"Cayenne gave a specific example about stupid cyclists being on the road in poor visibility conditions. That's what this is about. And yes, pedestrians doing the same are equally stupid and equally likely to get hit."

And if you hit them, you will be the one in the wrong. You are the one driving the lethal object. That is why the laws skew against the automobile driver. It's a lethal weapon and your responsibility to control.

It may take that long now, but when I worked on Roscoe, my clearance only took about a month. More correctly, most gov contracts requiring clearance won't allow a contractee to work on the project until the clearance is granted. I didn't have it when my company contracted me, it was just dependent upon my gaining the clearance.

But yes, neither I nor my contractor paid for it.

I was expecting camp and I got camp. Mind you, it wasn't intended. But camp can be good and this was excellent. Even the actors were chosen to imply the origins and everything else was spot on.

All that praise aside, this was very much worth one shot. A three year series to match the "6 year voyage"? Not so much. .

No, self-identification of being a hacker showed he could, his advocacy for open sourcing the suspect application implied the intent.

Hackers come in three shades, one of which is called crackers. Unfortunately, the bulk of visible actions hackers take are from these guys and so give the general view of the group. I tend to call the good guys White Hats to avoid confusion. Hell, here on /. you can find posters who easily fall into the gray category, quite dark.

In the 70's it basically meant anyone who knew how to code (Urban DIctionary) and that's where script kiddies came from, the derogatory nuance provided by their activities.

As an AC, your anecdote is not verifiable and so worthless. Perhaps you could link?

So you put scare quotes around legal why? Perhaps to have an out when your statement is shown to be abysmally wrong?

"Humans don't have free will."

Opinion is not fact.

Of course there's a good reason 4 may be no - you may believe you will understand your emotional state beforehand but you will be executing your decisions while *in* that state. Two very different things. Hormones exert influence and you can't gauge for them.

How fortunate there's a very clear rebuff of this idiotic view only a few posts up at the mo'.

The first question in the test is "Am I a decider?"

Please explain (without someone programming it) how an iPhone can even "hear" much less respond to that query?

Actually, I think the far more interesting question is "How the hell can someone think a test valid that he himself believes would yield a positive on a damned iPhone?"

Webster's Unabridged:
aware:
1. archaic : on guard : watchful, vigilant
2. a) : marked by realization, perception, or knowledge : conscious, sensible, cognizant
b) : showing heightened perception and ready comprehension and appreciation :

Which of those does that machine awareness fall under?

How does that follow? Could you explain please?

Interesting. Hopefully the IRS won't subpoena /. for your id. What you did was illegal. Hopefully, your future employer won't know that.

"I've worked for years in healthcare IT (insurance AND healthcare provision, government AND private)"

I've worked with government IT for decades and this has everyearmark of the same thing that the IRS has been going through since the 70's. It's a train wreck now and will continue to be so.

Our educated opinions cancel each other.

Republicans want us to believe we can't afford it and the poor are rolling in the dough

Bullshit. Bullshit made by feeding the bull straw.