These things are going to have mechanical CPUs, are they? Because if they have electronics the EMP will likely fry them too.
Just use vacuum-tubes. They're pretty much immune to EMP.:)
Seriously though, protection from EMP is pretty standard stuff. It's not that hard. Pretty much all military electronics from missile guidance packages to fighter-jet avionics to infantry field radios have EMP mitigation built into the design.
In the real world EMP doesn't work like in The Matrix.
In the example of a nuclear/thermonuclear bomb detonating, the effective radius (close enough that EMP could disable minimally-hardened electronics) of the EMP pulse is much smaller than the effective full-destruction radius of the detonation.
In other words, you'd almost certainly need to be close enough to ground-zero so that the blast itself would incinerate the electronics to hot radioactive plasma before the EMP would be strong enough to kill it.
What are truly vulnerable are electrical power grids and civilian radio/cellphone/satellite/cable-TV comm/broadcast systems that lack any serious EMP mitigation.
WHAT MOST OF YOU MEANT BUT WOULDN'T SAY SO NOT TO ALARM PEOPLE: We need an Australian-style gun ban.
There are *already* "common sense gun laws" on the books. These laws *should have prevented* most if not all of the recent mass-shootings IF they had been *enforced* properly!
You don't need *new* gun laws, just for-deity's-sake enforce the ones we already have! What the hell makes anyone think that creating more laws will help when the laws already in place that should have stopped these homicidal lunatics were not enforced? And when these new laws you want are not enforced either, and more people die? What then? More new laws? There's a term for believing that repeating the same actions and behaviors over and over will somehow result in a different outcome. Fix enforcement, don't just jump to infringing a civil right.
Fact: US Gun-Related Homicide is down over %50 over the last 25 years.
Fact: US Gun Violence Victimization is down over %75 over the last 25 years.
These facts according to official US government statistics.
We have the "if it bleeds it leads" 24-hour-news-cycle pathology amplified by the internet social media echo chambers and being used by politicians and ideologue firebrands to flame fear and anger in order to drive the anti-gun agenda when the facts do not support that gun violence is growing, but in fact dramatically the opposite.
And there's the US mental health crisis. The majority of the recent mass killers had already been under mental health treatment and/or medication, and not just for minor, temporary conditions, yet still purchased a gun. The homeless shelters all across the US are filled with the mentally ill. That is not being addressed by anybody in power on either side.
If you want guns and other dangerous things out of the hands of the mentally ill who commit horrible acts, then don't allow the mentally ill the opportunity by kicking them out of the institutions that once kept them and us safe. Fix the institutions.
We've had guns for a very, very long time and yet we are only having these problems relatively quite recently. The way we handle (or don't, actually) the mentally ill and the fostering of Post-Modern thought which says all moral codes or no moral codes are equally valid and there is no objective right and wrong, foster a culture and society where life has little value and almost nothing is objectively "wrong".
It's no wonder there are mass murders and chaos in such a broken society with such a sick culture.
This whole thing can be summed up as "Idiot Darwin's himself by ignoring repeated warnings."
There will never be a system built that can prevent those who behave as stupidly as this room-temperature nincompoop did from offing themselves. There is no such thing as a perfect system or perfect safety. Those who ignore reality eventually get reality biting them in their asses.
Everything else is noise from the haters and the 50-cent armies hired by those who fear Musk's competition.
Gig-work is meant to undermine worker benefits by turning everybody into a private contractor who gets no benefits.
Nonsense!
Lack of *employer-sponsored benefits* does not mean a lack of benefits. One can buy health insurance, invest in health savings plans, and whatever other investment strategies you'd prefer like money markets, stocks, bonds, etc. As much or as little, any combination or none at all, whatever the individual chooses.
It's all about asking oneself how much individual liberty are you prepared to be responsible for? How much of your life do you want government and corporations involved in?
Having everyone as working-dead meat-popsicle in wage-slave dependency, working cookie-cutter corporate cubicle job-hells makes Zorg's layoffs (and the implied political-economic*control*) from The Fifth Element possible.
Remember, the easiest way to solve "income inequality" is to make everyone equally poor.
That fight could end up creating one set of rules for cars sold in California and the 12 states that follow its lead, and weaker rules for the rest of the states, in effect splitting the nation into two markets.
Guns are used every day to kill rapists, home-invaders, armed robbers, and would-be murderers.
âoeSelf-defense can be an important crime deterrent,âsays a new report by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The $10 million study was commissioned by President Barack Obama as part of 23 executive orders he signed in January.
âoeStudies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was âusedâ(TM) by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies,â the CDC study, entitled âoePriorities For Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence,â states.
Is it just me, or does this seem fairly petty and petulant? Yeah, sure, the UK won't be in the Eurozone any more, but all you're doing is (in the best case) generating revenue by making all those domain owners re-register with addresses in continental Europe, and inviting a land rush for speculators and scammers in the worst case.
TFA is written to sound like the EU is being petty and that any UK citizens owning.eu domains were not already aware and are having to suddenly scramble to save their websites, but that is far from the case.
This was one of the consequences that were known from the start. The vast majority of them have had plans and all the machinery in place to switch their domains since very shortly after Brexit passed.
This is much ado about nothing. It's a click-bait article.
Wow, what a stupid individual you are. Arguing with a state that wants to keep its citizens safe from a company that doesn't know shit about self driving cars.
It wouldn't change my opinion if Uber's SDV was safe and Kalifornia welcomed them.
Kalifornia has been a fascist, intolerant shithole for decades and is only getting worse. Uber/SDVs and Kalifornia's reactions to them have nothing to do with it.
I suppose in your non-nanny non-fascist non-shithole hypothetical state, driver licenses are not required? Let's just let a 10 year old, or a blind person, or a person with dementia (etc...) drive, because if we don't, that would be fascism.
At this point, allowing Uber's autonomous cars to drive around is something akin to that.
Such a marvelous strawman you've erected, and you take it down so well!
Where in my post did I even mention anything about Uber or their SDV?
In this way the government can side-step and bypass the BoR/civil rights by employing a third-party.
Which amendment in the Bill of Rights says a company doesn't have the right to refuse to service another company?
It's the one right next to the amendment allowing the government to strong-arm and blackmail financial institutions with threats of endless investigations by government regulators into refusing to allow legal businesses to perform legal commercial transactions with law-abiding citizens for purely political reasons.
With FOSTA passing they don't have much of a choice-- they're potentially liable anyway. I understand why the're hedging bets on their services.
I'm curious to see if Slashdot has to start censoring posts to avoid prosecution under FOSTA. With all the GNAA and other troll/shit-posting occurring here, it could come to where posts are delayed while they are examined for possibly-"offensive" content like libertarian/conservative views. (as if most aren't already down-modded by the 50-cent armies employed by the Left)
Puritan mindset alive - God is watching (over) you, and from there an upbringing "don`t put foul words in your mouth", and on it goes, just always doing the "right" thing, in case of doubt, even more right, to be on the save side. Corporate culture, fitting in automagically....
This is not about "Puritanism" or any particular moral standards.
This is primarily/initially a CYA to protect themselves from the recently-passed FOSTA stupidity, which itself is not about sex trafficking, but getting the censor-camel's nose and his ass both into your pants and your thoughtcrimes.
With things like Citibank barring the use of any of their services by either individuals or businesses for the legal purchase or sale of firearms, how long do you think it will be before the list of "offensive content" includes political/ideological speech TPTB dislike?
No more school shootings, mall shootings, synagogue shootings, church shootings, or shootings in general is a good thing.
So you think criminals will comply? HA!
A gun ban or heavy restriction will simply add another item to drug cartel's and street gang's menu of available illegal goods for sale for them to profit hugely from. No background checks or age limits, nor any restrictions on fully-automatic firearms, RPGs, grenades, landmines, etc etc etc.
But hey, prohibitions & criminalization have worked so well vs alcohol and drugs, right?
Maybe you should look up the definition of insanity.
That would be awesome but good luck getting Google on board with that. They're just as bad as Facebook when it comes to tracking and Chrome is the most used browser.
Not only that, but there would also be pressure...either overt, covert, or a combination...by the US government and it's TLAs to not damage a significant part of their domestic and foreign surveillance programs.
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These things are going to have mechanical CPUs, are they? Because if they have electronics the EMP will likely fry them too.
Just use vacuum-tubes. They're pretty much immune to EMP. :)
Seriously though, protection from EMP is pretty standard stuff. It's not that hard. Pretty much all military electronics from missile guidance packages to fighter-jet avionics to infantry field radios have EMP mitigation built into the design.
In the real world EMP doesn't work like in The Matrix.
In the example of a nuclear/thermonuclear bomb detonating, the effective radius (close enough that EMP could disable minimally-hardened electronics) of the EMP pulse is much smaller than the effective full-destruction radius of the detonation.
In other words, you'd almost certainly need to be close enough to ground-zero so that the blast itself would incinerate the electronics to hot radioactive plasma before the EMP would be strong enough to kill it.
What are truly vulnerable are electrical power grids and civilian radio/cellphone/satellite/cable-TV comm/broadcast systems that lack any serious EMP mitigation.
Strat
The phrase actually starts with "Easier," not "Better."
Yes, but I'm "speaking in the voice of" a Google exec who needs this thing his people have been working on to be deployed so he gets that bonus.
Makes a world of difference.
It depends on the context. I adapted the quote to fit.
Strat
...isn't exactly hidden. [chrome] [link only works on Chrome 65]
Wait, what...?
That's a rather "elastic" definition of "isn't exactly hidden".
It certainly appears that it "isn't exactly" something well publicized enough beforehand if so many people are surprised.
Strat
...For forgiveness than for permission."
Strat
WHAT WE SAID: We need common sense gun laws.
WHAT MOST OF YOU MEANT BUT WOULDN'T SAY SO NOT TO ALARM PEOPLE: We need an Australian-style gun ban.
There are *already* "common sense gun laws" on the books. These laws *should have prevented* most if not all of the recent mass-shootings IF they had been *enforced* properly!
You don't need *new* gun laws, just for-deity's-sake enforce the ones we already have! What the hell makes anyone think that creating more laws will help when the laws already in place that should have stopped these homicidal lunatics were not enforced? And when these new laws you want are not enforced either, and more people die? What then? More new laws? There's a term for believing that repeating the same actions and behaviors over and over will somehow result in a different outcome. Fix enforcement, don't just jump to infringing a civil right.
Fact: US Gun-Related Homicide is down over %50 over the last 25 years.
Fact: US Gun Violence Victimization is down over %75 over the last 25 years.
These facts according to official US government statistics.
We have the "if it bleeds it leads" 24-hour-news-cycle pathology amplified by the internet social media echo chambers and being used by politicians and ideologue firebrands to flame fear and anger in order to drive the anti-gun agenda when the facts do not support that gun violence is growing, but in fact dramatically the opposite.
And there's the US mental health crisis. The majority of the recent mass killers had already been under mental health treatment and/or medication, and not just for minor, temporary conditions, yet still purchased a gun. The homeless shelters all across the US are filled with the mentally ill. That is not being addressed by anybody in power on either side.
If you want guns and other dangerous things out of the hands of the mentally ill who commit horrible acts, then don't allow the mentally ill the opportunity by kicking them out of the institutions that once kept them and us safe. Fix the institutions.
We've had guns for a very, very long time and yet we are only having these problems relatively quite recently. The way we handle (or don't, actually) the mentally ill and the fostering of Post-Modern thought which says all moral codes or no moral codes are equally valid and there is no objective right and wrong, foster a culture and society where life has little value and almost nothing is objectively "wrong".
It's no wonder there are mass murders and chaos in such a broken society with such a sick culture.
Strat
This whole thing can be summed up as "Idiot Darwin's himself by ignoring repeated warnings."
There will never be a system built that can prevent those who behave as stupidly as this room-temperature nincompoop did from offing themselves. There is no such thing as a perfect system or perfect safety. Those who ignore reality eventually get reality biting them in their asses.
Everything else is noise from the haters and the 50-cent armies hired by those who fear Musk's competition.
Strat
Gig-work is meant to undermine worker benefits by turning everybody into a private contractor who gets no benefits.
Nonsense!
Lack of *employer-sponsored benefits* does not mean a lack of benefits. One can buy health insurance, invest in health savings plans, and whatever other investment strategies you'd prefer like money markets, stocks, bonds, etc. As much or as little, any combination or none at all, whatever the individual chooses.
It's all about asking oneself how much individual liberty are you prepared to be responsible for? How much of your life do you want government and corporations involved in?
Having everyone as working-dead meat-popsicle in wage-slave dependency, working cookie-cutter corporate cubicle job-hells makes Zorg's layoffs (and the implied political-economic*control*) from The Fifth Element possible.
Remember, the easiest way to solve "income inequality" is to make everyone equally poor.
Strat
That fight could end up creating one set of rules for cars sold in California and the 12 states that follow its lead, and weaker rules for the rest of the states, in effect splitting the nation into two markets.
Supremacy Clause.
Here's three more words.
Interstate Commerce Clause.
California, start your V8 engines!
Strat
An article about acrylamide [healthline.com] points out that it has been part of humanity's diet for as long as we've been cooking our food.
Next /. article:
"California Judge Bans Sale & Consumption Of All Cooked Food Because Of Cancer Risk, Sushi Restaurants Rejoice"
"Land of fruits and nuts" indeed.
Strat
Consensus. Experts. Multiple reliable sources for information.
Whose "consensus"? Who chooses which person's opinions are included as "consensus"?
Which "experts"? Chosen by whom?
Who decides which source is "reliable"?
Who defines what is "reliable"?
Too many easy paths to authoritarianism here.
Strat
guns which are used to kill people,
Absolutely true.
Guns are used every day to kill rapists, home-invaders, armed robbers, and would-be murderers.
âoeSelf-defense can be an important crime deterrent,âsays a new report by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The $10 million study was commissioned by President Barack Obama as part of 23 executive orders he signed in January.
âoeStudies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was âusedâ(TM) by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies,â the CDC study, entitled âoePriorities For Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence,â states.
Won't somebody stop the madness?
Strat
Yes so you can wipe it, like with a cloth.
Who decides what are officially "facts" and what are not?
One man's facts are another man's fake news.
Strat
Is it just me, or does this seem fairly petty and petulant? Yeah, sure, the UK won't be in the Eurozone any more, but all you're doing is (in the best case) generating revenue by making all those domain owners re-register with addresses in continental Europe, and inviting a land rush for speculators and scammers in the worst case.
TFA is written to sound like the EU is being petty and that any UK citizens owning .eu domains were not already aware and are having to suddenly scramble to save their websites, but that is far from the case.
This was one of the consequences that were known from the start. The vast majority of them have had plans and all the machinery in place to switch their domains since very shortly after Brexit passed.
This is much ado about nothing. It's a click-bait article.
Strat
You should know this...it's not like your a kid.
That's pretty much the entire reason everything is so screwed up and people on both sides scream incredibly stupid shit.
The average person in the US operates at the intellectual, emotional, educational, and maturity level of an 8-year-old child.
On a good day.
Strat
Wow, what a stupid individual you are. Arguing with a state that wants to keep its citizens safe from a company that doesn't know shit about self driving cars.
It wouldn't change my opinion if Uber's SDV was safe and Kalifornia welcomed them.
Kalifornia has been a fascist, intolerant shithole for decades and is only getting worse. Uber/SDVs and Kalifornia's reactions to them have nothing to do with it.
Strat
Are you kidding? Hundreds of thousands of people already die every year from dirty energy production:
The difference between a somewhat shorter lifespan and freezing the fuck to death is stark.
Please do give the latter a try if you think they are in any way equivalent.
Strat
Yup, bullshit.
Thanks for playing.
Strat
I suppose in your non-nanny non-fascist non-shithole hypothetical state, driver licenses are not required? Let's just let a 10 year old, or a blind person, or a person with dementia (etc...) drive, because if we don't, that would be fascism.
At this point, allowing Uber's autonomous cars to drive around is something akin to that.
Such a marvelous strawman you've erected, and you take it down so well!
Where in my post did I even mention anything about Uber or their SDV?
Slashdot's MOTD is so apropos here:
"Tell the truth and run." -- Yugoslav proverb
Strat
'Kalifornia' has become a fascist nanny-state.
Any business or individual who can should flee that fascist shithole ASAP and take their money and jobs elsewhere.
Strat
It's the one right next to the amendment allowing the government to strong-arm and blackmail financial institutions with threats of endless investigations by government regulators into refusing to allow legal businesses to perform legal commercial transactions with law-abiding citizens for purely political reasons.
Strat
With FOSTA passing they don't have much of a choice-- they're potentially liable anyway. I understand why the're hedging bets on their services.
I'm curious to see if Slashdot has to start censoring posts to avoid prosecution under FOSTA. With all the GNAA and other troll/shit-posting occurring here, it could come to where posts are delayed while they are examined for possibly-"offensive" content like libertarian/conservative views. (as if most aren't already down-modded by the 50-cent armies employed by the Left)
Strat
Puritan mindset alive - God is watching (over) you, and from there an upbringing "don`t put foul words in your mouth", and on it goes, just always doing the "right" thing, in case of doubt, even more right, to be on the save side. Corporate culture, fitting in automagically....
This is not about "Puritanism" or any particular moral standards.
This is primarily/initially a CYA to protect themselves from the recently-passed FOSTA stupidity, which itself is not about sex trafficking, but getting the censor-camel's nose and his ass both into your pants and your thoughtcrimes.
With things like Citibank barring the use of any of their services by either individuals or businesses for the legal purchase or sale of firearms, how long do you think it will be before the list of "offensive content" includes political/ideological speech TPTB dislike?
Strat
No more school shootings, mall shootings, synagogue shootings, church shootings, or shootings in general is a good thing.
So you think criminals will comply? HA!
A gun ban or heavy restriction will simply add another item to drug cartel's and street gang's menu of available illegal goods for sale for them to profit hugely from. No background checks or age limits, nor any restrictions on fully-automatic firearms, RPGs, grenades, landmines, etc etc etc.
But hey, prohibitions & criminalization have worked so well vs alcohol and drugs, right?
Maybe you should look up the definition of insanity.
Then have yourself committed to an institution.
Strat
That would be awesome but good luck getting Google on board with that. They're just as bad as Facebook when it comes to tracking and Chrome is the most used browser.
Not only that, but there would also be pressure...either overt, covert, or a combination...by the US government and it's TLAs to not damage a significant part of their domestic and foreign surveillance programs.
Strat