Just wait until the AI has to keep track of liability awards so that it can make the correct decision regarding minimizing liability. At some point you are going to have a stupid jury award and all the cars are just going to refuse to go anywhere because the AI's cost benefit analysis says "just stay in park".

I'm looking forward to the Ayn Rand setting. "Me first!!"

Fuckin' commas, how do they work?

When will Boost ASIO make in into the standard library? C++ really needs something of this magnitude for networking and asynchronous event handling. I have not heard much on N3360 since it was proposed.

Reading comprehension is such a lost art these days. It was the H1N1 virus that caused the pandemic, which the Chinese scientists used in their research; not the results of the Chinese research that caused the pandemic.

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Bullshit. As a (former) developer in the industry (still a developer; no longer in the industry) I can honestly say plenty of people in your industry would be dumb enough to use this tool. Especially when some wide-eyed "Oracle DBA(sm)" tells them "I heard about it at Oracle World -- of course it's secure." Seriously -- it is not like retailers hire the best and the brightest. And virtually every online retailer I deal with keeps my CC information on file. Most of them are hard-working, understaffed developers just trying to get the job done and do the bare minimum to meet PCI compliance -- because that is what management wants.

Very true. By the same token, by the time your average programmer was done with your brain surgery, you'd have toenails growing out of your asshole for some inexplicable reason. "Oh, we'll fix that in the next surgery." *That* is why we have "clueless" administrators pre-approving their shit.

The brain surgeon has to be worried about malpractice lawsuits; the programmer does not. The brain surgeon requires board certification; the programmer does not. The brain surgeon requires twice the education and years of formal, on the job training before he is ever allowed to operate; your average programmer thinks he/she can write shit-hot code before they even graduate.

Yeah... that feels about right.

You pay more for your stuff if your privacy is worthless. But, in all honesty, if you purchase anything online, your privacy is toast in the U.S.

Cash is king, baby.

Emerging? They were emerging a decade ago. They have emerged. Look, if the company is, as you say, "set in its ways", that is a cultural problem. Unless you are an executive that gets to set goals and compensation, you have very little influence over it. If that is not you, either stay and live with what you have, or leave for greener pastures. The basic question you have to ask yourself is "how will staying here using these outdated tools affect my lifetime earnings potential?" Put another way: "are they paying me enough to put up with this shit?" That is my prime criteria for deciding whether to stay at any job. Your job is to make recommendations. I assume you have already done that and been shot down. Decision time: should I stay or should I go.

Are you suggesting a Martian penal colony? I don't see that ending well for anyone.

How about "on a smartphone"? Surely I'm the first person to ever think of that.

Or "on a plane", "in a car", "just like that, but yellow", "at the beach", "indoors", "during a snowstorm", or "while watching Pigs in Space"?

Sourceforge is where open source projects go to die. That's the only summary you need.

What you originally said was "we'd find a way", not that we would "learn why it's just not possible." We already know why FTL travel is not possible. I was pointing out the absurdity of your original statement.