I was going to respond that this suit is BS, since no-one has a right to "privacy" per se, just to private property. But since it is a private road that they had to drive down, it's really more like a long drive-way with "sub-driveways" off the sides. Hence, Google had no right to be there to take the photographs in the first place. Wow. Three sentences into your argument and you already got it wrong. "Private road" doesn't mean "no trespassing". It just means that it's not county maintained. "Private" roads are still public rights of way. An accessible road is an invitation to entrance. To legally bar access you need to erect barriers to entry and/or clearly post "No Trespassing" signs. Go educate yourself on basic property law. That way, when you pretend to be a lawyer on Slashdot again, you might not sound so foolish.
Google simply doesn't have a right to travel onto private land and take pictures of someone's home without asking permission *first*. Go educate yourself on property law, particularly with regard to easements and public rights of way. Your claim above is without basis in law.
These folks are adamant about wanting their privacy, and I feel they should have it. Good thing we don't go by your "feelings" when we decide law, eh? These folks are wrong. If they wish to keep the public off this private road, they need to erect a barrier to entry and/or a no trespassing sign, and hope there's no easement claim on that road.
It was a mistake IMHO for google to use the weak argument that people can opt out. The stronger argument is: "the outside of your house is outside and it's none of your business if we photograph it." The "stronger argument" is already the premise from which they are offering the "opt out" option.
They asked me how Google's services could be improved. It wasn't a demand, it was a suggestion, and one that seems to have turned out to be a good one. First, "stop takng pictures before you get sued" probably doesn't fit even the most liberal definition of "service improvement", and second, the assertion that your suggestion was "a good one" assumes that Google would have bneen better off without their street view service than with handling a handful of baseless, ridiculous lawsuits. You're a dope. I take it they didn't hire you.
A shuttle had never failed, so they had no data to go off of. Not only had it never failed, they had no way of knowing how close it had ever come to failing. Not comparable. They weren't warning of a "shuttle failure", they were warning specifically of an "O-ring failure". The data on O-ring failure at low temperature is quite extensive.
The reason is pretty simple. Because of the large detonations a lot of dust would be thrown into the air. It would be so much and would be thrown so high that it would turn the earth dark shutting out the sun. That is called nuclear winter. It would kill all live that depends in some way on the sun. The theory of "Nuclear Winter" is crap. Krakatoa injected orders of magnitude more dust and smoke into the stratosphere in 1883 than all the nuclear weapons in the world could. This resulted in a 0.5degC reduction in temperature for approximately 2 years.
Imagine if you would a nuclear storage facility in Russia which during a routine disposal of a weapon something goes horribly wrong and it goes off Imagine throwing a pile of bricks and a bucket of mortar in the air and having them come down fully assembled into a perfect patio barbecue. That's about the likelihood of your scenario. Setting off nukes isn't like lighting a fuse on a stick of dynamite. It requires very precise timing, a virtually simultaneous detonation of the high explosives surrounding the warhead. An accidental detonation would be highly asymmetrical and merely result in the immediate area being peppered with fragments of plutonium.
If you count "killing everyone on earth" as destroying it, then it's probably accurate. Even then, it's a gross overstatement. "Destroy the world X times over" is a phrase used by "peace activist" types when talking to the media. It's pure hyperbole. The earth is a pretty darned big place. Nuclear weapons are large on a human scale, but on the scale of the entire planet, they are hardly pinpricks. Even if you accept the widely discredited "nuclear winter" scenario, it wouldn't even come close to killing even HALF of the world's population.
No matter how realistic a GTA X whore looks, you're not going to feel a lot of empathy for her if she just follows a path down the block, day and night, repeating a handful of phrases and behaviors when you interact with her. I reckon it'd feel about as real as beating up a robot or a mannequin.
"hey sailor....$20" (walk walk walk) "hey sailor"
Even with a list of 50, 100, even 500 canned phrases, it won't be long before you see repeats and your mind will instantly categorize it as "robot". It's gonna take more than realistic VR to get there. We're gonna need to pass the Turing test.
Weapon recoil on most military assault rifles is pretty light. Indeed, our first introduction to the M-16 in the Army was our drill sergeant demonstrating its lack of significant recoil by firing it with the butt against his forehead, his chin, and finally his crotch!
Meanwhile, forcing the idiot who insists on taking a Barret Light 50 every round, to deal with its mass and recoil (and trigger flinch) would be amusement enough to allow it to ignore any armor you could wear and tear off body parts for artistic effect. That'd be hilarious. I'd be satisfied seeing realistic recoil to the degree one finds with the M-249.
I guess life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness aren't rights either Pursuit of happiness has never been established as a right. The phrase was used by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, which is not part of our nation's laws. The US Constitution says "Life, Liberty, and Property".
the constitution forbids government's from denying people what is considered a right. Half right. You forgot the part that goes on the end: "...without due process of law". Various rights are abridged to many varying degrees through due process. The rights to Life, Liberty, and Property are still subject to Execution, Imprisonment, and Fines so long as there is due process of law. There are whole chunks of the constitution about due process. Read 'em some time!
Seems you've never been to Bloomington (the town IU is housed within). It's an island of blue in a sea of red (and is a local magnet for blue as a result). So, there needs to be some revision:
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2) men reached puberty within past 10 years [no change there because I don't understand the connotation]. You didn't understand the connotation because you decided to read it as political/cultural commentary. When you're looking at it as "red vs blue", of course you're going to be confused. When it didn't fit your preconceived notion of political commentary, #2 should have been a clue to you that you were barking up the wrong tree. #2 very clearly states his point: If you attempt to draw general conclusions about all males, surveying a group comprised exclusively of 20 year old college students is potentially going to lead you to incorrect conclusions.
Integer division is perfectly well-defined in C/C++ You're right. I meant to say "divide signed and unsigned integer values". My intended point was about type checking and I failed miserably!
int avg = std::accumulate(v.begin(), v.end(), 0) / v.size(); A simple task, and a clean implementation If you overlook the fact that only a complete moron divides integer values and expects a consistently valid integer result, particularly when using standard libraries, I suppose it could be called "clean".
There is a known condition, Asberger's syndrome, which identifies people who are bad at understanding non verbal communication. People with Asperger Syndrome are more than just bad at understanding nonverbal communication. I know a lot of nerds like to pretend their social issues are from AS, but if they can hold a reasonably normal conversation with someone, and don't display regular repetitive motor behaviors, it ain't AS.
"Fuck you! I have Ass-Burgers!"
"No, you're just an alienated fat guy who got picked on as a kid like I did. You just let it turn you into a dick."
Mod parent up- Fact is that "anonymous" means nobody knows who did it. So blaiming the people who are attacking scientology for an anonymous attack is the same as blaiming every crime whose perpetrator is unknown on the group protesting scientology. I think people here would prefer a car analogy. This is like the guy who got the personalized license plate that said "NOPLATE", and was suddenly deluged with thousands of parking tickets in the mail because parking enforcement personnel were putting "NOPLATE" in the license box when the car they were ticketing had no license plate. "Anonymous" is the equivalent of no license plate. It doesn't mean anyone or any group in particular at all.
Oh another pathelogical example was the story (from the Silent Spring or another book like that) It's not in "Silent Spring". Seriously, I doubt it's in any other book because it sounds very much like a bizarre conflation of two separate stories in "Silent Spring". One about wolves and deer, one about beaver, ending in a disaster that I can find no reference to anywhere except in an episode of South Park
You underestimate the Mayans. The few days in between is the time
the black hole takes to gather enough mass to speed up the process.
It will be tiny first, and will grow slowly. Amazing how the Mayans
got it right. I would not know where to start. Yep, you can't count on the safety of exact dates, as we all learned from Back to the Future III when Doc and Marty figured they were safe going to the dance Saturday because the tombstone Marty saw in 1955 said Doc died on Monday. Then along comes Buford who points a gun a Doc's kidney...:
Buford: "It's a Derringer, Smithy. Small but effective. Last time I used it, the fella took two whole days to die..."
parent is a troll...i'm the grandparent poster, fyi...I'd even venture to say parent is a plant from the oil or auto industry...just read the post carefully and any moderators, I think, will see the trolling Are you kidding? A "plant" from the oil or auto industry? Take a look at my posting history. I'm clearly just a fairly intelligent asshole who likes to beat up on ignorant conspiracy nuts like you. Seriously, if you can't even come up with a logical reason why said industries would want to suppress the Self Driving Car, why the fuck would those industries even bother to try and "silence" you with anonymous ridicule? Your credibility is for shit already! You're a random Slashdot poster!
No, they aren't afraid of somebody getting hurt [directly] by a Nerf gun. They're concerned about the consequences when somebody sees a bunch of people running around carrying weapons - and calls 911. Or decides to tackle the 'weapon wielder'. Or raises a vigilante posse to go after the 'weapon wielder'. Etc... Etc... seriously, have you never seen a nerf gun? No one would EVER mistake one of those oversized cartoon-color toys for any sort of real weapon. This is done on purpose. They're nerf guns, fer cripes sake!
It is even easier to take the stickers off and place them correctly. No it's not. Prying one of the 2-color edge pieces loose, shaking apart and roughly sorting the 20 loose pieces, and reassembling takes about a minute. I did it hundreds of times while teaching myself to solve the cube when I was a kid. You can't peel, sort, and re-apply 54 stickers anywhere near that quickly and simply.
Note to vicious bastards: a good way to torture novice solvers is to disassemble a cube and reassemble with the last 2-color edge piece flipped the wrong way. Scramble the cube and give to student. There is no way to "flip" that piece other than by prying it loose. Expert solvers will notice right away that one of them's fucked up, so choose your victim carefully...
Ironically, asbestos is quite safe, as long as you leave it in the wall where it belongs.
Asbestos was also put around exposed pipes, which can sometimes be damaged and the fibers released. It was also sometimes put into concrete in trace amounts. Which is no-big-deal of course, unless you start drilling into the concrete (which people do all the time) and don't realize it contains small amounts of asbestos (which is often hard to detect).
You're right though that people tend to freak out too much about asbestos though. It's not a substance without concern though. While bashing the asbestos pipe wraps will release a lot of nasty fibers, particularly in an enclose crawl space, the tiny amounts of asbestos released drilling into asbestos containing concrete is nothing compared to the tremendous quantities of asbestos released by the use of inexpensive aftermarket drum brake linings (still legal, yes). You're getting more exposure driving down the freeway than you'd get from a lifetime of drilling holes in the ACM concrete floor of your house (assuming it's ACM), or even having your house renovated by clumsy wrap-bashing hammer swingers. Really, the only significant danger with asbestos is if you work with it regularly and extensively. Mesothelioma is nasty, but the paranoia around asbestos is completely out of proportion to the actual danger.
The transportation system described in TFA would be possible today, if it weren't for collusion from the oil and auto industry.
It's easy to imagine centralized computer control of vehicles, if industry had been doing R&D on it for the last 40 years. Yes, a centralized system, designed and built at great expense with no discernible avenue of profitability, in perfect cooperation with the various levels of government that build and maintain roads, highways, and interstates, and the only reason it's not here is because the auto and oil industries have colluded to prevent it!
Seriously, you think the auto industry wouldn't love to market a self driving car? You think they haven't been pouring millions into researching ways to make cars easier to drive, with the very definite goal of coming up with self driving cars? And why the fuck would the oil industry care that a microcontroller is steering your car instead of a human? It's still burning fucking gasoline! And who would run this magic "centralized computer" system? Take a look at the FAA and the air traffic control system and tell me with a straight face that they're capable of a feat three oreders of magnitude more complex before you say "the feds".
Have you been smoking plastic army men, or were you just born that fucking stupid? Sure, it's "easy to imagine" such a system if you're an uneducated 'tard like yourself.
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These folks are adamant about wanting their privacy, and I feel they should have it. Good thing we don't go by your "feelings" when we decide law, eh? These folks are wrong. If they wish to keep the public off this private road, they need to erect a barrier to entry and/or a no trespassing sign, and hope there's no easement claim on that road.
"hey sailor....$20" (walk walk walk) "hey sailor"
Even with a list of 50, 100, even 500 canned phrases, it won't be long before you see repeats and your mind will instantly categorize it as "robot". It's gonna take more than realistic VR to get there. We're gonna need to pass the Turing test.
Meanwhile, forcing the idiot who insists on taking a Barret Light 50 every round, to deal with its mass and recoil (and trigger flinch) would be amusement enough to allow it to ignore any armor you could wear and tear off body parts for artistic effect. That'd be hilarious. I'd be satisfied seeing realistic recoil to the degree one finds with the M-249.
The RIAA generally drops the lawsuit after discovery shows that they never had a case.
"includes" != "is defined by"
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2) men reached puberty within past 10 years [no change there because I don't understand the connotation].
You didn't understand the connotation because you decided to read it as political/cultural commentary. When you're looking at it as "red vs blue", of course you're going to be confused. When it didn't fit your preconceived notion of political commentary, #2 should have been a clue to you that you were barking up the wrong tree. #2 very clearly states his point: If you attempt to draw general conclusions about all males, surveying a group comprised exclusively of 20 year old college students is potentially going to lead you to incorrect conclusions.
A simple task, and a clean implementation If you overlook the fact that only a complete moron divides integer values and expects a consistently valid integer result, particularly when using standard libraries, I suppose it could be called "clean".
"Fuck you! I have Ass-Burgers!"
"No, you're just an alienated fat guy who got picked on as a kid like I did. You just let it turn you into a dick."
the black hole takes to gather enough mass to speed up the process.
It will be tiny first, and will grow slowly. Amazing how the Mayans
got it right. I would not know where to start. Yep, you can't count on the safety of exact dates, as we all learned from Back to the Future III when Doc and Marty figured they were safe going to the dance Saturday because the tombstone Marty saw in 1955 said Doc died on Monday. Then along comes Buford who points a gun a Doc's kidney...:
Buford: "It's a Derringer, Smithy. Small but effective. Last time I used it, the fella took two whole days to die..."
Note to vicious bastards: a good way to torture novice solvers is to disassemble a cube and reassemble with the last 2-color edge piece flipped the wrong way. Scramble the cube and give to student. There is no way to "flip" that piece other than by prying it loose. Expert solvers will notice right away that one of them's fucked up, so choose your victim carefully...
Ironically, asbestos is quite safe, as long as you leave it in the wall where it belongs.
Asbestos was also put around exposed pipes, which can sometimes be damaged and the fibers released. It was also sometimes put into concrete in trace amounts. Which is no-big-deal of course, unless you start drilling into the concrete (which people do all the time) and don't realize it contains small amounts of asbestos (which is often hard to detect).
You're right though that people tend to freak out too much about asbestos though. It's not a substance without concern though. While bashing the asbestos pipe wraps will release a lot of nasty fibers, particularly in an enclose crawl space, the tiny amounts of asbestos released drilling into asbestos containing concrete is nothing compared to the tremendous quantities of asbestos released by the use of inexpensive aftermarket drum brake linings (still legal, yes). You're getting more exposure driving down the freeway than you'd get from a lifetime of drilling holes in the ACM concrete floor of your house (assuming it's ACM), or even having your house renovated by clumsy wrap-bashing hammer swingers. Really, the only significant danger with asbestos is if you work with it regularly and extensively. Mesothelioma is nasty, but the paranoia around asbestos is completely out of proportion to the actual danger.
It's easy to imagine centralized computer control of vehicles, if industry had been doing R&D on it for the last 40 years. Yes, a centralized system, designed and built at great expense with no discernible avenue of profitability, in perfect cooperation with the various levels of government that build and maintain roads, highways, and interstates, and the only reason it's not here is because the auto and oil industries have colluded to prevent it!
Seriously, you think the auto industry wouldn't love to market a self driving car? You think they haven't been pouring millions into researching ways to make cars easier to drive, with the very definite goal of coming up with self driving cars? And why the fuck would the oil industry care that a microcontroller is steering your car instead of a human? It's still burning fucking gasoline! And who would run this magic "centralized computer" system? Take a look at the FAA and the air traffic control system and tell me with a straight face that they're capable of a feat three oreders of magnitude more complex before you say "the feds".
Have you been smoking plastic army men, or were you just born that fucking stupid? Sure, it's "easy to imagine" such a system if you're an uneducated 'tard like yourself.