Chas,

Your user number is almost as low as mine ;-)

People don't like it when Darwin wins.

Steve

The autopilot doesn't make turns other than lane changes on city streets under any circumstance yet.

Agreed - got the update yesterday and took it for a local drive.

It stops at EVERY major intersection. If you hit the accelerator briefly or the right handle on the steering wheel - it will continue instead of slowing to a stop. If it is behind another car, then it will function as always and use the radar seeing the car in front moving to decide to continue again.

It has rough edges. Saw a youtube demonstration where two stop signs were in site at the same time a short distance apart. The system saw the 2nd Stop sign instead of the first. Would have run the first stop sign..

You MUST pay attention to use this. It will take a learning curve. The way Testa does things is they get the software out to 1 million users and let them gather the learning cases that will be used to teach the AI the next improvement.

I knew the job was dangerous when I paid for the Full Self Driving system. I didn't expect it to be perfect over-night. It is a constantly evolving piece of software.. and that is EXACTLY how to look at it. They are doing things differently from everyone else, they rely on vision instead of lidar. That has its own challenges and advantages. They have the largest fleet of cars by far that they can use to help improve the system. They update the user experience about once a month. Small steady improvements over time. My car is 9 months old - and it is already a vastly improved system compared to the purchase point.

I work for a $2 billion company. Simple facts. The virus has caused a huge upswing in attacks on the corporate infrastructure. The hackers seem to think this is an opportunity and that the IT infrastructure will be vulnerable due to lack of attention. Guess who is still on the job at the corporate centers while the rest of us work from home enabled by their efforts. This point of view isn't in contact with today's corporate reality.

Yeah - Fortran First.

Basic 2nd - in parallel with COBOL. Was the lab assistant for the computer lab teaching Basic in Junior College - never took a class for it. This is coincident with the Altair 8080 system MS Basic coming available.

Pascal in college - never really used it. Also - IBM 360 Assembler.

FInally - took a class in C programming for my job in very early 80s - and have written many thousands of lines since.

With my current job - Perl/Tcl/Python.

You can find the gory details on groklaw.net. However - the 11K lines is bogus.

What they got sued for was using the API definitions that are required to be able to simulate a Java environment. So as another poster said - HEADER files. The Header files have to have exactly the same names in exactly the same order...or it doesn't work.

The analogy to a phone book (which can NOT be copyrighted) is actually spot on. The list of phone numbers/names is identical to the function calls and the arguments of the functions - the numbers have to be in an explicit order, and an explicit value to achieve the desired function, i.e. call the person whose number it is. Same for a Java Program that wants to use the Jave runtime.

Yep - or facsimile from weather satellites or Slow Scan TV on Ham Radio. All do what this patent claims. It isn't novel and the prior art goes back decades.

You should look at some of Tim Pool's video comments in the subject. He is absolutely NOT right wing and he constantly calling out journalists and Silicon Valley companies like Twitter , Facebook, and Google for their bias. The fact that Google disappeared the Project Veritas insiders post is just the latest proof that the companies are practicing censorship against the right. The argument that they are private companies gets pretty thin when they are trying to effect elections . Isn't that what Russia did that everyone is afraid of?

The companies will loose the protection they enjoy under the DMCA because they are now editors!

Seems to me this whole stream is academic.

In the US system of government - the House, Senate, and President need to agree on a Bill to make it law (Me thinks someone needs to watch School House Rock again..).

With that being said - only the House is in the hands of the Democrat party - the Senate and Presidency are in the hands of the Republican party. Can you say grid-lock boys and girls?

QED - Can't/Ain't gonna happen.

Not my experience through this last election cycle. Just saw a friend who was black-listed from posting because she chose to forward something from a "Secretary of State for CA" FB page. I read the post at it's source - NOTHING there that was either controversial or even partisan (and Partisan SHOULD BE OKAY!) Thought Police are ALREADY HERE!

Read what the guys said. They knew who owned the IP - and what that could mean. Once they got called on it - they folded because they do know who owns the IP. It would have been great if the company had instead licensed the name to them for a nominal fee... but they didn't want too. Fighting this was a losing proposition legally. Pissing in the wind.

Interesting point - but it was a lot more involved. IBM was just out of a years long case with the US government about them being a monopoly. They were walking on glass from that perspective. The were the 1000 lb elephant in the room - think Amazon or MS of not that long ago. They also learned a lesson from Apple and published technical schematics and the BIOS for the system! Apple didn't do that for the Mac, but had for the Apple II. Apple II was an open bus architecture - Mac not so much. IBM PC followed the open bus architecture paradigm and created a whole new industry. The clones were enabled by the concept of a Clean-room version of the BIOS becoming available. The rest as they say was history.

Yeah - I believe it was on NBC wasn't it?

Yep - after CBS started playing commercials on their streaming service within TV shows that are available over-the-air I canceled my subscription. Only got it to watch Star Trek Discovery - and honestly it was the worst Trek yet! I've been a fan since the original show originally aired! I can live without this!

You beat me to pointing out the obvious. No it isn't part of the "Valley" In fact it is on the other side of the hills that form the "Valley."