same problem as with countless other weapons. nuclear. biological. dirty.
i'm not saying it's not possible, but if terorists haven't even been able to build and deploy a dirt nuke, how much of a threat is it that they'll be able to steal a high tech weapon, bypass all of its security measures and re-program it?
Imagine what Hitler would have done with armies of killbots?
murder every jewish person he could find? oh wait...
you know what would have really been bad? if hitler had killbots and every other country in the world took your moral stance against them. there *will* be hitlers.
I would prefer that the human doing the determining be as close to the situation as possible
our history of war really couldn't be any worse. all decisions made by humans. could we really get any worse?
besides, i'd rather have the rules of engagement reviewed by committee, coded by engineers, reviewed and re-reviewed... than a human that just saw his buddy's brains splashed onto the wall, under threat of imminent brutal death and torture. pretty hard for a human to make calm rational decisions in that situation.
So how do you program them without said human's intervention? Humans are fallible so all things produced by them are also fallible.
not what i meant. yes, there will be bugs and innocents will be killed. but humans also fallible. that's something we don't need to speculate on. i'd rather have a software engineer coding the rules of engagement in a quiet, calm environment with their peers reviewing and re-reviewing them, adding multiple levels of failsafes, than a soldier that just saw his buddy's brains splattered on the pavement and gun has jammed and has multiple bad guys bearing down on him.
It is not a matter of if but when will these systems make incorrect/inaccurate choices and kill innocents.
what's worse? bugs in software, or a whacked out platoon of soldiers going nuts raping and murdering civilians? i honestly can't answer that, but i am pretty sure there's not a clear answer (yet).
compare it to driverless cars. what's going to make more mistakes? the software, or the human driven car? we need to get over our irrational fear of machines killing us, and look at the statistics as to which is actually safer en mass.
Don't be a terrible individual; don't make or participate in the making of terrible things.
pfft. how do you know smart weapons won't result in fewer deaths, and fewer non-combatant deaths? i think it's a bit of a leap at this stage to assume the US is developing indiscriminate killing machines.
These are only a problem if they are built and used.
how do you know that smart weapons won't result in fewer deaths, and fewer deaths of non-combatants?
humans have a pretty poor track record and it wouldn't take much to approve upon. if you think the man in the trenches is making good judgments about when and who to kill, you should talk to a vietnam vet.
Normal people don't care about technology. That's why his "gearhead" labels work.
yes they do, you just need to talk to someone besides your mom. seriously, most people are involved w/ tech at some level these days whether it's their home theater, smartphone, home automation, car, job, or computer.
it's a common misconception among nerds that no one understands or cares about tech but them. it probably originates from a time when they were kids, when a large percentage of the population was older than them and hadn't been exposed to tech. well, now you are older, and everyone your age and younger has had that same exposure and in most cases more.
The Verge podcasts is full of never ending negative comments about "Red States" much the same as you hear in the comments on Slashdot
not saying it hasn't happened, but i've listened to around 8 vergecasts, and have never had a sense that politics were being discussed. and any political article here will garner a pretty equal amount of red / blue comments.
You say you aren't a car guy but I bet in a couple sentences that you could pretty well get regenerative braking where their target normal audience is going to need a full article with diagrams and pictures.
that statement indicates you are out of touch with the rest of society. regenerative braking is an extremely simple concept and i'm quite certain that almost anyone would grasp the concept within a few sentences.
Lots of people like the think they are "gearheads"
which is why publicly ridiculing gearhead sights and publicly stating that you are not targeting gearheads is a bad idea.
it's sort of like putting out content and saying "we're targeting the lower-end of the IQ spectrum". even if someone is in that demo, they probably don't think of themselves as such.
google talk (now hangouts) has quietly become google's killer app. it seamlessly integrates phone, voice, video, SMS and IM into a single app, accessible on any browser, iOS, and android platform. supports multi-conferencing. it's pretty sweet to be able to make a phone call from your browser.
on iOS, hangouts actually does IP-based calls. on android it doesn't do that yet. once it does, it's finally time for data-only plans for the masses.
My wife uses Yahoo fanatically, but doesn't know the difference between a monitor and a computer. And trying to explain that CPU doesn't mean that big boxy thing would make her head explode.
True. But it also doesn't mean they have a right to put advertisements on road signs or alert boards.
sure it does, and they sure do put ads on public owned resources. the light rail and buses in my town are plastered with ads inside and out.
and if starbucks wants to pay to put ads on those signs, good. they are sorely underused for the most part. use them for something.
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This is how societies collapse.
yes, and there's not much we're going to do about it. the top 1% that has the power isn't going to yield it without a fight... and by fight, i don't mean a courtroom battle, i mean violence. those people control the police and the military, so your option is civil / guerrilla war.
that, and observe that's there's never been a time in history / a land where this hasn't been how it works. look at any ancient society. there were kings and queens and there cohorts, and you didn't hear about anyone else. the US was founded by wealthy land owners that didn't want to pay taxes to the even more wealthy elite of another country. all of them were rich, powerful men.
O you divided up your 1/4 ounce of cannabis into daily doses, thats intent to distribute, FELONY
if someone told me that they parceled and packaged their stash into 1/4 oz doses just because, i wouldn't believe it either. why would you think johnny law would?
the proverbial book can and will be thrown at you if you let it. be prepared. everyone needs to be aware of the laws they are breaking. good intentions are very hard to prove in a court of law.
in it's level of respect for the user and their computer. i installed the BT client on my mac, and it went into the preferences of firefox, safari, and chrome and changed my default search engine to yahoo, then set it so the yahoo home page loads every time i start the browser.
disgusting. i'll never install another product from these guys.
The tablet OS never, ever crashes, runs any Gingerbread app, and is a far superior experience to Android. Blackberry should give the OS away for free for any tablet that has CPUs under 1ghz (as long as the vendor writes the drivers).
yes, because vendors are going write drivers for their 3+ year old hardware so it can run the (unsupported) OS of a dying company. sounds like a winner.
except there's definitely new, non-trivial engineering required to integrate an existing 360 core system w/ new one storage, display, etc. even giving it that capability via an add-on module would raise the base cost of the system, that is already $100 more than the competitor.
not to mention, these don't really want that. they take a loss on the system. they make money when people buy new games. any actions that allows you to enjoy that hardware doing anything other than buying new expensive games isn't in their best interest.
While some might think it is a grand conspiracy by Sony and MS not to have backwards compatibility, it really is a question of cost.
well... the incentive to re-buy games, or buy a new release of an existing game, is much less if the previous-gen / version of the game you already own runs on your new console. not to mention the temptation to pick up previous gen games from the bargain bin.
maybe it was a issue of cost, but i doubt too much time was spent crying over it.
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Life? Bah, make me dictator for 8 years and I could straighten out the US
the first qualification of such a dictator is that they don't make statements like like, because it proves they are not in touch w/ reality.
Every task, every day, every job is a triumph.
don't worry you'll get over that.
I want those people to experience what I was privileged enough to have gotten in college and beyond
yes, and i want the same opportunities a hot blonde (or her male equivalent) receives in life ... but i won't get it\
If I stared at someone in silence and nodded as they were talking, they would usually assume that I understood
and that's a good thing?
no just a comment: you are are unusual, and therefore, your observations about technology are pretty useless to the rest of us.
Until some psycho gets ahold of a few of them
same problem as with countless other weapons. nuclear. biological. dirty.
i'm not saying it's not possible, but if terorists haven't even been able to build and deploy a dirt nuke, how much of a threat is it that they'll be able to steal a high tech weapon, bypass all of its security measures and re-program it?
Imagine what Hitler would have done with armies of killbots?
murder every jewish person he could find? oh wait ...
you know what would have really been bad? if hitler had killbots and every other country in the world took your moral stance against them. there *will* be hitlers.
I would prefer that the human doing the determining be as close to the situation as possible
our history of war really couldn't be any worse. all decisions made by humans. could we really get any worse?
besides, i'd rather have the rules of engagement reviewed by committee, coded by engineers, reviewed and re-reviewed ... than a human that just saw his buddy's brains splashed onto the wall, under threat of imminent brutal death and torture. pretty hard for a human to make calm rational decisions in that situation.
So how do you program them without said human's intervention? Humans are fallible so all things produced by them are also fallible.
not what i meant. yes, there will be bugs and innocents will be killed. but humans also fallible. that's something we don't need to speculate on. i'd rather have a software engineer coding the rules of engagement in a quiet, calm environment with their peers reviewing and re-reviewing them, adding multiple levels of failsafes, than a soldier that just saw his buddy's brains splattered on the pavement and gun has jammed and has multiple bad guys bearing down on him.
It is not a matter of if but when will these systems make incorrect/inaccurate choices and kill innocents.
what's worse? bugs in software, or a whacked out platoon of soldiers going nuts raping and murdering civilians? i honestly can't answer that, but i am pretty sure there's not a clear answer (yet).
compare it to driverless cars. what's going to make more mistakes? the software, or the human driven car? we need to get over our irrational fear of machines killing us, and look at the statistics as to which is actually safer en mass.
Don't be a terrible individual; don't make or participate in the making of terrible things.
pfft. how do you know smart weapons won't result in fewer deaths, and fewer non-combatant deaths? i think it's a bit of a leap at this stage to assume the US is developing indiscriminate killing machines.
These are only a problem if they are built and used.
how do you know that smart weapons won't result in fewer deaths, and fewer deaths of non-combatants?
humans have a pretty poor track record and it wouldn't take much to approve upon. if you think the man in the trenches is making good judgments about when and who to kill, you should talk to a vietnam vet.
I don't need one-size-fits-all apps, thank you very much. I'd rather not put all eggs in one basket, so-to-speak.
do you also carry around an MP3 player, calculator, watch, and GPS? no use "putting all eggs in one basket" and using your smart phone for that.
Normal people don't care about technology. That's why his "gearhead" labels work.
yes they do, you just need to talk to someone besides your mom. seriously, most people are involved w/ tech at some level these days whether it's their home theater, smartphone, home automation, car, job, or computer.
it's a common misconception among nerds that no one understands or cares about tech but them. it probably originates from a time when they were kids, when a large percentage of the population was older than them and hadn't been exposed to tech. well, now you are older, and everyone your age and younger has had that same exposure and in most cases more.
The Verge podcasts is full of never ending negative comments about "Red States" much the same as you hear in the comments on Slashdot
not saying it hasn't happened, but i've listened to around 8 vergecasts, and have never had a sense that politics were being discussed.
and any political article here will garner a pretty equal amount of red / blue comments.
You say you aren't a car guy but I bet in a couple sentences that you could pretty well get regenerative braking where their target normal audience is going to need a full article with diagrams and pictures.
that statement indicates you are out of touch with the rest of society. regenerative braking is an extremely simple concept and i'm quite certain that almost anyone would grasp the concept within a few sentences.
Lots of people like the think they are "gearheads"
which is why publicly ridiculing gearhead sights and publicly stating that you are not targeting gearheads is a bad idea.
it's sort of like putting out content and saying "we're targeting the lower-end of the IQ spectrum". even if someone is in that demo, they probably don't think of themselves as such.
Google Talk (which I loathe)
google talk (now hangouts) has quietly become google's killer app. it seamlessly integrates phone, voice, video, SMS and IM into a single app, accessible on any browser, iOS, and android platform. supports multi-conferencing. it's pretty sweet to be able to make a phone call from your browser.
on iOS, hangouts actually does IP-based calls. on android it doesn't do that yet. once it does, it's finally time for data-only plans for the masses.
My wife uses Yahoo fanatically, but doesn't know the difference between a monitor and a computer. And trying to explain that CPU doesn't mean that big boxy thing would make her head explode.
i hope she's pretty.
True. But it also doesn't mean they have a right to put advertisements on road signs or alert boards.
sure it does, and they sure do put ads on public owned resources. the light rail and buses in my town are plastered with ads inside and out.
and if starbucks wants to pay to put ads on those signs, good. they are sorely underused for the most part. use them for something.
This is how societies collapse.
yes, and there's not much we're going to do about it. the top 1% that has the power isn't going to yield it without a fight ... and by fight, i don't mean a courtroom battle, i mean violence. those people control the police and the military, so your option is civil / guerrilla war.
that, and observe that's there's never been a time in history / a land where this hasn't been how it works. look at any ancient society. there were kings and queens and there cohorts, and you didn't hear about anyone else. the US was founded by wealthy land owners that didn't want to pay taxes to the even more wealthy elite of another country. all of them were rich, powerful men.
O you divided up your 1/4 ounce of cannabis into daily doses, thats intent to distribute, FELONY
if someone told me that they parceled and packaged their stash into 1/4 oz doses just because, i wouldn't believe it either. why would you think johnny law would?
the proverbial book can and will be thrown at you if you let it. be prepared. everyone needs to be aware of the laws they are breaking. good intentions are very hard to prove in a court of law.
in it's level of respect for the user and their computer. i installed the BT client on my mac, and it went into the preferences of firefox, safari, and chrome and changed my default search engine to yahoo, then set it so the yahoo home page loads every time i start the browser.
disgusting. i'll never install another product from these guys.
The tablet OS never, ever crashes, runs any Gingerbread app, and is a far superior experience to Android. Blackberry should give the OS away for free for any tablet that has CPUs under 1ghz (as long as the vendor writes the drivers).
yes, because vendors are going write drivers for their 3+ year old hardware so it can run the (unsupported) OS of a dying company. sounds like a winner.
if you are adding or modifying data, that's content creation, even it's as boring as updating cells in a spreadsheet.
as long as I'm not subjected to MS monitoring and policing my swearing
you must really like swearing if that is keeping you from enjoying your favorite game.
except there's definitely new, non-trivial engineering required to integrate an existing 360 core system w/ new one storage, display, etc. even giving it that capability via an add-on module would raise the base cost of the system, that is already $100 more than the competitor.
not to mention, these don't really want that. they take a loss on the system. they make money when people buy new games. any actions that allows you to enjoy that hardware doing anything other than buying new expensive games isn't in their best interest.
While some might think it is a grand conspiracy by Sony and MS not to have backwards compatibility, it really is a question of cost.
well ... the incentive to re-buy games, or buy a new release of an existing game, is much less if the previous-gen / version of the game you already own runs on your new console. not to mention the temptation to pick up previous gen games from the bargain bin.
maybe it was a issue of cost, but i doubt too much time was spent crying over it.