The point between when you leave one country and enter another is a very scary legal limbo. The issue is not what you are mandated to provide, the issue is that there is no recourse to reasonable justice should you disagree with border officials.
Whether humans or machines drive cars is irrelevant. What DOES matter is HOW they drive.
Humans are required to pass a standards test. Machines (so far) are not.
Why is there not a standard being established by the self-driving industry with stakeholders from government and the public?
The standard needs to be there to set minimum guidelines for:
- Software vulnerability
- Computer redundancy (three computers checking each other - like the airplane industry)
- Obstacle detection
- Rule downloads/updates by government district
- Manual override/safe stop capability
- User interface (voice, smartphone etc.)
- Weather calibration/detection: ice, snow, rain, high winds/tornadoes etc.
- National Emergency/Evacuation capability
- Idling/Circling (the block) rules - (in a busy downtown, users could clog streets with cars endlessly circling the block)
- Human needs consideration: Pee breaks, Senior/Child safety etc.
and so forth
Point being that there are no standards for any of this. Unless an autonomous vehicle is able to pass tests, then it should NOT be on the road with those who have.
Regardless of which O/S and what features prevail in the autonomous driving world, I have one very grave concern. Thousands of man-years of research have gone into aircraft safety. One of the major components of that safety is a triply redundant computer system. If one machine does not agree with the other two, the pilot is warned.
Right now, we don't have standards for self-driving cars. This should be the baseline for any new standard.
"Michigan's Lake Superior" ?? !! The lake is shared by the Canadian province of Ontario to the north, the US state of Minnesota to the west, and Wisconsin and Michigan to the south. Michigan's portion of it is significantly less that the entire lake's volume.
Many of today's internet innovations are as a result of porn which has led development of online transactions and streaming (for example). Be careful what you wish for!
On the flip side, if Americans had better sex, they wouldn't be on the internet watching porn. Catch-22!
I am not pro or anti Trump but this story is full of shit. Here's why: Trump is proposing to MOVE climate research etc. to the EPA, NCAR and other agencies, NOT eliminate it. NASA will focus on hard space research. The dollars spent will not change - just the agencies.
Secondly, the goal is to de-politicize the research so that dissenting viewpoints can be presented along with majority viewpoints.
This is the basis of the scientific method, not of trying for outcomes that are political.
Don't ever forget the story of Dr. Barry Warren who discovered the cure for most ulcers. Because Big Pharma stood to lose millions, his research was quashed. It wasn't until he gave himself an ulcer and cured it that the story got out.
Same goes for climate: let's focus on proper, scientific research and NOT on opinion and emotion. This way we can arrive at empirical evidence to support solutions to climate change. Don't ever forget, it was NIXON who created the EPA. Trump may surprise with his pragmatic approach... on the other hand, he may not! LOL
I have a real problem whenever anyone accuses North Korea of hacking something.
This is a country with virtually no internet, comparatively few computers (per capita) and, as such, minimal infrastructure to nurture and support high-level programmers.
How then, would North Korea be responsible for major hacking when other countries with vast numbers of programmers could be responsible? China, India, Pakistan, Russia and any number of underground American anarchistic groups are vastly more equipped to do so.
Let's say, for a moment, that North Korea DID hack DYN. Where would they get the expertise? Well, who's their neighbour? China. Why does their neighbour tolerate North Korea rather that simply rolling over it? So they can use North Korea as a pawn/puppet to launch clandestine attacks.
I'm not suggesting China did it, I am just suggesting that it is highly unlikely that North Korea did it.
They are passing up an amazing opportunity. They will never have this much publicity about a product again.
Here is what they should do:
Put ads everywhere offering a full and formal apology. And, in the same ad, stating that they are going to focus entirely on battery development to produce the safest, cleanest, longest-lasting and most quickly rechargeable batteries ever made. To do so, they will include links like Google did asking for the world's smartest and brightest engineers to join their quest and share their progress with the world.
Imagine a world where Microsoft was held to the same standard as an automobile manufacturer.
A world where a crash could end a life. Well, for decades, Windows has been crashing. Apart from a few exceptional cases, it hasn't taken a life directly but, it has taken PARTS of lives: Minutes and hours.
Add all the reboots you have ever done in your lifetime and I'll bet a week of your life has been stolen. STOLEN
While it's crucial to be able to ensure that travelers are not terrorists, felons, illegal aliens or drug smugglers, it's also crucial to have a right to a fair hearing.
In the last two decades, real freedoms have evaporated and no one is doing anything about it.
Why is no one fighting for this egregious breach of personal freedoms?
Why is this not on the political agenda?
Message your elected representative and tell them to restore the freedoms we once had.
iTunes... DRM... Kobo... ebooks... music on phones - lost, wiped out, erased, "called back" etc. etc.
At what point will legislators protect their constituents? We are long past the time when we consumers need to fight back with class-action law suits. Enough is enough.
Quoting from the article: "...Yet for dynamic systems, studies show narrow operating regimes which exhibit internal resonance-based behaviors; this additionally suggests that the energetic dynamics may be susceptible to deactivation if stochastic inputs corrupt ideal excitation properties..."
If you can read that techno-babble, you either wrote for The Big Bang Theory or you were a technical advisor.
Nuclear power is NOT the be-all and end-all. That being said, Beijing is so polluted that it's sickening the country's LEADERS! As such, they have built some 25 Nuclear plants with another 26 or so coming on-stream. The French have an excellent nuclear program. Ontario does too (except for ridiculous cost overruns).
Sloth: Sticking our heads in the sand rather than making the science better solves nothing.
Thorium: Pretty much not able to go critical. The flaws are very high corrosion of the system but thorium is plentiful planet-wide.
Solar: In the end, it's the way to go - but it will take a while before commercial production is at a cost-effective price point.
Wind: Yeah, right. Inconsistent with horrible returns on investment (18 yr payup).
Storage: using lead batteries in cars all over the planet to store energy at night has serious long-term consequences...
Best bet: A combination of solar and hydro: daytime sun pumps water to run turbines at night...
Meantime: We don't have a choice about cutting down on carbon output so let's go nuclear.
Lastly: We are not tackling the issue of methane from animal husbandry. This eclipses all other pollutants and is being ignored as a major contributor.
If I were a manufacturer with a 20% return rate on my products, I'd do the following:
1. Put an immediate message out that "We have our best people working feverishly on the issue."
2. Force my engineering and channel sales experts to conference call each and every customer until they learn enough about the issue to fix the reason the product was returned.
3. Perhaps the products are not defective (such as RAM) but that the purchase process does not identify the correct RAM needed. I'd have my software team write code to detect the correct RAM needed (for example).
4. I'd tie the design team's bonus structure directly to return rates.
5. Lastly, I'd also close the loop with distributors - any product where return rates started to climb would be pulled.
(When you are getting a 20% return rate, you're not making profit anyway.)
As you read the initial comments about this article, a clear pattern emerges: a vast preponderance of comments refer to any lack of formal trail process, gaping cracks in the factoids quoted and major concern that males will be 'tried' and 'convicted' without due process.
Sexual (and physical) assaults are crimes - but they are not crimes limited to one gender nor are limited to one gender upon another. Ideas like this perpetuate stereotypes while significantly reducing real rights and freedoms.
Statistics have shown that lesbian people (as an example) experience domestic violence at a very similar rate to that of heterosexual women (Waldner-Haygrud, 1997; AVP, 1992). It has been estimated that between 17-45% of lesbians have been the victim of at least one act of violence perpetrated by a female partner (Burke et al, 1999; Lie et al, 1991), and that 30% of lesbians have reported sexual assault / rape by another woman (Renzetti, 1992).
In short, if such a system is to be introduced, it needs to be gender neutral, have significant oversight and be tightly tied to the legal system.
A couple of years ago, I bought a Samsung TV. The O/S was so bad that I returned it and wrote the president (getting no response).
The stupid thing would randomly update itself - right in the middle of footballs games or other live events - going offline for15 minutes at a time. Changing channels was also extremely slow: about 2 seconds between stations. TWO WHOLE SECONDS.
There was no way to get rid of crapware on the TV. The main menu was 'polluted' with all sorts of junk trying to push the viewer to Samsung's corporate offerings.
I can't wait for an Android or Linux smart TV that will give the viewer ONE remote with one entirely user-configurable menu.
Wouldn't it be great to never have to switch between HDMI inputs? Just... click on genre or network or streaming service and watch.
Wouldn't it be even better to completely block all those crappy cable advertising channels?
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The point between when you leave one country and enter another is a very scary legal limbo. The issue is not what you are mandated to provide, the issue is that there is no recourse to reasonable justice should you disagree with border officials.
Every Baidu self-driving car comes with a free, hidden, back door!
Read between the lines, folks.
Humans are required to pass a standards test. Machines (so far) are not.
Why is there not a standard being established by the self-driving industry with stakeholders from government and the public?
The standard needs to be there to set minimum guidelines for:
- Software vulnerability
- Computer redundancy (three computers checking each other - like the airplane industry)
- Obstacle detection
- Rule downloads/updates by government district
- Manual override/safe stop capability
- User interface (voice, smartphone etc.)
- Weather calibration/detection: ice, snow, rain, high winds/tornadoes etc.
- National Emergency/Evacuation capability
- Idling/Circling (the block) rules - (in a busy downtown, users could clog streets with cars endlessly circling the block)
- Human needs consideration: Pee breaks, Senior/Child safety etc.
and so forth
Point being that there are no standards for any of this. Unless an autonomous vehicle is able to pass tests, then it should NOT be on the road with those who have.
Even if Windows95 were the O/S, it would be better than the texting assassins at the wheel now.
Right now, we don't have standards for self-driving cars. This should be the baseline for any new standard.
"Michigan's Lake Superior" ?? !! The lake is shared by the Canadian province of Ontario to the north, the US state of Minnesota to the west, and Wisconsin and Michigan to the south. Michigan's portion of it is significantly less that the entire lake's volume.
On the flip side, if Americans had better sex, they wouldn't be on the internet watching porn. Catch-22!
Secondly, the goal is to de-politicize the research so that dissenting viewpoints can be presented along with majority viewpoints.
This is the basis of the scientific method, not of trying for outcomes that are political.
Don't ever forget the story of Dr. Barry Warren who discovered the cure for most ulcers. Because Big Pharma stood to lose millions, his research was quashed. It wasn't until he gave himself an ulcer and cured it that the story got out.
Same goes for climate: let's focus on proper, scientific research and NOT on opinion and emotion. This way we can arrive at empirical evidence to support solutions to climate change. Don't ever forget, it was NIXON who created the EPA. Trump may surprise with his pragmatic approach... on the other hand, he may not! LOL
I've got have a mind to agree.
This is a country with virtually no internet, comparatively few computers (per capita) and, as such, minimal infrastructure to nurture and support high-level programmers.
How then, would North Korea be responsible for major hacking when other countries with vast numbers of programmers could be responsible? China, India, Pakistan, Russia and any number of underground American anarchistic groups are vastly more equipped to do so.
Let's say, for a moment, that North Korea DID hack DYN. Where would they get the expertise? Well, who's their neighbour? China. Why does their neighbour tolerate North Korea rather that simply rolling over it? So they can use North Korea as a pawn/puppet to launch clandestine attacks.
I'm not suggesting China did it, I am just suggesting that it is highly unlikely that North Korea did it.
They are passing up an amazing opportunity. They will never have this much publicity about a product again.
Here is what they should do:
Put ads everywhere offering a full and formal apology. And, in the same ad, stating that they are going to focus entirely on battery development to produce the safest, cleanest, longest-lasting and most quickly rechargeable batteries ever made. To do so, they will include links like Google did asking for the world's smartest and brightest engineers to join their quest and share their progress with the world.
A world where a crash could end a life. Well, for decades, Windows has been crashing. Apart from a few exceptional cases, it hasn't taken a life directly but, it has taken PARTS of lives: Minutes and hours.
Add all the reboots you have ever done in your lifetime and I'll bet a week of your life has been stolen. STOLEN
Yet, it's FORD that ends up in a lawsuit.
Go figure.
In the last two decades, real freedoms have evaporated and no one is doing anything about it.
Why is no one fighting for this egregious breach of personal freedoms?
Why is this not on the political agenda?
Message your elected representative and tell them to restore the freedoms we once had.
At what point will legislators protect their constituents? We are long past the time when we consumers need to fight back with class-action law suits. Enough is enough.
If you can read that techno-babble, you either wrote for The Big Bang Theory or you were a technical advisor.
I clicked on the date on my computer just to check that it was not April 1st. - just to be sure that this story is for real.
There are so many people dealing with mental illness that it's ridiculous not to deal with it.
The worst thing you can do is to NOT get treatment or help.
Sloth: Sticking our heads in the sand rather than making the science better solves nothing.
Thorium: Pretty much not able to go critical. The flaws are very high corrosion of the system but thorium is plentiful planet-wide.
Solar: In the end, it's the way to go - but it will take a while before commercial production is at a cost-effective price point.
Wind: Yeah, right. Inconsistent with horrible returns on investment (18 yr payup).
Storage: using lead batteries in cars all over the planet to store energy at night has serious long-term consequences...
Best bet: A combination of solar and hydro: daytime sun pumps water to run turbines at night...
Meantime: We don't have a choice about cutting down on carbon output so let's go nuclear.
Lastly: We are not tackling the issue of methane from animal husbandry. This eclipses all other pollutants and is being ignored as a major contributor.
I will stop reading Slashdot if they force the beta version on me. nobeta=1 rocks!!
1. Put an immediate message out that "We have our best people working feverishly on the issue."
2. Force my engineering and channel sales experts to conference call each and every customer until they learn enough about the issue to fix the reason the product was returned.
3. Perhaps the products are not defective (such as RAM) but that the purchase process does not identify the correct RAM needed. I'd have my software team write code to detect the correct RAM needed (for example).
4. I'd tie the design team's bonus structure directly to return rates.
5. Lastly, I'd also close the loop with distributors - any product where return rates started to climb would be pulled.
(When you are getting a 20% return rate, you're not making profit anyway.)
Sexual (and physical) assaults are crimes - but they are not crimes limited to one gender nor are limited to one gender upon another. Ideas like this perpetuate stereotypes while significantly reducing real rights and freedoms.
Statistics have shown that lesbian people (as an example) experience domestic violence at a very similar rate to that of heterosexual women (Waldner-Haygrud, 1997; AVP, 1992). It has been estimated that between 17-45% of lesbians have been the victim of at least one act of violence perpetrated by a female partner (Burke et al, 1999; Lie et al, 1991), and that 30% of lesbians have reported sexual assault / rape by another woman (Renzetti, 1992).
In short, if such a system is to be introduced, it needs to be gender neutral, have significant oversight and be tightly tied to the legal system.
The stupid thing would randomly update itself - right in the middle of footballs games or other live events - going offline for15 minutes at a time. Changing channels was also extremely slow: about 2 seconds between stations. TWO WHOLE SECONDS.
There was no way to get rid of crapware on the TV. The main menu was 'polluted' with all sorts of junk trying to push the viewer to Samsung's corporate offerings.
I can't wait for an Android or Linux smart TV that will give the viewer ONE remote with one entirely user-configurable menu.
Wouldn't it be great to never have to switch between HDMI inputs? Just... click on genre or network or streaming service and watch.
Wouldn't it be even better to completely block all those crappy cable advertising channels?
That's.. TRAILER-loads.
What's with the BlackBerry Passport and stock footage of Toronto in the video - from a Chinese company?