Self-driving cars should be the legal equivalent to sitting in the back of a taxi. Even from an insurance/liability standpoint, owning one means you're responsible/liable for fuel & maintenance - and that's about it. It should be down to the manufacturer to ensure safe, autonomous operation.
The autonomous car is safe only within its operational limits --- but how many drivers will be willing to let a car or its manufacturer decide when it is safe to take to the roads?
How many will risk being stranded if automated systems begin shutting down because they are confused and overwhelmed by bad weather, outdated maps, or other unforeseen circumstances?
But perhaps you'd like to tell us what a "harasser" is, because at the moment this appears to be "anyone who doesn't agree with me, mocks me or quotes facts which contradict my beliefs"
Yours sincerely
The rest of the Internet
The geek --- whose rules of play are under fire these days --- can be rather too quick to claim that he speaks for the Internet as a whole.
Pew Research asked respondents about six different forms of online harassment. Those who witnessed harassment said they had seen at least one of the following occur to others online:
60% of internet users said they had witnessed someone being called offensive names
53% had seen efforts to purposefully embarrass someone 25% had seen someone being physically threatened
24% witnessed someone being harassed for a sustained period of time
19% said they witnessed someone being sexually harassed 18% said they had seen someone be stalked
Those who have personally experienced online harassment said they were the target of at least one of the following online:
27% of internet users have been called offensive names
22% have had someone try to purposefully embarrass them
8% have been physically threatened
8% have been stalked
7% have been harassed for a sustained period
6% have been sexually harassed
In broad trends, the data show that men are more likely to experience name-calling and embarrassment, while young women are particularly vulnerable to sexual harassment and stalking. Social media is the most common scene of both types of harassment, although men highlight online gaming and comments sections as other spaces they typically encounter harassment.
Young women, those 18-24, experience certain severe types of harassment at disproportionately high levels: 26% of these young women have been stalked online, and 25% were the target of online sexual harassment.
While most online environments were viewed as equally welcoming to both genders, the starkest results were for online gaming. Some 44% of respondents felt the platform was more welcoming toward men.
Online Harassment [October 22, 2014] The full report can be downloaded as a free PDF from this page.
Sharp's strategy may backfire, for a scammer, upon being intercepted by a scam prevention system, may perceive that the person who he is calling as more likely to be vulnerable
The automated system that may have been put in place by family members, legal guardians, social services or the police?
People who are going to actually commit suicide don't talk about it on Facebook, they do it, these people are rarely on Facebook in general.
I had it hammered into me a very long time ago that the root of rational --- productive --- debate is to expose the evidence that supports your arguments.
...for the ugliest post to Slashdot ever modded up "Insightful."
This is truly the finest example of the geek's sexual immaturity that I have ever been privileged to see.
The fundamental truth is that rape is not about sex, it is about power --- a man's dominance over the women in his world. --- and the geek's world is online.
Better yet, stop pretending your body is some special butterfly that will cause the sky to fall and dogs to make love to cats should somebody actually get a look at it.
''I've always had the notion,'' Smith once said, ''that people go to spectator sports to have fun and then they grab the paper to read about it and have fun again.''
I take my stand on the proposition that the publication of nude and/or sexually explicit photographs without the consent of the subject is a form of rape.
This not art. This is not speech.
This is humiliation. This is malice. This is revenge. This is greed. This is crime. Revenge porn
Free speech cannot survive in an atmosphere of fear and intimidation. Free speech has to mean something more than the adolescent's desire for instant sexual self-gratification.
In the form of an illicit photograph to masturbate by.
I am sick and tired of the geek playing the censorship card when anyone asks him to behave like an adult.
We've got a two party system where both sides are just as corrupt as the other. For some reason most people are convinced that any third party candidate would be a wasted vote.
The major parties in the states build their coalitions internally until they have a winning combination ---
and there is no such thing as party discipline as the Canadian or the European would understand it, which means that the winning combination is constantly changing, a moving target.
The American third party is generally defined by a charismatic leader and a single hot-button issue and when either depart the scene, the party collapses.
The competition challenges teams from around the world to develop open source software solutions that will allow children in developing countries to teach themselves basic reading, writing and arithmetic.
It has been the geek's wet dream for at least the past ten years to take the teacher out of the grade school classroom --- which damn little evidence to show that he has was ever on the right track.
WHY IS THIS IN A BROWSER AT ALL?!!!
I know the answer to that last one: because VOIP is part of the increasingly bloated and useless HTML 5 spec and this uses the new HTML 5 VOIP junk.
The short answer is that in an increasingly mobile, device and app-oriented world, the geek's plain vanilla web browser is well on the road towards extinction.
It comes down to a choice: If the geek wants the "open web" and not the "walled garden," the web browser must have all the functionality of the app world, including VoIP,
Remember when Apple was forced to remove all porn apps from the App Store? I'm sure it wasn't because they wanted to, but there's a group of dedicated social conservatives who do nothing but complain about anything even remotely explicit.
Apple projects an up-market image of style and sophistication --- in which the porn app simply has no place. The enormous sums of money it banks as profit each quarter says that it is making the right choices.
I suspect that what worries Google is the malicious and/or unauthorized publication of nude and sexually explicit photographs on its platforms.
The legal and political landscape is changing rapidly and the geek as usual may be a behind the times.
I have little sympathy for the argument that is censorship to block publication of nude photographs that no ethical - professional - artist or photographer would post without the written consent of the subject or their legal guardian.
legitimate terrorist attacks have no source, no warnings, are unpredictable and incur large-scale casualties.
There are few things which irritate me more than the geek who thinks he has won his argument by quoting from a dictionary of his own invention or an etiquette guide like Emily Post.
That is what makes "legitimate" the key word here.
In real life, terrorists often telegraph their attacks, make a point of being easily identifiable by their victims. and choose targets both great and small.
Open call to doxx the judge? Anonymous, are you listening?
And then if the gov't catches the hackers, they can just say, hey there was no harm!!! He said so himself!
I grieve for the lawyer who has a geek for a client.
The accidental exposure of medical records and the like can potentially be quite damaging, of course. But the harm to any particular individual or institution can be hard to measure, at least in the beginning.
The moment you conspire to actually make use of such personal information to harass or intimate a federal judge you are open to conviction on the felony charge.
I wonder who comes up with the idea and subsequently sponsors these projects? Some Agent Smith, some execufuck, someone with good intentions and a subtly flawed technical execution?
More likely it's just another a Dread Pirate Roberts --- not far distant from a real-life caricature of Boris Grishenko and with just enough money to finance his start-up. Yes! I am invincible!
Now we're going to have a government-backed currency with a central bank that can control interest rates! Anyone can exchange it at will! Of course, the institutions that monitor these transactions are going to have to follow a set of regulations, and probably have some sort of government-backed insurance for deposits...
Nowhere in the entire history of mankind has a few people being punished for a crime stopped others from committing the same crime.
Fear of punishment doesn't have to stop everyone from committing a crime. It only as to stop as many as needed to keep the numbers down to something people can live with.
The first hint of circumstantial evidence, and [judges] wake up and put an end to it immediately.
It seems like every time a geek goes on trial he makes the same mistake.
Eyewitness testimony is direct evidence.
Circumstantial evidence is used in criminal courts to establish guilt or innocence through reasoning.
University of Michigan law professor Robert Precht [once] said, ''Circumstantial evidence can be, and often is much more powerful than direct evidence.''
The common metaphor for the strongest possible evidence in any case ---the ''smoking gun'' --- is an example of proof based on circumstantial evidence. Similarly, fingerprint evidence, videotapes, sound recordings, photographs, and many other examples of physical evidence that support the drawing of an inference, i.e., circumstantial evidence, are considered very strong possible evidence.
In practice, circumstantial evidence can have an advantage over direct evidence in that it can come from multiple sources that check and reinforce each.
There was a time when the geek had more political sense than a baked potato. There isn't a secure and functional democracy on this planet that allows its judges to be threatened or harassed.
Slashdot Mirror
Self-driving cars should be the legal equivalent to sitting in the back of a taxi. Even from an insurance/liability standpoint, owning one means you're responsible/liable for fuel & maintenance - and that's about it. It should be down to the manufacturer to ensure safe, autonomous operation.
The autonomous car is safe only within its operational limits --- but how many drivers will be willing to let a car or its manufacturer decide when it is safe to take to the roads?
How many will risk being stranded if automated systems begin shutting down because they are confused and overwhelmed by bad weather, outdated maps, or other unforeseen circumstances?
But perhaps you'd like to tell us what a "harasser" is, because at the moment this appears to be "anyone who doesn't agree with me, mocks me or quotes facts which contradict my beliefs"
Yours sincerely
The rest of the Internet
The geek --- whose rules of play are under fire these days --- can be rather too quick to claim that he speaks for the Internet as a whole.
Pew Research asked respondents about six different forms of online harassment. Those who witnessed harassment said they had seen at least one of the following occur to others online:
60% of internet users said they had witnessed someone being called offensive names
53% had seen efforts to purposefully embarrass someone
25% had seen someone being physically threatened
24% witnessed someone being harassed for a sustained period of time
19% said they witnessed someone being sexually harassed
18% said they had seen someone be stalked
Those who have personally experienced online harassment said they were the target of at least one of the following online:
27% of internet users have been called offensive names
22% have had someone try to purposefully embarrass them
8% have been physically threatened
8% have been stalked
7% have been harassed for a sustained period
6% have been sexually harassed
In broad trends, the data show that men are more likely to experience name-calling and embarrassment, while young women are particularly vulnerable to sexual harassment and stalking. Social media is the most common scene of both types of harassment, although men highlight online gaming and comments sections as other spaces they typically encounter harassment.
Young women, those 18-24, experience certain severe types of harassment at disproportionately high levels: 26% of these young women have been stalked online, and 25% were the target of online sexual harassment.
While most online environments were viewed as equally welcoming to both genders, the starkest results were for online gaming. Some 44% of respondents felt the platform was more welcoming toward men.
Online Harassment [October 22, 2014]
The full report can be downloaded as a free PDF from this page.
Sharp's strategy may backfire, for a scammer, upon being intercepted by a scam prevention system, may perceive that the person who he is calling as more likely to be vulnerable
The automated system that may have been put in place by family members, legal guardians, social services or the police?
Not worth the risk.
People who are going to actually commit suicide don't talk about it on Facebook, they do it, these people are rarely on Facebook in general.
I had it hammered into me a very long time ago that the root of rational --- productive --- debate is to expose the evidence that supports your arguments.
Forefront and Facebook launch suicide prevention effort
My parents in their 50's are using Linux full-time even though they don't know they are
Every Linux conversion story posted to Slashdot reads like this. It has been that way since the site was launched.
...for the ugliest post to Slashdot ever modded up "Insightful."
This is truly the finest example of the geek's sexual immaturity that I have ever been privileged to see.
The fundamental truth is that rape is not about sex, it is about power --- a man's dominance over the women in his world. --- and the geek's world is online.
Better yet, stop pretending your body is some special butterfly that will cause the sky to fall and dogs to make love to cats should somebody actually get a look at it.
Financial and sports reporters - the examples are the types of stores that are full of facts and figures, and are better done by computers anyway.
Let me introduce you to Red Smith and A.J. Liebling. American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith, A.J. Liebling: The Sweet Science and Other Writings
''I've always had the notion,'' Smith once said, ''that people go to spectator sports to have fun and then they grab the paper to read about it and have fun again.''
I take my stand on the proposition that the publication of nude and/or sexually explicit photographs without the consent of the subject is a form of rape.
This not art. This is not speech.
This is humiliation. This is malice. This is revenge. This is greed. This is crime. Revenge porn
Free speech cannot survive in an atmosphere of fear and intimidation. Free speech has to mean something more than the adolescent's desire for instant sexual self-gratification.
In the form of an illicit photograph to masturbate by.
I am sick and tired of the geek playing the censorship card when anyone asks him to behave like an adult.
We've got a two party system where both sides are just as corrupt as the other. For some reason most people are convinced that any third party candidate would be a wasted vote.
The major parties in the states build their coalitions internally until they have a winning combination ---
and there is no such thing as party discipline as the Canadian or the European would understand it, which means that the winning combination is constantly changing, a moving target.
Republican resistance to gay marriage is dwindling and gray
The American third party is generally defined by a charismatic leader and a single hot-button issue and when either depart the scene, the party collapses.
The competition challenges teams from around the world to develop open source software solutions that will allow children in developing countries to teach themselves basic reading, writing and arithmetic.
It has been the geek's wet dream for at least the past ten years to take the teacher out of the grade school classroom --- which damn little evidence to show that he has was ever on the right track.
I can see a contractor wanting mobile 3D printing and CNC milling for field use.
But Amazon is a general merchandise retailer. The successor to the Sears, Roebuck catalog.
What is the point to putting printers and mills on wheels rather than just setting them up at their existing regional distribution centers?
WHY IS THIS IN A BROWSER AT ALL?!!!
I know the answer to that last one: because VOIP is part of the increasingly bloated and useless HTML 5 spec and this uses the new HTML 5 VOIP junk.
The short answer is that in an increasingly mobile, device and app-oriented world, the geek's plain vanilla web browser is well on the road towards extinction.
It comes down to a choice: If the geek wants the "open web" and not the "walled garden," the web browser must have all the functionality of the app world, including VoIP,
Remember when Apple was forced to remove all porn apps from the App Store? I'm sure it wasn't because they wanted to, but there's a group of dedicated social conservatives who do nothing but complain about anything even remotely explicit.
Apple projects an up-market image of style and sophistication --- in which the porn app simply has no place. The enormous sums of money it banks as profit each quarter says that it is making the right choices.
Google seems determined to make the internet as tame as American TV
That would be as tame as Dexter, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead...
I suspect that what worries Google is the malicious and/or unauthorized publication of nude and sexually explicit photographs on its platforms.
The legal and political landscape is changing rapidly and the geek as usual may be a behind the times.
I have little sympathy for the argument that is censorship to block publication of nude photographs that no ethical - professional - artist or photographer would post without the written consent of the subject or their legal guardian.
I occasionally encounter people with not only names that are mildly funny but even obscene in my native language. Guess what the professionals do?
They keep their big mouths shut out of respect for their hosts.
This has nothing to do with the geek's deeply embedded compulsion to inflict his sophomoric sense of humor on a larger audience.
Externals matter. Marketing matters, even in FOSS.
legitimate terrorist attacks have no source, no warnings, are unpredictable and incur large-scale casualties.
There are few things which irritate me more than the geek who thinks he has won his argument by quoting from a dictionary of his own invention or an etiquette guide like Emily Post.
That is what makes "legitimate" the key word here.
In real life, terrorists often telegraph their attacks, make a point of being easily identifiable by their victims. and choose targets both great and small.
Malala: The girl who was shot for going to school
Open call to doxx the judge? Anonymous, are you listening?
And then if the gov't catches the hackers, they can just say, hey there was no harm!!! He said so himself!
I grieve for the lawyer who has a geek for a client.
The accidental exposure of medical records and the like can potentially be quite damaging, of course. But the harm to any particular individual or institution can be hard to measure, at least in the beginning.
The moment you conspire to actually make use of such personal information to harass or intimate a federal judge you are open to conviction on the felony charge.
I wonder who comes up with the idea and subsequently sponsors these projects? Some Agent Smith, some execufuck, someone with good intentions and a subtly flawed technical execution?
More likely it's just another a Dread Pirate Roberts --- not far distant from a real-life caricature of Boris Grishenko and with just enough money to finance his start-up. Yes! I am invincible!
Now we're going to have a government-backed currency with a central bank that can control interest rates! Anyone can exchange it at will! Of course, the institutions that monitor these transactions are going to have to follow a set of regulations, and probably have some sort of government-backed insurance for deposits...
You say this like it is a bad thing.
Marketing rots the brain.
It also pays the bills.
Only 3% of federal prisoners were convicted by an actual trial!
The evidence to be presented for both the prosecution and defense generally has to exposed in pre-trial discovery.
Nowhere in the entire history of mankind has a few people being punished for a crime stopped others from committing the same crime.
Fear of punishment doesn't have to stop everyone from committing a crime. It only as to stop as many as needed to keep the numbers down to something people can live with.
The first hint of circumstantial evidence, and [judges] wake up and put an end to it immediately.
It seems like every time a geek goes on trial he makes the same mistake.
Eyewitness testimony is direct evidence.
Circumstantial evidence is used in criminal courts to establish guilt or innocence through reasoning.
University of Michigan law professor Robert Precht [once] said, ''Circumstantial evidence can be, and often is much more powerful than direct evidence.''
The common metaphor for the strongest possible evidence in any case ---the ''smoking gun'' --- is an example of proof based on circumstantial evidence. Similarly, fingerprint evidence, videotapes, sound recordings, photographs, and many other examples of physical evidence that support the drawing of an inference, i.e., circumstantial evidence, are considered very strong possible evidence.
In practice, circumstantial evidence can have an advantage over direct evidence in that it can come from multiple sources that check and reinforce each.
Circumstantial evidence
There was a time when it was America.
There was a time when the geek had more political sense than a baked potato. There isn't a secure and functional democracy on this planet that allows its judges to be threatened or harassed.