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The burden would be on the maker to ensure that.

Otherwise, it maybe could allow for safer driving, but it sure would allow reckless facebook/driving.

If X requires your attention, it will cause accidents. We already have enough data on that.

Interesting how agencies, corporations and alike have the collective maturity of children. A grown up will say to a kid "you can't play with fire with your friend" and the kid immediately will think "he didn't say I can't play with fire with my other friend".

Your statement seems to equate "it's usual to spy" with "it's alright to spy". Spying on close allies only pays off if you are not caught. It's risky to do it and I expect each Nation State weights that in when deciding to do it or not. If the Germans do try to spy on US and they get caught, there will be fallout on relations.

The US got caught spying on several allies. They took the risk. There will be repercussions on diplomatic relations. There will be repercussions on public image and trust.

Apparently from the leaked memo, the intelligence gained didn't really pay off this time around, and since they got caught, all they did was break the trust.

Was it a good trade off?

When I look at my daughter developing, from baby to infant to child. Hasn't that been a constant, intensive training? As she recognizes stuff, I give feedback. After a while she starts correlating stuff, and signals for me to give feedback. By the time she's an adult, she will have full control of her intelligence, but also no understanding.

Maybe what we are missing is just the algorithm for information storage and retrieval. If we can master Genetic Algorithms, why not Celular Databases? Or Chemical Procedures?

I'm so very fucking tired of this.

Feel free to demand more, but please do not undervalue every thing.

Much akin to "when we were kids we rode in the front seat without seat belts on, we turned out fine", and several other versions of that phrase.

I don't think it's a valid argument at all.

In the case mentioned in the article, even a professional that truly trusts the tests should have taken into consideration:

1) make his own assesment and check against the test score,

2) realize that the test is supposedly validated against a sample, and if the candidate falls out of that sample (non-native english speaker), the test should probably be disregarded.

Carefull when disregarding a whole field based on preconceptions. All fields have different branches and disagreements. True some fields like psychology have a harder time producing great professionals, in my assesment. I think it's because of it being a young field and it's hard to agree on what the standards are to measure good/bad practice.

Like in software, security that relies on closed source is in fact more vulnerable.

Good thing I have control of my software and can opt out.

I'm already assaulted at the senses all day long in different forms. The whole concept of advertising I find abhorrent. A service should only offer itself to me when I want it, otherwise they are just imposing themselves and I will dislike them for that.

Any way that I can opt-out of ads I will make use of.

Services that rely on just this business model should adapt or fail, simply. If the service is relevant it will come again from a different source with a more acceptable model.

How soon utnil they send out the drones into the foreign lands where they have not so great a political strongarm?

"Drone bombing in brazilian airport kills dozens"

"Sadly it was necessary as one of the passangers carried terrorist intel that would put our free world at risk"

What service can we trust at this point?

After the Evo Morales flight debacle, it's pretty clear that their five dollar wrench works equally well on other nations as well.

The internet is broken, everywhere.