The near eastern warrior women were Amazons a couple millennia before some web site was founded or rivers in the New World started getting European names.
Interesting how this gets posted on Sunday morning, a time when people of faith are particularly likely to be offline doing other things. Deliberate attempt to skew the discussion, or just failure to think things through?
It's one thing to need 3+ people in a car to use the HOV lane, but how does this promote carpooling if you make ALL the roads in town illegal with 1-2 people in the car? The first guy can't go pick the other up, and at the end of the day if you're down to two passengers, you can't drop either of them off.
What's wrong with the requirement to be able to service customer vehicles on site? Making it as convenient as possible to buy a car but having to take it to some far off location to actually get it fixed under warranty sounds like lousy customer service.
I get the Slashdot love for autonomous cars. Running off of computer, pushing the limits of AI, society having to come to terms with legal and liability issues raised by new technology. Good stuff.
But why should running off of electricity somehow make a car interesting? Because it's "new"? No, people have experimented with electric cars since the 19th century, the main difference now is we have batteries that make it semi-practical. Because storing power in a battery gives it something in common with geeky devices like laptops and tablets? Because some geeks also happen to be into environmental causes? Seriously, what is so exciting about this car that it gets so many Slashdot stories?
I have to disagree with you there. The Hennessey Venom GT's 270.49 mph run on the space shuttle landing strip was a far more interesting technological accomplishment than this, and completely ignored by the Slashdot editors. Why should a car somehow count as "interesting technology" because electricity makes it go? So what, golf carts can do that.
Wow, we haven't had one of those since yesterday. It's great that Slashdot has car stories, but when most of them are slashvertising the same car over and over, and the rest ignore anything that isn't EV / Hybrid / Autonomous it gets pretty boring and repetitive.
I maintain nonetheless that yin-yang dualism can be overcome.
With sufficient enlightenment we can give substance to any
distinction: mind without body, north without south, pleasure
without pain. Remember, enlightenment is a function of willpower,
not of physical strength.
—Chairman Sheng-ji Yang,
“Essays on Mind and Matter”
It is pretty straight forward how it will work.
1) People send in money.
2) After a while the site closes down.
3) Person that put up the site earns a nice profit.
Yes, tick off a community of users whose defining trait is that like to hire hit men, that sounds like a wonderful business plan.
The law seems to love sensationalizing terms relating to weapons.
Semiautomatic rifle with a vaguely military appearance? Assault rifle! (which more properly refers to fully-automatic rifles)
Any fully-automatic weapon? Machine gun! (which more properly refers to big belt-fed weapons and the like)
An explosive device? Weapon of mass destruction! (which more properly refers to a nuclear, biological, or chemical weapon)
So many flaws with this proposal. Why the assumption that no one will need self-defense around "schools, malls and movie theatres"? Who buys a computing device that loses all of its config settings every four hours? Why does your remote disable feature have a loophole for corporate and government owned guns (guns not in the possession of a single owner would seem to be the most likely to get lost and need a remote disable)? How is your friend or foe feature supposed to work?
The most glaring flaw is adding lots of battery-intensive requirements (GPS, broadcasting signals, pinging other devices, and listening for remote disable signals) and adding them to a device used in life-and-death emergencies. When dead battery potentially equals dead user, this doesn't seem like the wisest course of action.
"Many continue to claim the Always-On function in SimCity is a DRM scheme. It’s not."
If the always-on thing isn't there as a copyright enforcement thing, a crack to remove it won't run afoul of the DMCA. Thanks for giving your blessing on that, EA.
Guns in the hands of the mentally unbalanced seems to be the most ignored issue, why?
Why would politicians want to tackle a difficult social problem when they can just demonize gun owners or gamers and still act like they are trying to "do something"?
The actual quote was in the context of Obamacare. I believe the point was that this legislation makes the same logic error with respect to Terms of Service.
Pelosi's actual words were “But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what’s in it.”
That one seemed a little weird. Obviously a terrorist who's planning to attack the plane, or wanted for some crime, or on the no-fly list would be in trouble trying to board a plane, but is it illegal to be a terrorist in and of itself? Some terror groups like Hamas and the IRA also have political fronts. Members involved solely in the group's attempts to go legitimate could still be described as terrorists. What's their standing before the law? Then you have situations like Bill Ayers where the guy is a terrorist but also a friend of the President. Good luck telling him he can't get on the plane.
Anyone know of any good double-blind studies comparing people's ability to tell FLAC from 320kbps MP3? Googling just turns up people debating in forums whether you would be able to tell the difference rather than any serious academic research.
While we're on the topic of warrantless wiretaps, there's something I've been trying to figure out.
Bush starts the warrantless wiretap thing, the reaction from the left is to fume with anger at the horrible abuse of power.
Obama continues it and adds in the whole "assassinate Americans using robotic aircraft" twist, and reaction from the same people is "I support the President on this, though I have mild reservations on a few aspects".
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The near eastern warrior women were Amazons a couple millennia before some web site was founded or rivers in the New World started getting European names.
We have always been at war with Eastasia. I challenge anyone to find a tweet where I have ever claimed otherwise.
Interesting how this gets posted on Sunday morning, a time when people of faith are particularly likely to be offline doing other things. Deliberate attempt to skew the discussion, or just failure to think things through?
It's one thing to need 3+ people in a car to use the HOV lane, but how does this promote carpooling if you make ALL the roads in town illegal with 1-2 people in the car? The first guy can't go pick the other up, and at the end of the day if you're down to two passengers, you can't drop either of them off.
What's wrong with the requirement to be able to service customer vehicles on site? Making it as convenient as possible to buy a car but having to take it to some far off location to actually get it fixed under warranty sounds like lousy customer service.
You speak from experience?
I get the Slashdot love for autonomous cars. Running off of computer, pushing the limits of AI, society having to come to terms with legal and liability issues raised by new technology. Good stuff.
But why should running off of electricity somehow make a car interesting? Because it's "new"? No, people have experimented with electric cars since the 19th century, the main difference now is we have batteries that make it semi-practical. Because storing power in a battery gives it something in common with geeky devices like laptops and tablets? Because some geeks also happen to be into environmental causes? Seriously, what is so exciting about this car that it gets so many Slashdot stories?
I have to disagree with you there. The Hennessey Venom GT's 270.49 mph run on the space shuttle landing strip was a far more interesting technological accomplishment than this, and completely ignored by the Slashdot editors. Why should a car somehow count as "interesting technology" because electricity makes it go? So what, golf carts can do that.
Wow, we haven't had one of those since yesterday. It's great that Slashdot has car stories, but when most of them are slashvertising the same car over and over, and the rest ignore anything that isn't EV / Hybrid / Autonomous it gets pretty boring and repetitive.
I maintain nonetheless that yin-yang dualism can be overcome.
With sufficient enlightenment we can give substance to any distinction: mind without body, north without south, pleasure without pain. Remember, enlightenment is a function of willpower, not of physical strength.
—Chairman Sheng-ji Yang,
“Essays on Mind and Matter”
Time to start building those Mag Tubes!
"But if they lose it could be a giant step backward for the movement. They're playing with fire."
Maybe NhRP shouldn't monkey around with this.
It is pretty straight forward how it will work.
1) People send in money.
2) After a while the site closes down.
3) Person that put up the site earns a nice profit.
Yes, tick off a community of users whose defining trait is that like to hire hit men, that sounds like a wonderful business plan.
Let the whitch hunt begin!
Whitch hunt would that be?
The law seems to love sensationalizing terms relating to weapons.
Semiautomatic rifle with a vaguely military appearance? Assault rifle! (which more properly refers to fully-automatic rifles)
Any fully-automatic weapon? Machine gun! (which more properly refers to big belt-fed weapons and the like)
An explosive device? Weapon of mass destruction! (which more properly refers to a nuclear, biological, or chemical weapon)
So many flaws with this proposal. Why the assumption that no one will need self-defense around "schools, malls and movie theatres"? Who buys a computing device that loses all of its config settings every four hours? Why does your remote disable feature have a loophole for corporate and government owned guns (guns not in the possession of a single owner would seem to be the most likely to get lost and need a remote disable)? How is your friend or foe feature supposed to work?
The most glaring flaw is adding lots of battery-intensive requirements (GPS, broadcasting signals, pinging other devices, and listening for remote disable signals) and adding them to a device used in life-and-death emergencies. When dead battery potentially equals dead user, this doesn't seem like the wisest course of action.
This would have made for an awesome episode of "Shipping Wars".
The app chirps at you when it notices rough braking, aggressive acceleration, or speeding over 70 mph.
So it's basically the same as having my wife in the car.
Have you found any factual errors in the linked article or do you just really like ad hominem fallacy?
"Many continue to claim the Always-On function in SimCity is a DRM scheme. It’s not."
If the always-on thing isn't there as a copyright enforcement thing, a crack to remove it won't run afoul of the DMCA. Thanks for giving your blessing on that, EA.
Guns in the hands of the mentally unbalanced seems to be the most ignored issue, why?
Why would politicians want to tackle a difficult social problem when they can just demonize gun owners or gamers and still act like they are trying to "do something"?
The actual quote was in the context of Obamacare. I believe the point was that this legislation makes the same logic error with respect to Terms of Service. Pelosi's actual words were “But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what’s in it.”
That one seemed a little weird. Obviously a terrorist who's planning to attack the plane, or wanted for some crime, or on the no-fly list would be in trouble trying to board a plane, but is it illegal to be a terrorist in and of itself? Some terror groups like Hamas and the IRA also have political fronts. Members involved solely in the group's attempts to go legitimate could still be described as terrorists. What's their standing before the law? Then you have situations like Bill Ayers where the guy is a terrorist but also a friend of the President. Good luck telling him he can't get on the plane.
Anyone know of any good double-blind studies comparing people's ability to tell FLAC from 320kbps MP3? Googling just turns up people debating in forums whether you would be able to tell the difference rather than any serious academic research.
I'm pretty that a cease-fire CAN be broken unilaterally. All you have to do is start attacking the other side again.
While we're on the topic of warrantless wiretaps, there's something I've been trying to figure out.
Bush starts the warrantless wiretap thing, the reaction from the left is to fume with anger at the horrible abuse of power.
Obama continues it and adds in the whole "assassinate Americans using robotic aircraft" twist, and reaction from the same people is "I support the President on this, though I have mild reservations on a few aspects".
My question is... what the heck is up with that?