I was under the impression that you can't fall off from a Segway.
1. Get up to full speed 2. Without slowing, hit something too tall to bump over and too solid to give. 3. Pick the bits of gravel out of your face.
As magical as the Seg is, it still adheres to the laws of physics. The motors and gyros aren't strong or fast enough to stop a 6' long, 200lb lever arm at full speed.
I know who I voted for. I don't need to prove it to anyone. In fact, anyone that asks will get rebuffed. More forcefully as the requests build up.
In the case of a close election/recount, I expect that the local election board should be able to show there were n votes cast, and for whom. Not by whom. x+y+z=n
Broadcast TV is far different from cable/sat. During broadcast prime time hours, there is the expectation of no nudity. i.e. family time. A safe place for kids to hang with the parents and watch TV. It wasn't so much the nipple, but the expectation of not seeing a nipple during the Superbowl. And you KNOW they did that for the shock value, and the rating spurt it brought.
Cable is far, far different. You KNOW there will be some sex & violence, so hopefully you regulate your kids appropriately.
Nudity, in and of itself, is not a bad thing. But in the search for ever higher ratings, the line would be pushed back farther and farther. Given free reign, the advertisers would have Mr. & Mrs. McFeely live up to their name.
Factory/dealer installed ones are. If I put one in myself, who's going to check? Annual inspection? A handy enable/diable switch under the dash would work.
Go to the actual Congressional record to see a true list of who voted for what. For instance, the 108th Congress last year. For the month of November (just picked at random), there were some 27 votes in the Senate. Kerry shows "Not Voting" status in 25 of them. Of course, a lot of these may non-issues, but only voting twice out of 27 is not exactly a stellar record.
Vote Smart shows the results of the things he actually voted on, not all of the votes before the Senate.
they don't even bother to read the text of the laws they pass?
Yeah...Kerry has said that about various bills and reports. But then again, he doesn't even bother to vote in ~3/4 of them anyway, so I guess it doesn't matter if he reads it or not.
Trying to nurse that thing through an Upstate New York winter. The doors would freeze closed (crappy rubber on the seal), exposed wiring would corrode just sitting in the driveway, RUST! What killed it was a combination of the coolant pipes rusting out 1/2way through the tunnel, and the right front lower suspension arm tearing free (at 60mph!)
But yeah, I'd have another one too. I've often thought of A CRX-1/9. The X-1/9 shell (completely rewired), with a Honda CRX-Si powerplant and tranny.
I have a issue of Grassroots Motorsports, where they did an autocross competition between a 1965 Porsche 356, a 1967 Jag XKE convertible, and a stock 2003 Honda Odessy minivan.
The minivan, with stock tires, smoked the Jag, and tied the Porsche. With one level better tires, the minivan smoked the 356 as well. Smoked it badly
Why is it acceptable to have human-caused deaths, but not AI-caused ones?
One word...lawsuits. There is quite often a situation where the offending driver says "I didn't see him". and quite often, that is accepted. The driver is let go with a warning, or other minimal punishment. (Personally, I do NOT agree with this, but there it is). An AI in control of your car, backed by a major corporation (Ford, GM, Toyota) and the gov't (DOT), would not be able to say that. people expectations, and the news hounds, would be all over that like a cheap suit. "Are these cars REALLY safer? News at 11."
Like I said...eventually we will get there. but not anytime soon. And say goodbye to driving your vintage '68 Corvette.
Not a contrived situation at all. I had almost exactly the same recently, minus the telephone pole. Dog runs out into the street, kid chasing it, oncoming traffic. Avoiding the kid and dog meant turning as I slowed, going up over the curb. If there had been a mailbox there, that would have been taken out. A telephone pole, OTOH, might have dictated a different choice.
As far as pedestrian (and other auto) impacts....better driver training might be the key. Driver skill is abysmal in the US. There are a LOT of very good drivers, but also a lot of very bad ones.
If we give control of the car to the computer, it must do better than the human in,b>all situations. "Sorry, Ma'am. The cars AI chose to hit your child instead of the dog" is not acceptable.
WIll we get there eventually? Sure. But not for a while yet.
Add in 100X the vehicle density, 2 foot separation instead of 1000 feet, random uncontrolled actors (kids, balls, dogs), and it becomes a whole different problem.
Except that the big room with the blue ceiling is anything but a 'controlled environment'. Every paved road, from neighborhood streets to 8 lane interstates has significant and frequent uncontrolled actors. A kids ball, someone on a bike, a semi truck retread peeling off, a deer.
You have a dog run out into the street. A kid chasing it. And a telephone pole off to the side. Based on speed, distance, and current (and expected) trajectories, car handling capabilities, road conditions, oncoming traffic, physics dictates that hitting one of those is unavoidable. You can choose. Avoiding the kid is hardwired into your brain. The dog and the pole come after that. Can we make the computer fast enough and smart enough to choose correctly, every time?
I've been wearing glasses almost 40 yrs. I couldn't recognise a friend from >10 feet away. A couple of years ago, I asked my optometrist about it. She said "Well...you still see a lot of eye doctors wearing glasses, right?"
On another note, I'm of the age where bi- or tri-focals are the ticket. Different focal lengths for reading, computer, everything else. So lasik 'might' involve still wearing glasses for reading. NOT. If I still have to mess with glasses part time, I'll mess with them all the time. I don't have to even think about where they are. If I'm awake, they're on my head.
However...I have talked to a few friends and coworkers who have had it done, with pretty stellar results.
Right. But that only serves to outline the law to those who would follow it. I applaud those laws and wish we had more of that here, but a criminal, especially an insider, who wants all those db rows will get around them.
As is oft quoted here on/., "If I can see it or hear it, I can copy it."
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I was under the impression that you can't fall off from a Segway.
1. Get up to full speed
2. Without slowing, hit something too tall to bump over and too solid to give.
3. Pick the bits of gravel out of your face.
As magical as the Seg is, it still adheres to the laws of physics. The motors and gyros aren't strong or fast enough to stop a 6' long, 200lb lever arm at full speed.
I know who I voted for. I don't need to prove it to anyone. In fact, anyone that asks will get rebuffed. More forcefully as the requests build up.
In the case of a close election/recount, I expect that the local election board should be able to show there were n votes cast, and for whom. Not by whom. x+y+z=n
Broadcast TV is far different from cable/sat. During broadcast prime time hours, there is the expectation of no nudity. i.e. family time. A safe place for kids to hang with the parents and watch TV. It wasn't so much the nipple, but the expectation of not seeing a nipple during the Superbowl. And you KNOW they did that for the shock value, and the rating spurt it brought.
Cable is far, far different. You KNOW there will be some sex & violence, so hopefully you regulate your kids appropriately.
Nudity, in and of itself, is not a bad thing. But in the search for ever higher ratings, the line would be pushed back farther and farther. Given free reign, the advertisers would have Mr. & Mrs. McFeely live up to their name.
As was the purposeful failure to count many military absentee votes in the 200 election. Which are usually pretty strongly in the anti-democrat camp.
It is good to be suspicious. Of both sides.
Because MS isn't in the anti-virus realm in a serious way, Yet.
But if/when they are, the screams about illegal bundling and monopolies will ring throughout the land.
Or how about not the actual campaign, but another organization with a political agenda. Moveon.org, maybe.
After call can you find 12 people who can name the author of that song?
Doesn't matter. You probably can't find 12 random people that can name the author of any song. Not who sings it, who wrote it.
I do agree with you on the whole, though.
Factory/dealer installed ones are. If I put one in myself, who's going to check? Annual inspection? A handy enable/diable switch under the dash would work.
It's also a good idea to give your voters some indication of how you will act in the future.
"How does Candidate X stand on issue Y? Well...he says he's for it, but he never bothered to vote when the question came up, so we don't really know".
Go to the actual Congressional record to see a true list of who voted for what. For instance, the 108th Congress last year. For the month of November (just picked at random), there were some 27 votes in the Senate. Kerry shows "Not Voting" status in 25 of them. Of course, a lot of these may non-issues, but only voting twice out of 27 is not exactly a stellar record.
Vote Smart shows the results of the things he actually voted on, not all of the votes before the Senate.
they don't even bother to read the text of the laws they pass?
Yeah...Kerry has said that about various bills and reports. But then again, he doesn't even bother to vote in ~3/4 of them anyway, so I guess it doesn't matter if he reads it or not.
Trying to nurse that thing through an Upstate New York winter. The doors would freeze closed (crappy rubber on the seal), exposed wiring would corrode just sitting in the driveway, RUST! What killed it was a combination of the coolant pipes rusting out 1/2way through the tunnel, and the right front lower suspension arm tearing free (at 60mph!)
But yeah, I'd have another one too. I've often thought of A CRX-1/9. The X-1/9 shell (completely rewired), with a Honda CRX-Si powerplant and tranny.
Or 'RC' from Toy Story.
My old 1974 Fiat X-1/9. Bump the headlight switch just right, and the left headlight pod would go op, down, and back up again. Winking, as it were.
I have a issue of Grassroots Motorsports, where they did an autocross competition between a 1965 Porsche 356, a 1967 Jag XKE convertible, and a stock 2003 Honda Odessy minivan.
The minivan, with stock tires, smoked the Jag, and tied the Porsche. With one level better tires, the minivan smoked the 356 as well. Smoked it badly
Why is it acceptable to have human-caused deaths, but not AI-caused ones?
One word...lawsuits. There is quite often a situation where the offending driver says "I didn't see him". and quite often, that is accepted. The driver is let go with a warning, or other minimal punishment. (Personally, I do NOT agree with this, but there it is). An AI in control of your car, backed by a major corporation (Ford, GM, Toyota) and the gov't (DOT), would not be able to say that. people expectations, and the news hounds, would be all over that like a cheap suit. "Are these cars REALLY safer? News at 11."
Like I said...eventually we will get there. but not anytime soon.
And say goodbye to driving your vintage '68 Corvette.
Not a contrived situation at all. I had almost exactly the same recently, minus the telephone pole. Dog runs out into the street, kid chasing it, oncoming traffic. Avoiding the kid and dog meant turning as I slowed, going up over the curb. If there had been a mailbox there, that would have been taken out. A telephone pole, OTOH, might have dictated a different choice.
,b>all situations. "Sorry, Ma'am. The cars AI chose to hit your child instead of the dog" is not acceptable.
As far as pedestrian (and other auto) impacts....better driver training might be the key. Driver skill is abysmal in the US. There are a LOT of very good drivers, but also a lot of very bad ones.
If we give control of the car to the computer, it must do better than the human in
WIll we get there eventually? Sure. But not for a while yet.
Add in 100X the vehicle density, 2 foot separation instead of 1000 feet, random uncontrolled actors (kids, balls, dogs), and it becomes a whole different problem.
Except that the big room with the blue ceiling is anything but a 'controlled environment'. Every paved road, from neighborhood streets to 8 lane interstates has significant and frequent uncontrolled actors. A kids ball, someone on a bike, a semi truck retread peeling off, a deer.
You have a dog run out into the street. A kid chasing it. And a telephone pole off to the side. Based on speed, distance, and current (and expected) trajectories, car handling capabilities, road conditions, oncoming traffic, physics dictates that hitting one of those is unavoidable. You can choose. Avoiding the kid is hardwired into your brain. The dog and the pole come after that. Can we make the computer fast enough and smart enough to choose correctly, every time?
the army ... won't let you join if you've had it, rather tellling I think
Incorrect. See here as well. You probably can't be a pilot, though.
I've been wearing glasses almost 40 yrs. I couldn't recognise a friend from >10 feet away. A couple of years ago, I asked my optometrist about it. She said "Well...you still see a lot of eye doctors wearing glasses, right?"
On another note, I'm of the age where bi- or tri-focals are the ticket. Different focal lengths for reading, computer, everything else. So lasik 'might' involve still wearing glasses for reading. NOT.
If I still have to mess with glasses part time, I'll mess with them all the time. I don't have to even think about where they are. If I'm awake, they're on my head.
However...I have talked to a few friends and coworkers who have had it done, with pretty stellar results.
These are my eyeballs, though. My only eyeballs.
Right. But that only serves to outline the law to those who would follow it. I applaud those laws and wish we had more of that here, but a criminal, especially an insider, who wants all those db rows will get around them.
/., "If I can see it or hear it, I can copy it."
As is oft quoted here on
Huddling in a corner won't get us to Mars. Why don't you go help design the thing?
Yet they are reluctant to create laws that protect personal information, as those in Europe.
Laws, such as those in Europe, would not, cannot prevent such incidents. They can only penalize the criminals after your data is out in the wild.
After all...there are laws (with very, very tough penalties) against murder, right?
Kucinich and Nader - two guys with a lot more going for them than the media will appreciate.
DAMN. You owe me a new keyboard AND a new nose. Fresh coffee BURNS.