'Streaming' is shit. Why can't you all see that the Corporate world is trying to move everything in our lives to a 'rental' model? Do you really want to live in a world where you can't own anything yourself? Rich get richer, poor get poorer.
Beyond a certain point, no, nobody cares, because you really can't hear the difference. I've listened to FM radio since I was 12 years old (and still do, and that's a long time now); if it's at least that good, then I'm happy enough.
That one time I was streaming 128kbps MP3's over stereo Bluetooth, however? That sounded awful, because BT uses it's own compression, on top of what the source is compressed with. Won't do that again.
Slashdot is not 'social media' by a longshot. The only thing they know about me is a random email address they required for me to have an account here, and a totally fake name that I use for the account, because no way in hell I'm using my real name online. Even if they're building some sort of personality profile, they have no real name to link it to, not without a court order anyway. Slashdot is a pseudo-news site with commenting, not 'social media'.
Another $5 says this truth will be buried because there is so much money at stake, and why should they care about the life of one random woman? Progress!
Just imagine how surprised and disappointed that guy will be when he comes into his shiny new social-media site, by and for gun owners, to find it full of neo-nazi, white supremacist, racist, bigoted, and sexist conversations -- especially when he realizes that now he'll be inextricably linked to all the above, 'guilty by association'.
..assuming this article isn't clickbait of some sort, or like someone else commented, it's bought-and-paid-for by a so-called 'anti pirating company'.
Around 10 years ago I dumped cable and started using an antenna, contenting myself with what I could get for free, because the economy sucked, wasn't making much, and it finally got to the point where I decided paying for hundreds of shitty channels, compressed within a millimeter of their lives, when I only actually watched a small fraction of them, made no sense anymore. Never looked back once. Then there's the people who tell me I should pay for streaming. Well guess what, now we're back to paying for TV again. No thanks, I haven't heard of anything worth paying another monthy fee for. Have I downloaded some stuff in the past? Sure I have. I've also paid a rental fee for some things I did want to see. But too much isn't worth paying for, and I'm sure I'm far from alone in that sentiment. If I didn't have a DVR, and had to adhere to someone else's broadcast schedule, I'd probably not even own a TV anymore. Again, someone will come along and say, "Well, why don't you get a Hulu/Netflix/Amazon/whatever subscription, it's only $xx per month." Now we're back to paying, and whatever it is, isn't worth it to me.. and again, I'm sure I'm far from alone in feeling that way about it. So if 'piracy' is actually up, and it's not just hype and FUD from some company that can benefit from FUD, then I'd believe it.
You wouldn't. But Microsoft wants you to want it. Because this way they can continue the annexation of Linux, which is part of their overall plan to become the only OS manufacturer in the world. Which is precisely why you and everyone else needs to turn their nose up at this and continue to use standalone Linux.
I like Maru and other cat videos as much as the next person, but I'm not willing to go to all the trouble and expense of going to a theatre to see them. Sorry YouTube, just not happening.
Clickbait at best. I feel dirty even commenting on it this much.
While we're making wild claims, I may as well make one of my own: in 10 years, everyone will have forgotten cryptocurrency, except as something only used regularly by criminals, and that it was banned worldwide. Since I'm saying up front that's a 'wild claim', you can't criticize me for saying it. xD xD xD
"Who wants that situation"? Go read about driverless trucks on the highways. That's literally ready to start, right now. Think how many people a driverless truck can kill when it fucks up.
He wants 'evidence' for everything
No no you're supposed to ask for "Peer-reviewed University studies", silly! Didn't you pay attention in Trolling 101? We have all the evidence we need -- IN THE MORGUE. If that's not enough for you then maybe there's something wrong with YOU.
This is about HUMAN LIVES. That's all you SDC/driverless car fanboys talk about is how "self driving cars will SAVE LIVES! We have to stop HUMANS from driving so we can SAVE LIVES!". Well here we are, and your goddamned SDC has KILLED someone. Even ONE HUMAN DEATH is too many! Or do you just not give a fuck that someone is dead?
"You're making appeals to emotion" If you're NOT having any emotional response to a human being dying for no damned good reason then maybe you're a sociopath.
They can try to 'perfect' this 'technology' all they want -- OFF OF PUBLIC ROADS, AWAY FROM PEOPLE WHO COULD BE KILLED.
I say this over and over again: SDCs/Driverless Cars have been RUSHED TO MARKET and are not ready to be used on public roads!
Get them off my roads NOW before more people get killed!
Human trafficking is a real thing, and it's no laughing matter, but this is a misguided attempt at best, and at worst, as alluded to above, something to be leveraged into censorship of pornography on the internet -- and, no doubt, censorship of anything else they can twist the wording around to also include. Since it's a moral issue, it's difficult for anyone to challenge it without being accused of supporting and approving of human trafficking and the sex trade, and for a politician on either side of the aisle that would be political suicide, especially these days when everyone is so completely and totally polarized. Someone will challenge it, if it's actually going too far, and the courts will no doubt hear it. Also, like most attempts (emphasis on attempts) at censoring the Internet, it likely won't be enforceable anyway; if the content they want to censor is located on a hard drive outside U.S. borders, then there's not a damn thing they can do about it. Not all that difficult these days to get hosting anywhere you need to, and not difficult to move your content to the new hosting.
Do you have lots of disposable income that you have no better use for?
If YES: Go right ahead and dive into comics collecting. Be warned you won't have that disposable income for long, though.
If NO: Walk away now. It'll likely bankrupt you in the long term.
Go to a comic book convention and talk to the dealers there, ask them how they got started in the comic book selling business.
They'll tell you they started out as collectors.;-)
Oh no, the horror, a vehicle driving without emotion and feeling. Yeah, let's program this thing to be happy and sad, that's the ticket! What we need is a fleet of vehicles driving around distraught at the fact that bugs keep bouncing off the windshield.
Oh and by the way you can shove your sarcasm up your ass. This isn't a joking matter, someone is DEAD, and they want to let more of these half-assed pieces of crap on the roads, without anyone inside it to have any chance to stop it from killing however many people, and it won't even fucking care? Fuck that. Ban the technology, stop this madness.
LOL he wants 'evidence'. Even the programmers who code these pseudo-intelligences don't know what the hell is going on under the hood, how do you expect me to provide you with your 'evidence'?
The damned thing is not a mind, it is just a machine, it doesn't think, therefore how can it 'know' there's a significance to a living being compared to an inanimate object?
Secondly - why the hell does that even matter? Shouldn't the vehicle avoid collisions with any object? Why does it matter if that object is a person or not? It's still going to try to avoid hitting it, right?
So you're saying if you're driving and you find yourself in the unenviable situation of having to decide in a split second whether to run over a kid or run into a telephone poll, it's just a coin-flip to you? Or do you value human life? The machine doesn't know the difference. It has no brain, no ability to think, no conscience, no feelings of remorse, so it kills a human being and it makes no difference to it's programming. Given the theoretical choice I put to you earlier in this paragraph, it WOULD flip a coin instead of automatically crashing into a telephone pole to avoid hitting a human being. THAT is the problem, THAT is why this approach to to this technology is wrong, THAT is why we need REAL AI not 'pseudo-intelligence' and it's half-assed approach to operating a vehicle: You need an actual mind behind the wheel, something that actually thinks and reasons and is aware of the significance of a living being versus an inanimate object -- and that itself is insignificant and should sacrifice itself to prevent harm to a living being; it needs to make human-level judgements, not just follow some cold, dead algorithm.
I think an obvious reason for China to do this, is so the Chinese kids that come over here on a student Visa will have it made clear to them that it's 'preferred' they go to the Chinese-owned schools, where they'll still get the benefit of Western education -- but with the oversight of the Chinese owners (government, no doubt), who will ensure that they're not getting 'Westernized' (read as: make sure they tay within Party boundaries).
I am not comfortable with this. Something should be done to discourage or prevent it.
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'Streaming' is shit. Why can't you all see that the Corporate world is trying to move everything in our lives to a 'rental' model? Do you really want to live in a world where you can't own anything yourself? Rich get richer, poor get poorer.
Beyond a certain point, no, nobody cares, because you really can't hear the difference. I've listened to FM radio since I was 12 years old (and still do, and that's a long time now); if it's at least that good, then I'm happy enough.
That one time I was streaming 128kbps MP3's over stereo Bluetooth, however? That sounded awful, because BT uses it's own compression, on top of what the source is compressed with. Won't do that again.
Take your lives back, people.
Slashdot is not 'social media' by a longshot. The only thing they know about me is a random email address they required for me to have an account here, and a totally fake name that I use for the account, because no way in hell I'm using my real name online. Even if they're building some sort of personality profile, they have no real name to link it to, not without a court order anyway. Slashdot is a pseudo-news site with commenting, not 'social media'.
Your Jedi mind tricks won't work on them because they have no brain! xD
Another $5 says this truth will be buried because there is so much money at stake, and why should they care about the life of one random woman?
Progress!
Just imagine how surprised and disappointed that guy will be when he comes into his shiny new social-media site, by and for gun owners, to find it full of neo-nazi, white supremacist, racist, bigoted, and sexist conversations -- especially when he realizes that now he'll be inextricably linked to all the above, 'guilty by association'.
More or less. Continue scoffing at me and shouting me down if it makes you feel better, SDC fanboys, IDGAF.
Or at least issued a DMCA Takedown Notice, for daring to use 'R2D2' without paying royalties, or at least they express written permission.
..assuming this article isn't clickbait of some sort, or like someone else commented, it's bought-and-paid-for by a so-called 'anti pirating company'.
Around 10 years ago I dumped cable and started using an antenna, contenting myself with what I could get for free, because the economy sucked, wasn't making much, and it finally got to the point where I decided paying for hundreds of shitty channels, compressed within a millimeter of their lives, when I only actually watched a small fraction of them, made no sense anymore. Never looked back once. Then there's the people who tell me I should pay for streaming. Well guess what, now we're back to paying for TV again. No thanks, I haven't heard of anything worth paying another monthy fee for. Have I downloaded some stuff in the past? Sure I have. I've also paid a rental fee for some things I did want to see. But too much isn't worth paying for, and I'm sure I'm far from alone in that sentiment. If I didn't have a DVR, and had to adhere to someone else's broadcast schedule, I'd probably not even own a TV anymore. Again, someone will come along and say, "Well, why don't you get a Hulu/Netflix/Amazon/whatever subscription, it's only $xx per month." Now we're back to paying, and whatever it is, isn't worth it to me.. and again, I'm sure I'm far from alone in feeling that way about it. So if 'piracy' is actually up, and it's not just hype and FUD from some company that can benefit from FUD, then I'd believe it.
See my other comment: https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
You wouldn't. But Microsoft wants you to want it. Because this way they can continue the annexation of Linux, which is part of their overall plan to become the only OS manufacturer in the world. Which is precisely why you and everyone else needs to turn their nose up at this and continue to use standalone Linux.
I like Maru and other cat videos as much as the next person, but I'm not willing to go to all the trouble and expense of going to a theatre to see them. Sorry YouTube, just not happening.
Clickbait at best. I feel dirty even commenting on it this much.
While we're making wild claims, I may as well make one of my own: in 10 years, everyone will have forgotten cryptocurrency, except as something only used regularly by criminals, and that it was banned worldwide. Since I'm saying up front that's a 'wild claim', you can't criticize me for saying it. xD xD xD
He wants 'evidence' for everything
No no you're supposed to ask for "Peer-reviewed University studies", silly! Didn't you pay attention in Trolling 101?
We have all the evidence we need -- IN THE MORGUE. If that's not enough for you then maybe there's something wrong with YOU.
This is about HUMAN LIVES. That's all you SDC/driverless car fanboys talk about is how "self driving cars will SAVE LIVES! We have to stop HUMANS from driving so we can SAVE LIVES!". Well here we are, and your goddamned SDC has KILLED someone. Even ONE HUMAN DEATH is too many! Or do you just not give a fuck that someone is dead?
"You're making appeals to emotion" If you're NOT having any emotional response to a human being dying for no damned good reason then maybe you're a sociopath.
They can try to 'perfect' this 'technology' all they want -- OFF OF PUBLIC ROADS, AWAY FROM PEOPLE WHO COULD BE KILLED.
I say this over and over again: SDCs/Driverless Cars have been RUSHED TO MARKET and are not ready to be used on public roads!
Get them off my roads NOW before more people get killed!
Human trafficking is a real thing, and it's no laughing matter, but this is a misguided attempt at best, and at worst, as alluded to above, something to be leveraged into censorship of pornography on the internet -- and, no doubt, censorship of anything else they can twist the wording around to also include. Since it's a moral issue, it's difficult for anyone to challenge it without being accused of supporting and approving of human trafficking and the sex trade, and for a politician on either side of the aisle that would be political suicide, especially these days when everyone is so completely and totally polarized. Someone will challenge it, if it's actually going too far, and the courts will no doubt hear it. Also, like most attempts (emphasis on attempts) at censoring the Internet, it likely won't be enforceable anyway; if the content they want to censor is located on a hard drive outside U.S. borders, then there's not a damn thing they can do about it. Not all that difficult these days to get hosting anywhere you need to, and not difficult to move your content to the new hosting.
Bullshit.
Do you have lots of disposable income that you have no better use for?
;-)
If YES: Go right ahead and dive into comics collecting. Be warned you won't have that disposable income for long, though.
If NO: Walk away now. It'll likely bankrupt you in the long term.
Go to a comic book convention and talk to the dealers there, ask them how they got started in the comic book selling business.
They'll tell you they started out as collectors.
That's like wondering if the FBI has a file on you. The only way to find out is to call them and ask; what they'll say, though, is "We do now."
Oh no, the horror, a vehicle driving without emotion and feeling. Yeah, let's program this thing to be happy and sad, that's the ticket! What we need is a fleet of vehicles driving around distraught at the fact that bugs keep bouncing off the windshield.
Oh and by the way you can shove your sarcasm up your ass. This isn't a joking matter, someone is DEAD, and they want to let more of these half-assed pieces of crap on the roads, without anyone inside it to have any chance to stop it from killing however many people, and it won't even fucking care? Fuck that. Ban the technology, stop this madness.
The damned thing is not a mind, it is just a machine, it doesn't think, therefore how can it 'know' there's a significance to a living being compared to an inanimate object?
Secondly - why the hell does that even matter? Shouldn't the vehicle avoid collisions with any object? Why does it matter if that object is a person or not? It's still going to try to avoid hitting it, right?
So you're saying if you're driving and you find yourself in the unenviable situation of having to decide in a split second whether to run over a kid or run into a telephone poll, it's just a coin-flip to you? Or do you value human life? The machine doesn't know the difference. It has no brain, no ability to think, no conscience, no feelings of remorse, so it kills a human being and it makes no difference to it's programming. Given the theoretical choice I put to you earlier in this paragraph, it WOULD flip a coin instead of automatically crashing into a telephone pole to avoid hitting a human being. THAT is the problem, THAT is why this approach to to this technology is wrong, THAT is why we need REAL AI not 'pseudo-intelligence' and it's half-assed approach to operating a vehicle: You need an actual mind behind the wheel, something that actually thinks and reasons and is aware of the significance of a living being versus an inanimate object -- and that itself is insignificant and should sacrifice itself to prevent harm to a living being; it needs to make human-level judgements, not just follow some cold, dead algorithm.
I think an obvious reason for China to do this, is so the Chinese kids that come over here on a student Visa will have it made clear to them that it's 'preferred' they go to the Chinese-owned schools, where they'll still get the benefit of Western education -- but with the oversight of the Chinese owners (government, no doubt), who will ensure that they're not getting 'Westernized' (read as: make sure they tay within Party boundaries).
I am not comfortable with this. Something should be done to discourage or prevent it.
..and nothing of value was lost.
..until morale improves.
Signed,
YouTube Management
You'd almost think that the people behind for-profit prisons want to bring back slavery in this country.