Only if you ignore how hard it is to wind up with a lower total death toll if your method starts by killing a sizable portion of the population. Notice I made no distinction between the two sides, merely noting that while a more effective weapon will be more devastating, it may well reduce the overall effect of a war. Ignoring very possible human mistakes, of course.
PS: If you didn't get the memo, genocide is a word frowned upon. Nowadays, we prefer the much more eloquent term of collateral damage.
Only, to take a city with arrows you will probably end up besieging them for months - until starvation has done it's job among the defenders.
With cruise missiles, you can just fire away. Directly, it causes more deaths; but all together, it can be quite a bit less gruesome. It's always the application - not the weapon itself - that makes the distinction.
Take the ultimate example: nuclear bombs. Those can kill millions at once, but on the other hand has likely prevented - or at last scaled back - quite a few major, world-war style conflicts.
...exactly why? They still do dragnet surveillance; their backdoors are still in place; they only lost what they gleaned from Google's internal network.
...or not, if the exploding tire damaged the li-on batteries and got the plane burnt up all the same. Or, failing that, suddenly de-powered the engines in the middle of a takeoff.
Now, on the other hand, if the concorde didn't have landing gears and used some magical levitation method....:p
Uh, they do? There are four levels here, though I'm not sure how the terms translate to english. Basically they are (beware my utterly useless attempts at mirror translation):
Ambulance physician/oxyologists: doctors with 5 years of experience/training, will only respond to the most severe cases.
Ambulance physician: regular doctor with a special course undertaken, they staff the ambulances in mix with the following tier.
Ambulance officer: they get a shortened (4 year) training. Not regular doctors, but certified to do life-saving operations, apply certain types of drugs, etc.
Ambulance nurse
I mean, that's how it works here. I'm pretty sure other parts of the world do it differently.
Only, that letter will NOT be anonymous. You will be recorded by the servers of./ or the newspaper; most places to keep access logs, if nothing else. Sure, you can use VPN or proxy, but then you need to worry about the those logs instead. HTTPS won't save you. Or, if you are actually banking on HTTPS alone to save you... well, best of luck.
If you really wanted to publish something but still remain anonymous, you'd better use a service built for that purpose - like securedrop. If you want privacy, it needs more than screaming HTTPS EVERYWHERE. Because it's a helluva more complicated issue.
They should be completely autonomous. If they are not, you just opened up the system for malicious input. This isn't like hacking someone's radio through a bluetooth connection that was open; this is directly interacting with the actual AI of the car. And as seen with Android, even Google cannot be trusted to not make security holes - that's impossible. Would you participate in this arms warfare game with your car, too?
Oh, it can stop very abruptly. By hitting something else. Another car, obstacle, etc.
And to be fair, that's more of a guideline. Most people can't judge 210m even roughly while they are driving; I most certainly can't. But, you are supposed to leave huge gaps there for good reasons. I'm not sure I'd be comfortable if my self-driving car was fine keeping a 3m distance and that paremeter couldn't be changed.
Hungary. We have 5 tiers of ambulances you may receive. I'm not sure about the exact tiers now, but two are only for patient transport; in two others, you have a 'paramedic' who is only trained to do the most essential life saving operations and stabilize patients; and the most serious cases are handled by paramedics who are actually physicians with an extra course taken.
Well, at least that was the system a few years ago.
Haaa, that's a good one. I completely forgot about them blasted cookies. Well, I guess you could hijack my session, fair enough! But I'd expect that one solved by merely logging out - and you still can't get any sensitive data about me. Though you could troll with my username in the interim.
Frankly, I'm finding it funny how you talk about privacy... by securing a completely public forum. What's next, encoding the newspapers? Someone might read them!
Fight for privacy where it matters and makes sense. If my login data weren't secure, I'd pretty peeved off by Slasdot. As it stands, I am not. Whether they implement HTTPS for the rest of the site is irrelevant, because the data is freely visible already anyway.
Yeah, because operating professional services that work means turning into a granny state. Do you also want us to get rid of hospitals? REAL men cure themselves at home, afterall.
I'm actually trained in first-aid, thank you very much. But I also happen to know better than to disregard any risk just to satisfy the need of doing something macho.
I think wild animals or large pieces debris on the road might be more common than meteors, though. Hell, I've seen cinderblocks fall off from trucks. It's not COMMON thank god, but it happens.
I thought the login was already HTTPS though, and only the rest site isn't. So your password should be safe. People may read your (publicly available) comments over wifi, though!
Well, the law here states you "must be able to safely stop in any reasonable and unexpected situation". If the vehicle you follow comes to an abrupt and immediate stop (for whatever reason) and you slam into it, you are at fault. Keeping reaction time distance would be enough until a certain speed (I think about 70km/h), but afterwards you can't guarantee you could safely stop if the car you trail halted abruptly.
On the other side, if I kill someone because I'm rushing to the hospital, I'd probably not feel a lot better either. "I'm sorry I killed your husband, but my kid was more important, you see!"
If that happened here, you'd see people up in arms (honestly, the few time the EMS screwed up like that, it was front page news for days everywhere). Is that related to Detroit being bankrupt, or simply the EMS is so... understaffed?
Ambulances come with doctors and proper equipment to save lives, you know? You have medical care from the moment they arrive - even if it's just to stabilize you to the point of being safe to transport and making sure you will be alive when you arrive to the hospital. Lying on a random car's backseat doesn't provide any of that.
ONE HOUR? Holy moly. Here you are supposed to have an ambulance there in 20 minutes tops if you call from a residental area. One hour waiting line... that comes real close to not having any ambulance whatsoever. Seriously, if I can wait one hour, I don't need immediate medical attention!
Interesting points, btw! If the police caught you doing that here, you would have a hard time talking yourself out. You are simply supposed to leave it to the proper authorities.
That only works if the breaking is planned. There are also things that we call "unplanned instantenous stop", which is something like blowing a tire, or a foreign object appearing in front of you that forces a stop (like slamming into some animal/debris that appears in front you). In that case, the car following yours needs to have enough space to apply some breaking. Failure to do so causes those funny car pile-ups: everyone in the conga line believing they will have time to stop... when they, in fact, don't.
If Google takes his liability in accidents seriously, they will probably want to avoid having to pay for thrashing 30-40 cars in a single pile-up accident.;)
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Only if you ignore how hard it is to wind up with a lower total death toll if your method starts by killing a sizable portion of the population. Notice I made no distinction between the two sides, merely noting that while a more effective weapon will be more devastating, it may well reduce the overall effect of a war. Ignoring very possible human mistakes, of course.
PS: If you didn't get the memo, genocide is a word frowned upon. Nowadays, we prefer the much more eloquent term of collateral damage.
Only, to take a city with arrows you will probably end up besieging them for months - until starvation has done it's job among the defenders.
With cruise missiles, you can just fire away. Directly, it causes more deaths; but all together, it can be quite a bit less gruesome. It's always the application - not the weapon itself - that makes the distinction.
Take the ultimate example: nuclear bombs. Those can kill millions at once, but on the other hand has likely prevented - or at last scaled back - quite a few major, world-war style conflicts.
...exactly why? They still do dragnet surveillance; their backdoors are still in place; they only lost what they gleaned from Google's internal network.
...or not, if the exploding tire damaged the li-on batteries and got the plane burnt up all the same. Or, failing that, suddenly de-powered the engines in the middle of a takeoff.
:p
Now, on the other hand, if the concorde didn't have landing gears and used some magical levitation method....
Uh, they do? There are four levels here, though I'm not sure how the terms translate to english. Basically they are (beware my utterly useless attempts at mirror translation):
Ambulance physician/oxyologists: doctors with 5 years of experience/training, will only respond to the most severe cases.
Ambulance physician: regular doctor with a special course undertaken, they staff the ambulances in mix with the following tier.
Ambulance officer: they get a shortened (4 year) training. Not regular doctors, but certified to do life-saving operations, apply certain types of drugs, etc.
Ambulance nurse
I mean, that's how it works here. I'm pretty sure other parts of the world do it differently.
Nope. You would need to know my actual password for that. The security token itself won't suffice.
Only, that letter will NOT be anonymous. You will be recorded by the servers of ./ or the newspaper; most places to keep access logs, if nothing else. Sure, you can use VPN or proxy, but then you need to worry about the those logs instead. HTTPS won't save you. Or, if you are actually banking on HTTPS alone to save you... well, best of luck.
If you really wanted to publish something but still remain anonymous, you'd better use a service built for that purpose - like securedrop. If you want privacy, it needs more than screaming HTTPS EVERYWHERE. Because it's a helluva more complicated issue.
They should be completely autonomous. If they are not, you just opened up the system for malicious input. This isn't like hacking someone's radio through a bluetooth connection that was open; this is directly interacting with the actual AI of the car. And as seen with Android, even Google cannot be trusted to not make security holes - that's impossible. Would you participate in this arms warfare game with your car, too?
Oh, it can stop very abruptly. By hitting something else. Another car, obstacle, etc.
And to be fair, that's more of a guideline. Most people can't judge 210m even roughly while they are driving; I most certainly can't. But, you are supposed to leave huge gaps there for good reasons. I'm not sure I'd be comfortable if my self-driving car was fine keeping a 3m distance and that paremeter couldn't be changed.
Hungary. We have 5 tiers of ambulances you may receive. I'm not sure about the exact tiers now, but two are only for patient transport; in two others, you have a 'paramedic' who is only trained to do the most essential life saving operations and stabilize patients; and the most serious cases are handled by paramedics who are actually physicians with an extra course taken.
Well, at least that was the system a few years ago.
Haaa, that's a good one. I completely forgot about them blasted cookies. Well, I guess you could hijack my session, fair enough! But I'd expect that one solved by merely logging out - and you still can't get any sensitive data about me. Though you could troll with my username in the interim.
Frankly, I'm finding it funny how you talk about privacy... by securing a completely public forum. What's next, encoding the newspapers? Someone might read them!
Fight for privacy where it matters and makes sense. If my login data weren't secure, I'd pretty peeved off by Slasdot. As it stands, I am not. Whether they implement HTTPS for the rest of the site is irrelevant, because the data is freely visible already anyway.
Yeah, because operating professional services that work means turning into a granny state. Do you also want us to get rid of hospitals? REAL men cure themselves at home, afterall.
I'm actually trained in first-aid, thank you very much. But I also happen to know better than to disregard any risk just to satisfy the need of doing something macho.
I think wild animals or large pieces debris on the road might be more common than meteors, though. Hell, I've seen cinderblocks fall off from trucks. It's not COMMON thank god, but it happens.
I thought the login was already HTTPS though, and only the rest site isn't. So your password should be safe. People may read your (publicly available) comments over wifi, though!
If you want to post something on ./ that warrants HTTPS, you are probably already doing it wrong.
The more time I spend reading these replies the more terrified I'm becoming of the EMS in the US... :/
Well, the law here states you "must be able to safely stop in any reasonable and unexpected situation". If the vehicle you follow comes to an abrupt and immediate stop (for whatever reason) and you slam into it, you are at fault. Keeping reaction time distance would be enough until a certain speed (I think about 70km/h), but afterwards you can't guarantee you could safely stop if the car you trail halted abruptly.
On the other side, if I kill someone because I'm rushing to the hospital, I'd probably not feel a lot better either. "I'm sorry I killed your husband, but my kid was more important, you see!"
If that happened here, you'd see people up in arms (honestly, the few time the EMS screwed up like that, it was front page news for days everywhere). Is that related to Detroit being bankrupt, or simply the EMS is so... understaffed?
Well, that's only if safety IS a major point, of course.
Ambulances come with doctors and proper equipment to save lives, you know? You have medical care from the moment they arrive - even if it's just to stabilize you to the point of being safe to transport and making sure you will be alive when you arrive to the hospital. Lying on a random car's backseat doesn't provide any of that.
ONE HOUR? Holy moly. Here you are supposed to have an ambulance there in 20 minutes tops if you call from a residental area. One hour waiting line... that comes real close to not having any ambulance whatsoever. Seriously, if I can wait one hour, I don't need immediate medical attention!
Interesting points, btw! If the police caught you doing that here, you would have a hard time talking yourself out. You are simply supposed to leave it to the proper authorities.
That only works if the breaking is planned. There are also things that we call "unplanned instantenous stop", which is something like blowing a tire, or a foreign object appearing in front of you that forces a stop (like slamming into some animal/debris that appears in front you). In that case, the car following yours needs to have enough space to apply some breaking. Failure to do so causes those funny car pile-ups: everyone in the conga line believing they will have time to stop... when they, in fact, don't.
;)
If Google takes his liability in accidents seriously, they will probably want to avoid having to pay for thrashing 30-40 cars in a single pile-up accident.