I agree. If a piece of art is publicly disseminated, then the copyright holder should lose the ability to alter it, that is, unless the original is equally available or relinquished to the public domain. I think this is fair, especially in our DRMed future where things can be "taken back" instantaneously via remote computer commands.
If you think this sounds harsh, imagine the Mona Lisa getting a new hairstyle or clothes every 20 years because fashion had changed. Let's cover "David's" penis because we're politically correct this generation. And then we can change it back when the next generation lightens up... These innocent tweaks are distorting, and in some cases, ruining art (with the new ideas no longer reflective of the era in which the art was created, mind you).
"E.T.'s" right to bear arms should not be infringed.
It's quaint that everyone believes that autonomous vehicles are going to save lives, and not indirectly cause fatalities. "Oh, there's a plastic bag blowing about the highway in front of me, 'better slam on the brakes." "Oh, I see that baseball rolling onto the street, but since I'm not human, and can't look sideways, I won't assume there's a child coming to retrieve it."
I could go on since there is an infinite number of scenarios that'll baffle these cars, but I tire of the topic as well as fighting the ignorant, delirious enthusiasm. The cars will come, some will die because of them, and traffic will be intermittently snarled for everyone, in perpetuity, because the cat was let out of the bag.
The problem is, a lot of people only use their computer for email and web browsing - seniors come to mind.
My main machine at home runs XP because it does everything I want it to do, generally even faster than my much newer work machine (which runs 7). If I upgraded this machine to a newer OS, its mono-core, sub-3 GHz processor would cause things to crawl, and I'd have to buy new frickin' hardware; and for what? craigslist.com? Don't give me the security argument because that's mainly for marketing folks selling products as no one can prove that XP is less safe than the latest Windows OS with its yet unknown vulnerabilities, and the thousands of hackers (some state-sponsored) working daily to find more.
You have no proof? Then you have no case, only a guess.
Anecdotal, I know, but the few marijuana users I have known had little drive in their lives (career, education, hobbies). I always wondered whether their personality type caused the use of marijuana or vice versa (or neither). I wonder if this study might explain that.
Oh man, have I been waiting for something like this... Guys, if you're at someone's home with one of these gizmos, try to get alone with it, then: "Hey dumb box, order me 50 pounds of cat food, overnight it...every month, from now on..."
You're right; however, perhaps such yammering eventually taints the brand: More may sign-up to debate the elected du jour, versus "I worked in this technical field X for Y years and here's what I've seen..." Such comments comprise most of the reason I visit - it's a group of relatable nerds and I guess I've always made assumptions about their altruistic/truth-seeking motives. Now I catch myself looking at the poster's user ID # as some sort of trust/experience-filtering (silly, I know).
Along those lines and in response to an AC's comment, "News for nerds, stuff that matters" doesn't mean AND 'stuff that matters'; that wouldn't make any sense. Why not then say "We post about everything that matters!"? I always saw it as a tongue-in-cheek reference to nerdy things, things that matter to only us, though we often think they should matter to non-nerds too. That's the cheeky part: nerdy news is all that really matters (to us).
I agree. Further, (like a good Slashdotter, I did not bother to RTFA), it doesn't look like an actual Rubik's Cube to me, but rather a knockoff brand (the colors are incorrect?).
The number of problems caused by autonomous cars will be inversely proportional to the number on the road.
Respectfully, I don't think you pay close attention to all the little "hiccups" that occur during daily driving - no one does, because our brains handle them with ease. As a old firmware guy, I know digital computers won't be able to do this because there are too many variables, forever changing. When you drive from now on, imagine you're blind, and have perfectly memorized the road and could drive it with no sight. In the future, look to see what alters your path during your commute (or what has changed since last time), and then think about what the car would have to know to handle the situation without slowing down. In other words, if you didn't have to slow while you were driving, then the AV shouldn't either, because it's better than we are, right?
It will never (instantly) know the difference between a very small ball rolling into the street ("Where's the child?") and an oak leaf. A small tree branch versus a live wire (I saw this in the street once after a major storm), where, one I can roll over, the other, not so much.
There will be a critical mass beyond which insurance companies will begin charging extravagant fees for a manually operated vehicle.
I doubt that'll happen because: A) AVs will always be more expensive than human-driven cars. Some people can only afford the bare minimum. B) Some people enjoy driving fun cars and there won't be AV versions of those. C) Many people own classic cars (like me) where those will never be "AVed". D) There is enough voter/buyer mass of A, B & C to where insurance will not be significantly higher for non-AV drivers. E) Semi-trucks parking and weaving through tight industrial parks is an art form. Pulling that off with sensors is problematic at best, especially when trailers are universally interchangeable and have no electronics. (Automating all trucks would be a thief's paradise.)
Issues with reading signs are a non starter. Once adoption begins to pick up you will quickly see digital information systems added to existing road signs. All of this tech exist right now and most of it is mature. It just hasn't been put together yet.
There are an order of magnitude more Podunk towns than metropolises; they will never be part of this digital information system. They might change a sign and then have to report it somewhere? I don't think they'll bother - some have no full time staff (I sometimes call on the rural Midwest).
In about 20 years people will be complaining about how manual drivers are always causing accidents and issues with traffic flow.
Is this before or after the flying cars that are just 5 more years away? I'm not being snarky at you, just the idea that tech is easily mass-distributed, and can solve all.
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
Self-driving cars will come for one dumb reason or another ("Ooo, shiny tech!" "Ooo, a tiny bit safer!"). And they will be a blight on our roads. They probably won't kill many people, but they will slow traffic everywhere except on wide-open highways: They will never be able to instantly read road signs written in $YOUR_LANG (partially obstructed by snow), they will forever be baffled (call slowCarDown( )) by non-standard roadway situations and conditions (which occur frequently), and millions will accept this as "progress", hoping the next software update will make things better, when really, even cars will now start to get "bricked" once in a while.
"Augment", a.k.a, ruin, fireworks. I already can't stand the music they try to sync up with them... "They comin' to America!" Shut up, Diamond...
Am I the only one who thinks fireworks are awesome (not the over-used definition of "awesome", but awesome) by themselves? I was lucky enough once to be very close to a show (right under it) where the crowd was small and quiet - it was like I was seeing/hearing the very extremes of what the universe is capable of. Though it was so high, after the boom, I could even hear the slightest hiss of the crackling sparkles as they fell and faded from the sky.
And wake me when there are penalties (fines/taxes/etc.) for having "too many" offspring, that is, when we address the ever-increasing hole in our resources bucket. Until then, doing anything else is only delaying the inevitable by a relatively small amount.
Seconded. I'm in municipal SCADA, and we have moved many customers from landlines to cellular for over the last decade. I'm old school, so I like things that "just work" (like POTS), but our first conversion complained that it took 3 days to get the phone company to even come out to fix their broken lines, so he/they felt he had no choice.
I think completely getting rid of copper is another one of those "the momentum versus the better" issues (think "Betamax"). I once calculated my home phone line's down time over my 40+ years of life and it was over 99.9999% reliable.
There would be no accidents if we all drove 5 mph, only in good weather, and on mostly straight roads (highways). These on the road are going to mean slower traffic for all.
This is probably obvious to most of you, but would be a night and day difference for the rest. Just keep two email accounts; one for humans, another for "robots" - and never mix the two. I have done this for at least 9 years. I get about one spam email per month on the ~decade-old human account, with no spam filter! The account that I give to the online stores, etc., is spammed up pretty good, but I don't bother checking it at all unless a purchase is significantly behind delivery. (Disclaimer: I use a non-free email account, one that comes with my [small company] Internet service.)
I JUST got lunch two (albeit long) blocks away in our industrial park. Unlike ever before, the street was loaded with parked semis, a forklift flitting about, and a landscaper's truck with trailer. Traffic was relegated to one lane. This artificial lane was many semi trucks long. As a firmware guy with decades of experience, I see no way for contemporary technology to sort out that situation in a fraction of a second, especially as there is also an intersection ahead at the end of those semis where oncoming traffic would NOT be using the single lane. An AV would be baffled by such a random, but common, occurrence. (Can you imagine if the street was curved?)
Start paying attention and you will notice all kinds of "puzzles" in your own daily driving that would force the AV to a crawl or stop, or worse, keep going as is.
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I'll give you, one dollar...
Okay, two.
Two big drones with a really wide net.
Or many small drones dangling ropes?
Just posting out loud...
I agree. If a piece of art is publicly disseminated, then the copyright holder should lose the ability to alter it, that is, unless the original is equally available or relinquished to the public domain. I think this is fair, especially in our DRMed future where things can be "taken back" instantaneously via remote computer commands.
If you think this sounds harsh, imagine the Mona Lisa getting a new hairstyle or clothes every 20 years because fashion had changed. Let's cover "David's" penis because we're politically correct this generation. And then we can change it back when the next generation lightens up... These innocent tweaks are distorting, and in some cases, ruining art (with the new ideas no longer reflective of the era in which the art was created, mind you).
"E.T.'s" right to bear arms should not be infringed.
It's quaint that everyone believes that autonomous vehicles are going to save lives, and not indirectly cause fatalities. "Oh, there's a plastic bag blowing about the highway in front of me, 'better slam on the brakes." "Oh, I see that baseball rolling onto the street, but since I'm not human, and can't look sideways, I won't assume there's a child coming to retrieve it."
I could go on since there is an infinite number of scenarios that'll baffle these cars, but I tire of the topic as well as fighting the ignorant, delirious enthusiasm. The cars will come, some will die because of them, and traffic will be intermittently snarled for everyone, in perpetuity, because the cat was let out of the bag.
The problem is, a lot of people only use their computer for email and web browsing - seniors come to mind.
My main machine at home runs XP because it does everything I want it to do, generally even faster than my much newer work machine (which runs 7). If I upgraded this machine to a newer OS, its mono-core, sub-3 GHz processor would cause things to crawl, and I'd have to buy new frickin' hardware; and for what? craigslist.com? Don't give me the security argument because that's mainly for marketing folks selling products as no one can prove that XP is less safe than the latest Windows OS with its yet unknown vulnerabilities, and the thousands of hackers (some state-sponsored) working daily to find more.
You have no proof? Then you have no case, only a guess.
Anecdotal, I know, but the few marijuana users I have known had little drive in their lives (career, education, hobbies). I always wondered whether their personality type caused the use of marijuana or vice versa (or neither). I wonder if this study might explain that.
Oh man, have I been waiting for something like this... Guys, if you're at someone's home with one of these gizmos, try to get alone with it, then: "Hey dumb box, order me 50 pounds of cat food, overnight it...every month, from now on..."
You're right; however, perhaps such yammering eventually taints the brand: More may sign-up to debate the elected du jour, versus "I worked in this technical field X for Y years and here's what I've seen..." Such comments comprise most of the reason I visit - it's a group of relatable nerds and I guess I've always made assumptions about their altruistic/truth-seeking motives. Now I catch myself looking at the poster's user ID # as some sort of trust/experience-filtering (silly, I know).
Along those lines and in response to an AC's comment, "News for nerds, stuff that matters" doesn't mean AND 'stuff that matters'; that wouldn't make any sense. Why not then say "We post about everything that matters!"? I always saw it as a tongue-in-cheek reference to nerdy things, things that matter to only us, though we often think they should matter to non-nerds too. That's the cheeky part: nerdy news is all that really matters (to us).
Ooo, I like Pepperidge Farm.
I agree. Further, (like a good Slashdotter, I did not bother to RTFA), it doesn't look like an actual Rubik's Cube to me, but rather a knockoff brand (the colors are incorrect?).
The number of problems caused by autonomous cars will be inversely proportional to the number on the road.
Respectfully, I don't think you pay close attention to all the little "hiccups" that occur during daily driving - no one does, because our brains handle them with ease. As a old firmware guy, I know digital computers won't be able to do this because there are too many variables, forever changing. When you drive from now on, imagine you're blind, and have perfectly memorized the road and could drive it with no sight. In the future, look to see what alters your path during your commute (or what has changed since last time), and then think about what the car would have to know to handle the situation without slowing down. In other words, if you didn't have to slow while you were driving, then the AV shouldn't either, because it's better than we are, right?
It will never (instantly) know the difference between a very small ball rolling into the street ("Where's the child?") and an oak leaf. A small tree branch versus a live wire (I saw this in the street once after a major storm), where, one I can roll over, the other, not so much.
There will be a critical mass beyond which insurance companies will begin charging extravagant fees for a manually operated vehicle.
I doubt that'll happen because: A) AVs will always be more expensive than human-driven cars. Some people can only afford the bare minimum. B) Some people enjoy driving fun cars and there won't be AV versions of those. C) Many people own classic cars (like me) where those will never be "AVed". D) There is enough voter/buyer mass of A, B & C to where insurance will not be significantly higher for non-AV drivers. E) Semi-trucks parking and weaving through tight industrial parks is an art form. Pulling that off with sensors is problematic at best, especially when trailers are universally interchangeable and have no electronics. (Automating all trucks would be a thief's paradise.)
Issues with reading signs are a non starter. Once adoption begins to pick up you will quickly see digital information systems added to existing road signs. All of this tech exist right now and most of it is mature. It just hasn't been put together yet.
There are an order of magnitude more Podunk towns than metropolises; they will never be part of this digital information system. They might change a sign and then have to report it somewhere? I don't think they'll bother - some have no full time staff (I sometimes call on the rural Midwest).
In about 20 years people will be complaining about how manual drivers are always causing accidents and issues with traffic flow.
Is this before or after the flying cars that are just 5 more years away? I'm not being snarky at you, just the idea that tech is easily mass-distributed, and can solve all.
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
Self-driving cars will come for one dumb reason or another ("Ooo, shiny tech!" "Ooo, a tiny bit safer!"). And they will be a blight on our roads. They probably won't kill many people, but they will slow traffic everywhere except on wide-open highways: They will never be able to instantly read road signs written in $YOUR_LANG (partially obstructed by snow), they will forever be baffled (call slowCarDown( )) by non-standard roadway situations and conditions (which occur frequently), and millions will accept this as "progress", hoping the next software update will make things better, when really, even cars will now start to get "bricked" once in a while.
"Augment", a.k.a, ruin, fireworks. I already can't stand the music they try to sync up with them... "They comin' to America!" Shut up, Diamond...
Am I the only one who thinks fireworks are awesome (not the over-used definition of "awesome", but awesome) by themselves? I was lucky enough once to be very close to a show (right under it) where the crowd was small and quiet - it was like I was seeing/hearing the very extremes of what the universe is capable of. Though it was so high, after the boom, I could even hear the slightest hiss of the crackling sparkles as they fell and faded from the sky.
(Looks at population two decades ago, looks at population now, scratches head.) Apparently not fast enough...
And wake me when there are penalties (fines/taxes/etc.) for having "too many" offspring, that is, when we address the ever-increasing hole in our resources bucket. Until then, doing anything else is only delaying the inevitable by a relatively small amount.
Only the immigrants have kept the overall US population growing.
Citation needed.
Who Polices the Police
Coast Guard?
Seconded. I'm in municipal SCADA, and we have moved many customers from landlines to cellular for over the last decade. I'm old school, so I like things that "just work" (like POTS), but our first conversion complained that it took 3 days to get the phone company to even come out to fix their broken lines, so he/they felt he had no choice.
I think completely getting rid of copper is another one of those "the momentum versus the better" issues (think "Betamax"). I once calculated my home phone line's down time over my 40+ years of life and it was over 99.9999% reliable.
"Straight"? You know, you're allowed to release the "W" key once in a while...
There would be no accidents if we all drove 5 mph, only in good weather, and on mostly straight roads (highways). These on the road are going to mean slower traffic for all.
"...are running on severely outdated operating systems like Windows XP, ..."
So? News flash: Software doesn't wear out.
This is probably obvious to most of you, but would be a night and day difference for the rest. Just keep two email accounts; one for humans, another for "robots" - and never mix the two. I have done this for at least 9 years. I get about one spam email per month on the ~decade-old human account, with no spam filter! The account that I give to the online stores, etc., is spammed up pretty good, but I don't bother checking it at all unless a purchase is significantly behind delivery. (Disclaimer: I use a non-free email account, one that comes with my [small company] Internet service.)
Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care...
At least, that's my understanding. I could be wrong, and probably am.
Well, you're right while no one is reading your post. Otherwise, it's wrong. Sorry.
I JUST got lunch two (albeit long) blocks away in our industrial park. Unlike ever before, the street was loaded with parked semis, a forklift flitting about, and a landscaper's truck with trailer. Traffic was relegated to one lane. This artificial lane was many semi trucks long. As a firmware guy with decades of experience, I see no way for contemporary technology to sort out that situation in a fraction of a second, especially as there is also an intersection ahead at the end of those semis where oncoming traffic would NOT be using the single lane. An AV would be baffled by such a random, but common, occurrence. (Can you imagine if the street was curved?)
Start paying attention and you will notice all kinds of "puzzles" in your own daily driving that would force the AV to a crawl or stop, or worse, keep going as is.