Oh Noes! How can Millenials exist for 5 minutes without accessing their devices? It's like asking someone to remove their right arm to enter a concert!
California is already considering a special lane for highways where they will be allowed to text and drive.
You're assuming that Tesla's *only* business model is to sell cars. Well, Elon Musk is a smarter businessman than you are.
Tesla's profits come from their sale of carbon credits and other "green" state and federal regs to other car companies who continue to pump out gas-guzzling SUVs.
See "Mr. Bass's Planetoid", the 2nd or 3rd book in her children's book series about the mushroom people. I remember reading it as a kid, but can't recall too many details.
I'll believe text is dead when facebook replaces their logo with a video. And not a video *of* text. In the meantime, there's lots of text on facebook, whether they like it or not.
I do not go to a single major news site. Why not? Because autoplay video. I go to google news, click on an article I want to read, and then instead of the article, I get autoplay video with the article for some stupid reason (CNN, I'm looking at you).
And I have to immediately kill the site. Because I'm at work, where blaring audio of Wolf Blitzer is frowned upon. So, now they are proposing to do the same thing at facebook? Well, there goes another web site. Soon, I'll be reduced to giving up on the web entirely.
I'm thinking LYNX for my smartphone and every computer I own. But too bad I don't control the computer I'm forced to use at work.
Back in the days of CD-ROM development (remember CD-ROMS?), we used to be asked to do *exactly* that. We'd be asked to create a 200-page document that described the product we were creating in great detail.
We eventually developed a template to work from, and, more interestingly, that template included the phrase, somewhere in the middle -- "If you walk up to anyone in the development team and say xyzzy, we will hand you a crisp ten-dollar bill"
By now, I'm sure you know where I'm going with this story -- we *never* had to pay out the $10 to anyone.
The document was simply a deliverable to the publisher as far as they were concerned. They checked off the checkbox, filed the document, and there it sat until the producer lost his or her job, when it ended up in the trash. Frankly, I think we could have filled it with Lorem Ipsum and no one would have noticed.
The only way to secure a modern smartphone is to shut it off, remove the battery, and then snap the thing into two pieces and then run the pieces through a shredder.
And even then I'm not so certain about it being secure.
Let's face it: once you make a call, at least the carrier and most likely the NSA, has metadata on your call. Does the phone come with a secure carrier that answers to no one? Didn't think so. Then there's GPS tracking. Then there's looking over your shoulder at the screen. Then there's the OS itself, Android, which is full of holes.
Then there's downloaded Apps phoning home information about you. You could have a $14,000 phone, but if you download Facebook you're borked security-wise. Or do you use Uber? Forget security at that point.
In short, what they are selling is a fraud. There's no way to really secure a smartphone, and anyone selling you an expensive bauble claiming security is either lying to steal your money, or is too stupid to know they are lying.
"its artificial intelligence systems now report more offensive photos than humans do."
Then either the AI is more easily offended than humans, or there's simply less humans working. Maybe if they hadn't fired the whole department last month (except for one guy).
That's what we do here: We talk about a how a particular unit has been less productive so we can cut more heads, of course, knowing that the unit is less productive because we've already reduced them to a skeleton crew. And that's how MBA's get their bonuses while other people get pink slips.
Why would Uber *want* self-driving cars? Sure, it eliminates the need to pay people and again replace workers with robots, but then Uber would have to admit they are are a Taxi company if they *own* the vehicles.
There's only one way this works: Again, they contract out to people who own the self-driving cars, but anyone that owns such a car would need to have a real job, not a below-minimum-wage Uber job. The car owner goes to work and then, upon reaching his destination, then releases his car to go make more money for him autonomously. (instead of parking the car which stays dormant all day).
Otherwise, Uber will have to buy their own fleet and then claim that the robots themselves are the contractors. Just wait until *they* unionize!
I remember when most terrorism we got to hear about was from the Irish -- should we condemn all Irish for the actions of a few wackos?
There's a Christian Pastor, can't remember his name right now, but he's famous for holding a "Kill the Gays" rallies. The Klu Klux Klan considers itself a Christian organization, and if I can Godwin this conversation, Hilter was not a Muslim, and yet you're defending Christianity?
From an atheist viewpoint, *all* your damn religions are about violence against others.
Never mind their "Trending Topics" garbage, which I completely ignore anyway; what the heck his driving their "People you might know" friend suggestions?
I don't know any of those people and I don't want to know them, so fuck off facebook.
Just once I'd like to see a technological revolution where the CEOs are replaced by technology *before* the labor pool.
You won't see robots outlawed until robots start replacing lawyers. Lawyers tend to control the law in their favor, so, once you have technology replacing lawyers, that's when the revolution really comes.
But I always find it funny that technology replaces every person, except the most useless person in the entire organization, and that's the overpaid, underworked CEO who's only concern about the company is what the stock price is at that very second.
Half of the CEOs in this country can't even tell you what their company *does* -- and yet they get paid more than the entire labor force of the company combined; and continually look for ways to increase their income while decreasing the income of everyone else.
Replace CEOs with a chatbot that can play golf, and you'll notice no difference in the running of the firm. And save million of dollars in compensation.
The *tech* might be 5 years away (along with those transparent, 100% efficient solar panels), but legally, you can't put these cars on the road without a driver for another 20 years.
So "jobs" are still safe, sorta. There will have to be a human controller in the driver's seat for liability purposes at least until government catches up to the tech. And that's easily decades away, perhaps in the United States, the least progressive of all industrialized nations, that could be 100 years away.
We'll have single payer healthcare before we have "driverless cars", because the insurance industry lobby will prevent it. If everyone had a perfectly-run, accident free, computer controlled vehicle that obeys every law and will always avoid an accident, they'd have to lower rates. And you *know* they aren't going to do that.
There's too many big-money interests that feed off the fact that you're texting and driving.
If there was, FoxNews.com should have their picture in the post office, be on the FBI's most wanted list, and have their building surrounded by a SWAT team.
The Death Star's "death beam" control panel was a Grass Valley Model 100 Video Switcher, and I know that only because I used one of those at that time.
It didn't try to update to Windows 10 in the middle of the procedure!!!!
I swear there has to be an international body that can declare Windows as a virus that must be eliminated from the planet before humanity can move forward.
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Probably made from Tyvek. Very cheap, but cannot be torn, can be cut with scissors easily however.
"Slow down cowboy, it's been 30 minutes since you last posted a comment...."
Oh Noes! How can Millenials exist for 5 minutes without accessing their devices? It's like asking someone to remove their right arm to enter a concert!
California is already considering a special lane for highways where they will be allowed to text and drive.
You're assuming that Tesla's *only* business model is to sell cars. Well, Elon Musk is a smarter businessman than you are.
Tesla's profits come from their sale of carbon credits and other "green" state and federal regs to other car companies who continue to pump out gas-guzzling SUVs.
http://www.marketplace.org/201...
Also for a while, Tesla was licensing their patents to other manufacturers, but I think that's over now as they opened up the patents.
See "Mr. Bass's Planetoid", the 2nd or 3rd book in her children's book series about the mushroom people. I remember reading it as a kid, but can't recall too many details.
I'll believe text is dead when facebook replaces their logo with a video. And not a video *of* text. In the meantime, there's lots of text on facebook, whether they like it or not.
I do not go to a single major news site. Why not? Because autoplay video. I go to google news, click on an article I want to read, and then instead of the article, I get autoplay video with the article for some stupid reason (CNN, I'm looking at you).
And I have to immediately kill the site. Because I'm at work, where blaring audio of Wolf Blitzer is frowned upon. So, now they are proposing to do the same thing at facebook? Well, there goes another web site. Soon, I'll be reduced to giving up on the web entirely.
I'm thinking LYNX for my smartphone and every computer I own. But too bad I don't control the computer I'm forced to use at work.
Big guy wins, little guys loses. Suck it up and move on.
Back in the days of CD-ROM development (remember CD-ROMS?), we used to be asked to do *exactly* that. We'd be asked to create a 200-page document that described the product we were creating in great detail.
We eventually developed a template to work from, and, more interestingly, that template included the phrase, somewhere in the middle -- "If you walk up to anyone in the development team and say xyzzy, we will hand you a crisp ten-dollar bill"
By now, I'm sure you know where I'm going with this story -- we *never* had to pay out the $10 to anyone.
The document was simply a deliverable to the publisher as far as they were concerned. They checked off the checkbox, filed the document, and there it sat until the producer lost his or her job, when it ended up in the trash. Frankly, I think we could have filled it with Lorem Ipsum and no one would have noticed.
At least most other politicians can form a sentence that doesn't have thirty tangents in it that results in "word salad".
Louie Gohmert might be insightful too, but we'll never know because he can't seem to get out a coherent sentence in the English language.
If there's two, there's probably others as well...
Only Twitter users would not know the difference between "two" and "to"... what is this world coming to?
The only way to secure a modern smartphone is to shut it off, remove the battery, and then snap the thing into two pieces and then run the pieces through a shredder.
And even then I'm not so certain about it being secure.
Let's face it: once you make a call, at least the carrier and most likely the NSA, has metadata on your call. Does the phone come with a secure carrier that answers to no one? Didn't think so. Then there's GPS tracking. Then there's looking over your shoulder at the screen. Then there's the OS itself, Android, which is full of holes.
Then there's downloaded Apps phoning home information about you. You could have a $14,000 phone, but if you download Facebook you're borked security-wise. Or do you use Uber? Forget security at that point.
In short, what they are selling is a fraud. There's no way to really secure a smartphone, and anyone selling you an expensive bauble claiming security is either lying to steal your money, or is too stupid to know they are lying.
"its artificial intelligence systems now report more offensive photos than humans do."
Then either the AI is more easily offended than humans, or there's simply less humans working. Maybe if they hadn't fired the whole department last month (except for one guy).
That's what we do here: We talk about a how a particular unit has been less productive so we can cut more heads, of course, knowing that the unit is less productive because we've already reduced them to a skeleton crew. And that's how MBA's get their bonuses while other people get pink slips.
For that price, it had better come with a beautiful girl who blows you every time you make a phone call.
Now, if only "cute" meant .... you know... CUTE!
Why not just record all flight data to an iPhone? And then when the plane crashes, you use "Find my iPhone" and boom!, you've located the crash site.
Why would Uber *want* self-driving cars? Sure, it eliminates the need to pay people and again replace workers with robots, but then Uber would have to admit they are are a Taxi company if they *own* the vehicles.
There's only one way this works: Again, they contract out to people who own the self-driving cars, but anyone that owns such a car would need to have a real job, not a below-minimum-wage Uber job. The car owner goes to work and then, upon reaching his destination, then releases his car to go make more money for him autonomously. (instead of parking the car which stays dormant all day).
Otherwise, Uber will have to buy their own fleet and then claim that the robots themselves are the contractors. Just wait until *they* unionize!
I remember when most terrorism we got to hear about was from the Irish -- should we condemn all Irish for the actions of a few wackos?
There's a Christian Pastor, can't remember his name right now, but he's famous for holding a "Kill the Gays" rallies. The Klu Klux Klan considers itself a Christian organization, and if I can Godwin this conversation, Hilter was not a Muslim, and yet you're defending Christianity?
From an atheist viewpoint, *all* your damn religions are about violence against others.
Never mind their "Trending Topics" garbage, which I completely ignore anyway; what the heck his driving their "People you might know" friend suggestions?
I don't know any of those people and I don't want to know them, so fuck off facebook.
Chirp is software to program Ham Radios.
When will these oversized companies with their own army of lawyers actually CHECK to make sure they aren't stepping on someone else's toes?
I'm sure Google will sue the programmer of the other software.... even though he had it first.
Just once I'd like to see a technological revolution where the CEOs are replaced by technology *before* the labor pool.
You won't see robots outlawed until robots start replacing lawyers. Lawyers tend to control the law in their favor, so, once you have technology replacing lawyers, that's when the revolution really comes.
But I always find it funny that technology replaces every person, except the most useless person in the entire organization, and that's the overpaid, underworked CEO who's only concern about the company is what the stock price is at that very second.
Half of the CEOs in this country can't even tell you what their company *does* -- and yet they get paid more than the entire labor force of the company combined; and continually look for ways to increase their income while decreasing the income of everyone else.
Replace CEOs with a chatbot that can play golf, and you'll notice no difference in the running of the firm. And save million of dollars in compensation.
The *tech* might be 5 years away (along with those transparent, 100% efficient solar panels), but legally, you can't put these cars on the road without a driver for another 20 years.
So "jobs" are still safe, sorta. There will have to be a human controller in the driver's seat for liability purposes at least until government catches up to the tech. And that's easily decades away, perhaps in the United States, the least progressive of all industrialized nations, that could be 100 years away.
We'll have single payer healthcare before we have "driverless cars", because the insurance industry lobby will prevent it. If everyone had a perfectly-run, accident free, computer controlled vehicle that obeys every law and will always avoid an accident, they'd have to lower rates. And you *know* they aren't going to do that.
There's too many big-money interests that feed off the fact that you're texting and driving.
If there was, FoxNews.com should have their picture in the post office, be on the FBI's most wanted list, and have their building surrounded by a SWAT team.
They'll investigate Facebook for bias but not Fox News.
They'll investigate Clinton for operating an email server, but not Rice or Powell, who also operated their own email server.
Man. Republicans act like spoiled brats, and somehow we accept this as part of our political system.
The Death Star's "death beam" control panel was a Grass Valley Model 100 Video Switcher, and I know that only because I used one of those at that time.
It didn't try to update to Windows 10 in the middle of the procedure!!!!
I swear there has to be an international body that can declare Windows as a virus that must be eliminated from the planet before humanity can move forward.