These are military bots armed with machineguns, they aren't supposed to turn on their owners if the owners start shooting people. They'd probably get something akin to the rule of marksmanship: Don't shoot people or useful animals unless the mission requires it.
You cannot increase the distance between you and the following car and slowing down enough to make the distance safe would just result in driving at maybe a third of the speed limit which is also dangerous driving. Some situations just require braking (large object or person suddently moving on the road) and not hitting the brakes because you're worried about the car behind you will probably kill other people. If someone rear-ends you and pushes you into a pedestrian that's their fault, not yours and they get the charge (forensics can verify if that happened).
There's a lot of complaining about lack of all-red phases but the traffic lights I see usually have ridiculously long all-red phases (several seconds longer than it usually takes to clear the intersection even in heavy traffic). Well, this is in another country (Germany) but is that just a perception difference or are US traffic lights set up differently?
Not by default but this would be after evidence against the defendant was presented, it's the job of the defender to counter that evidence to prevent it from proving guilt. If party A presents a document saying someone with a MediaSentry IP was active in the state and MS didn't refute that evidence or at least provide reasons why it's insufficient to establish guilt (and I don't think just saying MAYBE they rented out a VPN connection would be enough, they'd have to show they actually did) then the judge should rule MS guilty.
You may be innocent until proven guilty but once you've got evidence pointing at you that's going to turn into proof if you just sit there and take it.
Even if we all decide today that we're going to swear off fossil fuels, the process of converting our society to the alternatives will take decades, decades in which we will still rely on millions of barrels of oil every day.
Which is why that decision should've been made decades ago. The switch will never be painless, just like switching from MS Office or Windows to the competition will never be painless.
Erm, no. You just don't hear about EU-internal actions because those aren't interesting to Slashdot.
The US decided to prevent its citizens from using online gambling sites situated outside the US. Obviously noone else is going to like that, especially when the US has treaties saying they won't do that.
I think that's the sad part, there SHOULDN'T be a need for someone high-profile to advocate it. It's so well researched that there really doesn't need to be much discussion, especially among laymen that aren't going to find anything new anyway (though they'll find plenty of old that anyone with more understanding would laugh off).
No, the greatest cunning of the devil was to destroy the word of God by forming a church around it that would "interpret" it for the people, just as some formed a supreme court around the constitution to "interpret" it.
A good first idea is whenever you gather information and make it public in any form that might point towards individuals. E.g. collecting email addresses and posting them publicly with an "opt out" link would probably piss most people on the list off even if they can opt out.
Opt out requires that you know of the service, that you know it's holding your data and that you know how to actually opt out.
Now imagine having 15 different companies offer such services, some of which you've never even heard of. How can you be expected to track these services down, verify that they have images of your stuff and tell them to remove it when the pictures shouldn't have been taken in first place?
Oh it's like that in many countries but most banks charge less, I think it's about 20 cents for a transaction if you use one of those transaction computers in the bank (it goes to nearly 3 Euros if you signed up for an account that's explicitely meant for onlibne banking but if you get a regular offline acocunt it's dirt cheap). Depositing money into your account is free AFAIK so if I want to transfer the 50 Euros I have in my pocket to another person I'd deposit it with the deposit machine, then go to the terminal and punch the data in so the money gets sent.
Why don't you sign those into the device at all times? For point-of-sale transactions it won't be an issue since the terminal already displays the amount you authorize.
I think you would be surprised how well the PAC-3 patriot missile operates. It's virtually one kill per launch.
The supposed issue is that that's against single targets, when you've got a whole bunch of debries, warheads and decoys coming down on you the system won't be able to stop more than one or two before it can no longer tell what to shoot. Mistake one warhead for a debry and you die.
The problem with "antinukes" is that it basically tells the rest of the nuclear powers that soon enough their nuclear weapons won't be a deterrent while you'll still be able to nuke them. A nuclear first strike on the country trying to develop these weapons is probably the safest action.
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These are military bots armed with machineguns, they aren't supposed to turn on their owners if the owners start shooting people. They'd probably get something akin to the rule of marksmanship: Don't shoot people or useful animals unless the mission requires it.
I sure hope you don't have managers forcing a release when the programmers say it's not done, that would be awfully unfair.
So why not let free, resonable people do reasonable things?
Because free, reasonable people are scarce.
You cannot increase the distance between you and the following car and slowing down enough to make the distance safe would just result in driving at maybe a third of the speed limit which is also dangerous driving. Some situations just require braking (large object or person suddently moving on the road) and not hitting the brakes because you're worried about the car behind you will probably kill other people. If someone rear-ends you and pushes you into a pedestrian that's their fault, not yours and they get the charge (forensics can verify if that happened).
Yes but "it's not my fault" doesn't repair the damage. It's better to avoid accidents than to get compensation.
There's a lot of complaining about lack of all-red phases but the traffic lights I see usually have ridiculously long all-red phases (several seconds longer than it usually takes to clear the intersection even in heavy traffic). Well, this is in another country (Germany) but is that just a perception difference or are US traffic lights set up differently?
Not by default but this would be after evidence against the defendant was presented, it's the job of the defender to counter that evidence to prevent it from proving guilt. If party A presents a document saying someone with a MediaSentry IP was active in the state and MS didn't refute that evidence or at least provide reasons why it's insufficient to establish guilt (and I don't think just saying MAYBE they rented out a VPN connection would be enough, they'd have to show they actually did) then the judge should rule MS guilty.
You may be innocent until proven guilty but once you've got evidence pointing at you that's going to turn into proof if you just sit there and take it.
Even if they just check if your password is the same that's still computer trespassing.
Aren't the oil fields national property by default?
Even if we all decide today that we're going to swear off fossil fuels, the process of converting our society to the alternatives will take decades, decades in which we will still rely on millions of barrels of oil every day.
Which is why that decision should've been made decades ago. The switch will never be painless, just like switching from MS Office or Windows to the competition will never be painless.
Erm, no. You just don't hear about EU-internal actions because those aren't interesting to Slashdot.
The US decided to prevent its citizens from using online gambling sites situated outside the US. Obviously noone else is going to like that, especially when the US has treaties saying they won't do that.
That's not Europe in general though. I think some member states have (short) mandatory return periods.
I think that's the sad part, there SHOULDN'T be a need for someone high-profile to advocate it. It's so well researched that there really doesn't need to be much discussion, especially among laymen that aren't going to find anything new anyway (though they'll find plenty of old that anyone with more understanding would laugh off).
No, the greatest cunning of the devil was to destroy the word of God by forming a church around it that would "interpret" it for the people, just as some formed a supreme court around the constitution to "interpret" it.
Now all we need is the RIAA to put their automatic pop singer software on the shelves and we can have our own band!
A good first idea is whenever you gather information and make it public in any form that might point towards individuals. E.g. collecting email addresses and posting them publicly with an "opt out" link would probably piss most people on the list off even if they can opt out.
Opt out requires that you know of the service, that you know it's holding your data and that you know how to actually opt out.
Now imagine having 15 different companies offer such services, some of which you've never even heard of. How can you be expected to track these services down, verify that they have images of your stuff and tell them to remove it when the pictures shouldn't have been taken in first place?
Oh it's like that in many countries but most banks charge less, I think it's about 20 cents for a transaction if you use one of those transaction computers in the bank (it goes to nearly 3 Euros if you signed up for an account that's explicitely meant for onlibne banking but if you get a regular offline acocunt it's dirt cheap). Depositing money into your account is free AFAIK so if I want to transfer the 50 Euros I have in my pocket to another person I'd deposit it with the deposit machine, then go to the terminal and punch the data in so the money gets sent.
Why don't you sign those into the device at all times? For point-of-sale transactions it won't be an issue since the terminal already displays the amount you authorize.
I was thinking of the other way around, people replacing random pages with information about Tibet or Tiananmen.
Oh they look pretty capitalistic to me, that doesn't contradict the totalitarianism.
I think you would be surprised how well the PAC-3 patriot missile operates. It's virtually one kill per launch.
The supposed issue is that that's against single targets, when you've got a whole bunch of debries, warheads and decoys coming down on you the system won't be able to stop more than one or two before it can no longer tell what to shoot. Mistake one warhead for a debry and you die.
The problem with "antinukes" is that it basically tells the rest of the nuclear powers that soon enough their nuclear weapons won't be a deterrent while you'll still be able to nuke them. A nuclear first strike on the country trying to develop these weapons is probably the safest action.
Er, WTF? How did I read Battlefield into this? Gah, sorry.
Battlefield Heroes is completely free AFAIK.