Comment Re:Obvious (Score 1) 163
Adaptive cruise control + lane assist = poor man's self driving car
Adaptive cruise control + lane assist = poor man's self driving car
Advertised on YouTube? That's some Insanity Wolf shit right there.
If only magical boxes existed that could intelligently and automatically find the fastest route for traffic.
But what would we call these magical routing boxes?
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Damn, my formatting broke. Sorry about that!
Hey Slashdot, how about a useful feature in Beta? Like a 5 minute window to edit your post!
In 2013...
What does this tell me? That unless the fine is a percentage of their profit (which to my knowledge doesn't happen in the US), internet providers probably aren't too worried about it. In fact, if lack of transparency nets them more profit than they lose by paying the fine, it's only good business to continue breaking the rule.
I absolutely think doctors (general practice ones anyway) are in danger. Generally, they do two things: diagnose and prescribe. Imagine a city with automated booths, all linked up to some massive medical database. You type in your symptoms, the booth does a few things like take your blood pressure, check your eyes, and maybe take a blood sample, things like that.
With its massive medical database, it can probably diagnose you with a very high degree of accuracy and prescribe the appropriate medicine. If it can't accurately assess what you have or if it's something that requires a human doctor, it'll direct you that way.
Electrician. No matter where technology goes, we're going to need electricity for it.
It's going to be fascinating to watch the decline of automakers. Most people don't need or technically want a car, they want need/want the ability to travel quickly from point A to point B. The rest of the time, the car is just sitting there doing nothing.
A fleet of automated cars will solve the automotive needs of the vast majority of people. Car sales will plummet, as well other associated industries: mechanics, automotive stores, oil change places, etc.
It's going to be crazy. The panic we saw from Microsoft when tablets arrived; the music industry when MP3s appeared on the internet; Apple's lawsuit war when Android started outselling it, auto dealers getting Tesla showrooms banned; etc etc. It's all going to be dwarfed by this. I expect to see automakers try everything: mass litigation, lobbying, even widespread propaganda. Anything they can to try and stop the automation of cars.
If they're smart they'll sign long-term agreements now while this tech is still "new." I expect Elon Musk will be be quite victorious in this, chances are it'll be his batteries that will be going into these cars.
But as a Comcast customer, I'm damn glad I don't lease my modem or router from them.
Maybe I should start selling a decent router and Comcast compatible modem on eBay as a pair, calling them something like "No Lease Comcast Hardware Kit - pays for itself in just 10 months!"
"Further, the most dangerous cities to live in today, are precisely those cities with the strictest gun control."
Yes, but ask yourself this. Are they dangerous cities because they have strict gun control? Or do they have strict gun control because they're dangerous?
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Personally, I think crime is down because of the internet and technology in general.
I want to be like Elon Musk when I grow up.
Two curved lines on the chest? Eyelashes?
This explains the occasional anti-net neutrality post you see in these net neutrality discussions. No one—and I mean no one—other than someone with a financial interest would ever oppose net neutrality.
I love my VPN service ("Private Internet Access" is the name). ~40 bucks a year and the service is good.
No, I'm not an advertisement bot, just a happy customer!
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ISPs hate her! See how local mom tripled her internet speed with this one weird trick!
Has science gone too far?
It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
