Comment Humans Need Not Apply (Score 1, Informative) 385
On the subject of jobs being automated, I recommend this video. Amazing stuff. Mechanical minds are pretty serious stuff.
On the subject of jobs being automated, I recommend this video. Amazing stuff. Mechanical minds are pretty serious stuff.
...and Google taketh away. Been here, done this, several times. Not surprising.
They use a set of well known frequencies, usually 2.4Ghz WiFi or the old model aircraft band. Now you can "adjust" these if you know what you are doing, but off the shelf, this is what you generally get.
If they operate on the same frequencies as WiFi, seems like it might be a little difficult to discern between a drone's comm WiFi and background WiFi in whatever area they operate. Hell, you could mimic a SSID in the area to further hide behind.
I don't understand why drivers are even needed any more.
For the same reason you still have plenty of humans working to build cars... the auto & rail labor unions are rather strong.
For now. But that won't last, automation is going to take over this stuff, and very soon. Especially when people see it's safer to have computers operating these things than humans. Unions have pull now, but they will lose eventually, they always lose to automation. Always will.
Union is lucky honestly, trains are prime targets for automation. Would seem like it'd have been a lot smarter to just do away with drivers and tele-operate/automate all train engines. The days of having a human on board are very very numbered. I think the cameras is a waste of time and money. Just automate/centralize it already.
Also calling them engineers is stupid. Train operators long ago diverged from what engineers are. They're operators.
On the other hand, humanity going extinct would be exceedingly bad for humanity.
Are you suggesting nature gives a f about us? We will go extinct, and probably by our own doing. Everything that has a beginning has an end.
Personally, I think the whole debate against human activity being 'unnatural' is stupid. We are a product of this planet, what we do is natural, we aren't some extra-terrestrial interfering with our planet, we're natives living here, influencing our world. For better, or for worse. And a lot of in between.
The premise is that things going extinct is universally bad.
I don't think you'd be here typing that if the dinosaurs didn't go extinct. Extinction is not bad, nor is it good, it simply is. It is evolution.
David Cameron needs to watch this video.
correction: Btguard
...if humans save these pink iguanas, we are interfering with nature. Can't have it both ways, by saying our actions that make stuff go extinct is bad, and actions by nature that makes stuff go extinct is bad, too.
This. My first thought upon reading TFS was, how did this ever pass peer review and testing to get into the "stable" kernel? They do still perform peer review and unit testing, don't they?
Testing? Who does that anymore? That is the user's job.
MMO's and Microsoft have made it so.
Earth is not a stable static thing. It changes. All the time.
Excuses. The market's response to excuses: Steal it if you won't make it available.
Guess you haven't used uTorrent lately, they advertise often enough for BitGuard, which is a very easy point and click VPN service. Any idiot could set it up.
erm correction: So offer us both, simultaneously, an online release and theater release, so the shy people can enjoy the movie WITHOUT the need to wait 6 months or steal it.
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