Comment Re:Pay Scales (Score 5, Funny) 149
So no girlfriends or wives then?
You can have either, but not both.
So no girlfriends or wives then?
You can have either, but not both.
Wherein 'zombies' are a placeholder for 'other (hungry) people', I presume? How christian of you..
I am only a "3" on the Dawkin's Scale, and certainly not a Christian. Instead of the bible, I prefer the moral lesson of The Little Red Hen. Why should my family starve because you made a conscious decision not to prepare? But I am still helping my fellow humans more than you are: When the Yellowstone Caldera erupts, and blocks out the sun, you will rush out in a panic buying spree, thus depriving others. But I will already have my stash, built up during times of plenty, so I will need to take nothing from others.
Is your rifle grandfathered, or are you using hyperbole and describing a semi-automatic weapon as an assault rifle?
It is an AR-15, and I have owned it since 1982. I also have a M870 shotgun. In the event of a zombie attack, my wife would use the rifle, and I would use the shotgun (it kicks too much for her). I don't own any other guns, so our kids will focus on reloading magazines (I have trained them to use a speed loader).
Why do people want to survive the end of the world? So after the dust settles they can starve to death eating their own loneliness?
Because we don't expect to be lonely. We expect our friends and families to survive along with us. I live in California, so I am more concerned with a major earthquake than zombies. I am also concerned about a major contagious disease outbreak, or a weather anomaly that causes major crop failures (this happened in 535-536, 1315-1317, and in 1815). So I have about a year's worth of food for my family, basic tools and survival equipment, and (since I am an American) an assault rifle. Even if a crisis never comes, I am still saving money by buying food in bulk, and growing most of my own vegetables. I also have a some chickens for eggs. You may think that being prepared is kooky, but if you look back through history, there is at least a 30% chance of a major calamity occurring during your lifetime. By the time you see it coming, the store shelves will be bare, and it will be too late. So I think it is foolish to not be prepared. Some of my neighbors also have a stash of supplies, and we are prepared to work together to fight off the zombies.
Didn't everybody in Europe switch to Micro USB a couple of years ago?
No. Unless you don't include Apple in "everybody".
now other restaurant chains will be reluctant to take sides on divisive social issues.
I see that as a negative.
Why? Individuals should engage in debate about issues. Why should restaurants? When I go out to eat, I should be able to choose the best food, without trying to remember their political orientation. Is it really a good thing to have "liberal" restaurants, "conservative" restaurants, "libertarian" restaurants, etc?
Ineffective boycotts are farther than technology has ever gone?
The mere threat of a boycott caused the CEO to publicly apologize. How was that "ineffective"?
Remember when Chic-fil-a closed because of the boycott? Neither do I.
Chic-fil-a did not close, but they got a lot of negative publicity, and now other restaurant chains will be reluctant to take sides on divisive social issues. When I drive past a Chic-fil-a, I have a mental image of two ugly guys having sex, and I lose my appetite.
Actually, not even Internet can compromise your OTP lines of communication.
Yes it can. A OTP can protect the content of your communication, but it does not protect the meta-data. "They" can still see who you are talking to. Once they know who is involved, they can use the proverbial $5 wrench to retrieve the content.
I'll be sure to tell the local and state road departments to take down all the "Scenic Loop" signs and close all the "viewpoint" stops in the mountain roads.
If the car drives itself, then you can relax and enjoy the scenery even more.
You admitted it doesn't know where it is.
No I didn't. I admitted that it would know that one sensor (out of dozens) had failed.
If the GPS failed, that means the GPS-based course and speed indications are unreliable.
Correct. So it would use the other sensors.
You blink, and while your eyes are closed you forget where you are and what direction you are going. Sounds like dementia.
Why would it "forget" where it was? It could just read the inertial sensors to detect any acceleration, read the rotary sensors in the wheels to determine its velocity, and calculate where it is from its last known position. It could also continue to use cameras for lane detection, cameras for landmark recognition, and a combination of cameras and radar for collision avoidance.
Finally near where I live they have put in some funky new lights that indicates you can only turn left, but must yield to traffic. Threw me for a loop the first time I saw one.
It may have confused you the first time, but it would not confuse a self driving car. The SDC would already have the rules for that intersection in its knowledge base. There are about six million intersections in America's road system, so a kilobyte or so of info on each will easily fit on a thumb drive.
You're in the middle lane of I65 going 65MPH surrounded by other cars when YOUR car suddenly decides it doesn't know where it is and needs to stop. Welcome to computer dementia.
Protip: If a problem is obvious to you after five seconds of thought, then it is likely that it is also obvious to a team of professionals working on the system for years.
There is no way in hell that this system will "suddenly stop" just because a sensor malfunctions. It will just use the other available sensors to determine the safest course of action to follow. That may mean continuing to drive, or it may mean pulling off the road as soon as it is safe to do so. But it certainly isn't going to just shut down.
throw any unexpected situation it doesn't recognize or doesn't handle in your lap.
No it doesn't. Only a complete moron would design it that way. And everyone else on the team, and the full management chain would need to be morons as well. The system will prompt the driver to take over, and if the driver does not respond, it will follow the safest course of action, which may be to continue in autonomous mode, or may be to pull over and stop. There is no way in hell that a self driving car sold to the public is going to just turn itself off while flying down the freeway.
not missing an color but reading the wrong head or choking on Unusual traffic lights / intersections.
A computer would be less likely to get this wrong than a human. Especially since the "weird intersection" is probably already in its knowledge base.
radio signals can be hacked / blocked / jammed / or misread as well. And a small gps accuracy issue can place a car on a main road with an green light when it really on the forage road that has an red with an radio based system.
Self driving cars have multiple sensors: GPS, cameras, radar, inertial sensors, rotation sensors, compasses. The readings from these sensors are continuously crossed checked. If the GPS suddenly reports that the car has instantaneously transported itself to a new location, I don't think it will be blindly trusted.
I dont think that is true at all.
Of course it is not true, because the entire premise of the GGPP's objection is false. Self driving cars do not expect the human driver to "randomly" jump in. If the SDC calculates that it cannot make the best decision, it will prompt the human to take over. If the human does not respond, the SDC will either continue if it is reasonably safe to do so, or pull over and stop. The people designing these systems are not morons.
The moon is made of green cheese. -- John Heywood
