Posts by Named coward 168 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2015
momentum relative to the speed ?
They are travelling at some speed greater than the escape velocity of the Milky Way at their location, relative to the milky way rest frame. The speed relative to the Sun (or earth) can be greater or lesser than this speed, depending on their location and direction. So you can say they are traveling very fast. You can also say they are slow (compared to, say, the speed of light)
Has the trolley problem actually ever manifested itself in real life? We tend to over-complicate things. If you are driving and see an obstacle in your way, you brake. It might mean that the asshat tailgating you ploughs right into you...tough luck. Sometimes you might even need to swerve. If, by swerving, you find yourself in a new collision path, you try to avoid that as well, and hope that if it's a car its driver will also be trying to avoid the collision. Accidents happen and will always happen...instead of wasting processor resources trying to figure out who to drive over, those same resources should be engaged in trying to avoiding any collision
What you describe: passing exams, or even always getting full marks in exams, is easily achievable by computers. Computers and robots can even perform better than humans in many tasks (be it chess, go, building cars, or simple mathematics). But that's not the Turing test. To pass the Turing test, a human being cannot be able to identify if he is interacting with a machine or another human
@John Robson - The pinto was liable to catch fire in a rear-end collision - While collosions are not normal use, it's something that can be expected to happen during normal use (similar to a power outage in PC terms). A better analogy than shooting the car (see mythbusters results on that) would be someone cutting the brake lines. Also, the pinto was recalled during its production run, not long after it stopped being "supported".
In many airports they make you take off your shoes if they are heavy boot-type shoes, which "might" be understandable: if for nothing else, the metal on the shoelace holes is sometimes enough to set off the xray beep. The US went all the way and requires ALL shoes to go through the scanner in a separate container.
The whole idea of hiring contractors because there is money is ridiculous (for everyone except the manager levels who get the bonuses). Contractors should only be needed when there is an immediate and temporary need for an expert (a real expert in a specific field, and if you can wait until the next quarter your need is not immediate). All other work should be planned with the available full-timers and if need be: hire more full-timers, train them in the domains you need etc.
"Android O, which will most likely be out this summer or autumn"
and on most "newish" devices sometime next year...and on slightly older devices...HAHAHA
And things like cyanogen don't count. If the users are unable to manually grant a permission they are also unable to install an alternate OS.
"The newspaper no longer accepts likes on its page from accounts recently registered in the country"
Accept likes? From recently registerd accounts? From a specific country? Does Facebook really provide such fineg-rained tuning for accepting likes? Why does it even have the option to reject a like? I'm trying to figure out a real-world analogy for this functionality: "I like that newspaper"..."no, you can't, try again in a few months"
Healthcare products are considered as restricted on adwords
"...The restrictions that apply to this content may vary depending on the product or service that you're promoting and the countries that you're targeting. Some content, such as unapproved substances, can't be promoted anywhere..."
It's all there in their terms and conditions, which he clearly didn't read
intentional defamation according to german law in one sentence: "Whosoever intentionally and knowingly asserts or disseminates an untrue fact related to another person, which may defame him or negatively affect public opinion about him or endanger his creditworthiness"
The MAC address doesn't change at random times. It changes per network/per connection/when scanning (depending on the implementation). Once you are connected to a network there is no point to change the MAC mid-session.
If someone can track your cookie then that's another kettle of fish. Just by being connected to the network should not make your cookies to another site visible (if it does, you have other, bigger, problems than handset identification)
If a MAC collision occurs - tough luck, one or both of the connections will probably stop working. You have to choose your battles.
DHCP - some implementations (windows 10) will use the same MAC when reconnecting to the same network so this is solved in that manner (this allows a store to know that the same user went into the store at certain times, but at least it hinders tracking across networks) - another case of Privacy vs Convenience
If a tyre blows and you crash into another car another car your insurance should pay the damages. If they find out it was a manufacturer default they then go after the manufacturer to recover the costs. If they discover that the tyres were not well maintained they might go after you to recover the costs
Replace tyre with software
@2460 Something
"Not just a charge per invalid request, but also drop the rankings of the request owners domains at the same rate it would have affected the website in question..."
Then you will get people spoofing their identity and making fake requests to drop someone else's rating... Rating and DMCA requests should simply not be related
"When consumers look at Google ads they do not get the best, most relevant results. Instead, they get results from advertisers willing to pay Google the most money"
So when we see ads on TV, billboards etc...they're the "best, most relevant " ads and not from "from advertisers willing to pay"..."the most money"?
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