Right. I'm not saying auto-driver systems are a Bad Thing. Simply that I don't trust them ENOUGH to completely relinquish every last bit of driver control and become an idle passenger. If the current designers of auto-driver systems thing their software and hardware are infallible, I think they're nowhere near ready for prime-time. They're still caught in "what a wonderful fantasy" stage. The driver should always retain an option to override an obviously malfunctioning vehicle. The inability to do so could get the rider killed.
And if you think your judgement and perception is better than this computer system, you are full of hubris and a menace to other road users. It works both ways.
Whatever. My driving skills (or lack thereof) are a known quantity to me. I have some grasp of what I can and cannot do in a vehicle.
I can't say the same for a driverless car.
I'm not sure why this is such a difficult argument for some people to comprehend.
I'm not saying I won't ever use an auto-driver system. Simply that I want the option to take control in an accident situation where the car may be malfunctioning. As opposed to letting it drive me off a cliff or into a lake or something...
Do you really trust the other people on the road? At least self-driving cars don't get drunk or distracted.
Do I trust other driver?
No. Which is why I'd rather apply my own Mk.1 Eyeball and pattern recognition software than that of a computer.
MAYBE if EVERY car on the road was turned into a self-driver, I'd have a little more trust. But, the reality is that self-driving cars are going to be sharing the roadways with human-driven cars for several generations AT LEAST. And I don't trust the self-driven cars to appropriately identify/deal with erratic/dangerous situations.
Sorry, but there's a big difference between flying around in a plane in a pre-planned course that's been cleared of other traffic and driving around on the ground on an expressway or city street.
Sorry. While I love technology, my not-so-humble opinion is that we're nowhere near the level of reliability needed for a car that's completely free of manual control.
Simply put, having seen the arc of technology advance over the last 30+ years, I still don't trust an automated driver system with my safety. PERIOD.
Actually, a good chunk of the waste from LFTR are either industrially, medically or scientifically useful.
The little that's left may be what you classify as "high level" waste. But it's totally useless for making bombs. And while it's very "hot", it's also extremely short-lived. Properly built and timelined, a good chunk of the waste generated will have decayed into safety by the time it comes to decommission the reactor and most of the material will decay into safety within a human lifetime. Instead of taking thousands of years.
Sorry, but your power storage fantasies for solar are just that. There's, quite literally nothing in the pipeline suitable for storing the raw amount of power you're talking about. That's also failing to mention the types of environmental damage that such solar installations go hand in hand with.
Honestly, the money would be better put into better reactor tech. Things like LFTR. Where the the few byproducts that AREN'T industrially, scientifically or medically useful are EXTREMELY short-lived.
If Nevada wants to glass itself over for solar power production, fine. It's a good source of peak power.
Still, when it came time to make a decision between taking care of his family and telling "the man" to fuck off, he made a responsible decision to take care of his family.
If, for a second, you think he thought of his family, and not himself, you're deluded. He also didn't care much for the families of those he ratted out, did he?
The anon crowd hates this guy. The police hates this guy. Anyone with a backbone hates this guy.
I hope his family doesn't depend on him anymore, because who will employ someone who becomes a turncoat first chance they get, and who comes with a high risk of a lot of unwanted pizza deliveries?
Hey. I've been in the scene. I know how fun it can be, mischief here and there. Very cathartic. Especially for someone with lots of responsibility IRL. Did he think about his cousins when he was doing it? Oh fuck no! Did he think about the predicament he'd put them (and himself) in after being caught? Oh fuck yeah!
As for the families of those he "ratted out".
He was given an agency deal. Right, wrong or otherwise. Also, while I don't know about ALL of the lulzsec guys in this, and whether they deserved it or not. But I do know of at least one. One Jeremy Hammond, who's now deservedly back in federal lockup. Maybe he was entrapped. But he'd been locked up for this shit before. And he KNEW he wasn't supposed to be doing it. Yet he was in his basic "Fuck "The Man" I Want Attention" mindset. So, he now gets three square a day and all the rectal love he can handle. And if his family didn't know he was going to spend a good portion of his adult life in lockup, they weren't paying attention at any and all the court dates this guy had.
Sure. The Anon crowd hates this guy. So what? Anon is an amorphous mass of nerdrage with the attention span of a dog in a yard full of squirrels. Most of them are simply a bunch of angry people with few/no skills. And most of the skilled ones have their own agendas to push. And hounding sabu to death is about as interesting to most of them as watching a cop eat is way through a box of donuts.
As for "the cops".
Which cops?
Is some random cop going to go rogue and put a bullet in him?
And, as I said earlier. It's REALLY easy to talk about "backbone" when YOU aren't the person in the hot seat there Mr. Internet Braveguy. Have some letter agency pull YOU in talk to you about your misdeeds. THEN come talk to me about spine and balls. Until then, the whole "backbone" argument is a lot of hot air for a lot of very infantile minds.
As to who'll employ sabu?
Who'd employ Kevin Mitnick? Who'd employ Adrian Lamo? Who'd employ Kevin Poulsen Isn't tflow now working as a security volunteer now that his probation is over? What's Chris Goggans (Erik Bloodaxe) doing nowadays? Isn't Bruce Francher (Timberwolf) actually gainfully employed?
You haven't seen the young hacker/cracker scene. It's like Nerd High School.
And I agree. He's pathetic. And what he did was reprehensible.
Still, when it came time to make a decision between taking care of his family and telling "the man" to fuck off, he made a responsible decision to take care of his family.
And yeah, the government is rewarding him by letting him off the hook for being as singularly helpful as he was.
This lawsuit makes no business sense whatsoever. Why the hell don't Apple and Samsung settle with a cross-licensing agreement?
This suit is making a bunch of lawyers very rich, which in this case I'm OK with. If the two companies don't come to their senses and settle, I will enjoy seeing them get milked by their lawyers.
You can be sure Samsung doesn't want to continue this farce.
It's basically Apple. They're too caught up in their own bullshit to understand that, hey, they AREN'T the only game in town, and that they don't have a hard-lock monopoly on good ideas and engineering.
Maybe some day, they'll pull their heads out of their asses. Until then, they'll continue burning money on these dumbshit lawsuits.
Really easy to talk about backbone (or lack thereof) when you aren't the one facing prison time, and don't have a pair of young cousins as dependents for him as sole provider.
Not saying what he did was right or cool or okay in any way.
Just saying that unless you've been in a similar situation, with family DEPENDING on you, your protestations are just so much noise.
Unfortunately the screwy way copyright and the like work in the US, you get stupid things. Like my parents can't even make a digital print of their wedding picture. Because it's technically copyright to the photographer (who's dead) and the studio (which has been out of business for 35 years).
Never mind that the picture was a work for hire. Never mind that they're the subjects of the picture. Never mind that the picture itself is fading and they're doing this for preservational purposes.
I'd rather kids had a good, solid grasp of concrete math, than confusing them with "imagine dividing this plus that, now add these two thingees, and envision a circle within a..." when all they need to do is multiply 33*5.
If some people need to resort to mental crutches for this sort of thing fine. Teach it as the Special Ed that it is.
And if part of the problem is crappy question design, having been a victim of that in collegiate classes (because English was the teacher's third language), I'm totally unsympathetic.
Basically they've tied the hands of parents who want to help by leaving only the teachers, who may or may not have a good grasp of this crap themselves, as the only outlet for trying to learn it. As most of these teachers have multiple classes of kids trying to learn this all day long, that really doesn't leave lots of time for tutoring on an individual basis. This essentially screws the kid over.
If the government wants our kids to grow up as naught but stupid consumers and eternally in debt, they should just come out and say so.
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So you're prepared to swear that these auto-driver systems are 100% infallible with zero bugs.
Right?
That the engineers have covered for every possible extant failure state (and possibly even a few impossible ones just in case).
C'mon. Tell us that.
I need a good laugh.
Right. I'm not saying auto-driver systems are a Bad Thing.
Simply that I don't trust them ENOUGH to completely relinquish every last bit of driver control and become an idle passenger.
If the current designers of auto-driver systems thing their software and hardware are infallible, I think they're nowhere near ready for prime-time. They're still caught in "what a wonderful fantasy" stage.
The driver should always retain an option to override an obviously malfunctioning vehicle.
The inability to do so could get the rider killed.
And if you think your judgement and perception is better than this computer system, you are full of hubris and a menace to other road users. It works both ways.
Whatever. My driving skills (or lack thereof) are a known quantity to me. I have some grasp of what I can and cannot do in a vehicle.
I can't say the same for a driverless car.
I'm not sure why this is such a difficult argument for some people to comprehend.
I'm not saying I won't ever use an auto-driver system. Simply that I want the option to take control in an accident situation where the car may be malfunctioning. As opposed to letting it drive me off a cliff or into a lake or something...
That's not what was meant at all and you know it.
It's that you only trust fulfilled promises. Not predictions.
Do you really trust the other people on the road? At least self-driving cars don't get drunk or distracted.
Do I trust other driver?
No. Which is why I'd rather apply my own Mk.1 Eyeball and pattern recognition software than that of a computer.
MAYBE if EVERY car on the road was turned into a self-driver, I'd have a little more trust. But, the reality is that self-driving cars are going to be sharing the roadways with human-driven cars for several generations AT LEAST. And I don't trust the self-driven cars to appropriately identify/deal with erratic/dangerous situations.
If you actually trust a computer more than your own judgement in an accident situation, I feel sorry for you.
Sorry, but there's a big difference between flying around in a plane in a pre-planned course that's been cleared of other traffic and driving around on the ground on an expressway or city street.
Again, I don't give a damn about "10 years from now".
People in the 50's and 60's were predicting flying cars being common by now.
We all know how THAT turned out.
Sorry. While I love technology, my not-so-humble opinion is that we're nowhere near the level of reliability needed for a car that's completely free of manual control.
Simply put, having seen the arc of technology advance over the last 30+ years, I still don't trust an automated driver system with my safety. PERIOD.
Yeah, but a LFTR design can burn it SAFELY, and most of the byproducts have decayed to stability within a human lifetime.
The molten salt experiment was a failure resulting in a huge mess.
Okay, now go and actually look at the history of LFTR and then come back when you're armed with facts.
Actually, a good chunk of the waste from LFTR are either industrially, medically or scientifically useful.
The little that's left may be what you classify as "high level" waste. But it's totally useless for making bombs. And while it's very "hot", it's also extremely short-lived.
Properly built and timelined, a good chunk of the waste generated will have decayed into safety by the time it comes to decommission the reactor and most of the material will decay into safety within a human lifetime. Instead of taking thousands of years.
Sorry, but your power storage fantasies for solar are just that. There's, quite literally nothing in the pipeline suitable for storing the raw amount of power you're talking about. That's also failing to mention the types of environmental damage that such solar installations go hand in hand with.
Honestly, the money would be better put into better reactor tech. Things like LFTR. Where the the few byproducts that AREN'T industrially, scientifically or medically useful are EXTREMELY short-lived.
If Nevada wants to glass itself over for solar power production, fine. It's a good source of peak power.
Basically because their usebase is so fucking dumb, that if everything isn't handed them and they aren't told "this is great stuff", they're lost.
I swear. It's the turtlenecks. They're wearing them too tight.
Still, when it came time to make a decision between taking care of his family and telling "the man" to fuck off, he made a responsible decision to take care of his family.
If, for a second, you think he thought of his family, and not himself, you're deluded.
He also didn't care much for the families of those he ratted out, did he?
The anon crowd hates this guy. The police hates this guy. Anyone with a backbone hates this guy.
I hope his family doesn't depend on him anymore, because who will employ someone who becomes a turncoat first chance they get, and who comes with a high risk of a lot of unwanted pizza deliveries?
Hey. I've been in the scene. I know how fun it can be, mischief here and there. Very cathartic. Especially for someone with lots of responsibility IRL.
Did he think about his cousins when he was doing it? Oh fuck no!
Did he think about the predicament he'd put them (and himself) in after being caught? Oh fuck yeah!
As for the families of those he "ratted out".
He was given an agency deal. Right, wrong or otherwise.
Also, while I don't know about ALL of the lulzsec guys in this, and whether they deserved it or not. But I do know of at least one. One Jeremy Hammond, who's now deservedly back in federal lockup. Maybe he was entrapped. But he'd been locked up for this shit before. And he KNEW he wasn't supposed to be doing it. Yet he was in his basic "Fuck "The Man" I Want Attention" mindset. So, he now gets three square a day and all the rectal love he can handle. And if his family didn't know he was going to spend a good portion of his adult life in lockup, they weren't paying attention at any and all the court dates this guy had.
Sure. The Anon crowd hates this guy. So what? Anon is an amorphous mass of nerdrage with the attention span of a dog in a yard full of squirrels. Most of them are simply a bunch of angry people with few/no skills. And most of the skilled ones have their own agendas to push. And hounding sabu to death is about as interesting to most of them as watching a cop eat is way through a box of donuts.
As for "the cops".
Which cops?
Is some random cop going to go rogue and put a bullet in him?
And, as I said earlier. It's REALLY easy to talk about "backbone" when YOU aren't the person in the hot seat there Mr. Internet Braveguy.
Have some letter agency pull YOU in talk to you about your misdeeds. THEN come talk to me about spine and balls.
Until then, the whole "backbone" argument is a lot of hot air for a lot of very infantile minds.
As to who'll employ sabu?
Who'd employ Kevin Mitnick?
Who'd employ Adrian Lamo?
Who'd employ Kevin Poulsen
Isn't tflow now working as a security volunteer now that his probation is over?
What's Chris Goggans (Erik Bloodaxe) doing nowadays?
Isn't Bruce Francher (Timberwolf) actually gainfully employed?
You haven't seen the young hacker/cracker scene. It's like Nerd High School.
And I agree. He's pathetic. And what he did was reprehensible.
Still, when it came time to make a decision between taking care of his family and telling "the man" to fuck off, he made a responsible decision to take care of his family.
And yeah, the government is rewarding him by letting him off the hook for being as singularly helpful as he was.
Again, this is why he was *caught*.
If you still find this objectionable, look up "Operation Overcast". Read up on it. Then tell me you're still outraged.
This lawsuit makes no business sense whatsoever. Why the hell don't Apple and Samsung settle with a cross-licensing agreement?
This suit is making a bunch of lawyers very rich, which in this case I'm OK with. If the two companies don't come to their senses and settle, I will enjoy seeing them get milked by their lawyers.
You can be sure Samsung doesn't want to continue this farce.
It's basically Apple. They're too caught up in their own bullshit to understand that, hey, they AREN'T the only game in town, and that they don't have a hard-lock monopoly on good ideas and engineering.
Maybe some day, they'll pull their heads out of their asses. Until then, they'll continue burning money on these dumbshit lawsuits.
Really easy to talk about backbone (or lack thereof) when you aren't the one facing prison time, and don't have a pair of young cousins as dependents for him as sole provider.
Not saying what he did was right or cool or okay in any way.
Just saying that unless you've been in a similar situation, with family DEPENDING on you, your protestations are just so much noise.
It's about your government turning the country into a giant jail and you all are the inmates.
I thought I was dead...
Because everyplace they take to get it converted (it's larger than legal-scale), tells them "no".
Unfortunately the screwy way copyright and the like work in the US, you get stupid things. Like my parents can't even make a digital print of their wedding picture. Because it's technically copyright to the photographer (who's dead) and the studio (which has been out of business for 35 years).
Never mind that the picture was a work for hire.
Never mind that they're the subjects of the picture.
Never mind that the picture itself is fading and they're doing this for preservational purposes.
Leave me alone! I'm working on something very important you phillistines!
Uh. The patent system is ALREADY royally fucked beyond belief.
This was supposed to be a first step to actually cleaning it up and making it work AS INTENDED.
Guess we couldn't have that happen. Not enough money in it for people...
Fuckers.
I'd rather kids had a good, solid grasp of concrete math, than confusing them with "imagine dividing this plus that, now add these two thingees, and envision a circle within a..." when all they need to do is multiply 33*5.
If some people need to resort to mental crutches for this sort of thing fine. Teach it as the Special Ed that it is.
And if part of the problem is crappy question design, having been a victim of that in collegiate classes (because English was the teacher's third language), I'm totally unsympathetic.
Basically they've tied the hands of parents who want to help by leaving only the teachers, who may or may not have a good grasp of this crap themselves, as the only outlet for trying to learn it. As most of these teachers have multiple classes of kids trying to learn this all day long, that really doesn't leave lots of time for tutoring on an individual basis. This essentially screws the kid over.
If the government wants our kids to grow up as naught but stupid consumers and eternally in debt, they should just come out and say so.