- Another example of history rhyming.
- Until new polls come out, we can’t know (and actually we can’t know until the v*tes are counted, assuming — yeah, big assumption — that they’re counted honestly), but the very smart Nate Silver examines whether Trump is really torpedoed this time. Unlike all the other times the media predicted his electoral demise.
- OTOH, Clinton, Comey and company would be in far worse trouble in a just world.
- Five times evolution “ran backward.”
- This is only one small example of how self-driving cars will spy on their occupants.
- But in the good news department, a decentralized WWW will restore power to the people and take it away from the new generation of media gatekeepers.
- And in the good news/bad news department: the links between science fiction and entrepreneurship.
- A pup photobombs a pope.
Re: self driving vehicles watching you… How long until the authorities get the ability to tap into this feature. Look/act suspicious or look like someone they are looking for and the self driving car delivers you to the police. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
As for a decentralized http://WWW... One thing I have learned is that power hates a vacuum. Decentralized just means the folks running things will be better hidden and there will be more Machiavellianism than there is now.
As to Trump- Sorry, but no one who was going to v*te for Trump is going to change their v*te to Clinton. It’s just Regressive wishful thinking.
But, maybe they’ll switch to Johnson and former Governor Anti-Liberty Bigot and torpedo Trump that way.
Evolution: I’m a little surprised that NatGeo would even publish something so silly as an examination of “evolution in reverse”. Evolution doesn’t have a direction- it just responds to the environment to either enhance or repress certain inheritable traits- and then it’s only because some things may help something reproduce better, or not. Humans who don’t understand that might have an expectation about direction or “advances”, but that’s not how it works.
Self-driving cars: “sensing whether a driver is trying to operate a self-driving vehicle while intoxicated and raising their insurance rate for that ride only, for example.”
Ummmm… shouldn’t that be a good thing? The car isn’t going to get bad at driving just because the person sitting in it is drunk, sleepy, or dead. The responsible thing for a drunk to do is to let the self-driving car drive, or get a cab. Are cab drivers going to be punished for giving rides to drunks? This is absurd.
I don’t like driving, and I realize that driver error accounts for the vast majority of accidents, and that computers make fewer errors than people. So, I might prefer to have a self-driving car. I would NEVER mandate it for everyone, because I know many people who love to drive (and those usually also overestimate their driving abilities, and take more risks for the thrill of it, but that’s a separate issue). I do not care to have my car spying on me, though. Or on anyone else. Not for any reason. I envision tape over the lens, or a teddy bear in front of the camera. Oops.
Decentralized web: I would like to believe the decentralized web would deliver what is promised.
I like to drive, however unless I can read a book, surf the web, or even take a nap, I would ask what good would a self driving car be? If you have to monitor what the car is doing anyway, then might as well drive the car yourself.