One thing that makes us better than them is....we try hard to limit civilian causalities when striking military targets.
Except the leaked Collateral Murder video shows Americans deliberately attacking and killing civilian first responders. America considers this a war crime when our enemies do it. None of the killers were ever charged with a crime, and neither were any of the officials who covered it up and lied about the existence of the video before it was leaked.
No, you use whatever you can. An actual enemy would.
No. An actual enemy would not jam your WiFi because they would not be on your local network. That rule existed in the game because it was an attack that would not be available in an actual conflict.
That won't work. Grocery store scanners are not keyboard wedges, and they are programmed to only read numeric barcodes, such as UPC, EIN, coupon codes, etc. They will ignore any Code128, Code39, or any other barcode that could contain non-numeric data.
it's never going to be autonomous driving autopilot. you're pretty much not allowed to take your eyes off the road.
Elon says it will be fully autonomous by 2017.
how they can get away with selling something like this with BETA label is a joke though.
We didn't pay anything for it. It was a free upgrade. In fact, we didn't even ask for it. When my wife got in her car, there was a pop-up on the console that said the software had been upgraded overnight. That was no problem, since it is disabled by default. She waited a few days to turn it on, just in case a few bugs needed to be ironed out. So far, it has worked flawlessly. It drives more smoothly than a human, and likely uses less energy per mile.
It's no different than prescribing a placebo, which does have a proven effect
The most common placebo is antibiotics prescribed for viral infections. Homeopathy is certainly better than that, since at least it is harmless (since there is nothing in it). It seems silly to ban homeopathy while overprescription of antibiotics is still rampant.
Errr... I don't think it changes lanes "when necessary". It'll only change lanes when the driver uses the turn signal while autopilot is in operation
Sorry for the inaccuracy. I haven't actually used Autopilot myself, because my wife won't let me drive her Tesla. But I did watch her use it from the passenger seat. It is very impressive.
Basically what I take away from this is that the cars are not ready for prime-time if they're limited to NEV speeds
My wife's Telsa got an autopilot upgrade last week. It can now mostly drive itself. It stays in its lane, changes lanes when necessary, and can brake and/or accelerate to maintain distance. It works fine at full highway speed. It is clearly labeled as "beta" software, so you aren't allowed to take a nap or read a magazine, but The only time the human needs to take control is to turn at intersections.
It's more likely that the algorithm used to generate SSNs, given the same input data, generates the same output.
The "algorithm" is "pull the next number off the list". My sister and I were born in different states, two years apart... and we have different first names. My parents requested SSNs for both of us at the same time, and they were given two consecutive numbers.
For many years, I would just make up a random SSN for forms that didn't seem like they had a legitimate reason to be asking for it. Never, not once, did they later tell me there was a mismatch. So I think there was very little cross-checking going on.
What happens if the disabled person in the wheel chair is waiting for the cross light to go green, when someone next to them uses their Amazon Echo to remotely turn their lights on at home?
An Amazon Echo is not a mobile device. It plugs into a wall outlet, and is about the size and shape of a Pringles can. No one else is going to be using one on the street, and it makes little practical sense to use one as a wheelchair controller either.
I have an Amazon Echo in my kitchen. While I am preparing breakfast, it briefs me on my daily schedule and the news headlines. I can use it to set a quick timer, or to add items to my shopping list. I can request a specific song, and it will play it, or I can just say "play some music" and it will play something it thinks I will like. The voice recognition is very good.
when Apple just got on with it a made good products. Now they need to spread FUD about a competing product ?
There was never a time when Apple refrained from spreading FUD. Their iconic 1984 super bowl ad was an attack on IBM, and said nothing about the features or benefits of their own products. Steve Jobs regularly made ad hominem insults against Bill Gates, John Scully, etc.
Imagine a "local economy" when there are only huge megacorporations to work for, and you are lucky to work at all...
Except that is the opposite of what Amazon is doing. By offering a global "long tail" marketplace, they enable far more small businesses to thrive, by producing niche products that would never be viable in isolated local markets. The only thing we lose are dead end unproductive retail jobs.
By what right would a person be evicted from "their" land if no one can own it?
Because that person doesn't own it. It is owned by the "collective" or "the people", which in practice means the government. So rather than paying market value to the farmer whose family has farmed the land for generations, a property developer can just pay a small bribe to a bureaucrat, and have the farmer evicted with no compensation.
claims that Communism has failed are baseless - communism works fine on small scales, and has never been attempted on a large one.
You need to get your cuckoo clock repaired. It has lost its connection with reality.
Many pension plans require vesting, so if you quit or are fired, you forfeit the benefits. Also, many companies fund their pensions with their own stock, so if the company goes tits-up, you lose both your job and your savings at the same time.
becoming a new employee automatically qualifies you for open enrollment.
Not always. Companies can have a probationary period where new employees are ineligible for benefits. They can also exclude certain classes of employees, such as part-time, temp, union members (who get benefits through their unions), exempt/non-exempt, commission based employees, management, etc.
I can't believe anyone would choose an Uber-type job if they were eligible in any way for a 9-5 job.
I know several people that do that. My sister drives for Uber. She has a day job, but drives for a couple hours each evening to earn some extra cash. She enjoys meeting new people, and although driving is stressful for me, she says it is relaxing.
The model of relying on a business to provide benefits to its employees in lieu of the government or the employees themselves turns the employee into a serf
Indeed. In Maoist China, each factory ran their own schools. So if you changed jobs, your kids had to switch to a new school. This is clearly idiotic, but our system of employer provided healthcare/pensions is just as dumb. There are advantages and disadvantages to privatized and socialized healthcare and pensions, but the third option, of employer provided benefits, gives the worst of both, with the benefits of neither. Employees should be paid with money and only money. Benefits should be provided privately or by the government. They should not be tied to employers. That would be better for workers and companies.
More like, the companies who wrote the OS should be responsible.
No. Botnets run mostly on deprecated and unpatched systems with known security holes. That is not the fault of the OS vendors. If software vendors are held liable for the stupidity of their users, then software will become far more expensive, and FOSS will disappear completely.
Seems like there could be a danger of altering an asteroids orbit and having it eventually hit Earth.
Simple solution: Improve math and physical science education, so people have a better sense of scale, and can think more rationally. Then this will no longer be a problem.
We should have the same rules on Earth. You shouldn't be allowed own the land, but you own what you extract, build, harvest, etc.
That is a really, really bad idea. In terms of wasted lives and excess deaths, it is probably the worst idea in history. People have little incentive to build and grow on land they do not own. Collectivization of land ownership resulted in the mass starvation of 7 million Ukrainians and 30 million Chinese. Even today, millions of farmers in Africa and China are summarily evicted from land they have tilled for generations, because they have no legal title. Others are forced into subsistence agriculture because they have no ability to use their land as collateral, or sell it, or consolidate land into an economically viable size. The World Bank considers a lack of clear property rights to be one of the primary reasons for persistent 3rd world poverty.
Is it just me, or did I just interpreted this summary as "USA considers whole outer space their property
No. This law says pretty much the opposite: "Space belongs to no one, so if you go get some it, it is yours." There is nothing in this law that applies only to American citizens or American companies. So if a Chinese, Russian, or Indian company brings back ore from space, America would recognize their ownership (although their own government may not).
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One thing that makes us better than them is....we try hard to limit civilian causalities when striking military targets.
Except the leaked Collateral Murder video shows Americans deliberately attacking and killing civilian first responders. America considers this a war crime when our enemies do it. None of the killers were ever charged with a crime, and neither were any of the officials who covered it up and lied about the existence of the video before it was leaked.
No, you use whatever you can. An actual enemy would.
No. An actual enemy would not jam your WiFi because they would not be on your local network. That rule existed in the game because it was an attack that would not be available in an actual conflict.
I was thinking free groceries
That won't work. Grocery store scanners are not keyboard wedges, and they are programmed to only read numeric barcodes, such as UPC, EIN, coupon codes, etc. They will ignore any Code128, Code39, or any other barcode that could contain non-numeric data.
Erm... Throwing a link to a text of Summers around disqualified you immediately
Denigrating someone else's citations, while providing none of your own, is very bad form. You lose.
it's never going to be autonomous driving autopilot. you're pretty much not allowed to take your eyes off the road.
Elon says it will be fully autonomous by 2017.
how they can get away with selling something like this with BETA label is a joke though.
We didn't pay anything for it. It was a free upgrade. In fact, we didn't even ask for it. When my wife got in her car, there was a pop-up on the console that said the software had been upgraded overnight. That was no problem, since it is disabled by default. She waited a few days to turn it on, just in case a few bugs needed to be ironed out. So far, it has worked flawlessly. It drives more smoothly than a human, and likely uses less energy per mile.
By consecutive I assume that you mean that you have something like 11 and she has 13 or whatever.
No. My sister's SSN and my SSN are exactly the same except for the last digit. Mine ends in 7, hers ends in 8.
The SSA has never given out consecutive numbers.
I am a counter-example, so you are wrong. Never say never.
It's no different than prescribing a placebo, which does have a proven effect
The most common placebo is antibiotics prescribed for viral infections. Homeopathy is certainly better than that, since at least it is harmless (since there is nothing in it). It seems silly to ban homeopathy while overprescription of antibiotics is still rampant.
Errr... I don't think it changes lanes "when necessary". It'll only change lanes when the driver uses the turn signal while autopilot is in operation
Sorry for the inaccuracy. I haven't actually used Autopilot myself, because my wife won't let me drive her Tesla. But I did watch her use it from the passenger seat. It is very impressive.
My wife's Telsa got an autopilot upgrade last week. It can now mostly drive itself.
Here is a video of some idiot that got out of the driver's seat, and got into the backseat, while his Tesla was on autopilot and driving 80+ km/hr.
They didn't ticket the google car because it would have brought scrutiny, not because it was legal to drive that slowly on the road.
It may have also been because Google is Mountain View's biggest taxpayer and biggest employer. You don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Basically what I take away from this is that the cars are not ready for prime-time if they're limited to NEV speeds
My wife's Telsa got an autopilot upgrade last week. It can now mostly drive itself. It stays in its lane, changes lanes when necessary, and can brake and/or accelerate to maintain distance. It works fine at full highway speed. It is clearly labeled as "beta" software, so you aren't allowed to take a nap or read a magazine, but The only time the human needs to take control is to turn at intersections.
Probably, but its true.
Unlikely. There are 40 million dupes, and only 12 million illegals.
It's more likely that the algorithm used to generate SSNs, given the same input data, generates the same output.
The "algorithm" is "pull the next number off the list". My sister and I were born in different states, two years apart ... and we have different first names. My parents requested SSNs for both of us at the same time, and they were given two consecutive numbers.
For many years, I would just make up a random SSN for forms that didn't seem like they had a legitimate reason to be asking for it. Never, not once, did they later tell me there was a mismatch. So I think there was very little cross-checking going on.
What happens if the disabled person in the wheel chair is waiting for the cross light to go green, when someone next to them uses their Amazon Echo to remotely turn their lights on at home?
An Amazon Echo is not a mobile device. It plugs into a wall outlet, and is about the size and shape of a Pringles can. No one else is going to be using one on the street, and it makes little practical sense to use one as a wheelchair controller either.
I have an Amazon Echo in my kitchen. While I am preparing breakfast, it briefs me on my daily schedule and the news headlines. I can use it to set a quick timer, or to add items to my shopping list. I can request a specific song, and it will play it, or I can just say "play some music" and it will play something it thinks I will like. The voice recognition is very good.
when Apple just got on with it a made good products. Now they need to spread FUD about a competing product ?
There was never a time when Apple refrained from spreading FUD. Their iconic 1984 super bowl ad was an attack on IBM, and said nothing about the features or benefits of their own products. Steve Jobs regularly made ad hominem insults against Bill Gates, John Scully, etc.
Imagine a "local economy" when there are only huge megacorporations to work for, and you are lucky to work at all...
Except that is the opposite of what Amazon is doing. By offering a global "long tail" marketplace, they enable far more small businesses to thrive, by producing niche products that would never be viable in isolated local markets. The only thing we lose are dead end unproductive retail jobs.
By what right would a person be evicted from "their" land if no one can own it?
Because that person doesn't own it. It is owned by the "collective" or "the people", which in practice means the government. So rather than paying market value to the farmer whose family has farmed the land for generations, a property developer can just pay a small bribe to a bureaucrat, and have the farmer evicted with no compensation.
claims that Communism has failed are baseless - communism works fine on small scales, and has never been attempted on a large one.
You need to get your cuckoo clock repaired. It has lost its connection with reality.
Retirement can be rolled
Many pension plans require vesting, so if you quit or are fired, you forfeit the benefits. Also, many companies fund their pensions with their own stock, so if the company goes tits-up, you lose both your job and your savings at the same time.
becoming a new employee automatically qualifies you for open enrollment.
Not always. Companies can have a probationary period where new employees are ineligible for benefits. They can also exclude certain classes of employees, such as part-time, temp, union members (who get benefits through their unions), exempt/non-exempt, commission based employees, management, etc.
I can't believe anyone would choose an Uber-type job if they were eligible in any way for a 9-5 job.
I know several people that do that. My sister drives for Uber. She has a day job, but drives for a couple hours each evening to earn some extra cash. She enjoys meeting new people, and although driving is stressful for me, she says it is relaxing.
The model of relying on a business to provide benefits to its employees in lieu of the government or the employees themselves turns the employee into a serf
Indeed. In Maoist China, each factory ran their own schools. So if you changed jobs, your kids had to switch to a new school. This is clearly idiotic, but our system of employer provided healthcare/pensions is just as dumb. There are advantages and disadvantages to privatized and socialized healthcare and pensions, but the third option, of employer provided benefits, gives the worst of both, with the benefits of neither. Employees should be paid with money and only money. Benefits should be provided privately or by the government. They should not be tied to employers. That would be better for workers and companies.
More like, the companies who wrote the OS should be responsible.
No. Botnets run mostly on deprecated and unpatched systems with known security holes. That is not the fault of the OS vendors. If software vendors are held liable for the stupidity of their users, then software will become far more expensive, and FOSS will disappear completely.
Seems like there could be a danger of altering an asteroids orbit and having it eventually hit Earth.
Simple solution: Improve math and physical science education, so people have a better sense of scale, and can think more rationally. Then this will no longer be a problem.
We should have the same rules on Earth. You shouldn't be allowed own the land, but you own what you extract, build, harvest, etc.
That is a really, really bad idea. In terms of wasted lives and excess deaths, it is probably the worst idea in history. People have little incentive to build and grow on land they do not own. Collectivization of land ownership resulted in the mass starvation of 7 million Ukrainians and 30 million Chinese. Even today, millions of farmers in Africa and China are summarily evicted from land they have tilled for generations, because they have no legal title. Others are forced into subsistence agriculture because they have no ability to use their land as collateral, or sell it, or consolidate land into an economically viable size. The World Bank considers a lack of clear property rights to be one of the primary reasons for persistent 3rd world poverty.
Is it just me, or did I just interpreted this summary as "USA considers whole outer space their property
No. This law says pretty much the opposite: "Space belongs to no one, so if you go get some it, it is yours." There is nothing in this law that applies only to American citizens or American companies. So if a Chinese, Russian, or Indian company brings back ore from space, America would recognize their ownership (although their own government may not).