However, I refuse to share the road with them. The main problem is an unequal share of driving responsibility exists when humans share roads with machines whose manufacturers enjoy the protection of corporate citizenship. Who is found at fault when accidents inevitably occur? If the autonomous vehicle is found at fault, who goes to jail? The CEO? I doubt that.
It's the same as the New Jersey Turnpike. They have a separate set of lanes reserved for commercial vehicles so passenger cars can travel safely. Same should apply here -- separate roads, possibly by repurposing of HOV lanes, for autonomous vehicles so manual drivers need not share the same road with them.
Musk will be pursuing taking Tesla private on the down-low. Oligarchs don't listen to shareholders, so the next time his stock get shorted, Musk will be ready.
I don't really have a dog in this fight. However, it seems to me that logically human umpires should continue in their traditional roles. The sport of baseball is like 130 years-old and comparisons are made regularly comparing players and games in history with those today.
Unless the same conditions exist today as in the past, it becomes no longer possible to make comparisons with historic games or players. Is accuracy really that important? It is, after all, only a game.
Are we back discussing whether or not rounded corners on a frikkin' phone qualifies as patent infringement? Bore me to tears, this is another tempest in a very similar teapot.
Look, as an American I must point out the US/Israel leads the world in hacking for information gathering and for sabotage. Can't forget the stuxnet virus, used to destroy uranium centrifuges in Iran and a derivative of the same used to hack into Proximus in Belgium to eavesdrop on GSMs in Europe. The WikiLeaks Vault 7 release showed us that the NSA had developed and deployed hacks that would leave false clues leading to blaming third parties. The sanctions, on the other hand, are acts of war designed to weaken a foreign country. If the same sanctions were declared against the US, the post 9/11 laws would lead the US military to attack those responsible. All of this based on hacking incidents where no objective proof has ever been put forward.
Now that we have the technology to create edited continuous speech from previous voice recordings (not that it hasn't already been done before) how long before fake, incriminating audio recordings become more common? The FBI can whip one of those up and then interview a subject and charge them with perjury because their answers don't jibe with the concocted phone recording they have. Combine that with the current practice of the NSA sharing their surveillance with law enforcement and cops using that information to construct a legal investigation as if the surveillance never took place, we have another way to frame people with unpopular points of view with crimes they did not commit. No need to plant kiddie-porn on anyone's computer anymore.
The private prison industry will just love this!
Gamble hacks Brennan and gets 2 years in prison. Brennan hacks congress and walks free. Nothing wrong with the justice system if you're in the top tier of a two-tiered system.
What is this? Is Amazon turning into frikkin' Standard Oil? Somebody please exercise the Sherman Act. It hasn't been invoked in like 50 years and it's long overdue.
I am only 63 years old, I started programming in 1969 while in high school, but did not do it professionally until 1977 after working as a computer operator for 4 years. I learned and wrote Basic and Fortran on a TTY device connected to a DEC PDP-10 located at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Also, at my high school we had an Olivetti Underwood Programma 101 desktop computer that we used in geometry and calculus classes to solve problems and calculate limits.
I maintain a heterogeneous LAN at home consisting of Linux and Windows computers -- I've never had less than 4 computer networked at home since the mid to late 1990s when the 7 PCs I was running 24/7 were processing work packets from the SETI program while I was working in South America. These days, I am mostly writing in c, shell script, python, and maintaining two websites.
The US and UK have already tapped the underwater cables. That is the whole story behind Edward Snowden's revelations -- that was how the NSA and GCHQ got around encryption, by tapping the unencrypted lines between, for instance, Google servers. The US and UK also hacked into Proximus in Belgium in order to listen in on GSM conversations.
https://www.theatlantic.com/in...
As usual, this is more NATO agitation, designed to muddy the waters and develop excuses for further demonization of Russia. The sooner NATO is dissolved and the EU takes control of their own defense, the safer the world will be.
Having a combination of a CHIP card and an RSA Security Device or key seems to wok just fine. When I lived in Europe, for remote access to work, I used an RSA Security key which consisted of a 6 digit code which changes every 90 seconds and an assigned static 4-digit code. The MAC address of the machine was registers and that seemed adequate. Personal/banking transaction were handles with a CHIP card, 4-digit PIN, and an RSA security device that looked like a calculator.
By using the combination I could not only sign in to online banking with a unique password every time, but I could validate each financial transaction using a calculated checksum provided by the RSA device that looked like a calculator with a slot for the CHIP card. We should have this system in the United States, but we should also get over our paranoia of a national ID card. The national id card in the country where I lived was a CHIP card as well and you could purchase a USB reader to insert your your identity card to access federal social websites.
Biometrics has the potential of making the current American police/surveillance state even more pernicious. Notice the ubiquity of police cameras seen at the Occupy Wall Street protests and other demonstrations. Just like collecting fingerprints sans probable cause, the government is face-printing the population in order to preemptively round people up if necessary at a later time. We've already seen preemptive raids and the seizing of computers of people suspected of possibly disrupting the Republican Convention in 2012.
There are other, better methods for securing transactions, however, in America the corporations rules and the government claims powerlessness no force them to provide adequate security to their customers.
Advanced countries must be prepared to support the workers they discard due to autonomic replacement via an unemployment surtax or the countries institute a national minimum income to forestall the looming unemployment crisis. Corporations must exist for the betterment of society, not just as profit generators that enrich the owners at the expense of the community. There is automation that enhances the work environment which is acceptable as opposed to using automation to replace workers as retaliation to avoid paying a living wage and/or health insurance benefits.
Perhaps while WaPo is discussing a "possible" intrusion into the US electrical grid, they should mention a confirmed penetration of the Belgian national telephone company Belgacom (now called Proximus) by the NSA and GCHQ in 2012. The code that was found on Belgacom's network had some commonality with the StuxNet virus and was introduced in order to listen on on Europe-wide GSM communication.
http://www.infosecurity-magazi...
The new studies that show new, ominous sounding but nebulous effect of Marijuana use are beginning to appear. They always appear whenever Marijuana laws are being relaxed. The same thing happened in the UK a few years back when the police said they would no longer actively pursue arrests of Marijuana users. These studies are to be ignored. Legalization and governmental control of who can purchase and grow Marijuana are both enlightened and necessary to move forward. The anti-drug laws and their deleterious effects on individuals and society must first be eliminated before their past effects can be reversed. Legalize and then empty the prisons of those jailed exclusively for possession, use, and sale of Marijuana. Make it illegal for companies to test and discipline/fire their employees for substances found that have been confiscated from their employees' bodily fluids.
This needs to be the real deal, otherwise it will be reversed in a heartbeat.
Data cannot break computers. Data whose contents differ from the possible preconception of application programmers can cause errors in poorly designed, written, or tested applications.
I've been posting, advocating, and hassling legislators via phone and email over Trade Promotion Authority for months. I would have posted it earlier had I known about it. That was not my point. My point was that I almost believed this post and canceled Facebook (just because I use it doesn't mean I have to like it) without having verified the claim. I have no problem with the underlying message and if this is what it takes to get more hits -- I cannot argue with it.
I just posted the URL stopfasttrack.com to my Facebook timeline. I was immediately going to cancel my Facebook account (for the second time) but thought I'd check first.
I believe the polls, I just cannot believe the stupidity of the responses. I am outside the mainstream as well, I'm 60 and I believe Snowden is a patriot and American hero. Unfortunately, I have to listen to these people who look at me like I'm crazy and that privacy is dead and I must accept it.
To accept privacy is dead, I must accept that free and open discourse is dead as is democratic government.
I will never accept that.
And the tech companies have the gold. The is age discrimination in IT jobs because younger workers are cheap and full of enthusiasm and energy. I remember back in the 1970, I didn't care what my income or perks were -- I just wanted to work, screw a home or social life. The tech industry depends upon this as must as the education industry depends upon dedicated educators willing to work for a pittance.
Those that make the economic decisions have decided that disaster rollouts followed by many cycles of repair because of inexperienced personnel and insufficient quality control combined with low salaries beats paying larger salaries to those who would refuse to put oot finished code until it's ready for release. I believe this strategy will fail in the long run, but who is in software development for the long run anymore.
I have seen from working in Europe that seniority is valued by some companies but the American short-sighted strategies are taking hold and the Americanization of the European continent continues apace.
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It's called a smartphone.
all bets are off.
However, I refuse to share the road with them. The main problem is an unequal share of driving responsibility exists when humans share roads with machines whose manufacturers enjoy the protection of corporate citizenship. Who is found at fault when accidents inevitably occur? If the autonomous vehicle is found at fault, who goes to jail? The CEO? I doubt that. It's the same as the New Jersey Turnpike. They have a separate set of lanes reserved for commercial vehicles so passenger cars can travel safely. Same should apply here -- separate roads, possibly by repurposing of HOV lanes, for autonomous vehicles so manual drivers need not share the same road with them.
Privacy that is not absolute is not privacy.
Musk will be pursuing taking Tesla private on the down-low. Oligarchs don't listen to shareholders, so the next time his stock get shorted, Musk will be ready.
I don't really have a dog in this fight. However, it seems to me that logically human umpires should continue in their traditional roles. The sport of baseball is like 130 years-old and comparisons are made regularly comparing players and games in history with those today. Unless the same conditions exist today as in the past, it becomes no longer possible to make comparisons with historic games or players. Is accuracy really that important? It is, after all, only a game.
Are we back discussing whether or not rounded corners on a frikkin' phone qualifies as patent infringement? Bore me to tears, this is another tempest in a very similar teapot.
Look, as an American I must point out the US/Israel leads the world in hacking for information gathering and for sabotage. Can't forget the stuxnet virus, used to destroy uranium centrifuges in Iran and a derivative of the same used to hack into Proximus in Belgium to eavesdrop on GSMs in Europe. The WikiLeaks Vault 7 release showed us that the NSA had developed and deployed hacks that would leave false clues leading to blaming third parties. The sanctions, on the other hand, are acts of war designed to weaken a foreign country. If the same sanctions were declared against the US, the post 9/11 laws would lead the US military to attack those responsible. All of this based on hacking incidents where no objective proof has ever been put forward.
Now that we have the technology to create edited continuous speech from previous voice recordings (not that it hasn't already been done before) how long before fake, incriminating audio recordings become more common? The FBI can whip one of those up and then interview a subject and charge them with perjury because their answers don't jibe with the concocted phone recording they have. Combine that with the current practice of the NSA sharing their surveillance with law enforcement and cops using that information to construct a legal investigation as if the surveillance never took place, we have another way to frame people with unpopular points of view with crimes they did not commit. No need to plant kiddie-porn on anyone's computer anymore. The private prison industry will just love this!
Gamble hacks Brennan and gets 2 years in prison. Brennan hacks congress and walks free. Nothing wrong with the justice system if you're in the top tier of a two-tiered system.
What is this? Is Amazon turning into frikkin' Standard Oil? Somebody please exercise the Sherman Act. It hasn't been invoked in like 50 years and it's long overdue.
I am only 63 years old, I started programming in 1969 while in high school, but did not do it professionally until 1977 after working as a computer operator for 4 years. I learned and wrote Basic and Fortran on a TTY device connected to a DEC PDP-10 located at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Also, at my high school we had an Olivetti Underwood Programma 101 desktop computer that we used in geometry and calculus classes to solve problems and calculate limits. I maintain a heterogeneous LAN at home consisting of Linux and Windows computers -- I've never had less than 4 computer networked at home since the mid to late 1990s when the 7 PCs I was running 24/7 were processing work packets from the SETI program while I was working in South America. These days, I am mostly writing in c, shell script, python, and maintaining two websites.
The US and UK have already tapped the underwater cables. That is the whole story behind Edward Snowden's revelations -- that was how the NSA and GCHQ got around encryption, by tapping the unencrypted lines between, for instance, Google servers. The US and UK also hacked into Proximus in Belgium in order to listen in on GSM conversations. https://www.theatlantic.com/in... As usual, this is more NATO agitation, designed to muddy the waters and develop excuses for further demonization of Russia. The sooner NATO is dissolved and the EU takes control of their own defense, the safer the world will be.
Having a combination of a CHIP card and an RSA Security Device or key seems to wok just fine. When I lived in Europe, for remote access to work, I used an RSA Security key which consisted of a 6 digit code which changes every 90 seconds and an assigned static 4-digit code. The MAC address of the machine was registers and that seemed adequate. Personal/banking transaction were handles with a CHIP card, 4-digit PIN, and an RSA security device that looked like a calculator. By using the combination I could not only sign in to online banking with a unique password every time, but I could validate each financial transaction using a calculated checksum provided by the RSA device that looked like a calculator with a slot for the CHIP card. We should have this system in the United States, but we should also get over our paranoia of a national ID card. The national id card in the country where I lived was a CHIP card as well and you could purchase a USB reader to insert your your identity card to access federal social websites. Biometrics has the potential of making the current American police/surveillance state even more pernicious. Notice the ubiquity of police cameras seen at the Occupy Wall Street protests and other demonstrations. Just like collecting fingerprints sans probable cause, the government is face-printing the population in order to preemptively round people up if necessary at a later time. We've already seen preemptive raids and the seizing of computers of people suspected of possibly disrupting the Republican Convention in 2012. There are other, better methods for securing transactions, however, in America the corporations rules and the government claims powerlessness no force them to provide adequate security to their customers.
Advanced countries must be prepared to support the workers they discard due to autonomic replacement via an unemployment surtax or the countries institute a national minimum income to forestall the looming unemployment crisis. Corporations must exist for the betterment of society, not just as profit generators that enrich the owners at the expense of the community. There is automation that enhances the work environment which is acceptable as opposed to using automation to replace workers as retaliation to avoid paying a living wage and/or health insurance benefits.
Every advance has to be paid for by the consumer. Each incremental advance comes as the previous one is marketed.
Don't forget Qatar. I guess we just don't have any influence in the Middle East except what Israel provides... NOT!
Perhaps while WaPo is discussing a "possible" intrusion into the US electrical grid, they should mention a confirmed penetration of the Belgian national telephone company Belgacom (now called Proximus) by the NSA and GCHQ in 2012. The code that was found on Belgacom's network had some commonality with the StuxNet virus and was introduced in order to listen on on Europe-wide GSM communication. http://www.infosecurity-magazi...
The new studies that show new, ominous sounding but nebulous effect of Marijuana use are beginning to appear. They always appear whenever Marijuana laws are being relaxed. The same thing happened in the UK a few years back when the police said they would no longer actively pursue arrests of Marijuana users. These studies are to be ignored. Legalization and governmental control of who can purchase and grow Marijuana are both enlightened and necessary to move forward. The anti-drug laws and their deleterious effects on individuals and society must first be eliminated before their past effects can be reversed. Legalize and then empty the prisons of those jailed exclusively for possession, use, and sale of Marijuana. Make it illegal for companies to test and discipline/fire their employees for substances found that have been confiscated from their employees' bodily fluids. This needs to be the real deal, otherwise it will be reversed in a heartbeat.
Data cannot break computers. Data whose contents differ from the possible preconception of application programmers can cause errors in poorly designed, written, or tested applications.
I've been posting, advocating, and hassling legislators via phone and email over Trade Promotion Authority for months. I would have posted it earlier had I known about it. That was not my point. My point was that I almost believed this post and canceled Facebook (just because I use it doesn't mean I have to like it) without having verified the claim. I have no problem with the underlying message and if this is what it takes to get more hits -- I cannot argue with it.
I just posted the URL stopfasttrack.com to my Facebook timeline. I was immediately going to cancel my Facebook account (for the second time) but thought I'd check first.
What you say makes sense (or lack of sense) but it doesn't sound sinister enough for the western mainstream reportage on Russia.
I believe the polls, I just cannot believe the stupidity of the responses. I am outside the mainstream as well, I'm 60 and I believe Snowden is a patriot and American hero. Unfortunately, I have to listen to these people who look at me like I'm crazy and that privacy is dead and I must accept it. To accept privacy is dead, I must accept that free and open discourse is dead as is democratic government. I will never accept that.
And the tech companies have the gold. The is age discrimination in IT jobs because younger workers are cheap and full of enthusiasm and energy. I remember back in the 1970, I didn't care what my income or perks were -- I just wanted to work, screw a home or social life. The tech industry depends upon this as must as the education industry depends upon dedicated educators willing to work for a pittance.
Those that make the economic decisions have decided that disaster rollouts followed by many cycles of repair because of inexperienced personnel and insufficient quality control combined with low salaries beats paying larger salaries to those who would refuse to put oot finished code until it's ready for release. I believe this strategy will fail in the long run, but who is in software development for the long run anymore.
I have seen from working in Europe that seniority is valued by some companies but the American short-sighted strategies are taking hold and the Americanization of the European continent continues apace.