c) Driver education, training, and testing reforms, nation-wide, producing safe, competent drivers, and excluding unsafe, incompetent drivers; removing current incompetent drivers, who cannot become competent through remedial education and training, from the roads, permanently.
We don't need shitty half-assed 'self driving cars' that are death machines. Stop believing the hype.
Here's the thing, just to be clear: when I was a kid, I built and flew model airplanes. If I were a kid now, I'd think drones were awesome and would want one; when they came out, I thought they were pretty cool and saw no downside. Then idiots started doing idiotic things with them, like invade people's privacy, fly them into wildfire areas and in the way of firefighting aircraft, flew them at airports and other places they don't belong, and I said "you people need to police your own better", meaning track these idiots down yourselves and LEAN ON THEM as hard as you have to, to make them understand they need to KNOCK IT OFF, but all I got was hate and insults for my words. Nobody policed themselves, idiots with drones said "Fuck the police, I'll do what I want", and now you have where things are today. It's all their own damned faults this is going this way, it didn't have to happen, and quite frankly it's a damned shame that something that's intrinsicly very cool is now ruined because a few selfish assholes couldn't behave responsibly. But the entire drone community needs to have it pounded into them that this is their fault for not stopping the problem themselves before it got to this point. At some point in the future things might get loosened up enough to make it fun and cool again, but it'll be a long while off, and when it does, they'll HAVE to police themselves, or they'll just make things even worse, maybe ban them entirely.
Spot-check a percentage of critical servers. These should all have backups that can handle the job while one is down anyway, am I right? If there's even a chance something like this is true then it should be a priority to determine the validity of the claim.
Wrong. They can't think, they have no capacity to do that.
Self driving cars are better in every way to human drivers!
Wrong. They're rushed to market and are inadequate. Please stop believing the media hype. Unless you're an AI researcher or SDC engineer, that's all you have to go by is media hype and press releases from SDC companies. These cannot be considered 'facts'. The only 'facts' we have so far shows machines that can't handle the job, have to 'phone home' to have a human operator remotely drive it through things it can't handle (because it can't think), and blindly killing a pedestrian. Otherwise, 25mph (or less) drives through pre-determined street courses don't mean a damn thing.
The poor excuse for 'AI' everyone and their brother keeps trotting out will never be capable of doing this job by itself because it has no actual cognitive capability; 'deep learning algorithms' are not in any way shape or form a substitute for the ability to actually think. If and when we find a way to solve the puzzle of how human brains produce the phenomenon of thought, we will not be able to build machines that can also posess this quality, and until that's possible, 'self driving cars' that are fully capable of performing the job without help and without fault will not be possible.
Drone fanbois, no doubt, will seethe at this.
You have no one to blame but yourselves, really; you failed to police your own sufficiently, and now drone owners who refused to behave apporpriately and not use their drones irresponsibly have brought the government down on all of you.
Enjoy playing with your drones in your backyards, that's about the only place you'll be allowed to use them now.
Don't hate the messenger, hate the message. I didn't do this to you, and hating on me won't change anything, so have a little dignity and don't.
Just another step along the path Microsoft has laid out for themselves, to be the one-and-only OS in the world: now begins the annexation of Android, like they've been doing to Linux.
This is no different than auto manufacturers jumping on the 'self driving car' bandwagon: it doesn't matter if the 'technology' is really, actually nowhere near ready for general use, they're getting in 'on the ground floor', as it were, so they're not left behind if it takes off. I'd imagine there's also an element of 'bluffing' the other potential competitors into announcing their own plans, to up the ante on the whole proposition; kind of like an auction, where someone bids on something they don't even want, just to raise the final price. So it doesn't matter if Lockheed is going to actually do this for real or not, they're tossing their hat in the ring and at the same time making other companies 'put up or shut up' by either tossing in too, or being silent and not being part of the conversation.
A human driver kills another human: the human driver goes to jail.
A so-called 'self driving car' kills a human: the manufacturer throws some settlement money at the next-of-kin, and goes on like nothing happened.
Is that what you want?
Don't need to get mowed down by a runaway 'self driving taxi'. Sad, and condolences to surviving family members of the inevitable tragic deaths that will occur. Oh well, their deaths won't be totally in vain at least, it'll prove that this 'technology' has been rushed to market and is not anywhere near safe or usable in real-world situations. Then we can ban them, and get to the real solution of vehicle safety: driver education, training, and testing reforms, nation-wide.
She had been wearing a Fitbit fitness tracker, which investigators said showed that her heart rate had spiked significantly around 3:20 p.m. on Sept. 8 (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source), when Mr. Aiello was there. Then it recorded her heart rate slowing rapidly, and stopping at 3:28 p.m., about five minutes before Mr. Aiello left the house, the report said.
Yeesh. I'd imagine anyone looking at that data, knowing that a murder had been committed, would get a cold shiver down their spine, watching the heartrate data do that.
That being said.. while in this case a tracking device (which is what Fitbit is, after all) has provided the time-of-death evidence necessary to catch a killer, it's still completely fucked up that people are voluntarily wearing a tracking device like Fitbit that gives away such valuable personal data to any corporation for any reason -- that apparently the police and other government agencies can then have access to. Don't do it, folks.
Sounds to me like theoretically there's a simple (well, for me, or someone with my skill-set at least) way to determine if any of this is true or not: A comprehensive physical examination of Supermicro server motherboards being used in critical applications. If something that's not on the BOM for the PCB has been glued to the board and blue-wired into it, then it obviously doesn't belong there and is suspect. Any and all silicon should also be able to be identified by it's manufacturers' part number and it's existence on the PCB justified. Furthermore the BIOS should not have any extraneous code in it that either runs on the main processor cores or that loads into the various microcontroller cores found in the chipset of any modern computer. Hiding malicious code that only lives in RAM is one thing, but anything physical or that lives permanently in something physical is literally a smoking gun and should be able to be sussed out, you really can't hide it. I have to say though it's pretty cheeky of a manufacturer, Chinese or not, to do something like this, if in fact they have. Malware is one thing, something physical is a completely different ballgame.
We need a hacker collective like the Everyone on Elementary to hack into Ajit Pai's life and see if he's got offshore accounts for all the kickback and bribery money he must be getting from the telecom industry.
They want Carte Blanche to fuck everyone in the ass due to a totally unregulated industry.
It's just like any company any one of you was working for that got bought out by some other company; first they say "We like the way everything is working, so rest assured we won't be changing anything". Then 3 months later the pull at least half the employees into a meeting room and fire them while their IT goons lock down their computers. So it'll be with the gods-be-damned broadband industry: "Oh well Net Neutrality is in our best interests, no worries!", then some months in the future they'll screw everyone over, set up their Walled Gardens, paid access levels, and so on. THANKS, TRUMP! Dx
On the one hand, it's vital that the Australian tech industry is heard and understood.
On the other hand, if they're not, then I guess we'll see what the real-world effect is of totally buggering and gutting encryption.
..however: it's not enforceable, assuming the 'bot in question is realistic enough to pass muster with the average person, and the 'bot owner doesn't give a damn about the law (which a foreign operative working within the U.S. most certainly woudn't) or if it's owned by someone outside the borders of the U.S. The real solution to this problem is people need to stop believing shit they read online that's coming from 'people' they don't personally know, or at the very least they need to learn to apply some critical thinking and some basic research to verify something is factual or not. Sites like Snopes and Politifact are probably good places to start. So then the problem becomes: How do we educate the masses so they do this automatically?
Listen, buddy: At one point in my life, public schools having failed *me* personally, I thought charter schools/private schools were a good idea. I went to a private school 4th through 8th grade and benefitted thereby. But public schools in this country, *especially* for the Poor, and *especially* for poor Minorities, already is shit, and she wants to take more money away from them, to give to 'vouchers', that only really middle-class and rich families will be able to take advantage of? The vouchers alone won't cover tuition for any of these 'charter schools', so Poor families will not benefit -- mostly poor black families, but also other minorities, and *also* poor white families, but that last is the smallest group that will be affected. Meanwhile blacks and other minorities are hamstrung socially and economically by poor educational opportunities, which is the leading reason they're involved in gangs and crime more often than any other groups. So DeVos, through her shit policies and shit ideas, makes a bad situation worse, creating an ever-widening gap between The Poor and everyone else, one they'll never likely be able to cross. DeVos also is screwing over college students through things like removing protections against predatory lending and collection practicies for student loans. It all smacks of a Dominionist-like agenda, which fits in perfectly with her white 'Christian' background. Add to that her total lack of any relevant career background in education and you start to see that she was appointed to enact an agenda, not help fix and enhance public education in this country, just 'privatize' it, and make it even more accessible for upper-middle-class and rich people through giving them government money they really don't need, meanwhile screwing over families that rely on public schools.
I don't exist to do 40 hours of research or even 8 hours or 1 hour of research for random jackasses on the Internet, so go do you own research -- assuming YOU are not just a TROLL or a Trump supporter trying to screw me up; go look at things yourself with an open mind if you really care at all.
And now if you're just another damned troll, you're fapping furiously because you managed to get me to waste 10 minutes of my life explaining something to you that you don't even give a shit about. Nice job.
Fuck off. I'm FAR from alone in seeing that DeVos is bad for education and clearly has an agenda. You're just another anonymous bobble-headed Trump supporter whose only motivation is to 'stick it to the libtards'. Eat shit and die, you're the one who lacks credibility.
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c) Driver education, training, and testing reforms, nation-wide, producing safe, competent drivers, and excluding unsafe, incompetent drivers; removing current incompetent drivers, who cannot become competent through remedial education and training, from the roads, permanently.
We don't need shitty half-assed 'self driving cars' that are death machines. Stop believing the hype.
Here's the thing, just to be clear: when I was a kid, I built and flew model airplanes. If I were a kid now, I'd think drones were awesome and would want one; when they came out, I thought they were pretty cool and saw no downside. Then idiots started doing idiotic things with them, like invade people's privacy, fly them into wildfire areas and in the way of firefighting aircraft, flew them at airports and other places they don't belong, and I said "you people need to police your own better", meaning track these idiots down yourselves and LEAN ON THEM as hard as you have to, to make them understand they need to KNOCK IT OFF, but all I got was hate and insults for my words. Nobody policed themselves, idiots with drones said "Fuck the police, I'll do what I want", and now you have where things are today. It's all their own damned faults this is going this way, it didn't have to happen, and quite frankly it's a damned shame that something that's intrinsicly very cool is now ruined because a few selfish assholes couldn't behave responsibly. But the entire drone community needs to have it pounded into them that this is their fault for not stopping the problem themselves before it got to this point. At some point in the future things might get loosened up enough to make it fun and cool again, but it'll be a long while off, and when it does, they'll HAVE to police themselves, or they'll just make things even worse, maybe ban them entirely.
Spot-check a percentage of critical servers. These should all have backups that can handle the job while one is down anyway, am I right? If there's even a chance something like this is true then it should be a priority to determine the validity of the claim.
Computers are always perfect!
Wrong.
AI is smarter than humans!
Wrong. They can't think, they have no capacity to do that.
Self driving cars are better in every way to human drivers!
Wrong. They're rushed to market and are inadequate. Please stop believing the media hype. Unless you're an AI researcher or SDC engineer, that's all you have to go by is media hype and press releases from SDC companies. These cannot be considered 'facts'. The only 'facts' we have so far shows machines that can't handle the job, have to 'phone home' to have a human operator remotely drive it through things it can't handle (because it can't think), and blindly killing a pedestrian. Otherwise, 25mph (or less) drives through pre-determined street courses don't mean a damn thing.
The poor excuse for 'AI' everyone and their brother keeps trotting out will never be capable of doing this job by itself because it has no actual cognitive capability; 'deep learning algorithms' are not in any way shape or form a substitute for the ability to actually think. If and when we find a way to solve the puzzle of how human brains produce the phenomenon of thought, we will not be able to build machines that can also posess this quality, and until that's possible, 'self driving cars' that are fully capable of performing the job without help and without fault will not be possible.
Drone fanbois, no doubt, will seethe at this.
You have no one to blame but yourselves, really; you failed to police your own sufficiently, and now drone owners who refused to behave apporpriately and not use their drones irresponsibly have brought the government down on all of you.
Enjoy playing with your drones in your backyards, that's about the only place you'll be allowed to use them now.
Don't hate the messenger, hate the message. I didn't do this to you, and hating on me won't change anything, so have a little dignity and don't.
Just another step along the path Microsoft has laid out for themselves, to be the one-and-only OS in the world: now begins the annexation of Android, like they've been doing to Linux.
This is no different than auto manufacturers jumping on the 'self driving car' bandwagon: it doesn't matter if the 'technology' is really, actually nowhere near ready for general use, they're getting in 'on the ground floor', as it were, so they're not left behind if it takes off. I'd imagine there's also an element of 'bluffing' the other potential competitors into announcing their own plans, to up the ante on the whole proposition; kind of like an auction, where someone bids on something they don't even want, just to raise the final price. So it doesn't matter if Lockheed is going to actually do this for real or not, they're tossing their hat in the ring and at the same time making other companies 'put up or shut up' by either tossing in too, or being silent and not being part of the conversation.
A human driver kills another human: the human driver goes to jail.
A so-called 'self driving car' kills a human: the manufacturer throws some settlement money at the next-of-kin, and goes on like nothing happened.
Is that what you want?
Don't need to get mowed down by a runaway 'self driving taxi'. Sad, and condolences to surviving family members of the inevitable tragic deaths that will occur. Oh well, their deaths won't be totally in vain at least, it'll prove that this 'technology' has been rushed to market and is not anywhere near safe or usable in real-world situations. Then we can ban them, and get to the real solution of vehicle safety: driver education, training, and testing reforms, nation-wide.
She had been wearing a Fitbit fitness tracker, which investigators said showed that her heart rate had spiked significantly around 3:20 p.m. on Sept. 8 (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source), when Mr. Aiello was there. Then it recorded her heart rate slowing rapidly, and stopping at 3:28 p.m., about five minutes before Mr. Aiello left the house, the report said.
Yeesh. I'd imagine anyone looking at that data, knowing that a murder had been committed, would get a cold shiver down their spine, watching the heartrate data do that.
That being said.. while in this case a tracking device (which is what Fitbit is, after all) has provided the time-of-death evidence necessary to catch a killer, it's still completely fucked up that people are voluntarily wearing a tracking device like Fitbit that gives away such valuable personal data to any corporation for any reason -- that apparently the police and other government agencies can then have access to. Don't do it, folks.
Sounds to me like theoretically there's a simple (well, for me, or someone with my skill-set at least) way to determine if any of this is true or not: A comprehensive physical examination of Supermicro server motherboards being used in critical applications. If something that's not on the BOM for the PCB has been glued to the board and blue-wired into it, then it obviously doesn't belong there and is suspect. Any and all silicon should also be able to be identified by it's manufacturers' part number and it's existence on the PCB justified. Furthermore the BIOS should not have any extraneous code in it that either runs on the main processor cores or that loads into the various microcontroller cores found in the chipset of any modern computer. Hiding malicious code that only lives in RAM is one thing, but anything physical or that lives permanently in something physical is literally a smoking gun and should be able to be sussed out, you really can't hide it. I have to say though it's pretty cheeky of a manufacturer, Chinese or not, to do something like this, if in fact they have. Malware is one thing, something physical is a completely different ballgame.
Call me a cynic (it's true) but somehow I think not.
We need a hacker collective like the Everyone on Elementary to hack into Ajit Pai's life and see if he's got offshore accounts for all the kickback and bribery money he must be getting from the telecom industry.
You son of a bitch, why won't you just fucking die?
They want Carte Blanche to fuck everyone in the ass due to a totally unregulated industry.
It's just like any company any one of you was working for that got bought out by some other company; first they say "We like the way everything is working, so rest assured we won't be changing anything". Then 3 months later the pull at least half the employees into a meeting room and fire them while their IT goons lock down their computers. So it'll be with the gods-be-damned broadband industry: "Oh well Net Neutrality is in our best interests, no worries!", then some months in the future they'll screw everyone over, set up their Walled Gardens, paid access levels, and so on.
THANKS, TRUMP! Dx
On the one hand, it's vital that the Australian tech industry is heard and understood.
On the other hand, if they're not, then I guess we'll see what the real-world effect is of totally buggering and gutting encryption.
Thanks, Trump! Dx
You're basically saying what I've said elsewhere: our species needs to evolve out of the stupid bullshit it does.
They moved the goalposts.
..however: it's not enforceable, assuming the 'bot in question is realistic enough to pass muster with the average person, and the 'bot owner doesn't give a damn about the law (which a foreign operative working within the U.S. most certainly woudn't) or if it's owned by someone outside the borders of the U.S. The real solution to this problem is people need to stop believing shit they read online that's coming from 'people' they don't personally know, or at the very least they need to learn to apply some critical thinking and some basic research to verify something is factual or not. Sites like Snopes and Politifact are probably good places to start. So then the problem becomes: How do we educate the masses so they do this automatically?
Yeah, I know. We're doomed, right? :-(
Listen, buddy: At one point in my life, public schools having failed *me* personally, I thought charter schools/private schools were a good idea. I went to a private school 4th through 8th grade and benefitted thereby. But public schools in this country, *especially* for the Poor, and *especially* for poor Minorities, already is shit, and she wants to take more money away from them, to give to 'vouchers', that only really middle-class and rich families will be able to take advantage of? The vouchers alone won't cover tuition for any of these 'charter schools', so Poor families will not benefit -- mostly poor black families, but also other minorities, and *also* poor white families, but that last is the smallest group that will be affected. Meanwhile blacks and other minorities are hamstrung socially and economically by poor educational opportunities, which is the leading reason they're involved in gangs and crime more often than any other groups. So DeVos, through her shit policies and shit ideas, makes a bad situation worse, creating an ever-widening gap between The Poor and everyone else, one they'll never likely be able to cross. DeVos also is screwing over college students through things like removing protections against predatory lending and collection practicies for student loans. It all smacks of a Dominionist-like agenda, which fits in perfectly with her white 'Christian' background. Add to that her total lack of any relevant career background in education and you start to see that she was appointed to enact an agenda, not help fix and enhance public education in this country, just 'privatize' it, and make it even more accessible for upper-middle-class and rich people through giving them government money they really don't need, meanwhile screwing over families that rely on public schools.
I don't exist to do 40 hours of research or even 8 hours or 1 hour of research for random jackasses on the Internet, so go do you own research -- assuming YOU are not just a TROLL or a Trump supporter trying to screw me up; go look at things yourself with an open mind if you really care at all.
And now if you're just another damned troll, you're fapping furiously because you managed to get me to waste 10 minutes of my life explaining something to you that you don't even give a shit about. Nice job.
Fuck off. I'm FAR from alone in seeing that DeVos is bad for education and clearly has an agenda. You're just another anonymous bobble-headed Trump supporter whose only motivation is to 'stick it to the libtards'. Eat shit and die, you're the one who lacks credibility.
Considering who's behind it and their general pattern of behavior I posted sarcasm.
Oh gee sorry I forgot the tag.