They could always try a telephone or bullhorn and ask some questions including permission to enter.
So let me get this straight. I have been kidnapped in my home by a lunatic who threatens to kill me if I try to call the police or escape. I manage to call 911 for help, and your suggestion is that the police call me back or ask permission to enter so that the kidnapper can make good on their threat to kill me.
Or... none of that happened and it's just a swatter dickbag!
OTOH, if the police response to your call is to flatten the whole place with a bazooka, you wouldn't fare very well either.
One question in my mind is not only what the computer recognizes, but when it recognizes it. If a kid and/or dog runs out in the street without warning, there's no doubt that a computer can react faster than I could. But I might notice that there are a bunch of dogs and/or kids playing on the sidewalk and adjust my speed and alertness accordingly. Can the computer do so? If not, it's not ready.
I expect it'll become mandatory after a couple of people who set their car to "manual" kill pedestrians or other drivers. People are far too unreliable to have behind the wheel if we have a better option.
Until the self-driving car kills people. Even if it really is a better option, it's going to be hard to make it mandatory in the face of "Killer Car Kills Family" stories on the news.
That's really my problem. As an American, the only languages I'm even exposed to are English and Spanish. And I don't know many people who speak Spanish, and the ones that do also speak English. So, my only incentive to learn Spanish is to overhear what the people in the grocery store are saying to each other.
A country the size of America where everyone speaks the same language? What a huge advantage. There are hundreds of millions of Chinese people who don't speak the official language. How many wars did Europe have because they couldn't communicate with each other?
Actually, I suspect several wars started BECAUSE the people understood each other.
If that's true, how the hell are people in America going to communicate with the rest of the world who speak English?
What I mean is, while Germans and Chinese are communicating effectively in English, because their brains can parse accents and different grammatical patterns, if an American can't even understand what a Londoner is saying, how do they have any hope to communicate with anyone other than an American? They'll have to start teaching "Understanding Global English" as a foreign language class.
Based on some TV from the other side of the ocean, learning German might be easier than understanding British!
It's not a programmer thing; just look at the comments to the Wall Street Journal article and you'll find the same complaints. I find that pedantry is mostly a class issue. The educated upper classes (and those who see themselves as such) use pedantry to place themselves above others they view as lower class and uneducated ("begging the question" being a perfect example). You will never hear complaints about Bostonians who don't pronounce "r" (*Pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd."); you will hear endless complaints about black people who say "ax" instead of "ask" (even though "ax" is actually the original pronunciation). The Boston accent is perceived as cosmopolitan and part of a historic American tradition. African-American vernacular is saddled with poverty and ghetto stereotypes by those outside the communities.
By definition, "improper" English is how poor people speak.
Springing forward, like we just did, isn't so bad (except for losing a damn hour on the weekend and not in the middle of a meeting at work). Even though there's a missing hour, time is still going forward. But when we fall back, that's when things get strange. I might be looking at two files, sorted by datetime, and wondering why the fk the 1:00 AM file is "later" than the 1:45 AM file. And there could be multiple 1 AM files that were updated an hour apart.
My W7 work box still has "My Documents" on the C: drive, but nearly everything I do is on the network drive, and not only does it not have "My Documents", it doesn't even have "Documents". I've never understood why MS set it up that way. Something like "Users/CroMagnon" would make much more sense as a home directory. If I wanted a "Documents" or even "My Documents" I could put it there myself.
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Neither. The malware war, like tic-tac-toe and global thermonuclear war, is unwinnable.
In some cases, there isn't a "right" answer. One recent site I created an account on asked me about my spouse. I'm not married.
I bet there are a lot of Spring2015 passwords floating around there.
Maybe the homeowner had to sell his house twice.
It's probably a good thing I didn't have that happen with the password I set when I was in a bad mood. "Gimme yur password" "FuckOff123#"
One solution to that is to hire 7 foot hulking males as flight attendants. At least until it's the FA that tries to crash the plane.
I've seen writing on a speed sign that made the 35 look like an 85. That could get messy if an autonomous car couldn't tell it was fake.
Some of the people on the road seem to be trying to exceed that one too!
It's always smelled like that.
They could always try a telephone or bullhorn and ask some questions including permission to enter.
So let me get this straight. I have been kidnapped in my home by a lunatic who threatens to kill me if I try to call the police or escape. I manage to call 911 for help, and your suggestion is that the police call me back or ask permission to enter so that the kidnapper can make good on their threat to kill me.
Or... none of that happened and it's just a swatter dickbag!
OTOH, if the police response to your call is to flatten the whole place with a bazooka, you wouldn't fare very well either.
One question in my mind is not only what the computer recognizes, but when it recognizes it. If a kid and/or dog runs out in the street without warning, there's no doubt that a computer can react faster than I could. But I might notice that there are a bunch of dogs and/or kids playing on the sidewalk and adjust my speed and alertness accordingly. Can the computer do so? If not, it's not ready.
I expect it'll become mandatory after a couple of people who set their car to "manual" kill pedestrians or other drivers. People are far too unreliable to have behind the wheel if we have a better option.
Until the self-driving car kills people. Even if it really is a better option, it's going to be hard to make it mandatory in the face of "Killer Car Kills Family" stories on the news.
You picked up a clue with the words 'half-wit'.
Absolutely this!!! My SSN is an ID. It's not a damn password, but too many half-wits treat it as such.
That's really my problem. As an American, the only languages I'm even exposed to are English and Spanish. And I don't know many people who speak Spanish, and the ones that do also speak English. So, my only incentive to learn Spanish is to overhear what the people in the grocery store are saying to each other.
A country the size of America where everyone speaks the same language? What a huge advantage. There are hundreds of millions of Chinese people who don't speak the official language. How many wars did Europe have because they couldn't communicate with each other?
Actually, I suspect several wars started BECAUSE the people understood each other.
The reason English is the main language is because of the British Empire, followed by American dominance. Ease is a secondary factor.
True, but if can charge my car while I sleep 8 hours, that's fine. Charging while I poop wouldn't work as well; I seldom poop for 8 hours.
If that's true, how the hell are people in America going to communicate with the rest of the world who speak English?
What I mean is, while Germans and Chinese are communicating effectively in English, because their brains can parse accents and different grammatical patterns, if an American can't even understand what a Londoner is saying, how do they have any hope to communicate with anyone other than an American? They'll have to start teaching "Understanding Global English" as a foreign language class.
Based on some TV from the other side of the ocean, learning German might be easier than understanding British!
It's not a programmer thing; just look at the comments to the Wall Street Journal article and you'll find the same complaints. I find that pedantry is mostly a class issue. The educated upper classes (and those who see themselves as such) use pedantry to place themselves above others they view as lower class and uneducated ("begging the question" being a perfect example). You will never hear complaints about Bostonians who don't pronounce "r" (*Pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd."); you will hear endless complaints about black people who say "ax" instead of "ask" (even though "ax" is actually the original pronunciation). The Boston accent is perceived as cosmopolitan and part of a historic American tradition. African-American vernacular is saddled with poverty and ghetto stereotypes by those outside the communities.
By definition, "improper" English is how poor people speak.
Here are a few words from a posh Brit on the matter.
That's not entirely true. Several of us where I work poked fun at a Bostonian coworker's references to his "cah".
Yeah, when a guy I know from there said he got into his "caw", it had nothing to do with crow noises.
2016 elections. Need I say more?
Understandable. It's very hard to keep all those political Dicks straight.
"Have you ever thought of shooting the companies HR person?"
Do I REALLY need to answer that one?
Springing forward, like we just did, isn't so bad (except for losing a damn hour on the weekend and not in the middle of a meeting at work). Even though there's a missing hour, time is still going forward. But when we fall back, that's when things get strange. I might be looking at two files, sorted by datetime, and wondering why the fk the 1:00 AM file is "later" than the 1:45 AM file. And there could be multiple 1 AM files that were updated an hour apart.
My W7 work box still has "My Documents" on the C: drive, but nearly everything I do is on the network drive, and not only does it not have "My Documents", it doesn't even have "Documents". I've never understood why MS set it up that way. Something like "Users/CroMagnon" would make much more sense as a home directory. If I wanted a "Documents" or even "My Documents" I could put it there myself.