As I remember, the Ents were complaining that the much smaller hobbits were being too hasty. Their Entmoot took several hours just to get through the meet & greet stage and it took them a day or two to come to a decision to do something.
ObligatoryFlameBait: So, the Ents work 10x faster than the US Congress?
Sadly, "Unclassified/FOUO" is treated as "more than Unclassified but less than Confidential." The redacted stuff was deemed FOUO, and us peons aren't "official users"
They should do the same with the unexplained apocalypse in "The Road"
?? My take (on reading "The Road") was that a major nuclear war had taken place & enough of the infrastructure had been taken out that civilization was about to collapse. Just because we never find out why the war happened --arguably because all the communications channels died early -- doesn't mean it's really unexplained.
William George's post should not have been modded "Troll". I also disagree with his point (and I said as much in my own reply), but it's a plausible position to take if you're a Creationist. Posting unpopular or even unscientific opinions is not necessarily trolling.
No, you are wrong on all counts. His position is not plausible. "plausible" has a meaning, and it doesn't mean "sounds reasonable to me regardless of reality." Our objection to his post is not that it's unpopular -- heck, it's wildly popular south of the Mason-Dixon line -- but that it's horseshit. People who post horseshit in a science/technology website are either completely clueless or deliberately trolling.
that's just a cost breakdown. there's also the issue of the environment.
Let me just remind y'all that up here in New England, approximately 7 months out of the year my 55-inch plasma set doubles as a space heater, thus proportionately reducing my central heating costs. It's only waste heat in the summer (aside from the wasted heat of our brains trying to tolerate the stuff we're allegedly watching).
Yeah, well, as we all know (??) software is pretty much separate from hardware, other than that it might take some hacking to get a "reader app" from one company (Amazon vs B&N vs Kobo) installed on a different company's E-ink device. Non-DRM'd files can be read on any of them.
I'm one of those people who brings up these situations as I really do want answers to the many scenarios. My favourite scenario is when i'm a jaywalking pedestrian. Do I now have the power to stop all cars by simply walking into the street?
My new scenario is garbage night in the city on two lane streets (one each way). Currently I have to go around the garbage truck into on-coming traffic when it is safe to do so. Will the self-driving car sit behind the garbage truck as it goes from house-to-house, business-to-business?
It looks like we are mainly talking about highway driving right now as opposed to city. Though i'm still interested in a highway scenarios where the vehicle is in a lane that no longer continues and becomes and off-ramp lane. There are several of these on the 400 series highways in Toronto that cause traffic backups. What is the decision for such a scenario when cars are fast moving, bumper to bumper, and nobody is letting anybody else in? Will the vehicle take the off-ramp, stop, or cut somebody off?
Once you know the decision trees for these scenarios, how will it affect your decisions as non-self-driving driver?
Yes, a jaywalker causes traffic to stop. Oddlly enough, at least in most of the USA, that's the law now.
If it's illegal to cross a double-yellow, then no you cannot pass a garbage truck. Or a school bus. OTOH, if they change the law, taking advantage of your car's ability to talk with the garbage truck and thus know if it's safe to go around it, you will.
If your car, and all the other autonomous vehicles, know you are - or aren't- taking the exit, space will be automatically be generated for merging in either direction.
This isn't about 5th amendment issues, nor is it about whether or not a reporter is criminally involved.
It's an issue of Freedom of the Press. For rather a long time, roughly since Lovejoy, the courts' position has been that an open and free press requires that the reporters be able to collect information free from any risk of reprisal (from the government). This is what has been getting ripped to shreds by the last 3 or 4 administrations.
I've tried public ebook libraries and the UI & selection have typically been dreadful. I would happily pay $10/month for something better.
Unfortunately, for me something better has to include some eink reader.
Can you explain what that means? You expect a rental contract to include the reader? Does NetFlix give you a free DVD player/box to watch their stuff on? Does Comcast give you a free video monitor?
Every time an automated car story shows up, a zillion people feel the need to show how sure they are that human drivers can handle more situations than the computers. First of all, why can't they (the ignoramuses posting this stuff) ever accept that hundreds of very smart engineers, not only at Google Research, have taken all sort of 'whoops what happened there' situations into account?
Second, why are these posters incapable of noticing that other transportation systems such as the DC subways or nearly all modern jet aircraft, currently function very well completely autonomously? Yes, Cthulhu might pop up in the middle of a subway tunnel, but a human operator will do no better than the computer in avoiding it. One more reference: several USAF fighter aircraft are designed for high maneuverability, and are in fact unstable. Only tightly-bound wing surface control loops, fully computerized, keep the things flying in the intended direction.
The hateful crimes they exposed are the true stars, here. If you focus on the messenger, you miss the message. That's what the governments, corporations and their global propaganda machine (a.k.a. mass media) badly, badly, badly want you to do. Quite successfully.
Same as the porn industrie fighting for freedom of speech. If I remember correctly, I once read that you can measure the freedom of speech in a country by looking at the pornography made and consumed there. To be honest, this comparison seems to be losing value, in my eyes at least.
So, are you disgusted by the *volume* of USA porn, or by the *quality* of the porn?
The fact that light has a finite speed is a very good thing for astronomy.
Except from the small problem of our own race probably going extinct before we'll have time to land on a planet a couple thousand light years away.
So are you implying that if the planet were the same physical distance but only 10 light-years away we'd somehow be able to get there faster? I for one am at this time unaware of any propulsion system whose top speed is limited by relativity.
The "Burn Notice" feature lets the sender set a time for a text, video, voice recording or picture to be erased from the recipient's device.
No, it can't. The recipient could be using a tampered application that ignores the timeout directive
Ok, the solution is obvious: don't depend on recipient software to do the deletion. Rewrite the sending app so it sends,instead of standard IP ones and zeroes, nanobot-bits which are preprogrammed to self-destruct after a set period of time. Being nanobot-bits, they can't be copied either, due to the Sokal Lemma modification to the Post-Hermaneutic Uncertainty Principle.
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As I remember, the Ents were complaining that the much smaller hobbits were being too hasty. Their Entmoot took several hours just to get through the meet & greet stage and it took them a day or two to come to a decision to do something.
ObligatoryFlameBait: So, the Ents work 10x faster than the US Congress?
If wishes were mod-points, we'd all be +5.
I'd be at +11 (you insensitive clod)
Sadly, "Unclassified/FOUO" is treated as "more than Unclassified but less than Confidential." The redacted stuff was deemed FOUO, and us peons aren't "official users"
They should do the same with the unexplained apocalypse in "The Road"
?? My take (on reading "The Road") was that a major nuclear war had taken place & enough of the infrastructure had been taken out that civilization was about to collapse. Just because we never find out why the war happened --arguably because all the communications channels died early -- doesn't mean it's really unexplained.
What are you talking about? The 3 Red Books were published in 1964. If you couldn't get them, blame your own ignorance.
It also busts drunk and sleepy drivers
I'm betting that poor fellow who's in jail for teaching people how to beat polygraphs can teach us how to beat the "drunk brainwaves" sensor too.
William George's post should not have been modded "Troll". I also disagree with his point (and I said as much in my own reply), but it's a plausible position to take if you're a Creationist. Posting unpopular or even unscientific opinions is not necessarily trolling.
No, you are wrong on all counts. His position is not plausible. "plausible" has a meaning, and it doesn't mean "sounds reasonable to me regardless of reality." Our objection to his post is not that it's unpopular -- heck, it's wildly popular south of the Mason-Dixon line -- but that it's horseshit. People who post horseshit in a science/technology website are either completely clueless or deliberately trolling.
Being delicious to humans *and being able to be efficiently domesticated by humans* ensures your success as a species as long as humans exist.
Ok, let's see.
Species: human
Delicious to humans: check
Efficiently domesticated by humans: check.
I see a giant upside to this emerging market. excuse me while I assassinate my competition, Mr. Soy Lent.
that's just a cost breakdown. there's also the issue of the environment.
Let me just remind y'all that up here in New England, approximately 7 months out of the year my 55-inch plasma set doubles as a space heater, thus proportionately reducing my central heating costs. It's only waste heat in the summer (aside from the wasted heat of our brains trying to tolerate the stuff we're allegedly watching).
So who are we running for President?
Well, me of course! (see .signature)
Which is to say, is there a "LiteBrite" mode?
the tricorder could tell the operator anything about the thing being scanned that the plot required
Not to mention the incredible engineering-fu that produced a blackbox to save the Universe -- as described in exacting detail in "Redshirts" (Scalzi)
I think he means support for an eink reader.
Yeah, well, as we all know (??) software is pretty much separate from hardware, other than that it might take some hacking to get a "reader app" from one company (Amazon vs B&N vs Kobo) installed on a different company's E-ink device. Non-DRM'd files can be read on any of them.
I'm one of those people who brings up these situations as I really do want answers to the many scenarios. My favourite scenario is when i'm a jaywalking pedestrian. Do I now have the power to stop all cars by simply walking into the street?
My new scenario is garbage night in the city on two lane streets (one each way). Currently I have to go around the garbage truck into on-coming traffic when it is safe to do so. Will the self-driving car sit behind the garbage truck as it goes from house-to-house, business-to-business?
It looks like we are mainly talking about highway driving right now as opposed to city. Though i'm still interested in a highway scenarios where the vehicle is in a lane that no longer continues and becomes and off-ramp lane. There are several of these on the 400 series highways in Toronto that cause traffic backups. What is the decision for such a scenario when cars are fast moving, bumper to bumper, and nobody is letting anybody else in? Will the vehicle take the off-ramp, stop, or cut somebody off?
Once you know the decision trees for these scenarios, how will it affect your decisions as non-self-driving driver?
Yes, a jaywalker causes traffic to stop. Oddlly enough, at least in most of the USA, that's the law now.
If it's illegal to cross a double-yellow, then no you cannot pass a garbage truck. Or a school bus. OTOH, if they change the law, taking advantage of your car's ability to talk with the garbage truck and thus know if it's safe to go around it, you will.
If your car, and all the other autonomous vehicles, know you are - or aren't- taking the exit, space will be automatically be generated for merging in either direction.
Why can't you recognize this for yourself?
This isn't about 5th amendment issues, nor is it about whether or not a reporter is criminally involved.
It's an issue of Freedom of the Press. For rather a long time, roughly since Lovejoy, the courts' position has been that an open and free press requires that the reporters be able to collect information free from any risk of reprisal (from the government). This is what has been getting ripped to shreds by the last 3 or 4 administrations.
I've tried public ebook libraries and the UI & selection have typically been dreadful. I would happily pay $10/month for something better.
Unfortunately, for me something better has to include some eink reader.
Can you explain what that means? You expect a rental contract to include the reader? Does NetFlix give you a free DVD player/box to watch their stuff on? Does Comcast give you a free video monitor?
Every time an automated car story shows up, a zillion people feel the need to show how sure they are that human drivers can handle more situations than the computers. First of all, why can't they (the ignoramuses posting this stuff) ever accept that hundreds of very smart engineers, not only at Google Research, have taken all sort of 'whoops what happened there' situations into account?
Second, why are these posters incapable of noticing that other transportation systems such as the DC subways or nearly all modern jet aircraft, currently function very well completely autonomously? Yes, Cthulhu might pop up in the middle of a subway tunnel, but a human operator will do no better than the computer in avoiding it.
One more reference: several USAF fighter aircraft are designed for high maneuverability, and are in fact unstable. Only tightly-bound wing surface control loops, fully computerized, keep the things flying in the intended direction.
What, is it April 1st again already?
I'm waiting for a header protocol that can tell when it's been intercepted or collected, and proceeds to blow up the TLA server on which it resides.
Pretty sure he means to be facetious, Eisenstein.
OK, in Soviet Russia, famous movie director is also as smart as a physicist?
The hateful crimes they exposed are the true stars, here. If you focus on the messenger, you miss the message. That's what the governments, corporations and their global propaganda machine (a.k.a. mass media) badly, badly, badly want you to do. Quite successfully.
Same as the porn industrie fighting for freedom of speech. If I remember correctly, I once read that you can measure the freedom of speech in a country by looking at the pornography made and consumed there. To be honest, this comparison seems to be losing value, in my eyes at least.
So, are you disgusted by the *volume* of USA porn, or by the *quality* of the porn?
The fact that light has a finite speed is a very good thing for astronomy.
Except from the small problem of our own race probably going extinct before we'll have time to land on a planet a couple thousand light years away.
So are you implying that if the planet were the same physical distance but only 10 light-years away we'd somehow be able to get there faster? I for one am at this time unaware of any propulsion system whose top speed is limited by relativity.
Besides mad cow disease is already ancient history. What could possibly go wrong?
You wish. Regard: http://www.wdam.com/story/23346292/health-officials-investigate-mad-cow-death .
The "Burn Notice" feature lets the sender set a time for a text, video, voice recording or picture to be erased from the recipient's device.
No, it can't. The recipient could be using a tampered application that ignores the timeout directive
Ok, the solution is obvious: don't depend on recipient software to do the deletion. Rewrite the sending app so it sends ,instead of standard IP ones and zeroes, nanobot-bits which are preprogrammed to self-destruct after a set period of time. Being nanobot-bits, they can't be copied either, due to the Sokal Lemma modification to the Post-Hermaneutic Uncertainty Principle.
Above poster is not only an Anonymous Coward...but is John Snow in disguise
What? Who let him give up The Black and leave The Wall?