And I agree. That said, while I believe that self driving vehicles at this point are probably fairly safe, I also think they're quite useless. There are far too many corner cases in driving, and I can come up with dozens of them off the top of my head that I've seen no evidence that current generation self driving vehicles can actually handle. I think we're still a very long way away from true, practical, self driving cars.

It's here, behind a paywall. The abstract is worth reading. People with access to good academic libraries, which I expect are many of us, can read the whole thing.

the format of the event and sponsors’ discursive tropes, within a dominant cultural frame reflecting the appeal of Silicon Valley, reshape unpaid and precarious work as an extraordinary opportunity, a ritual of ecstatic labor, and a collective imaginary for fictional expectations of innovation that benefits all

Are all you people posting sure they are wrong? I've seen a lot of broken hearts in this business, people who've poured their lives into "free" products and gotten nothing back.

That was attempted by better app brands in the USA. The FBI demands all the keys to the back door, trap door and front door.

By that wheelchair guy

Read, humans agree with humans in the trolley problem.

While a good theory, all rationality tends to go out the window when CP is involved. And even if you were found innocent, your life would still be irrevocably ruined just because you were accused in the first place.

So only the US political party supporting social medial leadership has the skills to define a disinformation campaign?
The users have no freedom of speech to talk about and share topics they find interesting?
Approved news and links will all be pushed down from the social media brand? With their own side of US politics as a filter?

The public didn't figure out anything. Don't give them credit as such.
The plutocracy decided it was worth it to cannibalize a portion of the failing facebook business to keep driving the wedge between the public.

Define "up"? Bitcoin is down about 20% from a week ago, and down more than 50% from 3 months ago. If that's "up" I think we need to check your sense of direction!

Look closer; plenty of "no pedestrian" signs from street view.

When I see a squirrel in the road i stay the course. All but twice they've moved out of the way at the last second.

The need to drive up GPU and CPU sales is necessary.
Microsoft will help along with the high polygon counts and 4K game marketing.
The must have games and GPU thats ray-tracing 1.0 ready.

...who want to work for free. Used to be, this type of event was in the context of cooperation, work on what we would now call FOSS projects. Running them so as to produce profit for one firm or another was not done; that was just work. People are now behaving as though they are still working for cooperatives, even though they're giving away work which someone else will profit from. Pretty sure that isn't a healthy thing.

This old bird has got tired of working for free and of being asked to work for free. Why aren't more of you? And I've also noticed that FOSS projects have all kinds of problems in documentation and support. I think we ought to be asking questions about our economic models.

It's not a matter of what WE believe, it's a matter of what the governments we live under believe. We can scream 'till we're blue in the face that no combination of ones and zeros should be illegal, but that won't stop you from spending a long time in a very unpleasant jail cell.

The idea that crypto-currencies couldn't be regulated was always a fantasy pipedream not grounded in reality. ANYTHING can be regulated, and EVERYTHING that impacts people with power and money eventually will be. You can argue about the effectiveness of the regulations, but not about the possibility of their existence. As for the effectiveness. I see that as likely being fairly high, Bitcoin is completely useless as a currency for many reasons, which means it only has value if you can get your money in and out of it. If nobody is willing to facilitate that transaction, nobody will want to use Bitcoin. We're already seeing this starting, many banks and financial institutions have blacklisted any company dealing in crypto-currencies, some governments have outright banned it, and while this has been happening the value of bitcoin has been plummeting. We'll see if an equilibrium is reached here where governments regulate, but don't completely ban, crypto currencies. It may happen, but we may also see the "value" of bitcoin plummet to near zero.

I wish I could say that I saw it coming.

Of course, the "A" in "AMD" stands for age-related, which is to say that having half your life ahead of you is pretty rare. Most people who get it do so in their 60s or 70s.

Data for all the friends of the 270,000 users was also given to the developer, as was allowed by Facebook. This turned 270,000 into 50,000,000.

Trump has sympathy for Putin, as just like Trump, Putin has to deal with Russians meddling in his election too.

"President Barack Obama has now officially endorsed..."

But you know that isn't the same. You're being disingenuous.

No, but it's said that cocaine can be found on many bank notes, and it's not exactly legal either....

You're just full of interesting and relevant facts today, aren't you?

Uh, nope, today's the same as any other day, and you're still a knothead.

Sorry if I got anyone unnecessarily excited, there.

They had machines running in terms of Megahertz instead of Giga hertz like today. I used to sell them. I used to run real Unix, Free BSD Unix on them and they had little memory, usually 4 Megabytes. I used to set up answering services, etc complete with a lan, database and such and it was all reasonable speed. With any luck they're talking about something like a 486-33. I used to sell those boards like hot cakes. Case at a time. Memory used to be a bitch because they were millipede like and I remember my fingers used to just about bleed inserting them into their sockets. 4 Megabytes and if I remember right, it was 36 chips to get it. Better than what we used to have to do when we had 4K chips. We'd have a whole tray and it would be like 64K.