Yet again another believer in something that does not exist.
SDCs have already been driven millions of miles on public roads. Their safety record is better than humans. They may not handle all unknown situations, but that is more than compensated by not driving drunk, falling asleep, or texting on a cellphone.
...what Google is working on may instead result in the automotive equivalent of the Apple Newton, what one Web commenter called a “timid, skittish robot car whose inferior level of intelligence becomes a daily annoyance.” To be able to handle the everyday stresses and strains of the real driving world, the Google car will require a computer with a level of intelligence that machines won’t have for many years, if ever.
3. Many people, due to age or disability, can't drive.
This is the one I like. My wife has a medical condition that keeps her from driving. Man would she love to just jump in the car and go somewhere when she wants to.
Of course, but remember at the bottom of Slashdot is a bunch of whiney parasites who think they are entitled other people's property without paying for it.
I think the copyright laws in the US need reform, but frankly if I were to write a book, I'd like my descendants to benefit for some while.
Does it sound fair to someone who has never created a single patentable invention in his life? Or written a best-selling novel? Or composed a symphony? Or written a screenplay?
I'm sure it does sound fair to parasites who think they are entitled to other people's work without compensation.
...and is an atheist of long standing, what Pope Francis has tried to do has only revealed how morally bankrupt the RC church really is that it spends time and effort trying to embrace science, even when that science is disputed by scientists, because its a "moral imperative". We've already heard from some preposterous stuff from deep-green environmentalists (aka back to the wonderful Stone Age world of peace with Mother Earth) that AGW is a moral imperative, and sure enough, religious people are trying to join as well.
I am old enough to mistrust any politician or religionist who talks about anything as a "moral imperative" because it usually implies mob justice and the crushing of civil liberties. Look at the history of the World. Look at ISIS right now whose highest priority is the moral imperative of submission to Islam. Tell me I'm wrong.
Personally I think that the Pope should spend his time cleaning out the stables before inviting people to see his horses. He could start by rescinding the preposterous policies on contraception created by Pope Paul VI in the 1960s, toning down the opposition to abortion to a rational policy, and letting priests marry and letting divorced people remarry. Because the stench of hypocricy and unjust policies is much stronger than the Vatican's entire supply of incense to conceal.
But what do I know? I'm just a poster on Slashdot.
Bullshit. Yet again we have the bullshit reasoning of people who feel entitled to other people's stuff without paying for it.
Slashdot isn't passing off other people's stuff as its own, nor encouraging people to rip off other people's work because some bottom feeders feel entitled because they can and do rip off other people's stuff.
Slashdot is a news site which links to original articles and give them credit.
1.) It's not theft.... more like counterfeiting but even that doesn't quite fit.
Call it theft. Call it counterfeiting. But please just call it what it is. Crime.
2.) Digital piracy has been with us as long as digital electronics. And distribution systems as long as the Hayes SmartModem. PirateBay isn't unique. There's plenty of other alternatives out there. The PirateBay raid also had no serious measurable impact on worldwide piracy. And most likely, they'll be back. Probably with something more distributed.
Call it theft. Call it counterfeiting. But please just call it what it is. Crime.
3.) Are you seriously arguing the folks who wrote the initial FTP client and server "enabled thieves" by not building in rigorous rights-violating DRM from the onset? DRM and BS like it violate the rights of many to preserve the rights of a handful of people. Most of them already pretty well off. It also makes preservation of creative works much harder later on down the road. And in the end, every scheme is broken if there's enough interest in breaking it so it's all wasted effort and money anyway.
No I'm not. I'm also not claiming that Norton Commander enabled theft either.
DRM wouldn't need to exist if there weren't freetards who think that they are entitled to other people's stuff without paying for it.
Oh and nobody makes a claim that it amounts to "the preservation of digital works" unless they are deluded enough feel entitled to rip it off for the sake of future generations.
Call it what it is. Theft. Counterfeiting. But lets call it crime.
And let's not pretend there are innocent motives for replicating TPB because they're aren't any. The desperate reasoning of basement dwellers to get other people's stuff without paying for it looks and smells like the bullshit it is.
Programmers have enabled thieves to multiply their digital thefts across the Internet. Because some idiots feel entitled to other people's creative works without payment.
The Pirate Bay should stay down. And good riddance.
Please post any links that show that Zoe Quinn did NOT have sexual relationships with gaming journalists whose employers were publishing articles about her game or any of her other activities.
I dare you. I double and triple dare you. With bells on.
You must be tone-deaf. Any criticism of a liberal must be "extreme right-wing" just as even criticism of a conservative must be "extreme left, socialist or Marxist"
In other words, ignore all the evidence as biased or misguided and feel the victimhood.
The charges against Zoe Quinn were not lies (that she slept with journalists who then miraculously wrote positive reviews about her tedious text-based "adventure" Depression Quest). They were 100% true. Her ex-boyfriend wasn't lying.
The charges against the gaming sites were not lies either. A significant number have changed their rules on conflict of interest and changed their ethical guidelines.
The charges against the journalism group were not lies. There was a clearly coordinated plan by multiple "independent" journalists to piss off gamers in order to get enormous reaction and then claim that they were being "harrassed by online misogynists". There must have been a reason why this mailing list suddenly shut down. Because its clearly unethical.
The attacks by SJWs and white knights on gamers include ringing up the employers of gamers and sending pornographic emails to employers in order to get them fired. And in some cases, that worked.
The #notyourshield project is real. With real people in it. Who just want to play games and don't want anyone else to tell them what their societal values are based on whether they're an "oppressor" or a "victim of oppression" based on the color of their skin and their gender.
And now on Twitter, a massive blocking list is reporting people who support Gaming to a small cabal (WAM) who miraculously have administrative rights on Twitter. Lots of people have had their accounts suspended for no good reason and then restored by Twitter Support without explanation. Sometimes this happens several times. All that is needed to be on this blocking list is to follow about 3 or 4 accounts and then you get blocked or have your account suspended without warning. All of this is against Twitter's ToS and yet, miraculously it continues. The code openly says that people on the list are "harrassers".
What is happening with Gamergate is a battle for liberty and freedom of speech by people who don't remember what Soviet-style Communism was like and think its all cool to espouse Marxist beliefs. And no, I am not a conservative. This has lead to liberals and conservatives being smeared as harrassers and misogynists for keeping an open mind and asking questions of people who clearly don't want to answer them.
But let me guess: "my badly written screed is typical of the online misogynists"
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Yet again another believer in something that does not exist.
And the reality could hardly be different
She already has this option, It's called a taxi.
Oh, look an AC calls me a troll!
Why does anyone need a self-driving car? What is the obvious technical or economic advantage of not having a human driver?
This is all about rich people creating playthings because that's the only reason this is even being discussed.
This has happened so often its not even funny.
I suppose refusing to capitalize the beginnings of sentences saves time and money as well.
What are you supposed to do with a book to keep it "alive"? Let me guess, you don't pay for other people's stuff because...entitled.
Of course, but remember at the bottom of Slashdot is a bunch of whiney parasites who think they are entitled other people's property without paying for it.
I think the copyright laws in the US need reform, but frankly if I were to write a book, I'd like my descendants to benefit for some while.
As opposed to not being entitled to anything ever because the copyright has run out? Is this your argument?
Does it sound fair to someone who has never created a single patentable invention in his life? Or written a best-selling novel? Or composed a symphony? Or written a screenplay?
I'm sure it does sound fair to parasites who think they are entitled to other people's work without compensation.
Ooh look! An AC!
...and is an atheist of long standing, what Pope Francis has tried to do has only revealed how morally bankrupt the RC church really is that it spends time and effort trying to embrace science, even when that science is disputed by scientists, because its a "moral imperative". We've already heard from some preposterous stuff from deep-green environmentalists (aka back to the wonderful Stone Age world of peace with Mother Earth) that AGW is a moral imperative, and sure enough, religious people are trying to join as well.
I am old enough to mistrust any politician or religionist who talks about anything as a "moral imperative" because it usually implies mob justice and the crushing of civil liberties. Look at the history of the World. Look at ISIS right now whose highest priority is the moral imperative of submission to Islam. Tell me I'm wrong.
Personally I think that the Pope should spend his time cleaning out the stables before inviting people to see his horses. He could start by rescinding the preposterous policies on contraception created by Pope Paul VI in the 1960s, toning down the opposition to abortion to a rational policy, and letting priests marry and letting divorced people remarry. Because the stench of hypocricy and unjust policies is much stronger than the Vatican's entire supply of incense to conceal.
But what do I know? I'm just a poster on Slashdot.
Yes but has she suffered a thousand deadly tweets from online misogynists every day like Anita Sarkeesian? NO
...then its definitely because the Patriarchy are still working to suppress women's voices.
And if you're not part of the Patriarchy then you should be contributing to Anita's Kickstarter.
A: Slashdot is dying. These articles are the cause of the funny smell coming from the bandages.
And where would we be without ACs making shit up?
"the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is already high enough that it is likely to result in long-term catastrophic effects"
Like the shrinking of deserts and increased biodiversity? A true disaster.
We all know that glaciers are biological hotspots which is why every one that calves into the ocean is another death-knell for life on Earth.
Bullshit. Yet again we have the bullshit reasoning of people who feel entitled to other people's stuff without paying for it.
Slashdot isn't passing off other people's stuff as its own, nor encouraging people to rip off other people's work because some bottom feeders feel entitled because they can and do rip off other people's stuff.
Slashdot is a news site which links to original articles and give them credit.
Call it theft. Call it counterfeiting. But please just call it what it is. Crime.
Call it theft. Call it counterfeiting. But please just call it what it is. Crime.
No I'm not. I'm also not claiming that Norton Commander enabled theft either.
DRM wouldn't need to exist if there weren't freetards who think that they are entitled to other people's stuff without paying for it.
Oh and nobody makes a claim that it amounts to "the preservation of digital works" unless they are deluded enough feel entitled to rip it off for the sake of future generations.
Call it what it is. Theft. Counterfeiting. But lets call it crime.
And let's not pretend there are innocent motives for replicating TPB because they're aren't any. The desperate reasoning of basement dwellers to get other people's stuff without paying for it looks and smells like the bullshit it is.
Programmers have enabled thieves to multiply their digital thefts across the Internet. Because some idiots feel entitled to other people's creative works without payment.
The Pirate Bay should stay down. And good riddance.
...the problem is they can't act! They make Shatner look like Brando by comparison.
It's a terrible shame, but bad acting is bad acting.
...what ruffled THEIR feathers?
Please post any links that show that Zoe Quinn did NOT have sexual relationships with gaming journalists whose employers were publishing articles about her game or any of her other activities.
I dare you. I double and triple dare you. With bells on.
You must be tone-deaf. Any criticism of a liberal must be "extreme right-wing" just as even criticism of a conservative must be "extreme left, socialist or Marxist"
In other words, ignore all the evidence as biased or misguided and feel the victimhood.
The charges against Zoe Quinn were not lies (that she slept with journalists who then miraculously wrote positive reviews about her tedious text-based "adventure" Depression Quest). They were 100% true. Her ex-boyfriend wasn't lying.
The charges against the gaming sites were not lies either. A significant number have changed their rules on conflict of interest and changed their ethical guidelines.
The charges against the journalism group were not lies. There was a clearly coordinated plan by multiple "independent" journalists to piss off gamers in order to get enormous reaction and then claim that they were being "harrassed by online misogynists". There must have been a reason why this mailing list suddenly shut down. Because its clearly unethical.
The attacks by SJWs and white knights on gamers include ringing up the employers of gamers and sending pornographic emails to employers in order to get them fired. And in some cases, that worked.
The #notyourshield project is real. With real people in it. Who just want to play games and don't want anyone else to tell them what their societal values are based on whether they're an "oppressor" or a "victim of oppression" based on the color of their skin and their gender.
And now on Twitter, a massive blocking list is reporting people who support Gaming to a small cabal (WAM) who miraculously have administrative rights on Twitter. Lots of people have had their accounts suspended for no good reason and then restored by Twitter Support without explanation. Sometimes this happens several times. All that is needed to be on this blocking list is to follow about 3 or 4 accounts and then you get blocked or have your account suspended without warning. All of this is against Twitter's ToS and yet, miraculously it continues. The code openly says that people on the list are "harrassers".
What is happening with Gamergate is a battle for liberty and freedom of speech by people who don't remember what Soviet-style Communism was like and think its all cool to espouse Marxist beliefs. And no, I am not a conservative. This has lead to liberals and conservatives being smeared as harrassers and misogynists for keeping an open mind and asking questions of people who clearly don't want to answer them.
But let me guess: "my badly written screed is typical of the online misogynists"
Go on. You can do it.