What do people expect to happen from attacking robots?
They're not attacking robots, they're attacking all the unfairness they can't control. A crappy boss, a parking ticket, getting laid off, maddening rent increases, car repairs. People have no outlet for accumulated petty insult and take out their frustration on the unblinking machine.
This is not rocket science. Charge people $900 for an ambulance call, and they'll start calling Uber instead. When I was researching my book on the rideshare industry I took four or five people to the hospital, including one who was really in bad shape. He was a former EMT, so he clearly understood the risks.
My dad had Medicare and it the last ambulance call still cost him $200 out of pocket. Even the copay was more expensive than Uber.
At first I thought this had to be an Onion piece. The two most corrupt dirtbags, in the most corrupt political system outside a third world dictatorship, giving each other a hand job at CPAC.
This is the pathetic level to which conservatives have sunk.
This ruling is a giant step backwards for the modern communication of information. Maybe we need a new kind of court for technical questions of law. We have specialty courts for bankruptcy and specific fields of law, maybe it's time to add a branch for technology and staff it with people who know the difference between embedding a tweet and actual copyright infringement.
Never mind the Russians trying to undermine the duly elected government of the United States with the assistance of a national political party. Let's pay attention to the Chinese instead.
This might not be a bad solution, depending on how it's implemented. Everything managed by NASA costs more. Paying private companies for running the space station might be less expensive and incur lower overhead.
Just like the cost difference between the Falcon Heavy, BFR, and SLS. Falcon Heavy launches will run right around $90 million, $95 million for fully expendable. SLS launches will cost a billion each. Delta IV Heavy is $400 to $600 million each, depending on when they're booked.
Just depends on the details. We don't necessarily want ISS run by the low bidder. If the management contract included resupply, then SpaceX would be in the best position to take on that task. They have warehouses full of flight proven boosters available for resupply missions.
Splitting California's electoral votes is a right wing wet dream. Makes you wonder if it's the Koch family or the Mercers behind this push. Or some combination of billionaires and Russian foreign intelligence.
If humans are going to stay on Mars any length of time, they'll have to develop Martian power systems, not depend on hot boxes from Earth. Doesn't matter if it's solar, wind, chemical, or nuclear, Mars will need to generate its own power. Power and water. After that, you're on your own.
If it ran from the airport to the strip it would be the most heavily trafficked monorail in the world. But, no. Instead of building the transportation system they really needed, they build a monorail track to nowhere.
I believe this will eventually become the force driving the adoption of self-driving technology. When we get to the point autonomous cars do it right and are mixed in with human-driven cars that are screwing up and slowing down the traffic pattern for everyone else. I can see the current driving model being totally turned on its head with commuters eventually demanding that we ban human drivers.
There will also be economic pressure. Human drivers need signs, lights, and a weighty infrastructure investment. Autonomous cars need none of that expensive support.
The way options are taxed can make them kind of a bum deal. Depending on whether you're getting NSOs or ISOs, the price, and when you exercise your options can cost or save thousands.
Personally, I'd rather have a higher salary. Options are a nice bonus but, as in Uber's situation, they can also be a financial burden.
With the apparent integration between the Republican party and Russia it's getting harder to tell the home-grown corruption from the interference of a hostile foreign power.
Kind of a shot over the bow of the crowd suggesting the government shouldn't pick winners. Sometimes government is the only entity with a big enough footprint to get a new technology over the startup finish line. DARPA does it routinely for military tech and we have a universe of modern tech that started as a DARPA project. There's a long list of winners but what's the one 40% of America focuses on? The solar panel place. Not all of them pan out.
We shouldn't be limited to military tech for the government to pick winners.
When my dad went into the hospital we ended up throwing his unopened newspapers away. A free local paper and we didn't even bother taking them out the plastic sleeve. It's littered with ads, the content isn't relevant, and it's not how people get news anymore.
Billionaire ownership of the media is a separate problem. The idea that money equals speech has unfortunately become deeply ingrained.
Slashdot reader schwit1 writes, "This is akin to buying an exotic car you can barely afford, without also budgeting for insurance, repairs, and tuneups."
Actually it's like buying a new exotic car every three months so you don't have to do schedule maintenance on any of the others.
I'm amazed by the speed. 1,880 miles in 30 hours is an average of 62 mph. I don't think I could drive that far, that fast, in a conventional car. Those solar teams are amazing.
We just absorbed our biggest hurricane hit in nearly a decade and were without power for a week. When they're weaker than expected, it can setup unreasonable expectations for the next one. People are less likely to evacuate, less likely to take warnings seriously. "We evacuated last time and it fizzled."
What you "know" about hurricanes can work against you in the future.
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When cops investigate themselves it's always justified.
NASA has been gutted since the Obama administration when the Shuttle program was cancelled...
The shuttle program was cancelled by George Bush.
Just like anything robots do. They may not be great at it the first time but they'll get better.
What do people expect to happen from attacking robots?
They're not attacking robots, they're attacking all the unfairness they can't control. A crappy boss, a parking ticket, getting laid off, maddening rent increases, car repairs. People have no outlet for accumulated petty insult and take out their frustration on the unblinking machine.
This is not rocket science. Charge people $900 for an ambulance call, and they'll start calling Uber instead. When I was researching my book on the rideshare industry I took four or five people to the hospital, including one who was really in bad shape. He was a former EMT, so he clearly understood the risks.
My dad had Medicare and it the last ambulance call still cost him $200 out of pocket. Even the copay was more expensive than Uber.
Charging for an ambulance is just wrong.
At first I thought this had to be an Onion piece. The two most corrupt dirtbags, in the most corrupt political system outside a third world dictatorship, giving each other a hand job at CPAC.
This is the pathetic level to which conservatives have sunk.
This ruling is a giant step backwards for the modern communication of information. Maybe we need a new kind of court for technical questions of law. We have specialty courts for bankruptcy and specific fields of law, maybe it's time to add a branch for technology and staff it with people who know the difference between embedding a tweet and actual copyright infringement.
Never mind the Russians trying to undermine the duly elected government of the United States with the assistance of a national political party. Let's pay attention to the Chinese instead.
This might not be a bad solution, depending on how it's implemented. Everything managed by NASA costs more. Paying private companies for running the space station might be less expensive and incur lower overhead.
Just like the cost difference between the Falcon Heavy, BFR, and SLS. Falcon Heavy launches will run right around $90 million, $95 million for fully expendable. SLS launches will cost a billion each. Delta IV Heavy is $400 to $600 million each, depending on when they're booked.
Just depends on the details. We don't necessarily want ISS run by the low bidder. If the management contract included resupply, then SpaceX would be in the best position to take on that task. They have warehouses full of flight proven boosters available for resupply missions.
you get an image of, say, a fetus, or a submarine.
Congratulations, Mrs. Johnson, you're going to be the proud mother of a Sea Wolf.
Splitting California's electoral votes is a right wing wet dream. Makes you wonder if it's the Koch family or the Mercers behind this push. Or some combination of billionaires and Russian foreign intelligence.
If humans are going to stay on Mars any length of time, they'll have to develop Martian power systems, not depend on hot boxes from Earth. Doesn't matter if it's solar, wind, chemical, or nuclear, Mars will need to generate its own power. Power and water. After that, you're on your own.
If it ran from the airport to the strip it would be the most heavily trafficked monorail in the world. But, no. Instead of building the transportation system they really needed, they build a monorail track to nowhere.
I believe this will eventually become the force driving the adoption of self-driving technology. When we get to the point autonomous cars do it right and are mixed in with human-driven cars that are screwing up and slowing down the traffic pattern for everyone else. I can see the current driving model being totally turned on its head with commuters eventually demanding that we ban human drivers.
There will also be economic pressure. Human drivers need signs, lights, and a weighty infrastructure investment. Autonomous cars need none of that expensive support.
The way options are taxed can make them kind of a bum deal. Depending on whether you're getting NSOs or ISOs, the price, and when you exercise your options can cost or save thousands.
Personally, I'd rather have a higher salary. Options are a nice bonus but, as in Uber's situation, they can also be a financial burden.
Ripley, we've lost contact with the colony on the ISS.
Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho is coming.
I would vote for him over Trump. Ironically, we'd still have a more qualified president.
Now hand me a beer...and get yourself one. Woooo!!!!
With the apparent integration between the Republican party and Russia it's getting harder to tell the home-grown corruption from the interference of a hostile foreign power.
Kind of a shot over the bow of the crowd suggesting the government shouldn't pick winners. Sometimes government is the only entity with a big enough footprint to get a new technology over the startup finish line. DARPA does it routinely for military tech and we have a universe of modern tech that started as a DARPA project. There's a long list of winners but what's the one 40% of America focuses on? The solar panel place. Not all of them pan out.
We shouldn't be limited to military tech for the government to pick winners.
Now that they have an industry lobbyist in the FCC, they're installing the internet toll booths so they can start charging you extra for Netflix.
I wish I was joking.
When my dad went into the hospital we ended up throwing his unopened newspapers away. A free local paper and we didn't even bother taking them out the plastic sleeve. It's littered with ads, the content isn't relevant, and it's not how people get news anymore.
Billionaire ownership of the media is a separate problem. The idea that money equals speech has unfortunately become deeply ingrained.
Slashdot reader schwit1 writes, "This is akin to buying an exotic car you can barely afford, without also budgeting for insurance, repairs, and tuneups."
Actually it's like buying a new exotic car every three months so you don't have to do schedule maintenance on any of the others.
I'm amazed by the speed. 1,880 miles in 30 hours is an average of 62 mph. I don't think I could drive that far, that fast, in a conventional car. Those solar teams are amazing.
We just absorbed our biggest hurricane hit in nearly a decade and were without power for a week. When they're weaker than expected, it can setup unreasonable expectations for the next one. People are less likely to evacuate, less likely to take warnings seriously. "We evacuated last time and it fizzled."
What you "know" about hurricanes can work against you in the future.
I also remember when ULA insisted that reusable boosters would never work right or be reliable enough for a second flight.