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  1. Re:Who is liable when your tv catches fire on Who's Liable For Decisions AI and Robotics Make? (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    I have a robotic oven, microwave, dishwasher, washing machine and HVAC.. Come to think of it, so did my grandparents.

  2. Re:AI is just software on Who's Liable For Decisions AI and Robotics Make? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if airbus could get away with that. It save them hundreds of millions of dollars.

  3. Re:Easy, the programmer of course. on Who's Liable For Decisions AI and Robotics Make? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    All the robots that I've seen run a procedural program, usually written in am, c, c++ and some proprietary scripting language. All the 'training' is embedded in carefully derived gain factors developed in matlab using pole placement and optimal control theory. Many instances, this is realized in part by hardware (op amps and comparators).

  4. Re:Obvious Answer on Who's Liable For Decisions AI and Robotics Make? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    So you want to sue the engineers? Personally?

  5. Re:Liability on Who's Liable For Decisions AI and Robotics Make? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    What if Eastwing sold hammers with cracks (they do make nice hammers BTW) that lead to heads flying off and smacking another person? You as the framer are benefiting from the hammer (so that you're not pounding it in with your fist). Are you be liable for their defective hammer?

  6. That was my point...with a bit more subtlety.

  7. Re:Easy, the programmer of course. on Who's Liable For Decisions AI and Robotics Make? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Programmers don't decide this, system engineers do.

    Source: I'm a robotics engineer.

  8. Who is liable when your tv catches fire on Who's Liable For Decisions AI and Robotics Make? (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
    and burns your house down due to faulty wiring?

    Robotics have been with us for more than half a century.

  9. Re:So.....in other words... on John Goodenough's Colleagues Are Skeptical of His New Battery Technology (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Physicist start out insane. They do a better job of selectively hiding it then let themselves go as they get older.

  10. Re:Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proo on John Goodenough's Colleagues Are Skeptical of His New Battery Technology (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Slashdot doesn't believe in patents so it would be impossible for anyone to steal his ideas. His ideas belong to everyone.

  11. I have to take the bandaid off the camera on my laptop to protect my cat pictures.

    No thanks

  12. Re:Inflammatory headline on Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't followed the media in over twenty years. Maybe that's why I'm happy

  13. Send everyone into orbit. Preferably Earth orbit.

  14. Re:Opposite effect of that intended on Boston Public Schools Map Switch Aims To Amend 500 Years of Distortion (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide

    It has a lot more to do with tribalism. Here's a list of 400 of them

  15. Science doesn't "prove facts". That is for mathematicians. Scientists collect data to support or invalidate hypotheses.

  16. Re:What is the energy efficiency? on The US Army Finally Gets The World's Largest Laser Weapon System (bizjournals.com) · · Score: 2

    It's 43% efficient. so 159kw (200hp) should be sufficient.

  17. Re:Stretching hard for another robot thead on Bruce Schneier Calls for IoT Legislation, Argues The Internet Is Becoming One Giant Robot (linux.com) · · Score: 1

    It's mating season

  18. Re:Do I have to register my arduino? on Bruce Schneier Calls for IoT Legislation, Argues The Internet Is Becoming One Giant Robot (linux.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course I have servos connected to the arduino (and also to my rpi through an ssc-32). I also have random sensors, depending on what I'm playing with at the time. My ip is public enough to have been crawled by google.

    I figure they make it a requirement to be a registered device to connect to the internet and hack some IP payload space to hold the registration number (I've done this before and is very easy).

  19. Do I have to register my arduino? on Bruce Schneier Calls for IoT Legislation, Argues The Internet Is Becoming One Giant Robot (linux.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be swell.

  20. Re:Not a chance in hell I'd ride in one of those on BMW Says Self-Driving Car To Be Level 5 Capable In Five Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I see no reason why...

    You sound very young and inexperienced in the real world.

  21. The auto company is not paying for the insurance. They are paying an insurance company to underwrite the policy.

  22. Re:Not a chance in hell I'd ride in one of those on BMW Says Self-Driving Car To Be Level 5 Capable In Five Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    full liability

    When death is involved, it goes beyond liability.

  23. Re:Not a chance in hell I'd ride in one of those on BMW Says Self-Driving Car To Be Level 5 Capable In Five Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The idiot driver goes to jail. What happens when the autopilot does it? Not sure how placated a lawyer and jury will be with yeah, sorry, but your kid would have died last week because statistics..

  24. Does extensive training included dozens of hours of training, hundreds of hours of real world experience and all day tests?