You'd be doing real well now if the Soviet Union was the only superpower.
Well done for completely missing his point. When the clearly flawed USSR existed, the West could legitimately say that (over all) it represented a better alternative.
I know this will be hard for most slashdotters to understand, but most countries would extradite someone accused of racketeering and money laundering without a second's thought.
And even the wholescale copyright infringement wouldn't be seen as acceptable like it is here.
What's interesting about this story is not that he returned it.
Sure, that was nice of him and all.
But the real story here is that Nicholas Cage stole a dinosaur skull to begin with.
That has got to be among the coolest fucking things I've ever heard about a celebrity doing.
I hope this blows up in memedom.
The bit where he gives it back is a bit of an anti-climactic ending though.
Yup. If they had the force of law, they wouldn't be asking. Likewise, if a cop is asking to come in, tell him no. If he had a right to come in, he wouldn't be asking.
Yes, that's what happened when I had to report a recent burglary to the police. When a uniformed stormtrooper knocked at my door, I told him to go fuck himself and his "victim support" bullshit, and immediately posted on facebook about my heroic resistance to fascism.
Can it tell the difference between a plastic bag blowing by and a child running across the street and react appropriately?
Again, with the right sensors, it can do it better than you can... in the dark, anyway. You don't have any senses which measure density.
Humans don't need senses to measure density. We can tell whether it's a plastic bag or a child quite easily. And in the dark, we tend to have our headlights on.
Can it tell the difference between pedestrians waiting to cross vs those standing with no intention of crossing?
Can a human?
Er, yes. We can.
Some of your answers read like an alien robot who is confused by us imperfect meatbags.
Musk is proof of the modern phenomenon that you don't actually need to build a better mousetrap to get the world beating a path to your door. You just have to be able to promise a better mousetrap tomorrow, once the government stop interfering.
You can throw all the algorithms you want at it but you will always find the one drunk guy who's driving backwards down a one way street.
Although I don't believe we're anywhere near having autonomous cars, in this example you'd probably get just as much damage with human-driven as computer-driven cars.
I don't have those concerns, but I will not drive a car that reports back my location at all times. When a fully automated vehicle exists that works without the constant phoning home then I'll be interested. If that never happens so help me I'll walk before I give up my liberty. I trust the computers to get me there safely, but I don't trust the people behind them with that level of surveillance.
It must be a nightmare working with you, as you'll obviously be constantly on the move, never stay in the office for more than a few minutes at a time and refuse to reveal your home address or phone number to anyone.
We shouldn't throw an immature technology on the market.
You are something like 15 - 20 years behind "state of the art".
Basically every majour car company already has self driving cars. BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Toyota... no idea about that backward country that proudly proclaims itself "gods own country".
The cars available now are only self driving up to a point. You can't sit in one, tell it to take you to work, and fall asleep, unless your home and work are connected by a clear motorway.
I never sat in one of those cars, but we have a few at my University more precisely at the "Forschungszentrum Informatik" here in Karlsruhe.
So one of the cars at your university can drive me from there to (say) Berlin, while it's snowing, with no human intervention other than my opening the door to get in? Really?
If this is the case, why haven't you licensed the tech to Musk and let him make you all a boatload of cash?
Self Driving Cars with automated updates, kill switches, remotely accessed cameras and microphones, and any other means of surveillance is not a car I will finance because it will no longer be MY car.
In case you hadn't noticed, the Uber model means that in a few years' time, almost no one will bother owning a car. Except the not-a-taxi drivers of course, and even they will probably have some sort of lease arrangement with Uber.
Why else would Uber be valued at sixty zillion dollars? Certainly not because they'll be just a big not-a-taxi company.
Have one go from CA to NY without any driver interaction (other than for fuel) now that would be something worthy of the title.
I'd have thought that getting the car to fill/charge itself while stationery was a relatively trivial matter compared to actually driving at high speed on roads filled with drunks, texters and people with an allergy to indicators or looking in the mirrors.
Most people who put up those kinds of TV numbers don't actually watch it for five hours. The TV is just always on while they're home and doing other things.
But the other things they're doing are drinking, farting and sexting, not studying Latin or quantum mechanics.
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You'd be doing real well now if the Soviet Union was the only superpower.
Well done for completely missing his point. When the clearly flawed USSR existed, the West could legitimately say that (over all) it represented a better alternative.
And even the wholescale copyright infringement wouldn't be seen as acceptable like it is here.
Exactly what war crimes did Dick Cheney commit?
Iraq.
Evidence suggests that piracy boosts profits
Except that in this case it didn't. So, um, maybe it's not always true.
so perhaps you should consider other reasons why revenue declined
I think in this particular case revenue declined because people could download the music for free instead of paying royalties to use it.
What's interesting about this story is not that he returned it. Sure, that was nice of him and all.
But the real story here is that Nicholas Cage stole a dinosaur skull to begin with. That has got to be among the coolest fucking things I've ever heard about a celebrity doing.
I hope this blows up in memedom.
The bit where he gives it back is a bit of an anti-climactic ending though.
You stole some text from TFS therefore you are a pirate.
Copied, dude. He copied some text.
Plagiarism is not theft, any more than it's a bicycle.
A fossil, that was in the ground before any human inhabited Mongolia, is not their "cultural" artefact.
That's like saying the rocks in my backyard are part of my "cultural heritage", because, well my backyard.
I'm pretty sure you'd say that the Grand Canyon was part of America's cultural heritage.
Yup. If they had the force of law, they wouldn't be asking. Likewise, if a cop is asking to come in, tell him no. If he had a right to come in, he wouldn't be asking.
Yes, that's what happened when I had to report a recent burglary to the police. When a uniformed stormtrooper knocked at my door, I told him to go fuck himself and his "victim support" bullshit, and immediately posted on facebook about my heroic resistance to fascism.
Truly, some people have more money than sense or taste.
Can it tell the difference between a plastic bag blowing by and a child running across the street and react appropriately?
Again, with the right sensors, it can do it better than you can... in the dark, anyway. You don't have any senses which measure density.
Humans don't need senses to measure density. We can tell whether it's a plastic bag or a child quite easily. And in the dark, we tend to have our headlights on.
Can it tell the difference between pedestrians waiting to cross vs those standing with no intention of crossing?
Can a human?
Er, yes. We can.
Some of your answers read like an alien robot who is confused by us imperfect meatbags.
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
Thank you. The Musk fanboys here will, of course, say that we already have player-pianos, so human concert pianists are outdated.
Musk is proof of the modern phenomenon that you don't actually need to build a better mousetrap to get the world beating a path to your door. You just have to be able to promise a better mousetrap tomorrow, once the government stop interfering.
You can throw all the algorithms you want at it but you will always find the one drunk guy who's driving backwards down a one way street.
Although I don't believe we're anywhere near having autonomous cars, in this example you'd probably get just as much damage with human-driven as computer-driven cars.
I don't have those concerns, but I will not drive a car that reports back my location at all times. When a fully automated vehicle exists that works without the constant phoning home then I'll be interested. If that never happens so help me I'll walk before I give up my liberty. I trust the computers to get me there safely, but I don't trust the people behind them with that level of surveillance.
It must be a nightmare working with you, as you'll obviously be constantly on the move, never stay in the office for more than a few minutes at a time and refuse to reveal your home address or phone number to anyone.
We shouldn't throw an immature technology on the market. You are something like 15 - 20 years behind "state of the art".
Basically every majour car company already has self driving cars. BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Toyota ... no idea about that backward country that proudly proclaims itself "gods own country".
The cars available now are only self driving up to a point. You can't sit in one, tell it to take you to work, and fall asleep, unless your home and work are connected by a clear motorway.
We are already at level 4.
I never sat in one of those cars, but we have a few at my University more precisely at the "Forschungszentrum Informatik" here in Karlsruhe.
So one of the cars at your university can drive me from there to (say) Berlin, while it's snowing, with no human intervention other than my opening the door to get in? Really?
If this is the case, why haven't you licensed the tech to Musk and let him make you all a boatload of cash?
The Google/Tesla method is to have a very detailed 3D map of the area, and then the car can navigate through the pre-made map.
The map is not the territory.
"How can you know that about a technology that isn't even built yet?"
Because it is. What's happening now is testing, validating and minor refinements based on existing builds.
Cool, Elon Musk himself is posting on slashdot.
When will humans be able to handle roundabouts? Because where I live not many people are smart enough to successfully navigate roundabouts.
Idiocracy has become reality.
So if you drive down a street with unmarked lanes, it just follows the same path as other Teslas that have driven down the same street.
So it's able to follow a map? That is not AI, and it is not adequate for the real world.
So this is a solved problem
No, it's not.
In a couple of years, it will be better across the board.
You're begging the question.
No one is denying that if there is a huge leap forward in AI in the next two years then autonomous cars could work.
criminal neglect and when that bus full of kids get's hit the local Sheriff's will want some one in jail.
Oh, I thought you meant if the car was used by a hitman to provide a deniable form of murder weapon.
Self Driving Cars with automated updates, kill switches, remotely accessed cameras and microphones, and any other means of surveillance is not a car I will finance because it will no longer be MY car.
In case you hadn't noticed, the Uber model means that in a few years' time, almost no one will bother owning a car. Except the not-a-taxi drivers of course, and even they will probably have some sort of lease arrangement with Uber.
Why else would Uber be valued at sixty zillion dollars? Certainly not because they'll be just a big not-a-taxi company.
Have one go from CA to NY without any driver interaction (other than for fuel) now that would be something worthy of the title.
I'd have thought that getting the car to fill/charge itself while stationery was a relatively trivial matter compared to actually driving at high speed on roads filled with drunks, texters and people with an allergy to indicators or looking in the mirrors.
Most people who put up those kinds of TV numbers don't actually watch it for five hours. The TV is just always on while they're home and doing other things.
But the other things they're doing are drinking, farting and sexting, not studying Latin or quantum mechanics.