I dunno... how about a dating site where people are matched to people of the same faith? That's kind of important to a lot of people, and a valid reason for collecting and using the data.
You're not going to capture quite as much of the population as you might with Twitter, but your data might be more trustworthy.
Just what I was thinking. Why in the hell should they get a 20-30% cut of a fare for putting a customer and contractor together when that is all handled by an app?
They have hosting, dev, and support costs, and presumably some advertising or something... but really, now that Uber is a thing it could be run by a handful of people regardless of scale.
Unless they're going to get serious about driver background checks, vehicle safety checks, bad client tracking, etc... like regular taxis (are supposed to) do, there's some people at the top getting very, very rich.
Well, since you're actually present in such circumstances, it'd likely take (a lot) less processing power to work with the available audio.
That would translate into longer battery life and higher accuracy (auto CC is already more than 50% accurate and some systems hit the 90% threshold without requiring training to a specific individual's voice).
Either way she's dead, this way she died with hope. Maybe her last moments involved a delusion she'd wake up someday, but what's the difference between being comforted by magic tech reversing the crystallization damage to every cell in your brain and, say, thinking a guy in a white robe will open some golden gates on a cloud and let you in to an eternal paradise?
Car mode looks fine, but the humanoid mode looks like the robot is standing in the unaltered rear third of the car, and the arms and head look useless.
If it can't walk or pick up things, it's not good enough yet.
We can go to Mars if we want to throw enough money at it. Living there in a self-sustaining colony of healthy human beings is probably awaiting several engineering and medical breakthroughs, though.
If you're willing to risk a roughly 99% chance of dying in flight due to environmental failure, we could manage an interstellar generation ship - again, by throwing enough money at it.
If you really had to shower daily (which is nice in close quarters but not exactly required to sustain life), you could get by on maybe 30 seconds of water.
If you have a system to instantly recycle the shower water for the 'wet' part, you could use the entire 30 seconds for the 'rinse'.
Granting them the authority to passively scan wireless traffic, identify the location of the WAP, and then providing that information to the police is fine with me. I mean, still stupid, but legally/morally fine.
So long as that's all they get to do. If they are allowed to be judge, jury and executioner as well instead of passing off evidence to the legal system, that's a big problem.
You can get a permit for outfitting it with some kind of area-denial device within your presumably fenced and clearly marked property.
If it can emit a painful ultrasonic shriek, fire off an omni-directional microwave that makes your skin feel like it's on fire, or blink a bajillion-candle strobe in your face to temporarily blind you... then it's suddenly useful.
* the app had configurable limits for local storage and purchases
* it started with non-RIAA artists only (yes, painful, but worth it in the long run if you survive)
* it had a rating system with novelty, similarity, and unique user request frequency per day
* it cut out Amazon - have your own secured cloud service
* you charge for a resync (it's only fair, to cover your storage and bandwidth costs), keep the cost low but still profitable. Bandwidth and storage aren't that expensive.
THEN I think you could have a winner. An industry-toppling winner, actually... if you managed to make it work at all. I expect at first you'd try and be the go-to distribution method for tiny little bands just starting up and it'd be difficult to get new listeners when most people just want the pop top 30.
Still, it's important to cut out the RIAA and entities like Amazon right from the start or they will take all the profits while you starve and fail.
In fact, they'd have started licensing fan fiction, charged for mandatory script approval, and rented props. Which, so long as the fees were reasonable and tied to a 'non profit' condition for the fan production, would have been an excellent solution to the issue.
As each simulation must be more simplistic that the universe within which it is simulated (and unless those higher in the chain are using their entire universe to run the simulation, it'd have to be far, far, far less complex), I'm getting really tired of the 'simulated universe' idea.
More or less. There is no acceptable or even pseudo-acceptable justification for this attack.
There's no secret conspiracy uncovered, no risk to national security the government won't admit to or fix, just NASA doing what they're supposed to be doing.
And these idiots deciding to try and fuck it up as best they can because they can. A lengthy stay in prison without access to electronics might just be what they need to smarten up. If not, at least they'll have less opportunity to cause trouble for a while.
If Apple wants to put out the iReality, a high definition stereo heads-up display with 3-axis motion detection, and some decent stereo speakers, I don't care if it's an overpriced bit of shiny white plastic with an inaccessible battery. Just because it's Apple there's a good chance it'd be a significant boost for the VR market.
If Apple wants to put out iGlasses and make a Google Glass equivalent that people would actually wear, that'd be awesome too. Not because I'd wear them (they'd inevitably be overly thick white plastic with a prominent Apple logo on them...) but because the knock-offs would have to be far better than what's available today to be at all competitive, and I'd wear one of them.
Simple law: If you sell something, the customer must have the right to repair it or you must offer full zero-deductible warranty for the (clearly) advertised lifetime of the device or software.
I expect it'd be more something you'd have installed closed, and only ever open it if and when you decide you want to have children, then close again once your significant other was pregnant.
It's a shame we aren't at a tech level where we could just genetically engineer disabled sperm production until we injest a specific chemical to trigger it.
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I dunno... how about a dating site where people are matched to people of the same faith? That's kind of important to a lot of people, and a valid reason for collecting and using the data.
You're not going to capture quite as much of the population as you might with Twitter, but your data might be more trustworthy.
So... about 400,000 lbs of these batteries to power the average Western home?
You're going to need a dedicated outbuilding for that!
Just what I was thinking. Why in the hell should they get a 20-30% cut of a fare for putting a customer and contractor together when that is all handled by an app?
They have hosting, dev, and support costs, and presumably some advertising or something... but really, now that Uber is a thing it could be run by a handful of people regardless of scale.
Unless they're going to get serious about driver background checks, vehicle safety checks, bad client tracking, etc... like regular taxis (are supposed to) do, there's some people at the top getting very, very rich.
Well, since you're actually present in such circumstances, it'd likely take (a lot) less processing power to work with the available audio.
That would translate into longer battery life and higher accuracy (auto CC is already more than 50% accurate and some systems hit the 90% threshold without requiring training to a specific individual's voice).
So... a blockchain why? Because Wal-Mart doesn't really need anything more than a regular old database for this purpose.
Either way she's dead, this way she died with hope. Maybe her last moments involved a delusion she'd wake up someday, but what's the difference between being comforted by magic tech reversing the crystallization damage to every cell in your brain and, say, thinking a guy in a white robe will open some golden gates on a cloud and let you in to an eternal paradise?
HOUSE roof, not car roof.
Solar roof -> Home battery storage -> Car
Your car doesn't have enough surface area to produce the power you'd require to move it a reasonable distance with a reasonable frequency.
Actually, in the book they'd take *anyone*, on the basis that a disabled desk jockey freed up someone able-bodied to fight.
All could serve within their capacity to do so.
Car mode looks fine, but the humanoid mode looks like the robot is standing in the unaltered rear third of the car, and the arms and head look useless.
If it can't walk or pick up things, it's not good enough yet.
This one looks like it's not quite as advanced as this one: http://mashable.com/2014/10/23...
Only a human-sized model last I checked, but far more functional.
Risky doesn't mean impossible.
We can go to Mars if we want to throw enough money at it. Living there in a self-sustaining colony of healthy human beings is probably awaiting several engineering and medical breakthroughs, though.
If you're willing to risk a roughly 99% chance of dying in flight due to environmental failure, we could manage an interstellar generation ship - again, by throwing enough money at it.
> If you don't take a Hollywood shower,
Wet skin. Lather soap. Rinse.
If you really had to shower daily (which is nice in close quarters but not exactly required to sustain life), you could get by on maybe 30 seconds of water.
If you have a system to instantly recycle the shower water for the 'wet' part, you could use the entire 30 seconds for the 'rinse'.
Granting them the authority to passively scan wireless traffic, identify the location of the WAP, and then providing that information to the police is fine with me. I mean, still stupid, but legally/morally fine.
So long as that's all they get to do. If they are allowed to be judge, jury and executioner as well instead of passing off evidence to the legal system, that's a big problem.
No UBI without birth control, which you must pay to have reversed if you want children.
Two children per person (replacement rate, because each child counts for both mother and father) free, after that you gotta pay.
You can get a permit for outfitting it with some kind of area-denial device within your presumably fenced and clearly marked property.
If it can emit a painful ultrasonic shriek, fire off an omni-directional microwave that makes your skin feel like it's on fire, or blink a bajillion-candle strobe in your face to temporarily blind you... then it's suddenly useful.
IF:
* the app had configurable limits for local storage and purchases
* it started with non-RIAA artists only (yes, painful, but worth it in the long run if you survive)
* it had a rating system with novelty, similarity, and unique user request frequency per day
* it cut out Amazon - have your own secured cloud service
* you charge for a resync (it's only fair, to cover your storage and bandwidth costs), keep the cost low but still profitable. Bandwidth and storage aren't that expensive.
THEN I think you could have a winner. An industry-toppling winner, actually... if you managed to make it work at all. I expect at first you'd try and be the go-to distribution method for tiny little bands just starting up and it'd be difficult to get new listeners when most people just want the pop top 30.
Still, it's important to cut out the RIAA and entities like Amazon right from the start or they will take all the profits while you starve and fail.
In fact, they'd have started licensing fan fiction, charged for mandatory script approval, and rented props. Which, so long as the fees were reasonable and tied to a 'non profit' condition for the fan production, would have been an excellent solution to the issue.
As each simulation must be more simplistic that the universe within which it is simulated (and unless those higher in the chain are using their entire universe to run the simulation, it'd have to be far, far, far less complex), I'm getting really tired of the 'simulated universe' idea.
It used to be that WiFi and Bluetooth came with mechanical switches on the laptop.
I love mechanical switches - sure, they wear out and are a pain to replace, but unless you have teleporting electrons, they kill the attached devices.
They should make a comeback.
How long will it take for the IT folk to explain to their bosses why it would be better just to use a regular old database and some PKI?
Blockchains are a massive waste of time and effort, but I guess some techies get to make money while the non-techies figure that out.
>it doesn't make sense with a Constitutionally mandated strict voting schedule. We'd have to change that.
If there is an unfilled seat between elections, we have by-elections to deal with that.
More or less. There is no acceptable or even pseudo-acceptable justification for this attack.
There's no secret conspiracy uncovered, no risk to national security the government won't admit to or fix, just NASA doing what they're supposed to be doing.
And these idiots deciding to try and fuck it up as best they can because they can. A lengthy stay in prison without access to electronics might just be what they need to smarten up. If not, at least they'll have less opportunity to cause trouble for a while.
>Outside of VR
If Apple wants to put out the iReality, a high definition stereo heads-up display with 3-axis motion detection, and some decent stereo speakers, I don't care if it's an overpriced bit of shiny white plastic with an inaccessible battery. Just because it's Apple there's a good chance it'd be a significant boost for the VR market.
If Apple wants to put out iGlasses and make a Google Glass equivalent that people would actually wear, that'd be awesome too. Not because I'd wear them (they'd inevitably be overly thick white plastic with a prominent Apple logo on them...) but because the knock-offs would have to be far better than what's available today to be at all competitive, and I'd wear one of them.
Simple law: If you sell something, the customer must have the right to repair it or you must offer full zero-deductible warranty for the (clearly) advertised lifetime of the device or software.
I expect it'd be more something you'd have installed closed, and only ever open it if and when you decide you want to have children, then close again once your significant other was pregnant.
It's a shame we aren't at a tech level where we could just genetically engineer disabled sperm production until we injest a specific chemical to trigger it.
"Legos" in common usage and "Lego bricks" according to the company that makes them.
"Lego's" makes me wonder "Lego's what?" because the apostrophe indicates the possessive.