse (thecourier.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, plenty of money, if we define an increase of 2 cents per hour as plenty. Do you realize how many executives amazon has, and how many employees amazon has, world wide. It is extremely disproportionate.

  20. Re:Propaganda on YouTube Pays Music Industry $1 Billion From Ads (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It is news though, even though it benefits google. If we were to file away anything that benefits the person giving info as propaganda, there will be no news to publish. How it benefits google is unknown right now, we may or may not know in the future, and there is nothing with that.

  21. No, we didnt. It was symbiotic relationship that AT&T entered willingly. Forcing common carrier rules, would actually infringe on the ISP's free speech. They are free to carry whatever they wish.

  22. Re:Greener Grass on The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance [Update] (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Most websites are bloated (looks suspiciously at /.), so yeah it will help. Faster the average the speeds get, the more bloated websites become, unless you choose to browse the slimmed down mobile version.

  23. Re:Tough times ahead on Google To Prohibit Fake News Websites From Using Its Ad-Selling Software (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Google is drawing the line at fake news, there is nothing wrong with that. You are drawing the line at news not made in the best spirit, that is fine too. Just not where google chose the line.

  24. Re:Your bad thinking is showing. on National Geographic Releases Alarming Climate Change Movie 'Before the Flood' On YouTube (youtube.com) · · Score: 1

    303 references and 1 reference disagreeing with the other, yeah I am not exactly going to side with 303 references until I know more. 303 references vs 0 references disagreeing, unless you are writing a seminal paper, damn right I am going to agree with the 303 references.

  25. Well, GP is a smart person then. He did mention keeping several extra bundles in his shed.