Maintenance. Many people will not maintain their car until something brakes, hoping that it won't be at 150kph.
You've also mostly chosen examples where failure is limited to the mass transit itself (except for planes, but they have pilots with a great incentive to aim for something soft). A failing automated car drifting into my lane is a suddenly a lot more complex liability case.
> what are we SUPPOSED to do, when the world's biggest (and essentially only) superpower has us fully under its control? > what exactly do you propose when the powerful hold ALL the cards?
50 shades is a textbook example of a perfect marketing campaign. It cannot fit an algorithm, it's a total outlier.
They sent out press releases to all the agencies about the new phenomena of women using the wonderful anonymity of e-readers/tablets to read Mommy porn, like that "50 shades" thing. Journalists just repeated the press releases, over and over again, almost exactly word for word, on various networks, because that's a topic that draws viewer attention.
And suddenly everyone knew that apparently a lot of people were reading that "50 shades" book, and that reading it was both cool and risqué. Jackpot.
I read one page of the book that was published on a website. It was worse than the transcript of a reality TV show. it wasn't just bad literature, it was barely passable English. But the marketing was absolutely brilliant.
Devices which can engage targets without human intervention are fairly common: landmines. We do know that they kill hundreds of innocents every year.
Put some cameras and algorithms, and you may kill/maim less innocents, but you won't get to zero. You can't get to zero when you put a human brain behind the trigger, how do you make a machine decide which teenager is a bad guy?
Actually, let me offer a simple solution to that last question: Connect the machine to a massive database which contains data about everyone, so that the robotic killer can just check a "life-long naughty" list, and confirm the identity of the target based on her previous collected behavior (and carried electronics). You don't even need constitutionally protected data, metadata should be enough.
There. No human needed, you can get perfect killers cruising the world for enemies of the state autonomously. Feel safe?
I know how bitcoin works, but I'm missing a couple elements:
Once the last coins are mined, what happens? How do you convince people who sold theirs to keep giving away computing power in exchange for nothing? I know that fees can be added, but in a distributed semi-ananymous network, how do you set fee levels such that people will validate little transactions as well as big ones?
And even before all the coins are mined, has anyone calculated yet what is the ceiling for BTC? That'd be the value over which some country's national labs or universities turn on their supercomputers and mine almost everything (publications might bring revenue, but mining apparently does), preventing individuals from getting any return from their hardware, thus discouraging them from participating?
"I'm the world's leading researcher in the field of slugs' and sandcastle worms' " just got replaced by: "My research is used by heart surgeons to save lives and ease recovery"
Yep, someone's life just got a lot easier at parties...
But there has been recent progress, and Xilinx is pushing hard to get people to compile C to gates with their Vivado HLS (guess the targets?). Worth having a look at, since you usually can get a 30-day eval license for FPGA tools.
Exactly. I'm commenting on the "only" being some kind of discovery, when there was so much hype about trillions in ore value just waiting to be thrusted down to us by space pioneers. The Gold Rush redux.
We keep hearing warnings about CMEs now that we can actually see them coming. I'm just wondering how many real-life negative effects they had in the previous decades, when we already had electronics (>15V maybe, but less ESD/SEU protection).
Sure, the general public has many more ways to notice, but it's not like there weren't scientists all around the planet keeping an eye on sensitive equipment 30 years ago.
How bad are those forecasted CMEs on modern electronics, compared to previous unexpected CMEs on old stuff? Has it turned into a convenient excuse for suppliers, should something fail that day?
Just because they have yet to get trapped by the earth's gravity well doesn't mean that most asteroids (especially the ones with the right orbits to mine) are fundamentally different in composition from what we find in the earth's crust.
He achieved his goal by making you talk about his company. Free ads. Controversy doesn't always sell, but that's the first time in weeks that anyone has talked about yahoo.
I want to be a researcher who gets seriously quoted as supposing that maybe people used math to do the kind of math things that people would probably need to do around that time.
I predicted when they announced it a few years ago that someone will hack onstar (or be a disgruntled employee) and disable a few hundred thousand cars just because they can. I am amazed that it hasn't happened yet.
I personally would just like the source code of the hack and a short-reach transmitter, to shut down the people talking on the phone or cruising in the left lane.
2012 was an exception year and shouldn't be used for a trends discussion. Why? The single reason that 2012 had massively higher murder rates in Chicago: there was no winter. Given how bad this winter is, the murder rates over a the last 2 months are probably way down. I haven't even checked.
Do NOT use a single to discuss the efficiency of various violence reduction measures. The weather is a bigger uncertainty factor than reliable stats can accommodate.
Breaking news: Cars are driving along parkways and parking in driveways. Because English would be too simple to learn, if it wasn't sometimes really weird.
But you don't have the clout to ask for it to prove your innocence. It'd be a shame if someone couldn't bill the govt to hold your sorry ass inside a cell.
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Maintenance.
Many people will not maintain their car until something brakes, hoping that it won't be at 150kph.
You've also mostly chosen examples where failure is limited to the mass transit itself (except for planes, but they have pilots with a great incentive to aim for something soft). A failing automated car drifting into my lane is a suddenly a lot more complex liability case.
I don't trust the tin foil makers. What can I do?
You jest, but a significant number of Tokyoites glow like they've already helped with some nuclear experiment.
> what are we SUPPOSED to do, when the world's biggest (and essentially only) superpower has us fully under its control?
> what exactly do you propose when the powerful hold ALL the cards?
You mean the late 18th century British?
50 shades is a textbook example of a perfect marketing campaign. It cannot fit an algorithm, it's a total outlier.
They sent out press releases to all the agencies about the new phenomena of women using the wonderful anonymity of e-readers/tablets to read Mommy porn, like that "50 shades" thing.
Journalists just repeated the press releases, over and over again, almost exactly word for word, on various networks, because that's a topic that draws viewer attention.
And suddenly everyone knew that apparently a lot of people were reading that "50 shades" book, and that reading it was both cool and risqué. Jackpot.
I read one page of the book that was published on a website. It was worse than the transcript of a reality TV show. it wasn't just bad literature, it was barely passable English.
But the marketing was absolutely brilliant.
Devices which can engage targets without human intervention are fairly common: landmines.
We do know that they kill hundreds of innocents every year.
Put some cameras and algorithms, and you may kill/maim less innocents, but you won't get to zero. You can't get to zero when you put a human brain behind the trigger, how do you make a machine decide which teenager is a bad guy?
Actually, let me offer a simple solution to that last question:
Connect the machine to a massive database which contains data about everyone, so that the robotic killer can just check a "life-long naughty" list, and confirm the identity of the target based on her previous collected behavior (and carried electronics). You don't even need constitutionally protected data, metadata should be enough.
There. No human needed, you can get perfect killers cruising the world for enemies of the state autonomously. Feel safe?
No, this is not designed to be modded funny.
I know how bitcoin works, but I'm missing a couple elements:
Once the last coins are mined, what happens?
How do you convince people who sold theirs to keep giving away computing power in exchange for nothing? I know that fees can be added, but in a distributed semi-ananymous network, how do you set fee levels such that people will validate little transactions as well as big ones?
And even before all the coins are mined, has anyone calculated yet what is the ceiling for BTC? That'd be the value over which some country's national labs or universities turn on their supercomputers and mine almost everything (publications might bring revenue, but mining apparently does), preventing individuals from getting any return from their hardware, thus discouraging them from participating?
Remember that one the next time some politician promises to defund some oddball research because "who cares about slugs, worms or jellyfish".
"I'm the world's leading researcher in the field of slugs' and sandcastle worms' "
just got replaced by:
"My research is used by heart surgeons to save lives and ease recovery"
Yep, someone's life just got a lot easier at parties...
This.
But there has been recent progress, and Xilinx is pushing hard to get people to compile C to gates with their Vivado HLS (guess the targets?).
Worth having a look at, since you usually can get a 30-day eval license for FPGA tools.
Exactly. I'm commenting on the "only" being some kind of discovery, when there was so much hype about trillions in ore value just waiting to be thrusted down to us by space pioneers.
The Gold Rush redux.
We keep hearing warnings about CMEs now that we can actually see them coming.
I'm just wondering how many real-life negative effects they had in the previous decades, when we already had electronics (>15V maybe, but less ESD/SEU protection).
Sure, the general public has many more ways to notice, but it's not like there weren't scientists all around the planet keeping an eye on sensitive equipment 30 years ago.
How bad are those forecasted CMEs on modern electronics, compared to previous unexpected CMEs on old stuff?
Has it turned into a convenient excuse for suppliers, should something fail that day?
... most rocks have little commercial value.
Just because they have yet to get trapped by the earth's gravity well doesn't mean that most asteroids (especially the ones with the right orbits to mine) are fundamentally different in composition from what we find in the earth's crust.
The problem is that a crazy ex or one-night-stand would know your passwords.
And that's really who you don't want knowing them.
He achieved his goal by making you talk about his company. Free ads.
Controversy doesn't always sell, but that's the first time in weeks that anyone has talked about yahoo.
By opposition to what, homework?
I want to be a researcher who gets seriously quoted as supposing that maybe people used math to do the kind of math things that people would probably need to do around that time.
50 shades of Coin, or 50 Coins of Gray?
because another worthless piece of data pushed by an exceptionally successful marketing campaign should be the reference.
I predicted when they announced it a few years ago that someone will hack onstar (or be a disgruntled employee) and disable a few hundred thousand cars just because they can.
I am amazed that it hasn't happened yet.
I personally would just like the source code of the hack and a short-reach transmitter, to shut down the people talking on the phone or cruising in the left lane.
2012 was an exception year and shouldn't be used for a trends discussion.
Why?
The single reason that 2012 had massively higher murder rates in Chicago: there was no winter.
Given how bad this winter is, the murder rates over a the last 2 months are probably way down. I haven't even checked.
Do NOT use a single to discuss the efficiency of various violence reduction measures. The weather is a bigger uncertainty factor than reliable stats can accommodate.
Suddenly, the basic econobox where every comfort item is an option looks like the smarter choice.
Breaking news: Cars are driving along parkways and parking in driveways.
Because English would be too simple to learn, if it wasn't sometimes really weird.
Corporations prefer the government to make it mandatory and safe for them to collect.
But you don't have the clout to ask for it to prove your innocence.
It'd be a shame if someone couldn't bill the govt to hold your sorry ass inside a cell.
Brand new for 2014. I had missed it.