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• On the post: FCC Boss Under Fire For Facts-Optional Attack On Low-Income Broadband Programs

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2018 @ 01:46pm

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  There is no dissonance if one of the two competing "ideas" is all a lie fabricated to protect the other. He gets paid, he does his "job" for the telcos. That just happens to involve lying to the nation about why he's doing it.

• On the post: Congressman's Office Gets High School Student Suspended For Expressing His Displeasure With Congress

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2018 @ 03:04pm

  Re: MEDIUM ZOMBIE ALERT! TWO COMMENTS TOTAL SINCE 2015!

  Oh ffs, grow up.

• On the post: Court Tosses Dennis Prager's Silly Lawsuit Against YouTube, Refuses His Request For Preliminary Injunction

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2018 @ 03:00pm

  Re: Re: Re: Public Place

  They don't even have to yell racial slurs. McDonalds will kick you out if you haven't bathed in weeks, yell incomprehensible babble, sit and talk to your cheeseburger for 4 hours or anything else they don't like or that breaks their "rules". They are under no obligation to provide anything to anyone despite being a "public business".
  
  The same is true of Google.
  
  Abide by the rules or GTFO.

• On the post: Congressman's Office Gets High School Student Suspended For Expressing His Displeasure With Congress

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2018 @ 12:53pm

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  Fair. Then he should be told/taught as much. Not suspended.

• On the post: Telecom Lobbyists: We'll Fight State Efforts To Protect Net Neutrality For A 'United And Connected Future'

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2018 @ 09:13am

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  Nobody here was cheering on the FCC. You're confusing TD with other sites you troll.

• On the post: Arizona Bans Self-Driving Car Tests; Still Ignores How Many Pedestrians Get Killed

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2018 @ 03:23pm

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  Lidar is much more than that. It is capable of drawing objects in view in near-real time without the need for cameras to give those objects texture. It can "see" for quite a distance, too. There's no reason in the world that the lidar on that car could not have "seen" the pedestrian and reacted as it can also scan and rescan fast enough to detect objects in motion. That's its whole purpose.

• On the post: Arizona Bans Self-Driving Car Tests; Still Ignores How Many Pedestrians Get Killed

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2018 @ 10:15am

  Re: Re: Techdirt Big Tech bias

  I don't get how the ratios are a misrepresentation. If there were 4000 times as many self-driving cars (to get to 2.4m) and the kill rate holds there would have been 4000 deaths due to autonomous cars in the same period. Compared to 962 from human-driven vehicles that's a pretty abysmal rate.
  
  Granted, we don't have nearly enough data on self-driven cars to draw any solid conclusions but the above isn't misrepresentation, just incomplete data.

• On the post: Arizona Bans Self-Driving Car Tests; Still Ignores How Many Pedestrians Get Killed

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2018 @ 10:11am

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  How so? If the stated fact is true, the old toys are 25 times safer...

• On the post: Arizona Bans Self-Driving Car Tests; Still Ignores How Many Pedestrians Get Killed

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2018 @ 10:09am

  Re: Re: Many more manual cars

  There is insufficient data to draw any conclusions either way. Let's hope they find a safer way to develop their tech while we collect more data.

• On the post: Arizona Bans Self-Driving Car Tests; Still Ignores How Many Pedestrians Get Killed

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2018 @ 09:59am

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  The car's and ambient lighting are irrelevant. Lidar doesn't require lighting.

• On the post: Arizona Bans Self-Driving Car Tests; Still Ignores How Many Pedestrians Get Killed

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2018 @ 09:56am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How do we deal with a machine kills a human?

  I've been working as a software engineer for close to 3 decades. I've worked on embedded system, including medical devices, where bugs are intolerable. And yet... I avoid most tech, particularly that which presents a hazard to life and limb as I know there is no such thing as bug-free software.
  
  As we've entered the world of "Deploy it quick! We can patch it later." software quality has gone down the crapper. Most embedded systems are riddled with issues, the type of software that should be least prone to such problems (to wit: IoT, including vehicles). There is no reason in the world anyone should trust any software-driven system any more. Given that vehicles are basically guided cannonballs we should be especially careful with how they're deployed.
  
  No, I'm not a fan of this tech but I do see it is inevitable. Some day we'll get there but for right now we should not be testing this experimental technology in crowded urban areas.

• On the post: Arizona Bans Self-Driving Car Tests; Still Ignores How Many Pedestrians Get Killed

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2018 @ 09:51am

  Re: How do we deal with a machine kills a human?

  If there was malice then it was no accident, by definition. It's not machine malice we should be afraid of, it's AI's inability to navigate a world full of unpredictable humans. Despite humans being murderous morons, AI is worse at this than other humans.

• On the post: Arizona Bans Self-Driving Car Tests; Still Ignores How Many Pedestrians Get Killed

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2018 @ 09:49am

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  The difference here is that it's not a single individual driver you can hold accountable when they screw up. In this case you have to try to hold the corporation behind the tech accountable... Good luck with that.
  
  There may be no "finish line" but there is a point when the general public learns to trust automated vehicles more than human-operated vehicles. Until we get there the corporations ought to be forced to bond their testing so there is a readily accessible fund when they inevitably screw up. Something easier to access than having to sue some entity with massively deep pockets.

• On the post: Arizona Bans Self-Driving Car Tests; Still Ignores How Many Pedestrians Get Killed

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2018 @ 09:45am

  Re: PS: note also the plug for Waymo, GOOGLE subsidiary.

  Apart from your churlish insistence on name-calling, I somewhat agree with you on this specific point. Self-driving capabilities are still in their infancy and there will be more fatalities. AI will never be able to predict individual human behavior. As long as there are humans anywhere near where self-driving vehicles operate there will be problems.
  
  The tech will get better over time but I find it odd that we're doing live testing in crowded urban settings already. We're just not there yet, it's still experimental (to wit: the useless human "driver" just in case).

• On the post: Arizona Bans Self-Driving Car Tests; Still Ignores How Many Pedestrians Get Killed

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2018 @ 09:40am

  Re: So how many humans are you willing to kill?

  If more people cared about long gaps in posting history there'd be two of you!

• On the post: FBI Officials Were Angry That An iPhone Hack Blocked Them From Getting Court To Force Apple To Break Encryption

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2018 @ 09:39am

  Re: Holy crap!

  Yeah, whoever quoted Wyden. Who knows whether Wyden himself knows the difference.

• On the post: Cable Companies Warn In Court That AT&T Time Warner Merger Will Be Absolutely Terrible For Competition And Consumers

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2018 @ 09:34am

  Re: Consumer advocates

  Assuming that's true, what's your point?

• On the post: The FCC's Evidence-Optional Blacklist Of Huawei Is About Protectionism, Not National Security

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2018 @ 03:15pm

  Whataboutery

  ...the argument that Huawei (and other Chinese network vendors) are rampant national security threats, while ignoring we routinely engage in the same or worse behavior...

  Maybe it is protectionism. Maybe it's a guarding against a legitimate threat. We can't and don't know until we're shown the evidence you point out is absent. The absence, so far, of that evidence is not proof this is protectionism.

  But even if it is, the heavy rhetoric about the US engaging in the same behavior is pure whataboutery. Argue the issue on its own merits. If it stands on its own then great. But the way this article is written is pure sensationalism.

• On the post: Insanity Wins As Appeals Court Overturns Google's Fair Use Victory For Java APIs

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2018 @ 02:57pm

  Re: Good Riddance Oracle

  Wait... People still use Oracle products?

• On the post: Insanity Wins As Appeals Court Overturns Google's Fair Use Victory For Java APIs

  

  hewhoshallnotbenamed ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2018 @ 12:43pm

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  That's a completely irrelevant analogy. Not at all what this case is about.

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