Comment: Re:New solid state storage (Score 1) 268
I agree. It is embarrassing. Neither of these dorks have a clue how to use lmgtfy.com. You don't say "LMGTFY" and then post a link to wikipedia.
Comment: Re:This is too simple to fix (Score 4, Interesting) 487
Actually, it's "correct horse battery staple". And the funny thing is, I didn't even have to look it up. As the comic says "you've already memorized it".
Comment: Re:Is it "too real"? (Score 5, Funny) 607
I think this is evolutions way of saying "Don't have children, dudes."
I'm in that category for other reasons. (Autoimmune. Besides I'd rather build a robot with my own AI)
So you think he shouldn't reproduce just because he's unable to watch certain types of television? WTF? That's one of the lamest criteria for deciding whether to reproduce. Hell, I bet some people would say that's a sign he should reproduce like crazy and create a bunch of kids who are physiologically forced to go outside and play.
Comment: Re:Another (Score 1) 394
I don't think I've actually watched an Olympic Games sports* event since I was 12.
Aside from the ridiculous rules, the insane costs, the fact that the country's representatives are not necessarily their best, the presence of 'team' sports, the use of pools (the competition form, not the bodies-of-water) in some sports events, etc. have long put me off watching.
* But I still watch the opening and closing ceremonies.
I guess it's not entirely dissimilar to people who watch the SuperBowl for the commercials/halftime show, rather than for the football game.
Wait! There's a football game?
Not sure how to take that. Are you one of the people who watches it for the commercials, or are you from Europe?
Comment: Re:We sure don't make stuffs like they used to (Score 1) 238
How many years already the Voyager spacecraft kept sending us valuable data?
And it does all that without any of the super-gigaherz chips nor gigabytes of RAM nor terabits/s connection devices
On the other hand, do you think your iPad will last 5 years?
Did the ipad 3 cost hundreds of millions of dollars? Did the voyager spacecraft have to fit into a purse?
Comment: Re:Credibility (Score 1) 105
If he tells you your security is lax, and he can get critical information off your product, you should at least let him show you where the mistake
From TFA:
We have requested information that will allow us to investigate the console in question and have still not received the information needed to replicate the researchers’ claims
Comment: Re:Can they do that? (Score 1) 152
I mean, how many accidents will occur once human error is removed from the equation?
Yes, because we all know that GPS and street information can never be wrong. That truck driver won't just be stuck under the overpass, he'll be all the way through (just missing a bit of the trailer), since the vehicle will be going full, safe speed for that unpaved part of the superhighway.
Lets see, since there cameras and sensors all over these autonomous vehicles, I guess it will be literally impossible to add one more sensor that sticks up about 3 inches or so above the trailer to detect potential collisions. Plus bridges are often labeled with signs indicating their height. It would literally be impossible to have all of those cameras OCR those signs as an additional indicator of a potential collision. And since I thought of these 2 possibilities in 60 seconds, theres no way there could possibly be any additional possibilities given just a bit more thought, and no way the guys at google could possibly think of the same. Nope, it's convertible trailer time for sure.
Comment: Re:This Is A Bad Idea (Score 1) 516
The problem is that it means that people will spend longer looking at the screen. Rather than glancing at it and seeing the layout instantly, they'll have to find the car on the screen, which may mean one or two seconds without their eyes on the road.
And not only that, but since the map can't scroll, I'm assuming the map can't rotate either. So people are going to have to spend additional time thinking how a direction on the map translates to a direction in the car. I can't see that helping matters.
Comment: Re:This Is A Bad Idea (Score 0, Troll) 516
Very good point. It's an odd example, but kind of applies. In the game Angband (a roguelike), there is an option to keep the map centred on the player. Normally I don't use this, because it slows things down on slower hardware, and the game has my full attention. If however I get teleported somewhere, I do fine myself needing to spend time trying to locate myself, as it's not immediately obvious. It seems silly to place drivers in the situation where they must spend time scanning the map for their car.
Not sure how your story is relevant. Oh, wait a minute....you've got a teleporting car?
Ideally though maybe it's best that devices are required to blank the map when the car is traveling above a certain speed, relying only on audio prompts.
Yes, I'd certainly appreciate that when I'm using the GPS in the passenger seat. Oh wait, no I wouldn't.
Comment: Re:yep (Score 1) 206
You might go to an arbitrator once or twice in your lifetime. These companies deal with them all the time. That means every arbitrator has no incentive to keep you happy and every incentive to keep the other side -- their repeat customers -- happy.
True. In fact, I was reading something a month or two ago where someone was researching arbitration. They called up a few arbitration companies, pretending to be a corporation interested in hiring for arbitration, and the arbitration companies were all making guarantees about how sure they are that they would be able to rule in their favor.