I'm a cyclist and not a driver and I don't agree. Too many car drivers don't know how to safely pass a cyclist. Some drivers tailgate and many pass too close. Most don't have a f**king clue about when a cyclist should be cycling in primary position.
Google cars would likely not tailgate and they would pass at a safe distance. Google cars would not be preoccupied with texting, phone calls, facebook and twitter, eating, smoking or insects in the vehicle.
I don't think they're quite ready yet but I would love too see autonomous cars as long as they are safer.
If an autonomous car close-passes me I swear I will hunt it down and smash the fucking shit out of it, that is a promise.
Whilst you may easily recognise a carboard box as being empty because of a quick movement caused by wind, a cars AI system would not understand that it is an empty box.
You wouldn't panic if the cardboard box flew onto the road, an AI driven car might well slam the brakes on. Other drivers might not be ready for that.
In an ideal world, no-one tail-gates, in reality many drivers follow far too closely and 'fender benders' are a common occurance.
With a car 'improvise' is generally stop or swerve or avoid, it's not like these cars have to win at chess.
Google painted an overly rosy picture before, I think the summary has gone the other way.
I hope they do get these cars working to a sale-able level, they could change the face of our cities, driveways could become gardens again, the cars could park themselves in secured parking (underground), act as autonomous taxis etc. residential roads could narrow down to 1 lane + 1 cycle lane.
It's a shame the lack of creativity amongst urban planners and architects... (I live in Britain, this doesn't apply to all countries.)
In the last decade I've ran my PC as Admin, in that time I've had zero viruses because I know what not to do, take a range of security measures and have been lucky... So privilege escalation bugs don't count because I'm already running as admin. And whilst Microsoft has found these privilege escalation bugs, I expect there are many more zero-days out there.
If I don't surf the web with IE then the chances of getting an infection due to a IE bug is extremely low. Even though I don't use it, I set the security levels high anyway.
I also make sure DEP is enabled for all programs, that combined with ASLR makes attacks more difficult.
And I use NoScript - Top-Level domain scripts only. And I use Ghostery which is like bricking up 90% of the houses windows. I don't open fishy email attachments. I check downloads with VirusTotal if I'm in any doubt about their safety. I disabled all plugins other than flash and that only runs when I let it.
It's like health and safety - you don't allow the dangers anywhere near in the first place. AV is the last worst line of defense.
Wikipedia not being Facebook or Farmville with the chats and rewards is not the problem, overbearing moderators is what seems to be the problem and if the people who moderate Wikipedia are anything like a misogynist as those who post at sites like Reddit, Slashdot and Ars then that could be the problem (I'm not saying the majority are bad, but a large minority can ruin things.)
If Wikipedia is altered to have rewards and chat whilst still being run by stubborn egotistical sexist men, nothing will change.
Alter the inputs if you want but it is still very wasteful. If electric cars took off and started using half of the countries electricity, would we really want 10% of all power to be used just to support people who are too lazy to plug their car in?
What pigs me off is that when you use Windows Update and look at a patch it gives you no info, so you click the patch and still no info', you click the link given but that pretty much just says it's a patch and you should install it, finally after following another link, scrolling down and expanding a section of page you get to find out whether or not the patch is actually relevant to your installation and not just a fix for something you will never use.
I don't use and don't need patches for One-Note, IE, Windows Media Centre, SQL Server. Privilege escalation bugs don't bother me, if you've been compromised that far then you're probably f**ked anyway.
The only bugs that look half-dangerous this month are MS14-046 and MS14-047 because they can lead to you being rooted when joined with browser etc bugs
An encyclopedia is obviously not a good place to be looking for meaningful relationships.
An encyclopedia is one thing in life, we should not expect all things to involve meaningful relationships.
When someone goes to Wikipedia to edit the general motivation should be to expand the online knowledge so as to be useful to all. I've made a few edits there, my motivation was to improve the amount or quality of the information.
Do Bejeweled 2 or Sudoku involve meaningful relationships?
I have come a bit too close to breaking a microUSB by plugin a usb cable the wrong way round, but the new USB3 reversible port fixes that problem. To be fair, the gadget I had trouble with had a poor surface mount that made it difficult to see which way round to plug the lead... still a problem for partially sighted regardless though.
Valve had misled consumers by saying it "was not under any obligation to repair, replace or provide a refund for a game where the consumer had not contacted and attempted to resolve the problem with the computer game developer
is bad they should remember that Valve can and does sometimes revoke accounts - that can mean the loss of dozens of games and software in one go.
Steam being hugely convenient to consumers != Valve or DRM are always great.
I suspect that the reason steam don't offer refunds is that some many games can be completed in under 12 hours, sometimes just 4-8 hours.
Since steam is a DRM platform I think it is up to them to use some kind of metric in conjunction with the game creators to decide whether a game has been sufficiently played as to have been 'used'. Not all games have straight forward 'completion' and even if you 'complete' a game you may only have a 50% 'completion stat'
Steam already counts the number of hours a game has been played, I would say that playing a game for 5 hours would be good enough reason to refuse a refund in most cases, but there are always exceptions to the rule.
Does anyone really play Flappy Bird for more than an hour?
I certainly don't agree with a no refunds policy, but the situation clearly isn't cut and dried. With a bag of charcoal or ream of printer paper, you know if it is used, it's not so simple with a downloaded computer game.
The summary states that anonymity is a problem, but surely if sexism is the problem then there should be complete anonymity - difficult to be sexist against someone if you don't know their sex.
You say 'Look to the culture within Wikipedia and you might start to find some answers.' Maybe you should log in and expand on what the problems with the culture are, because the story comments here are mostly stale memes.
For $$$ amount of electricity lost buy using this method of charging a car would pay for a holiday after a decade. (25Kwh * 20%loss * 10c * 365days * 10years = $1825)
Why is plugging in a charger difficult? With my phone I'd say plug-in is more convenient because I don't have to worry about dedicating a flat surface for charging, the phone get plugged in and chucked wherever at whatever angle.
Wikipedia's user interface and its culture of anonymity may be among the factors leading women to spend their online time elsewhere.
What the fuck are you trying to say? It's an encyclopedia not a social gathering. And apart from that, most of the 'talk' on the talk pages has named authors.
Wikipedia may have problems but Wikipedia not being Facebook is not one of them.
Fair enough, except for the situations where the initial bitcoins have been stolen - there are bitcoin services specifically to hide the bitcoin origin.
Considering half of the road deaths are pedestrians and cyclists, and the deaths are caused by drivers playing with their phones etc, I don't think this is the right way forward towards improving safety.
"Pedestrians are 1.5 times more likely than passenger vehicle occupants to be killed in a car crash on each trip"
Making motor-vehicle safer for the driver has not helped pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.
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I'm a cyclist and not a driver and I don't agree. Too many car drivers don't know how to safely pass a cyclist. Some drivers tailgate and many pass too close. Most don't have a f**king clue about when a cyclist should be cycling in primary position.
Google cars would likely not tailgate and they would pass at a safe distance. Google cars would not be preoccupied with texting, phone calls, facebook and twitter, eating, smoking or insects in the vehicle.
I don't think they're quite ready yet but I would love too see autonomous cars as long as they are safer.
If an autonomous car close-passes me I swear I will hunt it down and smash the fucking shit out of it, that is a promise.
Whilst you may easily recognise a carboard box as being empty because of a quick movement caused by wind, a cars AI system would not understand that it is an empty box.
You wouldn't panic if the cardboard box flew onto the road, an AI driven car might well slam the brakes on. Other drivers might not be ready for that.
In an ideal world, no-one tail-gates, in reality many drivers follow far too closely and 'fender benders' are a common occurance.
With a car 'improvise' is generally stop or swerve or avoid, it's not like these cars have to win at chess.
Google painted an overly rosy picture before, I think the summary has gone the other way.
I hope they do get these cars working to a sale-able level, they could change the face of our cities, driveways could become gardens again, the cars could park themselves in secured parking (underground), act as autonomous taxis etc. residential roads could narrow down to 1 lane + 1 cycle lane.
It's a shame the lack of creativity amongst urban planners and architects... (I live in Britain, this doesn't apply to all countries.)
No no no, the US and UK have elections coming up and want to shit on your civil liberties again and look tough whilst doing it.
Security Security Security TERRORISTS
Please be sufficiently terrified and not notice it's a sham caused by western meddling in the 1st place.
In the last decade I've ran my PC as Admin, in that time I've had zero viruses because I know what not to do, take a range of security measures and have been lucky... So privilege escalation bugs don't count because I'm already running as admin. And whilst Microsoft has found these privilege escalation bugs, I expect there are many more zero-days out there.
If I don't surf the web with IE then the chances of getting an infection due to a IE bug is extremely low. Even though I don't use it, I set the security levels high anyway.
I also make sure DEP is enabled for all programs, that combined with ASLR makes attacks more difficult.
And I use NoScript - Top-Level domain scripts only.
And I use Ghostery which is like bricking up 90% of the houses windows.
I don't open fishy email attachments.
I check downloads with VirusTotal if I'm in any doubt about their safety.
I disabled all plugins other than flash and that only runs when I let it.
It's like health and safety - you don't allow the dangers anywhere near in the first place. AV is the last worst line of defense.
A robot to plug the car in would be the better option!
Wikipedia not being Facebook or Farmville with the chats and rewards is not the problem, overbearing moderators is what seems to be the problem and if the people who moderate Wikipedia are anything like a misogynist as those who post at sites like Reddit, Slashdot and Ars then that could be the problem (I'm not saying the majority are bad, but a large minority can ruin things.)
If Wikipedia is altered to have rewards and chat whilst still being run by stubborn egotistical sexist men, nothing will change.
Alter the inputs if you want but it is still very wasteful. If electric cars took off and started using half of the countries electricity, would we really want 10% of all power to be used just to support people who are too lazy to plug their car in?
Option #3 Valve gives refunds, the world doesn't end.
Wikipedia is not a workplace.
You beat me to it, this page is what we need:
https://technet.microsoft.com/...
But of course that info should be right there on the windows update window.
What pigs me off is that when you use Windows Update and look at a patch it gives you no info, so you click the patch and still no info', you click the link given but that pretty much just says it's a patch and you should install it, finally after following another link, scrolling down and expanding a section of page you get to find out whether or not the patch is actually relevant to your installation and not just a fix for something you will never use.
I don't use and don't need patches for One-Note, IE, Windows Media Centre, SQL Server. Privilege escalation bugs don't bother me, if you've been compromised that far then you're probably f**ked anyway.
The only bugs that look half-dangerous this month are MS14-046 and MS14-047 because they can lead to you being rooted when joined with browser etc bugs
For future use: https://technet.microsoft.com/...
An encyclopedia is obviously not a good place to be looking for meaningful relationships.
An encyclopedia is one thing in life, we should not expect all things to involve meaningful relationships.
When someone goes to Wikipedia to edit the general motivation should be to expand the online knowledge so as to be useful to all. I've made a few edits there, my motivation was to improve the amount or quality of the information.
Do Bejeweled 2 or Sudoku involve meaningful relationships?
I have come a bit too close to breaking a microUSB by plugin a usb cable the wrong way round, but the new USB3 reversible port fixes that problem. To be fair, the gadget I had trouble with had a poor surface mount that made it difficult to see which way round to plug the lead... still a problem for partially sighted regardless though.
If anyone thinks
is bad they should remember that Valve can and does sometimes revoke accounts - that can mean the loss of dozens of games and software in one go.
Steam being hugely convenient to consumers != Valve or DRM are always great.
I suspect that the reason steam don't offer refunds is that some many games can be completed in under 12 hours, sometimes just 4-8 hours.
Since steam is a DRM platform I think it is up to them to use some kind of metric in conjunction with the game creators to decide whether a game has been sufficiently played as to have been 'used'. Not all games have straight forward 'completion' and even if you 'complete' a game you may only have a 50% 'completion stat'
Steam already counts the number of hours a game has been played, I would say that playing a game for 5 hours would be good enough reason to refuse a refund in most cases, but there are always exceptions to the rule.
Does anyone really play Flappy Bird for more than an hour?
I certainly don't agree with a no refunds policy, but the situation clearly isn't cut and dried. With a bag of charcoal or ream of printer paper, you know if it is used, it's not so simple with a downloaded computer game.
I would mod you up if I had points.
The summary states that anonymity is a problem, but surely if sexism is the problem then there should be complete anonymity - difficult to be sexist against someone if you don't know their sex.
You say 'Look to the culture within Wikipedia and you might start to find some answers.' Maybe you should log in and expand on what the problems with the culture are, because the story comments here are mostly stale memes.
Men in general seem to have less tolerance for what they perceive as error and a greater willingness to fight to correct error.
[citation needed]
For $$$ amount of electricity lost buy using this method of charging a car would pay for a holiday after a decade. (25Kwh * 20%loss * 10c * 365days * 10years = $1825)
Why is plugging in a charger difficult? With my phone I'd say plug-in is more convenient because I don't have to worry about dedicating a flat surface for charging, the phone get plugged in and chucked wherever at whatever angle.
What the fuck are you trying to say? It's an encyclopedia not a social gathering. And apart from that, most of the 'talk' on the talk pages has named authors.
Wikipedia may have problems but Wikipedia not being Facebook is not one of them.
They really need to ditch those seriously fugly grippy things at the left of each toolbar, who wants a browser that looks like Netscape 4.7
http://www.seamonkey-project.o...
Fair enough, except for the situations where the initial bitcoins have been stolen - there are bitcoin services specifically to hide the bitcoin origin.
With bitcoin being good for money laundering, the big banks will lose that source of revenue.
Considering half of the road deaths are pedestrians and cyclists, and the deaths are caused by drivers playing with their phones etc, I don't think this is the right way forward towards improving safety.
"Pedestrians are 1.5 times more likely than passenger vehicle occupants to be killed in a car crash on each trip"
Making motor-vehicle safer for the driver has not helped pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.
They're allowed to throttle customers!!! US is getting really bad
throttling