Yes. I totally agree.
We should get rid of all those things that governments mandated but car companies did not want to make.
I suggest we start with your personal seatbelts and your personal airbag.
90% of the advantage of such a program is not the video itself.
Instead it is the knowledge that the camera is there and uncertainty of what it MIGHT have caught on video.
This alone causes a significance change in behavior - both by the cop and the criminal.
Specifically, cops suddenly become afraid of getting caught committing crimes, rather than confident of their immunity, and criminals (sober ones at least), become much less likely to file false charges.
I absolutely assure you that when that happens:
1) The charges against the person will be dismissed.
2) The fact that the camera malfunctioned will be used to increase the money the arrested person gets when they sue (and they will)
Or we set up a situation where we have another 'year without a summer', only this time on purpose. (i.e. artificially create a volcanic eruption). This allows the ice flows to reappear. After that super cold year, we go back to normal.
I am not saying this is a good idea, just that we could do it, reversing the problem.
Warmer nations, particularly smaller island nations furiously trying to create global cooling, while an alliance of Canada, Russia, Scandinavia and the newly created United Federation of Antarctica desperately trying to keep it nice and toasty.
California is playing it safe. It will take a while for us to trust the software enough to remove the steering wheel.
In fact, it would not surprise at all if the brake itself is NEVER removed. I can easily foresee a situation where these vehicles are used to transport unwilling people, or simply undergo a malfunction and the occupant will always want the ability to stop the device.
But I can see the steering wheel and accelerator going away completely - don't want to let untrained people having the ability to make things worse.
A couple of weeks ago, I tried to submit a request here on Slashdot on information about an App that does this. (Got only one comment). While I don't particularly like Facebook, this is great news.
Answer: The answer to all questions posted in a headline, is of course "NO!"
Actually, that's exactly how they do kidney transplants. They don't bother cutting out your failed kidney - that would just lead to more bleeding and possible complications.
So instead they just give you a third kidney that hopefully works a lot better than the two original ones that failed.
Oh, one more thing, some people told me that 'hacking' does not have to happen over the internet.
That is true, but at the heart that is just another version of sabotage - when you stop people from physically accessing the plant, you also stop the non-internet based hacking.
Cyber is easy - simply no direct connect to the internet. Anything less is effectively nothing. Anything more is not needed.
If you have data that you absolutely positively must have accessible via the internet, set up a dial and point an internet connected camera at the dial.
EMP pulse is not hard - we know the basics of shielding.
Sabotage and weather are however not easily defensible. No matter what we do, we can't provide complete protection, but we can do pretty well.
I didn't say you can do shit if you are stupid. I said you can do shit without being a Genius. Merely being average intelligence is often enough if you are lucky, hardworking and get the timing right..
The prime example of this is Donalt Trump. The man was incredibly lucky - born to a huge wealth. He is by no means a genius - most of the business ventures he has participated in had severe financial issues, bankruptcy being just one of the many problems he has had to face.
But he had worked hard and got some good timing. As a direct result, he is successful. But he is by no definition of the word a genius.
P.S.
The people that win the lottery do so with luck.
So luck alone will bring success, if you have enough of it. But attempting to depend on it is stupid.
You have a good point. But perfect timing, luck and hard work will not make a common idea work. Mainly because the common idea will be had by a genius long before the common man gets the idea.
This smacks of a 3rd factor that causes both faster internet and higher grades. It could be wealth, politics, or simply smarter people move to places with higher internet speeds.
The Republicans can not win a Presidential election over the next 3 years. It's not about their politics, it's about their core philosophy. They did it to themselves.
Over the past 10 years they decided to make themselves a rural party sustained in large part by gerrymandering.
By doing this, they have created a situation where the majority of their congressmen are elected in 'no lose districts'. They can't lose the general election. As such, the primary became all important - and only the republicans could vote there. This pushed their core political philosophy FAR to the right of where most Americans are.
Eventually they realized their problem and started rejecting their most extreme people, the Tea Party. But they still lean right even within their own party - it is the only way for a Republican to win a primary and they don't care about the general elections in the majority of their districts.
Simultaneously, the Democrats were moving to the center. Hillary Clinton and President Obama are both far more conservative than the majority of democrats.
What happens in the Senate and the House can only make it worse for the Republicans in the Presidential election. If they lose, then the Democrats gain power. If they win the Senate and the House, they will just be embolden again and make the same mistakes they made in 2008 and 20012.
The Republicans Congressmen are so coddled by the gerrymandering that they simply have no idea of how badly they anger the majority of Americans. The Senators and Governors don't have this problem, but are seriously are outnumbered by the Congressmen insisting on appealing to the base.
Look, I've met geniuses before. They are not the key to business success.
Lots of geniuses FAIL. They fail spectacularly.
To be truly successful, you need to be a genius and be lucky.
I don't care how smart you are, you need the luck - if for no other reason than being born in the right country, not having a debilitating disease, and not having family that desperately needs your help. Because sometimes good luck is simply not having bad luck.
But that's beside the point. Lots of genius just had the wrong timing. There was this guy - a real genius. he came up with a great idea to help kids tie their shoes. But someone else came out with Velcro shoes that year. If he had his idea one year earlier, he would have made a couple of million and the Velcro guy would end up selling the idea to the Kid's Shoe King, instead of becoming the Kid's Shoe King.
Genius is not that rare, and the difference between the best and the second best guy is for all purposes irrelevant. Other things matter more than creativity and intelligence.
Timing, luck, and hard work matter just as much as genius.
And simply say "For us to be concerned about a Republican FCC, we would need to believe that it is possible for a Republican to win a presidential election. Given the current climate, that won't happen in your lifetime, Senator"
You could have tried to disagree with me without insulting me. But that would have you to try and show me how I was wrong. Lets try this again, using wikipedia.
Evolution (From wikipedia): Evolution is the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
Cancer (also from evolution): a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.
Now use your brain. Abnormal = change from inherited characteristics, cell growth = biological population, and the only way cells invade and spread is via successive generations.
That's just from wikipedia. Here is a more direct explanation.
Cancer is nothing more than than a mutation in normal cells, that allow them to reproduce far more and faster than the other cells around them, to the detriment of the original host.
Evolution is the process where mutations allow normal living things to reproduce far more and faster than their competitors (i.e. the other cells around them.).
Cancer is just evolution occurring to our individual cells, to the detriment of us. If you can't see that, you need to retake biology classes.
Look, cancer is another word for evolution. It's single cells evolving into deadly killing machines that lay waste to their parent cells.
Unfortunately those parent cells are US!
The sole reason why we age is to destroy cancers (aging is a direct result of the body's limitations on cellular reproduction, which is there to keep cells from becoming cancers).
We can't cure old age, until we cure cancer, otherwise we would all get cancer and die before we made it past 50.,
But once we cure cancer, then we can get to work on stopping - and even reversing - aging.
Then we can all live in happy, unicorn land, with puppies for everyone!
Honestly, we will probably learn to make flying unicorns (and dogs that never age), long before we cure cancer.
If he had simply taken their client's emails he probably would have gotten a similar increase in business and no one would ever have been the wiser that he had hacked Couchsurfer.
Instead this idiot made a statement, may end up in jail, and almost certainly will have pissed off any ethical Couchsurfer.
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Yes. I totally agree. We should get rid of all those things that governments mandated but car companies did not want to make. I suggest we start with your personal seatbelts and your personal airbag.
Instead it is the knowledge that the camera is there and uncertainty of what it MIGHT have caught on video.
This alone causes a significance change in behavior - both by the cop and the criminal.
Specifically, cops suddenly become afraid of getting caught committing crimes, rather than confident of their immunity, and criminals (sober ones at least), become much less likely to file false charges.
I absolutely assure you that when that happens: 1) The charges against the person will be dismissed. 2) The fact that the camera malfunctioned will be used to increase the money the arrested person gets when they sue (and they will)
I am not saying this is a good idea, just that we could do it, reversing the problem.
But I absolutely assure you it is possible to undue all damage- if we are willing to pay a ridiculous amount of money to do it.
Now, biological extinctions may be unpreventable, but we can always turn the clock back on climate change.
If their contracts are reasonably well written, I bet they are guilty of at least a misdemeanor.
I predict that in 20 years, about 3% of Americans will have a 'manual drive' license, allowing them to drive cars that are not robot controlled.
These people will in all probability be VERY skilled, as they will likely take their driving very seriously.
Warmer nations, particularly smaller island nations furiously trying to create global cooling, while an alliance of Canada, Russia, Scandinavia and the newly created United Federation of Antarctica desperately trying to keep it nice and toasty.
In fact, it would not surprise at all if the brake itself is NEVER removed. I can easily foresee a situation where these vehicles are used to transport unwilling people, or simply undergo a malfunction and the occupant will always want the ability to stop the device.
But I can see the steering wheel and accelerator going away completely - don't want to let untrained people having the ability to make things worse.
Answer: The answer to all questions posted in a headline, is of course "NO!"
See "Miracle drug", also the "miracle of birth", and a bunch of other people.
The rest of your arguments are similarly focused on one peculiar and particular point of view.
So instead they just give you a third kidney that hopefully works a lot better than the two original ones that failed.
Homeopathy does not cure people, doctors do.
Anti-Vaxers don't end Autism, doctors will.
And some day soon, we will be able to grow replacement Thalmuses, hopefully with kidneys, livers, hearts and lungs soon to follow.
God bless real doctors, for they deliver miracles onto us.
Oh, one more thing, some people told me that 'hacking' does not have to happen over the internet. That is true, but at the heart that is just another version of sabotage - when you stop people from physically accessing the plant, you also stop the non-internet based hacking.
If you have data that you absolutely positively must have accessible via the internet, set up a dial and point an internet connected camera at the dial.
EMP pulse is not hard - we know the basics of shielding.
Sabotage and weather are however not easily defensible. No matter what we do, we can't provide complete protection, but we can do pretty well.
The prime example of this is Donalt Trump. The man was incredibly lucky - born to a huge wealth. He is by no means a genius - most of the business ventures he has participated in had severe financial issues, bankruptcy being just one of the many problems he has had to face.
But he had worked hard and got some good timing. As a direct result, he is successful. But he is by no definition of the word a genius. P.S. The people that win the lottery do so with luck. So luck alone will bring success, if you have enough of it. But attempting to depend on it is stupid.
You have a good point. But perfect timing, luck and hard work will not make a common idea work. Mainly because the common idea will be had by a genius long before the common man gets the idea.
This smacks of a 3rd factor that causes both faster internet and higher grades. It could be wealth, politics, or simply smarter people move to places with higher internet speeds.
Over the past 10 years they decided to make themselves a rural party sustained in large part by gerrymandering.
By doing this, they have created a situation where the majority of their congressmen are elected in 'no lose districts'. They can't lose the general election. As such, the primary became all important - and only the republicans could vote there. This pushed their core political philosophy FAR to the right of where most Americans are.
Eventually they realized their problem and started rejecting their most extreme people, the Tea Party. But they still lean right even within their own party - it is the only way for a Republican to win a primary and they don't care about the general elections in the majority of their districts.
Simultaneously, the Democrats were moving to the center. Hillary Clinton and President Obama are both far more conservative than the majority of democrats.
What happens in the Senate and the House can only make it worse for the Republicans in the Presidential election. If they lose, then the Democrats gain power. If they win the Senate and the House, they will just be embolden again and make the same mistakes they made in 2008 and 20012.
The Republicans Congressmen are so coddled by the gerrymandering that they simply have no idea of how badly they anger the majority of Americans. The Senators and Governors don't have this problem, but are seriously are outnumbered by the Congressmen insisting on appealing to the base.
Lots of geniuses FAIL. They fail spectacularly.
To be truly successful, you need to be a genius and be lucky.
I don't care how smart you are, you need the luck - if for no other reason than being born in the right country, not having a debilitating disease, and not having family that desperately needs your help. Because sometimes good luck is simply not having bad luck.
But that's beside the point. Lots of genius just had the wrong timing. There was this guy - a real genius. he came up with a great idea to help kids tie their shoes. But someone else came out with Velcro shoes that year. If he had his idea one year earlier, he would have made a couple of million and the Velcro guy would end up selling the idea to the Kid's Shoe King, instead of becoming the Kid's Shoe King.
Genius is not that rare, and the difference between the best and the second best guy is for all purposes irrelevant. Other things matter more than creativity and intelligence.
Timing, luck, and hard work matter just as much as genius.
Real crime was making a crappy, movie theater copy instead of a DVD ripped version.
And simply say "For us to be concerned about a Republican FCC, we would need to believe that it is possible for a Republican to win a presidential election. Given the current climate, that won't happen in your lifetime, Senator"
Evolution (From wikipedia): Evolution is the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
Cancer (also from evolution): a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.
Now use your brain. Abnormal = change from inherited characteristics, cell growth = biological population, and the only way cells invade and spread is via successive generations.
That's just from wikipedia. Here is a more direct explanation.
Cancer is nothing more than than a mutation in normal cells, that allow them to reproduce far more and faster than the other cells around them, to the detriment of the original host.
Evolution is the process where mutations allow normal living things to reproduce far more and faster than their competitors (i.e. the other cells around them.).
Cancer is just evolution occurring to our individual cells, to the detriment of us. If you can't see that, you need to retake biology classes.
Unfortunately those parent cells are US!
The sole reason why we age is to destroy cancers (aging is a direct result of the body's limitations on cellular reproduction, which is there to keep cells from becoming cancers).
We can't cure old age, until we cure cancer, otherwise we would all get cancer and die before we made it past 50.,
But once we cure cancer, then we can get to work on stopping - and even reversing - aging.
Then we can all live in happy, unicorn land, with puppies for everyone!
Honestly, we will probably learn to make flying unicorns (and dogs that never age), long before we cure cancer.
If he had simply taken their client's emails he probably would have gotten a similar increase in business and no one would ever have been the wiser that he had hacked Couchsurfer.
Instead this idiot made a statement, may end up in jail, and almost certainly will have pissed off any ethical Couchsurfer.