Lottery tickets are interesting, insofar that for many poor people, they are the only way to save up.
When you are living on the edge, any savings you have will be wiped out by the next hurdle you hit, be it a car breakdown or an illness or any other unexpected bill. If you have absolutely nothing, the government or charities are likely to somehow get you through that without you actually dying. If you have the least bit saved away, you'll be spending that first.
Buying lottery tickets whenever you have any spare cash is the rational choice in that situation.
This is an interesting point. Compulsory military service is actually explicitly permitted by the European Declaration of Human Rights. Conscientious objection is not even required to be recognized, that is entirely up to each state.
If it's anything like the similar-sounding Danish test, you can be a conscientious objector all you want, but you still have to take the test. Medical grounds only applies if you can't realistically get to the testing location.
But it's true. The ISPs might extort a little money out of Netflix, but nothing major because customers will revolt if Netflix doesn't work. The same is even more true for Google.
New services that don't have a huge customer following will be over the barrel though.
The VW owners now have cars with less performance and worse fuel economy than they had when bought. The competitors cheated too, and obviously they should be punished as well, but VW is by far the worst offender according to what has been revealed so far.
Amber was nicer than green... They both had the advantage of long afterglow, no damn flickering.
Then first year at university, workstations with 4 "colour" greyscale. Except the monitors were so old that white was only marginally brighter than black.
A suitable punishment would be to take away all government-granted monopolies, since they do not play by the rules of the government. Goodbye Volkswagen patents!
That would benefit the owners of Volkswagen vehicles, who were defrauded and who have so far not had a penny in compensation (at least in Europe).
Of course you can. The air would have been much less polluted if Volkswagen and the others hadn't cheated.
at most you could claim damages for much dirtier the air has gotten due to Volkswagen not quite meeting the Euro-6 norm or whatever it is.
There is no "not quite" about it when we are talking about more than an order or magnitude. This is not astronomy.
It's not in anyone's interest to cripple this company
It is absolutely in my interest to cripple them. I have zero faith that they will not do the exact same thing the next time they think they can get away with it.
Fining them won't be enough. In most cases the managers responsible will have moved on to other jobs and cashed their bonuses before the faeces gets ventilated.
The US has it right in this case. Criminal charges against the people responsible.
I own a OnePlus, and I doubt my next phone will be OnePlus. They have had a number of security breaches lately, which eroded some of my trust.
The stunt they pulled with the code made to send the contents of the clipboard to a third party is just too much. Their excuse that it was only code intended for the Chinese market is terrible -- if this is what they do to bend to Chinese surveillance, how can anyone trust them? Is there any evidence that other vendors are equally uncaring about human rights?
Anyway, I'm hoping that the next Pixel device is reasonably affordable. Otherwise it may be OnePlus plus a custom ROM and hope that the modem chip isn't backdoored.
(Apart from that the OnePlus phones that I've had have been pretty bad for actual phone calls. I can barely hear the other side, and they get echo from my side. However, phone calls are way down on my priority list for a cell "phone")
110010001000 is one of the most visible trolls on Slashdot. Read his comment history, always just outlandish enough that some mod or other upvotes him without really reading through. Usually other mods catch on though.
On the upside, the warranty is for 36 moths, so that may allay your fear of lack of bugs a bit.
More seriously, 18 months of planned software ability?! That should be measured in years! I have just retired a server from 2006, appropriately due to too many problems with the firmware combined with modern Linux. 18 months useful life from a CPU is a joke.
This is what the lack of decent window management on all the major platforms has led to. Both Windows, MacOS, and Linux have evolved their window management to the point where the only reasonable choice is to keep everything full screen.
Sure, you CAN have overlapping windows, but:
1) You'll have to fiddle endlessly with the mouse to get them arranged half-decently 2) New windows will appear in annoying places 3) As soon as you try to interact with a window, that window will pop in front of the actually useful data you were looking at in the other windows
You can use keyboard shortcuts to get 2 windows side-by-side on all the major OS's, which is something at least. But woe be you if you try to make windows overlap and stay in the right Z-order.
Now it seems that the ones to turn to, in order to fix this mess, are the website designers?! How can they possibly know where I want my video to be on the screen??
By your logic, it is criminally negligent homicide to allow any human being to drive a car that causes an incident resulting in death. It is only a matter of time before they fail to properly "step in" (i.e., manually perform) a driving action. Therefore the CEO of every car manufacturer everywhere is guilty of criminally negligent homicide, and anyone who allows another to drive their car would be guilty of such if their car causes an incident resulting in death.
The human is in charge. They are responsible, they are the ones the law applies to. If a human driver works for a company and the company knowingly lets particularly unsafe drivers (i.e. inadequately trained or drivers with inhibited judgement) continue driving, the company is liable for their actions. In this case the driver was a computer, and the company knew the driver was the equivalent of inadequately trained -- it couldn't even manage 13 miles between interventions.
A car manufacturer has nothing to do with how a regular car is driven, and therefore it is not their responsibility if someone mows pedestrians down. This is likely to change in the future as safety features to prevent exactly that will be required to be installed, and if they do not perform to standard, the company will likely be responsible. But we are not there yet for manually driven cars.
You, my friend, are ignoring the requirement of "proximate causation." If you want to allege that the CEO has personal criminal responsibility, then the CEO's personal actions must be the proximate cause of the death. Not an engineer's decision concerning the threshold at which the algorithm or AI outputs an action to avoid a obstacle, and not a safety driver's decision to play with their phone while in motion.
This defence is not working for VW regarding the emissions fraud. Let us hope it does not work for Uber either.
The other companies did not face the same risk, and so their standard practices do not apply. The other companies required 2 orders of magnitude fewer interventions. The software deployed by those companies can reasonably be considered fit for purpose.
One of the ways to deal with such horribly bad software would be to let the human driver be in control at all times, with the software only learning. That is how the other companies achieved a decent safety standard, before they switched to safety drivers.
Heck, Uber did not even have the system check if the safety driver was doing their job! Again, common practice in other industries where safety operators are in use. It is difficult to believe the level of malice shown by the company.
Uber has a goal of 13 miles without interventions from the safety driver. They have admitted that they cannot make even that rather... modest goal. There is no way that such information has been kept away from the CEO, unless the CEO is utterly incompetent. With 13 miles between interventions, it was only a matter of time before a safety driver failed to step in.
Allowing a self driving car on public roads with 13 miles between interventions is reckless endangerment.
Of course you jail the engineers or architects, when they are criminally negligent.
There is little doubt that the Uber CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, was criminally negligent and aware that this kind of accident was not only possible but likely.
This is simply not true. Speculative execution has real benefits on real code. Disabling it makes processors drastically slower, not just in benchmarks.
Luckily it looks like we can get to keep most of the benefits without the security flaws.
When presented with two songs of similar quality, human listeners will greatly prefer the loudest one. Since radio play is all about selling music in other formats, that means that the loudest songs make the most money. There is one easy way to make a song on a CD louder, and that is range compression.
Hence the loudness war, which could have been entirely prevented if radio stations had just done minimal volume correction instead of just dumping whatever is on the CD right onto the airwaves. But that would have required someone at the station to actually care about music.
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Lottery tickets are interesting, insofar that for many poor people, they are the only way to save up.
When you are living on the edge, any savings you have will be wiped out by the next hurdle you hit, be it a car breakdown or an illness or any other unexpected bill. If you have absolutely nothing, the government or charities are likely to somehow get you through that without you actually dying. If you have the least bit saved away, you'll be spending that first.
Buying lottery tickets whenever you have any spare cash is the rational choice in that situation.
This is an interesting point. Compulsory military service is actually explicitly permitted by the European Declaration of Human Rights. Conscientious objection is not even required to be recognized, that is entirely up to each state.
If it's anything like the similar-sounding Danish test, you can be a conscientious objector all you want, but you still have to take the test. Medical grounds only applies if you can't realistically get to the testing location.
But it's true. The ISPs might extort a little money out of Netflix, but nothing major because customers will revolt if Netflix doesn't work. The same is even more true for Google.
New services that don't have a huge customer following will be over the barrel though.
That is exactly what Germany is doing.
I would be very interested in a citation for that. A quick Googling didn't turn up anything except US efforts.
The VW owners now have cars with less performance and worse fuel economy than they had when bought. The competitors cheated too, and obviously they should be punished as well, but VW is by far the worst offender according to what has been revealed so far.
The car industry is extremely competitive. The factories would not stay closed for long, competitors would take over.
Amber was nicer than green... They both had the advantage of long afterglow, no damn flickering.
Then first year at university, workstations with 4 "colour" greyscale. Except the monitors were so old that white was only marginally brighter than black.
That is actually an excellent point!
A suitable punishment would be to take away all government-granted monopolies, since they do not play by the rules of the government. Goodbye Volkswagen patents!
That would benefit the owners of Volkswagen vehicles, who were defrauded and who have so far not had a penny in compensation (at least in Europe).
You can't just claim damages due to "dirty air"
Of course you can. The air would have been much less polluted if Volkswagen and the others hadn't cheated.
at most you could claim damages for much dirtier the air has gotten due to Volkswagen not quite meeting the Euro-6 norm or whatever it is.
There is no "not quite" about it when we are talking about more than an order or magnitude. This is not astronomy.
It's not in anyone's interest to cripple this company
It is absolutely in my interest to cripple them. I have zero faith that they will not do the exact same thing the next time they think they can get away with it.
Fining them won't be enough. In most cases the managers responsible will have moved on to other jobs and cashed their bonuses before the faeces gets ventilated.
The US has it right in this case. Criminal charges against the people responsible.
M-x viper-mode
Meanwhile, on the 8th of December last year, a 16 year old was thrown on the ground by police, beaten, and arrested, for yelling "Fuck Trump".
In Copenhagen, Denmark.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
Thatâ(TM)ll showâ(TM)em!
A Slackware advocate with "smart" quotes... Something seems slightly fishy.
I own a OnePlus, and I doubt my next phone will be OnePlus. They have had a number of security breaches lately, which eroded some of my trust.
The stunt they pulled with the code made to send the contents of the clipboard to a third party is just too much. Their excuse that it was only code intended for the Chinese market is terrible -- if this is what they do to bend to Chinese surveillance, how can anyone trust them? Is there any evidence that other vendors are equally uncaring about human rights?
Anyway, I'm hoping that the next Pixel device is reasonably affordable. Otherwise it may be OnePlus plus a custom ROM and hope that the modem chip isn't backdoored.
(Apart from that the OnePlus phones that I've had have been pretty bad for actual phone calls. I can barely hear the other side, and they get echo from my side. However, phone calls are way down on my priority list for a cell "phone")
110010001000 is one of the most visible trolls on Slashdot. Read his comment history, always just outlandish enough that some mod or other upvotes him without really reading through. Usually other mods catch on though.
On the upside, the warranty is for 36 moths, so that may allay your fear of lack of bugs a bit.
More seriously, 18 months of planned software ability?! That should be measured in years! I have just retired a server from 2006, appropriately due to too many problems with the firmware combined with modern Linux. 18 months useful life from a CPU is a joke.
This is what the lack of decent window management on all the major platforms has led to. Both Windows, MacOS, and Linux have evolved their window management to the point where the only reasonable choice is to keep everything full screen.
Sure, you CAN have overlapping windows, but:
1) You'll have to fiddle endlessly with the mouse to get them arranged half-decently
2) New windows will appear in annoying places
3) As soon as you try to interact with a window, that window will pop in front of the actually useful data you were looking at in the other windows
You can use keyboard shortcuts to get 2 windows side-by-side on all the major OS's, which is something at least. But woe be you if you try to make windows overlap and stay in the right Z-order.
Now it seems that the ones to turn to, in order to fix this mess, are the website designers?! How can they possibly know where I want my video to be on the screen??
By your logic, it is criminally negligent homicide to allow any human being to drive a car that causes an incident resulting in death. It is only a matter of time before they fail to properly "step in" (i.e., manually perform) a driving action. Therefore the CEO of every car manufacturer everywhere is guilty of criminally negligent homicide, and anyone who allows another to drive their car would be guilty of such if their car causes an incident resulting in death.
The human is in charge. They are responsible, they are the ones the law applies to. If a human driver works for a company and the company knowingly lets particularly unsafe drivers (i.e. inadequately trained or drivers with inhibited judgement) continue driving, the company is liable for their actions. In this case the driver was a computer, and the company knew the driver was the equivalent of inadequately trained -- it couldn't even manage 13 miles between interventions.
A car manufacturer has nothing to do with how a regular car is driven, and therefore it is not their responsibility if someone mows pedestrians down. This is likely to change in the future as safety features to prevent exactly that will be required to be installed, and if they do not perform to standard, the company will likely be responsible. But we are not there yet for manually driven cars.
You, my friend, are ignoring the requirement of "proximate causation." If you want to allege that the CEO has personal criminal responsibility, then the CEO's personal actions must be the proximate cause of the death. Not an engineer's decision concerning the threshold at which the algorithm or AI outputs an action to avoid a obstacle, and not a safety driver's decision to play with their phone while in motion.
This defence is not working for VW regarding the emissions fraud. Let us hope it does not work for Uber either.
The other companies did not face the same risk, and so their standard practices do not apply. The other companies required 2 orders of magnitude fewer interventions. The software deployed by those companies can reasonably be considered fit for purpose.
One of the ways to deal with such horribly bad software would be to let the human driver be in control at all times, with the software only learning. That is how the other companies achieved a decent safety standard, before they switched to safety drivers.
Heck, Uber did not even have the system check if the safety driver was doing their job! Again, common practice in other industries where safety operators are in use. It is difficult to believe the level of malice shown by the company.
Letting cars on public roads that cannot go 13 miles without safety interventions is reckless endangerment.
Dara Khosrowshahi must have been aware of that statistic, yet chose not to intervene. The buck stops there.
Uber has a goal of 13 miles without interventions from the safety driver. They have admitted that they cannot make even that rather... modest goal. There is no way that such information has been kept away from the CEO, unless the CEO is utterly incompetent. With 13 miles between interventions, it was only a matter of time before a safety driver failed to step in.
Allowing a self driving car on public roads with 13 miles between interventions is reckless endangerment.
Of course you jail the engineers or architects, when they are criminally negligent.
There is little doubt that the Uber CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, was criminally negligent and aware that this kind of accident was not only possible but likely.
This is simply not true. Speculative execution has real benefits on real code. Disabling it makes processors drastically slower, not just in benchmarks.
Luckily it looks like we can get to keep most of the benefits without the security flaws.
When presented with two songs of similar quality, human listeners will greatly prefer the loudest one. Since radio play is all about selling music in other formats, that means that the loudest songs make the most money. There is one easy way to make a song on a CD louder, and that is range compression.
Hence the loudness war, which could have been entirely prevented if radio stations had just done minimal volume correction instead of just dumping whatever is on the CD right onto the airwaves. But that would have required someone at the station to actually care about music.