Highly unlikely. Trucks sitting in traffic burn more fuel and cost the freight company more money than those cruising along unimpeded at 3 AM. As usual, follow the money to find the reason for why things will turn out the way they will.
Let me tell you something -- some of the ladies who are online pretty much 100% of the time and are constantly screaming about evil white males and how 100% of the planet's problems are directly caused by them are just as bad as the men and absolutely SHOULD be at the top of the crazy list. Everyone has seen a few of these folks -- seriously, they're plain nuts, and the Internet (especially social media) has given them a platform to vent this rabid kookiness and contributes to their instability. It's seriously unhealthy.
Ironically, it is self-driving tech that will help solve the issues highlighted by the author. Self-driving tech means trucks will drive normal routes 24 hours / day instead of the 8 hours / day max that a human driver is legally allow to put in -- potentially cutting the amount of truck traffic on the roads during normal hours by up to 2/3. That's with no other changes or tweaks and by itself will make a huge difference.
They will attempt to extort first and seek an out-of-court settlement a la the RIAA / MPAA through their hired lawyer brigade once they've ID'd the "pirates." Much easier and cheaper than actual litigation, where they'd have little chance of success for the reason you cite, among others.
High resolution, more stops of dynamic range, and the ability to use different lenses does. For really high end models, there are a few other things too, like full frame DSLR formats, high frame rates (for shooting sports etc.), the ability to shoot HD video, etc. The vast majority of people shooting with a camera other than the one on their phone (which is already a shrinking market) don't care about encryption (which would slow down their camera even more), so don't expect the Nikons, Canons, and Sonys of the world to invest a lot of R & D on a feature that there's really not much of a market for.
The only people who like vinyl are the retro hipsters and "audiophile" douchebags who swear they can hear the difference between a $2,500 pair of Monster speaker cables and a $5 lamp cord (even though decades of double-blind listening tests conclusively prove that they cannot). Completely disregarding the absolute inability to play records while mobile, it's an inferior audio technology in terms of dynamic range, distortion, and any other measurable audio metric versus modern lossless digital formats (yes -- 1st gen digital to analog converters in cheap CD players sucked -- but that was 25-30 years ago now). Want to hear that "old, warm" vinyl sound? That's distortion, folks -- there are a million cheap plugins or "audiophile" boxes that'll give it to you. Give me all the unprocessed bits and the choice to "warm" them if and how I want.
With all of the competition and millions and millions of miles of testing being done to get it right, why couldn't the machines run dock to dock? Aside from zero-visibility weather conditions (i.e., snow and torrential rain), the AI's already very good -- sometimes even better than people under the same conditions as we don't have GPS and a bunch of the other sensors these new vehicles have. I think this is anti-FUD by Uber; why, I'm not sure.
Nope, I sleep just fine, thanks. It's not my mission or purpose to save humanity from hypothetical terrible things someone else thinks might happen and over which I would have zero control anyway. And if you want to see someone horribly wracked by guilt, take a look in the mirror.
The problem for Microsoft is that, even though they *arguably* invented the segment, they're now getting squeezed out between the cheapo tablets that'll run real Windows, and the premium, enterprise-class Surface Pro killers from folks like Dell, Lenovo, and HP that are more powerful, modular, and secure. E.g., I have the latest HP X2 Elite G2 which fully loaded costs about what a top of the line Surface Pro 4 runs, but it's got 4G LTE, 16 GB of RAM, a high-end mobile i7 chip, a 1 TB SSD, and runs all of the above for about 10 hours on a single charge as well as just about any desktop I've ever owned. Someone else said it -- they're a software company, and three generations in, they're getting beaten by the real PC hardware companies.
And yet, there is unprecedented opportunity for people to take the reins, educate themselves, and take real steps towards living like a king. I give you Exhibit A: software development. In 2018, the entire developed world lives in a world of open source software, free documentation, incredibly cheap and powerful computers, millions of free videos online on how to do stuff, free internet access at your local library and elsewhere. Etc. Ad nauseum. There are even languages translators that will translate stuff from another country for you so you can understand and learn from it. And there is no shortage of jobs for people that can code -- nor will their be in our lifetimes. Learn a language, work on a serious project -- any real project, be it open source, your own "pet project" or something as a hobby, etc., but anything where you end up with real code that you can talk someone through in a job interview -- and you WILL get hired. Demonstrating to a prospective employer passion for doing something is still a great way to get hired. And now, never in the history of humanity has there been such an amazing and ACCESSIBLE path towards a successful career, that is literally open to anyone who decides that they want to do it, with all of the tools and knowledge freely available to all. But that's the rub, isn't it? You have to actually WANT to do it, and commit to doing it, and doing it well -- and most humans suck at that, big time. They'd rather bitch and complain about how unfair life is instead of putting in the work that gets them the gig that lets them live like a king.
Because in this specific case, the DNC *never* denied any of the emails' contents. If there was BS in there, they would have come right out and disputed it, which would have been simple if the leaked contents were fake. But once their dirty laundry was aired for all to see, they adopted the tried and true tactic of "kill the messenger" -- in this case, Russia, Trump, Wikileaks, and anyone else they could remotely blame it on. Why own up to it when you can distract the lemmings by shrieking "RUSSIA" for months on end?
This is theater, and the FBI / NSA / sppok community at large obviously understands what you are describing. Statements like this are in part how these orgs "prove" to the gov't the need to pass laws to give them what they want.
It's the speculation related to the market dynamics of blockchain currencies being treated as commodities in a market that is currently causing any instability, either perceived or otherwise. That is a completely different issue than any cryptocurrency's intrinsic *technical* stability.
Enforcement of this will be pretty much impossible without some tie-in to the OS or drivers. First of all, what's a datacenter? Cloud-based infrastructure, or a room of servers only running internally on a local network? How about a mining operation in someone's basement? A grad student running a small network of GPUs for some sort of academic research? Etc. Now, if they really want to enforce it, it can be done -- you'd have to tie the software and drivers to server-class platforms that people typically have to pay for. E.g., I've seen Chelsio do that with some of their iWarp NICs where iWarp is disabled on anything but Windows 10 Enterprise and the Microsoft server OSes (though in that case, Chelsio claimed that Microsoft forced them to do it). On the Linux side, that might not be a realistic option.
Sure, but by the time you're in your teens, X-rays can give you a very good idea of whether or not you're going to have problems with your wisdom teeth down the road. In my case, I (with my parents' guidance) chose "wait and see" even though the doc said that I'd likely have wisdom teeth problems later on -- and I did, but not until age 40 (and then, only with two instead of all four they originally wanted to take out). The question is, essentially -- do you want to pull them before they're fully grown and really impacted and causing problems / pain, or preventative yank them when they're smaller and marginally less problematic?
Who cares what they think? Just like sports analysts, these idiots and others like them are wrong every year and there's no accountability for them being wrong. You're better off going to Vegas and putting it all on red than listening to what these turds predict.
Quit posting this stupid shit on Slashdot! There are a million other garbage sites people can go to read this tripe -- that is NOT what your core, loyal audience wants here!
The problem is the 99.9999% don't understand what you just wrote, or why it's important to them. They probably do know that one of the times they let a tech-minded friend help them, certain web pages stopped working. So we're back to the same reason that fucks up pretty much everything, eventually: once you let "normal people" use it, well, anything, shit will get broken. And once you let for-profit companies use it, its original intent will be perverted. That's why we have a crippled, adware-laden crapfest of an Internet run by corps and consumed by the unwashed masses versus what was envisioned for a worldwide public network 25+ years ago.
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Highly unlikely. Trucks sitting in traffic burn more fuel and cost the freight company more money than those cruising along unimpeded at 3 AM. As usual, follow the money to find the reason for why things will turn out the way they will.
Let me tell you something -- some of the ladies who are online pretty much 100% of the time and are constantly screaming about evil white males and how 100% of the planet's problems are directly caused by them are just as bad as the men and absolutely SHOULD be at the top of the crazy list. Everyone has seen a few of these folks -- seriously, they're plain nuts, and the Internet (especially social media) has given them a platform to vent this rabid kookiness and contributes to their instability. It's seriously unhealthy.
Ironically, it is self-driving tech that will help solve the issues highlighted by the author. Self-driving tech means trucks will drive normal routes 24 hours / day instead of the 8 hours / day max that a human driver is legally allow to put in -- potentially cutting the amount of truck traffic on the roads during normal hours by up to 2/3. That's with no other changes or tweaks and by itself will make a huge difference.
They will attempt to extort first and seek an out-of-court settlement a la the RIAA / MPAA through their hired lawyer brigade once they've ID'd the "pirates." Much easier and cheaper than actual litigation, where they'd have little chance of success for the reason you cite, among others.
Not as much as this $10,000 "audiophile" Ethernet cable does! https://arstechnica.com/staff/...
High resolution, more stops of dynamic range, and the ability to use different lenses does. For really high end models, there are a few other things too, like full frame DSLR formats, high frame rates (for shooting sports etc.), the ability to shoot HD video, etc. The vast majority of people shooting with a camera other than the one on their phone (which is already a shrinking market) don't care about encryption (which would slow down their camera even more), so don't expect the Nikons, Canons, and Sonys of the world to invest a lot of R & D on a feature that there's really not much of a market for.
The only people who like vinyl are the retro hipsters and "audiophile" douchebags who swear they can hear the difference between a $2,500 pair of Monster speaker cables and a $5 lamp cord (even though decades of double-blind listening tests conclusively prove that they cannot). Completely disregarding the absolute inability to play records while mobile, it's an inferior audio technology in terms of dynamic range, distortion, and any other measurable audio metric versus modern lossless digital formats (yes -- 1st gen digital to analog converters in cheap CD players sucked -- but that was 25-30 years ago now). Want to hear that "old, warm" vinyl sound? That's distortion, folks -- there are a million cheap plugins or "audiophile" boxes that'll give it to you. Give me all the unprocessed bits and the choice to "warm" them if and how I want.
With all of the competition and millions and millions of miles of testing being done to get it right, why couldn't the machines run dock to dock? Aside from zero-visibility weather conditions (i.e., snow and torrential rain), the AI's already very good -- sometimes even better than people under the same conditions as we don't have GPS and a bunch of the other sensors these new vehicles have. I think this is anti-FUD by Uber; why, I'm not sure.
Nope, I sleep just fine, thanks. It's not my mission or purpose to save humanity from hypothetical terrible things someone else thinks might happen and over which I would have zero control anyway. And if you want to see someone horribly wracked by guilt, take a look in the mirror.
The problem for Microsoft is that, even though they *arguably* invented the segment, they're now getting squeezed out between the cheapo tablets that'll run real Windows, and the premium, enterprise-class Surface Pro killers from folks like Dell, Lenovo, and HP that are more powerful, modular, and secure. E.g., I have the latest HP X2 Elite G2 which fully loaded costs about what a top of the line Surface Pro 4 runs, but it's got 4G LTE, 16 GB of RAM, a high-end mobile i7 chip, a 1 TB SSD, and runs all of the above for about 10 hours on a single charge as well as just about any desktop I've ever owned. Someone else said it -- they're a software company, and three generations in, they're getting beaten by the real PC hardware companies.
And yet, there is unprecedented opportunity for people to take the reins, educate themselves, and take real steps towards living like a king. I give you Exhibit A: software development. In 2018, the entire developed world lives in a world of open source software, free documentation, incredibly cheap and powerful computers, millions of free videos online on how to do stuff, free internet access at your local library and elsewhere. Etc. Ad nauseum. There are even languages translators that will translate stuff from another country for you so you can understand and learn from it. And there is no shortage of jobs for people that can code -- nor will their be in our lifetimes. Learn a language, work on a serious project -- any real project, be it open source, your own "pet project" or something as a hobby, etc., but anything where you end up with real code that you can talk someone through in a job interview -- and you WILL get hired. Demonstrating to a prospective employer passion for doing something is still a great way to get hired. And now, never in the history of humanity has there been such an amazing and ACCESSIBLE path towards a successful career, that is literally open to anyone who decides that they want to do it, with all of the tools and knowledge freely available to all. But that's the rub, isn't it? You have to actually WANT to do it, and commit to doing it, and doing it well -- and most humans suck at that, big time. They'd rather bitch and complain about how unfair life is instead of putting in the work that gets them the gig that lets them live like a king.
Why don't you just go to Vegas and put it all on red? Your odds are about the same.
Because in this specific case, the DNC *never* denied any of the emails' contents. If there was BS in there, they would have come right out and disputed it, which would have been simple if the leaked contents were fake. But once their dirty laundry was aired for all to see, they adopted the tried and true tactic of "kill the messenger" -- in this case, Russia, Trump, Wikileaks, and anyone else they could remotely blame it on. Why own up to it when you can distract the lemmings by shrieking "RUSSIA" for months on end?
Editor's please take some English classes
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The USA has not been free in almost 100 years since the income tax was implemented.
Try almost 157 years. Abe Lincoln implemented the country's first Federal income tax in August 1861 to fund the American Civil War.
This is theater, and the FBI / NSA / sppok community at large obviously understands what you are describing. Statements like this are in part how these orgs "prove" to the gov't the need to pass laws to give them what they want.
If you live in Maryland and believe you are affected by unjust gerrymandering, you can pursue a case against the state.
It's already been done, and is currently on the Supreme Court docket for this term.
they went along with the Gerrymandering because the R's carved out some safe districts for them
Indeed . . . and in blue states, the roles are reversed and Democrats directly gerrymander just as vigorously. E.g., deep blue Maryland's horribly gerrymandered map is on the Supreme Court's docket for this term.
It's the speculation related to the market dynamics of blockchain currencies being treated as commodities in a market that is currently causing any instability, either perceived or otherwise. That is a completely different issue than any cryptocurrency's intrinsic *technical* stability.
Enforcement of this will be pretty much impossible without some tie-in to the OS or drivers. First of all, what's a datacenter? Cloud-based infrastructure, or a room of servers only running internally on a local network? How about a mining operation in someone's basement? A grad student running a small network of GPUs for some sort of academic research? Etc. Now, if they really want to enforce it, it can be done -- you'd have to tie the software and drivers to server-class platforms that people typically have to pay for. E.g., I've seen Chelsio do that with some of their iWarp NICs where iWarp is disabled on anything but Windows 10 Enterprise and the Microsoft server OSes (though in that case, Chelsio claimed that Microsoft forced them to do it). On the Linux side, that might not be a realistic option.
Sure, but by the time you're in your teens, X-rays can give you a very good idea of whether or not you're going to have problems with your wisdom teeth down the road. In my case, I (with my parents' guidance) chose "wait and see" even though the doc said that I'd likely have wisdom teeth problems later on -- and I did, but not until age 40 (and then, only with two instead of all four they originally wanted to take out). The question is, essentially -- do you want to pull them before they're fully grown and really impacted and causing problems / pain, or preventative yank them when they're smaller and marginally less problematic?
Who cares what they think? Just like sports analysts, these idiots and others like them are wrong every year and there's no accountability for them being wrong. You're better off going to Vegas and putting it all on red than listening to what these turds predict.
...briefly what fortune is in this context (as in, the Unix program, not the magazine, town, or band):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix)
Quit posting this stupid shit on Slashdot! There are a million other garbage sites people can go to read this tripe -- that is NOT what your core, loyal audience wants here!
The problem is the 99.9999% don't understand what you just wrote, or why it's important to them. They probably do know that one of the times they let a tech-minded friend help them, certain web pages stopped working. So we're back to the same reason that fucks up pretty much everything, eventually: once you let "normal people" use it, well, anything, shit will get broken. And once you let for-profit companies use it, its original intent will be perverted. That's why we have a crippled, adware-laden crapfest of an Internet run by corps and consumed by the unwashed masses versus what was envisioned for a worldwide public network 25+ years ago.