"I, for one, am very interested to see what happens next."
Nothing happens next, none of those cases that were up for decision including: deporting 5 million illegals, abortions, etc will be decided this year, and there's a good chance that 2 more may die soon (consider Ruth's age and frailty). The Republicans will not allow Obama to appoint one in his term, they will block it until the next president.
And who ever is the next POTUS may get to decide up to 3 replacements. So now is the time to really, really study who you want to vote for... or if you don't do that then please don't vote.
So vote for Bernie, because we know what Clinton is, and we know what the other candidates are. More of the same sewage, so lets make it interesting (not in the Chinese curse sense) and put someone odd in there.
It would be cool if people annoyed by this behavior had a central web site to get together. Then maybe we could dictate to corporations how they should behave, under the threat of consumers no longer using their products.
So if this web site did exist, and enough people joined it, then perhaps email campaigns refusing to use hertz rentals until they reverse this decision might have an impact.
If enough indicate they will refuse to use hertz, then hertz would comply with the demands or go out of business.
IMO this is exactly how corporations should be treated, the very second they cross the line stop using their products (I've been doing this for years). Don't worry about jobs lost, because someone else will fill the spot and comply.
You're horribly naive, the first thing you should consider is who actually controls these things. A very small group of people that have proven themselves to psychopaths/sociopaths.
So what "you're OK with" is the idea that a small group of people can control and deploy autonomous weapons against anyone, including their own people.
Does anyone consider the fact these sites have been taken down (in some cases more than once) and does anyone consider who may be actually running these sites?
So robot killers is the answer? How about not going to war? Take a look at the US leadership and how it behaves overseas (not to mention locally). If you ask moi the USA is the threat, this country's leadership is a threat to humanity, and giving them control of fully autonomous weapons would be the very last thing you would do.
"Some researchers argue that autonomous weapons would commit fewer battlefield atrocities than human beings—and that their development might even be considered morally imperative."
Fuck your moral imperative, if you're going to remove humans from the chain then remove them entirely, no more human participation in war.
All they are really talking about here is a weapon that will never say no, like humans sometimes do.
You stupid, useless fuck, they aren't "drones", that's a negative connotation and RC modellers have been out flying planes and helis since the 1930's. Long before the real "drones" took to the air to kill children and vaporize wedding parties.
I am so tired of you fucking sheep that believe what you're told, that live in some fucking mirror World that has 0 connection to the real World. People like you swallow hook, line and sinker every turd the gov drops down your throat.
Go fuck yourself, and in the process please sterilize yourself, the World doesn't need yet another millennial waste of space.
"Google (and/or other tech companies trying to get this to happen) must have placed tremendous pressure on them to make this happen."
They absolutely did, in the same way they used lawyers in certain cases to defend Google Glass and driving.
My thoughts on this is that you lose your "independence" to a degree, no more travelling via car without a record of it. No more going where you want, as the car may be GPS fenced and simple refuse to take you.
And what would the roads be like with 50% human drivers and 50% autonomous machine drivers? It's been stated that the accidents occurring are because robot cars drive substantially different from a human, making them difficult to predict (for humans) and drive near.
Essentially a ground based drone, notice there's very little hysteria over automated cars, even though they present a far greater privacy threat than airborne cameras.
I think I may actually be allergic to ads, at least my lawyer thinks so. (cha ching!)
But they hit the nail on the head here: "Our belief is that if someone doesn't like them, and they won't click on them, any impressions served to them will only annoy them-- plus, serving ads to people who won't click on them harms campaign performance.... Publishers can't win by forcing ads — especially low-quality ads — in people's faces. "
That sums me up and the schadenfreude exuding from me over the death of Flash is palpable.
Slashdot Mirror
It's called communism, but aside from ideology, it will just reiterate what we already know about human behavior.
Some will always find a way to be productive, and some are happy to idle away their lives.
"Antique based software company SlySoft"
*Antigua*?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.the-scientist.com/?...
I hear China is gearing up a 200 million man army from the East too.
What you said is true, but you can always grab a burner and pay about $3 a month for text, voice and email.
But then, that depends on who you are, is your entire life wrapped up in your "phone"? (cattle tag).
Or: http://foorious.com/articles/l...
I imagine that terrifies "millennials" =) But that's how I grew up, no one had a phone on them and we did OK.
Is what Zuckerberg is trying to create, an internet that's basically the same as TV, what you get to see is decided by someone else.
Stop using Facebook you're hurting the World.
That will never happen, he will be blocked until the end of his term.
"I, for one, am very interested to see what happens next."
Nothing happens next, none of those cases that were up for decision including: deporting 5 million illegals, abortions, etc will be decided this year, and there's a good chance that 2 more may die soon (consider Ruth's age and frailty).
The Republicans will not allow Obama to appoint one in his term, they will block it until the next president.
And who ever is the next POTUS may get to decide up to 3 replacements.
So now is the time to really, really study who you want to vote for... or if you don't do that then please don't vote.
So vote for Bernie, because we know what Clinton is, and we know what the other candidates are.
More of the same sewage, so lets make it interesting (not in the Chinese curse sense) and put someone odd in there.
It would be cool if people annoyed by this behavior had a central web site to get together.
Then maybe we could dictate to corporations how they should behave, under the threat of consumers no longer using their products.
So if this web site did exist, and enough people joined it, then perhaps email campaigns refusing to use hertz rentals until they reverse this decision might have an impact.
If enough indicate they will refuse to use hertz, then hertz would comply with the demands or go out of business.
IMO this is exactly how corporations should be treated, the very second they cross the line stop using their products (I've been doing this for years).
Don't worry about jobs lost, because someone else will fill the spot and comply.
When there's no electricity.
That is such a loaded, useless question.
You're horribly naive, the first thing you should consider is who actually controls these things.
A very small group of people that have proven themselves to psychopaths/sociopaths.
So what "you're OK with" is the idea that a small group of people can control and deploy autonomous weapons against anyone, including their own people.
Does anyone consider the fact these sites have been taken down (in some cases more than once) and does anyone consider who may be actually running these sites?
So robot killers is the answer?
How about not going to war?
Take a look at the US leadership and how it behaves overseas (not to mention locally).
If you ask moi the USA is the threat, this country's leadership is a threat to humanity, and giving them control of fully autonomous weapons would be the very last thing you would do.
"Some researchers argue that autonomous weapons would commit fewer battlefield atrocities than human beings—and that their development might even be considered morally imperative."
Fuck your moral imperative, if you're going to remove humans from the chain then remove them entirely, no more human participation in war.
All they are really talking about here is a weapon that will never say no, like humans sometimes do.
You stupid, useless fuck, they aren't "drones", that's a negative connotation and RC modellers have been out flying planes and helis since the 1930's.
Long before the real "drones" took to the air to kill children and vaporize wedding parties.
I am so tired of you fucking sheep that believe what you're told, that live in some fucking mirror World that has 0 connection to the real World.
People like you swallow hook, line and sinker every turd the gov drops down your throat.
Go fuck yourself, and in the process please sterilize yourself, the World doesn't need yet another millennial waste of space.
"Google (and/or other tech companies trying to get this to happen) must have placed tremendous pressure on them to make this happen."
They absolutely did, in the same way they used lawyers in certain cases to defend Google Glass and driving.
My thoughts on this is that you lose your "independence" to a degree, no more travelling via car without a record of it.
No more going where you want, as the car may be GPS fenced and simple refuse to take you.
And what would the roads be like with 50% human drivers and 50% autonomous machine drivers?
It's been stated that the accidents occurring are because robot cars drive substantially different from a human, making them difficult to predict (for humans) and drive near.
Essentially a ground based drone, notice there's very little hysteria over automated cars, even though they present a far greater privacy threat than airborne cameras.
I think I may actually be allergic to ads, at least my lawyer thinks so. (cha ching!)
But they hit the nail on the head here: "Our belief is that if someone doesn't like them, and they won't click on them, any impressions served to them will only annoy them-- plus, serving ads to people who won't click on them harms campaign performance. ... Publishers can't win by forcing ads — especially low-quality ads — in people's faces. "
That sums me up and the schadenfreude exuding from me over the death of Flash is palpable.
Goodbye Wired.
Doesn't seem like much of a fine.
Unless you live by a hydroelectric dam and have spare capacity on a super number cruncher it's a waste of time.
I imagine any "crypto" currency that's useful will become difficult to get/use based on my ever escalating Bitcoin experience.
You're hurting the World.
You're hurting the World.
Never fails to amuse when people "lose all their photos".