For what it's worth, I took a ChromeBox and installed Ubuntu to make it a media box for my TV. It was a little tricky to do and make stick, because the Chrome devices want to "fix" anything that's "wrong" with them, but once I got there it worked pretty flawlessly.
I don't know if the Pixelbook works differently, but I'd expect it's not too far off.
anyone with an IQ of 120 or less is going to have very serious problems installing and using it and that means most of our species.
I've got a USB stick in a drawer with a Kubuntu install on it. Plug it in, boot up, click "install", and it does it in about 10 minutes. If that's scary, you can click the other tile and just run it off the USB stick. It's like 85% as good as installing it.
Making that bootable stick is the hardest part. You have to download a program from the internet, insert a USB stick, and run the installer.
Most of our species aren't doing more on any device than what you listed. And anyone doing more than that is going to have to learn something, even on Windows.
Because smart people with seed money (lol) look for markets with significant growth potential and try to come up with ways to tap into those markets. If you can get into a market early, you stand the best chance of making a pile of money.
Upstarts can definitely come in later, but getting in first lets you learn the business, make connections, and figure out how to undermine any potential rivals. Take a look at Tesla - the established automotive companies made it almost impossible for them to sell cars in several states, using their influence and laws they paid for decades ago. Tesla's response is to shift to selling their cars through their smartphone app, and having traveling repair servicemen. That's a load of bullshit that Ford doesn't have to deal with.
This guy gets into the pot business early, and if he's smart he patents parts of this system, and then gets the FDA or USDA or FTC to start a certification process which he's able to help nudge and form so it essentially requires his patented tech. Now competitors either have to pay him to play, or they have a higher overhead as they have to work around his patent.
Seizing a developing market can be your ticket to the big money.
Also my remote off-grid cabin in the mountains only has solar panels. I tried caching gas up there but a bear pissed in the can.
That makes me wonder how many years until a natural disaster strikes and the only cars driving around a week later are EVs from households who have invested in solar.
It's kind-of stunning to realize that if you're a real doomsday prepper or other fend-for-myself sort of person that an EV and some solar panels would give you total freedom of your own transportation. The Tesla X with a trailer hitch and a trailer with a pop-up solar panel and inverter, and at the worst you're stuck somewhere for a few days for the weather to clear. At best, all the gas stations can be gone three years ago, and you can still drive on whatever roads still exist.
The GPS and self-driving might not be as good in that situation, however.
Because that's two complicated systems to have issues with, and two inefficient systems because they are both small. Efficiency generally scales with size. Burning gas in a small engine to power a generator is about the least efficient way to generate power. I wouldn't be surprised if a coal power plant is more efficient.
On top of that, the efficiency of such a system is so low that the engine can't make sufficient electricity to run the motors. This means that the engine also needs to have a transmission and turn the wheels, when there's not enough power for the electric motors to do it. That's more complexity and more weight, and it does nothing to make the car more efficient, flexible, or cheaper.
What's wrong with replacing all that crap with some batteries and some electric motors? Unless you're planning a non-stop 5+ hr road trip, EVs already work just fine.
as soon as long range EVs creep into the sub $15k market fossil cars won't make economic sense for most people.
The five year TCO of the Model 3 LR is currently about the same as a loaded Toyota Camry. Not only is that damn impressive, I'd put some real money on it coming in lower for the next 5-10 years as well, given all of the things it won't need replaced, and all the maintenance it won't need.
While that's still in the low-to-mid $40k range, Kelly Blue Book says the average price of a new car in the US is $36k.
We're already at the point where EVs are probably making economical sense for almost half of new car buyers. The biggest barriers right now are likely experience with the platform and a Level 2 charger set up at home. That's a $2k requirement if you want to charge a half-empty car overnight. Personally, I'm budgeting for it in the next 2 years, since even with that cost, EVs are just too inexpensive from a TCO standpoint not to shift to.
In 5-10 years, there are going to be a lot of second-generation used EVs selling for under $20k. That's when the real explosion takes over, I'm guessing.
Most people have no idea that there are arguments between developers. How would they even know? Unlike you, they're not coming to/., and they're not lurking linux forums. If you're using linux on the desktop, you're blissfully unaware of those things, unless you're going out and searching for them. What do you think, that there are passive aggressive popups on linux from developers shitting on each other?
I'm rather unclear why people would need to be googling blogs to run linux. You install it and it works. FFS, better than windows a large percent of the time. You just turn it on and get things done. Windows does not do this.
Windows tells me that I need to wait while it installs new software before I can log in. Windows tells me that I must update and reboot or update and shut down. I am not allowed to just shut down. Windows will take inactivity as a cue to reboot, and will close unsaved things it doesn't recognize. Or crash them. I really can't tell. And once or twice a year windows will be unusable for the better part of an hour when it needs to do a giant update. Linux never does this. Ever. Updates just quietly happen in the background, and then you're done. 75% of the time it doesn't even ask you to reboot, and when it asks, it asks. It doesn't tell you that you must, and get increasingly more aggressive the longer you wait to do so. I try to remember to reboot my laptop every 2-3 weeks, just to make sure any really important updates get loaded.
$ uptime
19:25:19 up 19 days, 20:55
Looks like I'm about due. When was the last time Windows let you do that?
How do you safely download a new piece of free software you need on Windows? The answer is that you don't. Linux? Just open the Software explorer for the distro and most of the common things you'd need are right there. And a lot of random niche stuff too!
If you want to just turn it on and have it work, you want Linux.
What a load of crap. Any non-tech-savvy person can google, "easiest version of linux" and pick from the first couple of links. For anything that makes that list, you get a windows installer and it tells you you need a USB drive. Run the installer, reboot, and boom, you're using linux, and most likely everything just works.
Seriously, have you used linux in the last decade?
Go try out Kubuntu. You don't even need to install it, just run it from the USB drive.
On paper Linux looks like, but in the real world, it just consistently falls short for desktop usage...Linux is built for tech savvy people by tech savvy people.
What a load of fucking bullshit. Have you ever even used any version of Linux? If so, when?
Kubuntu is easier and faster to install than Windows. It's far more friendly to what is on the disk already, and will happily configure a dual boot for you. That's not a feature that tech savvy people need. We can set up our own partitions and configure grub, thank you very much. And that's not something windows will do for you. It will look at the linux FS, not recognize it, and probably just tell you the whole disk needs to be formatted. And it won't offer to set up a dual boot.
When my mom got a virus and got pissed at windows, she asked what else she could use. I set her up with Kubuntu and walked away. Almost never helped her with that machine after. She is not tech savvy. Plugging shit into linux almost always just works, and has for a good half decade to a decade now.
I ran linux for my desktop for years, had a 6-7 year affair with MBPs, and now I'm back running linux as a desktop. Because it gets the hell out of the way and does what I need it to do. I'm tech savvy but I almost never need to use any of that for linux. I might SCP something because it's a quick way to transfer files, but any non-technical person could use dropbox, google drive, OneDrive, box, or a flash drive.
Most non-tech-savvy people want to surf, instagram, youtube, netflix, etc. Linux generally does that better than windows, because it doesn't get in the way. It doesn't try to reboot while you're doing shit.
The reason linux isn't taking over is largely because microsoft has got a lock-in with businesses. Because businesses use Windows schools teach Windows, because they think kids will need that for their jobs. And because businesses and schools are largely using Windows, the companies that make laptops and desktops pre-load them with Windows. It's really hard to get traction in that environment.
If you really want to see how stunningly not-difficult linux is, download Kubuntu, run the installer to make it bootable on a USB flash drive, reboot, and try it out. You don't even need to install it - you can run the limited version right off the USB stick without touching your windows install. It's honestly a lot harder to use a Mac than Kubuntu.
Now yes, there are hard versions of linux out there. If you need to learn linux, install Gentoo or LFS a few times. But there are also stupid-easy linux versions out there. My understanding is the Linux Mint falls into the same category, although I'm not familiar with it.
I don't know about roms, but the WINE project is pretty magical. As for the rest, hell yes! My media server is an Intel NUC running Kubuntu. Music library is on there, a pile of DVD rips, youtube streams fine in 2k, most other things stream fine, and it just works. Took almost 15 minutes to install it. Download the ISO, put it on a USB stick, plug it into whatever you're installing Kubuntu on, and follow the prompts. It can even set up a dual-boot and keep your windows partition.
Or you can just run it off the USB stick if you want to try it out but not risk upsetting your current setup.
But you can't have it both ways, control of fake news inevitably will spill over to shutting down alternative news outlets, hysteria about pedos means no comments at all on any video with a kid walking into frame.
I don't see why you can't. We'e talking about computers, flagging, and filtering here. Just give people the settings in their account to restrict various content if they want to. (Fake news filter, titty filter, violence filter, comments filter for each, etc.) By default enable the maximum filtering, and make this the default for non-logged-in viewers. Then let people opt their way out of filtering if they want to. (Or in the case of an account set up for someone under 18, don't let them.)
If they opt out of filtering and get pissy at the content, then they need to enable their filters again.
If you can identify and filter out this content for everyone, you can conditionally do it for people who have their filters enabled.
And before someone cries about the advertisers, give them the option of which level of filtering to show their ads under. Are you a family friendly place? Only show your stuff to people with maximum filters. Are you a porn company? Only show to people with the titty filter off.
This really doesn't seem to be a hard problem to solve. If you disagree with what YouTube calls fake news, then just turn that filter off. If you're ok with your kids seeing titties but not violence, go ahead and set those filters that way. Letting people determine their own comfort level is far superior to enforcing yours on everyone.
arguing against LGBT rights in no way invalidates the Heritage rep's opinion on all of those other matters.
No, being a Heritage rep invalidates their opinion. If you want to have a productive discussion, you don't invite an organization which is a compulsive liar with an agenda to that discussion.
If you are looking for about a 10lb (~5kg) carrying capacity, you're talking about a 10 cubic meter balloon, accounting for the fact it's not a vacuum inside, and it needs to be carrying all the winches, drone parts, navigation stuff, and communication parts. (Taking the GP's estimates from above and tweaking them.)
That means you're looking at a cube that's about 2m (6 feet) on a side. Or a tube that's like 5m (15 feet) long.
It's one thing for package thieves to drive around looking for unattended packages. It's a much different thing to notify them of a delivery using a car-sized balloon with the amazon logo on it floating high over a neighborhood.
That's where I'm at. Got a decent deal on an LG Smart TV. Spent a couple hundred bucks for an Intel NUC and dropped in a 500gb drive and 16gigs of ram. Installed Kubuntu, and plugged it in via HDMI. The TV gets 3 inputs - power and 2 HDMI cables. It doesn't need more than that.
That little box is beefy enough to push 2k content, streams stuff flawlessly, and if I wanted to, I could install Steam on it and play a whole lot of games. I've got most of my current rotation of music on it to play through the surround sound, and a pile of movie rips that I've been meaning to get to. It should be good to go for Amazon and NetFlix, but I haven't tried them yet.
So instead of driving I now have to constantly monitor a computer to make sure it's doing what it's supposed to do?
No thanks, I'd rather have control at all times. That way if it fucks up, it's on me.
Yes, AC, instead of checking your blind spots, your speed, your lane position, adjusting your cruise control for slower cars in front of you, braking for emergencies, calculating when you need to recharge and finding your way to the most convenient and free charger, turning on your windshield wipers when it rains, adjusting the temperature of your batteries to make them as efficient as possible and a whole lot of other things, you instead have to keep a hand on the wheel and check the nav screen every few seconds.
That sounds like an onerous task, and totally not worth buying a tesla for. You definitely should keep driving your '84 stick-shift chevy. I'm sure you've got far more control of that, and it's nowhere near as mentally taxing to drive for a couple of hours.
FFS I don't even have a tesla and I can see the benefits. I get that there are drawbacks, but to claim that the self-driving mode is anything other than a major labor savor is crazy. I'd take that in my current car in a heartbeat.
Everything is on a spectrum, and not acknowledging that ends in failure. Wanting a simplistic binary choice is almost never a functional solution, unless you're talking about actual 1s and 0s.
My general philosophy is to come to an agreement on the borders of the extremes, and then set up a methodology for judging everything else. In my example above, I'd take the position of saying, "1-5 is fine, and 10-14 is not. Everything else needs to be judged based on the following...." And then set up some community-determined criteria that try to balance free speech with the potential harm to others.
Life is largely not easy, not binary, and takes a lot more effort to navigate successfully than most people are wiling to give it.
The fact that one group of pilots did it right and the other didn't shows that they had the time. The question is if they had the training. That's looking like a part of the issue. Having a single point of failure and selling instrument failure lights as an upgrade seem to be the largest issue.
But you're still ignoring the fact that the MCAS likely kept a bunch of planes in the sky before an instrument failure brought a couple down. Pointing to it as some horrible idea that humans should never have done is silly if you're counting both the positives and the negatives of the system. Regardless, it's fixed now. And the first fix for this Tesla non-issue was two years ago.
I doubt people would accept an autonomous car which is only slightly safer than a human driver, it would just take one accident with some kids and the things will get pulled.
You know tesla has already sold more than 250,000 cars, right? Every day tens of thousands of people are turning on Autopilot and letting the car drive while they try to stay alert on the wheel.
I don't get why you think monitoring the car requires the same effort as driving. By all accounts it does not. It allows you to offload a ton of mental effort to the car, and your job boils down to, "is the car doing what it's supposed to?". If the answer is yes, you just sit there and enjoy the scenery.
The very reason that terrorism is a small percentage of the death rate is because we challenge it at every turn.
That's a whole load of bullshit. If we were challenging it at every turn we wouldn't be bombing the shit out of countries while cutting deals with their monarchs and dictators, and those of neighboring countries. We'd be working to push democracy, education, and leveling out the wealth gap between the rich rulers and the impoverished citizens. Hell, even starting with our own country might reduce a couple of our homegrown terrorist attacks.
Countries where the bulk of their citizens are doing well see very, very few homegrown terrorists. Countries with vast inequalities and human rights abuses see a whole lot more.
If we were serious about defeating terrorism, bombing the shit out of poor people in the middle east and africa would not be our favorite hobby.
What he's saying is that the TSA is like a tiger-repelling rock. The TSA scared all the terrorists away, so we should keep it. That's why they didn't catch any, because there weren't any to catch. If we get rid of the TSA, the terrorists will come rushing back and kill all of us.
Do you not travel? Most of the larger airports now have water bottle filling stations. Any that have been renovated in the last decade do. I just toss my empty metal water bottle in my bag, go through security, and fill it up. Even if they don't have bottle filling stations, they've got water fountains.
If you pick single clear examples, yeah, it's not arbitrary. Why would you think it would be? Here you go, draw the line:
1) John is like a pretzel with no salt. 2) John is ugly. 3) John is fugly. 4) John's mom wished she would have aborted him. 5) If John died, would anyone care? 6) Any day that John gets hurt is a good day. 7) I cheer on anyone who punches someone like John. 8) Would be nice if someone would go over and fuck John up. 9) If John does that again, I'm going to kick his ass. 10) I'm buying a beer for the first person to kick John in the nuts. 11) Anyone up for kicking John's ass? 12) Lets all meet at 10am tomorrow morning at John's house and teach him a thing or two. 13) The John beatdown party for tomorrow is on! 12 confirmed participants. 14) [image of gun] John, I'm coming for you.
Feel free to envision a vast spectrum for child porn as well, with differing amounts of clothes and levels of sexual innuendo through actual sex, with stick figures to uncanny valley 3D to photo-realistic 3D to real children.
If you don't think it's going to be arbitrary, I don't think you've thought about it hard enough. And you don't realize that most everyone is going to have a different line than you'll have.
I'm somewhat amazed that you're almost 100% wrong. Both this and the Boeing have a human override, the Tesla far more so than the plane, for good reason. The plane that crashed had the same issue resolved the day before by following the proper steps to address it. Yes, there was a problem with the plane, but it was solvable by the pilots. The failure the next day was threefold, and not just a technical issue. The malfunctioning instrument wasn't fixed, the pilots weren't notified of the issue or the actions of the pilots the day before, and the pilots didn't go through the checklist of procedures to fix the issue.
Passenger plane pilots are not expected to grab the yoke and make a hard left turn and do a barrel roll. They're expected to calmly walk through their checklists to diagnose and fix issues with the plane. The pilots who did saved the plane and all the people on it, while the pilots who didn't lost the plane and everyone on it. The failure was both technical and training.
To this article, I really don't know what you're on about.
In a statement, Tesla officials said that the vulnerabilities addressed in the report have been fixed via security update in 2017, "followed by another comprehensive security update in 2018, both of which we released before this group reported this research to us."
So because a minor issue was fixed a year or two ago, you don't think we'll have effective self-driving cars in the near future? To me, that suggests the opposite.
Technological issues get discovered and fixed, and we move on. The alternate is not advancing as a species. You also ignore the good that the technology likely has done and will do in the future, to focus entirely on the harm it briefly did. That's a really short-sighted position to take.
In my state we have a "no cell phone use in work zones" law, and giant signs before all work zones notifying drivers. I'd bet that the same will happen with self-driving cars as they become more popular. And like the no-phones law, most people will obey it, some won't and will get fined, some won't and will get into accidents and fined, and some will get into accidents and injure someone else and get fined and potentially also get jail time.
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For what it's worth, I took a ChromeBox and installed Ubuntu to make it a media box for my TV. It was a little tricky to do and make stick, because the Chrome devices want to "fix" anything that's "wrong" with them, but once I got there it worked pretty flawlessly.
I don't know if the Pixelbook works differently, but I'd expect it's not too far off.
anyone with an IQ of 120 or less is going to have very serious problems installing and using it and that means most of our species.
I've got a USB stick in a drawer with a Kubuntu install on it. Plug it in, boot up, click "install", and it does it in about 10 minutes. If that's scary, you can click the other tile and just run it off the USB stick. It's like 85% as good as installing it.
Making that bootable stick is the hardest part. You have to download a program from the internet, insert a USB stick, and run the installer.
Most of our species aren't doing more on any device than what you listed. And anyone doing more than that is going to have to learn something, even on Windows.
Because smart people with seed money (lol) look for markets with significant growth potential and try to come up with ways to tap into those markets. If you can get into a market early, you stand the best chance of making a pile of money.
Upstarts can definitely come in later, but getting in first lets you learn the business, make connections, and figure out how to undermine any potential rivals. Take a look at Tesla - the established automotive companies made it almost impossible for them to sell cars in several states, using their influence and laws they paid for decades ago. Tesla's response is to shift to selling their cars through their smartphone app, and having traveling repair servicemen. That's a load of bullshit that Ford doesn't have to deal with.
This guy gets into the pot business early, and if he's smart he patents parts of this system, and then gets the FDA or USDA or FTC to start a certification process which he's able to help nudge and form so it essentially requires his patented tech. Now competitors either have to pay him to play, or they have a higher overhead as they have to work around his patent.
Seizing a developing market can be your ticket to the big money.
Also my remote off-grid cabin in the mountains only has solar panels. I tried caching gas up there but a bear pissed in the can.
That makes me wonder how many years until a natural disaster strikes and the only cars driving around a week later are EVs from households who have invested in solar.
It's kind-of stunning to realize that if you're a real doomsday prepper or other fend-for-myself sort of person that an EV and some solar panels would give you total freedom of your own transportation. The Tesla X with a trailer hitch and a trailer with a pop-up solar panel and inverter, and at the worst you're stuck somewhere for a few days for the weather to clear. At best, all the gas stations can be gone three years ago, and you can still drive on whatever roads still exist.
The GPS and self-driving might not be as good in that situation, however.
Because that's two complicated systems to have issues with, and two inefficient systems because they are both small. Efficiency generally scales with size. Burning gas in a small engine to power a generator is about the least efficient way to generate power. I wouldn't be surprised if a coal power plant is more efficient.
On top of that, the efficiency of such a system is so low that the engine can't make sufficient electricity to run the motors. This means that the engine also needs to have a transmission and turn the wheels, when there's not enough power for the electric motors to do it. That's more complexity and more weight, and it does nothing to make the car more efficient, flexible, or cheaper.
What's wrong with replacing all that crap with some batteries and some electric motors? Unless you're planning a non-stop 5+ hr road trip, EVs already work just fine.
as soon as long range EVs creep into the sub $15k market fossil cars won't make economic sense for most people.
The five year TCO of the Model 3 LR is currently about the same as a loaded Toyota Camry. Not only is that damn impressive, I'd put some real money on it coming in lower for the next 5-10 years as well, given all of the things it won't need replaced, and all the maintenance it won't need.
While that's still in the low-to-mid $40k range, Kelly Blue Book says the average price of a new car in the US is $36k.
We're already at the point where EVs are probably making economical sense for almost half of new car buyers. The biggest barriers right now are likely experience with the platform and a Level 2 charger set up at home. That's a $2k requirement if you want to charge a half-empty car overnight. Personally, I'm budgeting for it in the next 2 years, since even with that cost, EVs are just too inexpensive from a TCO standpoint not to shift to.
In 5-10 years, there are going to be a lot of second-generation used EVs selling for under $20k. That's when the real explosion takes over, I'm guessing.
What the hell are you on about?
Most people have no idea that there are arguments between developers. How would they even know? Unlike you, they're not coming to /., and they're not lurking linux forums. If you're using linux on the desktop, you're blissfully unaware of those things, unless you're going out and searching for them. What do you think, that there are passive aggressive popups on linux from developers shitting on each other?
I'm rather unclear why people would need to be googling blogs to run linux. You install it and it works. FFS, better than windows a large percent of the time. You just turn it on and get things done. Windows does not do this.
Windows tells me that I need to wait while it installs new software before I can log in. Windows tells me that I must update and reboot or update and shut down. I am not allowed to just shut down. Windows will take inactivity as a cue to reboot, and will close unsaved things it doesn't recognize. Or crash them. I really can't tell. And once or twice a year windows will be unusable for the better part of an hour when it needs to do a giant update. Linux never does this. Ever. Updates just quietly happen in the background, and then you're done. 75% of the time it doesn't even ask you to reboot, and when it asks, it asks. It doesn't tell you that you must, and get increasingly more aggressive the longer you wait to do so. I try to remember to reboot my laptop every 2-3 weeks, just to make sure any really important updates get loaded.
$ uptime
19:25:19 up 19 days, 20:55
Looks like I'm about due. When was the last time Windows let you do that?
How do you safely download a new piece of free software you need on Windows? The answer is that you don't. Linux? Just open the Software explorer for the distro and most of the common things you'd need are right there. And a lot of random niche stuff too!
If you want to just turn it on and have it work, you want Linux.
What a load of crap. Any non-tech-savvy person can google, "easiest version of linux" and pick from the first couple of links. For anything that makes that list, you get a windows installer and it tells you you need a USB drive. Run the installer, reboot, and boom, you're using linux, and most likely everything just works.
Seriously, have you used linux in the last decade?
Go try out Kubuntu. You don't even need to install it, just run it from the USB drive.
On paper Linux looks like, but in the real world, it just consistently falls short for desktop usage...Linux is built for tech savvy people by tech savvy people.
What a load of fucking bullshit. Have you ever even used any version of Linux? If so, when?
Kubuntu is easier and faster to install than Windows. It's far more friendly to what is on the disk already, and will happily configure a dual boot for you. That's not a feature that tech savvy people need. We can set up our own partitions and configure grub, thank you very much. And that's not something windows will do for you. It will look at the linux FS, not recognize it, and probably just tell you the whole disk needs to be formatted. And it won't offer to set up a dual boot.
When my mom got a virus and got pissed at windows, she asked what else she could use. I set her up with Kubuntu and walked away. Almost never helped her with that machine after. She is not tech savvy. Plugging shit into linux almost always just works, and has for a good half decade to a decade now.
I ran linux for my desktop for years, had a 6-7 year affair with MBPs, and now I'm back running linux as a desktop. Because it gets the hell out of the way and does what I need it to do. I'm tech savvy but I almost never need to use any of that for linux. I might SCP something because it's a quick way to transfer files, but any non-technical person could use dropbox, google drive, OneDrive, box, or a flash drive.
Most non-tech-savvy people want to surf, instagram, youtube, netflix, etc. Linux generally does that better than windows, because it doesn't get in the way. It doesn't try to reboot while you're doing shit.
The reason linux isn't taking over is largely because microsoft has got a lock-in with businesses. Because businesses use Windows schools teach Windows, because they think kids will need that for their jobs. And because businesses and schools are largely using Windows, the companies that make laptops and desktops pre-load them with Windows. It's really hard to get traction in that environment.
If you really want to see how stunningly not-difficult linux is, download Kubuntu, run the installer to make it bootable on a USB flash drive, reboot, and try it out. You don't even need to install it - you can run the limited version right off the USB stick without touching your windows install. It's honestly a lot harder to use a Mac than Kubuntu.
Now yes, there are hard versions of linux out there. If you need to learn linux, install Gentoo or LFS a few times. But there are also stupid-easy linux versions out there. My understanding is the Linux Mint falls into the same category, although I'm not familiar with it.
I don't know about roms, but the WINE project is pretty magical. As for the rest, hell yes! My media server is an Intel NUC running Kubuntu. Music library is on there, a pile of DVD rips, youtube streams fine in 2k, most other things stream fine, and it just works. Took almost 15 minutes to install it. Download the ISO, put it on a USB stick, plug it into whatever you're installing Kubuntu on, and follow the prompts. It can even set up a dual-boot and keep your windows partition.
Or you can just run it off the USB stick if you want to try it out but not risk upsetting your current setup.
But you can't have it both ways, control of fake news inevitably will spill over to shutting down alternative news outlets, hysteria about pedos means no comments at all on any video with a kid walking into frame.
I don't see why you can't. We'e talking about computers, flagging, and filtering here. Just give people the settings in their account to restrict various content if they want to. (Fake news filter, titty filter, violence filter, comments filter for each, etc.) By default enable the maximum filtering, and make this the default for non-logged-in viewers. Then let people opt their way out of filtering if they want to. (Or in the case of an account set up for someone under 18, don't let them.)
If they opt out of filtering and get pissy at the content, then they need to enable their filters again.
If you can identify and filter out this content for everyone, you can conditionally do it for people who have their filters enabled.
And before someone cries about the advertisers, give them the option of which level of filtering to show their ads under. Are you a family friendly place? Only show your stuff to people with maximum filters. Are you a porn company? Only show to people with the titty filter off.
This really doesn't seem to be a hard problem to solve. If you disagree with what YouTube calls fake news, then just turn that filter off. If you're ok with your kids seeing titties but not violence, go ahead and set those filters that way. Letting people determine their own comfort level is far superior to enforcing yours on everyone.
arguing against LGBT rights in no way invalidates the Heritage rep's opinion on all of those other matters.
No, being a Heritage rep invalidates their opinion. If you want to have a productive discussion, you don't invite an organization which is a compulsive liar with an agenda to that discussion.
Or a gust of wind and a tree, or some power lines....
If you are looking for about a 10lb (~5kg) carrying capacity, you're talking about a 10 cubic meter balloon, accounting for the fact it's not a vacuum inside, and it needs to be carrying all the winches, drone parts, navigation stuff, and communication parts. (Taking the GP's estimates from above and tweaking them.)
That means you're looking at a cube that's about 2m (6 feet) on a side. Or a tube that's like 5m (15 feet) long.
It's one thing for package thieves to drive around looking for unattended packages. It's a much different thing to notify them of a delivery using a car-sized balloon with the amazon logo on it floating high over a neighborhood.
That's where I'm at. Got a decent deal on an LG Smart TV. Spent a couple hundred bucks for an Intel NUC and dropped in a 500gb drive and 16gigs of ram. Installed Kubuntu, and plugged it in via HDMI. The TV gets 3 inputs - power and 2 HDMI cables. It doesn't need more than that.
That little box is beefy enough to push 2k content, streams stuff flawlessly, and if I wanted to, I could install Steam on it and play a whole lot of games. I've got most of my current rotation of music on it to play through the surround sound, and a pile of movie rips that I've been meaning to get to. It should be good to go for Amazon and NetFlix, but I haven't tried them yet.
So instead of driving I now have to constantly monitor a computer to make sure it's doing what it's supposed to do?
No thanks, I'd rather have control at all times. That way if it fucks up, it's on me.
Yes, AC, instead of checking your blind spots, your speed, your lane position, adjusting your cruise control for slower cars in front of you, braking for emergencies, calculating when you need to recharge and finding your way to the most convenient and free charger, turning on your windshield wipers when it rains, adjusting the temperature of your batteries to make them as efficient as possible and a whole lot of other things, you instead have to keep a hand on the wheel and check the nav screen every few seconds.
That sounds like an onerous task, and totally not worth buying a tesla for. You definitely should keep driving your '84 stick-shift chevy. I'm sure you've got far more control of that, and it's nowhere near as mentally taxing to drive for a couple of hours.
FFS I don't even have a tesla and I can see the benefits. I get that there are drawbacks, but to claim that the self-driving mode is anything other than a major labor savor is crazy. I'd take that in my current car in a heartbeat.
That was largely my point.
Everything is on a spectrum, and not acknowledging that ends in failure. Wanting a simplistic binary choice is almost never a functional solution, unless you're talking about actual 1s and 0s.
My general philosophy is to come to an agreement on the borders of the extremes, and then set up a methodology for judging everything else. In my example above, I'd take the position of saying, "1-5 is fine, and 10-14 is not. Everything else needs to be judged based on the following...." And then set up some community-determined criteria that try to balance free speech with the potential harm to others.
Life is largely not easy, not binary, and takes a lot more effort to navigate successfully than most people are wiling to give it.
The fact that one group of pilots did it right and the other didn't shows that they had the time. The question is if they had the training. That's looking like a part of the issue. Having a single point of failure and selling instrument failure lights as an upgrade seem to be the largest issue.
But you're still ignoring the fact that the MCAS likely kept a bunch of planes in the sky before an instrument failure brought a couple down. Pointing to it as some horrible idea that humans should never have done is silly if you're counting both the positives and the negatives of the system. Regardless, it's fixed now. And the first fix for this Tesla non-issue was two years ago.
I doubt people would accept an autonomous car which is only slightly safer than a human driver, it would just take one accident with some kids and the things will get pulled.
You know tesla has already sold more than 250,000 cars, right? Every day tens of thousands of people are turning on Autopilot and letting the car drive while they try to stay alert on the wheel.
I don't get why you think monitoring the car requires the same effort as driving. By all accounts it does not. It allows you to offload a ton of mental effort to the car, and your job boils down to, "is the car doing what it's supposed to?". If the answer is yes, you just sit there and enjoy the scenery.
The very reason that terrorism is a small percentage of the death rate is because we challenge it at every turn.
That's a whole load of bullshit. If we were challenging it at every turn we wouldn't be bombing the shit out of countries while cutting deals with their monarchs and dictators, and those of neighboring countries. We'd be working to push democracy, education, and leveling out the wealth gap between the rich rulers and the impoverished citizens. Hell, even starting with our own country might reduce a couple of our homegrown terrorist attacks.
Countries where the bulk of their citizens are doing well see very, very few homegrown terrorists. Countries with vast inequalities and human rights abuses see a whole lot more.
If we were serious about defeating terrorism, bombing the shit out of poor people in the middle east and africa would not be our favorite hobby.
What he's saying is that the TSA is like a tiger-repelling rock. The TSA scared all the terrorists away, so we should keep it. That's why they didn't catch any, because there weren't any to catch. If we get rid of the TSA, the terrorists will come rushing back and kill all of us.
Do you not travel? Most of the larger airports now have water bottle filling stations. Any that have been renovated in the last decade do. I just toss my empty metal water bottle in my bag, go through security, and fill it up. Even if they don't have bottle filling stations, they've got water fountains.
If you pick single clear examples, yeah, it's not arbitrary. Why would you think it would be? Here you go, draw the line:
1) John is like a pretzel with no salt.
2) John is ugly.
3) John is fugly.
4) John's mom wished she would have aborted him.
5) If John died, would anyone care?
6) Any day that John gets hurt is a good day.
7) I cheer on anyone who punches someone like John.
8) Would be nice if someone would go over and fuck John up.
9) If John does that again, I'm going to kick his ass.
10) I'm buying a beer for the first person to kick John in the nuts.
11) Anyone up for kicking John's ass?
12) Lets all meet at 10am tomorrow morning at John's house and teach him a thing or two.
13) The John beatdown party for tomorrow is on! 12 confirmed participants.
14) [image of gun] John, I'm coming for you.
Feel free to envision a vast spectrum for child porn as well, with differing amounts of clothes and levels of sexual innuendo through actual sex, with stick figures to uncanny valley 3D to photo-realistic 3D to real children.
If you don't think it's going to be arbitrary, I don't think you've thought about it hard enough. And you don't realize that most everyone is going to have a different line than you'll have.
Except zero of those countries are marxist. Do you even know what the word means?
I'm somewhat amazed that you're almost 100% wrong. Both this and the Boeing have a human override, the Tesla far more so than the plane, for good reason. The plane that crashed had the same issue resolved the day before by following the proper steps to address it. Yes, there was a problem with the plane, but it was solvable by the pilots. The failure the next day was threefold, and not just a technical issue. The malfunctioning instrument wasn't fixed, the pilots weren't notified of the issue or the actions of the pilots the day before, and the pilots didn't go through the checklist of procedures to fix the issue.
Passenger plane pilots are not expected to grab the yoke and make a hard left turn and do a barrel roll. They're expected to calmly walk through their checklists to diagnose and fix issues with the plane. The pilots who did saved the plane and all the people on it, while the pilots who didn't lost the plane and everyone on it. The failure was both technical and training.
To this article, I really don't know what you're on about.
In a statement, Tesla officials said that the vulnerabilities addressed in the report have been fixed via security update in 2017, "followed by another comprehensive security update in 2018, both of which we released before this group reported this research to us."
So because a minor issue was fixed a year or two ago, you don't think we'll have effective self-driving cars in the near future? To me, that suggests the opposite.
Technological issues get discovered and fixed, and we move on. The alternate is not advancing as a species. You also ignore the good that the technology likely has done and will do in the future, to focus entirely on the harm it briefly did. That's a really short-sighted position to take.
In my state we have a "no cell phone use in work zones" law, and giant signs before all work zones notifying drivers. I'd bet that the same will happen with self-driving cars as they become more popular. And like the no-phones law, most people will obey it, some won't and will get fined, some won't and will get into accidents and fined, and some will get into accidents and injure someone else and get fined and potentially also get jail time.