They might talk big but when it comes to actually taking over responsibility and liability for the driving, put your money where your mouth is. I bet we'll have years passing where companies have cars they think is almost ready but nobody wants to go out on a limb and say if this car runs over some school children then sue us for manslaughter, not the guy in the driver's seat. More and more advanced assistance that still leaves the final responsibility on you sure, but that truly self-driving car I think could take a very long time.

But that's just the point, this isn't a self driving car. It's a very sophisticated driving assistant that'll handle the routine driving but throw any unexpected situation it doesn't recognize or doesn't handle in your lap. Or are you trying to argue that Nissan is taking full responsibility and liability for how this car drives while this system is active? Because I'm pretty sure they don't. The day you're no more than a swap-in driver which happen to be sitting in the driver's seat instead of the passenger seat, fine. But on the road to that future there'll be hybrids that sort of drive themselves but demand you're there alert and attentive to override the system. And it was the hybrids I worried about, not the true self-driving cars.

Now it just remains to be seen if drivers will continue to pay attention to the road, or if it becomes so autonomous that people start slacking (more) behind the wheel. It really won't work to have a car that drives itself 90% of the time and then expects you go randomly jump in for the last 10%. Still, nice to see this tech getting closer to reality.

You misunderstand, they're using shot guns and rock salt shells. It won't cause serious trauma if you turn and run, but it will cause painful stinging injuries and serve as a warning. The recidivism rate is low.

If your idea of "commercial scale" is two copies of Photoshop CS6 (above $1000 sticker price value) in a 180-day period. That makes you a criminal, even if you didn't earn a dime and it's not that hard if you're using a torrent. The main reason nobody cares is that a criminal case also raises the standard from "preponderance of evidence" to "beyond a reasonable doubt", you get rights to representation and the copyright holders won't get more money from you, probably less after you've spent all your money in court. And the police and courts don't want to get stuffed with run-of-the-mill torrent seeders either.

Well I'm not sure why but whenever I take a break from posting (holidays or whatever) I often end up with mod points. I don't know if it's their way of keeping you hooked or to avoid that you stop commenting to mod instead, but they seem to give them out when you're not very active.

Diagnostic information is fine, if you're trying to diagnose something but 99.9% of the time I'm not and then I'd rather have a nice spinning logo and have the boot log appear on error or if it freezes hard then as a boot option on the next boot. But I guess that's "pandering to nitwits", so after 3.5 years of dealing with asshats like you I finally had enough verbal abuse and insults so I returned to Windows. You're the kind of person who makes me advice people stay away from Linux with a ten foot pole. Worst thing is, you probably enjoy it and take it as proof we're not "hardcore" enough to run Linux. I got tired of being attacked, when Windows has a problem we blame Microsoft and people try to help out while Linux seems all about throwing as much shit back in my face as possible. So I went back to my "Wintendo" as one of the people I asked for help called it.

It's always been that way, in many fields you could read a lifetime and not come up with conclusive answers anyway. Take for example this simple question from parenting, how much should your child be allowed to do? The two extremes that your child should be allowed to do everything and nothing are obviously not the right answer, the answer is lurking somewhere in the middle but you're never going to be able to pin it down, put it in a book and say this is the right answer like you can with a physics textbook. Most knowledge we have that doesn't drop right ouf the laws of nature is approximate.

Linux was and is still predominantly used by people who can use a command line, but Ubuntu won a following with those who don't want to. I came from Debian which was a nice, solid base but very few cared about the desktop. That was something which just happened to run on top of the rock solid server they were building. Hell, when I switched Debian still didn't have a boot screen, it was text scrolling past because who cares on a server? But it was 2007 and it looked a DOS boot from the 1980s, I'm not going to pretend that was a big thing but it was representative of the attitude. To use the infamous car analogy, the only thing Debian focused on was the engine, gearbox, brakes, chassis and so on. Ubuntu came and said we'll give you that with a nice interior, leather seats, air condition, sun roof, metallic paint and a nice polish. Seemed like a win-win at the time.

The very point of discussion, not communication. I find it great that fans of an obscure band that one in million have heard of can gather in the same forum and be hundreds if not thousands, no matter where they live. The other part is that most people participate in a discussion to influence others, not to get influenced themselves. Two sides who aren't going to bend an inch throwing volleys after volleys at each other and anyone trying to take up position in the middle is caught in the crossfire. I've taken the unpopular opinion or played the devil's advocate a few times here on slashdot and while there's some -1, Disagree voting in comparison to many other places a lot of people here will give credit where credit is due for a decent counter-argument. Some other places they'd deny the sky is blue if their opponent said it.

In summary, you've never actually read the texts but imagined what it is you would like them to say. Religions aren't egalitarian and universally generous, they're highly exclusive and competitive. My religion is right, everyone else's is wrong. Good things will happen to you if you follow my religion, bad things will happen to you if you don't. Spread my truths and stop the unbelievers from spreading their lies. It's all different versions of carrot and stick, not just carrots and not for everyone. They all sell you on a similar story whether it's Heaven, Jannah (Islamic Heaven), Nirvana (Buddhism) or Vaikuntha (Hinduism) but while you don't care which religion, the religions do. If you don't accept Jesus Christ as your savior you're still going to hell and that's not really open for interpretation. We just like to quietly ignore those parts that aren't palatable in a multicultural world.

If someone rear ends me, it's not my repair bill. I never figured out that part about wear, to me it seems like a friction clutch should mainly be worn out by the actual engaging and disengaging of the clutch as they are in partial contact. I suppose there's some springs that are supposed to keep it fully engaged when I let go that would suffer a few extra seconds of static compression, but I can't imagine that has any significant effect compared to the constant expansion and contraction they experience during normal operation, whether you put it in neutral or not. So far I've haven't ever managed to wear out a clutch at least...

Neither the XBone or PS4 are going to tank, they're both very capable machines with a strong following. They're profitable now (indeed, have been for 5 years) and it'd be an awfully long uphill battle for anyone else to enter the market. With the WiiU sales being crap it's basically down to a duopoly, you really think Microsoft and Sony want to go on an all-out price war for your benefit? No, you'll be paying enough that both enjoy a comfortable profit margin. Ten years ago the gaming division was a huge money burner, today it's a money maker. If Microsoft wanted to sell their gaming division, how much more could they cash in than 10 years ago?

For long-running businesses that have a steady cash flow the stock market has usually put a P/E ratio of 10-20 on it, that's price to earnings and currently Microsoft as a whole is at 12.59. Last fiscal year the gaming division earned $380 million, so if we take the average P/E it's probably worth around $380*12.59 = $4.8 billion while the money losing division ten years ago was probably close to unsalable. So if you include that Microsoft has actually turned a profit in the last 10 years, it's just that most is still in their pockets as an asset. If they really wanted to, they could almost certainly sell out the division for more than those $3 billion.

Never heard of it, never seen any of my parents, friends or relatives do it. Typically at an intersection the car will be in 1st gear, clutch pressed with left foot, right foot on the brakes, certainly no hand brake. The only time I intentionally stick it in neutral while driving is if there's a significant wait that makes it less hassle to put it in neutral, release the clutch, press the clutch and put it back in 1st when the light changes. The only time I'd use the hand brake is for starting in a steep hillside, then you put the hand brake on, start giving gas and release the clutch so the car will immediately go forward when you release the hand brake. Otherwise you might bump into the car behind you.

Close. The one's employees didn't go near at all are those dismissed under the DMCA. All the ones any employee touched in some way, even as little as clicking a "like" button, put on a favorite list or whatever are the ones going to trial because there's doubts as to Vimeo's awareness of infringement. The really brief summary is: If you're looking for DMCA protection, the content is poison. Don't look at it, don't touch it, don't discuss it. Have automated content monitoring and user flagging, but don't go looking on your own and don't mention any specific cases even in internal emails. You have to go very far out of your way avoid knowing what is going on to be punished for "willful blindness".