Justice Minister Judith Collins said at appointment "I am confident Mr Edwards will be highly credible in the role of the Commissioner and will be able to engage both the public and private sectors."
Well, Ms Collins was certainly right.
There seems to be some spine in NZ politicians and lawyers...
Although the driver definitely deserves criticism for her actions, this ruling is very convenient for Uber.
This means that they can relax significantly when it comes to the safety of the testing vehicles; if an accident happens, the courts says it's the driver's fault. Uber can sit back and blame the driver. Very handy.
The court should take into account the hazards posed to the public; if a company tests out new driving technology on public roads where the sole purpose is to disconnect the driver from the driving task, the hazards arising from the driver actually becoming disconnected should be taken into account. Especially, the automotive safety standard (ISO-26262) explicitly states that 'foreseeable misuse' MUST taken into account in the hazard analysis.
Is 'using the phone in the car while driving' a foreseeable misuse? You bet it is. We have all seen it (and done it). NHTSA has emphasized this in a recent report, saying that this is not only applicable for L3 and L4 AD systems, but even for L2 systems: https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nh...
So, if the hazard analysis identifies this risk, but the company neglects to handle it in such a way that someone gets killed, shouldn't it be held liable? I think so. If the company neglects to perform a proper hazard analysis (i.e. not using established, acknowledged standards and best practice) and therefore misses hazards and therefore have someone killed, shouldn't they be held liable? I think so.
Ergo; I think Uber needs to be held responsible for this.
He was discovered in 1868 by Norman Lockyer, which is 17 years prior to the stated date of this table. It should have made the table.
That probably means that is hard to use the presence of a single element to exactly pin down the date. Germanium could be missing for the same reason Helium is, putting the date uncertainty back to 1879-1888, it would seem.
... as a friend of me told me that it was a great way to keep a professional contact as people changed organizations and therefore changed email.
However, I think I've sent about 5 or so messages through LinkedIn to people I used to work with. That's not a lot.
I do, however, get a ton of connection requests from recruiters world wide. Nothing as ever come out of that.
So... the net value so far is, I think, is negative.
Why am I still in there? Well, partly because I'm too lazy to leave, but also because I'm "afraid to miss out". At some point I will probably realize that I'm not actually missing anything important.
The double-o construct in this short follows a long engineering tradition of shortening "out of" or "outside of" as "oo". For example, in safety engineering, a system element which defines safety requirements on the environment in which it is to be integrated is referred to a "Safety element out of context", or "SEooC". Another example is the short hands for the various redundancy design patterns, like "two out of three", or "three out of five", which are usually referred to "2oo3" and "3oo5".
So a piece of software named "Web outside of browsers" could very well be spelled out "weboob" or "woob" without there being any trace of immature or malign intent.
As usual, this tells us more about the minds and anxiety of the anti-harassment team, than the authors of this package.
It is surveillance, plan and simple, just as he says.
Tim Cook, however, represents the same type of corporation as the ones he critizies. I suspect that he maybe would like to know everything about Apples' customers, too. And the potential Apple customers. And control their behaviour to purchase more Apple products and services. It is hard to distinguish any ernest concern for a surveillance society, from being upset for not having competitive technology in this field.
Data collection has come to be the new level of expectation for businesses. I saw Dragon's Den the other day, where some app developers, however brilliant in marketing and technology, were flamed for not collecting and monetizing on the user data.
It is ironic how the society that led the world in the fight against oppression and for freedom, now leads the world into a world of digital slavery...
One definition of moral: "concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character." Another definition: "holding or manifesting high principles for proper conduct."
I would not put "making money" into the category of "high principles". Usually it is the high principles that give way for "making money". Regarding "goodness or badness of human character"; is amassing capital for the shareholders a sign of a good character of a human being? Is it an example of a humble act, or doing something void of self-interest or agendas? I think not.
On the contrary, someone who exploit other human being's difficult situation for the only purpose of financial gain, is usually viewed as amoral. We have words describing this; e.g. usury. We tells stories about such people, like Ebenezer Scrooge, with the moral of _not_ being moral.
I fully understand that public companies must make profit for their survival (at least that was the logic before the year 2000). It is as important for them as oxygen is for us. However, our - the beings - sole purpose of life is not be breath. We use our resources to create something good for us and the people around us.
Similarly, the shareholders of a company is only one of its stakeholders. A company must strike a balance between all their stakeholders (suppliers, customers, employees, shareholders, partners etc) or they will be out of business. Extorting the end-customer for the benefit of a single stakeholder is not a particularly good balance and it is definitely not a moral balance in any meanings we usually associate with that word.
That sort of behaviour is nothing less than an badly covered greed, and while perfectly logical and legal given the rules and laws, it cannot be considered moral.
Troll?? Oh, come on! I was making a joke about the slashdot editors not being able to distinguish between the notion of 1.5m (1.5 meters) and 1.5M (1.5 millions).
If this was voted down because there was an interpretation where I in a demeaning manner referred to Singapore people as being short, the average slashdot reader has become less humorous, less intelligent and/or more politically correct than I thought possible.
... whether they actually proved that there is metallic nitrogen within the Earth core. TFA says that the pressure and temperatures there are compatible with the existence of metallic nitrogen, but that isn't the same things as proving that there is metallic nitrogen at the core.
It is also unclear how this could revolutionize the "energy sector". Do they imply that metallic hydrogen at 100+ GPa and 3000K would be a practical means for energy distribution? First, metallic hydrogen has only (controversially) been achieved in a lab with in minute quantities and using a diamond anvil, and second, constructing a container capable of the those kinds of pressures and temperatures is quite difficult and highly impractical to handle, just from a pressure point of view.
The weight of a spherical pressure vessel is proportional to its maximum pressure. So, given a container capable of a specific volume and 100 bars, the corresponding 100 GPa vessel with the same volume would be 10 000 times heavier. A scuba tank capable of that would thus weigh around 200 tonnes. Then we have valves, tubes, pressure regulators. I wonder what they would look like...
How come that we in the West, who for half a century fought dictatorships with population surveillance and control, now willingly and without resistance walk into an unprecedented surveillance society?
The reasons cited ("budget cuts, falling officer numbers, rising demand and the terror threat") are not exactly new. Why is public face recognition, fingerprint recording and opening and reading mail acceptable nowadays?
Was the Ted Kazinsky correct in his prediction of the control society, that our modern society requires ultimate control of its citizens to function in an (post-)industrial setting and that our freedoms therefore must be taken away from us?
My father (who only went to school for seven years, and started working at 14, and isn't precisely highly educated) asked me the other day wether water is a pre-requisite for life. I answered as most do; yes, probably. Without some kind of solvent, reactions and material exchange is slow.
That got me thinking of scales... what if "slow" isn't a problem. What if we encounter beings with metabolism rates which are 100 000 slower or faster than ours? Would we be able to recognize it as life? Which other dimensions could scale so that we wouldn't recognize it? DeGrasse talks about intelligence - would we recognize life that is 100 000 times smarter or dumber than us? Could there be life at extreme temperatures? I don't mean 1000 deg C, I'm talking about life inside stars. There is for sure a thermal and entropy flow - could there be fusion plasma solutions to Maxwell that could make basic building blocks for something life-like? If so, could we ever observe it?
At any rate, it may be material for a star trek episode...
In an interview, Theo de Raadt stated that other measures were considered by OpenBSD to fight the threats posed by Spectre, Meltdown and the new line of harmful code. "There will for sure be a trade-off between cutting edge performance and real security", de Raadt said.
One of the poweful options considered - that would permanently repel all current threats but didn't make it into final release, was making the power supply option off by default.
Slashdot Mirror
... from a lawyer working for a politician.
Justice Minister Judith Collins said at appointment "I am confident Mr Edwards will be highly credible in the role of the Commissioner and will be able to engage both the public and private sectors."
Well, Ms Collins was certainly right.
There seems to be some spine in NZ politicians and lawyers...
Although the driver definitely deserves criticism for her actions, this ruling is very convenient for Uber.
This means that they can relax significantly when it comes to the safety of the testing vehicles; if an accident happens, the courts says it's the driver's fault. Uber can sit back and blame the driver. Very handy.
The court should take into account the hazards posed to the public; if a company tests out new driving technology on public roads where the sole purpose is to disconnect the driver from the driving task, the hazards arising from the driver actually becoming disconnected should be taken into account. Especially, the automotive safety standard (ISO-26262) explicitly states that 'foreseeable misuse' MUST taken into account in the hazard analysis.
Is 'using the phone in the car while driving' a foreseeable misuse? You bet it is. We have all seen it (and done it). NHTSA has emphasized this in a recent report, saying that this is not only applicable for L3 and L4 AD systems, but even for L2 systems: https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nh...
So, if the hazard analysis identifies this risk, but the company neglects to handle it in such a way that someone gets killed, shouldn't it be held liable? I think so. If the company neglects to perform a proper hazard analysis (i.e. not using established, acknowledged standards and best practice) and therefore misses hazards and therefore have someone killed, shouldn't they be held liable? I think so.
Ergo; I think Uber needs to be held responsible for this.
...LG and Samsung?
If you ask nicely, Apply may let you in on the secrets of folding screens...
He was discovered in 1868 by Norman Lockyer, which is 17 years prior to the stated date of this table. It should have made the table.
That probably means that is hard to use the presence of a single element to exactly pin down the date. Germanium could be missing for the same reason Helium is, putting the date uncertainty back to 1879-1888, it would seem.
To apply on my car's windshield!
The ice sticks really hard when it is -10C or more.
... as a friend of me told me that it was a great way to keep a professional contact as people changed organizations and therefore changed email.
However, I think I've sent about 5 or so messages through LinkedIn to people I used to work with. That's not a lot.
I do, however, get a ton of connection requests from recruiters world wide. Nothing as ever come out of that.
So... the net value so far is, I think, is negative.
Why am I still in there? Well, partly because I'm too lazy to leave, but also because I'm "afraid to miss out". At some point I will probably realize that I'm not actually missing anything important.
Maybe that point in time is... right now.
... just look at the marketing up front!
Is it in there, promoted as the best thing since sliced bread, then chances are that it actually is a feature.
If it isn't in there, it sure as hell is a bug!
Now, did they promote this thing up front? - "Now, with a revolutionary bent frame!" I would not think so....
The double-o construct in this short follows a long engineering tradition of shortening "out of" or "outside of" as "oo".
For example, in safety engineering, a system element which defines safety requirements on the environment in which it is to be integrated is referred to a "Safety element out of context", or "SEooC". Another example is the short hands for the various redundancy design patterns, like "two out of three", or "three out of five", which are usually referred to "2oo3" and "3oo5".
So a piece of software named "Web outside of browsers" could very well be spelled out "weboob" or "woob" without there being any trace of immature or malign intent.
As usual, this tells us more about the minds and anxiety of the anti-harassment team, than the authors of this package.
It is surveillance, plan and simple, just as he says.
Tim Cook, however, represents the same type of corporation as the ones he critizies. I suspect that he maybe would like to know everything about Apples' customers, too. And the potential Apple customers. And control their behaviour to purchase more Apple products and services. It is hard to distinguish any ernest concern for a surveillance society, from being upset for not having competitive technology in this field.
Data collection has come to be the new level of expectation for businesses. I saw Dragon's Den the other day, where some app developers, however brilliant in marketing and technology, were flamed for not collecting and monetizing on the user data.
It is ironic how the society that led the world in the fight against oppression and for freedom, now leads the world into a world of digital slavery...
... that nature had thought of this. Like, one could have stuff coming out the ground fueled by CO2, and maybe the energy source could be the sun!
Transmogrifying, Revolutional Energy Enties - T.R.E.E.s!
It will be our undoing. This is the first sign of a world wide web!
One definition of moral:
"concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character."
Another definition:
"holding or manifesting high principles for proper conduct."
I would not put "making money" into the category of "high principles". Usually it is the high principles that give way for "making money". Regarding "goodness or badness of human character"; is amassing capital for the shareholders a sign of a good character of a human being? Is it an example of a humble act, or doing something void of self-interest or agendas? I think not.
On the contrary, someone who exploit other human being's difficult situation for the only purpose of financial gain, is usually viewed as amoral. We have words describing this; e.g. usury. We tells stories about such people, like Ebenezer Scrooge, with the moral of _not_ being moral.
I fully understand that public companies must make profit for their survival (at least that was the logic before the year 2000). It is as important for them as oxygen is for us. However, our - the beings - sole purpose of life is not be breath. We use our resources to create something good for us and the people around us.
Similarly, the shareholders of a company is only one of its stakeholders. A company must strike a balance between all their stakeholders (suppliers, customers, employees, shareholders, partners etc) or they will be out of business. Extorting the end-customer for the benefit of a single stakeholder is not a particularly good balance and it is definitely not a moral balance in any meanings we usually associate with that word.
That sort of behaviour is nothing less than an badly covered greed, and while perfectly logical and legal given the rules and laws, it cannot be considered moral.
Troll??
Oh, come on! I was making a joke about the slashdot editors not being able to distinguish between the notion of 1.5m (1.5 meters) and 1.5M (1.5 millions).
If this was voted down because there was an interpretation where I in a demeaning manner referred to Singapore people as being short, the average slashdot reader has become less humorous, less intelligent and/or more politically correct than I thought possible.
Wow.
The title said stealing from "1.5m people", not "1.5M people". So, 1.5m people are relatively short.
...from relatively short people?
... would make an average person economically independent.
However, I doubt that he'd notice it at all. Maybe not even making 100 people rich.
What is so special about this specific type of power generating infrastructure?
Isn't a water or nuclear power plants just as expensive to retire?
Who sits on those billions?
... whether they actually proved that there is metallic nitrogen within the Earth core. TFA says that the pressure and temperatures there are compatible with the existence of metallic nitrogen, but that isn't the same things as proving that there is metallic nitrogen at the core.
It is also unclear how this could revolutionize the "energy sector". Do they imply that metallic hydrogen at 100+ GPa and 3000K would be a practical means for energy distribution? First, metallic hydrogen has only (controversially) been achieved in a lab with in minute quantities and using a diamond anvil, and second, constructing a container capable of the those kinds of pressures and temperatures is quite difficult and highly impractical to handle, just from a pressure point of view.
The weight of a spherical pressure vessel is proportional to its maximum pressure. So, given a container capable of a specific volume and 100 bars, the corresponding 100 GPa vessel with the same volume would be 10 000 times heavier. A scuba tank capable of that would thus weigh around 200 tonnes.
Then we have valves, tubes, pressure regulators. I wonder what they would look like...
"experimentally demonstrated a high-power density of 12 microwatts per 1cm2"
Somebody need to work on their adjectives. Solar panels are in the order of 10-20 mW/cm, i.e. 1000x more.
If 12 uW/cm qualifies as "high-power density", then solar panels must be "super-power density".
Maybe the researchers are from Krypton.
... one again.
How come that we in the West, who for half a century fought dictatorships with population surveillance and control, now willingly and without resistance walk into an unprecedented surveillance society?
The reasons cited ("budget cuts, falling officer numbers, rising demand and the terror threat") are not exactly new. Why is public face recognition, fingerprint recording and opening and reading mail acceptable nowadays?
Was the Ted Kazinsky correct in his prediction of the control society, that our modern society requires ultimate control of its citizens to function in an (post-)industrial setting and that our freedoms therefore must be taken away from us?
... does not wash their hands on this subject: telling us how to maintain our hygiene.
Well, they should lead by good example; please wash your hands!
Oh, wait...
My father (who only went to school for seven years, and started working at 14, and isn't precisely highly educated) asked me the other day wether water is a pre-requisite for life. I answered as most do; yes, probably. Without some kind of solvent, reactions and material exchange is slow.
That got me thinking of scales... what if "slow" isn't a problem. What if we encounter beings with metabolism rates which are 100 000 slower or faster than ours? Would we be able to recognize it as life? Which other dimensions could scale so that we wouldn't recognize it? DeGrasse talks about intelligence - would we recognize life that is 100 000 times smarter or dumber than us? Could there be life at extreme temperatures? I don't mean 1000 deg C, I'm talking about life inside stars. There is for sure a thermal and entropy flow - could there be fusion plasma solutions to Maxwell that could make basic building blocks for something life-like? If so, could we ever observe it?
At any rate, it may be material for a star trek episode...
In an interview, Theo de Raadt stated that other measures were considered by OpenBSD to fight the threats posed by Spectre, Meltdown and the new line of harmful code. "There will for sure be a trade-off between cutting edge performance and real security", de Raadt said.
One of the poweful options considered - that would permanently repel all current threats but didn't make it into final release, was making the power supply option off by default.
It seems mr. Trump runs out of treatis to back out of here on earth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Black AND white??
My computer prior to my first one only had black!
Even worse, it only had zeros - the ones weren't invented yet!
I'll admit that it was a bit of a challenge to use it.