Not at all. The driver didn't get the blame because a self driving Uber killed someone or because they weren't able to avoid an accident. The driver got the blame because they didn't do their job at all while at the same time also illegally operating a motor vehicle.
You can't have it both ways. A self driving car should not require a driver and conversely, if a driver is required then the car isn't really 'self driving', is it? Uber's job title for these backup drivers is 'Mission Specialist' and I would bet good money that before the accident NONE of those specialists were told outright that they were the legal operator of the vehicle they were babysitting. It's obvious that the software running these self driving cars is nowhere NEAR ready for prime time and they shouldn't be allowed on the street. In fact, Uber now requires 2 mission specialists to be in every self driving car, which makes that moniker even MORE of a joke.
Something the survey doesn't tell Netflix, the amount of lost revenue when people change their subscription or drop it altogether because Netflix reduced the number of concurrent streams allowed.
I experienced something similar at a company I was working for as a contractor. We developed an application that had to ftp payroll ACH information to the bank for payroll and the IT policies didn't allow any type of ftp.
It's NOT a requirement that companies offer bug bounties, just as it's not a requirement that people who find these exploits are required to report them to the company in question. 0Day exploits can fetch a lot of money on the open market and if companies don't want those exploits published to the public then they will have to compete with the open market to obtain them.
I completely agree with your sentiments here. Not only courts, but most people in general do not understand the interplay between hardware and software. They have a 3 or 4 years old iPhone but still want to run the latest and greatest OS, which was written to take advantage of newer gen hardware and then they wonder why their iDevice seems to be running slower. While I do NOT agree with everything that Apple does in regards to their product development, I will agree that they have tried to be very transparent about battery degradation and building options to make sure that the batter isn't over taxed, resulting in a hard shut down.
I guess the only thing Apple can do now is to put out a statement indicating that installing a new operating system MAY result in performance degradations in older generation hardware.
Don't even get me started on the morons that install beta 1 of a new major version OS and then complain that all their third party applications don't run!
And yet, ive not seen any evidence the magic leap HARDWARE is not capable of everything they promised.
Based on the reviews I've seen online, the current hardware is NOT capable of providing the functionality that was promised. For example; there are only two focal depths, the screens embedded in the goggles do not provide wide viewing angles and the AR is far from opaque.
I'm trying to think of what other possible purpose is served for it to have an electronic screen at all, and am coming up blank.
The ONLY thing I can come up would be either a car dealer or a fleet service where the plates only go on cars that are going to be on the road. You could have 'ePlates' on all the cars and have a plate number transferred to the fleet vehicle you are taking out that day.
But the bigger downside is having to replace the plate if a rock hits it (especially in states that require both front and rear plates) as well as the fact that if anyone as much as taps your car from behind you're going to have to replace your shattered plate.
Whether or not a device is bricked is relative to the person trying to use it. For all intents and purposes, the iPhones were bricked until Apple released a patch or fix to unbrick them.
Trump could cure cancer, elevate world hunger, and invent weather control and the left would still attack him. There is literally no way for him to be successful in their eyes.
I believe that THIS STATEMENT in and of itself is part of the problem. The constant bickering between people that define themselves as being either 'Left' or 'Right', or 'Conservative' or 'Liberal'. I tell people that I'm a old school Republican, I believe in more power at the State level with a lean and efficient Federal Government. With that said, Trump is a fucking IDIOT who constantly and consistently contradicts himself, lies about everything, refuses to admit that he is or was wrong about anything and believes himself to be the smartest person in the room, on every subject. He holds himself above people that are experts in their field and he has no tact or grace. Trump would NEVER be able to accomplish any of the things you mentioned because he is not able to keep qualified people on his staff.
And if someone shall be able to challenge Trump in the next election it has to be a strong fast-paced person with light luggage able to shake up a movement as strong as Sanders had.
I believe that if Hillary had picked Sanders as her running mate, Trump would have lost by a considerable amount...
Isn't this why there are top level.gov sites? I hope this guy gets his domain back or at least is rewarded substantial compensation for his loss. Web.com should also be penalized for just handing over a domain without notice.
I'm not a big fan of Facebook, although I do use it at times to keep in contact with some friends and relatives.
The story makes it sound as though Facebook was doing something underhanded and nefarious. They were ONLY doing what the API allowed them to do. Where is the anger toward Google for allowing this type of access in their API? I'm not sure how the Android version of Facebook works, but when you install the iOS version, it explicitly asks you if you want to give the app access to your contact list, you DO have the option to decline.
Why are they using forensic tools to look for deleted files in the first place if NOT to look for anything that resembles incriminating evidence so they can get the 'informant' pay?
You are making an assumption on the situation. What we know is that as far as the police THOUGHT they were rolling on a murder and hostage situation (hostage in danger of murder as well). We don't know if the potential hostage taker had his hands hidden, whether he made any sharp movements - basically we know nothing. We don't know if the officer followed procedure, or what he was responding to. To say that they just rolled up and shot the first person they saw is only showing your bias and not what was reported.
Hell 99% of the time they don't even check ID. *facepalm*
That's because most merchant service providers don't require that the merchant look at the customer's ID. While some networks (MasterCard, VISA, Discover, AmEx) allow the merchant to reasonably verify that the customer is the authorized card holder, some also explicitly FORBID a merchant accept a credit card that is not signed, this is why they ask you to sign the card before they can accept it.
Many years ago, while working retail when you still had to use a 'knuckle buster' when accepting a credit card, our store was audited and we were fined for accepting an unsigned card. Merchant service providers don't seem to do things like this any longer.
That's because as it is now, people driving cars kill people on the road. With driverless vehicles they will be killed by either hardware failures, software bugs, software logic glitches, hacking PLUS all of the environmental issues that currently plague human drivers. There's a difference there and until they are proven to be safer than human driven cars, the companies that are putting them on the road should be liable and will most likely be found liable in a court of law, unless of course the jury is comprised of driverless cars.
Until recently, I used to travel frequently, spending up to 15 hours a day in a moving vehicle with NO internet access. What's wrong with reading? You can download dozens of books at a time and share the devices. If you want to watch movies, many tour buses have screens, let the people on the bus take turns picking movies. There's also games, people can get competitive when they're in groups, use that.
As others have pointed out, you can buy several tablets and get pretty robust data plans that people can take turns using to check their mail, Facebook and other things that don't involve streaming gobs of data. If they ALL MUST have unlimited data streaming then do some research on mobile hotspots and tell them if they can't curb their data usage then stop bitching about it and pay the overage costs.
He wouldn't HAVE the wire cutters if someone didn't fly them in on a drone. The drone is very much a problem in this case.
NO, the drone is a result of real problems, such as lax security and protocols. Most likely, the guards weren't being paid to look the other way when inmates have cell phones and there weren't adequate measures in place to prevent an inmate from being in an escape position with a pair of wire cutters.
46,000 were involuntarily denied boarding, according to data from the Department of Transportation -- less than 0.008%.
It may be less than 0.008% but it's still forty six thousand human beings.
Also, denied boarding is a whole different ball game than being physically removed from the plane after already boarding. United should have either offered more compensation until somebody took the bait or they should have bumped one of the 4 UA employees that wanted to fly. I hope the guy that was dragged from the plane has a basis to sue because what happened is not OK.
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Not at all. The driver didn't get the blame because a self driving Uber killed someone or because they weren't able to avoid an accident. The driver got the blame because they didn't do their job at all while at the same time also illegally operating a motor vehicle.
You can't have it both ways. A self driving car should not require a driver and conversely, if a driver is required then the car isn't really 'self driving', is it? Uber's job title for these backup drivers is 'Mission Specialist' and I would bet good money that before the accident NONE of those specialists were told outright that they were the legal operator of the vehicle they were babysitting. It's obvious that the software running these self driving cars is nowhere NEAR ready for prime time and they shouldn't be allowed on the street. In fact, Uber now requires 2 mission specialists to be in every self driving car, which makes that moniker even MORE of a joke.
Something the survey doesn't tell Netflix, the amount of lost revenue when people change their subscription or drop it altogether because Netflix reduced the number of concurrent streams allowed.
I experienced something similar at a company I was working for as a contractor. We developed an application that had to ftp payroll ACH information to the bank for payroll and the IT policies didn't allow any type of ftp.
It's NOT a requirement that companies offer bug bounties, just as it's not a requirement that people who find these exploits are required to report them to the company in question. 0Day exploits can fetch a lot of money on the open market and if companies don't want those exploits published to the public then they will have to compete with the open market to obtain them.
How long does it take to make sure that the story heading is grammatically correct?
I completely agree with your sentiments here. Not only courts, but most people in general do not understand the interplay between hardware and software. They have a 3 or 4 years old iPhone but still want to run the latest and greatest OS, which was written to take advantage of newer gen hardware and then they wonder why their iDevice seems to be running slower. While I do NOT agree with everything that Apple does in regards to their product development, I will agree that they have tried to be very transparent about battery degradation and building options to make sure that the batter isn't over taxed, resulting in a hard shut down.
I guess the only thing Apple can do now is to put out a statement indicating that installing a new operating system MAY result in performance degradations in older generation hardware.
Don't even get me started on the morons that install beta 1 of a new major version OS and then complain that all their third party applications don't run!
You do realize when driving first started it was a right. Somehow the courts ruled away your rights.
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And yet, ive not seen any evidence the magic leap HARDWARE is not capable of everything they promised.
Based on the reviews I've seen online, the current hardware is NOT capable of providing the functionality that was promised. For example; there are only two focal depths, the screens embedded in the goggles do not provide wide viewing angles and the AR is far from opaque.
I'm trying to think of what other possible purpose is served for it to have an electronic screen at all, and am coming up blank.
The ONLY thing I can come up would be either a car dealer or a fleet service where the plates only go on cars that are going to be on the road. You could have 'ePlates' on all the cars and have a plate number transferred to the fleet vehicle you are taking out that day.
But the bigger downside is having to replace the plate if a rock hits it (especially in states that require both front and rear plates) as well as the fact that if anyone as much as taps your car from behind you're going to have to replace your shattered plate.
Whether or not a device is bricked is relative to the person trying to use it. For all intents and purposes, the iPhones were bricked until Apple released a patch or fix to unbrick them.
How is this not a violation of the DMCA? Couldn't Apple simply bury these companies under mountains of lawsuits to make them go away?
Trump could cure cancer, elevate world hunger, and invent weather control and the left would still attack him. There is literally no way for him to be successful in their eyes.
I believe that THIS STATEMENT in and of itself is part of the problem. The constant bickering between people that define themselves as being either 'Left' or 'Right', or 'Conservative' or 'Liberal'. I tell people that I'm a old school Republican, I believe in more power at the State level with a lean and efficient Federal Government. With that said, Trump is a fucking IDIOT who constantly and consistently contradicts himself, lies about everything, refuses to admit that he is or was wrong about anything and believes himself to be the smartest person in the room, on every subject. He holds himself above people that are experts in their field and he has no tact or grace. Trump would NEVER be able to accomplish any of the things you mentioned because he is not able to keep qualified people on his staff.
And if someone shall be able to challenge Trump in the next election it has to be a strong fast-paced person with light luggage able to shake up a movement as strong as Sanders had.
I believe that if Hillary had picked Sanders as her running mate, Trump would have lost by a considerable amount...
Isn't this why there are top level .gov sites? I hope this guy gets his domain back or at least is rewarded substantial compensation for his loss. Web.com should also be penalized for just handing over a domain without notice.
I'm not a big fan of Facebook, although I do use it at times to keep in contact with some friends and relatives.
The story makes it sound as though Facebook was doing something underhanded and nefarious. They were ONLY doing what the API allowed them to do. Where is the anger toward Google for allowing this type of access in their API? I'm not sure how the Android version of Facebook works, but when you install the iOS version, it explicitly asks you if you want to give the app access to your contact list, you DO have the option to decline.
Why are they using forensic tools to look for deleted files in the first place if NOT to look for anything that resembles incriminating evidence so they can get the 'informant' pay?
So... people don't pay attention to their surroundings and somehow it's the building's fault?
You are making an assumption on the situation. What we know is that as far as the police THOUGHT they were rolling on a murder and hostage situation (hostage in danger of murder as well). We don't know if the potential hostage taker had his hands hidden, whether he made any sharp movements - basically we know nothing. We don't know if the officer followed procedure, or what he was responding to. To say that they just rolled up and shot the first person they saw is only showing your bias and not what was reported.
Fixed that for you...
I'm still trying to figure out why your kid's school doesn't allow them to bring an iPad to school but will let them bring a Kindle...
Hell 99% of the time they don't even check ID. *facepalm*
That's because most merchant service providers don't require that the merchant look at the customer's ID. While some networks (MasterCard, VISA, Discover, AmEx) allow the merchant to reasonably verify that the customer is the authorized card holder, some also explicitly FORBID a merchant accept a credit card that is not signed, this is why they ask you to sign the card before they can accept it.
Many years ago, while working retail when you still had to use a 'knuckle buster' when accepting a credit card, our store was audited and we were fined for accepting an unsigned card. Merchant service providers don't seem to do things like this any longer.
That's because as it is now, people driving cars kill people on the road. With driverless vehicles they will be killed by either hardware failures, software bugs, software logic glitches, hacking PLUS all of the environmental issues that currently plague human drivers. There's a difference there and until they are proven to be safer than human driven cars, the companies that are putting them on the road should be liable and will most likely be found liable in a court of law, unless of course the jury is comprised of driverless cars.
Until recently, I used to travel frequently, spending up to 15 hours a day in a moving vehicle with NO internet access. What's wrong with reading? You can download dozens of books at a time and share the devices. If you want to watch movies, many tour buses have screens, let the people on the bus take turns picking movies. There's also games, people can get competitive when they're in groups, use that.
As others have pointed out, you can buy several tablets and get pretty robust data plans that people can take turns using to check their mail, Facebook and other things that don't involve streaming gobs of data. If they ALL MUST have unlimited data streaming then do some research on mobile hotspots and tell them if they can't curb their data usage then stop bitching about it and pay the overage costs.
He wouldn't HAVE the wire cutters if someone didn't fly them in on a drone. The drone is very much a problem in this case.
NO, the drone is a result of real problems, such as lax security and protocols. Most likely, the guards weren't being paid to look the other way when inmates have cell phones and there weren't adequate measures in place to prevent an inmate from being in an escape position with a pair of wire cutters.
Is it too much to ask for SOME professionalism anymore?
The title is perfect because it quotes the original EFF blog post, titled 'Stupid Patent of the Month: Storage Cabinets on a Computer'.
It may be less than 0.008% but it's still forty six thousand human beings.
Also, denied boarding is a whole different ball game than being physically removed from the plane after already boarding. United should have either offered more compensation until somebody took the bait or they should have bumped one of the 4 UA employees that wanted to fly. I hope the guy that was dragged from the plane has a basis to sue because what happened is not OK.