You have to wonder about this? Just read any of these stories about "criminal masterminds" and they're all dumb as planks. Take this guy, he actually bought the ticket himself. How fucking stupid do you have to be for that rookie error?
Take it as fact, there are tons of clever crooks out there that you never hear about because no-one knows they've even been ripped off.
You're a fool if you don't think this happens. This is why I'm against electronic gambling. Not because of some moral "gambling is of the devil" thing... but because it would be trivial to rig these machines and then erase all evidence that anything fraudulent happened. Politicians can literally transform your hopes and dreams into money lining their wallet.
Not sure what wild west frontier town you're living in, but modern gambling machines are heavily restricted here, and through independent regulation/inspection it's extremely difficult to rig anything without triggering an investigation and probable criminal charges. The casino already makes billions legally so the motivation to risk that for a few dollars more seems rather pointless.
Strangely enough, the country in question here, New Zealand does have proportional voting. The end result is you end up with a bunch of minority numpties in parliament house who don't know what they're doing creating havoc. No system is perfect, but at least the two party system encourages a screening of candidates for a certain level of political competence.
Why in the name of fuck would any fucking company want to fuck over its customers? What a sick and malignant industry the media giants have become.
Because it's the only business model that works. What choice do you have when your option is fight or die? They may be fighting a nasty fight, but really it is all they have. If they embrace the "information wants to be free" reality, then all the fat cat middle men die in the ditch. Contrary to popular myth, piracy doesn't rob artists, it only robs the people who make money off artists. Artists still create art regardless.
Doesn't a world championship of scrabble require a fair bit of luck? If you pickup all vowels, the even more vowels, no amount of skill or training will get you out of that.
The same could be said of any sport. I guarantee you could build a machine to kick field goals better or pitch a baseball better than any person could.
Kicking a field goal is not a sport, nor is pitching a ball. It's all the other stuff that a computer can't do that makes it interesting.
I've traveled a fair bit, and I've never seen a Segway outside of gimmicky fenced in tourist locations (ie not the public street). I'm not sure where you get your Segway when traveling, you must go to different places than me.
Voice recognition and dictation has grown by leaps and bounds over the last few years.
Yeah but it's still shit.
Maybe you should get a modern smartphone and see just how easy it is to text w/o using a keyboard nowadays, instead of talking out of you ass.
I have and it's shit.
You are demonstrating the "failure of imagination" that too many people with a narrow world view have.
Or maybe I know something you don't. Plenty of research done in this area, there's reasons why it's not commonly used, nor will be. Maybe you have "failure to filter hype over reality"
While I spent LOTS of time writing code for a living, I realize that's an "edge case" - keyboards will be gone from most offices in the next 20 years, same as desktops and mice will be. In those scenarios, even a laptop is clunky and chunky.
But more still the most efficient and effect type of input, by a long way
Won't even be needed during lectures in the colleges and universities. Just let your phone make a transcript of what's being said, and if there's something interesting on the white/black board, take a picture. Or make a video.
Part of the memory process is actually writing stuff down. I don't think you have a full grasp of all the issues associated with human-machine input.
Because they don't exist? And when they do you can be sure as hell you won't be able to go anywhere you like. As a real world example I was on holiday this Easter and discovered (you won't get that on a preplanned automated journey) some sand dunes which I could take my 4WD on. We spent about an hour hooning around having fun in the sandy wilderness, in fact it was the highlight of the drive. I can't see you having that experience in your robot car.
Please increase my tax rate and properly fund our schools.
We have a political Q&A TV show here, and one time a politician was on there promoting his low tax policies because "no-one wants higher taxes" There was a collective groan from the studio audience and one guy responded, "I'll happily pay more tax if it means better services". This was followed by another, and another which drew applause. The general consensus is the "low tax" promise is purely a political gimmick. If you want quality health education and infrastructure services that most people want, then you have to pay for it, and you pay for it through taxes.
I paid over $70k in tax last year and will happily support higher tax rates dedicated to improving health, education and transport (not defence - $1Trillion on a illegal war? WTF? Those responsible for that should be hung for treason)
You were making sense until the last line. There will be a small demand, but price and practicality will put it in the same ballpark as the horse or Limo. The vast majority of people won't own horses, limos, or their own cars - robot or otherwise.
"a bespoke interface" == no such animal. Interfaces are not customized to the individual user. All the programs on all those office computers are using the same interface for the same version of the program.
Er yeah, that was my point.
I was using voice control back in Windows 3.1, and it's really improved since, so there's no need for mouse and keyboard, or even a screen, for many jobs (think screen readers for the visually handicapped).
Yeah they've improved from being extremely crap to mildly annoying. Still not even close to the speed and accuracy of a keyboard and mouse.
Combine a touch screen with voice commands and voice dictation, and kiss the keyboard bye-bye for the average job.
I can only assume you've never had an average job...
You made a big deal of the technical accuracy of a robot car, but didn't address the biggest reason people actually own cars, the personal freedom and enjoyment of operating them. This is especially important in rural areas where there is freedom to roam, and is precisely the opposite of the features a robot car offers.
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You have to wonder about this? Just read any of these stories about "criminal masterminds" and they're all dumb as planks. Take this guy, he actually bought the ticket himself. How fucking stupid do you have to be for that rookie error?
Take it as fact, there are tons of clever crooks out there that you never hear about because no-one knows they've even been ripped off.
Nope, balls don't work either.
Balls do work, just shit house security of the balls doesn't.
A friend worked on the back-end systems at a casino about 20 years ago. Back then the machines were programmed to a 91% payout based on legislation.
You're a fool if you don't think this happens. This is why I'm against electronic gambling. Not because of some moral "gambling is of the devil" thing... but because it would be trivial to rig these machines and then erase all evidence that anything fraudulent happened. Politicians can literally transform your hopes and dreams into money lining their wallet.
Not sure what wild west frontier town you're living in, but modern gambling machines are heavily restricted here, and through independent regulation/inspection it's extremely difficult to rig anything without triggering an investigation and probable criminal charges. The casino already makes billions legally so the motivation to risk that for a few dollars more seems rather pointless.
Strangely enough, the country in question here, New Zealand does have proportional voting. The end result is you end up with a bunch of minority numpties in parliament house who don't know what they're doing creating havoc. No system is perfect, but at least the two party system encourages a screening of candidates for a certain level of political competence.
Can't he just change the law back after filming finishes? Doesn't seem to be a very robust strategy from the studios.
Why in the name of fuck would any fucking company want to fuck over its customers? What a sick and malignant industry the media giants have become.
Because it's the only business model that works. What choice do you have when your option is fight or die? They may be fighting a nasty fight, but really it is all they have. If they embrace the "information wants to be free" reality, then all the fat cat middle men die in the ditch. Contrary to popular myth, piracy doesn't rob artists, it only robs the people who make money off artists. Artists still create art regardless.
Doesn't a world championship of scrabble require a fair bit of luck? If you pickup all vowels, the even more vowels, no amount of skill or training will get you out of that.
This is the part I don't get. Did he go to the toilet in-between every move, in every game he played? And no-one noticed until now?
The same could be said of any sport. I guarantee you could build a machine to kick field goals better or pitch a baseball better than any person could.
Kicking a field goal is not a sport, nor is pitching a ball. It's all the other stuff that a computer can't do that makes it interesting.
Are you afraid you might like it?
So, not Buddhism then?
I've traveled a fair bit, and I've never seen a Segway outside of gimmicky fenced in tourist locations (ie not the public street). I'm not sure where you get your Segway when traveling, you must go to different places than me.
Not wrong, just stupid.
So you spend 1/2 of your time getting between the things you want to see and only 1/2 of the time actually looking at them.
Can't speak for the OP, but I travel I choose from any of the myriad of local transport options. No dork-tron required.
If I am spending thousands of dollars on a vacation I want to see as much as possible and a Segway will help that.
You take a Segway on vacation with you? That must be fun at the airport.
You took the time to respond to say that? Pro tip: if you want to ignore someone, best strategy is to actually ignore them...
Voice recognition and dictation has grown by leaps and bounds over the last few years.
Yeah but it's still shit.
Maybe you should get a modern smartphone and see just how easy it is to text w/o using a keyboard nowadays, instead of talking out of you ass.
I have and it's shit.
You are demonstrating the "failure of imagination" that too many people with a narrow world view have.
Or maybe I know something you don't. Plenty of research done in this area, there's reasons why it's not commonly used, nor will be. Maybe you have "failure to filter hype over reality"
While I spent LOTS of time writing code for a living, I realize that's an "edge case" - keyboards will be gone from most offices in the next 20 years, same as desktops and mice will be. In those scenarios, even a laptop is clunky and chunky.
But more still the most efficient and effect type of input, by a long way
Won't even be needed during lectures in the colleges and universities. Just let your phone make a transcript of what's being said, and if there's something interesting on the white/black board, take a picture. Or make a video.
Part of the memory process is actually writing stuff down. I don't think you have a full grasp of all the issues associated with human-machine input.
Because they don't exist? And when they do you can be sure as hell you won't be able to go anywhere you like. As a real world example I was on holiday this Easter and discovered (you won't get that on a preplanned automated journey) some sand dunes which I could take my 4WD on. We spent about an hour hooning around having fun in the sandy wilderness, in fact it was the highlight of the drive. I can't see you having that experience in your robot car.
How did people get to work before cars?
Which is it? Are you trolling or an imbecile? My guess is a little of both but either appears obvious from your comment.
I'm not American so your comment about State an Federal is somewhat misguided. You probably feel pretty stupid right now eh bro?
A lot of people in the US are out of toilet paper too. You probably just choose to ignore them....
Please increase my tax rate and properly fund our schools.
We have a political Q&A TV show here, and one time a politician was on there promoting his low tax policies because "no-one wants higher taxes" There was a collective groan from the studio audience and one guy responded, "I'll happily pay more tax if it means better services". This was followed by another, and another which drew applause. The general consensus is the "low tax" promise is purely a political gimmick. If you want quality health education and infrastructure services that most people want, then you have to pay for it, and you pay for it through taxes.
I paid over $70k in tax last year and will happily support higher tax rates dedicated to improving health, education and transport (not defence - $1Trillion on a illegal war? WTF? Those responsible for that should be hung for treason)
You were making sense until the last line. There will be a small demand, but price and practicality will put it in the same ballpark as the horse or Limo. The vast majority of people won't own horses, limos, or their own cars - robot or otherwise.
"a bespoke interface" == no such animal. Interfaces are not customized to the individual user. All the programs on all those office computers are using the same interface for the same version of the program.
Er yeah, that was my point.
I was using voice control back in Windows 3.1, and it's really improved since, so there's no need for mouse and keyboard, or even a screen, for many jobs (think screen readers for the visually handicapped).
Yeah they've improved from being extremely crap to mildly annoying. Still not even close to the speed and accuracy of a keyboard and mouse.
Combine a touch screen with voice commands and voice dictation, and kiss the keyboard bye-bye for the average job.
I can only assume you've never had an average job...
You made a big deal of the technical accuracy of a robot car, but didn't address the biggest reason people actually own cars, the personal freedom and enjoyment of operating them. This is especially important in rural areas where there is freedom to roam, and is precisely the opposite of the features a robot car offers.