So it's a fabrication that "traditional Chinese medicine" uses a lot of weird shit to make impossible claims?
Its a global issue. In the USA, you have people who think the earth was created six thousand years ago, and evolution is wrong. Would you want them to make contact?
Is it completely untrue that many Chinese still eat animals people in the West might consider pets?
Yes, just as many westerners still eat animals that people in India might consider to be sacred cows. Also, we poison animals that people in India think to be holy as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Its just a cultural thing.
In fact, all the science fiction movies/books have some US agency dissecting the aliens. Its not the chinese who dissect (or eat) them, its the some branch of the US Government.
Living in a western country, I would obviously prefer that the USA made first contact rather than china, but that still doesn't mean that china will do a horrible job at it, or would first eat the aliens or something.
Also, its not a self driving car if its only an assistance system. I mean, the term "self-driving" should only be used for fully autonomous vehicles, otherwise every automobile is "self driving", because it needs no horses.
Yes, Android is not GNU/Linux, but ChromeOS (which counts as "Linux" on the desktop as well), isn't really GNU/Linux either. Yes, it contains more GNU/Linux components than Android, but its too different from a real GNU/Linux OS to count one, especially because of its DRM and limited functionality to "HTML apps only".
I am NOT old, in fact I am still quite young, but I still don't like them. They are all interpreted languages, with almost no type system (everything dynamic). In Javascript you can't even distinguish between integers and floats.
I don't suggest to go down the java path, but at least use something with a compiler that actually helps you find bugs. All the productivity you "gain" thanks to no static typing you already lose again due to having to write unit tests for even the smallest piece of code.
And what when the device simply refuses to function if there is no internet access? This is already the case for some "smart" meters that report the usage data in realtime.
This only works as long as not everybody is doing it. The moment that happens, the manufacturers will make the device broken unless you connect it to the internet all the time. The device will open one connection, only one: to the manufacturer. It'll be TLS encrypted and will use public key pinning. All the traffic the device will cause will go through that connection.
I said nearly the exact same thing as a solution for keeping the IPV4 address space from running out, as most of the space is currently being hoarded by large organizations that don't need full Class A blocks:
Yeah, they are buying these for all eternity. But I tell you what: instead of recurring lower income, politicians like it better to have bigger sums of money on the table they can decide about.
IDK, the crew of ships these days doesn't have that much capabilities to fend off pirates anyway. So I doubt much will change, except that pirates won't be able to kidnap humans, only non-living stuff.
No, I'm a true millenial. I mean, who has Facebook and youtube while they still went to school, only millenials (and later generations) have that. Our teachers were nothing close to millenials though. They didn't know how to handle computers. Nor did they know how to appease a class. In fact some pupils even openly demanded from the teacher to open internet access (he had an admin console at the teacher computer which allowed this), and some teachers even did.
The younger teachers who did know how to handle computers didn't really know how to teach stuff, after all they were super young. Also most of them only knew how to log in to facebook and stuff.
The example I brought up has nothing to do with car insurances, right, although here there is lots of age based discrimination you can do for car insurances.
The young people are likely to do accidents due to missing experience and lots of self esteem. The elderly drivers might cause accidents because they are senile or have limited senses (eyesight, etc).
Are schools becoming time waste institutions? why send your kids to school anyway, if they just play some video games. They can do that at home as well, can't they?
Or is it that teachers have to deal with children whose attention spans have been deformed by their smartphone use?
I just know that back then when I was in school, the lessons suddenly became hugely unproductive the moment the computers were turned on. Essentially everybody ended up surfing facebook or youtube or something, not doing anything the teacher told them to.
That *is* skewing predictions based on gender and age.
If a computer program deduces from the fact that you are male that you will live a shorter time, and this makes women receiving lower payments due to them being more likely to live longer.
As this discriminated against women, this practice was swiftly forbidden by the EU. It probably wouldn't have been forbidden if it discriminated against men, but that's another issue. It was actual gender based discrimination.
If you let a computer program take factors like skin color or religion into account, that computer program will arrive at similar conclusions that humans arrived:
* blacks do more crimes per thousand people than white people * highly educated people do less crimes than less educated people * More muslims commit terrorist attacks than non-muslims
This doesn't mean that black people are ape-like, or that less educated people are automatically criminals. It usually just is a correlation, which doesn't imply causation. If you took a black person, and remove them from all the racist and discriminatory influences, AND the lower social status (that has been caused by lots of discrimination before), then won't end up with a higher crime likeliness than if you took a "normal" white person. Its probably even more caused by the social status than discrimination.
As for muslims, its simply caused because there is no powerful christian group that radicalizes christians to commit terror attacks. If you take the radicals out, the average muslim is as peace-loving as the average christian or jew.
Denying the existence of these correlations to protect from discrimination is wrong. This is just fuel for people who claim that the existence is denied because people want to "cover up" something, or because people are too dumb, usual criticism by people like trump. It is also wrong though to do actual discrimination, like israel does it, or trump proposes.
Yeah. In fact, SUVs are well known to cause lots of damage in SUV - non SUV crashes to the normal vehicle, while causing minor damage to the SUV. The passengers of the normal vehicle are much more likely to die than the SUV passengers. So people already do the choice now.
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So it's a fabrication that "traditional Chinese medicine" uses a lot of weird shit to make impossible claims?
Its a global issue. In the USA, you have people who think the earth was created six thousand years ago, and evolution is wrong. Would you want them to make contact?
Is it completely untrue that many Chinese still eat animals people in the West might consider pets?
Yes, just as many westerners still eat animals that people in India might consider to be sacred cows. Also, we poison animals that people in India think to be holy as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Its just a cultural thing.
In fact, all the science fiction movies/books have some US agency dissecting the aliens. Its not the chinese who dissect (or eat) them, its the some branch of the US Government.
Living in a western country, I would obviously prefer that the USA made first contact rather than china, but that still doesn't mean that china will do a horrible job at it, or would first eat the aliens or something.
Its the alien defense system. They have detected the intruder.
Also, its not a self driving car if its only an assistance system. I mean, the term "self-driving" should only be used for fully autonomous vehicles, otherwise every automobile is "self driving", because it needs no horses.
lets all celebrate! Next year on july 4th we will be invaded by them! (by a larger force obviously).
u so awsom!
They'll be valued at over $100k
These robots are a box with some wheels plus an antenna and some batteries. If they cost $10k in mass production, that's already alot.
66% of all mobile devices use the Linux kernel: https://www.netmarketshare.com...
Yes, Android is not GNU/Linux, but ChromeOS (which counts as "Linux" on the desktop as well), isn't really GNU/Linux either. Yes, it contains more GNU/Linux components than Android, but its too different from a real GNU/Linux OS to count one, especially because of its DRM and limited functionality to "HTML apps only".
I think its easier to let those indians study, and then develop self driving cars.
Yeah, no cars at all, better use horses. They aren't so stupid to run into obstacles with full speed.
From reading TFA, I conclude that you still need unlocked access to the phone? so if somebody gets hold of your turned off phone, they can't use it.
what do you think about Node, Ruby, Python, etc.
I am NOT old, in fact I am still quite young, but I still don't like them. They are all interpreted languages, with almost no type system (everything dynamic). In Javascript you can't even distinguish between integers and floats.
I don't suggest to go down the java path, but at least use something with a compiler that actually helps you find bugs. All the productivity you "gain" thanks to no static typing you already lose again due to having to write unit tests for even the smallest piece of code.
And what when the device simply refuses to function if there is no internet access? This is already the case for some "smart" meters that report the usage data in realtime.
This only works as long as not everybody is doing it. The moment that happens, the manufacturers will make the device broken unless you connect it to the internet all the time. The device will open one connection, only one: to the manufacturer. It'll be TLS encrypted and will use public key pinning. All the traffic the device will cause will go through that connection.
No firewall will help against that.
I don't know. If you "break" into a walled garden, as in try to create compatible software?
http://boingboing.net/2014/02/...
I said nearly the exact same thing as a solution for keeping the IPV4 address space from running out, as most of the space is currently being hoarded by large organizations that don't need full Class A blocks:
What about ... using ipv6 instead?
Yeah, they are buying these for all eternity. But I tell you what: instead of recurring lower income, politicians like it better to have bigger sums of money on the table they can decide about.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev:sdb
That just fills your / partition with a file called dev:sdb and causes nothing good.
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdb
That is incredibly slow, as output is slowed down to better get the random pool filled.
Just tell them your slashdot ID then. Mine is 3654617.
IDK, the crew of ships these days doesn't have that much capabilities to fend off pirates anyway. So I doubt much will change, except that pirates won't be able to kidnap humans, only non-living stuff.
No, but close. I graduated this decade. I don't really know how I came to this site and not ended up with reddit or something :).
No, I'm a true millenial. I mean, who has Facebook and youtube while they still went to school, only millenials (and later generations) have that. Our teachers were nothing close to millenials though. They didn't know how to handle computers. Nor did they know how to appease a class. In fact some pupils even openly demanded from the teacher to open internet access (he had an admin console at the teacher computer which allowed this), and some teachers even did.
The younger teachers who did know how to handle computers didn't really know how to teach stuff, after all they were super young. Also most of them only knew how to log in to facebook and stuff.
What's that got to do with the likelihood of wrecking a car?
The EU ruling was about life insurances: http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...
The example I brought up has nothing to do with car insurances, right, although here there is lots of age based discrimination you can do for car insurances.
The young people are likely to do accidents due to missing experience and lots of self esteem. The elderly drivers might cause accidents because they are senile or have limited senses (eyesight, etc).
Are schools becoming time waste institutions? why send your kids to school anyway, if they just play some video games. They can do that at home as well, can't they?
Or is it that teachers have to deal with children whose attention spans have been deformed by their smartphone use?
I just know that back then when I was in school, the lessons suddenly became hugely unproductive the moment the computers were turned on. Essentially everybody ended up surfing facebook or youtube or something, not doing anything the teacher told them to.
like how insurance premiums work.
That *is* skewing predictions based on gender and age.
If a computer program deduces from the fact that you are male that you will live a shorter time, and this makes women receiving lower payments due to them being more likely to live longer.
As this discriminated against women, this practice was swiftly forbidden by the EU. It probably wouldn't have been forbidden if it discriminated against men, but that's another issue. It was actual gender based discrimination.
If you let a computer program take factors like skin color or religion into account, that computer program will arrive at similar conclusions that humans arrived:
* blacks do more crimes per thousand people than white people
* highly educated people do less crimes than less educated people
* More muslims commit terrorist attacks than non-muslims
This doesn't mean that black people are ape-like, or that less educated people are automatically criminals. It usually just is a correlation, which doesn't imply causation. If you took a black person, and remove them from all the racist and discriminatory influences, AND the lower social status (that has been caused by lots of discrimination before), then won't end up with a higher crime likeliness than if you took a "normal" white person. Its probably even more caused by the social status than discrimination.
As for muslims, its simply caused because there is no powerful christian group that radicalizes christians to commit terror attacks. If you take the radicals out, the average muslim is as peace-loving as the average christian or jew.
Denying the existence of these correlations to protect from discrimination is wrong. This is just fuel for people who claim that the existence is denied because people want to "cover up" something, or because people are too dumb, usual criticism by people like trump. It is also wrong though to do actual discrimination, like israel does it, or trump proposes.
Yeah. In fact, SUVs are well known to cause lots of damage in SUV - non SUV crashes to the normal vehicle, while causing minor damage to the SUV. The passengers of the normal vehicle are much more likely to die than the SUV passengers. So people already do the choice now.