"I don't know anyone who has a self driving car or who has any intention of getting a self driving car. "
Of course. They are not on the market yet.
But now that the many beta models cruising with regular traffic are already better drivers than humans, it has become inevitable that they WILL come to market.
This would happen, if it were not for manufacturers' intellectual property control over their software. Just like pharma companies, the manufacturers have imposed socialism for themselves by having protectionism written into the law. Capitalism is for the customers.
We need to define 'right to repair' as an extension of fair use.
Americans will have to wait until it goes off patent. Then it will be marked up to $6000 per pill by whoever is able to game the FDA import regs, but we will then be able to smuggle in the generic version at its low world price.
Making gun manufacturers liable for crime is exactly what admin carts spent the last eight years trying to do. Now that Repubkicans are in control, the jackboot is on the other foot.
“It’s a dual-use technology case,” says Grimmelman. “And you typically don’t get criminal liability in dual-use technology cases unless there’s a pretty clear intent to promote the criminal use instead of the legitimate ones.”
The gummint is fully aware that it can't prove criminal intent, but it has the deep bench of lawyers while Huddleston has whatever late-night TV lawyer he can afford. .
Ever taken one of the European bullet trains? You can take Ryanair cheap between London and Paris, but the train will get you faster from center to center, and without all the airport hassle.
I se a different problem with Hyperloop, the lack of intermediate stations between the end points.. Any practical implementation should have a provision for a small number of intermediate stops. Offline stations (stopped train nit blocking the right of way) would add flexibility.
There is nothing much we can do about the new, branded medications in this list other than wait for the patent to expire, but compounds like Daraprim, the one Martin Shkreli wants $750 per pill for, are off patent and sell for pennies on the world market. If Trump wants to be taken seriously on this whole populism thing, it's time to strip the FDA of its power to prevent us from freely importing these long-since-approved ompounds.
Diversity is a mandate now, so HR departments have to pay homage to the idea. None dare call it quotas.
"For years, the tech pipeline has been fed mostly from the same elite universities. This has created a feedback loop of talent and a largely homogenous workplace."
That's odd. I thought that if your college application included a bio about being a minority abused child who evacuated refugees from Syria using your own homemade soapbox racer, the Ivy League schools would be fighting over you.
The ACs are even stupider than usual this morning. If you have to ask why we wouldn't want to contaminate a potential life-bearing body or why entering a gas giant's atmosphere at high speed would prevent any contamination from occurring there, you should be in this thread.
I worked on a System 3, Model D with a 1403 printer. Good times. Happier than today in many ways.
Yeah, nothing like those race riots or the Beijing-like air quality (suburban Los Angeles) or the totally pointless war they were shipping us all off to back then.
And then remember computing itself. Nothing whatever happened in real time and you were never actually "on" the system at all. You keyed your code in on Hollerith cards and submitted it to the lordly Operators for an overnight run. Next morning you had to repunch the statements that had typoed commands and unbalanced parentheses, and then resubmit. The following day, luck being with you, you could you start debugging, which meant hours of going through those infernal core dumps.
I entered the business over a decade before you did, and except for the obsessive use of social media I'm with the young people on this issue. Life before my locked-down toy computer is now another geologic era. When you needed a cab in those good old days of yours, you and your girl had to go out in the rain and yell at cars until one deigned to stop for you. Firing up an app on my iPhone as I pay the waiter and having a car waiting as we step outside is a whole new world.
And for today's phones, that's one of the lesser accomplishments.
Yes, line printers were horrendously noisy. Fortunately, the whole machine room was filled with the howling fans it took to keep a mainframe cool. Most of the printer noise disappeared into the background.
The 1403 was my first printer. Computers did not spend much time interpreting or summarizing data in those days, but focused on blazingly fast output to the endless stacks of greenbar paper the world ran on. People had to actually pore through those reams to find out what was going on. Even the developers had only hexadecimal printouts of main memory as a debugging tool. And you knew exactly what was in "core" too, because you had coded in Assembler.
It goes like this: any device you connect to the Internet will be hacked, no matter what security you apply to it and no matter how many levels of encryption. The problem is unsolvable, and any attempt at a solution brands you as a fool. The Internet of Things is even more evil than Apple or Uber.
"However, if you think that pushing saltwater into freshwater streams is even remotely a good idea, you might look up what saltwater does to freshwater flora and fauna."
Nowhere did I mention dumping salt into fresh water. We have plenty of salt water where it can go.
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"I don't know anyone who has a self driving car or who has any intention of getting a self driving car. "
Of course. They are not on the market yet.
But now that the many beta models cruising with regular traffic are already better drivers than humans, it has become inevitable that they WILL come to market.
This would happen, if it were not for manufacturers' intellectual property control over their software. Just like pharma companies, the manufacturers have imposed socialism for themselves by having protectionism written into the law. Capitalism is for the customers.
We need to define 'right to repair' as an extension of fair use.
Only $5000. Per pill.
Americans will have to wait until it goes off patent. Then it will be marked up to $6000 per pill by whoever is able to game the FDA import regs, but we will then be able to smuggle in the generic version at its low world price.
Arizonan reporting in: Hikers carry handguns in bear country because hunting rifles are too heavy in the pack.
EDIT: ...exactly what the Democrats spent...
Making gun manufacturers liable for crime is exactly what admin carts spent the last eight years trying to do. Now that Repubkicans are in control, the jackboot is on the other foot.
“It’s a dual-use technology case,” says Grimmelman. “And you typically don’t get criminal liability in dual-use technology cases unless there’s a pretty clear intent to promote the criminal use instead of the legitimate ones.”
The gummint is fully aware that it can't prove criminal intent, but it has the deep bench of lawyers while Huddleston has whatever late-night TV lawyer he can afford. .
Ever taken one of the European bullet trains? You can take Ryanair cheap between London and Paris, but the train will get you faster from center to center, and without all the airport hassle.
I se a different problem with Hyperloop, the lack of intermediate stations between the end points.. Any practical implementation should have a provision for a small number of intermediate stops. Offline stations (stopped train nit blocking the right of way) would add flexibility.
American here.
Trains remind me of NAZI GERMANY, with trains running around all over the place.
Special software from Amtrak would assure that they are never exactly on time.
There is nothing much we can do about the new, branded medications in this list other than wait for the patent to expire, but compounds like Daraprim, the one Martin Shkreli wants $750 per pill for, are off patent and sell for pennies on the world market. If Trump wants to be taken seriously on this whole populism thing, it's time to strip the FDA of its power to prevent us from freely importing these long-since-approved ompounds.
The one company I remember from that route is Morton Salt. You know, the salt that's in every kitchen.
I was going to cite that one, but it was so outlandish I thought it had to be fake news. But apparently, it really happened.
Diversity is a mandate now, so HR departments have to pay homage to the idea. None dare call it quotas.
"For years, the tech pipeline has been fed mostly from the same elite universities. This has created a feedback loop of talent and a largely homogenous workplace."
That's odd. I thought that if your college application included a bio about being a minority abused child who evacuated refugees from Syria using your own homemade soapbox racer, the Ivy League schools would be fighting over you.
The ACs are even stupider than usual this morning. If you have to ask why we wouldn't want to contaminate a potential life-bearing body or why entering a gas giant's atmosphere at high speed would prevent any contamination from occurring there, you should be in this thread.
"Joke's on you. I'm a registered Republican. (used to be Libertarian but switched when Ron Paul was in the primaries)"
Don't feel bad. I was the other Johnson voter.
Does this matter? Seems debatable to me.
It does matter, but not in a nerdly way.
I worked on a System 3, Model D with a 1403 printer. Good times. Happier than today in many ways.
Yeah, nothing like those race riots or the Beijing-like air quality (suburban Los Angeles) or the totally pointless war they were shipping us all off to back then.
And then remember computing itself. Nothing whatever happened in real time and you were never actually "on" the system at all. You keyed your code in on Hollerith cards and submitted it to the lordly Operators for an overnight run. Next morning you had to repunch the statements that had typoed commands and unbalanced parentheses, and then resubmit. The following day, luck being with you, you could you start debugging, which meant hours of going through those infernal core dumps.
I entered the business over a decade before you did, and except for the obsessive use of social media I'm with the young people on this issue. Life before my locked-down toy computer is now another geologic era. When you needed a cab in those good old days of yours, you and your girl had to go out in the rain and yell at cars until one deigned to stop for you. Firing up an app on my iPhone as I pay the waiter and having a car waiting as we step outside is a whole new world.
And for today's phones, that's one of the lesser accomplishments.
What telephone number do I dial to hail an "Uber" ? I do not have a so-called "smart" so-called "telephone".
Betcha some local coffee shops will go into the business of summoning rides for their customers.
Yes, line printers were horrendously noisy. Fortunately, the whole machine room was filled with the howling fans it took to keep a mainframe cool. Most of the printer noise disappeared into the background.
Actually, Joe Biden only boned interns who could spell scour. And who came by train.
If al of the world's ice were to melt, we would get 70m of additional ocean depth.
The 1403 was my first printer. Computers did not spend much time interpreting or summarizing data in those days, but focused on blazingly fast output to the endless stacks of greenbar paper the world ran on. People had to actually pore through those reams to find out what was going on. Even the developers had only hexadecimal printouts of main memory as a debugging tool. And you knew exactly what was in "core" too, because you had coded in Assembler.
It goes like this: any device you connect to the Internet will be hacked, no matter what security you apply to it and no matter how many levels of encryption. The problem is unsolvable, and any attempt at a solution brands you as a fool. The Internet of Things is even more evil than Apple or Uber.
"However, if you think that pushing saltwater into freshwater streams is even remotely a good idea, you might look up what saltwater does to freshwater flora and fauna."
Nowhere did I mention dumping salt into fresh water. We have plenty of salt water where it can go.