Looks like it. Hopper seems to have been a competent engineer, but not a pioneer as far as I can tell. This really comes from a feminist agenda to display women as superior and that fails miserably when looking at actual facts in the computer space. (Fact is that women do pretty much exactly as well there and generally in STEM as men, there are just far fewer active there.)
Now, "feminism" is not a homogeneous movement. It is the "female supremacist" faction (basically gender-based fascism) that comes up with over-hyping some females to show that supremacy they desperately believe women have.
The drug part is a bit outdated currently with Cannabis, possession of which could get you behind bars for decades before, being legalized left and right and that illegality basically being outed as an extreme evil done by the lawmakers. (Why is it that lawmakers never pay for their crimes?) So it is understandable you forgot that one.
Yea, getting rid of these pesky advances in this "Internet" thing is probably next on their agenda. A nice stable stagnant society under their control is what these people crave. Free speech, innovation, etc. all tools of the devil.
They were talking about this on NPR this afternoon - apparently, sex traffickers were posting classified ads on Backpage.com with keywords like "lolita" and "fresh" to indicate underage girls
Which they are not in all these cases. Nobody would advertise something like that openly. It is purely the fantasy of the customer being addressed here. A "lolita" is a sex worker that looks young, but is anywhere from 18-30. There are basically almost no underage sex workers, and where there are, they are 17 or 16. There are, for example, also statements from brothel owners in Switzerland where prostitution used to be legal from 16 years on, that they actually did not want any this young because they cannot do the job well and mainly cause problems. And there were statements from the Swiss police that this was extremely rare and in the small handful of cases they merely informed the parents.
Incidentally, from countries were it is legal, we also know that there are almost no sex workers forced into the trade. For example, the Mafia stopped decades ago, because it does not work economically. A forced sex worker is a bad, non-motivated sex worker that brings in the lowest rates and comes with the problem that typically one of the first customers reports this to the police because men are not total scum. For example a famous case in Germany about 20 years back had 3 actual customers and the first one went to the police. These things are so rare that they make the national news, while there are an estimated 1 million (!) prostitutes in the US.
A lot of those jailed will be "sex trafficking victims". Because that is what the police does: They charge them with prostitution (and sometimes with "trafficking" themselves or each other) and lock them up. Shows nicely that the whole thing is a Big Lie and that this is not about actually helping anybody.
In this specific instance, I also think that the driving forces behind this law actually wanted a censorship law (finally getting that pesky "free speech" problem under control...), but since that would never fly if done openly, they used one of the four horsemen of the infocalypse. Hence they did not consult with the people that actually understand what this law will do, because they are perfectly aware of these consequences and _want_ them.
Same as when the nuclear power station has a bug and blows up: Boom. Then, if the industry is smart, it fixes that bug in future instances. (The nuclear industry is too greedy for that in many instances.) Also, system like these come with a lot of redundancy, so "one bug" will never do anything like that.
Ada Lovelace does not qualify. She is massively over-hyped due to some people desperately needing a shining example. While not a complete air-head, she apparently never did most of the things attributed to her.
Also blame different "carrier hardware", i.e. bodies. Anybody that thinks this is not a massive influence has their heads up their backsides. I am perfectly fine if the women that chose to be engineers get to do so with not more hoops to jump though than the men that chose the same. Equal opportunity is the goal, not "equal statistical outcome". The latter forces people to do things they do not want to and that is not fine at all.
Same here and I have to go way back and go for Scientists if I want some that are not a problem: Meitner, Curie, Noeter. The next one I can think of is a very competent and smart EE I work with who did FPGA design before, who is, of course, not a "leader", just a very good female engineer. The fact of the matter is that there are not many. There are enough to show that women can definitely fill this role competently but that while few do so on the male side, very few do so on the female side of things. And I think we can say that this is basically their choice and should be respected. As far as I can see, equal opportunity exists and if it does not result in equal use of these opportunities, I am completely fine with that.
If they actually were facts. They are not. Africa has severe problems, but this is not one of them. Your closet (or open) racism does not actually change the facts.
Given that there is a lot of distracted driving, unsafe driving, drunk and tired driving in these accidents, at the very least self-driving cars will provide a significant reduction, probably a massive one. Yes, they will still kill people (most technologies do), but far fewer of them than human-controlled vehicles. Control (often craved by humans) does not come with the skills to use that control competently.
It makes for stories that sell well, because they anthropomorphize the car. "See, _cars_ will make _ethical_ decisions!" It does not make for any kind useful description of technology as it is complete horse manure.
Indeed. Good safety engineering practices dictate to always remove system energy as fast as possible when you have no clear strategy. The examples given in the press of these "ethical dilemmas" are bogus. The car in question will not have enough information about the situation and can only a) bake hard without steering (as that could make matter much worse) or only minimal steering and b) tell any following cars what it is about to do. If there is a crash, it can c) directly alert emergency services. This is far, far better than what a human driver could do after his slow brain works out what is happening. Starting to brake that 0.5...1 second earlier an autonomous car will be able to alone will safe countless lives, and that is the comparison with a non-distracted competent driver.
Nonsense. Actually competent measurements show this effect does not exist. Of course, if you have an African person fill out an IQ test in English, targeted at somebody with a western background and average western education, you get such results, but they are bogus.
Indeed. And add to that, that every job has a minimal level of talent it needs directly and indirectly (via the talents needed to benefit from education), and hence the better job quality gets, the fewer can do them. We seem to be now at a point where the part of the population that can newly created jobs is beginning to be a minority. That is a unique point in human history, because before most people could do most jobs and that is one reason why before there always were replacement jobs.
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Looks like it. Hopper seems to have been a competent engineer, but not a pioneer as far as I can tell. This really comes from a feminist agenda to display women as superior and that fails miserably when looking at actual facts in the computer space. (Fact is that women do pretty much exactly as well there and generally in STEM as men, there are just far fewer active there.)
Now, "feminism" is not a homogeneous movement. It is the "female supremacist" faction (basically gender-based fascism) that comes up with over-hyping some females to show that supremacy they desperately believe women have.
It is "terrorists, drug dealers, pedophiles, and organized crime": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The drug part is a bit outdated currently with Cannabis, possession of which could get you behind bars for decades before, being legalized left and right and that illegality basically being outed as an extreme evil done by the lawmakers. (Why is it that lawmakers never pay for their crimes?) So it is understandable you forgot that one.
Yea, getting rid of these pesky advances in this "Internet" thing is probably next on their agenda. A nice stable stagnant society under their control is what these people crave. Free speech, innovation, etc. all tools of the devil.
Because he seems to be suffering from it. Alternatively, he bought a lot and now is trying to pump the exchange rate.
This must be totally coincidental! Also, are you sure these are not fake news?
In other news, many people are too stupid to see a looming catastrophe when it stares them in the face.
They were talking about this on NPR this afternoon - apparently, sex traffickers were posting classified ads on Backpage.com with keywords like "lolita" and "fresh" to indicate underage girls
Which they are not in all these cases. Nobody would advertise something like that openly. It is purely the fantasy of the customer being addressed here. A "lolita" is a sex worker that looks young, but is anywhere from 18-30. There are basically almost no underage sex workers, and where there are, they are 17 or 16. There are, for example, also statements from brothel owners in Switzerland where prostitution used to be legal from 16 years on, that they actually did not want any this young because they cannot do the job well and mainly cause problems. And there were statements from the Swiss police that this was extremely rare and in the small handful of cases they merely informed the parents.
Incidentally, from countries were it is legal, we also know that there are almost no sex workers forced into the trade. For example, the Mafia stopped decades ago, because it does not work economically. A forced sex worker is a bad, non-motivated sex worker that brings in the lowest rates and comes with the problem that typically one of the first customers reports this to the police because men are not total scum. For example a famous case in Germany about 20 years back had 3 actual customers and the first one went to the police. These things are so rare that they make the national news, while there are an estimated 1 million (!) prostitutes in the US.
Also explains the "war on porn" nicely.
A lot of those jailed will be "sex trafficking victims". Because that is what the police does: They charge them with prostitution (and sometimes with "trafficking" themselves or each other) and lock them up. Shows nicely that the whole thing is a Big Lie and that this is not about actually helping anybody.
In this specific instance, I also think that the driving forces behind this law actually wanted a censorship law (finally getting that pesky "free speech" problem under control...), but since that would never fly if done openly, they used one of the four horsemen of the infocalypse. Hence they did not consult with the people that actually understand what this law will do, because they are perfectly aware of these consequences and _want_ them.
Same as when the nuclear power station has a bug and blows up: Boom. Then, if the industry is smart, it fixes that bug in future instances. (The nuclear industry is too greedy for that in many instances.) Also, system like these come with a lot of redundancy, so "one bug" will never do anything like that.
Very true. In this worls, people that desperately want to become "leaders", not people that actually have what it takes. Explains a lot.
Ada Lovelace does not qualify. She is massively over-hyped due to some people desperately needing a shining example. While not a complete air-head, she apparently never did most of the things attributed to her.
Business leader, not tech leader. And a bad one. I have some more of those: Meg Whiteman, Charley Fiorina.
Also blame different "carrier hardware", i.e. bodies. Anybody that thinks this is not a massive influence has their heads up their backsides. I am perfectly fine if the women that chose to be engineers get to do so with not more hoops to jump though than the men that chose the same. Equal opportunity is the goal, not "equal statistical outcome". The latter forces people to do things they do not want to and that is not fine at all.
Same here and I have to go way back and go for Scientists if I want some that are not a problem: Meitner, Curie, Noeter. The next one I can think of is a very competent and smart EE I work with who did FPGA design before, who is, of course, not a "leader", just a very good female engineer. The fact of the matter is that there are not many. There are enough to show that women can definitely fill this role competently but that while few do so on the male side, very few do so on the female side of things. And I think we can say that this is basically their choice and should be respected. As far as I can see, equal opportunity exists and if it does not result in equal use of these opportunities, I am completely fine with that.
And your last line very clearly indicates these test are bogus. IQ is not influenced by education. But the result if inadequate IQ tests are.
If they actually were facts. They are not. Africa has severe problems, but this is not one of them. Your closet (or open) racism does not actually change the facts.
Bullshit.
Apparently, the victim was not visible to either human driver or car sensors and neither had reason to expect an invisible pedestrian there.
Given that there is a lot of distracted driving, unsafe driving, drunk and tired driving in these accidents, at the very least self-driving cars will provide a significant reduction, probably a massive one. Yes, they will still kill people (most technologies do), but far fewer of them than human-controlled vehicles. Control (often craved by humans) does not come with the skills to use that control competently.
The car will go straight on as that gives it maximum brake efficiency. Seriously, this is solved.
It makes for stories that sell well, because they anthropomorphize the car. "See, _cars_ will make _ethical_ decisions!" It does not make for any kind useful description of technology as it is complete horse manure.
Indeed. Good safety engineering practices dictate to always remove system energy as fast as possible when you have no clear strategy. The examples given in the press of these "ethical dilemmas" are bogus. The car in question will not have enough information about the situation and can only a) bake hard without steering (as that could make matter much worse) or only minimal steering and b) tell any following cars what it is about to do. If there is a crash, it can c) directly alert emergency services. This is far, far better than what a human driver could do after his slow brain works out what is happening. Starting to brake that 0.5...1 second earlier an autonomous car will be able to alone will safe countless lives, and that is the comparison with a non-distracted competent driver.
Nonsense. Actually competent measurements show this effect does not exist. Of course, if you have an African person fill out an IQ test in English, targeted at somebody with a western background and average western education, you get such results, but they are bogus.
Indeed. And add to that, that every job has a minimal level of talent it needs directly and indirectly (via the talents needed to benefit from education), and hence the better job quality gets, the fewer can do them. We seem to be now at a point where the part of the population that can newly created jobs is beginning to be a minority. That is a unique point in human history, because before most people could do most jobs and that is one reason why before there always were replacement jobs.