he is making a disingenuous argument to Clinton supporters to try to use their own logic (which he mistakenly finds specious) get THEM to vote Johnson.
rest assured this dipshit is still voting for Trump.
so few? there's over 100,000 total Teslas out there.
also, no, reporting on every crash is not fair. the claim is that autopilot is better than a human, not that autopilot is infallible. and that Teslas are safer than other cars, not that Teslas are indestructible. fair reporting would be reporting on the statistics, not individual Tesla incidents (while ignoring all other brand of cars' fatal accidents).
even slick and savvy very intelligent people fuck up every once in a while. and when your organization is made up of 40,000 people, that means, statistically, at any point in time there is always someone in the process of fucking something up royally, no matter how sharp they are by and large.
i don't understand why this is a big deal. the guy was using the system in a way that is expressly advised against by the company. and it was still the other driver's fault anyway.
there have doubtless been thousands of fatal collisions caused by human error since this accident. i don't really get how even an ounce of blame is being put on the Tesla's system (which was being blatantly misused). it's still probably safer than most other cars (which are involved in fatal accidents every day)
addressing the article, it's pretty ridiculous to pretend the stories ended up the way they did because of the properties of the tech in those worlds. the truth is obviously the opposite -- the tech of each franchise was engineered to fit the narrative purposes of the story. this is such an obvious point i can't believe i'm even spelling it out.
i mean if you want to accuse star trek of being pulpy or unrealistic or whatever, all i can do in defense is shrug my shoulders, but star wars wasn't even remotely interested in the future of humanity. it just wants to tell a story about wizards and knights and royal family lineage... in space.
same thing with news stories. if i click on an interesting headline and it is video-only, sorry, i'm not watching that.
ESPN does this all the time. in fact, usually it makes you watch a full 30 second commercial (NEVER a "skip ad" button) for a 25-second summary of a game that could have been *read* in under ten seconds.
i am impatient. i can't skim a video. i can't instantly skip ahead, either (buffering.....)
i can't copy and paste a video.
i can't print out a video.
when i google how to do something, i skip right past all the video links. the text links get me my answer orders of magnitude quicker, and i can access and absorb information hundreds of times faster through text than through video.
sure, and I do use a demasker, but that's beside the point. The complaint is that the field mask has negligible security benefit and is really there mainly for the illusion of security for the user. It makes them feel good but does practically nothing to protect their password from being stolen, while it does in fact create significant issues -- most people are far more prone to typos if they can't see the text they're typing, which then leads to this kind of ridiculous autocorrect idea for password fields. if we got rid of the mandatory password field mask, i suspect we'd eliminate any demand for password autocorrect.
i mean after the overwhelming good will garnered from the Windows 10 rollout, who wouldn't be champing at the bit to put their very lives in the hands of Microsoft Corporation?
incorrect. the burden of proof is on the one making the assertion. it is their responsibility to justify or substantiate that claim.
i'm not aware of any scientific evidence provided for the simulation theory -- only loosely philosophical speculation: namely, that extraordinarily powerful technologies that are beyond humans' current technological capability have already been constructed on an unimaginable scale by aliens.
the machinery of the argument basically boils down to taking what's popular with one species on one little planet during this cosmological microsecond of time (computers, virtual space) and extrapolating that out to infinity.
it's pretty much the same way all previous religions started. thousands of years ago, to a subsistence farmer in Egypt or whatever, it no doubt made a lot of sense that the creation of reality began with a lush garden paradise, and that woman was created from man's missing rib, and that animals were put here specifically for our consumption, and to work for us. it'd be impossible to prove him wrong. but he only seems right from his own limited perspective.
this is true. it's not hard to construct air-tight cosmologies. now, provide some observable, repeatable scientific evidence for said cosmology, and then we'd be getting somewhere.
We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism? - Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7. Activity recorded M.Y. 2302.22467. (TERMINATION OF SPECIMEN ADVISED)
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was that a joke? Anthropomorphization of Sol and the planets probably predates civilization. they were originally thought to be Gods, after all.
he is making a disingenuous argument to Clinton supporters to try to use their own logic (which he mistakenly finds specious) get THEM to vote Johnson.
rest assured this dipshit is still voting for Trump.
so few? there's over 100,000 total Teslas out there.
also, no, reporting on every crash is not fair. the claim is that autopilot is better than a human, not that autopilot is infallible. and that Teslas are safer than other cars, not that Teslas are indestructible. fair reporting would be reporting on the statistics, not individual Tesla incidents (while ignoring all other brand of cars' fatal accidents).
why is this news? every type of car on the road has fatal collisions every day. fearmongering about electric cars is dumb.
is there any article that Slashdot commenters can't turn into a shitshow of ignorance? no? ok. what a pathetic hole this place has become.
exactly. the US wants a back door built into every device because we can trust them to use it only when needed!
even if we COULD trust them (which we can't) we KNOW we can't trust them to keep the keys to that back door out of the hands of "bad guys".
even slick and savvy very intelligent people fuck up every once in a while. and when your organization is made up of 40,000 people, that means, statistically, at any point in time there is always someone in the process of fucking something up royally, no matter how sharp they are by and large.
very good analogy. this wasn't theft and hacking, this was just theft.
a store clerk stealing from the till can't be charged with breaking into the store.
must be nice to live in a country where ten seconds inconvenience at the grocery store constitutes a disaster.
cars need to be pulled from the road. thousands of fatalities a day. obviously not ready for prime time.
people crash their cars and die every day because they abused the gas pedal. should car companies be liable for giving them a gas pedal?
i don't understand why this is a big deal. the guy was using the system in a way that is expressly advised against by the company. and it was still the other driver's fault anyway.
there have doubtless been thousands of fatal collisions caused by human error since this accident. i don't really get how even an ounce of blame is being put on the Tesla's system (which was being blatantly misused). it's still probably safer than most other cars (which are involved in fatal accidents every day)
i didn't make any value judgments on star wars, i was just saying it wasn't trying to be science fiction.
also i think it's hilarious that you want to pretend science fiction is some lofty thing that star trek failed to live up to. it's just a genre.
addressing the article, it's pretty ridiculous to pretend the stories ended up the way they did because of the properties of the tech in those worlds. the truth is obviously the opposite -- the tech of each franchise was engineered to fit the narrative purposes of the story. this is such an obvious point i can't believe i'm even spelling it out.
not an attempt at sci-fi.
i mean if you want to accuse star trek of being pulpy or unrealistic or whatever, all i can do in defense is shrug my shoulders, but star wars wasn't even remotely interested in the future of humanity. it just wants to tell a story about wizards and knights and royal family lineage ... in space.
same thing with news stories. if i click on an interesting headline and it is video-only, sorry, i'm not watching that.
ESPN does this all the time. in fact, usually it makes you watch a full 30 second commercial (NEVER a "skip ad" button) for a 25-second summary of a game that could have been *read* in under ten seconds.
i am impatient. i can't skim a video. i can't instantly skip ahead, either (buffering .....)
i can't copy and paste a video.
i can't print out a video.
when i google how to do something, i skip right past all the video links. the text links get me my answer orders of magnitude quicker, and i can access and absorb information hundreds of times faster through text than through video.
id like to express the exact opposite of every single thing you just said.
haha, yeah. to be fair it was written in 1986 ... but yeah that scene is beyond ridiculous, even by 80s computer depiction standards.
for those who don't know what we're talking about -- http://i.stack.imgur.com/LgT6s...
sure, and I do use a demasker, but that's beside the point. The complaint is that the field mask has negligible security benefit and is really there mainly for the illusion of security for the user. It makes them feel good but does practically nothing to protect their password from being stolen, while it does in fact create significant issues -- most people are far more prone to typos if they can't see the text they're typing, which then leads to this kind of ridiculous autocorrect idea for password fields. if we got rid of the mandatory password field mask, i suspect we'd eliminate any demand for password autocorrect.
your password is "Not today and perhaps not in the next 2 or 3 decades."? that's pretty good. not sure I would have posted it on the internet, though.
i mean after the overwhelming good will garnered from the Windows 10 rollout, who wouldn't be champing at the bit to put their very lives in the hands of Microsoft Corporation?
incorrect. the burden of proof is on the one making the assertion. it is their responsibility to justify or substantiate that claim.
i'm not aware of any scientific evidence provided for the simulation theory -- only loosely philosophical speculation: namely, that extraordinarily powerful technologies that are beyond humans' current technological capability have already been constructed on an unimaginable scale by aliens.
the machinery of the argument basically boils down to taking what's popular with one species on one little planet during this cosmological microsecond of time (computers, virtual space) and extrapolating that out to infinity.
it's pretty much the same way all previous religions started. thousands of years ago, to a subsistence farmer in Egypt or whatever, it no doubt made a lot of sense that the creation of reality began with a lush garden paradise, and that woman was created from man's missing rib, and that animals were put here specifically for our consumption, and to work for us. it'd be impossible to prove him wrong. but he only seems right from his own limited perspective.
Elon Musk is the same.
this is true. it's not hard to construct air-tight cosmologies. now, provide some observable, repeatable scientific evidence for said cosmology, and then we'd be getting somewhere.
We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?
- Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7. Activity recorded M.Y. 2302.22467. (TERMINATION OF SPECIMEN ADVISED)
(even more appropriate, from the same game)