Alice posts a video using music that Bob owns the copyright to. Carol posts a video that uses music Bob falsely claims to also hold the copyright for. Unfortunately Bob's false claim against Carol doesn't change the fact that he actually does have a legitimate legal claim against Alice's video. So kicking him off the system means he's going to issue a takedown against Alice. The whole point of bringing him into the system was to give him an incentive to leave Alice alone.

The problem here isn't Bob and Alice -- that part of the scenario is working fine. The problem is Bob and Carol. There's no incentive for Bob not to make false claims against Carol. That's the bit that has to be fixed.

So the concept of abandoning your Lexus for a Dodge Caravan then.

IIRC, the maneuvering engines are still in production in some form, so rebuilding them would be redundant.

And isn't that the hell of it. We have self driving cars, radar based braking and road centering assist but can't put sensors on a construction robot that will inform it that something is in a place where it shouldn't be. Time to move past the silly "programmed dance" mode. It isn't rocket surgery, isn'at all that expensive, and should be considered a distinct legal liability for the companies that produce and program the things.

Yeah, you figure in an earth to LEO vehicle that we'd be talking about a J2, or one of the LEM engines? Of course he's referring to the F1 engines.

Now go grab another cup of coffee and get back to annoying the secretaries. You've already done that here.

They are:

http://arstechnica.com/science...

An F1 powered rocket with modern improvements would be tremendous, iit was a monster then, an updated one would be doubleplusgood.

Amazing they let it languish for solid boosters.

Well, it may interest you to know that courts judging "emotional distress" is not some new Internet fad. In the year 1348 an innkeeper brought suit against a man who had been banging on his tavern door demanding wine. When the innkeeper stuck his head out the doorway to tell the man to stop, the man buried the hatchet he was carrying into the door by the innkeeper's head. The defendant argued that since there was no physical harm inflicted no assault had taken place, but the judged ruled against him [ de S et Ux. v. W de S (1348)]. Ever since then non-physical, non-financial harm has been considered both an essential element of a number of of crimes, a potential aggravating factor in others, and an element weighed in establishing civil damages.

This does *not*, however, mean that hurt feelings in themselves constitute a crime. It's a difficult and sometimes ambiguous area of the law, but the law doesn't have the luxury of addressing easy and clear-cut cases only.

As to why a new law is need now, when the infliction of emotional distress has been something the law has been working on for 667 years, I'd say that the power of technology to uncouple interactions from space and time has to be addressed. Hundreds of years ago if someone was obnoxious to you at your favorite coffeehouse, you could go at a different time or choose a different coffeehouse. Now someone intent on spoiling your interactions with other people doesn't have to coordinate physical location and schedule with you to be a persistent, practically inescapable nuisance.

Does this mean every interaction that hurts your feelings on the Internet is a crime? No, no more than everything that happens in your physical presence you take offense at is a crime.

Third party apps tend to be loaded with adware. Google may not make the best apps, but at least they don't constantly spam you with blinking, dancing ads!

"using its enormous data assets to make meaningful connections between people and facilitate organic engagement within a rich ecosystem"

Huh? And they would do this by what, a mind meld? Maybe they should do this by creating...apps!

I don't have a direct comparison with my current project, but having worked on other projects in the HPC, it's not 2x. It's more like (O)n vs (O) n log n -- or worse. There was a project I worked on with did feature tracking and at one point, I was asked to save the data for a small project to a DB so another product within our company (team of around 20 on each project) who was working on equivalent functionality in Java. I lazily saved the whole thing for each change which took under a second, but it took 20 seconds to load the same data in Java-land. No matter what feature you tried, it was always dog-slow.
Think of it this way. You've got a triple nested for loops going over a 3D array of data (very common in vision, etc). So the C/C++ programmer goes in and you can optimize the innermost loop with extreme efficiency -- maybe even to the register level -- but it's rarely needed. Much more common is to simply try and reduce your new/frees to take outside of the loop and if it's really a bear, calling something like CUDA can increase performance dramatically (I've seen over 100x) as there's direct hooks from C++. But in Java/Scala/interpreted language land, you just optimize to the same level.
90% of your time is usually spent in 5% of your code, so it's really the ability to optimize easily when you need to without resorting to convoluted tricks and hooks into other languages.

Tell us, my friend, how much do you know about socialism?

No, not the 'theoretical socialism' but the ones which had been implemented in real life

Do not tell us what you 'think', as what you 'think' doesn't matter in the whole scheme of things

But do tell us what you know, my friend

I am from China, a socialist country - in fact, I ran away from my own motherland because socialism had turned it into a hellhole

Massive social upheavals and people suffered greatly because under a socialistic society, it is the STATE (or whoever is in power) which dictates what happen, and the people must follow

Whoever dare to go against the grain will be tagged as 'anti-social' and even 'counter-revolutionalist' and are severely punished

I am not saying that capitalism is the panacea, but at the very least, under true form of capitalism, it is the individuals who are responsible for his or her own action, not the state

Those of you who never understand the real horror of socialism please understand this --- we who have gone through the baptism of fire under socialism will never sing hosannas praising socialism because we know how harmful it is

You post got me to thinking. Imagine if you would, the ability to reproduce an F1 rocket engine.

That might not be the best example, but the ability to reproduce items ala carte, especially in a military context, would greately extend the lifetimes of the systems. So much superannuation is based on lack of replacement parts.

So imagine the ability to reproduce a Saturn 5, replete with incremental improvements. The same with an F-14 Tomcat. or A10 Thunderbolt.

Those are just a couple examples of some fine devices that suffered from getting old, not getting bad.

Side note, the Warthog is still around, but there's some rumbling about retireing it. We should just ask the pilots of that ugly bitch or the ground forces they protect if that's a good idea.

Similar opportunities exist in the civil area - I'm pretty excited the Navy is getting into this though

Geeze, ya gotta quit after the tenth espresso man.

See below for my very own offensive statement. I wrote it because I know it will offend some folks. I don't care, and not likely it will be BANNED.

The difference? If we don't care if we offend people, it doesn't matter. Bill Maher has made a career out of purposefully offending people. Network television was worried about him offending people. HBO wasn't So he's busy agitatin' which is what he do best.

"But Captain! the 3d printers canna take much more if this! They're overheatin' already!"