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Comment Not at fault, but was it avoidable? (Score 2) 408

While I get that the autonomous system wasn't at fault, the real question is, "Were the accidents something a human driver could have avoided?" I'm a professional delivery driver and one of the things that's constantly drilled into us is to essentially watch out for the stupid people. Sometimes you have to yield right-of-way because it's clear the other driver isn't going to. Do autonomous cars know that?

Comment Rule of three (Score 2) 446

Rule of three: Original copy, on site backup, off site backup. Otherwise you're not truly protected. I'd say SD cards, in a Pelican SD card case, in the safe for the local backup. Then look into an encrypted off site backup. The key is to make sure it is encrypted *before* it leaves your computer, and that the provider does not hold the key. Many providers offer this, even if it's not turned on by default.

Comment Re:Commodore 64, baby! (Score 1) 1485

Another hand goes up for the amazing C-64! I remember writing a program and convincing my older sister that I'd changed her grades at school. She told the principal and to this day hasn't forgiven me for embarrassing her. I also got SAM, a speech synthesizer that gave a few extra commands in BASIC. Eventually I had a program that picked up the phone, dialed a number, and then spoke whatever you typed onto the phone line. My friend and I carried on a 5 minute conversation with a girl using that program and she never knew who it was (my god, i was a nerd)!

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