The problem with the hype is that high early expectations of perfection will drive fear which may lead to regulations that will ultimately cause more deaths. Give it ten years and this stuff will probably outperform human drivers, but watch one kid chase a ball out in front of a robot car and e.g. Utah will ban the technology.
I foolishly brought a 640x480 camera as my only camera on my honeymoon in 1998. The slow shutter was as bad as the resolution. Now my 2015 cell phone has as good a sensor as the best pro camera from 2005 and a pro camera today is better than the human eye. Given the rate of technology growth, I expect by 2030 we won't be worrying about exposure or focus when we take the pictures in the field. Lens size doesn't get a pass from physics though.
Yes, GP is an ignorant fool. Slash moderation has ultimately served to reward posters who speak confidently about anything regardless of their knowledge. With such a diverse range of topics, the odds of getting a knowledgeable moderator on any given topic are very slim. The/. model works for general knowledge posts and random crapposts, but not for anything deep and/or technical.
Why amazing? If you'll read the article you'll see the proto-Bolshevik workers fired first repeatedly, tried to commit mass murder, and the Pinkerton agents' response was metered and in self defense.
Their mission was in defense of the factory owner's rights. This notion that workers get to dictate the terms of an employment contract is responsible for this and so many other instances of senseless violence. Capitalists will only invest in productive capital when they stand a chance of running a profitable business from it. Workers are free to quit and take better jobs if the employer sucks but the employer creates the job and gets to define it. The Homestead strikers were willing to use violence to violate the rights of the factory owners instead of engaging in peaceful market choices.
The Pinkerton Agency has nothing to be ashamed of.
When is this country going to stop passing out opiate pills like candy and threating in to kill heroin dealers while young people die in droves?
Heroin dealers aren't lacing heroin with fentanyl and carfentanyl - they want repeat customers.
The fentanyl is made in China, shipped to Mexico, and cut there with heroin made in Afghanistan (Taliban operations supported by the US Army). The CIA imports the heroin, and they get exactly the desired effect - dumbasses like you calling for more power for the government to engage in extrajudicial killings domestically.
End the drug war, sell clean heroin at Walmart, and divert all the money into treatment centers, and you'll clean up both the crime and the body count. This experiment has been run and it works everywhere it's tried. At this point people who support the drug war are either making money on it, useful idiots, or those who just enjoy seeing people die.
nope, waste of money. the invasions of our privacy and bypassing warrants started under Bush and accelerated by Obama happened anyway.
EFF has somewhat slowed the march of electronic tyranny.
Given that most Americans won't get off their asses until their doors are being literally kicked in, though, one wonders if it's actually better to slow the descent or to just get the damn thing overwith, after hitting bottom.
Yup, same here. Not as much as you but 5-10K for a new building I was working on and they wouldn't return $70 worth of cables. I can get decent service online, so now I do.
Must've been ten years ago because my daughter was four, a couple weeks after Christmas they wouldn't let her exchange a duplicate toy with a copy of the receipt because her grandmother (300 miles away) was the purchaser.
Everybody involved was pissed or upset except for the smarmy clerk who was delighted to disappoint by enforcing corporate policy. I hope she got a promotion and stayed with the company.
Since then she's had an Amazon wishlist and sometimes gets Walmart gift cards. Because both of them (especially Amazon) do a petty good job with customer service.
Toys R Us will say that Walmart and Amazon killed them - but in reality they self-destructed.
Theranos was a front to build a DNA database of everybody on the sly. You don't just randomly get Henry Kissinger to come out of retirement to be on your Board because you have some cool lab equipment - Intelligence fingerprints are all over this thing.
It's like when they funded Oracle to start up (look it up if you're dubious), except that venture worked. I believe they really did think that with that kind of money they really could achieve a technical breakthrough and one that would have real benefits for clinicians, patients, and the deep state.
The coverups were almost certainly supposed to be temporary. When the tech fell through, the whole situation went sideways.
Elizabeth had a real chance to make it big, it was a decent risk, and we can see here that she had guarantees of protection.
The only real surprise is that $750M wasn't enough to make the R&D breakthrough to make the project a success. I would have presumed that was enough if I were calling the shots too.
This is nothing but a scam to deprive the families of dying loved ones their inheritance. This dude is going to cheat these people out of their last days and make off with their cash. Way to go libs.
Jesus Christ, even on their death beds you have to treat adults like children and infantilize them by replacing their judgment with your own? News flash: people can do whatever they want with their money and they have the right to self-determination. They can choose to leave their money to their children or spend it all on hookers and blow - it's their choice.
This kind of interference in free choice is the very definition of a "liberal" in today's society.
If that were true, everytime someone on Star Trek stepped through a transporter they would be dead too.
Jesus Christ, Trek people go to agonizing lengths to drive home the point that transporters are analog to avoid this issue precisely, but most people still get it wrong.
I'd think that/. would be the kind of place where those using Star Trek as evidence would have at least read one of the tech manuals.
Anyway, the whole point of the annular confinement beam and the phrase "Energize" is that Trek uses a matter-to-energy conversion system that actually moves atoms from point A to point B - it does not copy-and-delete and Geordi even says that even their computers do not have the capacity to duplicate all of the quantum states in the replicators. Roddenberry was very concerned about his plot device implying the absence of a soul.
By contrast, check out the episode of Outer Limits with the gal who goes to the sentient dinosaur planet from the Earth Moon station, to get a sense of the implications of a digital process. Spoiler alert: grim.
"How it works. Flight and hotel prices change all the time. DoNotPay finds travel confirmations from past bookings in your inbox. When the price drops, the robot lawyer will find a legal loophole to negotiate a cheaper price or rebook you."
Why do I need a laptop with one of these , a bluetooth keyboard/trackpad, and my existing cell phone's CPU? Sure, big battery, but my travel bag is about to get much lighter.
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Thatâ(TM)s why their rockets have the worst relaiability in the history of rocketry.
Show your math.
And state which ULA company you work for. :D
The problem with the hype is that high early expectations of perfection will drive fear which may lead to regulations that will ultimately cause more deaths. Give it ten years and this stuff will probably outperform human drivers, but watch one kid chase a ball out in front of a robot car and e.g. Utah will ban the technology.
Their mutual rating system actually does do just that. Get used to the gig economy - your 19th century factory model is going away.
Yeah, our system only works if people aren't willing to get paid off for fraud. But that's not the ethics most people have.
I foolishly brought a 640x480 camera as my only camera on my honeymoon in 1998. The slow shutter was as bad as the resolution. Now my 2015 cell phone has as good a sensor as the best pro camera from 2005 and a pro camera today is better than the human eye. Given the rate of technology growth, I expect by 2030 we won't be worrying about exposure or focus when we take the pictures in the field. Lens size doesn't get a pass from physics though.
Not OP but I have a useless Verizon Galaxy S4 on the shelf that I'd like to repurpose with LegacyOS. TIA.
Yes, GP is an ignorant fool. Slash moderation has ultimately served to reward posters who speak confidently about anything regardless of their knowledge. With such a diverse range of topics, the odds of getting a knowledgeable moderator on any given topic are very slim. The /. model works for general knowledge posts and random crapposts, but not for anything deep and/or technical.
Why amazing? If you'll read the article you'll see the proto-Bolshevik workers fired first repeatedly, tried to commit mass murder, and the Pinkerton agents' response was metered and in self defense.
Their mission was in defense of the factory owner's rights. This notion that workers get to dictate the terms of an employment contract is responsible for this and so many other instances of senseless violence. Capitalists will only invest in productive capital when they stand a chance of running a profitable business from it. Workers are free to quit and take better jobs if the employer sucks but the employer creates the job and gets to define it. The Homestead strikers were willing to use violence to violate the rights of the factory owners instead of engaging in peaceful market choices.
The Pinkerton Agency has nothing to be ashamed of.
If Google ever gives you a privacy choice, opt out. They're giving you the chance, so don't be a dope and turn it down.
Stop telling people what to do with their networks.
Stop telling people that they can't build competing networks.
Oh, but which crapitalists will get paid undeserved rents if the government permits a free market?
When is this country going to stop passing out opiate pills like candy and threating in to kill heroin dealers while young people die in droves?
Heroin dealers aren't lacing heroin with fentanyl and carfentanyl - they want repeat customers.
The fentanyl is made in China, shipped to Mexico, and cut there with heroin made in Afghanistan (Taliban operations supported by the US Army). The CIA imports the heroin, and they get exactly the desired effect - dumbasses like you calling for more power for the government to engage in extrajudicial killings domestically.
End the drug war, sell clean heroin at Walmart, and divert all the money into treatment centers, and you'll clean up both the crime and the body count. This experiment has been run and it works everywhere it's tried. At this point people who support the drug war are either making money on it, useful idiots, or those who just enjoy seeing people die.
Good Riddance. We don't need people like this in the community.
First the Korean guy who promised to crack down on cryptocurrencies, now the guy who turned in Bradley Manning.
Prediction markets were predicted decades ago but they were waiting for fungible cryptocurrencies to show up. 2018, perhaps?
nope, waste of money. the invasions of our privacy and bypassing warrants started under Bush and accelerated by Obama happened anyway.
EFF has somewhat slowed the march of electronic tyranny.
Given that most Americans won't get off their asses until their doors are being literally kicked in, though, one wonders if it's actually better to slow the descent or to just get the damn thing overwith, after hitting bottom.
How and why are well known. The politicians (Gore/Kerry/O'Leary) shut down the program.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages...
Yup, same here. Not as much as you but 5-10K for a new building I was working on and they wouldn't return $70 worth of cables. I can get decent service online, so now I do.
Must've been ten years ago because my daughter was four, a couple weeks after Christmas they wouldn't let her exchange a duplicate toy with a copy of the receipt because her grandmother (300 miles away) was the purchaser.
Everybody involved was pissed or upset except for the smarmy clerk who was delighted to disappoint by enforcing corporate policy. I hope she got a promotion and stayed with the company.
Since then she's had an Amazon wishlist and sometimes gets Walmart gift cards. Because both of them (especially Amazon) do a petty good job with customer service.
Toys R Us will say that Walmart and Amazon killed them - but in reality they self-destructed.
Theranos was a front to build a DNA database of everybody on the sly. You don't just randomly get Henry Kissinger to come out of retirement to be on your Board because you have some cool lab equipment - Intelligence fingerprints are all over this thing.
It's like when they funded Oracle to start up (look it up if you're dubious), except that venture worked. I believe they really did think that with that kind of money they really could achieve a technical breakthrough and one that would have real benefits for clinicians, patients, and the deep state.
The coverups were almost certainly supposed to be temporary. When the tech fell through, the whole situation went sideways.
Elizabeth had a real chance to make it big, it was a decent risk, and we can see here that she had guarantees of protection.
The only real surprise is that $750M wasn't enough to make the R&D breakthrough to make the project a success. I would have presumed that was enough if I were calling the shots too.
This is nothing but a scam to deprive the families of dying loved ones their inheritance. This dude is going to cheat these people out of their last days and make off with their cash. Way to go libs.
Jesus Christ, even on their death beds you have to treat adults like children and infantilize them by replacing their judgment with your own? News flash: people can do whatever they want with their money and they have the right to self-determination. They can choose to leave their money to their children or spend it all on hookers and blow - it's their choice.
This kind of interference in free choice is the very definition of a "liberal" in today's society.
If that were true, everytime someone on Star Trek stepped through a transporter they would be dead too.
Jesus Christ, Trek people go to agonizing lengths to drive home the point that transporters are analog to avoid this issue precisely, but most people still get it wrong.
I'd think that /. would be the kind of place where those using Star Trek as evidence would have at least read one of the tech manuals.
Anyway, the whole point of the annular confinement beam and the phrase "Energize" is that Trek uses a matter-to-energy conversion system that actually moves atoms from point A to point B - it does not copy-and-delete and Geordi even says that even their computers do not have the capacity to duplicate all of the quantum states in the replicators. Roddenberry was very concerned about his plot device implying the absence of a soul.
By contrast, check out the episode of Outer Limits with the gal who goes to the sentient dinosaur planet from the Earth Moon station, to get a sense of the implications of a digital process. Spoiler alert: grim.
So we are to capture and freeze the state of mind right before death. Often from a slow painful process.
We're at the point on /. where comments get +3 that get the summary completely wrong.
from their site:
"How it works.
Flight and hotel prices change all the time. DoNotPay finds travel confirmations from past bookings in your inbox. When the price drops, the robot lawyer will find a legal loophole to negotiate a cheaper price or rebook you."
That's "Autonomous Digital Agents" to you, bub.
:amazon battery cackles menacingly:
Why do I need a laptop with one of these , a bluetooth keyboard/trackpad, and my existing cell phone's CPU? Sure, big battery, but my travel bag is about to get much lighter.