We all know that to be true (and apparently the game warns people not to play whilst driving). I don't think anyone would suggest the software developers be held responsible.
However, if there were a game that actively encouraged people to play the game whilst behind the wheel, you better believe they would be facing a lawsuit if someone operating the game caused a death.
Even worse. There are places that outright ban texting but it is actually (grey area) legal to play video games or read e-mails whilst driving.
(I say "grey area" because most places have unenforced "distracted driving/ dangerous driving" rules- and playing games whilst driving is both distracted and dangerous.)
These aliens are just going to steal your jobs and rape your chickens. They're not going to contribute to society on Earth. We need to build a space wall and get them to pay for it.
It MIGHT be habitable. It MIGHT have an atmosphere. It MIGHT have water.
Chances are, it's actually tidally locked. One side gets daylight all the time and the other... well... it doesn't. It probably has had it's atmosphere stripped away. If it has water then it will all be frozen on the dark side (water evaporates on the hot side and gets locked as ice in the dark side).
Theoretically it could be a hot, but livable (except for being arid) 30C average on the light side and cold (but livable) -30C average on the dark side. Theoretically there is a comfortable zone half way in the transitional area. Don't get me wrong, this is by far our best chance at extra-solar life so far- but odds are you couldn't board a spaceship with a tent and some potatoes and start living there tomorrow as a farmer.
Definitely a great place to send a probe if we ever get the technology.
I don't mind new technologies. Improving Bluetooth audio, improving the Bluetooth standard to support better audio. That's all fine, and may lead to the improvement of audio in the future.
However, the technology of the headphone jack is so simple, so universal, so useful- I feel like removing the headphone jack seems a silly move. I'd rather a slightly thicker phone than no headphone jack.
Now... with that said, I don't actually remember the last time I used a headphone jack on my phone anyway. I think for a large number of people its not going to make a difference. I'm curious how many people who are lamenting the loss of the headphone jack actually use it. I suspect it is a minority of users who use it today.
You've missed the whole "Body Positivity" movement.
Now you can be plus sized and a beauty model. You can be chubby and wear a bikini with pride. You can make scales squeak and still flaunt your body and turn people's heads.
Don't you dare say you can't be a "fat twink". Think positive.
Replacing one of the shittiest experience that people would rather not do during the day and freeing up time for me to do more exiting stuff like post on Slashdot is quite the opposite really.
1. Self-Driving Cars: Self-driving cars exist today that are safer than human-driven cars in most driving conditions. Over the next 3â"5 years they'll get even safer, and will begin to go mainstream.
Hackable cars, easier surveillance, depressing.
2. Clean Energy: Attempts to fight climate change by reducing the demand for energy haven't worked. Fortunately, scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs have been working hard on the supply side to make clean energy convenient and cost-effective.
Expensive energy, depressing.
3. Virtual and Augmented Reality: Computer processors only recently became fast enough to power comfortable and convincing virtual and augmented reality experiences. Companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft are investing billions of dollars to make VR and AR more immersive, comfortable, and affordable.
People avoiding the real world more, depressing.
4. Drones and Flying Cars: GPS started out as a military technology but is now used to hail taxis, get mapping directions, and hunt Pokemon. Likewise, drones started out as a military technology, but are increasingly being used for a wide range of consumer and commercial applications.
Flying bombs and deathtraps, depressing.
5. Artificial Intelligence: Artificial intelligence has made rapid advances in the last decade, due to new algorithms and massive increases in data collection and computing power.
It'll enslave us all, depressing.
6. Pocket Supercomputers for Everyone: By 2020, 80% of adults on earth will have an internet-connected smartphone. An iPhone 6 has about 2 billion transistors, roughly 625 times more transistors than a 1995 Intel Pentium computer. Today's smartphones are what used to be considered supercomputers.
NSA can process the taps locally, depressing.
7. Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains: Protocols are the plumbing of the internet. Most of the protocols we use today were developed decades ago by academia and government. Since then, protocol development mostly stopped as energy shifted to developing proprietary systems like social networks and messaging apps. Cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies are changing this by providing a new business model for internet protocols. This year alone, hundreds of millions of dollars were raised for a broad range of innovative blockchain-based protocols.
Economics, depressing.
8. High-Quality Online Education: While college tuition skyrockets, anyone with a smartphone can study almost any topic online, accessing educational content that is mostly free and increasingly high-quality.
More know-it-alls who can't think rationally on the market, depressing.
9. Better Food through Science: Earth is running out of farmable land and fresh water. This is partly because our food production systems are incredibly inefficient. It takes an astounding 1799 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of beef. Fortunately, a variety of new technologies are being developed to improve our food system.
Soon we can kill off all the animals and plants and replace them with factories, depressing.
10. Computerized Medicine: Until recently, computers have only been at the periphery of medicine, used primarily for research and record keeping. Today, the combination of computer science and medicine is leading to a variety of breakthroughs.
Combine this with AI and VR, what could possibly go wrong, depressing.
11. A New Space Age: Since the beginning of the space age in the 1950s, the vast majority of space funding has come from governments. But that funding has been in decline: for example, NASA's budget dropped from about 4.5% of the federal budget in the 1960s to about 0.5% of the federal budget today.
The rich will either force the poor up into space, or go themselves to escape the pollution, depressing.
So is it safe to assume that you are cautiously optimistic about the future?
I think that's what we need to do... not give up beef- but drink reclaimed water. We need better ways of "refreshing" water so that it is reusable. If all the water from sewage was cleaned enough - it could more than produce enough to keep all the cows in the world rolling in as much water as they could drink...
2/3rds the planet is covered in water. There's lots of water- we just need to work on better ways of reclaiming it and cleaning it. Technology can and will do that. We're short now. We may be short in the near future, but long term water will not be an issue.
If I care enough about my password being hacked (if it effects me financially) I'll create a super impossible password to crack.... of course, I never remember them and so have to get my password reset every time I visit that page.
I use white-list only. If a phone number isn't in my contact list it goes straight to voicemail. There are lots of apps that you can use that will provide this service. Yeah, occasionally I miss a call from a new number that I wanted to take, but I can always call them back if they leave a message.
I wonder how much that slowdown has to do with the fact that Cell Phone service providers have moved away from the "free (or discounted) every two years" model.
Consumers may not like the steady stream of new hardware- but it doesn't stop them throwing their money at it. If it's more profitable to keep upgrading hardware one baby-step at a time, they will do that and laugh all the way to the bank.
I read an article several weeks ago (sorry, no longer have source) from a Valve employee who was saying that Microsoft is trying to slowly break Steam and introduce technology that makes Steam unviable. The motivation being to move people to their marketplace instead of people using steam.
Truth? Maybe. Paranoia? Yeah, could be that too. I think Microsoft's vision is to blur the difference between Xbox and Windows over time and try and set up a similar walled garden to what Apple has- sharing apps between Windows and Xbox. The last thing Microsoft wants though is for Steam games to work on Xbox.
It does sound a lot but that 1.7mil covers more than just the wages.
There is probably all sorts of technology that needs procuring, police cars, buildings. Typically for every simoleon spent on wage, there is a simoleon need to be spent by the employer- things like taxes, and crap.
In Britain it is illegal to incite violence via hate speech.
Saying "I hate green people." isn't illegal. However, saying "Green people should all be killed, lets hang out tonight and kill some greenies" would be considered illegal.
"94% of Republicans, 92% of Democrats, and 85% of independents on Facebook"
THINK that they have never been swayed. They are wrong. Maybe no individual post has ever swayed them; however, multiple people posting opinions almost certainly has. There's a reason why WWII Germany, modern day Russia, and political parties worldwide put out propaganda. IT WORKS.
Look at all the politicians who were against LGBT rights 10 years ago compared to now. Someone has changed their mind. It is the gradual acceptance of people and the political zeitgeist. People preaching acceptance have made a difference on their audience. A single post may not change anyone's mind. Dozens of people expressing an opinion might change someone's mind without them even knowing it.
Sure, some things may never change. Trump's die hard supporters are never going to give him up- and Hillary's won't either; however, chances are at some point in our lives EVERYONE has changed their opinion on something- and it might have been the opinion of another that changed our opinion but we just didn't realize it.
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How is it Darwinism? It was innocent pedestrians that were killed/injured.
Darwinism would be if the driver died.
We all know that to be true (and apparently the game warns people not to play whilst driving). I don't think anyone would suggest the software developers be held responsible.
However, if there were a game that actively encouraged people to play the game whilst behind the wheel, you better believe they would be facing a lawsuit if someone operating the game caused a death.
Even worse. There are places that outright ban texting but it is actually (grey area) legal to play video games or read e-mails whilst driving.
(I say "grey area" because most places have unenforced "distracted driving/ dangerous driving" rules- and playing games whilst driving is both distracted and dangerous.)
Stop contradicting yourself!
Giving robots a soft body is just the first step in turning them into sex workers.
These aliens are just going to steal your jobs and rape your chickens. They're not going to contribute to society on Earth. We need to build a space wall and get them to pay for it.
It MIGHT be habitable. It MIGHT have an atmosphere. It MIGHT have water.
Chances are, it's actually tidally locked. One side gets daylight all the time and the other... well... it doesn't. It probably has had it's atmosphere stripped away. If it has water then it will all be frozen on the dark side (water evaporates on the hot side and gets locked as ice in the dark side).
Theoretically it could be a hot, but livable (except for being arid) 30C average on the light side and cold (but livable) -30C average on the dark side. Theoretically there is a comfortable zone half way in the transitional area. Don't get me wrong, this is by far our best chance at extra-solar life so far- but odds are you couldn't board a spaceship with a tent and some potatoes and start living there tomorrow as a farmer.
Definitely a great place to send a probe if we ever get the technology.
Video Games make poor substitution for real life training. Real life Gandhi didn't nuke anyone.
I don't mind new technologies. Improving Bluetooth audio, improving the Bluetooth standard to support better audio. That's all fine, and may lead to the improvement of audio in the future.
However, the technology of the headphone jack is so simple, so universal, so useful- I feel like removing the headphone jack seems a silly move. I'd rather a slightly thicker phone than no headphone jack.
Now... with that said, I don't actually remember the last time I used a headphone jack on my phone anyway. I think for a large number of people its not going to make a difference. I'm curious how many people who are lamenting the loss of the headphone jack actually use it. I suspect it is a minority of users who use it today.
You've missed the whole "Body Positivity" movement.
Now you can be plus sized and a beauty model.
You can be chubby and wear a bikini with pride.
You can make scales squeak and still flaunt your body and turn people's heads.
Don't you dare say you can't be a "fat twink". Think positive.
Microsoft have a partnership with Ford for vehicle automation already.
Fuck Micro$oft!!!
I will not. Have you seen how many viruses they have?
Replacing one of the shittiest experience that people would rather not do during the day and freeing up time for me to do more exiting stuff like post on Slashdot is quite the opposite really.
Posting on Slashdot can be automated too.
1. Self-Driving Cars: Self-driving cars exist today that are safer than human-driven cars in most driving conditions. Over the next 3â"5 years they'll get even safer, and will begin to go mainstream.
Hackable cars, easier surveillance, depressing.
2. Clean Energy: Attempts to fight climate change by reducing the demand for energy haven't worked. Fortunately, scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs have been working hard on the supply side to make clean energy convenient and cost-effective.
Expensive energy, depressing.
3. Virtual and Augmented Reality: Computer processors only recently became fast enough to power comfortable and convincing virtual and augmented reality experiences. Companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft are investing billions of dollars to make VR and AR more immersive, comfortable, and affordable.
People avoiding the real world more, depressing.
4. Drones and Flying Cars: GPS started out as a military technology but is now used to hail taxis, get mapping directions, and hunt Pokemon. Likewise, drones started out as a military technology, but are increasingly being used for a wide range of consumer and commercial applications.
Flying bombs and deathtraps, depressing.
5. Artificial Intelligence: Artificial intelligence has made rapid advances in the last decade, due to new algorithms and massive increases in data collection and computing power.
It'll enslave us all, depressing.
6. Pocket Supercomputers for Everyone: By 2020, 80% of adults on earth will have an internet-connected smartphone. An iPhone 6 has about 2 billion transistors, roughly 625 times more transistors than a 1995 Intel Pentium computer. Today's smartphones are what used to be considered supercomputers.
NSA can process the taps locally, depressing.
7. Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains: Protocols are the plumbing of the internet. Most of the protocols we use today were developed decades ago by academia and government. Since then, protocol development mostly stopped as energy shifted to developing proprietary systems like social networks and messaging apps. Cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies are changing this by providing a new business model for internet protocols. This year alone, hundreds of millions of dollars were raised for a broad range of innovative blockchain-based protocols.
Economics, depressing.
8. High-Quality Online Education: While college tuition skyrockets, anyone with a smartphone can study almost any topic online, accessing educational content that is mostly free and increasingly high-quality.
More know-it-alls who can't think rationally on the market, depressing.
9. Better Food through Science: Earth is running out of farmable land and fresh water. This is partly because our food production systems are incredibly inefficient. It takes an astounding 1799 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of beef. Fortunately, a variety of new technologies are being developed to improve our food system.
Soon we can kill off all the animals and plants and replace them with factories, depressing.
10. Computerized Medicine: Until recently, computers have only been at the periphery of medicine, used primarily for research and record keeping. Today, the combination of computer science and medicine is leading to a variety of breakthroughs.
Combine this with AI and VR, what could possibly go wrong, depressing.
11. A New Space Age: Since the beginning of the space age in the 1950s, the vast majority of space funding has come from governments. But that funding has been in decline: for example, NASA's budget dropped from about 4.5% of the federal budget in the 1960s to about 0.5% of the federal budget today.
The rich will either force the poor up into space, or go themselves to escape the pollution, depressing.
So is it safe to assume that you are cautiously optimistic about the future?
Crypto currencies haven't had much of an impact on the vast majority of people, but for criminal enterprises they've solved lots of problems.
I think that's what we need to do... not give up beef- but drink reclaimed water. We need better ways of "refreshing" water so that it is reusable. If all the water from sewage was cleaned enough - it could more than produce enough to keep all the cows in the world rolling in as much water as they could drink...
2/3rds the planet is covered in water. There's lots of water- we just need to work on better ways of reclaiming it and cleaning it. Technology can and will do that. We're short now. We may be short in the near future, but long term water will not be an issue.
If I care enough about my password being hacked (if it effects me financially) I'll create a super impossible password to crack. ... of course, I never remember them and so have to get my password reset every time I visit that page.
I use white-list only. If a phone number isn't in my contact list it goes straight to voicemail. There are lots of apps that you can use that will provide this service. Yeah, occasionally I miss a call from a new number that I wanted to take, but I can always call them back if they leave a message.
I wonder how much that slowdown has to do with the fact that Cell Phone service providers have moved away from the "free (or discounted) every two years" model.
Does it matter what consumers "like"?
Consumers may not like the steady stream of new hardware- but it doesn't stop them throwing their money at it. If it's more profitable to keep upgrading hardware one baby-step at a time, they will do that and laugh all the way to the bank.
I read an article several weeks ago (sorry, no longer have source) from a Valve employee who was saying that Microsoft is trying to slowly break Steam and introduce technology that makes Steam unviable. The motivation being to move people to their marketplace instead of people using steam.
Truth? Maybe. Paranoia? Yeah, could be that too. I think Microsoft's vision is to blur the difference between Xbox and Windows over time and try and set up a similar walled garden to what Apple has- sharing apps between Windows and Xbox. The last thing Microsoft wants though is for Steam games to work on Xbox.
It does sound a lot but that 1.7mil covers more than just the wages.
There is probably all sorts of technology that needs procuring, police cars, buildings. Typically for every simoleon spent on wage, there is a simoleon need to be spent by the employer- things like taxes, and crap.
In Britain it is illegal to incite violence via hate speech.
Saying "I hate green people." isn't illegal. However, saying "Green people should all be killed, lets hang out tonight and kill some greenies" would be considered illegal.
You're wrong and nothing you say will change my mind about it.
"94% of Republicans, 92% of Democrats, and 85% of independents on Facebook"
THINK that they have never been swayed. They are wrong. Maybe no individual post has ever swayed them; however, multiple people posting opinions almost certainly has. There's a reason why WWII Germany, modern day Russia, and political parties worldwide put out propaganda. IT WORKS.
Look at all the politicians who were against LGBT rights 10 years ago compared to now. Someone has changed their mind. It is the gradual acceptance of people and the political zeitgeist. People preaching acceptance have made a difference on their audience. A single post may not change anyone's mind. Dozens of people expressing an opinion might change someone's mind without them even knowing it.
Sure, some things may never change. Trump's die hard supporters are never going to give him up- and Hillary's won't either; however, chances are at some point in our lives EVERYONE has changed their opinion on something- and it might have been the opinion of another that changed our opinion but we just didn't realize it.