So let me get this straight - Tesla uses AI hooked up to a camera to recognise obstacles?
There's no fall back with a proximity detection system like radar?
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Any one read Philip K Dick's Ubik?
They have mini drones, not much bigger then bumble bees, that follow people around spouting adverts.
If I recall correctly they also have built in AI so if you to try to swat them, they plead for their life.
In another of his books your front door lock is connected to the powers that be - so if you fall behind on your bills you can't get into your apartment.
I'm unidenitfiable on my old Vista machine, but not on my W7 - I think it's the fonts.
Firefox user and don't do social waste of time.
For plugins I have Adblock Edge, BetterPrivacy and SelectiveCookieDelete - that deletes every cookie when I close the browser, apart from any I've nominated to keep. How long before ISPs let them slurp IP to address..?
I use Thunderbird but the search is a bag of shit - it wants to be clever so if you search 'register' it will show results for 'registration' as well. People have complained about this for years but they think they know best. Can't be hard to have one setting to force 'verbatim ' search .
That, and the FF re-designs, are the mark of a bunch of arrogant tossers.
I found another plug in to force that round 'back' arrow to go back to being square - but the @@**### idiots have now made the URL dropdown line spacing enormous.
Tried *responsive* adaptations Mozilla?
Ironic isn't it.
Made a car insurance claim last year and took car to local London assessor.
Got a call a few days later from Liverpool with a dodgy geezer going on about my lovely motor and they could maybe write it off or do the repair after my sad accident - wtf?
Didn't trust him an inch and had to call insurer to verify who this random geezer was.
I bet the spam filter catches him.
Doug S is absolutely correct.
Remember not everyone has a high IQ - as you all know half the population is below 100 points.
Jobs need to be around for the less bright and less well educated - sure a load of those will be in the rich ruler category (naming no names) but the proletariat needs money to buy stuff to keep the gravy train running - where is the mass employment going to be in 20-50 years time?
Yes, but if you'd installed it many times before you'd just bounce over that and click OK. It would have got me..
What is an untrusted source anyway? Everything?
It's the sort of messge you see when an email comes through from, lets say the National Trust, and it says 'certificate not trusted'. National Trust emails have been like that for months. (I know it's not the same, but it's similar)
It's impossible to differentiate between an important message and a less important one.
Adblock Plus seems to be letting a lot through recently - still won't take long to fix and I'll be back to seeing no ads.
I used to work for a top 5 ad agency (only quality ads of course) - but I never look at ads - the ad business has trained me perfectly to 100% ignore.
I channel switch to avoid even hearing TV ads - they are universally crap.
Such a shame the Gods aren't real then mighty Isis could smite DaEsh by trampling it to oblivion.
She, the blessed one, might need to get her son Horus to help, but she's already cursed them to hell.
Funny those two religions grew up only a few hundred miles apart - both now supplanted by likes of Arsebook.
@cynic999:
" So what? I use a single insecure and easy-to remember password on all sites where a hacker can do little or no damage. "
but, but but.. someone could have logged in as Mark Z on Linked In and said "Facebook sucks, you morons" and a collapse of Gerald Ronson-esque size could ensue.
What a golden opportunity squandered.
What's driving most of this is the move to make websites look and behave like apps.
No, I don't think that's always a good thing but it's what the public and the marketeers think makes a site cool and modern.
OTOH some of it does improve usability.
Blocking Ajax requests seems counter productive for one.
Eh.. plenty of streaming sites around to get cricket - quality is not great but you need something to stop you watching too many hours.
Cricket board should FO and sell to terrestrial broadcasters .. ah wait.. there's too little demand now. You need Sky to see it and as a direct result fewer youngsters are interested.
Heinlein may have been right wing but Stranger in a strange land stands out. Mean to read that again along with Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar and The Sheep look up.
('Afrims' was Brunner's term for the refugees.. fascinate).
But really it's PKD who saw the hold advertising would get on us - it's Runciter in Ubik isn't it who swats the (conscious) advertising fly that won't stop trying to sell him crap.
I use Thunderbird at work and Windows Mail on Vista at home so neither is full Outlook.
Thunderbird is quite good apart from its utter pile of shite search facilities which are upside down, dumb crap with extra "we know better than you" tools that cannot be tailored. But TB is free on W7.