I have a free account from years and years ago. It still works as long as I visit a URL that they email once a month (of course, they deliberately make the URL unclickable, while there are other clickable URLs within the *same* email... seriously, guys, offer free or don't offer it, but don't be a dick about it)
What TFA doesn't make clear is whether they are ending the grandfathering of existing free accounts or ending the offering of new free accounts (something I thought they already did a few years ago). The wording they've used is ambiguous.
Remember what King Monkut of Thailand said to the Christian missionaries: "What you teach us to do is good; what you teach us to believe is silly."
Thing is, fundamentalist Christians honestly believe the two are inextricably chained together and not mutually exclusive. Having grown up in a small and highly religious community, it was hammered into our heads constantly that one cannot be a good person without deference to their bearded sky friend.
Does he obsess and study and pour years of himself into a technological endeavor as the primary drive for creativity or career?
Last I saw, he was an actor hopping on the geek chic bandwagon, milking every last drop of minor fame from his Star Trek TNG days. Don't get me wrong, I don't think he's bad actor, but an MMORPG enthusiast and patron of pop sci-fi does not a nerd make.
Are you serious? Have a look at all of the bad drivers around you, and you want to make it even less restrictive?
No, quite the opposite. Your suggestion to make licensing more restrictive is misdirected. Driver training needs a serious overhaul so that licensing doesn't need to be restrictive. There are countries where everyone requires years of training and a multi-year probationary period before they can get behind the wheel without significant limitations; you don't actually get your full license until you're about 20 and regular re-testing is required after that.
Certainly, not everyone is capable of being a naturally-skilled driver; everyone has varying degrees of vehicular awareness and mechanical understanding. But with years of training and practice, and an attentive attitude towards driving, most people can become adequately skilled. The problem is that we don't mandate years of training. Our standard of pass-this-15-minute-test-in-non-real-world-conditions is woeful and pathetic.
Also notice I said that transportation should be a right, not driving. If that means that public transit needs to provided or subsidized at a loss to made up elsewhere, then that's what it means. Either we afford people rights and without removing the means to exercise them or we don't afford them the right at all, because it's equally meaningless.
Only on Slashdot will you see such a bizarre juxtaposition of rabid rights defenders -- to the point of saying that sometimes people need to die in order to uphold our civil rights and freedoms -- who so quickly reverse course when it comes to driving. In a country where one is afforded the right to move about and take residence where they please and has thousands of small, remote communities (not everyone wants to live in a big city, y'know), transportation, by necessity, needs to be made a right. By the far the most practical and affordable way (to tax payers) is to license people to drive without unreasonable restrictions.
Slashdot will defend the rights of suspected *child molesters* on the basis that every citizen deserves civil rights until it can be justifiably determined to suspend some of them. But bad drivers? Pffft, fuck those guys!
You're as bad as everyone else with their pet rights you like to defend because they could conceivably come around to affect you.
There's nothing wrong with this decision. In fact, it's the right decision. As long as there is healthy competition, there's no reason any arm of government should be able to force a business to operate a certain way, outside of actions or inactions that are ostensibly illegal or abusive.
It's not like there aren't a thousand other capable search engines you can use instead.
Just LA? I assure you, everyone in *every western nation* is an *actual* criminal simply by being humanly incapable of knowing every possible or plausible interpretation, combination and permutation of every criminal statute.
Seriously, EVERYTHING is going to shit so that "UX designers" (if ever there was a more bullshit term, I haven't heard of it) can get their rocks off and jizz their fucking pants.
Meanwhile, everything is becoming unusable. You know why it's supposed to be the user INTERFACE? Because the USER is supposed to INTERFACE with it, IT IS NOT A FUCKING "EXPERIENCE".
I'm so fucking tired of this form-over-function bullshit being fucking everywhere. Soon, we're going to have to just randomly fucking guess and flail around aimlessly just to use a computer.
Do you know why Firefox's UI peaked at around version 3? Because it did exactly what it needed to. Menu bar, toolbar, address/search, tabs, page, done. Now everything is everywhere and nothing is consistent. All of these little bullshit buttons machine gunned all over the fucking place. I'm using a mouse to click these, not a fucking sniper rifle with telescopic targeting scope. Now it's following this god awful flat, squared-off, non-isolated, who-the-fuck-knows-what-does-what, pastel UX bullshit.
We are going to design ourselves out of productivity and end up fucking around with needless bullshit all day long.
When did we stop thinking of the users and put them below some designer's precious snowflake ego?
The America that incarcerates 1% of its population, earns the maligned distinction of housing an entire quarter of the world's prisoners and has the biggest private for-profit prison industry?
Yeah, I hardly expect they'll hesitate to jump right on the bandwagon.
We will look back on things like this and think, "Holy shit, we imprisoned people for that? Man, that was stupid. I'm sure glad I didn't live in that barbaric era of witch-huntery!"
I don't think autonomous cars are the panacea they're being made out to be. Even setting aside the legal liability implications, the technology are a *long* way off. The number of variables is impossibly infinite: unpredictable road textures, surface degradation, faded or illegible markings, poor signage, weather conditions, oddly engineered intersections and traffic features, malfunctioning traffic equipment, unexpected barriers, construction crews, wildlife... really, *anything* that isn't absolutely and completely predictable is a potential disaster. Do you trust software to account for all of that and much more?
Think about just how shitty most software is and how badly it fails. If that causes an annoying behavior on your PC, oh well, but that annoying behavior becomes deadly behavior when it controls the mechanics of a car. They are going to need beyond NASA-levels of rigor. Do you really think that's going to happen in the profits-before-all corporate world?
I haven't even mentioned legal liability yet. Who is responsible when a collision occurs? The manufacturer? Which one? Both? All? Shared? Does liability funnel down to programmers? How could you possibly calculate the shared liability on such an undoubtedly massive system? What if it was caused by a poor road surface that the software couldn't be reasonably expected to cope with? Is the municipality or state at fault? What about the mechanic who last worked on the car? Or maybe the owner changed mechanics? What about people who work on their own cars? The investigatory expense to determine fault for a single collision would be simply immense.
Until there exists a nation wide network of communication beacons on every road, it's not gonna happen (and even then, equipment failure and software defects are still a major issue). So we might as well get learning. For what it's worth, I enjoy driving.
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I was seeing myself having to agree with her as to the validity of "Deaf Culture" to maintain peace in the house.
To her, it was always peaceful.
I have a free account from years and years ago. It still works as long as I visit a URL that they email once a month (of course, they deliberately make the URL unclickable, while there are other clickable URLs within the *same* email... seriously, guys, offer free or don't offer it, but don't be a dick about it)
What TFA doesn't make clear is whether they are ending the grandfathering of existing free accounts or ending the offering of new free accounts (something I thought they already did a few years ago). The wording they've used is ambiguous.
I think you accidentally a sentence accidentally a sentence
Anyone can invent an encryption scheme so clever that he or she can't think of a way to break it.
Remember what King Monkut of Thailand said to the Christian missionaries: "What you teach us to do is good; what you teach us to believe is silly."
Thing is, fundamentalist Christians honestly believe the two are inextricably chained together and not mutually exclusive. Having grown up in a small and highly religious community, it was hammered into our heads constantly that one cannot be a good person without deference to their bearded sky friend.
I doubt most people even have the mental facilities to grasp any one of those 7 points, which is precisely why they work.
at his head
Does he obsess and study and pour years of himself into a technological endeavor as the primary drive for creativity or career?
Last I saw, he was an actor hopping on the geek chic bandwagon, milking every last drop of minor fame from his Star Trek TNG days. Don't get me wrong, I don't think he's bad actor, but an MMORPG enthusiast and patron of pop sci-fi does not a nerd make.
A USB standard without a quantum third state!
Oh god, it's clippy 2.0
Are you serious? Have a look at all of the bad drivers around you, and you want to make it even less restrictive?
No, quite the opposite. Your suggestion to make licensing more restrictive is misdirected. Driver training needs a serious overhaul so that licensing doesn't need to be restrictive. There are countries where everyone requires years of training and a multi-year probationary period before they can get behind the wheel without significant limitations; you don't actually get your full license until you're about 20 and regular re-testing is required after that.
Certainly, not everyone is capable of being a naturally-skilled driver; everyone has varying degrees of vehicular awareness and mechanical understanding. But with years of training and practice, and an attentive attitude towards driving, most people can become adequately skilled. The problem is that we don't mandate years of training. Our standard of pass-this-15-minute-test-in-non-real-world-conditions is woeful and pathetic.
Also notice I said that transportation should be a right, not driving. If that means that public transit needs to provided or subsidized at a loss to made up elsewhere, then that's what it means. Either we afford people rights and without removing the means to exercise them or we don't afford them the right at all, because it's equally meaningless.
Only on Slashdot will you see such a bizarre juxtaposition of rabid rights defenders -- to the point of saying that sometimes people need to die in order to uphold our civil rights and freedoms -- who so quickly reverse course when it comes to driving. In a country where one is afforded the right to move about and take residence where they please and has thousands of small, remote communities (not everyone wants to live in a big city, y'know), transportation, by necessity, needs to be made a right. By the far the most practical and affordable way (to tax payers) is to license people to drive without unreasonable restrictions.
Slashdot will defend the rights of suspected *child molesters* on the basis that every citizen deserves civil rights until it can be justifiably determined to suspend some of them. But bad drivers? Pffft, fuck those guys!
You're as bad as everyone else with their pet rights you like to defend because they could conceivably come around to affect you.
"morning people"
You misspelled "minions of Satan"
Even better, when I want to watch a movie trailer or funny commercial, I have to watch an ad first. So, I have to watch an ad to watch an ad. Yo dawg.
It's certainly sense, but even more certainly *not* common, unfortunately.
There's nothing wrong with this decision. In fact, it's the right decision. As long as there is healthy competition, there's no reason any arm of government should be able to force a business to operate a certain way, outside of actions or inactions that are ostensibly illegal or abusive.
It's not like there aren't a thousand other capable search engines you can use instead.
I think it's pretty clear they were certainly not on antidepressants while making Windows 8.
They were on crack.
Just LA? I assure you, everyone in *every western nation* is an *actual* criminal simply by being humanly incapable of knowing every possible or plausible interpretation, combination and permutation of every criminal statute.
Seriously, EVERYTHING is going to shit so that "UX designers" (if ever there was a more bullshit term, I haven't heard of it) can get their rocks off and jizz their fucking pants.
Meanwhile, everything is becoming unusable. You know why it's supposed to be the user INTERFACE? Because the USER is supposed to INTERFACE with it, IT IS NOT A FUCKING "EXPERIENCE".
I'm so fucking tired of this form-over-function bullshit being fucking everywhere. Soon, we're going to have to just randomly fucking guess and flail around aimlessly just to use a computer.
Do you know why Firefox's UI peaked at around version 3? Because it did exactly what it needed to. Menu bar, toolbar, address/search, tabs, page, done. Now everything is everywhere and nothing is consistent. All of these little bullshit buttons machine gunned all over the fucking place. I'm using a mouse to click these, not a fucking sniper rifle with telescopic targeting scope. Now it's following this god awful flat, squared-off, non-isolated, who-the-fuck-knows-what-does-what, pastel UX bullshit.
We are going to design ourselves out of productivity and end up fucking around with needless bullshit all day long.
When did we stop thinking of the users and put them below some designer's precious snowflake ego?
I agree, I'm just replying to undo the incorrect moderation I just did. Fucking phone UIs.
Toronto???
The America that incarcerates 1% of its population, earns the maligned distinction of housing an entire quarter of the world's prisoners and has the biggest private for-profit prison industry?
Yeah, I hardly expect they'll hesitate to jump right on the bandwagon.
We will look back on things like this and think, "Holy shit, we imprisoned people for that? Man, that was stupid. I'm sure glad I didn't live in that barbaric era of witch-huntery!"
Try using "I didn't lie, I just didn't tell you" defense with your wife and see how that goes for you.
I don't think autonomous cars are the panacea they're being made out to be. Even setting aside the legal liability implications, the technology are a *long* way off. The number of variables is impossibly infinite: unpredictable road textures, surface degradation, faded or illegible markings, poor signage, weather conditions, oddly engineered intersections and traffic features, malfunctioning traffic equipment, unexpected barriers, construction crews, wildlife... really, *anything* that isn't absolutely and completely predictable is a potential disaster. Do you trust software to account for all of that and much more?
Think about just how shitty most software is and how badly it fails. If that causes an annoying behavior on your PC, oh well, but that annoying behavior becomes deadly behavior when it controls the mechanics of a car. They are going to need beyond NASA-levels of rigor. Do you really think that's going to happen in the profits-before-all corporate world?
I haven't even mentioned legal liability yet. Who is responsible when a collision occurs? The manufacturer? Which one? Both? All? Shared? Does liability funnel down to programmers? How could you possibly calculate the shared liability on such an undoubtedly massive system? What if it was caused by a poor road surface that the software couldn't be reasonably expected to cope with? Is the municipality or state at fault? What about the mechanic who last worked on the car? Or maybe the owner changed mechanics? What about people who work on their own cars? The investigatory expense to determine fault for a single collision would be simply immense.
Until there exists a nation wide network of communication beacons on every road, it's not gonna happen (and even then, equipment failure and software defects are still a major issue). So we might as well get learning. For what it's worth, I enjoy driving.