Deterrence based on "it's all OK, until..." scenarios is little deterrent to the foolish and the greedy.
Better a law saying it's NOT OK to compel someone to divulge something which meets both conditions: (a) an unassisted human cannot directly observe it (e.g., fingerprints, administrator password) (b) it is not directly related to their occupation or condition (e.g., prison inmate, IT worker)
Otherwise, what next? Companies forcing employees to submit iris scans, microbiome profiles, genitalia measurements?
In a crash, obey road rules as much as practical. Normally, this means braking and staying in your lane. Stray outside your lane only if it won't kill someone.
Further, AI today is generally too clever by half. I don't think its capable of making any such decisions.
You can delay while you seek legal counsel, refuse to let the search proceed (at risk of contempt of court), and seek to vary the order, undertaking to not destroy any evidence.
It doesn't matter which 'free' OS (free for Microsoft) tops the Azure lists. Whether it's Windows or Linux, MS doesn't pay a dime in licenses as people rent more instances.
MS would be similarly happy if, say, WFWG 3.11 VDIs came to be a sleeper hit with developing world users (super fast, cents per user/year, no license impact, no cannibalisation).
But if OSX, Irix or VMS instances began to gain on Azure, MS would worry about revenue sharing with OS copyright holders.
First they came for the spyware infested shtanky OS users, and I did speak out - Because I was not a spyware infested shtanky OS user.... Then they came for the SteamPlay users
Now remove the rails. And make the trucks run asynchronously, with embedded driving software. With little onboard gensets exchanging power with the transmission. That's what Gooberla and friends are doing.
But I still like your idea better and think trains are the most natural fit for autonomous driving. I don't know why lidar and computer vision are not used to augment train drivers. Figure out if that train is on a collision course, whether the track is flooded, whether a boulder is across the tracks on a foggy morning, whether a person or vehicle is on the track.
I see you did not mention glass, stainless steel, enamelled surfaces.. all of which can have toxics, but all more tractable to analyse, and probably safer than plaztics
The generic public who ultimately pay the price of excessively broad patents in the form of higher prices for goods and services, and more and more ads attacking our limited attention span.
Perverse Incentive: DO NOT, under any circumstances, make any products. That way, you don't infringe anything. Just sue everything who happens to 'infringe' on your excessively broad patents.
The patent system should force inventors to *demonstrate* their invention to a panel of peers, whose responses should be considered.
This boy, for example, should have been forced to demonstrate his unique method of swinging to playground buddies: https://www.newscientist.com/a...
Wonder why the Facebook chat logs aren't already with law enforcement. Surely, there's a warrant by now.
Does a Facebook user password also encrypt data at rest on Facebook servers? So, unless the user logs in and their password provides the decryption key, not even Facebook can decrypt stored chat history?
Programming today reminds me of the clutter pervading so many homes in the 70s, 80s and early 90s. No surface free from some sort of curio, knick-knack or souvenir. Some useful, some to document an important precept, or capture a moment, some just for entertainment.
Programming needs its own minimalism movement. Mental work surfaces free of clutter, with the sophistication baked into tools that are visible.
For instance, webMethods, a Java-based programming IDE from the 90s, had the right idea back then. A program statement in their native 'Flow' language was no longer a linear line of text. Instead, a line became a 2-D canvas, graphically showing all the in-scope stack variables (so you were reminded of what was in-scope). The variable types (Java objects, strings, arrays, etc) looked different and could be manipulated in the canvas -- so a single 'step' could do multiple assignments, math operations, etc. It also had nifty builtin operations to snapshot and restore the stack-frame (handy for debugging).
Unfortunately, the core webMethods language hasn't progressed much in the two decades it's been around. Neither is it open-source.
Entertainment companies trip over themselves to use geoblocking: Prime video, Netflix, even YouTube movie trailers are locked down by geography. How come airlines are so hesitant to use geolocation to identify the jurisdiction of whom they are serving.
Present Taiwan as a part of China in China (or wherever local laws demand). Present it as an independent country elsewhere. A Chinese national using aa.com when visiting Taipei should see 'Taipei, Taiwan'. When he's back in Beijing, aa.com should show him 'Taipei, China'
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Good points.
Don't let perfect get in the way of better
Deterrence based on "it's all OK, until..." scenarios is little deterrent to the foolish and the greedy.
Better a law saying it's NOT OK to compel someone to divulge something which meets both conditions:
(a) an unassisted human cannot directly observe it (e.g., fingerprints, administrator password)
(b) it is not directly related to their occupation or condition (e.g., prison inmate, IT worker)
Otherwise, what next? Companies forcing employees to submit iris scans, microbiome profiles, genitalia measurements?
Comcast 2016: "Google Fiber! Shiver me timbers!!"
Comcast 2018: "Yawn... here's another price increase."
Hmmm.. wonder if you can DIY.. buy so2 powder, no?
In a crash, obey road rules as much as practical. Normally, this means braking and staying in your lane. Stray outside your lane only if it won't kill someone.
Further, AI today is generally too clever by half. I don't think its capable of making any such decisions.
You can delay while you seek legal counsel, refuse to let the search proceed (at risk of contempt of court), and seek to vary the order, undertaking to not destroy any evidence.
Google "Anton pillar freehills".
My iOS upgrade history:
iOS 3.x -> 3.xx --> (Slows down) --> "Don't blame malice where you can blame incompetence" ... where you can blame incompetence" ... blame .... malice ... where you can blame ... incompetence."
iOS 3.xx -> iOS 4.x --> (Slows down) --> "Don't blame malice
IOS 4.x -> iOS 5.x --> (Slows down)--> "Don't
IOS 5.x -> iOS 6.x --> (Slows down) --> "Blame Apple's malice. Blame incompetence - mine - for letting this happen."
Don't worry - you keep your limbs. They just stop paying for the 'extra' leg or organ.
Me too
It doesn't matter which 'free' OS (free for Microsoft) tops the Azure lists. Whether it's Windows or Linux, MS doesn't pay a dime in licenses as people rent more instances.
MS would be similarly happy if, say, WFWG 3.11 VDIs came to be a sleeper hit with developing world users (super fast, cents per user/year, no license impact, no cannibalisation).
But if OSX, Irix or VMS instances began to gain on Azure, MS would worry about revenue sharing with OS copyright holders.
> spyware infested shtanky OS
First they came for the spyware infested shtanky OS users, and I did speak out - ...
Because I was not a spyware infested shtanky OS user.
Then they came for the SteamPlay users
Now remove the rails. And make the trucks run asynchronously, with embedded driving software. With little onboard gensets exchanging power with the transmission. That's what Gooberla and friends are doing.
But I still like your idea better and think trains are the most natural fit for autonomous driving. I don't know why lidar and computer vision are not used to augment train drivers. Figure out if that train is on a collision course, whether the track is flooded, whether a boulder is across the tracks on a foggy morning, whether a person or vehicle is on the track.
Your fish will lick roads. Your crops will lick roads. Hence you will too. Life doesn't fit into neat silos.
Often!= Always
I see you did not mention glass, stainless steel, enamelled surfaces.. all of which can have toxics, but all more tractable to analyse, and probably safer than plaztics
The generic public who ultimately pay the price of excessively broad patents in the form of higher prices for goods and services, and more and more ads attacking our limited attention span.
Perverse Incentive: DO NOT, under any circumstances, make any products. That way, you don't infringe anything. Just sue everything who happens to 'infringe' on your excessively broad patents.
The patent system should force inventors to *demonstrate* their invention to a panel of peers, whose responses should be considered.
This boy, for example, should have been forced to demonstrate his unique method of swinging to playground buddies:
https://www.newscientist.com/a...
Question more what you read
Wonder why the Facebook chat logs aren't already with law enforcement. Surely, there's a warrant by now.
Does a Facebook user password also encrypt data at rest on Facebook servers? So, unless the user logs in and their password provides the decryption key, not even Facebook can decrypt stored chat history?
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck...
Name of multinational?
Programming today reminds me of the clutter pervading so many homes in the 70s, 80s and early 90s. No surface free from some sort of curio, knick-knack or souvenir. Some useful, some to document an important precept, or capture a moment, some just for entertainment.
Programming needs its own minimalism movement. Mental work surfaces free of clutter, with the sophistication baked into tools that are visible.
For instance, webMethods, a Java-based programming IDE from the 90s, had the right idea back then. A program statement in their native 'Flow' language was no longer a linear line of text. Instead, a line became a 2-D canvas, graphically showing all the in-scope stack variables (so you were reminded of what was in-scope). The variable types (Java objects, strings, arrays, etc) looked different and could be manipulated in the canvas -- so a single 'step' could do multiple assignments, math operations, etc. It also had nifty builtin operations to snapshot and restore the stack-frame (handy for debugging).
Unfortunately, the core webMethods language hasn't progressed much in the two decades it's been around. Neither is it open-source.
Entertainment companies trip over themselves to use geoblocking: Prime video, Netflix, even YouTube movie trailers are locked down by geography. How come airlines are so hesitant to use geolocation to identify the jurisdiction of whom they are serving.
Present Taiwan as a part of China in China (or wherever local laws demand). Present it as an independent country elsewhere. A Chinese national using aa.com when visiting Taipei should see 'Taipei, Taiwan'. When he's back in Beijing, aa.com should show him 'Taipei, China'
"You're holding it wrong" meets “defeat devices” ... what could go wrong?
It could even best the Uber-Volvo pairing -- "safest cars in the world" meets "remove the pesky safety stuff".
One of those 2.4 million may have been you.