Give everyone in the audience a nerf gun. The moment it takes more than 1 slide to talk about an idea the presenter can be shot. If the slide does not carry information that can not easily be spoken, shoot the presenter. If there is ANY clipart. Shoot the presenter.

Still, even a partial solution (e.g. one that matches the train's GPS location, if known, against a table of specified maximum-safe-under-any-circumstances speed limits for that location) would prevent a train wreck in certain cases (such as the recent one that prompted this article). I'm all for full PTC, but I don't think the perfect needs to be made the enemy of the good here.

They suffer from a condition called "being human". It causes occasional failures in an otherwise operational controller-human, some very small percentage of the time. Even the highest-quality controller-humans have a non-zero failure rate.

That is actually a pretty good idea, and it's more or less what PTC is intended to do, at least as far as the "avoid accidents" part of the job is concerned. Automating things further than that is also possible, although probably not really necessary.

Setting aside the sheer depravity of this argument, we have ample historical context for what happens when society cuts off the neediest. France, Haiti, Cuba, China, Russia, Algeria, Egypt, India, Scotland, The Phillipines, Mexico--just to name a few places where social and political inequality have driven massive, bloody revolts.

Wealth and political power calcify with the already wealthy and powerful. The middle and working classes slowly lose what wealth they have through attrition. Poverty becomes a virtually inescapable sink of destitution. Eventually, enough people end up having quite literally nothing to lose that you get vicious, deadly, destructive revolutions that take generations to recover from.

If you insist on taking a "pragmatic" view of not even bothering to -try- to improve the lives of the impoverished, try to at least understand the historical ramifications of what you're arguing for.

Ford GM and Chrysler will never EVER let you do this. They hate open standards. Hell GM is trying to get congress to say you dont own your car.

Now all Think Geek merch will be Emo and the packaging will cut it's self open!

Don't forget that honeybees are an introduced species in North America.

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That app and website already exists. I don't remember what the app is right now (it's on the Android Store), but there's an app there that receives and uploads all MACs seen + GPS info + some BLE service info.

I'm still waiting for the definition of pornography. Does William Adolphe Bouguereau's A Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros qualify? How about the work of Spencer Tunick? How about Tennis Girl by Martin Elliott?

Instead of speculating, why don't you look at the British statute books? Wouldn't you expect the same law(s) for print, film and television for instance to apply or at least be a starting point?

He ain't got nothin on Mr. Zap...

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Makes me suspicious. "AI is bad! Keep away!!!" Meanwhile in his super secret underground lair he's got a few slaving away creating his next idea.

Joking aside, I would not be surprised if large companies with money to be made and vast processing power on tap decide that a propaganda campaign against AI is just what they need to incite regulatory bodies into restricting research. And when the government's new AI regulatory body needs staffing with "experts" they will need look no further than the companies whose clarion call started the firestorm. Thusly have all the major sector leaders in the U.S. achieved ascendency, by controlling the regulatory bodies and thereby gaining access to the umbilicus of newly formed companies. Just a little squeeze, here and there, on that regulatory lifeline and all of your future competitors are stillborn.

and have massive MASSIVE bugs in them. GTA V for example, It's a unholy mess of griefers because the game's security is like a block of swiss cheese.

Population growth is much more sensitive to the fertility of the females than to that of the males.

Add adblocking on top of that and you will double those numbers.

The advertising industry is ruining the internet.

Which is pretty much what the bulk of american Police are.

Moron toilets that just blindly do whatever they are told. Most dont have the IQ to make a decision on their own.