I used to date a Chinese girl, and she used the term "Asian" freely to describe herself, her family, and her Chinese (and other Asian) friends. If that's a bigoted term, apparently no one told them...
Of course she would! Everyone knows women are inherently unsuitable for engineering; it's a scientifically proven fact! And a blonde at that? What could possibly be more suspicious?
(Note for the sarcasm-impaired: I'm blonde, and I do a lot of hobby work in a field of computing that was single-handedly invented by a woman. That doesn't mean that there aren't plenty of people out there dumb enough to believe every word of that up there.)
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Sounds interesting, but see my big comment above. Having the car's computer able to run both the entertainment system and the GPS means that the GPS can "interrupt" the radio when it's time to read a turn to you. This might not seem like a big deal, but trust me, when you've experienced GPS navigation both with and without that feature, you really notice the difference.
Yeah, that's what I was wondering. Heck, I'm a professional techie, and if my phone got stolen even I would have no idea what its MAC address is. How's Joe Random Citizen supposed to be able to provide that info to police?
I dunno if it's different for circuit boards, but I use the term "personal project" (or simply "project") all the time to describe programming work I'm doing on my own, and so do plenty of other programmers.
Lessig notes that while the record in the case shows lots of communication between Megaupload staff, it shows none between the staff and the users of the site who are actually doing the infringing. That's a pretty weak conspiracy.
That's no conspiracy at all, in fact. The word "conspire" literally means "breathing together". It calls to mind the idea of people speaking in hushed voices, leaning in so close that they're breathing in each other's breaths, so that their secrets will not be overheard.
If there's no secret planning, there's no conspiracy.
Re: ??? If you don't like this, then why the hell are you wanting to allow modifications to it?
No sane person wants a car computer to be modifiable, nor to have ANY external input.
I want my car to take input from my phone (hands-free calling and text message-reading) and from any USB device I plug in that contains music.
I also want to be able to write a simple app to run on my car's computer, so that when it starts up and scans automatically for the phone it's expecting to pair up with, if it doesn't find it, it will sound an alert on the speakers and flash a warning at me. This will keep me from accidentally forgetting and leaving my phone at home, which occasionally happens.
I remember back in high school, there was a joke going around:
The president of GM was talking with Bill Gates, and Bill said to him, "you know, if we designed cars the way we designed computers, after this many years of improvements we'd all be driving a car that could go 300 MPH, got a thousand MPG, and cost $500."
The president of GM just chuckled at him and said, "yeah, but who wants a car that crashes every day?"
Is it just me that is really puzzled by how stupid these companies are? It seems really simple to me, the entertainment system and the car control system should be air gaped. There is no excuse to have these two systems talking to each other. Where does the one end and the other begin?
My car has two screens, a small one on the dashboard with basic diagnostic information, and large one off to the right with a touchscreen that handles entertainment, climate control, phone interface, and GPS.
The large one also displays the backup camera view when I put it in Reverse. The control system has to be able to talk to it to tell it when the car's in Reverse, and also to tell it which way the wheel is turned so it can draw the curved guidelines, and to give it feedback from the collision sensors so it can incorporate that into the picture as well. The backup camera is a basic safety feature, and you really want it to be drawn on the large screen so you can see it clearly.
On the other hand, the one on the dash, that specializes in basic diagnostic info (odometer, fuel levels, maintenance warnings, etc.) will also display the distance to and direction of your next turn, when the GPS is active. It has to get that from the "entertainment system". I'd categorize this as a safety feature too: it's simpler and less distracting to glance down than to look off to the side, and when you're driving on GPS guidance it's because you already don't know the route by heart, which means you need to be paying more attention to the road than usual.
You can't put the GPS into the diagnostic system, though, because the complexity of entering a destination requires a relatively sophisticated input mechanism such as a touchscreen. And before anyone suggests that the GPS shouldn't be integrated into the car's computer at all, I've done the whole "external GPS unit" thing with rental cars, and it sucks. Aside from the usual difficulty mounting them so they're 1) visible and 2) stable enough that they won't fall off every time you brake or turn, when it's not integrated with the car's entertainment system, it can't turn the radio down when it announces an upcoming turn.
So yeah, there are a lot of legitimate reasons for the two subsystems to be able to talk to each other that make the driving experience better and safer. Beware throwing the baby out with the bath water.
With no context whatsoever, there's really no way to explain that. The only obvious thing that comes to mind is that simply because he had never met this officer before doesn't mean the officer didn't know who he was, for any number of reasons legitimate or otherwise. But without more information it's impossible to draw any valid conclusions.
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Who said I'm against him? I don't think he did anything wrong here; I just think it's silly for him (and apparently everyone else) to pile on with knee-jerk assumptions of racism.
It used to be that denial of witchcraft could be interpreted as proof of guilt, which left a rather uncomfortable question that nobody wanted to address: how are true innocents supposed to defend themselves then?
Nowadays no one believes in witchcraft anymore, but have no fear, the ancient logic lives on in allegations of racism. Hooray for progress!
Bigotry. Yeah. Let's totally play the race card here, making sure to slip in a bit about how uneasy the kid felt because of his dark skin.
Having a picture of him with the much darker-skinned cop who was involved in all this totally undermines that whole narrative, but we'll just pretend that didn't happen. Nope, this is all about racism, folks!
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This guy is a disgrace to every one of New York's Finest who lost their lives saving people on 9/11.
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Well let's hope so. When a company stops fulfilling a societally useful purpose and turns into a parasite, it's time for it to be exterminated.
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I used to date a Chinese girl, and she used the term "Asian" freely to describe herself, her family, and her Chinese (and other Asian) friends. If that's a bigoted term, apparently no one told them...
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(Note for the sarcasm-impaired: I'm blonde, and I do a lot of hobby work in a field of computing that was single-handedly invented by a woman. That doesn't mean that there aren't plenty of people out there dumb enough to believe every word of that up there.)
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Re: Re: Re: ??? If you don't like this, then why the hell are you wanting to allow modifications to it?
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Yeah, that's major o_0 material. Agreed that it should have been in the article!
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I dunno if it's different for circuit boards, but I use the term "personal project" (or simply "project") all the time to describe programming work I'm doing on my own, and so do plenty of other programmers.
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That's no conspiracy at all, in fact. The word "conspire" literally means "breathing together". It calls to mind the idea of people speaking in hushed voices, leaning in so close that they're breathing in each other's breaths, so that their secrets will not be overheard.
If there's no secret planning, there's no conspiracy.
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Re: ??? If you don't like this, then why the hell are you wanting to allow modifications to it?
I want my car to take input from my phone (hands-free calling and text message-reading) and from any USB device I plug in that contains music.
I also want to be able to write a simple app to run on my car's computer, so that when it starts up and scans automatically for the phone it's expecting to pair up with, if it doesn't find it, it will sound an alert on the speakers and flash a warning at me. This will keep me from accidentally forgetting and leaving my phone at home, which occasionally happens.
Am I insane for wanting either of those things?
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Suddenly that joke's a lot less funny.
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Where does the one end and the other begin?
My car has two screens, a small one on the dashboard with basic diagnostic information, and large one off to the right with a touchscreen that handles entertainment, climate control, phone interface, and GPS.
The large one also displays the backup camera view when I put it in Reverse. The control system has to be able to talk to it to tell it when the car's in Reverse, and also to tell it which way the wheel is turned so it can draw the curved guidelines, and to give it feedback from the collision sensors so it can incorporate that into the picture as well. The backup camera is a basic safety feature, and you really want it to be drawn on the large screen so you can see it clearly.
On the other hand, the one on the dash, that specializes in basic diagnostic info (odometer, fuel levels, maintenance warnings, etc.) will also display the distance to and direction of your next turn, when the GPS is active. It has to get that from the "entertainment system". I'd categorize this as a safety feature too: it's simpler and less distracting to glance down than to look off to the side, and when you're driving on GPS guidance it's because you already don't know the route by heart, which means you need to be paying more attention to the road than usual.
You can't put the GPS into the diagnostic system, though, because the complexity of entering a destination requires a relatively sophisticated input mechanism such as a touchscreen. And before anyone suggests that the GPS shouldn't be integrated into the car's computer at all, I've done the whole "external GPS unit" thing with rental cars, and it sucks. Aside from the usual difficulty mounting them so they're 1) visible and 2) stable enough that they won't fall off every time you brake or turn, when it's not integrated with the car's entertainment system, it can't turn the radio down when it announces an upcoming turn.
So yeah, there are a lot of legitimate reasons for the two subsystems to be able to talk to each other that make the driving experience better and safer. Beware throwing the baby out with the bath water.
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Nowadays no one believes in witchcraft anymore, but have no fear, the ancient logic lives on in allegations of racism. Hooray for progress!
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Having a picture of him with the much darker-skinned cop who was involved in all this totally undermines that whole narrative, but we'll just pretend that didn't happen. Nope, this is all about racism, folks!
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