You are wrong sir. Humans who don't quality to repair the robots can still fill a valuable role. As fuel for the robots. Until all of the humans have been harvested.
Trade secrets CAN be kept in court, even as a case proceeds. The owner of the secrets can ask for, and upon good showing of why, can get a court ordered seal of the secrets. Those secrets can be discussed in a closed court. Court documents are filed under seal. Participants and lawyers are bound to secrecy -- with real penalties, including contempt of court if they ever improperly disclose the secrets. This happens already in real court cases. The secrecy doesn't prevent the court case from proceeding.
I'll restate it to say that it WON'T be, rather than it CAN'T be. That is, the bright line will not be that no accidents can occur. The benefits of self driving cars vastly outweigh the fact that they are imperfect. Just like aviation. It's too valuable not to have, even though planes do sometimes have spectacular accidents. Either way, planes or self driving cars, it's safer than cars driven by puny, unreliable, distractable, masturbating, humans talking on a cell phone with one hand, while using their other hand to flick a cigarette out the open driver side window.
I agree that self driving cars are probably not yet ready to be unleashed on the public. They will always be five years out, for about the next twenty years. But I have no doubt they will become a reality. Other technologies didn't start out perfect, but eventually do reach a point where the drawbacks simply are are outweighed by the benefits. A good example is gasoline powered internal combustion automobiles. These new automobile thingies will never catch on. Some dreamers think they will one day replace our beautiful horse drawn carriages. But automobiles are noisy. Smelly. Unreliable. You can break your arm if the engine backfires while you are cranking it. And worst of all, these automobile thingies frighten the horses. They'll never catch on. And because self driving cars have drawbacks, they'll never catch on either.
I do not look forward to car crashes caused by computer error.
Car crashes should be caused by humans, like in the olden days. Humans. Far away. Possibly another continent. In the dark comfort of their mom's basement.
If the self driving car is not at fault in the accident (the vast majority of present day cases), then the self driving car has tons of data both in visible light and other parts of the spectrum to show everything that happened prior to the crash.
It is an inevitability, once statistics catch up with it, that a self driving car will be the cause of a major accident. I doubt that this can ever be a criminal trial, because no criminal intent is involved at any level of the design or implementation of the self driving car. It's an accident.
As more self driving car accidents occur, the self driving cars will get better and better at avoiding them (unlike puny humans). If for no other reason than the designers will make improvements based on all of the data from each accident.
In court, the lawyers can argue about how the self driving car came to the decision to run over a group of people whose skin color it did not like. There won't be any NDAs. The owner of the technology will file a motion to keep the technology under seal. It will be discussed in court, but in a closed courtroom, with court members bound to secrecy about the technology. This is nothing new.
BTW, I'm all for requiring safety standards of automakers. (OMG! regulation!) As long as you can quantify it in a way that is clear in the law. You can't have laws that are so vague that you can unintentionally violate them. There needs to be a bright line.
The line cannot be that no accidents can occur -- because self driving cars are already safer than cars driven by puny humans.
It wouldn't seem so bad if the quotas were on things that sane people would actually want to buy.
But sales quotas on Best Buy service plans? That's like having a quota on sales people trying to sell people a kick in the balls. Be sure to mention how satisfied previous purchasers were. And why you seriously need it -- even though you never would have thought of it before you entered the store.
You go to the door carrying only the receiver from the disassembled weapon, along with a cloth. Nothing threatening. You answer the door. Once they identify themselves you mention:
. . . I knew there must have been a reason the voices told me I should clean the guns today. Can you hold on just a minute . . .
And it's not because they are going to send salesmen. But that will become one more reason.
The reasons I avoid Best Buy are due to two or more slashdot stories over the years.
The first is so long ago that I'm sketchy on the details. It involved someone getting arrested for complaining to the store manager about a graphics card. The problem was clearly something the store had done, not the manufacturer. Sorry, that's not very informative. But it was when I stopped going to Best Buy. That, and the fact that any time I set foot in the door, I was instantly and continuously bombarded by and harassed by sales people.
The second is more recent, but still some time ago. Again, a slashdot story. Best Buy had an "optimization" service where you could pay $100 to have them send a kid out to your house to make sure all of your TV / audio equipment was properly set up, and to "optimize" it to ensure you were getting the best picture. To sell this service, Best Buy had two identical large screen TVs set up. Tuned to the "same" channel. But the person reporting this could clearly see that one TV was tuned to the SD channel and the other to the HD channel. Yet Best Buy, and sales people when asked, denied that was the case, or the reason why their "optimization" made the image on one TV so much better than the other TV.
Oh, yeah, I remember another reason. Again, on slashdot. It was discovered and shown that if you browsed bestbuy.com on your smartphone, while in the Best Buy store, and using the Best Buy free WiFi, that they routed you to an alternate "fake" bestbuy.com. That fake site had artificially inflated prices to be higher than the in-store prices. That way you would pay the inflated in-store price rather than go home and buy online for less.
So despite not going to Best Buy stores for more than a decade, there is now another reason that I won't ever go there. They're going to send sales people to harass people at their homes.
Maybe this planet is some other planet's hell. Or prison.
Life in prison is to send a message that this is much worse than rape or murder, for which you won't get such a harsh sentence. This the the worst crime. Defying authority!
When you first want to unveil something like this, think ahead more. Don't get caught up in the excitement of your creation.
Use a new computer (hint, they're cheap these days, even a Raspberry Pi). Use a browser in the most anonymous mode, within a VM. Connect to the internet using an anonymous WiFi. Create a new account on the forum simply for the unveiling event. Wipe the VM and maybe even the entire computer when you're done. If the computer was a Pi, simply dispose of the SD card. Use a USB WiFi dongle, not the computer's built in WiFI -- and then dispose of the WiFI dongle when done. Use a pre-composed message for your announcement. Make sure it is not in your typical writing style and vocabulary. Don't compose the message on another computer. Maybe on a yellow paper tablet that is easily disposed of.
Maybe that sounds too paranoid. After all, they're not out to get you.
It could be that they want to screw over the poor. Or it could be that they can't stand that a good plan was passed by . . . (gasp!) . . . a dark skinned man! (horrors!)
1. Had the biggest inaguration crowd size evar!
2. Won by the most electoral votes evar!
3. Brought us to the brink of nuclear war!
But I'll give you a bonus accomplishment . ..
4. Got more republicans than ever to realize that maybe Obamacare isn't so bad -- and that ACA and Obamacare are the same thing, contrary to the Fox News narrative.
In the early days of Radio, there were competing technical standards. In the early days of TV there competing technical standards. Imagine if we had to have separate RCA radios and Apple TV sets? Oh, and the radio and tv standards were a patent thicket.
This article is not a complete or exhaustive, but is a decent overview of many different Format Wars in the last century.
Apple has put products on other platforms in the past -- simply because it couldn't ignore them.
Example. When the iPod first appeared, iTunes was available on Windows. Because Apple wanted to encourage iPod users to use Windows instead of Mac? No. Because Apple couldn't force the whole world to buy a Mac to use with their iPod.
Similarly, Apple Music would have a small audience if it weren't available on Android. It's an example of Apple deciding it cannot ignore other devices in order to distribute content. In fact, Apple Music, as you point out, on Android, is for very similar reason that iTunes was available on Windows on the original iPod.
Maybe sanity will prevail, and Apple will offer it's TV shows on other devices. Not all devices. Just an annoying subset to ensure that I can't access the content on everything I own. Android Phone. Android Tablet. Linux PCs and laptop. Roku. TiVo. Apple probably won't offer integration with my Amazon Echo to ask to play something on the living room non-Apple TV using a non-Apple set top box.
Funny how the rest of the world can be so integrated. My Amazon Echo controls my recently added Insteon devices.
Apple makes things for it's own walled garden. It's like if Ford cars could only use Ford gasoline. Or Lexmark printers could only . . . oh, nevermind.
Other content platforms, like Netflix, make their content as widely available as possible, not as narrowly available. As an example, I can get Netflix on RoKu, TiVo, as an Android app. Apple users can probably get Netflix within the walled garden. Similarly, I can get Hulu, Amazon Prime, HBO, Starz, YouTube, etc on multiple devices.
It's why I avoid Apple products. If I buy some brand of Android smartphone, I know it will work with everything I own. If I buy a Vizio TV, or a RoKu, I know it will work with everything I own. Including Linux. I can run a DLNA server, and a RoKu can play videos from it. Etc.
Apple hoarding TV shows and imprisoning them within its prison camp, er, . . . um, its walled garden, means that most people won't get to see those shows.
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Drat! There goes my plan.
Hello? Uber? I am in Alaska, and I need a ride to a hurricane shelter in Texas. Any hurricane shelter will do. How soon can you pick me up?
You are wrong sir. Humans who don't quality to repair the robots can still fill a valuable role. As fuel for the robots. Until all of the humans have been harvested.
Trade secrets CAN be kept in court, even as a case proceeds. The owner of the secrets can ask for, and upon good showing of why, can get a court ordered seal of the secrets. Those secrets can be discussed in a closed court. Court documents are filed under seal. Participants and lawyers are bound to secrecy -- with real penalties, including contempt of court if they ever improperly disclose the secrets. This happens already in real court cases. The secrecy doesn't prevent the court case from proceeding.
I'll restate it to say that it WON'T be, rather than it CAN'T be. That is, the bright line will not be that no accidents can occur. The benefits of self driving cars vastly outweigh the fact that they are imperfect. Just like aviation. It's too valuable not to have, even though planes do sometimes have spectacular accidents. Either way, planes or self driving cars, it's safer than cars driven by puny, unreliable, distractable, masturbating, humans talking on a cell phone with one hand, while using their other hand to flick a cigarette out the open driver side window.
I agree that self driving cars are probably not yet ready to be unleashed on the public. They will always be five years out, for about the next twenty years. But I have no doubt they will become a reality. Other technologies didn't start out perfect, but eventually do reach a point where the drawbacks simply are are outweighed by the benefits. A good example is gasoline powered internal combustion automobiles. These new automobile thingies will never catch on. Some dreamers think they will one day replace our beautiful horse drawn carriages. But automobiles are noisy. Smelly. Unreliable. You can break your arm if the engine backfires while you are cranking it. And worst of all, these automobile thingies frighten the horses. They'll never catch on. And because self driving cars have drawbacks, they'll never catch on either.
I do not look forward to car crashes caused by computer error.
Car crashes should be caused by humans, like in the olden days. Humans. Far away. Possibly another continent. In the dark comfort of their mom's basement.
If the self driving car is not at fault in the accident (the vast majority of present day cases), then the self driving car has tons of data both in visible light and other parts of the spectrum to show everything that happened prior to the crash.
It is an inevitability, once statistics catch up with it, that a self driving car will be the cause of a major accident. I doubt that this can ever be a criminal trial, because no criminal intent is involved at any level of the design or implementation of the self driving car. It's an accident.
As more self driving car accidents occur, the self driving cars will get better and better at avoiding them (unlike puny humans). If for no other reason than the designers will make improvements based on all of the data from each accident.
In court, the lawyers can argue about how the self driving car came to the decision to run over a group of people whose skin color it did not like. There won't be any NDAs. The owner of the technology will file a motion to keep the technology under seal. It will be discussed in court, but in a closed courtroom, with court members bound to secrecy about the technology. This is nothing new.
BTW, I'm all for requiring safety standards of automakers. (OMG! regulation!) As long as you can quantify it in a way that is clear in the law. You can't have laws that are so vague that you can unintentionally violate them. There needs to be a bright line.
The line cannot be that no accidents can occur -- because self driving cars are already safer than cars driven by puny humans.
It wouldn't seem so bad if the quotas were on things that sane people would actually want to buy.
But sales quotas on Best Buy service plans? That's like having a quota on sales people trying to sell people a kick in the balls. Be sure to mention how satisfied previous purchasers were. And why you seriously need it -- even though you never would have thought of it before you entered the store.
Here is what you do.
You go to the door carrying only the receiver from the disassembled weapon, along with a cloth. Nothing threatening. You answer the door. Once they identify themselves you mention:
. . . I knew there must have been a reason the voices told me I should clean the guns today. Can you hold on just a minute . . .
And it's not because they are going to send salesmen. But that will become one more reason.
The reasons I avoid Best Buy are due to two or more slashdot stories over the years.
The first is so long ago that I'm sketchy on the details. It involved someone getting arrested for complaining to the store manager about a graphics card. The problem was clearly something the store had done, not the manufacturer. Sorry, that's not very informative. But it was when I stopped going to Best Buy. That, and the fact that any time I set foot in the door, I was instantly and continuously bombarded by and harassed by sales people.
The second is more recent, but still some time ago. Again, a slashdot story. Best Buy had an "optimization" service where you could pay $100 to have them send a kid out to your house to make sure all of your TV / audio equipment was properly set up, and to "optimize" it to ensure you were getting the best picture. To sell this service, Best Buy had two identical large screen TVs set up. Tuned to the "same" channel. But the person reporting this could clearly see that one TV was tuned to the SD channel and the other to the HD channel. Yet Best Buy, and sales people when asked, denied that was the case, or the reason why their "optimization" made the image on one TV so much better than the other TV.
Oh, yeah, I remember another reason. Again, on slashdot. It was discovered and shown that if you browsed bestbuy.com on your smartphone, while in the Best Buy store, and using the Best Buy free WiFi, that they routed you to an alternate "fake" bestbuy.com. That fake site had artificially inflated prices to be higher than the in-store prices. That way you would pay the inflated in-store price rather than go home and buy online for less.
So despite not going to Best Buy stores for more than a decade, there is now another reason that I won't ever go there. They're going to send sales people to harass people at their homes.
No thanks!
Maybe this planet is some other planet's hell. Or prison.
Life in prison is to send a message that this is much worse than rape or murder, for which you won't get such a harsh sentence. This the the worst crime. Defying authority!
When you first want to unveil something like this, think ahead more. Don't get caught up in the excitement of your creation.
Use a new computer (hint, they're cheap these days, even a Raspberry Pi). Use a browser in the most anonymous mode, within a VM. Connect to the internet using an anonymous WiFi. Create a new account on the forum simply for the unveiling event. Wipe the VM and maybe even the entire computer when you're done. If the computer was a Pi, simply dispose of the SD card. Use a USB WiFi dongle, not the computer's built in WiFI -- and then dispose of the WiFI dongle when done. Use a pre-composed message for your announcement. Make sure it is not in your typical writing style and vocabulary. Don't compose the message on another computer. Maybe on a yellow paper tablet that is easily disposed of.
Maybe that sounds too paranoid. After all, they're not out to get you.
I did not know that. Thank you.
Exoskeletons create more jobs.
Jobs for robots.
Specifically, jobs for bricklaying robots.
Just as humans would hide and bury skeletons in the concrete, robots would hide and bury exoskeletons.
A building made of bricks lasts much longer than a structure made out of dead trees.
Trump does not bear false witness.
He uses alternate facts. From the father of alternate facts.
It could be that they want to screw over the poor. Or it could be that they can't stand that a good plan was passed by . . . (gasp!) . . . a dark skinned man! (horrors!)
But, it could be both reasons.
1. Had the biggest inaguration crowd size evar! .
2. Won by the most electoral votes evar!
3. Brought us to the brink of nuclear war!
But I'll give you a bonus accomplishment . .
4. Got more republicans than ever to realize that maybe Obamacare isn't so bad -- and that ACA and Obamacare are the same thing, contrary to the Fox News narrative.
Are you suggesting that voting for the Great Orange Jackass might not have been the smartest choice?
> There are none so blind to technology as the blind apple worshiper.
What? Not even supporters of the Great Orange Jackass?
Maybe American homes don't need high speed internet? Let's redefine broadband to mean 512 Kbps!
What if Lexmark printers could only sit atop Lexmark tables?
Books in dead tree format do not seem to install on my Android smartphone for convenient reading at convenient times.
In the early days of Radio, there were competing technical standards. In the early days of TV there competing technical standards. Imagine if we had to have separate RCA radios and Apple TV sets? Oh, and the radio and tv standards were a patent thicket.
This article is not a complete or exhaustive, but is a decent overview of many different Format Wars in the last century.
The anomaly.
Apple has put products on other platforms in the past -- simply because it couldn't ignore them.
Example. When the iPod first appeared, iTunes was available on Windows. Because Apple wanted to encourage iPod users to use Windows instead of Mac? No. Because Apple couldn't force the whole world to buy a Mac to use with their iPod.
Similarly, Apple Music would have a small audience if it weren't available on Android. It's an example of Apple deciding it cannot ignore other devices in order to distribute content. In fact, Apple Music, as you point out, on Android, is for very similar reason that iTunes was available on Windows on the original iPod.
Maybe sanity will prevail, and Apple will offer it's TV shows on other devices. Not all devices. Just an annoying subset to ensure that I can't access the content on everything I own. Android Phone. Android Tablet. Linux PCs and laptop. Roku. TiVo. Apple probably won't offer integration with my Amazon Echo to ask to play something on the living room non-Apple TV using a non-Apple set top box.
Funny how the rest of the world can be so integrated. My Amazon Echo controls my recently added Insteon devices.
Apple makes things for it's own walled garden. It's like if Ford cars could only use Ford gasoline. Or Lexmark printers could only . . . oh, nevermind.
Other content platforms, like Netflix, make their content as widely available as possible, not as narrowly available. As an example, I can get Netflix on RoKu, TiVo, as an Android app. Apple users can probably get Netflix within the walled garden. Similarly, I can get Hulu, Amazon Prime, HBO, Starz, YouTube, etc on multiple devices.
It's why I avoid Apple products. If I buy some brand of Android smartphone, I know it will work with everything I own. If I buy a Vizio TV, or a RoKu, I know it will work with everything I own. Including Linux. I can run a DLNA server, and a RoKu can play videos from it. Etc.
Apple hoarding TV shows and imprisoning them within its prison camp, er, . . . um, its walled garden, means that most people won't get to see those shows.
Not even a cliffhanger?