See, I'm not necessarily upset at Amazon for doing this, as they're being seemingly open and honest about it.
This is also one of the few things that I don't get upset at Walmart for. Their intentionally under-pricing their goods at a loss to force competitors in small markets to go under before raising their prices is what upsets me.
Diverting around a dangerous situation like a fire, downed power lines, or police response.
Following detours.
Following manual police or other responder's manual directions.
Intentionally blocking the road to other traffic (ie, to protect an injured bystander laying in the road).
Even with those reasons to allow for manual operation by a licensed driver, I would still allow license-less occupants to use an automated car in the same fashion as a sedan service, assuming that certain conditions are met. Those conditions could be things like legal restrictions that require a combination of age and owner consent, or legal restrictions like a form of state-issued ID that allows the occupant to state destinations for the car, or perhaps for a class of operator for those that used to be licensed drivers but are no longer generally capable of driving at-speed on normal roadways, but could perhaps manually operate the vehicle in a limited capacity in an emergency or when automated operation is not possible, with restrictions on speed and with automated assistance to supplement the operator's own restrictions.
States have a form of state-issued ID that is issued when the individual either does not qualify for a driver's license or does not want one. States also have multiple classes of vehicle operator permitting, often a range including minors and new drivers with time-of-use or caps on the number of passengers, to motorcycle licenses, to higher GVWR/GCWR or special-purpose licensing like for hazardous chemicals or high occupancy. It would not be unreasonable to add a new kind of endorsement, for those considered old enough to be capable of instructing autonomous vehicles what to do, and it could have a combination of minimum age and parental consent, something like twelve years of age.
There would still need to be some kind of means for the car to either make choices to abort a trip if road conditions couldn't be handled in an automated fashion, or for the car to allow the occupant to provide additional direction in some situations. There would also need to be a way for the car to either reject destinations or to restrict to only certain destinations based on parental or owner input, and for the vehicle to be able to have limits on the number of occupants and to handle behavioral issues like the failure to wear seatbelts or to remain seated. Those could be as simple as detecting the length of the seatbelt (ie, calibrated to know a minimum length when buckled so one can't buckle it first then sit on it) and knowing if the seat is occupied when the trip starts, and to abort the trip if the occupant gets off of the seat.
My in-laws could benefit greatly from an autonomous vehicle. They stopped driving due to vision problems and now have to rely on a dial-a-ride service. I'm sure that if an autonomous vehicle existed and was within their means that they'd buy it so long as it could convey groceries and other small to medium sized parcels in addition to at least two occupants.
I could see families with children in that adolescence age benefiting. Even with two-parent families, it can be difficult if more than one child has an activity to attend and the parents still want to cook dinner or handle other responsibilities, so I could see a parent being able to use an autonomous vehicle to help pick up children from events like that.
If they can make the cars function completely driverlessly then I don't see any reason why they can't make them function with occupants that can't operate them manually.
I'm actually surprised that there isn't something else checking versioning in the compiled stuff that can't be readily changed. That it's a registry entry blows my mind. That's so lazy on their part that I have zero sympathy for them if people extend support for their OSes this way.
If it's outside my legal access, then why does typing in eighteen plain-text keystrokes give me access to it?
If Microsoft didn't want updates to work between different products, then shouldn't those different products have been actually differentiated in their compiled executable files or libraries to make simple maintenance not provide a mechanism to do this?
What's illegal about it? Is it illegal to use Microsoft's provided tools to edit my registry, browing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA, then creating a new key called PosReady, then creating a new dword in PosReady called "Installed" with a value of 00000001?
Digital:Convergence had much more claim to the cuecat scanner's security than this could ever command.
It's worse actually. They're dependent on Google not only for ad revenue, but for simple exposure.
Honestly I never knew what metafilter was for. I've been on the Internet since 1994 (god, 20 years!) and metafilter never really caught my eye as knowing what they were for. If their goal was to be a front-door for the Internet, an aggregator of cool stuff, I have plenty of other sites to do that through that each seem to do a good job. If their job was to be a question-and-answer forum, I've got several forums for specific topics that I can visit and get better answers, and where if I give answers, they're both appreciated and discussed at length (sometimes ad-nauseum) so that they stay relevant.
If metafilter broke their somewhat parasitic arrangement with an entity that isn't forced to send them traffic, then I don't really know what to say to them.
My concern with games like this (and I have seen this one being played) is that kids don't seem to make the intellectual hop from rearranging fish to understanding how numbers can be manipulated without objects. Obviously at four years old the girl is too young to need to have made that connection, but when kids are in the low primary grades they need to start learning how this works at an abstract level, and this game doesn't seem to help them to do that as well as it should.
I used to play Number Munchers. You had a goofy-looking squareish monster thing that you controlled with the arrow keys and when you thought that the math problem or answer was correct you'd "eat" it. Sometimes there'd be a sum declared, and you were to find all of the expressions that equalled that sum. So, if the sum was 5, you'd look for 9-4, 2+3, 10-5, 6-1, etc, skipping all of the other sums that weren't relevant. You'd get a reward screen when you finished a page similar to how a pinball machine goes crazy when you do well. Seemed to work okay.
Uh, that's what California did first. Ever notice how some vehicles have special auto parts listings for "California" versus "Federal"? The California Air Resources Board has required certain vehicles to meet their standards since sometime in the seventies, which was why some engines weren't available there or had extra emissions control equipment installed.
I'd much rather see a mandate for a certain percentage of all-electric vehicles than I would to see a deviation from the Federal standard for any given state. I really wouldn't mind an electric for my commute as I only drive 20 miles round-trip, and my wife only drives 40 miles round-trip, so either of us could easily commute with an electric if they'd build one that we would actually want to own. The Fiat 500e was the first one that appealed to me, and I was hoping for a 100% electric Dodge Dart or Chrysler 200 so that I could have four doors, but that doesn't look like it'll be in the cards based on what's being said here.
Given that Afganistan is a military theatre of war, I don't think that it's actually legally an issue that they're monitoring all communications, as those communications are almost certainly being used to conduct warfare.
And perhaps if actually listening to the conversations helps to not detain innocent people because one can actually know what they're talking about, as opposed to the metadata approach where anyone talking to someone associated with opponents is grabbed, then it might not be a bad thing, again, within the scope of a theatre of war.
In the "us versus them" argument, this is a legitimate differentiation between us and them. As opposed to treating us as them as the metadata approach used domestically.
I found that getting the water as hot as I could stand before rinsing out my hair seems to help rinse out excessive oil buildup. I tend to shampoo two to three times a week instead of daily, and I've noticed that when I do this with the hot water my hair looks better than when I use cooler water.
The difference between all distractions before the Internet and the Internet-connected computer is that for the first time, one has absolutely limitless possibilities for getting distracted without end. The TV show ends and the credits roll. The comic book runs out of pages. The dancer gets tired and the dance hall closes.
The limitless possibilities are addicting. It's almost impossible to stop. Hell, I'm a grown man with a good job and here I am arguing on the Internet in the middle of the night, I've got the defenses to fight this to a greater extent and I even struggle with it.
And that teacher is right, and things will be going on around them that they completely miss on, because they're just participating with a huge navel-gazing culture that doesn't do anything.
A part of life is actually learning to deal with the boring parts, since there are many instances in our lives that are spent doing things we really don't want to do. Calming down, taking a sip of coffee while looking outside the window and admiring the bird, passers by, and the clouds, is something today's kids do NOT understand.
Kids don't understand at all, in any generation. A lack of technology previously forced kids to learn, and the ever-growing invasiveness of technology is delaying that lesson and making it harder to learn.
I like to think of it similarly to fractals, but not necessarily the identical-endlessly-repeating style. Look at spartanly-furnished room cursorily, it's boring. Look at the chair, notice the characteristics of the back, the curvature of the seat, the styling of the legs and feet. Look at the particular choices of color, at the wear. Consider the chair, what the design and the wear mean for its history. Repeat for any other thing in the room, or even for the room itself.
I can always find a way to entertain myself. When I was a kid eating breakfast I'd memorize the box. We all did. We didn't have computers to distract us from what was literally right in front of us.
If that kid is under twelve, that kid should have adult supervision of some sort even if there's no parent around. Whoever provides that supervision should be engaging that child in the manner described at least some of the time.
Humans learn through interaction, and if they don't interact with people with more experience then they don't learn what they'll need to be successful. That's why being a parent comes with an awful lot of responsibility, but I guess it's easy to forget that when the hormones are flying...
Except that kids have access to the nuances of the Internet at home and on their cellphones.
And I had books, video games, a television, hell, even a radio at home, I'm talking about at school. When I was a student, having a music player like a portable radio or a walkman, or having a pager, or having a video game system, or having a cell phone out was grounds for its confiscation. If a school wants to prohibit students from using the Internet during class then all they have to do is ban the use of portable electronics during instruction and practice time, and actually take those devices when they come out of backpacks.
I learned a fairly important lesson on this in the seventh grade; a friend of mine traded Playboys and other adult magazines with other boys at school, during the day. They all just had enough brains to not take them out of their backpacks when they were likely to be caught. The lesson was that teachers and faculty can't bust you for having something with you if they don't know that you don't take it out in front of them and so long as it doesn't become widely known that you have it.
That should mean that a kid in school should keep his or her phone in the backpack while in class and silenced. If the teacher doesn't know about it then it's not a problem.
Probably. We had PCs running Windows 3.1 and later Windows 95, and all we did was to play DOOM and Quake and Warcraft II and the original Grand Theft Auto on them. Eventually the school district IT department locked the PCs down, but we found ways around that to still play games while now losing the ability to compile because the security software wouldn't let us.
Computers have their place, but only once the kids have learned the skills that computers don't really help with. Trouble is, computers in primary school are a solution looking for a problem, and thus end up making more problem then they do solution.
Once the kids have learned, well, how to learn, and have begun to learn how to think, then have them start using computers. Not until then.
Fundamentally it comes down to why one uses an aid.
I went through basic math operation, single-variable algebra, and double-variable algebra with no calculators permitted. Once I had that foundation and was proven strong in my ability to do simple arithmetic I was then allowed to use the calculator to do the simple arithmetic required to do trigonometry. Once I had mastered geometry and trig I was allowed to use the calculator to do that rote math to make learning the mechanics of calculus easier. Once I learned basic calculus I was allowed to do the basic calculus on the calculator to make it easier to learn more advanced calculus.
Applying that skill to computers, I learned a lot of how computers work in my teenage years, and I've kept up, on and off, with further developments. I can apply my knowledge of how things have worked in the past to know how to ask the right questions or how to do the right research for how they will progress to work in the future, and how systems in-general work. I know how a particular task works in Linux, or how it did work in Linux in the past. Knowing what the task is I know how to figure out how it works now, or will in the future, or how it works on Cisco IOS, or how it works on BSD, or how it works in Windows. I certainly look up the answer, but I also have to know how to look up that kind of knowledge, and what questions to pose to a search engine to actually find out what I want to know. You have to know how to think before that really works effectively.
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See, I'm not necessarily upset at Amazon for doing this, as they're being seemingly open and honest about it.
This is also one of the few things that I don't get upset at Walmart for. Their intentionally under-pricing their goods at a loss to force competitors in small markets to go under before raising their prices is what upsets me.
Road construction.
Potholes filled with brackish water.
Debris.
Animals.
Diverting around a dangerous situation like a fire, downed power lines, or police response.
Following detours.
Following manual police or other responder's manual directions.
Intentionally blocking the road to other traffic (ie, to protect an injured bystander laying in the road).
Even with those reasons to allow for manual operation by a licensed driver, I would still allow license-less occupants to use an automated car in the same fashion as a sedan service, assuming that certain conditions are met. Those conditions could be things like legal restrictions that require a combination of age and owner consent, or legal restrictions like a form of state-issued ID that allows the occupant to state destinations for the car, or perhaps for a class of operator for those that used to be licensed drivers but are no longer generally capable of driving at-speed on normal roadways, but could perhaps manually operate the vehicle in a limited capacity in an emergency or when automated operation is not possible, with restrictions on speed and with automated assistance to supplement the operator's own restrictions.
States have a form of state-issued ID that is issued when the individual either does not qualify for a driver's license or does not want one. States also have multiple classes of vehicle operator permitting, often a range including minors and new drivers with time-of-use or caps on the number of passengers, to motorcycle licenses, to higher GVWR/GCWR or special-purpose licensing like for hazardous chemicals or high occupancy. It would not be unreasonable to add a new kind of endorsement, for those considered old enough to be capable of instructing autonomous vehicles what to do, and it could have a combination of minimum age and parental consent, something like twelve years of age.
There would still need to be some kind of means for the car to either make choices to abort a trip if road conditions couldn't be handled in an automated fashion, or for the car to allow the occupant to provide additional direction in some situations. There would also need to be a way for the car to either reject destinations or to restrict to only certain destinations based on parental or owner input, and for the vehicle to be able to have limits on the number of occupants and to handle behavioral issues like the failure to wear seatbelts or to remain seated. Those could be as simple as detecting the length of the seatbelt (ie, calibrated to know a minimum length when buckled so one can't buckle it first then sit on it) and knowing if the seat is occupied when the trip starts, and to abort the trip if the occupant gets off of the seat.
My in-laws could benefit greatly from an autonomous vehicle. They stopped driving due to vision problems and now have to rely on a dial-a-ride service. I'm sure that if an autonomous vehicle existed and was within their means that they'd buy it so long as it could convey groceries and other small to medium sized parcels in addition to at least two occupants.
I could see families with children in that adolescence age benefiting. Even with two-parent families, it can be difficult if more than one child has an activity to attend and the parents still want to cook dinner or handle other responsibilities, so I could see a parent being able to use an autonomous vehicle to help pick up children from events like that.
If they can make the cars function completely driverlessly then I don't see any reason why they can't make them function with occupants that can't operate them manually.
I'm actually surprised that there isn't something else checking versioning in the compiled stuff that can't be readily changed. That it's a registry entry blows my mind. That's so lazy on their part that I have zero sympathy for them if people extend support for their OSes this way.
If it's outside my legal access, then why does typing in eighteen plain-text keystrokes give me access to it?
If Microsoft didn't want updates to work between different products, then shouldn't those different products have been actually differentiated in their compiled executable files or libraries to make simple maintenance not provide a mechanism to do this?
What's illegal about it? Is it illegal to use Microsoft's provided tools to edit my registry, browing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA, then creating a new key called PosReady, then creating a new dword in PosReady called "Installed" with a value of 00000001?
Digital:Convergence had much more claim to the cuecat scanner's security than this could ever command.
...if you want a low paying job in your field after you graduate, get your doctorate from one of the best schools in the country.
Got it!
I DON'T LIKE bing!
It's worse actually. They're dependent on Google not only for ad revenue, but for simple exposure.
Honestly I never knew what metafilter was for. I've been on the Internet since 1994 (god, 20 years!) and metafilter never really caught my eye as knowing what they were for. If their goal was to be a front-door for the Internet, an aggregator of cool stuff, I have plenty of other sites to do that through that each seem to do a good job. If their job was to be a question-and-answer forum, I've got several forums for specific topics that I can visit and get better answers, and where if I give answers, they're both appreciated and discussed at length (sometimes ad-nauseum) so that they stay relevant.
If metafilter broke their somewhat parasitic arrangement with an entity that isn't forced to send them traffic, then I don't really know what to say to them.
My concern with games like this (and I have seen this one being played) is that kids don't seem to make the intellectual hop from rearranging fish to understanding how numbers can be manipulated without objects. Obviously at four years old the girl is too young to need to have made that connection, but when kids are in the low primary grades they need to start learning how this works at an abstract level, and this game doesn't seem to help them to do that as well as it should.
I used to play Number Munchers. You had a goofy-looking squareish monster thing that you controlled with the arrow keys and when you thought that the math problem or answer was correct you'd "eat" it. Sometimes there'd be a sum declared, and you were to find all of the expressions that equalled that sum. So, if the sum was 5, you'd look for 9-4, 2+3, 10-5, 6-1, etc, skipping all of the other sums that weren't relevant. You'd get a reward screen when you finished a page similar to how a pinball machine goes crazy when you do well. Seemed to work okay.
Uh, that's what California did first. Ever notice how some vehicles have special auto parts listings for "California" versus "Federal"? The California Air Resources Board has required certain vehicles to meet their standards since sometime in the seventies, which was why some engines weren't available there or had extra emissions control equipment installed.
I'd much rather see a mandate for a certain percentage of all-electric vehicles than I would to see a deviation from the Federal standard for any given state. I really wouldn't mind an electric for my commute as I only drive 20 miles round-trip, and my wife only drives 40 miles round-trip, so either of us could easily commute with an electric if they'd build one that we would actually want to own. The Fiat 500e was the first one that appealed to me, and I was hoping for a 100% electric Dodge Dart or Chrysler 200 so that I could have four doors, but that doesn't look like it'll be in the cards based on what's being said here.
It's a theatre of war regardless of a declared war, as Congress, NATO, and the United Nations have all gotten involved.
Unless you also don't want to call Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, and Yugoslavia wars too.
Don't worry. I'm fairly sure that they won't, unless you want to pay for a high-availability account or something.
Given that Afganistan is a military theatre of war, I don't think that it's actually legally an issue that they're monitoring all communications, as those communications are almost certainly being used to conduct warfare.
And perhaps if actually listening to the conversations helps to not detain innocent people because one can actually know what they're talking about, as opposed to the metadata approach where anyone talking to someone associated with opponents is grabbed, then it might not be a bad thing, again, within the scope of a theatre of war.
In the "us versus them" argument, this is a legitimate differentiation between us and them. As opposed to treating us as them as the metadata approach used domestically.
I don't think I want to leave the world's nuclear problem On The Beach...
I found that getting the water as hot as I could stand before rinsing out my hair seems to help rinse out excessive oil buildup. I tend to shampoo two to three times a week instead of daily, and I've noticed that when I do this with the hot water my hair looks better than when I use cooler water.
But yeah, otherwise soap all the way.
Did the guy care?
Please don't. It's bad enough having to put up with that one weekend a year at Comic Con...
The difference between all distractions before the Internet and the Internet-connected computer is that for the first time, one has absolutely limitless possibilities for getting distracted without end. The TV show ends and the credits roll. The comic book runs out of pages. The dancer gets tired and the dance hall closes.
The limitless possibilities are addicting. It's almost impossible to stop. Hell, I'm a grown man with a good job and here I am arguing on the Internet in the middle of the night, I've got the defenses to fight this to a greater extent and I even struggle with it.
And that teacher is right, and things will be going on around them that they completely miss on, because they're just participating with a huge navel-gazing culture that doesn't do anything.
Kids don't understand at all, in any generation. A lack of technology previously forced kids to learn, and the ever-growing invasiveness of technology is delaying that lesson and making it harder to learn.
I like to think of it similarly to fractals, but not necessarily the identical-endlessly-repeating style. Look at spartanly-furnished room cursorily, it's boring. Look at the chair, notice the characteristics of the back, the curvature of the seat, the styling of the legs and feet. Look at the particular choices of color, at the wear. Consider the chair, what the design and the wear mean for its history. Repeat for any other thing in the room, or even for the room itself.
I can always find a way to entertain myself. When I was a kid eating breakfast I'd memorize the box. We all did. We didn't have computers to distract us from what was literally right in front of us.
If that kid is under twelve, that kid should have adult supervision of some sort even if there's no parent around. Whoever provides that supervision should be engaging that child in the manner described at least some of the time.
Humans learn through interaction, and if they don't interact with people with more experience then they don't learn what they'll need to be successful. That's why being a parent comes with an awful lot of responsibility, but I guess it's easy to forget that when the hormones are flying...
And I had books, video games, a television, hell, even a radio at home, I'm talking about at school. When I was a student, having a music player like a portable radio or a walkman, or having a pager, or having a video game system, or having a cell phone out was grounds for its confiscation. If a school wants to prohibit students from using the Internet during class then all they have to do is ban the use of portable electronics during instruction and practice time, and actually take those devices when they come out of backpacks.
I learned a fairly important lesson on this in the seventh grade; a friend of mine traded Playboys and other adult magazines with other boys at school, during the day. They all just had enough brains to not take them out of their backpacks when they were likely to be caught. The lesson was that teachers and faculty can't bust you for having something with you if they don't know that you don't take it out in front of them and so long as it doesn't become widely known that you have it.
That should mean that a kid in school should keep his or her phone in the backpack while in class and silenced. If the teacher doesn't know about it then it's not a problem.
Probably. We had PCs running Windows 3.1 and later Windows 95, and all we did was to play DOOM and Quake and Warcraft II and the original Grand Theft Auto on them. Eventually the school district IT department locked the PCs down, but we found ways around that to still play games while now losing the ability to compile because the security software wouldn't let us.
*grin*
Computers have their place, but only once the kids have learned the skills that computers don't really help with. Trouble is, computers in primary school are a solution looking for a problem, and thus end up making more problem then they do solution.
Once the kids have learned, well, how to learn, and have begun to learn how to think, then have them start using computers. Not until then.
Fundamentally it comes down to why one uses an aid.
I went through basic math operation, single-variable algebra, and double-variable algebra with no calculators permitted. Once I had that foundation and was proven strong in my ability to do simple arithmetic I was then allowed to use the calculator to do the simple arithmetic required to do trigonometry. Once I had mastered geometry and trig I was allowed to use the calculator to do that rote math to make learning the mechanics of calculus easier. Once I learned basic calculus I was allowed to do the basic calculus on the calculator to make it easier to learn more advanced calculus.
Applying that skill to computers, I learned a lot of how computers work in my teenage years, and I've kept up, on and off, with further developments. I can apply my knowledge of how things have worked in the past to know how to ask the right questions or how to do the right research for how they will progress to work in the future, and how systems in-general work. I know how a particular task works in Linux, or how it did work in Linux in the past. Knowing what the task is I know how to figure out how it works now, or will in the future, or how it works on Cisco IOS, or how it works on BSD, or how it works in Windows. I certainly look up the answer, but I also have to know how to look up that kind of knowledge, and what questions to pose to a search engine to actually find out what I want to know. You have to know how to think before that really works effectively.