Regardless of what age it happened, if people were capable of making better decisions, then they would. (Ignoring that "better" is a very vague term when it comes to the progression of humans either as individuals or collectively). At least that's what causality seems to imply...
We have no proof that there were NOT technologically advanced dinosaurs
I think we have quite a lot of evidence, actually, given how little technology (none) has been discovered on or around dinosaurs, or at all, anywhere, predating humans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I think that's a bit like saying "if I hadn't wasted all of those toddler years playing with toys, I could have graduated high school earlier." Human society advanced at exactly the pace it was capable of. It only seems wasteful in retrospect because we know better, but hindsight is always better than foresight. Besides, a few hundred or thousand years is nothing in geological terms. We wasted a lot more time living in caves and grunting than we did in the Dark Ages.
Yeah, I dunno. We're assuming that AI would inherently want to live, which is an emotional drive of some living creatures, not inherently an intellectual pursuit. Perhaps it would be indifferent to its own existence, or become suicidal, etc.
An AI knowing how how it can be "killed" wouldn't prevent it from being killed. I know that a bullet would kill me (among many other things), but that doesn't make me bulletproof. (I don't think. I'm not willing to test this though.)
Pfft, you pampered kids these days. I grow my own grass to raise my own cows, which I created by breeding wild cattle over many generations to optimize for muscle weight and docile behavior. I forged my own cleavers from a handbuilt kiln fired by locally sourced wood coal and a bellows made from cow stomach. How did I get the cow stomach without first having a cleaver, you ask? Good question, if you're a fan of dumb questions. I used flint, of course. In order to find the flint, first I familiarized myself with geological maps of the area (which I had created back in my cartographer days), then I searched everywhere: in plowed fields, in the gravel of creek and river bottoms, construction sites, under bridges and eroded roadside ditches. Most of the flint was of poor quality, or too small for a blade, but eventually I found the perfect sample. Anyway, once I had my cow stomach and my bellows and finished forging my cleavers, I could process my own meat almost effortlessly on my hand-built processing line, and let me tell you, I've saved a ton of money this way. Why spend money when you can spend lots and lots of time, I say? Time is free and there's an endless supply! Anyway, my 80th birthday is coming up soon, so I think it's about time I start dating. First, I need to make myself some nice clothes though. Don't want to scare off the ladies with my cow-hide panchos. Mama didn't raise no fools!
Pfft. Standardized testing helped me *a lot*. A test with no rewards or penalties? Yes please. They gave me plenty of time to catch up on my sleep after late-night coding and/or gaming sessions.:)
Someone was definitely usurping the authority of a democracy, but I am not convinced that it was Snowden. I also believe that most of the people who work for the NSA have good intentions, but intent is irrelevant to the impact. If I unintentionally kill someone, that individual does not suffer a lesser harm as a result. He is still just as dead as if I had meant to kill him.
The NSA would have us believe that the trampling of Constitutional rights was simply incidental, and that may well be true, but it doesn't excuse the act of creating a program in the first place where such incidental harm was apt to occur, the lack of candor regarding the existence and degree of such harm, and the ongoing efforts to rebuild and expand such programs in the face of widespread disapproval.
Seriously folks, if this is how you life revolves then it's no wonder people keep harping on you. Quit being a bunch of whiners and thinking being a man means acting like a two year old.
You mean the way women complain about about male-centric video games? When women do it, it's raising a legitimate concern, but when men do it, it's sabotage. I feel like I'm reaching enlightenment. Or, enlightenpersont, I should say. Go on?
Interesting... Speedtest.net consistently reports a speed ~20% faster than my subscribed Comcast tier (180Mbit actual vs 150Mbit advertised). I'd always assumed they just prioritize traffic to speedtest et. al., and that they'd just add fast.com to the "fast lane" now. It would be easy to test by assigning a secondary IP and domain name to a speedtest server and comparing results.
This isn't sensitivity -- it's someone who sounds depressed, which is often a failure to properly frame a problem (though it can also be a difficulty emotionally handling a properly framed problem). Going outside quite literally expands your horizons, but really any change can be beneficial. Additionally, the author may want to seek help, whether it's self-help or professional. Depression is not a joke, and the OP's advice is solid, even if the delivery may have been flippant. Besides, nobody said he should never come back, just get some perspective first.
Most bombs are designed to trigger when the air pressure drops below a certain amount
Citation needed. I suspect most bombs are designed to trigger when someone activates a switch, followed by timer, cell phone, and physical impact (military bombs), in that order. Pressure triggers are almost entirely the domain of conspiracy theorists. While some fuel air bombs are designed to detonate N feet above their target, this is almost certainly accomplished through (crude) radar or sonar, as the ambiguity of terrain height and local atmospheric pressure would make pressure (altitude) triggers wholly unsuitable for the accuracy needed.
But perhaps the biggest reason pressure triggers aren't even worth discussing in these situations is that all cargo areas on transport-rated aircraft are pressurized.
1) A "pressure trigger," would defeat the basic engineering principle to keep it simple. 2) Devices that signal at a specific pressure are far more difficult to purchase or construct than those that signal at a specific time, which in turn are more difficult to implement than a human-controlled switch. 3) It's safe to assume that all of the luggage from the first leg had been removed by the time the plane was on its final leg of a round trip. 4) While it's hard to provide statistics, the idea that a device would work on the 5th (deliberate or accidental) attempt with no modifications seems far less likely than a catastrophic structural failure.
Speaking of pressure switches, it's long-since time that FDRs be equipped with floatation devices, and while a triggered floatation device would be good, even a passive device, such as a lighter-than-water device would be a good backup. It could be placed in a wing or tail-tip in a way that's designed to breakaway in the event of an impact, not interfere with control in the event of an unintentional separation, and wirelessly receive data from the master FDR.
On a related note, it's also probably time that manufacturers start installing transducers throughout the plane and including their data in flight data recorders in order to more easily identify or eliminate explosions as contributory factors.
While the cost of these systems would be substantial (especially for retrofitting), the cost relative to the overall purchase price, operations, and maintenance is a fractional percentage. A fare increase of a few cents per ticket would cover it in short order.
How is this any different than a car that plows into a parked vehicle with someone behind the wheel? The operator gave the car a command -- perhaps inadvertently -- and that input was executed. That the user either didn't understand what he did, or didn't mean to do it, does not negate the fact that he did it. It's like the (perhaps apocryphal) stories of people driving off of cliffs because they thought "cruise control" was autonomous steering and/or braking.
From a customer-relations and usability standpoint, it may make sense to either beef-up the sanity tests of Summon Mode, or further educate the consumer of the risks, or eliminate the feature altogether, but from a liability standpoint, unless the manufacturer made claims or guarantees, the end-user is responsible for how he operated the vehicle. Unless Tesla made a claim of an infallible Arboreal Avoidance System, this is no different than if he had steered into a tree.
Nah, most "Big Law" firms, including MoFo, use a lockstep pay scale based on NY offices, sometimes with regional cost-of-living adjustments elsewhere. A few are merit-based, but a) they're outliers, and B) they usually pay less. For the lockstep system, first year associates start at $160k, and have annual raises, or get fired and become suicidal because they have huge student loans and are less likely to be hired by a competitor after they've been canned. If you go to "Above The Law," you can find all of the information on most large law firms as, not surprisingly, it's big news among associates. Now partners.. they're the ones making serious money.
It's not that the victim's mother (the plaintiff) doesn't want to hold the other driver responsible; it's that Snapchat has a shitload more money to go after, so if she can get a jury to agree that they were complicit, she can recover damages (money) from them. Few rational people probably believe on the surface that Snapchat is responsible for the reckless behavior of its users, but lawyers in courtrooms can be very convincing. That's how they put food on their tables, and Mercedes in their garages.
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Ore is it
Regardless of what age it happened, if people were capable of making better decisions, then they would. (Ignoring that "better" is a very vague term when it comes to the progression of humans either as individuals or collectively). At least that's what causality seems to imply...
We have no proof that there were NOT technologically advanced dinosaurs
I think we have quite a lot of evidence, actually, given how little technology (none) has been discovered on or around dinosaurs, or at all, anywhere, predating humans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I think that's a bit like saying "if I hadn't wasted all of those toddler years playing with toys, I could have graduated high school earlier." Human society advanced at exactly the pace it was capable of. It only seems wasteful in retrospect because we know better, but hindsight is always better than foresight. Besides, a few hundred or thousand years is nothing in geological terms. We wasted a lot more time living in caves and grunting than we did in the Dark Ages.
It might be impressive if there wasn't constant road construction somewhere on *95, 66, 50, 29, and/or the Metro actually worked.
Yeah, I dunno. We're assuming that AI would inherently want to live, which is an emotional drive of some living creatures, not inherently an intellectual pursuit. Perhaps it would be indifferent to its own existence, or become suicidal, etc.
They've worked so well in the past! Next we just need thoughtcrime, and everyone will live happily ever after.
This was a triumph!
I'm making a note here: Huge success!
An AI knowing how how it can be "killed" wouldn't prevent it from being killed. I know that a bullet would kill me (among many other things), but that doesn't make me bulletproof. (I don't think. I'm not willing to test this though.)
Io?
Pfft, you pampered kids these days. I grow my own grass to raise my own cows, which I created by breeding wild cattle over many generations to optimize for muscle weight and docile behavior. I forged my own cleavers from a handbuilt kiln fired by locally sourced wood coal and a bellows made from cow stomach. How did I get the cow stomach without first having a cleaver, you ask? Good question, if you're a fan of dumb questions. I used flint, of course. In order to find the flint, first I familiarized myself with geological maps of the area (which I had created back in my cartographer days), then I searched everywhere: in plowed fields, in the gravel of creek and river bottoms, construction sites, under bridges and eroded roadside ditches. Most of the flint was of poor quality, or too small for a blade, but eventually I found the perfect sample. Anyway, once I had my cow stomach and my bellows and finished forging my cleavers, I could process my own meat almost effortlessly on my hand-built processing line, and let me tell you, I've saved a ton of money this way. Why spend money when you can spend lots and lots of time, I say? Time is free and there's an endless supply! Anyway, my 80th birthday is coming up soon, so I think it's about time I start dating. First, I need to make myself some nice clothes though. Don't want to scare off the ladies with my cow-hide panchos. Mama didn't raise no fools!
Pfft. Standardized testing helped me *a lot*. A test with no rewards or penalties? Yes please. They gave me plenty of time to catch up on my sleep after late-night coding and/or gaming sessions. :)
Someone was definitely usurping the authority of a democracy, but I am not convinced that it was Snowden. I also believe that most of the people who work for the NSA have good intentions, but intent is irrelevant to the impact. If I unintentionally kill someone, that individual does not suffer a lesser harm as a result. He is still just as dead as if I had meant to kill him.
The NSA would have us believe that the trampling of Constitutional rights was simply incidental, and that may well be true, but it doesn't excuse the act of creating a program in the first place where such incidental harm was apt to occur, the lack of candor regarding the existence and degree of such harm, and the ongoing efforts to rebuild and expand such programs in the face of widespread disapproval.
You mean the way women complain about about male-centric video games? When women do it, it's raising a legitimate concern, but when men do it, it's sabotage. I feel like I'm reaching enlightenment. Or, enlightenpersont, I should say. Go on?
Interesting... Speedtest.net consistently reports a speed ~20% faster than my subscribed Comcast tier (180Mbit actual vs 150Mbit advertised). I'd always assumed they just prioritize traffic to speedtest et. al., and that they'd just add fast.com to the "fast lane" now. It would be easy to test by assigning a secondary IP and domain name to a speedtest server and comparing results.
This isn't sensitivity -- it's someone who sounds depressed, which is often a failure to properly frame a problem (though it can also be a difficulty emotionally handling a properly framed problem). Going outside quite literally expands your horizons, but really any change can be beneficial. Additionally, the author may want to seek help, whether it's self-help or professional. Depression is not a joke, and the OP's advice is solid, even if the delivery may have been flippant. Besides, nobody said he should never come back, just get some perspective first.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/18/...
Will this usher in a new era of web errors?
EgyptAirror 804: Wreckage found.
Too soon?
Most bombs are designed to trigger when the air pressure drops below a certain amount
Citation needed. I suspect most bombs are designed to trigger when someone activates a switch, followed by timer, cell phone, and physical impact (military bombs), in that order. Pressure triggers are almost entirely the domain of conspiracy theorists. While some fuel air bombs are designed to detonate N feet above their target, this is almost certainly accomplished through (crude) radar or sonar, as the ambiguity of terrain height and local atmospheric pressure would make pressure (altitude) triggers wholly unsuitable for the accuracy needed.
But perhaps the biggest reason pressure triggers aren't even worth discussing in these situations is that all cargo areas on transport-rated aircraft are pressurized.
1) A "pressure trigger," would defeat the basic engineering principle to keep it simple.
2) Devices that signal at a specific pressure are far more difficult to purchase or construct than those that signal at a specific time, which in turn are more difficult to implement than a human-controlled switch.
3) It's safe to assume that all of the luggage from the first leg had been removed by the time the plane was on its final leg of a round trip.
4) While it's hard to provide statistics, the idea that a device would work on the 5th (deliberate or accidental) attempt with no modifications seems far less likely than a catastrophic structural failure.
Speaking of pressure switches, it's long-since time that FDRs be equipped with floatation devices, and while a triggered floatation device would be good, even a passive device, such as a lighter-than-water device would be a good backup. It could be placed in a wing or tail-tip in a way that's designed to breakaway in the event of an impact, not interfere with control in the event of an unintentional separation, and wirelessly receive data from the master FDR.
On a related note, it's also probably time that manufacturers start installing transducers throughout the plane and including their data in flight data recorders in order to more easily identify or eliminate explosions as contributory factors.
While the cost of these systems would be substantial (especially for retrofitting), the cost relative to the overall purchase price, operations, and maintenance is a fractional percentage. A fare increase of a few cents per ticket would cover it in short order.
I don't think you've seen an Egypt Air plane before.
How is this any different than a car that plows into a parked vehicle with someone behind the wheel? The operator gave the car a command -- perhaps inadvertently -- and that input was executed. That the user either didn't understand what he did, or didn't mean to do it, does not negate the fact that he did it. It's like the (perhaps apocryphal) stories of people driving off of cliffs because they thought "cruise control" was autonomous steering and/or braking.
From a customer-relations and usability standpoint, it may make sense to either beef-up the sanity tests of Summon Mode, or further educate the consumer of the risks, or eliminate the feature altogether, but from a liability standpoint, unless the manufacturer made claims or guarantees, the end-user is responsible for how he operated the vehicle. Unless Tesla made a claim of an infallible Arboreal Avoidance System, this is no different than if he had steered into a tree.
Student claims computer deleted his homework.
Yeah, we'll just hire a few lawyers to.. uh.. oh. Good luck with that.
Nah, most "Big Law" firms, including MoFo, use a lockstep pay scale based on NY offices, sometimes with regional cost-of-living adjustments elsewhere. A few are merit-based, but a) they're outliers, and B) they usually pay less. For the lockstep system, first year associates start at $160k, and have annual raises, or get fired and become suicidal because they have huge student loans and are less likely to be hired by a competitor after they've been canned. If you go to "Above The Law," you can find all of the information on most large law firms as, not surprisingly, it's big news among associates. Now partners.. they're the ones making serious money.
http://abovethelaw.com/2011/02...
http://abovethelaw.com/2016/01...
http://abovethelaw.com/2016/05...
It's not that the victim's mother (the plaintiff) doesn't want to hold the other driver responsible; it's that Snapchat has a shitload more money to go after, so if she can get a jury to agree that they were complicit, she can recover damages (money) from them. Few rational people probably believe on the surface that Snapchat is responsible for the reckless behavior of its users, but lawyers in courtrooms can be very convincing. That's how they put food on their tables, and Mercedes in their garages.