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Comment true story! (Score 1) 73

My Ford Escape failed emissions because the CPU in the car would not communicate with the computer the emissions station connected it to.

It resulted in a recall to upgrade some sort of software on the car.

I failed emissions because of a recall that had absolutely nothing to do with how the car burns fuel.

Comment I hate to say this but I think this is needed (Score 1) 130

Growing up (I'm older) you had to be 18 I think to buy a playboy. I think even video based porn required you be 21 to rent/buy.

Having seen porn, I don't really think 13 year olds need to see anal gang bangs quite yet. The internet really has changed things and while I am not aware of the changes in mental health of children I'd imagine there are plenty of studies on it.

Just a random article I picked off Google. I think there is alot of things here that should be obvious and there is evidence to back it:
Pornography proves to be especially detrimental to children and adolescents. According to many researchers, early exposure to pornography is connected to negative developmental outcomes, including a greater acceptance of sexual harassment, sexual activity at an early age,acceptance of negative attitudes to women, unrealistic expectations, skewed attitudes of gender roles, greater levels of body dissatisfaction, rape myths (responsibility for sexual assault to a female victim), and sexual aggression. Children’s brains are not equipped to process the adult experiences depicted. Early exposure to pornography also increases the likelihood that depression and relationship problems develop.

Comment Meh, waterfall vs agile (Score 1) 265

Agile is basically a way to document/manage cowboy coding.

Also, agile is more of a start up methodology. Where getting a product out fast and showing something working (even if buggy or incomplete) is a necessity.

Established companies should not be doing this. What frightens me is being at an established company and having departments moving to this methodology. I'll be long gone before it's an issue due to what i do though.

Comment stage of AI (Score 1) 151

Stage 1: Rule-Based Systems. (1960s maybe?)
Stage 2: Understanding Context and Retaining Knowledge. (Google maybe? mid 90s)
Stage 3: Mastering Specific Domains. ( 2020ish but maybe a little sooner)

See that 30 years jumps.......

So AGI in 5 years?

Stage 4: Thinking and Reasoning. (Ehhhhhhhh, are we really there?)
Stage 5: Artificial General Intelligence. (Ya, we'll be here in 2030)
Stage 6: Surpassing Human Intelligence. (Hi SKynet)
Stage 7: The AI Singularity. (Skynet won, we're all dead)

Comment That is a major safety issue for passing (Score 1) 362

This is a horrible idea. I don't speed but I do pass and you need that kinda of power/speed to pass safely. Won't take long for someone to die over this bill if it ever passes. In remote areas I drive, it is all single lane road and all it takes is one semi or trailer to drive slow to make traffic go 40 mph instead of 55 mph the entire 60 miles! You have to be able to pass safely.

Comment sidenote: politician from house or senate comment (Score 1) 314

I watch youtube all day while working. WEll, it's on in the background.

Someone from either the house or senate was on and said we are at the tipping point where oil demand (use) is actually going to start dropping due to renewables. It's not just cars, he was referring to that and windmills and solar and all renewable tech.

Found it interesting.

Comment I litterally got a thread locked when asking ... (Score 1) 131

The show 90 day fiance has a couple.

And I couldn't figure out if the woman was a guy (trans). So I went on the shows reddit and asked. And a mod locked my thread because it was anti LQBT or whatever.

I messaged the mod basically saying WTF. It's anti-LGBTQ to ask if someone on a show is trans?

WTF is wrong with this world. Turns out yes .... the girl is trans.

Comment High quality zoom lense (Score 1) 72

If hey do this you'd need some high resolution SLR type cameras with good lenses.

You can't half ass this shit. If not you're just going to get footage that is questionable.

All the other sensors are useful for spotting potential objects. But they need to be used to tell the high quality camera where to look. Some googling shows the obvious. Yes ther eare long zoom high end survlence cameras. That should be one of the PTV cameras.

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