Note to readers. Inquiring and curious minds may still want to know: Why DID Gorman have so much cash? Where did he get that much money? How could he afford an RV, too? And, if he had a real job in Maui, why did he have enough time to drive cross country on the mainland? Was he actually involved in drugs or some other illegal stuff?
But in answer to that curiosity, stop. Just stop. Whether illegal or legal, we have no right to know, and neither did these cops.
I, myself, want to know at least how this guy had $167k, but that falls into the category of "none of my fn business." Whether he got that money from his dead dad's estate, or from smuggling heroin in SUPs is irrelevant. His right to privacy should supersede all suspicion and curiosity unless there is a legitimate probable cause.
Later, in the news: drone-like, repetitive, clickbaity and formulaic news articles basically write themselves. How the forumla for creating a moral panic may threaten the human element and editorial touch we used to value in news reporting.
Click to read more...but first, Is something in your garage planning to kill you?
Does Nielsen count the many hours of TV being viewed by an empty room? Or the many hours where the tube is left on, but people are just playing CNN or Fox "news" as "background music?"
Do they also count the hours of TV being played to drooling people who fell asleep at the remote two shows prior. I remember being woken up by a test pattern on more than a few occasions.
Nielsen can count those viewers, but they're not watching ads or buying the products.
And that's exactly why you drive without a license, right? Driving on public roads is a god-given right in the USA. Not some privilege that requires a Permit from the state.
"Looking at the way things are today, I don't see how your proposed future makes any sense."
And that is always the wrong way to predict the future. None of the better prediction methods are accurate either, but at least they don't make the fallacy of looking at each invention in a silo, assume nothing else will change, and compare how the innovation would fit into the world of today.
To be clear, I'm talking about the "transition period" when both bot and human drivers coexist. I expect this period to be a long one, since we're going to be buying classic cars for at least a decade more, and then the fleet takes a decade or more to age off the road. Even culture is able to change as fast as the car fleet. (Think about how popular Hummers were in 2000.)
Long-term, once the transition is made and infrastructure is redesigned for Type 4 autonomous cars, it will be dangerous for humans to drive.
Autonomous driving is an extremely ripe field for naysayers. It just seems so far-fetched.
But the arc of technology is easily tracked. The medium-term capabilities of autonomous vehicles are easily predictable. Complex ADAS systems are here already. Ray Kurzweil warns us that technology is exponential -- you can't predict the next 10 years by looking at the rate of change in the past 10 years without making vast underestimates.
I know many will disagree with us few, and it in 10 years, you will forget how wrong your forecasts were. But the naysaying is on par with IBM's chief predicting a market for 7 computers in the world. If you just look at your feet, and individual waves, you're never see the tide flow in.
"It will soon become prohibitively expensive to insure the human-driven cars and drivers."
There will be little change in the risk factors, the risk premium, and the risk coverage for human operated vehicles. If anything, it might drop a bit because the robots can practice defensive driving around the humans.
DC officials are so immersed in their NewSpeak language courses from Orwell U, class of '84, that they can no longer understand English.
Patriot Act? A-OK. Free Trade? A-OK. USA Freedom Act? A-OK. "Representatives" in the house? Sure. Money is speech? Of course it is! Corporations are people? Natch! "Hands Off the Internet" means "Hands On the Internet"? Duh!
Stop Hillary? Nope, that may be confused with being pro-Hillary.
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As written, it was never about shooting a home intruder or a criminal. It was about stopping an over-bearing government.
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Don't Be Curious
But in answer to that curiosity, stop. Just stop. Whether illegal or legal, we have no right to know, and neither did these cops.
I, myself, want to know at least how this guy had $167k, but that falls into the category of "none of my fn business." Whether he got that money from his dead dad's estate, or from smuggling heroin in SUPs is irrelevant. His right to privacy should supersede all suspicion and curiosity unless there is a legitimate probable cause.
On the post: Breaking: Self-Driving Cars Avoid Accident, Do Exactly What They Were Programmed To Do
Re: Warning! You Could Be In Danger...stay tuned
On the post: Breaking: Self-Driving Cars Avoid Accident, Do Exactly What They Were Programmed To Do
Warning! You Could Be In Danger...stay tuned
Click to read more...but first, Is something in your garage planning to kill you?
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Brilliant, I say!!
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Re: How the Cable TV stole Internet Streaming
On the post: Years Of Pretending Netflix Cord Cutting Wasn't Real Is Biting The Cable Industry In The Ass
Drooling and Snores
Do they also count the hours of TV being played to drooling people who fell asleep at the remote two shows prior. I remember being woken up by a test pattern on more than a few occasions.
Nielsen can count those viewers, but they're not watching ads or buying the products.
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Well Said
"And it's not like O'Reilly really wants entertainment mediums saddled with the responsibility for what evil people do."
Well done. Let's assess if there has been any violence bred from anger fomented by Fox News, assign a reasonable cost, and make Rupert pay the bill.
On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 29: Autonomous Vehicles Will Change Everything
Re: Get the fuck off the road
And that's exactly why you drive without a license, right? Driving on public roads is a god-given right in the USA. Not some privilege that requires a Permit from the state.
Or do you have that wrong?
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"Looking at the way things are today, I don't see how your proposed future makes any sense."
And that is always the wrong way to predict the future. None of the better prediction methods are accurate either, but at least they don't make the fallacy of looking at each invention in a silo, assume nothing else will change, and compare how the innovation would fit into the world of today.
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Re: Taylor Swift says it's not for her but those starting; Masnick nuances that away claiming 3-months not paid doesn't matter.
And massive stakes in the ground like "Apple was stupid not to pay" serve more as punji sticks for idiots than clarifiers.
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Will This Be Their Downfall?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6262709/Hitler-Downfall-parodies-25-worth-watchi ng.html
Seems needed.
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disqualified from serving
Double diss.
On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 29: Autonomous Vehicles Will Change Everything
Re: Re: Autonomous Vehicles
Long-term, once the transition is made and infrastructure is redesigned for Type 4 autonomous cars, it will be dangerous for humans to drive.
On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 29: Autonomous Vehicles Will Change Everything
Naysayers
But the arc of technology is easily tracked. The medium-term capabilities of autonomous vehicles are easily predictable. Complex ADAS systems are here already. Ray Kurzweil warns us that technology is exponential -- you can't predict the next 10 years by looking at the rate of change in the past 10 years without making vast underestimates.
I know many will disagree with us few, and it in 10 years, you will forget how wrong your forecasts were. But the naysaying is on par with IBM's chief predicting a market for 7 computers in the world. If you just look at your feet, and individual waves, you're never see the tide flow in.
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Re: Autonomous Vehicles
"It will soon become prohibitively expensive to insure the human-driven cars and drivers."
There will be little change in the risk factors, the risk premium, and the risk coverage for human operated vehicles. If anything, it might drop a bit because the robots can practice defensive driving around the humans.
On the post: Federal Election Committee Tries To Shut Down 'Stop Hillary' PAC Because Donors Might Think Hillary Clinton Is Behind It
OMG! They Only Understand Newspeak
Patriot Act? A-OK.
Free Trade? A-OK.
USA Freedom Act? A-OK.
"Representatives" in the house? Sure.
Money is speech? Of course it is!
Corporations are people? Natch!
"Hands Off the Internet" means "Hands On the Internet"? Duh!
Stop Hillary? Nope, that may be confused with being pro-Hillary.
On the post: Boom: House Rejects Fast Track... For Now
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This is censorship!!
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