Too bad this is still at 0 and not modded to -1. AmicusNYCL hasn't built such a thing. He's pointing out that it would be incredibly hard. In the past Ad Blocking was relatively simple as the ads were served from ad networks rather than from the actual site you are visiting. So there were pretty simple algorithms to block them. Facebook is different because they can run their own in-house ad network and present the ads the same way as their native content. The only way to block this would be a cat-and-mouse game of trying to figure out which page elements are the advertisements on any given day.
Disabling secure boot isn't really something that one would want to do, though. What we want is secure boot but the ability to install our own trust chain. Of course that opens up a risk that a malicious entity could install their own trust chain and break secure boot, but it's still the right answer. User should have the ability to verify the trust chain's root certificate at startup.
This got modded into oblivion, but Google does not install bloatware on Nexus-branded devices. iOS devices can definitely be bought with only the Apple software. Now some of it feels like bloatware but that's not the discussion here. And apple seems to be getting better in that area too, not forcing their software on you. The problem is that non-carrier devices are expensive and people would rather get the bloatware subsidy. But even this is a far cry from things that install surreptitiously after purchase.
Yes, this must be a European technique. I've only been to a few lounges (I usually fly Southwest and they don't have such a thing), but always there has been a person who checked me in. The needed ID and boarding pass and I assume that they somehow matched that to the flight.
I use Google Voice. Unfortunately sometimes I forget to use the Google Voice dialer so people end up with my mobile # on their inbound calling list and call it back. When traveling international, I do everything I can to minimize the cost but occasionally I get an email from our IT team that the bill was over $500.
Except I've already explained that not only do I know how autopilot works on aircraft but also how Tesla's does. I've even backed that up with statements about how it works. I don't misunderstand the term at all. I've stated that multiple times. I believe that this is the crux of your argument. No matter how many times you state that I don't understand something, that won't make it true.
>> The comparison is because there will always be someone out there who can't even figure out the steering wheel, we can't ban all progress because of that one person.
No we can't ban all progress, but when talking about public highways, we should slow it *way* down. Remember when somebody misunderstands this stuff, they don't just hurt themselves but others. If it were up to me, none of these variations of cruise control would be permissible in street-legal vehicles without some sort of safety study and regulatory approval.
It's interesting, though, that whenever part of your argument is disproven you turn to another defense of this and then resort to ad hominem attacks. I take that to mean that there's no point of discussing with your not going to let any facts get in the way of your foregone conclusions. I wish you well with that. Although I imagine that, long-term, this type of thinking will actually do more to impede progress than anything else covered so far.
Buying a local SIM card is actually a PITA because people can't reach you at your normal mobile number. You have to inform everybody. Many business people tolerate large roaming bills in order to stay connected to customers. This is news because normally when traveling you can avoid data roaming charges by using WiFi. Most of us turn off cellular data when traveling international. I actually turn my phone off and leave it off when traveling internationally. With exciting new applications like Pokemon Go, this may no longer be a viable strategy.
No but the prices are stated in advance and you aren't paying the third-party carrier directly. They are willing to sell you the data at reasonable rates. As has already been pointed out, just buy a SIM card for the dominant carrier wherever you are traveling.
Instead, he used his SIM card under agreement with his Japanese carrier where he had agreed to pay this much for data roaming. Probably because he didn't care about the price of this part of the service as he had no intention of actually using it.
We know that those are high-bandwidth applications and we use Wi-Fi for them when traveling. Pokemon Go is not a high-bandwidth application. I play several hours a day and have used only 300 MB since the game came out. The fact that 300MB costs $5000 is newsworthy. And you can't play Pokemon Go via WiFi (well you can but only if you play in a lazy way where you just sit next to the Pokestop at the bar)
>> So far there's no indication that any more Tesla Autopilot drivers think their car can do more than it can than drivers of any other car on the road.
No, this is the fundamental problem here. You don't determine right and wrong by comparing to others. You figure out what is right and then you try to close the gap. What other manufacturers do or don't do isn't relevant to what Tesla *should* do. This is just a long-winded form of the "everybody is doing it" argument that went out the window in grade school. If Tesla's name is a problem, they should fix it. If other manufacturers names are problem, they should fix it.
I've already provided links that document the confusion around what autopilot does and it takes a cursory Google search ( https://www.google.com/search?... ) to see that there is plenty of confusion.
You seem to think that there is some soft of massive conspiracy theory against Tesla to hold them to a higher standard than other auto manufacturers. That may or may not be true, but it in no way invalidates an argument that everybody should be held to a high standard.
I'm anything but anti-Tesla. I'm just not a fanboy. I fully understand how autopilot works in an airplane having worked on aviation software. I'm fully aware of how the Tesla autopilot system works. The challenge here is that you are applying the wrong standard. Many people misunderstand what autopilot does. Tesla didn't choose the name because it sounded boring and simple. They picked it because it sounded fancy. The same reason all of the other auto manufacturers have fancy-sounding names. But picking a fancy-sounding name has drawbacks. Primarily that people will think that they are getting something more than they are. They associate the word auto-pilot with airplanes which are cool and high-tech and have cache. So by using this term, Tesla is creating a brand association with aviation. They would be foolish if they didn't do marketing. I have a box of Stella Artois Cidre downstairs that is made with "hand picked" apples. Why because they want me to associate the beverage with idyllic lifestyles. Of course when you think about it, it probably doesn't make a difference to the cider how the apples god picked. The fermenting yeast don't care. If you think the term auto-pilot was picked for non-marketing reasons, there really isn't a discussion to have. The problem with things like cars is that marketing/branding and safety sometimes come into conflict like they are here. There's an argument to allow the marketing name. But none of yours hold water.
The store did have to pay. For each ticket that is printed, the store gets a bill. The local printers are dumb terminals. They just send a request to a central server, get a response, and print out a ticket. Immediately after a drawing, the lottery knows whether there is a winner and where the ticket was purchased. They invoice the stores for all of the tickets sold. I imagine she got away with this because there is some delay from the time she stole the tickets until the store got the bill and knew something was amiss.
I've only ever seen those in California. In every other state where I've been (certainly not all of them), there is a lotto printing machine. The clerk prints the request number of tickets and rings up the sale. Once the ticket is printed, they owe the lottery the money for the purchase. The clerks manufacture (print) the tickets, sell them, and collect the money. What she did here was manufacture and steal tickets. She didn't do anything to alter the behavior of the ticket printing machine nor of the cash register.
Whether the name had causal affect here or not still doesn't make it a good choice of a name. What I really suspect is going on here is that you are a big Tesla fan and you like the autopilot name as sort of a marketing coup for them. And if I were in marketing, I'd probably be patting myself on the back for my creativity in calling this autopilot. But no matter how many different ways you try to spin this, naming something using a term that is widely misunderstood does not clearly describe what it is. IMHO all of the names being used are bad just that Tesla's is the worst because it's the most confusing. I'm not going to go and tell any auto manufacturers anything. Well unless they pay me as a consultant that is. It's thinking like this that makes automatically assigned / preset values in computer software get names like "default" even though that was a pre-existing term in law and finance that referred to something completely different and caused confusion. If we had just called them presets we would have been much better off.
I'm not giving every other manufacturer a pass. I'm saying they all should call their product "cruise control." And cruise control *is* something on the drivers test. The tests include questions on how to use it. So in short, a licensed driver knows exactly what it is and how to use it safely if it is called "cruise control" and may have no knowledge whatsoever if it's called anything else. Therefore, everybody should call it cruise control and that includes your beloved Tesla.
https://books.google.com/books...
Yes, but most of us don't have that many opportunities to do something that results in substantial economic benefit. If your specialty is swimming, you will either get your benefit swimming or go bust. If your expertise is computer programming, you will either do well in that field or go bust. It's very hard to switch careers especially when you've already put so much into one field. I think the gist of your post is that being a low-level IT administrator is a more noble career than being a professional athlete. I'm not going to jump into that fray. The point is that people may only have once chance at significantly improving their lives, and this may be it. It's not an easy decision.
And they would still get all of those things if the feature was called "cruise control." There is zero advantage (outside of marketing) of calling cruise control "autopilot." And the marketing advantage isn't because people think it's a cool name, it's because some people will think that it is something other than cruise control, which it isn't.
http://www.askthepilot.com/que...
"It amazes me how often this contention turns up—in magazines, on television, in the science section of the papers. Perhaps people are so gullible because they simply don’t know any better."
Again whether you have met those people or not isn't the issue here. Maybe you just know smarter people. Or maybe you just never asked, I don't know. If there start being questions on the automobile driver's license test about how the autopilot in airplanes work, I will come around to your way of thinking.
Until then, an aviation term shouldn't be used.
If you think Infiniti's name isn't very good, than I guess "cruise control" is the right name. But again "autopilot" only implies something if you are familiar with aircraft. It may be that the average/. user has at least passing familiarity with aircraft systems, but the average car driver does not and you can't presume that knowledge when designing automotive safety systems.
Four wrongs don't make a right. If we start hearing about accidents when the drivers are using those other systems, those manufacturers should also change the name. Infiniti's "Intelligent Cruse Control" seems like a good choice of terms.
An easier way to disprove this marketing claim is that Uber and Lyft won't actually accept riders who are too drunk to drive. Most Uber drivers I've talked to stop working around the time the bars let out because they don't want the drunks. If they do get a drunk passenger, they give that passenger a low rating and the person gets banned from the app. Given that they actively avoid taking people who've been drinking, there's no point of further examining the claim that they reduce drunk driving!
Knowing about how airplane or boat auto-pilot works is not a requirement for an automobile operating license, so that's not really relevant. What is relevant is automotive terminology. Many non-Tesla cars already have a feature that is equivalent to the Tesla "auto pilot." It's called adaptive cruise control on every other vehicle. The only reason not to use a particular well-known term is because you want to imply that what you are offering is something different. The problem here is that "auto-pilot" isn't different than other adaptive cruise control systems. Therefore, a different word shouldn't be used since that just creates confusion.
If you are referring to the 2nd amendment to the US constitution, gun ownership rights are expanding in the US, not contracting. Twenty years ago, the general consensus was that the 2nd amendment did not constitute an individual right to own firearms, but rather the right of individual states to maintain a national guard. Now it has expanded to the right to individual weapon ownership and we're exploring the boundaries of that protection. If other freedoms expand the way the 2nd amendment has, the US will be a libertarian utopia.
I don't think so. If you look at the truly autonomous cars they have significantly more sensor input than the Tesla. I believe it relies only on radar and maybe a camera. Autonomous vehicles have expensive Lidar and other additional sensors. It's not clear that with the current level of equipment in Tesla vehicles that you could actually make this work well. Better to change the name from auto-pilot to cruise control and be done with it.
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Too bad this is still at 0 and not modded to -1. AmicusNYCL hasn't built such a thing. He's pointing out that it would be incredibly hard. In the past Ad Blocking was relatively simple as the ads were served from ad networks rather than from the actual site you are visiting. So there were pretty simple algorithms to block them. Facebook is different because they can run their own in-house ad network and present the ads the same way as their native content. The only way to block this would be a cat-and-mouse game of trying to figure out which page elements are the advertisements on any given day.
Disabling secure boot isn't really something that one would want to do, though. What we want is secure boot but the ability to install our own trust chain. Of course that opens up a risk that a malicious entity could install their own trust chain and break secure boot, but it's still the right answer. User should have the ability to verify the trust chain's root certificate at startup.
This got modded into oblivion, but Google does not install bloatware on Nexus-branded devices. iOS devices can definitely be bought with only the Apple software. Now some of it feels like bloatware but that's not the discussion here. And apple seems to be getting better in that area too, not forcing their software on you. The problem is that non-carrier devices are expensive and people would rather get the bloatware subsidy. But even this is a far cry from things that install surreptitiously after purchase.
Yes, this must be a European technique. I've only been to a few lounges (I usually fly Southwest and they don't have such a thing), but always there has been a person who checked me in. The needed ID and boarding pass and I assume that they somehow matched that to the flight.
I use Google Voice. Unfortunately sometimes I forget to use the Google Voice dialer so people end up with my mobile # on their inbound calling list and call it back. When traveling international, I do everything I can to minimize the cost but occasionally I get an email from our IT team that the bill was over $500.
Your wife could unlock it with a passcode. But please don't have her hold it in front of your eye while you are driving!
Except I've already explained that not only do I know how autopilot works on aircraft but also how Tesla's does. I've even backed that up with statements about how it works. I don't misunderstand the term at all. I've stated that multiple times. I believe that this is the crux of your argument. No matter how many times you state that I don't understand something, that won't make it true. >> The comparison is because there will always be someone out there who can't even figure out the steering wheel, we can't ban all progress because of that one person. No we can't ban all progress, but when talking about public highways, we should slow it *way* down. Remember when somebody misunderstands this stuff, they don't just hurt themselves but others. If it were up to me, none of these variations of cruise control would be permissible in street-legal vehicles without some sort of safety study and regulatory approval. It's interesting, though, that whenever part of your argument is disproven you turn to another defense of this and then resort to ad hominem attacks. I take that to mean that there's no point of discussing with your not going to let any facts get in the way of your foregone conclusions. I wish you well with that. Although I imagine that, long-term, this type of thinking will actually do more to impede progress than anything else covered so far.
Buying a local SIM card is actually a PITA because people can't reach you at your normal mobile number. You have to inform everybody. Many business people tolerate large roaming bills in order to stay connected to customers. This is news because normally when traveling you can avoid data roaming charges by using WiFi. Most of us turn off cellular data when traveling international. I actually turn my phone off and leave it off when traveling internationally. With exciting new applications like Pokemon Go, this may no longer be a viable strategy.
No but the prices are stated in advance and you aren't paying the third-party carrier directly. They are willing to sell you the data at reasonable rates. As has already been pointed out, just buy a SIM card for the dominant carrier wherever you are traveling. Instead, he used his SIM card under agreement with his Japanese carrier where he had agreed to pay this much for data roaming. Probably because he didn't care about the price of this part of the service as he had no intention of actually using it.
We know that those are high-bandwidth applications and we use Wi-Fi for them when traveling. Pokemon Go is not a high-bandwidth application. I play several hours a day and have used only 300 MB since the game came out. The fact that 300MB costs $5000 is newsworthy. And you can't play Pokemon Go via WiFi (well you can but only if you play in a lazy way where you just sit next to the Pokestop at the bar)
>> So far there's no indication that any more Tesla Autopilot drivers think their car can do more than it can than drivers of any other car on the road. No, this is the fundamental problem here. You don't determine right and wrong by comparing to others. You figure out what is right and then you try to close the gap. What other manufacturers do or don't do isn't relevant to what Tesla *should* do. This is just a long-winded form of the "everybody is doing it" argument that went out the window in grade school. If Tesla's name is a problem, they should fix it. If other manufacturers names are problem, they should fix it. I've already provided links that document the confusion around what autopilot does and it takes a cursory Google search ( https://www.google.com/search?... ) to see that there is plenty of confusion. You seem to think that there is some soft of massive conspiracy theory against Tesla to hold them to a higher standard than other auto manufacturers. That may or may not be true, but it in no way invalidates an argument that everybody should be held to a high standard.
I'm anything but anti-Tesla. I'm just not a fanboy. I fully understand how autopilot works in an airplane having worked on aviation software. I'm fully aware of how the Tesla autopilot system works. The challenge here is that you are applying the wrong standard. Many people misunderstand what autopilot does. Tesla didn't choose the name because it sounded boring and simple. They picked it because it sounded fancy. The same reason all of the other auto manufacturers have fancy-sounding names. But picking a fancy-sounding name has drawbacks. Primarily that people will think that they are getting something more than they are. They associate the word auto-pilot with airplanes which are cool and high-tech and have cache. So by using this term, Tesla is creating a brand association with aviation. They would be foolish if they didn't do marketing. I have a box of Stella Artois Cidre downstairs that is made with "hand picked" apples. Why because they want me to associate the beverage with idyllic lifestyles. Of course when you think about it, it probably doesn't make a difference to the cider how the apples god picked. The fermenting yeast don't care. If you think the term auto-pilot was picked for non-marketing reasons, there really isn't a discussion to have. The problem with things like cars is that marketing/branding and safety sometimes come into conflict like they are here. There's an argument to allow the marketing name. But none of yours hold water.
The store did have to pay. For each ticket that is printed, the store gets a bill. The local printers are dumb terminals. They just send a request to a central server, get a response, and print out a ticket. Immediately after a drawing, the lottery knows whether there is a winner and where the ticket was purchased. They invoice the stores for all of the tickets sold. I imagine she got away with this because there is some delay from the time she stole the tickets until the store got the bill and knew something was amiss.
I've only ever seen those in California. In every other state where I've been (certainly not all of them), there is a lotto printing machine. The clerk prints the request number of tickets and rings up the sale. Once the ticket is printed, they owe the lottery the money for the purchase. The clerks manufacture (print) the tickets, sell them, and collect the money. What she did here was manufacture and steal tickets. She didn't do anything to alter the behavior of the ticket printing machine nor of the cash register.
Whether the name had causal affect here or not still doesn't make it a good choice of a name. What I really suspect is going on here is that you are a big Tesla fan and you like the autopilot name as sort of a marketing coup for them. And if I were in marketing, I'd probably be patting myself on the back for my creativity in calling this autopilot. But no matter how many different ways you try to spin this, naming something using a term that is widely misunderstood does not clearly describe what it is. IMHO all of the names being used are bad just that Tesla's is the worst because it's the most confusing. I'm not going to go and tell any auto manufacturers anything. Well unless they pay me as a consultant that is. It's thinking like this that makes automatically assigned / preset values in computer software get names like "default" even though that was a pre-existing term in law and finance that referred to something completely different and caused confusion. If we had just called them presets we would have been much better off.
I'm not giving every other manufacturer a pass. I'm saying they all should call their product "cruise control." And cruise control *is* something on the drivers test. The tests include questions on how to use it. So in short, a licensed driver knows exactly what it is and how to use it safely if it is called "cruise control" and may have no knowledge whatsoever if it's called anything else. Therefore, everybody should call it cruise control and that includes your beloved Tesla. https://books.google.com/books...
Yes, but most of us don't have that many opportunities to do something that results in substantial economic benefit. If your specialty is swimming, you will either get your benefit swimming or go bust. If your expertise is computer programming, you will either do well in that field or go bust. It's very hard to switch careers especially when you've already put so much into one field. I think the gist of your post is that being a low-level IT administrator is a more noble career than being a professional athlete. I'm not going to jump into that fray. The point is that people may only have once chance at significantly improving their lives, and this may be it. It's not an easy decision.
And they would still get all of those things if the feature was called "cruise control." There is zero advantage (outside of marketing) of calling cruise control "autopilot." And the marketing advantage isn't because people think it's a cool name, it's because some people will think that it is something other than cruise control, which it isn't.
http://www.askthepilot.com/que... "It amazes me how often this contention turns up—in magazines, on television, in the science section of the papers. Perhaps people are so gullible because they simply don’t know any better." Again whether you have met those people or not isn't the issue here. Maybe you just know smarter people. Or maybe you just never asked, I don't know. If there start being questions on the automobile driver's license test about how the autopilot in airplanes work, I will come around to your way of thinking. Until then, an aviation term shouldn't be used.
If you think Infiniti's name isn't very good, than I guess "cruise control" is the right name. But again "autopilot" only implies something if you are familiar with aircraft. It may be that the average /. user has at least passing familiarity with aircraft systems, but the average car driver does not and you can't presume that knowledge when designing automotive safety systems.
Four wrongs don't make a right. If we start hearing about accidents when the drivers are using those other systems, those manufacturers should also change the name. Infiniti's "Intelligent Cruse Control" seems like a good choice of terms.
An easier way to disprove this marketing claim is that Uber and Lyft won't actually accept riders who are too drunk to drive. Most Uber drivers I've talked to stop working around the time the bars let out because they don't want the drunks. If they do get a drunk passenger, they give that passenger a low rating and the person gets banned from the app. Given that they actively avoid taking people who've been drinking, there's no point of further examining the claim that they reduce drunk driving!
Knowing about how airplane or boat auto-pilot works is not a requirement for an automobile operating license, so that's not really relevant. What is relevant is automotive terminology. Many non-Tesla cars already have a feature that is equivalent to the Tesla "auto pilot." It's called adaptive cruise control on every other vehicle. The only reason not to use a particular well-known term is because you want to imply that what you are offering is something different. The problem here is that "auto-pilot" isn't different than other adaptive cruise control systems. Therefore, a different word shouldn't be used since that just creates confusion.
If you are referring to the 2nd amendment to the US constitution, gun ownership rights are expanding in the US, not contracting. Twenty years ago, the general consensus was that the 2nd amendment did not constitute an individual right to own firearms, but rather the right of individual states to maintain a national guard. Now it has expanded to the right to individual weapon ownership and we're exploring the boundaries of that protection. If other freedoms expand the way the 2nd amendment has, the US will be a libertarian utopia.
I don't think so. If you look at the truly autonomous cars they have significantly more sensor input than the Tesla. I believe it relies only on radar and maybe a camera. Autonomous vehicles have expensive Lidar and other additional sensors. It's not clear that with the current level of equipment in Tesla vehicles that you could actually make this work well. Better to change the name from auto-pilot to cruise control and be done with it.