It is primarily about the psychological aspect. If you saw a car driving without a driver, you would have the police have panicked calls. Same if the person is reading at the wheel or whatnot. This is not about taking over the wheel, this is about not panicking the other drivers with a behavior which is unexpected on the road. My guess is that such requirement would be dropped after a while when self driving car pick up. But as long as 99.9% of the driver have a certain expectation, you pretty much have to deliver that expectation even in a self driving car.

most initial propagation will be hemispherical in 1/r , so even our initial broadcast would be lost after a few AU, well beyond a light year. Our radio broadcast and tv with their power *never* reached alpha centauri before disappearing in the intergalactic noise at those frequencies. The only broadcast which may have reached some other star are the one semi directional sent intentionally (toward M24 IIRC?). And they were only of a few minutes total. Maybe 1 hour top.

The only things pretty much they would be detecting are intentional signal sent by ET "we are here!". But here is the food for thought : beside that 2 or 4 broadcast totaling about 1 hour or so, we would not be able to detect ourselves.

It was a spouse which found out their wife/husband cheated on them using such web site and decided to go vigilante and make life a living hell for other cheaters.

That is why 1) noscript 2) adblock 3) two screens while watching TV, 1 for the film and 1 for browsing or doing stuff while advertising runs.
pretty much the only advertising I see are the rare panels on the side road, 99% of which are for product which I will never use. In fact I would be unable to tell you what current ad runs at the moment anywhere.

For the better or the worst, I am cut off from advertising. As for taking decision subconsciously , it is highly overrated. Sure you may influence overall people , like the infamous butt distance limit (forgot the name : in supermarket if you pack product too much each and make the alley between product not wide enough people buy less of *all* products, because our natural propension of keeping distance and feeling privately invaded when too near each others. But a wider alley and people buy on average a little more from all product in the alley). But most of the stuff is subttle - as in it only has a Limited influence and can only be checked over mass statistic. In other word you won't force people subconsciously against their will to buy a product by advertising changing color and fonts, but over the mass you may change your market share a bit.


"You've probably made thousands of decisions that have been very subtly manipulated by corporations" you amy done thousand decision which were subtely or even much less ubtely influence by everybody. When was the last time your peer, your significant other, your family, your friend did NOT influence your decision ? Saying corp influenced our decision a way or another is as bland and as empty as saying we are influenced by our peer. No shit sherlock. But the difference is that our peer are allowed to influence us directly (like the oh no so subtle reminder from my girlfriend that our 5 year anniversary is coming) whereas for some reason people get uneasy when corp do it. So they have to go for the subtle. But frankly, their influence is vastly more limited than your peer's.

I read it not as reading your bank account, but as having access to your prepaid credit for the phone bill. Isn't that already a feature accessible for prepaid phone ? I may have misread naturally.

And from germany the first web site which comes up is NOT kat.cr, but some sort of weird proxyfinder site. The other one might be old site.

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"I would just like climatologists to admit that most of their prior models have had their faults and this one may as well

all climatologist admit that, and this in addition to existing error bars. This is why climatology is a science , because if it finds a better way to model, it drops the old model and take a new one. That is why we can speak of prior model: because better one came up.

but that doesn't give us the right to jump down everyone's throat that has a differing opinion.

No sorry indeed it does. Opinion are WORTHLESS sorry for the caps emphasis but it needs to be told. If you have a concurrent model which better model the data make a paper. Then we can talk. But opinion have no say in a science discussion. You may as well speaks about the opinion of 40+% of the american which have the opinion the theory of natural selection is bunk. That is why opinion are not worth anything whatsoever, and what claims can be advanced without evidence (deniers opinion) can be dismissed without hassle.

Firstly I bet you are an idealist "information want to be free" or you are very very young. Otherwise you would realize that it isn't very good for privacy and society that *ALL* information is free, and if you were a bit older you would realize that the right to be forgotten was a FACT before google and search engine. Nobody went into journal archive to check the new coworker or dating parsons. This is not progress, this is a terrible things to do to a whole lot of generations to have a society which cannot forget or forgive.

besides, most of which should be "forgotten" shouldn't be forgotten at all: your douchebag financial or criminal history for example

Wrong. 95% of the request are actually found to be perfectely normal member of the public. Less than 5% are about prison, and financial stuff.

and most importantly: if you don't want it to be public, don't make it fucking public in the first place.

And what do you do when a 3rd aprty publish information on you ? Well good luck with that. And outdated information ? And many country prefer rehabilitation versus revenge. that women for example which made a tweeter PR faux pas ? If it follows her forever then her life is ruined. She will be unemployable for the rest of her life.

if you're looking to make a hiring decision or a dating decision, search on the person using a proxy from another country. 30 seconds extra effort and well within the technical abilities of even the barely computer literate

Most people do not bother with the US google they use their own language google. And that is enough to be forgotten.

heck, some euro should write an app for the purpose: "find out what the loser is hiding from you! search their history from another country!"

Some "euro" yeah nice spelling. You realize that such app would imemdiately be ilelgal and the person attacked in justice if it sell/offer this app made especialyl to skirt the law ?

"And while there is some evidence that they reduced the employment of low skilled workers, and, to a lesser extent, middle skilled workers, industrial robots had no significant effect on total hours worked"

There is a chance that overall the numbers of hours stayed the same but as indicated here the reduced employment on low skilled worker is the problem. Up to recently there was always a way for such to go into a different branch with low requirement. It isn't possible anymore. And this is the huge problem the study misses. And this is the doom and gloom issue that not only some people on slashdot but on economics forums foresee. Furthermore the study does not seem to make a difference between part time hours and full hours as it aggregate the overall time.

I doubt anybody in EU think they (greece) will repay all. but what they want is a meaningful reform and a sign that greece attempt to pay *part* of it and reform itself so that in future they don't go into new spending spree. The last bit being important because if they stay in the EU with restructured debt, if there is no meaningful reform to limit new borrowing and spending.... Then in 10 years we are back to the same crisis. This is the last part that the "forgive all greece debt" camp seem to overlook.

German public transport is good, but even with that thee are many places it does not deserve, or when it deserve them it does so infrequently e.g. the bus behind my home is there only once per hour and stops deserving the station at early evening. next bus is ~ 1 kilometer away. So i am taking my bike everywhere instead (not a car mind you). If the bus was free, that would not change that.

Why the hell would I want to try to manage Windows - with its configuration management based on APIs (WMI, CIM etc.) - with a shell and tools designed to manage Unix, where configuration management is based around text files? SSH is a protocol for remoting a terminal. PowerShell is a terminal (console text mode) application. PowerShell is designed to manage Windows. Bash is a terrible shell for managing Windows. Just because I love my tennis racket doesn't mean I'm going to start using it to play soccer...

Why the hell would I want to try to manage Windows, with its configuration management based on APIs (WMI, CIM etc.) with a shell designed to manage Unix where configuration management is based around text files? Just because I love my tennis racket doesn't mean I'm going to start using to play soccer...

No it has not, but by its nature it cannot have the same QA control and special processes than mass manufacture for a specific good. As such the quality of a normal hand gun manufactured specifically by a process made for that sole purpose, will always be higher than one made by 3D printing of a generic process.

Out of 100K income paying 86K tax is 86% taxation. The highest income bracket is ~40% taxation. You are either mixing up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Something certainly does not add up.