Given that the sensors can detect a difference here are some follow on questions that seem important. 1. Can it detect which one is the animal and which one is the bag? (they talk about difference not identification) 2. Can it tell if the small animal is alive or dead if it is not moving. 3. Can it tell if the animal is on a leash and not going to be an issue? 4. Can it detect if there is a barrier between the animal and the desired route of travel and the animal not being an issue? 5. Can it tell the difference between a turtle and a rabbit? Turtles having much more restricted movement possibilities than a rabbit. 6. Will it remember that the small animal went into the bag. Out of sight out of mind. 7. Can it differentiate between an empty bag and a bag of cement? Driving over an empty bag is not a problem. Driving over a bag of cement is probably a problem. Detecting the difference between a small animal and a paper bag is important but it is only the first step in in a very complex decision process to determine what to do with that information.
My response to every single one of the questions except #1 and MAYBE two others is: "can any driver do so?".
Background: I once successfully avoided hitting a fox which darted into a deserted rural road suddenly very close ahead of me - but totalled the car due to a succession of improbable details. Ever since then I have ingrained a deliberate policy of NEVER braking or swerving to avoid small wild animals. I was lucky in that my lesson affected only me, and did not injure me. You can never be sure of that in general. No one can be sure 100% of the time, on zero time notice for checking, that his car is sufficiently isolated from other cars and people.
Another time I drove over what looked like a black line painted on the road, not to swerve into traffic. It turned out to be an X piece of construction staging which teetered and took out my gearbox. That one I repaired. I think I got comprehensive insurance coverage for it - "road hazard". I didn't second guess myself.
Like I said, only a fool argues with True Belief, but a genuine question. OK, two questions.
1) If privatization is so great, why does no one anywhere think Defense should be privatized. Should we have thousands of competing mercenary militias?
2) I get that competition has its good side (as well as its bad side), but who really believes that capitalism unchecked would end up with any competition?
The USPS was centrally run and had no competition and performed superbly for some 200 years. Planned economies are subject to corruption, and so are capitalist enterprises. In a democracy, at least
Vendor lockin? Are you fucking kidding me? You have Gnome creating dependency on an DM, which has a dependency on a specific login daemon and message bus daemon which has specific dep. on an init system, which is going to have a dependency on SELinux, which going to etc. etc. All software projects maintained and controlled by 1 corporation, Red Hat. There's your vendor locking, dipshit. When you install Gnome on your Debian system you're going to be surprised that your really ended up installing Fedora.
If you can get past the casual insults, parent is actually hugely perceptive and making a key point. Gnu/Linux is becoming more and more monolithic, and it is Redhat pulling the strings.
Do be fair, I strongly criticize Debian for rolling over in the face of this (they are adopting systemd and Gnome3 with all that means in terms of the tendrils noted above). I would have cheered if they chucked them both and took up Xfce instead. Yes, I realize you still have control over what packages you install, but it is getting significantly more difficult to avoid the tendrils.
Ubuntu also turns their nose up at a perfectly workable init script system. In the case of Ubuntu this takes the form of Upstart rather than Systemd. One can argue the merits of all three (and there are others), but Ubuntu is doing the same type of thing as Gnome in this context.
If you prefer the real Unix philosophy, you probably want BSD or a Solaris spinoff or even OSX, not Linux. That's not meant as a knock against Gnu/Linux. Gnu/Linux works damn well. But if, for example, you spend effort throwing out proven, comprehensible and conceptually simple subsystems like init scripts and X11 and syslog in favor of massive elaborate replacements, some would say that's not where the effort should be spent.
Why is the government delivering our mail anyway. That kind of work is much more efficient in the private sector.
I can't tell if this is an attempt at sarcasm, so I am forced to treat it at face value.
Ah, another True Believer.
The government's aim is to perform a service at cost. The downside is that there is not much incentive for cost control.
A private firm's aim is to perform a service AND maximize the profit for the shareholders, who would rather not work for a living like normal people. The downside is so obvious that I won't belabor the point. No, actually I will take it a step further. The reason any firm performs any service is profit, end of story. The fact that they have to perform the service is just an unwelcome side effect to them.
Looks like six of one, half a dozen of the other, in terms of where that leaves the consumer.
Let me get this straight. You want the postman to decide for you which items in your mail you might be interested in and which items not? On the company's time?
So you don't want your own time stolen, but you're fine with stealing the company's time?
Once again, someone learns far too late: If your entire plan is to willingly piss off people in power because you think you know the "right" social order better than they do, make sure you have an exit strategy FIRST. Otherwise, you'll learn that people in power don't like being taunted and disrespected any more than you do, and they actually have the ability to do things to you in meatspace.
And regardless of their high and mighty air of superiority, they don't mind violating human rights in the least - whereas if the Pirate Bay founder ever violated anybody's human rights, I am not aware of it. He may have violated non-real "property" rights codified in law, but that is not at all the same level of offense.
While entirely true that The Great Escape was not a documentary, it was based on a non-fiction book of the same name by Paul Brickhill, who was in fact involved as a POW in the very real Great Escape, though due to claustrophobia he did not participate in the actual tunneling or the escape itself.
The characters in the film were based on real men and composites of real men. The character "Cooler King" Virgil Hilts, played by Steve McQueen, whom we see sent to solitary multiple times, was based on David M. Jones, who participated in the Doolittle Raid, survived same and escaped captivity at that time, only to be shot down in North Africa and sent to the very real Stalag Luft III. He actually led the digging team on the real tunnel "Harry".
On balance I believe The Great Escape is about the closest thing to an accurate depiction of such an arresting historic episode as you can get in a dramatic film.
Intellectual "property" is not property and it cannot be stolen. Theft involves a tangible item (which this is not). The damage is that the owner is deprived of the use of said tangible item. This owner is not deprived of the use of any tangible item. Copyright is not a human right. It is a legal grant. There may be a copyright violation or they may not; it has certainly not been duly proven; but there IS NO THEFT here.
Somebody has been deprived of his website though. Due legal process would require proof that some wrong has been committed, jurisdiction, prosecution, determination of an appropriate punishment, and recourse to appeal so that (ideally and hopefully) the defendant can reach some venue which has not been corrupted.
What you see here is a gross overreach by so-called authorities acting criminally. I don't know about Greece, but concerned citizens of countries in general tend to frown on that sort of thing.
It's/. you illiterate and cowardly moronic cipher, not./
Thanks for correcting me dude - i see my original comment is rated -1 now... i think it was because i offended the usual./ crowd by misspelling "slashdot"!
1) You just repeated exactly the same error. 2) Tip: if you don't post anonymously, I think you will find the civility of the responses will rise. I definitely have two modes. One for real people, and one for anonymous posters, who it is by definition impossible to insult. I am dead serious. 3) As for substance, with respect I believe it is undeservedly respectful to an overweening authority and begs the real question.
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Let me guess, but of course YOU don't, right?
My response to every single one of the questions except #1 and MAYBE two others is: "can any driver do so?".
Background: I once successfully avoided hitting a fox which darted into a deserted rural road suddenly very close ahead of me - but totalled the car due to a succession of improbable details. Ever since then I have ingrained a deliberate policy of NEVER braking or swerving to avoid small wild animals. I was lucky in that my lesson affected only me, and did not injure me. You can never be sure of that in general. No one can be sure 100% of the time, on zero time notice for checking, that his car is sufficiently isolated from other cars and people.
Another time I drove over what looked like a black line painted on the road, not to swerve into traffic. It turned out to be an X piece of construction staging which teetered and took out my gearbox. That one I repaired. I think I got comprehensive insurance coverage for it - "road hazard". I didn't second guess myself.
Like I said, only a fool argues with True Belief, but a genuine question. OK, two questions.
1) If privatization is so great, why does no one anywhere think Defense should be privatized. Should we have thousands of competing mercenary militias?
2) I get that competition has its good side (as well as its bad side), but who really believes that capitalism unchecked would end up with any competition?
The USPS was centrally run and had no competition and performed superbly for some 200 years. Planned economies are subject to corruption, and so are capitalist enterprises. In a democracy, at least
If that quote is accurate, Mr. Fuller was mistaken.
Pollution is allowed to happen because harvesting the resources represented would cost grossly more than they are worth.
That appears to me to be circular reasoning and does not address how OP's analogy is allegedly wrong.
Utterly unwarranted assumption.
Your knee is jerking admirably in response to your masters.
Easy there. Minus the casual insults, it seems to be you both are in agreement and making good points.
If you can get past the casual insults, parent is actually hugely perceptive and making a key point. Gnu/Linux is becoming more and more monolithic, and it is Redhat pulling the strings.
Do be fair, I strongly criticize Debian for rolling over in the face of this (they are adopting systemd and Gnome3 with all that means in terms of the tendrils noted above). I would have cheered if they chucked them both and took up Xfce instead. Yes, I realize you still have control over what packages you install, but it is getting significantly more difficult to avoid the tendrils.
I'm guessing that is probably a (gasp) bug.
With respect, I think I hear a whooshing sound. I had to do a double take to get it myself. Your point is valid and key though.
Ubuntu also turns their nose up at a perfectly workable init script system. In the case of Ubuntu this takes the form of Upstart rather than Systemd. One can argue the merits of all three (and there are others), but Ubuntu is doing the same type of thing as Gnome in this context.
If you prefer the real Unix philosophy, you probably want BSD or a Solaris spinoff or even OSX, not Linux. That's not meant as a knock against Gnu/Linux. Gnu/Linux works damn well. But if, for example, you spend effort throwing out proven, comprehensible and conceptually simple subsystems like init scripts and X11 and syslog in favor of massive elaborate replacements, some would say that's not where the effort should be spent.
NIH means National Institute of Health :-)
Not just to pull your chain, but that's the trouble with TLAs.
So are the Xorg developers themselves (Wayland rather than Mir).
OK then, who is he? Go on, back up your claim.
I can't tell if this is an attempt at sarcasm, so I am forced to treat it at face value.
Ah, another True Believer.
The government's aim is to perform a service at cost. The downside is that there is not much incentive for cost control.
A private firm's aim is to perform a service AND maximize the profit for the shareholders, who would rather not work for a living like normal people. The downside is so obvious that I won't belabor the point. No, actually I will take it a step further. The reason any firm performs any service is profit, end of story. The fact that they have to perform the service is just an unwelcome side effect to them.
Looks like six of one, half a dozen of the other, in terms of where that leaves the consumer.
Let me get this straight. You want the postman to decide for you which items in your mail you might be interested in and which items not? On the company's time?
So you don't want your own time stolen, but you're fine with stealing the company's time?
Actually we don't know it. Perhaps you could enlighten us on why it is not analogous.
And regardless of their high and mighty air of superiority, they don't mind violating human rights in the least - whereas if the Pirate Bay founder ever violated anybody's human rights, I am not aware of it. He may have violated non-real "property" rights codified in law, but that is not at all the same level of offense.
While entirely true that The Great Escape was not a documentary, it was based on a non-fiction book of the same name by Paul Brickhill, who was in fact involved as a POW in the very real Great Escape, though due to claustrophobia he did not participate in the actual tunneling or the escape itself.
The characters in the film were based on real men and composites of real men. The character "Cooler King" Virgil Hilts, played by Steve McQueen, whom we see sent to solitary multiple times, was based on David M. Jones, who participated in the Doolittle Raid, survived same and escaped captivity at that time, only to be shot down in North Africa and sent to the very real Stalag Luft III. He actually led the digging team on the real tunnel "Harry".
On balance I believe The Great Escape is about the closest thing to an accurate depiction of such an arresting historic episode as you can get in a dramatic film.
Intellectual "property" is not property and it cannot be stolen. Theft involves a tangible item (which this is not). The damage is that the owner is deprived of the use of said tangible item. This owner is not deprived of the use of any tangible item. Copyright is not a human right. It is a legal grant. There may be a copyright violation or they may not; it has certainly not been duly proven; but there IS NO THEFT here.
Somebody has been deprived of his website though. Due legal process would require proof that some wrong has been committed, jurisdiction, prosecution, determination of an appropriate punishment, and recourse to appeal so that (ideally and hopefully) the defendant can reach some venue which has not been corrupted.
What you see here is a gross overreach by so-called authorities acting criminally. I don't know about Greece, but concerned citizens of countries in general tend to frown on that sort of thing.
Their ASSES got owned by the NSA. Why would anyone think they CARE about security?
Exactly what is the property you think was stolen?
What was the due legal process used?
It's /. you illiterate and cowardly moronic cipher, not ./
Thanks for correcting me dude - i see my original comment is rated -1 now... i think it was because i offended the usual ./ crowd by misspelling "slashdot"!
1) You just repeated exactly the same error.
2) Tip: if you don't post anonymously, I think you will find the civility of the responses will rise. I definitely have two modes. One for real people, and one for anonymous posters, who it is by definition impossible to insult. I am dead serious.
3) As for substance, with respect I believe it is undeservedly respectful to an overweening authority and begs the real question.
Just say no to BTRFS. Use ZFS with RAIDZ.
Never use a RAID controller, period. ZFS builtin RAIDZ is far superior in every way.