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Comment Re:I prefer to be in charge of my vehicle's brakin (Score 1) 281

My car has this, flashes warnings on screen and (if not disabled) tries to apply brakes. It's... well, in the past 50 activation events there was a car who'd cut me off once. The other 49... wrong as hell. Then there is the 'lane keeping' safety feature. Multiple times I've had it jerk the wheel to steer INTO barricades. It sees the break down lane white stripe to the right of the main lane and the one to the left of the exit as I'm exiting and decides the right freeway stripe is the left marker, and the left exit stripe is the right marker and steers straight for the barricade between them. Terrifying when it does that at night in the rain. Absolutely horrible system...

Comment Re:Shame (Score 1) 199

In the US there is a city extending from Boston to DC. Big doesn't require monolithic. It'd be a good idea to get a section of the line city working so flaws can be iterated out/designs changed etc as sections are made. (i.e. assume it'll have unforeseen issues, and foreseen issues where the implemented solution isn't working as planned and so plan ahead for revision stages)
I'd like to see the giant desalinization design built and iterated. Once past the new design teething pains that'll have application world wide, including Southern CA.

Comment Re:And then? (Score 1) 44

As soon as '# of followers' became touted as a indication of political following, Twitter became bot infested.

The true number of bots was never disclosed.
There isn't an accurate public metric to judge the number of real users now or then, so the rest is guesswork.
As a public company, they had investment incentive to allow bots to the extent they could claim they're actual daily users. There may have been direct payments for that in addition to the blue check pay-offs. There may be other competing incentives that make eradicating them less the obvious choice it looks like now as a private company. (advertiser $ perhaps?) I don't think we know the actual user count, then or now. Lots of political grandstanding both times.

Comment Re:Wow! (Score 1) 47

Douglas, Boeing's management was out maneuvered in the merger and engineer led decision making is long gone. That's been replaced by the 'suck shareholder value into our hands' corner cutting management Douglas was known for.

Meanwhile A separate question is how this flaw waivers/self certification/backroom deals? They're flying their new planes under the same cert as the '60s versions... which should be ok if operating/maintaining is the same. So... look at picture of the 737 original release version cockpit and a Max and see if you can find any differences... the crashes were about a system designed to move plane controls without pilot input or control to fake handling of the 60s aircraft - using sensors with no redundancy! (Douglas management made redundant safety critical systems a very expensive upgrade option - making everything an upgrade including basic safety increases profits dontcha know)
If I seem salty - that started after I looked into the causes of the Max issues. Just wow.

Comment Social manipulation not privacy is the threat (Score 1) 72

Why isn't social manipulation being listed as the #1 problem? Is it because Meta & Google are just as big of a threat?

Ban it just as much as it's banned in China. Apparently they have a huge problem with what they're exporting here. Lets look at their reasons for that and believe them.

Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 89

The system did operate, and the charge went off.
The full stack is built stronger/heavier than has been done before to work towards re-usability. It turns out it's unexpectedly robust and survived both the FTS charge and tumbling at speed for a time. Other launch vehicles would have crumpled, lost tank integrity and then exploded in a fireball if they tumbled like that even without the help of a flight termination system. SpaceX noted the need for a more destructive FTS right away. Do you have info pre-dating the launch indicating the FTS was too weak? I can't find any. It appears the consensus was it was fine and this outcome was a surprise.

Comment Re:Reason for failure was covered here and elsewhe (Score 1) 89

The pad failure sprayed concrete at the booster at high speed. The release was hydraulic and the 2nd system was running until one of the debris damaged engines failed, so release wasn't possible. You could see it taken out in the video feed. The whole staging setup is different now.

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