Some AC claiming obvious nonsense on Slashdot without citation is now "evidence that cannot be disputed"? Pathetic. Please take your alternate facts and stuff them.
Indeed. The whole idea is completely disconnected from reality. Not that these morons are the only ones. For example, a couple of billion people believe in some invisible man in the sky on "evidence" not any more solid.
There is exactly one study that deserves the name, and it was not only proven to be based on manipulated data, it did only prove it for one specific vaccine, because the author stood to profit form an alternate vaccine that was to come out soon and would not have the autism-risk. So even the original study, faked as it may have been, does not actually support the claims the anti-vaxxers are making! These people must be complete demented and functionally illiterate. Or probably just so deep in fear that they have no rationality left and are jumping at every shadow. Because there are no "facts" supporting the vaccine-autism link.
Science says it is strongly genetic factors and some environmental factors like some infections during pregnancy, and use of alcohol or cocaine during pregnancy. Vaccination is not one of them and it has been looked into extremely carefully. Nothing there. But I guess even if medicine will eventually reliably be able to predict the condition well before any vaccinations are done, the anti-vaxxers will cling to their baseless beliefs.
Oh, wait, there is one link: The mother _not_ getting vaccinated before pregnancy does increase the autism risk for children. So not only are the anti-vaxxers completely wrong, their mistaken belief actually makes the problem worse.
Hey, why are you deriding the anti-vaxxers? They are just trying to make evolution work again (killing the stupid) and that is to be applauded, not ridiculed!
I do not care enough about your self-important pompousness to even bother to try. My guess would be that all the others that ignored you feel the same.
You did not have picture books that promoted a ground-effect / air bearing train in a reduced atmosphere utilizing compressors to prevent air buildup ahead of it.
And how do you know that? Both effects were well-known back then. Of course, use of compressors to _reduce_ air pressure was certainly not in them, because that is not actually possible. Hint: These are called "vacuum pump" and the role makes the name.
Yep. The competition has just way too much to lose not to use the opportunities. They are trying to hold back progress (and keep cars poisoning people), so they are in a pretty bad position, admittedly.
Actually at 0.5%, you get "High possibility of death" according to Wikipedia and you have "Coma" at 0.4%, so you are wayyyyy off what people could do at 0.8%.
While it is unit-less, it is not scaling-factor-less. SI says it would be 0.0021 and also accept 0.21 percent or 2.1 per mille. A naked "0.21" is decidedly wrong.
His young daughter probably did not have the experience necessary to capably control a machine like that even when sober.
Well, maybe. But 27 is not "young" anymore. And in a sober state, she would probably have hit the brakes and stopped driving. You know one thing that alcohol makes you? It makes you _reckless_. There is no excuse for drunk drivers killing people.
As a related fact, Wikipedia lists the expected symptoms as "Severe motor impairment, Loss of consciousness, Memory blackout". This is not some mild intoxication. This is stone drunk and barely able to walk. Anybody driving in that condition is asking for death, and not just their own.
It is usually measured in "promille", i.e. parts per 1000. Percent is far too high.
Wikipedia lists "Severe motor impairment, Loss of consciousness, Memory blackout" for 0.2 percent and "High possibility of death" above 0.5 percent. This lady had to be one serious drunk to even get the car moving in this state.
At this level, she has to have been a habitual drunk, because most people will have trouble even unlocking a car with this much alcohol in their blood.
This is in the US. You know, the country were you can do extremely stupid things and still can successfully sue if you find a jury of the right kind of morons. That is what the father is trying to set up here. And of course, it is always somebody else that is at fault.
Firewalls are mostly useless. They can just hide machines and ports. They cannot sanitize a seemingly legitimate data-stream. No, not even application-level firewalls can really do that, despite bombastic claims by vendors. Unless the target system and application is secure, communication with it is not secure.
The Physics angle is unclear, but that practicality is not there is extremely obvious. I had picture-books as a child that promoted things like the hyperloop. It was as practical back then as it is today. Most of the other things in these books did not materialize either.
Indeed. We do not even know whether we ever will have strong AI, because, looking to the only example we know that has the type of power strong AI would need, consciousness, self-awareness, free will all seem to be requirements. And we have absolutely no clue how they work, to a degree that any claims that they are generated by the brain are pure speculation and certainly not scientifically based. In physics, the whole can not be more than the sum of the parts. Human beings (at least smart ones) seem to be fundamentally more than the sum of the parts we know.
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Some AC claiming obvious nonsense on Slashdot without citation is now "evidence that cannot be disputed"? Pathetic. Please take your alternate facts and stuff them.
Indeed. The whole idea is completely disconnected from reality. Not that these morons are the only ones. For example, a couple of billion people believe in some invisible man in the sky on "evidence" not any more solid.
There is exactly one study that deserves the name, and it was not only proven to be based on manipulated data, it did only prove it for one specific vaccine, because the author stood to profit form an alternate vaccine that was to come out soon and would not have the autism-risk. So even the original study, faked as it may have been, does not actually support the claims the anti-vaxxers are making! These people must be complete demented and functionally illiterate. Or probably just so deep in fear that they have no rationality left and are jumping at every shadow. Because there are no "facts" supporting the vaccine-autism link.
Science says it is strongly genetic factors and some environmental factors like some infections during pregnancy, and use of alcohol or cocaine during pregnancy. Vaccination is not one of them and it has been looked into extremely carefully. Nothing there. But I guess even if medicine will eventually reliably be able to predict the condition well before any vaccinations are done, the anti-vaxxers will cling to their baseless beliefs.
Oh, wait, there is one link: The mother _not_ getting vaccinated before pregnancy does increase the autism risk for children. So not only are the anti-vaxxers completely wrong, their mistaken belief actually makes the problem worse.
Hey, why are you deriding the anti-vaxxers? They are just trying to make evolution work again (killing the stupid) and that is to be applauded, not ridiculed!
I do not care enough about your self-important pompousness to even bother to try. My guess would be that all the others that ignored you feel the same.
You seem to have a reading comprehension problem. Where did I refer to acronyms in my statement?
A "layman" has no place in this discussion.
You did not have picture books that promoted a ground-effect / air bearing train in a reduced atmosphere utilizing compressors to prevent air buildup ahead of it.
And how do you know that? Both effects were well-known back then. Of course, use of compressors to _reduce_ air pressure was certainly not in them, because that is not actually possible. Hint: These are called "vacuum pump" and the role makes the name.
Why not blame those who made the alcohol?
They tried that. Remember the little fiasco called "Prohibition"?
Yep. The competition has just way too much to lose not to use the opportunities. They are trying to hold back progress (and keep cars poisoning people), so they are in a pretty bad position, admittedly.
Actually at 0.5%, you get "High possibility of death" according to Wikipedia and you have "Coma" at 0.4%, so you are wayyyyy off what people could do at 0.8%.
While it is unit-less, it is not scaling-factor-less. SI says it would be 0.0021 and also accept 0.21 percent or 2.1 per mille. A naked "0.21" is decidedly wrong.
It seems to be 2.1 per mille. In other words barely able to walk and at a real risk of passing out.
But the way the system is gamed, no one seems to benefit, other than the trial lawyers.
That seems to be the primary design consideration for most of the US legal system and laws.
His young daughter probably did not have the experience necessary to capably control a machine like that even when sober.
Well, maybe. But 27 is not "young" anymore. And in a sober state, she would probably have hit the brakes and stopped driving. You know one thing that alcohol makes you? It makes you _reckless_. There is no excuse for drunk drivers killing people.
As a related fact, Wikipedia lists the expected symptoms as "Severe motor impairment, Loss of consciousness, Memory blackout". This is not some mild intoxication. This is stone drunk and barely able to walk. Anybody driving in that condition is asking for death, and not just their own.
It is usually measured in "promille", i.e. parts per 1000. Percent is far too high.
Wikipedia lists "Severe motor impairment, Loss of consciousness, Memory blackout" for 0.2 percent and "High possibility of death" above 0.5 percent. This lady had to be one serious drunk to even get the car moving in this state.
At this level, she has to have been a habitual drunk, because most people will have trouble even unlocking a car with this much alcohol in their blood.
This is in the US. You know, the country were you can do extremely stupid things and still can successfully sue if you find a jury of the right kind of morons. That is what the father is trying to set up here. And of course, it is always somebody else that is at fault.
As this is for stationary batteries (far too low energy density for anything else), it does not matter that much.
Firewalls are mostly useless. They can just hide machines and ports. They cannot sanitize a seemingly legitimate data-stream. No, not even application-level firewalls can really do that, despite bombastic claims by vendors. Unless the target system and application is secure, communication with it is not secure.
For really, really stupid values of "inevitable".
The Physics angle is unclear, but that practicality is not there is extremely obvious. I had picture-books as a child that promoted things like the hyperloop. It was as practical back then as it is today. Most of the other things in these books did not materialize either.
Indeed. We do not even know whether we ever will have strong AI, because, looking to the only example we know that has the type of power strong AI would need, consciousness, self-awareness, free will all seem to be requirements. And we have absolutely no clue how they work, to a degree that any claims that they are generated by the brain are pure speculation and certainly not scientifically based. In physics, the whole can not be more than the sum of the parts. Human beings (at least smart ones) seem to be fundamentally more than the sum of the parts we know.
Would a better connection between humans and machines be beneficial?
At this time, no, because while most humans are morons, machines are utter and complete morons without the least bit of understanding.
And that is why Musk is spouting complete nonsense.