...and that Tesla's attempts to ensure that drivers paid attention were sufficient (that said, Tesla followed up with more driver pestering, and Model 3 has a driver-facing camera which is expected to be used for eye tracking).
(emphasis mine).
Continuing to develop and test self-driving cars will result in more pedestrian deaths. That much of any driving will result in pedestrian deaths. It is going to be interesting to see how this develops over time.
...and would also would make diagnostic software and tools that are available to authorized and first-party repair technicians available to independent companies.
Can't have mere users having diagnostic tools... they might find that they can repair the thing without paying a repair technician.
I am now retired, but the following happened many times...
I smoke (now e-cigs with my own juice, but it works the same). I am focusing on the development task at hand. I hit something that requires some thought - I need a solution to some problem. I go out for a smoke with the explicit intention of spending the time thinking about the problem. But I see a hawk hunting mice, or ravens screwing around, or the shape of the clouds... and, once again, I have failed to think about the problem while I was out smoking.
Then, as I was walking back to my desk, I would realize that part of my mind was considering aspects of the solution to the problem that I apparently came up with unconsciously.
At one point, I jokingly suggested to my supervisor that the company should setup a "Start Smoking" program, so that all developers could use this valuable tool.
'Course, brushing my teeth at the end of the day is also a wonderful time for realizing that I am thinking about the solution that I didn't know I had.
Fuck da bitches dat burn da coal
Dat lectric fuck da ozone hole
Or make if hot or some fucken thing
Gotta save da whales - you know dey sing?
My vape's lectric
but don't burn no coal
Gets free lectric
from my ride's console
Da Man's smoke's fucked
My smoke's fine
(Dis can't be Hip Hop
too much rhyme)
As a middle-aged adult(ish) geek, I think it is FUCKING cool !
Screwing around in Low-Earth Orbit is one thing. Going out and landing on a comet is awesome.
Are you old enough to remember which TV you were glued to during the first manned landing on the moon? This isn't that cool, but it is damn cool nevertheless.
Many years ago, I realized that the larger and more layered a hierarchy is, the more insane it is. As TFA and most posts have pointed out, the board does not do what a board should do. The President/CEO is generally (generalizing, here) outward-facing, mostly concerned with how the organization is perceived. Vice-Presidents are... well, vice-presidents - some are good but many are either competing to be the next President or are too scared to do anything that they are not already doing. Middle management are often simply paper shufflers, maybe trying to do a good job but not important enough to really change anything. Lower managers can actually see what is happening in the company, but their view is so at odds with the view of upper management that they are powerless.
In short, those on top don't know what is happening, those close to the action are ignored by those at the top, at best, or act only out of fear or ambition, at worst.
Interesting story: I was a "super-consultant" (read: contractor) at a large, old tech company in Texas back in the '90s, working as part of a team to install a major system. I was working on some bit of code, realized that the approach I was taking was not going to work, and said something like "This is never going to work!". Seconds later, just as I was starting a different approach, the girl in the next cubicle - an employee and my main contact - called me into her cubicle and... said basically that she could not believe this, that my behavior was totally unacceptable... Her reaction would have been appropriate if I had stood on my desk and yelled "This stupid project is never going to work and this stupid company should never have started it".
Short version: expressing any doubt about anything in the company, even the bit of code I had been working on for ten minutes, was totally forbidden.
The message seemed to be "You are happy about everything that happens in this company or you are fired."
People have wanted gold for thousands of years and that is not likely to change.. A lot of the intrinsic value of gold is a means to store wealth. There are problems with this, but there are problems with any way of storing wealth.
This works and is how the US got out of the great depression with help from the New Deal and WW2.
It also helped to have a huge industrial base that wasn't being bombed to bits - jobs for everyone (in the military and in industry) and a lot of customers.
"Need a global effort to eliminate such criminals."
There is no way to eliminate "such criminals". There will always be criminals and some will try this sort of thing if it is possible.
The attack was against one financial institution in the US. The financial institutions could change to make this sort of crime harder or maybe even impossible to pull off. But, as other posters have pointed out, this would cost orders of magnitude more than $13 million. Eventually, it will be worth it.
But to even try to "eliminate such criminals", what can be done? Off hand, I would imagine that the only way would be to try to detect the conspiracy before the crime happened. The only way to do this would be to massively increase the degree of government surveillance. IMHO, this "cure" (to the extent it helped at all) would be worse than the disease.
Yeah, well..... As a Canadian citizen I am better protected in Canada than I would be anywhere else, although our constitution and rights have been granted by the government, and what the government can grant, it can take away.
Theoretically, the US is better, in that the constitution defines roles and limitations of the government (rather than the government granting rights to people). But the US is a very scary place in some ways. The Bill of Rights in the US has, in some cases, been interpreted to apply only to citizens which (I believe) is not what the Constitution says and not what the Founding Fathers had in mind.
This business with Guantanamo is very scary - holding and basically torturing political prisoners in the one(?) country that US citizens are (generally) not allowed to visit. The US used to at least have the image of holding the moral high ground; that this has been lost is tragic and scary.
One nice thing about Canada is that it is small enough that it can't be as scary internationally as the US. The US, next door to Canada, is the most dangerous country to Canada. I realize that this situation would be different if we were next door to Iran.
Everything considered, the US is a somewhat scary place for US citizens and quite a scary place for non-US citizens. It is such a shame - it used to be so different. Canada has gotten scarier too, but, all told, Canada is one of the least scary countries in the world.
Canada had a Bill of Rights (from 1960) but (I had to Google this) it was considered to be ineffectual. In 1982, we got a"Charter of Rights and Freedoms". However, the latter has a "limitations" clause and a "notwhithstanding" clause which the government can involke if it thinks it is important enough.
What it boils down to is that we have a pretty good set of "rights" but, unlike the US bill of rights and constitution in general which (is supposed to) fundamentally limit the rights of government, our rights and constitution were provided by the government, with loop holes.
An example of loopholes: The "limitations clause" was used to uphold laws against objectionable conduce such as hate speech. I like having a few loud-mouth holocaust deniers around - they are like the canaries in the mine - if they were allowed to be objectionable and offensive, it was a good sign for general freedom - if the government can criminalize objectiionable speech.... it can criminalize anything.
So, the Canadian situation is better than places, but what the government can give, it can take away.
Actually, I feel that Canada is a pretty scary place as well.
The US is scary, but at least it has a real Constituion. This constituion is being ignored in many cases, but at least some people care about this.
Canada is currently less scary than the US, particularly if you are a Canadian citizen. But I live in a city with a zillion cameras, which I hate. What I hate even more (and what scares me even more) is that the cameras went up and no one seems to care. I don't know how much debate there was about them, but Canada has very little except tradition to prevent it from turning into a police state.
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From what (little) I know about this, it sorta seems like CA was the bad actor and maybe FB should sue them for breach of the TOS.
No Fucking Way,
Continuing to develop and test self-driving cars will result in more pedestrian deaths. That much of any driving will result in pedestrian deaths. It is going to be interesting to see how this develops over time.
or, maybe, "common enemy" signaling
I have never seen a CC ad either. It's fucking virture signaling.
Can't have mere users having diagnostic tools... they might find that they can repair the thing without paying a repair technician.
I smoke (now e-cigs with my own juice, but it works the same). I am focusing on the development task at hand. I hit something that requires some thought - I need a solution to some problem. I go out for a smoke with the explicit intention of spending the time thinking about the problem. But I see a hawk hunting mice, or ravens screwing around, or the shape of the clouds... and, once again, I have failed to think about the problem while I was out smoking.
Then, as I was walking back to my desk, I would realize that part of my mind was considering aspects of the solution to the problem that I apparently came up with unconsciously.
At one point, I jokingly suggested to my supervisor that the company should setup a "Start Smoking" program, so that all developers could use this valuable tool.
'Course, brushing my teeth at the end of the day is also a wonderful time for realizing that I am thinking about the solution that I didn't know I had.
5/8 inch inside diameter means roughly 7/8 inches or 0.875 inches outside diameter.
An old-time tobacco Hogshead was apparently 30 inches in diameter at the head, so... 0.875 / 30 = 0.029
A Google search for "0.875 inches in furlongs" (without the quotes) gives us 0.00011 furlongs.
Is an open holster equivalent to a smoking gun?
A sphere of lead 1mm in diameter has a radius of 0.05 cm
Volume: 4/3 * pi * r^3 = 1.333 * 3.1416 * 0.05^3 = 5.23e-4 cm^3
Mass: 5.23e-4 cm^3 * 11.34 g/ml = 5.93e-3 g = 5.93e-6 Kg
A Joule is 1 Kg * (m/s)^2
and 1Tev = 1.60e-7 J so...
Velocity: :
1.60e-7 J = 5.93e-6 Kg * v^2:
1.60e-7 J / 5.93e-6 Kg = v^2 = 0.0270:
so...
v = sqrt(0.0270) = 0.164 m/s:
wow. Sorta pops their bubbled.
I run the Xfce spin of Fedora. I like Xfce.
For 50% less money, I only code in FORTRAN (and all in upper case).
A lot of Trump's supporters aren't going to be happy that he can't deliver on all the promises he made.
Fuck da bitches dat burn da coal
Dat lectric fuck da ozone hole
Or make if hot or some fucken thing
Gotta save da whales - you know dey sing?
My vape's lectric
but don't burn no coal
Gets free lectric
from my ride's console
Da Man's smoke's fucked
My smoke's fine
(Dis can't be Hip Hop
too much rhyme)
So... more secret laws, secret trials, secret jails?
As a middle-aged adult(ish) geek, I think it is FUCKING cool ! Screwing around in Low-Earth Orbit is one thing. Going out and landing on a comet is awesome. Are you old enough to remember which TV you were glued to during the first manned landing on the moon? This isn't that cool, but it is damn cool nevertheless.
So he can have a drone, of course.
Many years ago, I realized that the larger and more layered a hierarchy is, the more insane it is. As TFA and most posts have pointed out, the board does not do what a board should do. The President/CEO is generally (generalizing, here) outward-facing, mostly concerned with how the organization is perceived. Vice-Presidents are... well, vice-presidents - some are good but many are either competing to be the next President or are too scared to do anything that they are not already doing. Middle management are often simply paper shufflers, maybe trying to do a good job but not important enough to really change anything. Lower managers can actually see what is happening in the company, but their view is so at odds with the view of upper management that they are powerless.
In short, those on top don't know what is happening, those close to the action are ignored by those at the top, at best, or act only out of fear or ambition, at worst.
Interesting story: I was a "super-consultant" (read: contractor) at a large, old tech company in Texas back in the '90s, working as part of a team to install a major system. I was working on some bit of code, realized that the approach I was taking was not going to work, and said something like "This is never going to work!". Seconds later, just as I was starting a different approach, the girl in the next cubicle - an employee and my main contact - called me into her cubicle and... said basically that she could not believe this, that my behavior was totally unacceptable... Her reaction would have been appropriate if I had stood on my desk and yelled "This stupid project is never going to work and this stupid company should never have started it".
Short version: expressing any doubt about anything in the company, even the bit of code I had been working on for ten minutes, was totally forbidden.
The message seemed to be "You are happy about everything that happens in this company or you are fired."
People have wanted gold for thousands of years and that is not likely to change.. A lot of the intrinsic value of gold is a means to store wealth. There are problems with this, but there are problems with any way of storing wealth.
This works and is how the US got out of the great depression with help from the New Deal and WW2.
It also helped to have a huge industrial base that wasn't being bombed to bits - jobs for everyone (in the military and in industry) and a lot of customers.
"Need a global effort to eliminate such criminals."
There is no way to eliminate "such criminals". There will always be criminals and some will try this sort of thing if it is possible.
The attack was against one financial institution in the US. The financial institutions could change to make this sort of crime harder or maybe even impossible to pull off. But, as other posters have pointed out, this would cost orders of magnitude more than $13 million. Eventually, it will be worth it.
But to even try to "eliminate such criminals", what can be done? Off hand, I would imagine that the only way would be to try to detect the conspiracy before the crime happened. The only way to do this would be to massively increase the degree of government surveillance. IMHO, this "cure" (to the extent it helped at all) would be worse than the disease.
Yeah, well..... As a Canadian citizen I am better protected in Canada than I would be anywhere else, although our constitution and rights have been granted by the government, and what the government can grant, it can take away.
Theoretically, the US is better, in that the constitution defines roles and limitations of the government (rather than the government granting rights to people). But the US is a very scary place in some ways. The Bill of Rights in the US has, in some cases, been interpreted to apply only to citizens which (I believe) is not what the Constitution says and not what the Founding Fathers had in mind.
This business with Guantanamo is very scary - holding and basically torturing political prisoners in the one(?) country that US citizens are (generally) not allowed to visit. The US used to at least have the image of holding the moral high ground; that this has been lost is tragic and scary.
One nice thing about Canada is that it is small enough that it can't be as scary internationally as the US. The US, next door to Canada, is the most dangerous country to Canada. I realize that this situation would be different if we were next door to Iran.
Everything considered, the US is a somewhat scary place for US citizens and quite a scary place for non-US citizens. It is such a shame - it used to be so different. Canada has gotten scarier too, but, all told, Canada is one of the least scary countries in the world.
Canada had a Bill of Rights (from 1960) but (I had to Google this) it was considered to be ineffectual. In 1982, we got a"Charter of Rights and Freedoms". However, the latter has a "limitations" clause and a "notwhithstanding" clause which the government can involke if it thinks it is important enough.
What it boils down to is that we have a pretty good set of "rights" but, unlike the US bill of rights and constitution in general which (is supposed to) fundamentally limit the rights of government, our rights and constitution were provided by the government, with loop holes.
An example of loopholes: The "limitations clause" was used to uphold laws against objectionable conduce such as hate speech. I like having a few loud-mouth holocaust deniers around - they are like the canaries in the mine - if they were allowed to be objectionable and offensive, it was a good sign for general freedom - if the government can criminalize objectiionable speech.... it can criminalize anything.
So, the Canadian situation is better than places, but what the government can give, it can take away.
You got it: "add more surveillance to your citizens"
The US is scary, but at least it has a real Constituion. This constituion is being ignored in many cases, but at least some people care about this.
Canada is currently less scary than the US, particularly if you are a Canadian citizen. But I live in a city with a zillion cameras, which I hate. What I hate even more (and what scares me even more) is that the cameras went up and no one seems to care. I don't know how much debate there was about them, but Canada has very little except tradition to prevent it from turning into a police state.