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That depends on which "libertarian utopia" you're talking about.

The American Libertarian Party would probably say that the court system is paid for by government revenues from taxes and tariffs like the Constitution says.

Anarcho-capitalists would say that it's paid for by whatever revenue stream Courts, Inc[1] develops; they wouldn't presume to enforce a single business model, you see (I assume).

In the case of "left libertarian" thought, it again depends on the particular society envisioned - I don't really have enough understanding of the various models to give a clear answer, but most left libertarian utopias are even further from our modern situation than the right libertarian ones. Of course, most wouldn't have the financial infrastructure at the heart of this particular case anyway.

This is not to say that I have any high degree of confidence that any of the models discussed or glossed over above would actually work (well or at all), but disagreement does not sanction misrepresentation.

[1] Although I think some of them are opposed to limited liability, so it might or might not be "Incorporated"...
"The pull of gravity" is not a source of energy. When the weight rises in the Earth's gravitational field energy must be supplied.
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> Apple will go bankrupt again in the 2030's

I hope not. Apple is one of the few companies making an effort to design software and hardware together. Until other companies realize you can't have a good user experience without considering all aspects of the product, many people will continue to cheer Apple's approach to product development. This is one of the reasons why it's exciting that Microsoft is doing the Surface tablet. It seems like Microsoft took a step back and looked at how Apple has executed some great products and is taking a similar approach.
Taking the position that non-patented work could be stolen overnight is an irrational, yet strangely a pervasive fear in software. It's why new entrepreneurs push NDA's on their initial contacts. It's been my experience that there is a tremendous amount of work that goes into building a successful tech company.

Anything that is truly new technology is often kept as a trade secret. In software, patents are only great for defense.
I hope you die lonely.
http://trafficwaves.org/

A similar effect is in play with 'metering light' systems - total
throughput may be increased (counter-intuitively) by reducing
localized traffic densities and smoothing irregularities in flow.

But people tend to perceive speed more readily than time to destination,
and tend not to be very aware of total traffic throughput at all.
> I just so fucking sick of the flamebait threads.

If you've got a problem with a flamebaiting editorialized title, say that; don't start the flame. Android and iPhone are both doing well. This is one metric where Android is ahead. Whether or not it's impressive, it's certainly noteworthy.
The idea is that automated driving, when it's good enough, increases road capacity enough that jams no longer occur. Capacity improves because all cars are now able to go much faster and with smaller distances between them, and without constant mistakes slowing other cars down.
Yes and we will have flying cars.

Except we won't. Because flying cars is called "aviation" and aviation brings new dimensions of "hard" in addition to a third spatial dimension. And truly self driving cars that require no dynamic input from humans at any time is something we'll get asymptotically closer to, but will never quite achieve except in relatively specialized cases.

This is what I believe. I can't prove it, but it is what my gut feeling tells me.

And why would you want to? Of course, for typical highways it is obvious that it would probably be both faster and safer to have some sort of mandatory cooperative autonomous mode, but even that will be hard to achieve. I've met some of the people who work on developing and standardizing certain inter-car protocols to solve these types of problems. Most of the people I've met are neither brilliant nor capable. For the most part they illustrate to me a) how hard the problem is at scale (ie. get all manufacturers onboard) b) there will be a lot of idiots involved in this which means it'll take an awful lot of time to even come up with even baseline systems for proper crash-avoidance -- nevermind the real-time dynamic systems for controlling masses of fast-moving vehicles.
Rules regarding the rental of private property to a private party is a private matter in my opinion. Private parties already regulate the user of communal property thru vehicles such as a HOA. If you have a condo then the HOA can decide if renting is appropriate. Having the government dictate how your property can be used is more disturbing than having to attend a HOA meeting. Sure, you might agree with this particular regulation, but how about when the other political party takes power and decides they want to use your property differently. No thank you.
I've done some A/B testing with various download button labels, but I should probably go back and do it again now that I've switched from a 30-day trial model to a watermarked-demo model. As for preserving EXIF data, I think that should be an easy change, so I'm going to add that one to the feature list.

Thanks for the suggestions!
I once was a happy iTunes/App Store user, for my iPad. One day, late at night, I started getting receipts in my inbox for App Store purchases. Apparently I was purchasing the same $15 app once every 5 minutes. Except, I wasn't. It was only by chance that I was still awake when I caught it, and it had already racked up about 12 purchases in a row. In a frantic fit of confusion, I canceled whatever payment agreement I had with iTunes and then charged everything back through my bank. I guess I got hacked.. or something? I still don't know.

As a result of the chargebacks, Apple permanently disabled my iTunes ID. Since then, there has been no way for me to re-enable it, and I lost everything associated with it. Eventually I gave up. I haven't reformatted my iPad or taken the time to create a new account, so my iPad is frozen in time with whatever software I had installed on it by early 2011. So I have the same support impression of Apple that you do of Google, since the only time I ever needed them was for this, and they failed. It hasn't turned out to be much of a problem since I mostly use it for the internet on the toilet.

All companies have good and bad support in certain areas.
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I'm sure that convoy driving is another 15-20 years in the future from the point where self-driving takes off. However it's not like those dangers you mention cannot be managed. Self-driving cars already require a wide array of sensors - together in a convoy you get such an amount of data that the computers should be able to get out of hairy situation at any point.
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What's the point of a speed limit if there's no element of human error anymore? That's just suggesting that the existing speed limit is arbitrarily set in the first place.
While I'd appreciate being notified if a parent has a heart attack, there's a whole bunch of more important people that need to be called before me - get them an ambulance before you call me - and, truth is, there's very little I could do in terms of "emergency response" anyway.

I can't off-hand think of anything where contacting me personally would be required in an "emergency situation", if it's really an "emergency" there's probably better qualified people to call. This is colored by my situation, I'm not a parent, I'm not the sole decision maker for anything mission critical (either personally or professionally). I'd be sad (or sadder) if my Mum or Dad died and I missed out on saying goodbye because nobody could contact me immediately, but they live 5hrs away from me so that's a pretty unlikely scenario.

I'm kinda "at peace" with spending time "uncontactable" anyway, I spend at least an hour a day (and sometimes 8 or 10 hours) on a motorcycle - where I might feel my phone ringing in my pocket, but I don't answer it until I've got to where I'm going and stopped the bike. I also treat the phone the same way in movies/restaurants/gigs/meetings, and often while deep in something complicated at work.

Personally, I don't buy into the idea that my phone is so other people can reliably contact me immediately in case of emergency. When work wants that, it's called "on-call" and they pay me for it. In my personal life, I answer my phone if and when it suits me, and I'm not enslaved to anybody who happens to have my number.
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i mean what is new crap? all of a sudden....
Vehicle 'platoons' have long been a subject of traffic studies.

Here is a cool video from CAR 2 CAR... http://www.car-to-car.org/index.php?id=132&L=mbgiqdmn
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Comparing sexualised language to generally offensive language is a wonderful example of false equivalence. Good work.
> third party software feels a little bit more likable (UI-wise) than it used to be.

That is the important thing so many Android fans seem to ignore. The OS isn't as important as the 3rd party apps. Android developers are of tremendous importance to the overall success of Android, maybe even more than Google. This will only become more important in the future as more normal people learn to use app stores. iOS has a lot of great developers that have moved over from the Mac. They have experience making apps that aren't only functional but also beautiful and easy to use. Java developers moving to Android on the other hand usually lack the experience with front-end design given Java is typically an enterprise language.
Reddit Didn't Kill Digg, Digg Did

I read a bit of the discussion on Reddit, and there were surprisingly (to me) many people that had used Digg before. Then something called "v4" came and Digg became unusable to many people. As I understood the discussion. Digg didn't care. So its users looked for alternatives and moved to Reddit. Digg still didn't care. People got used to Reddit and stayed. Digg still didn't care.

Yesterday I looked at Digg.com for the first time in years. Only a quick look and I spotted already a number of beginners mistakes only in the front page design.

For example the clickable headlines to the stories: they are the main content. Yet they are very /very/ light and hard to read on the white background. WTF. You want your main content to have /good contrast/ and stand out, and secondary stuff (like "points" or "who submitted" or "vote buttons") to have less contrasts as to not distract from your main content. Yet, even such basic things Digg gets wrong. I didn't dare to digg further.
D has extensive support for transitive data immutability, and function purity. (This is quite unlike C++.)
Wow, sorry to say but you're too prude for the internet. A church seems like a better place for you.
Do they offer any % discounts for non-profits in this capacity?
> and honking does no good, because robots do not care if you honk at them.

That sounds like a larger problem and even harder to solve. How do you teach a robot to react to honking, like how humans can?
Yeah, fixblurryphotos.com was an experiment to see if people would be satisfied with very simple photo improvements rather than the full deblurring power of Blurity.

When I was experimenting with the SaaS version of Blurity, I found that many of the people who did eventual make purchases were, firstly, interested in only a single photo; and secondly, satisfied with the most trivial of improvements. I lamented that those people would be just as satisfied with auto-levels and unsharp mask as they were with Blurity, so my friend Tyler threw exactly that simple service together in about 10 hours.

The results? Turns out that people aren't willing to pay for something simple like that after all.
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I would argue that it is unethical to have revenue tied to police actions. It gives the state incentive to criminalize more and more behaviors, and it encourages selective enforcement (if every speeder were pulled over consistently, there would be no speeding, but that wouldn't be profitable for the state). It also muddies the mission statement for police; "protect and serve...and randomly punish otherwise law-abiding citizens" just doesn't have a nice ring to it.

But, I'm not a fan of the punitive nature of our criminal justice system in general (don't get me started on how many Americans are in prison)...so I may be in the minority in taking this view. And, whether people agree with me or not, actually making the changes in revenue structure required to completely eliminate traffic tickets as a source of revenue for municipalities will be a challenge. Governments are not good at reducing their need for money, so it's likely that most will have to squeeze the money out of some other source, such as higher taxes.
it engenders an entire host of benefits & pleasures

what is this host of pleasures? I get that some people enjoy driving. I loved it when I was a teenager, now I hate it. Most of my driving is done in traffic and I'd much rather read a book or take a nap insted of micromanaging my 20km/hr commute.

Not only would autonomous cars give me back my 1.5hrs/day that is dead time... but the roads would be incredibly more safe.

And for people who like to drive... how about a racetrack?
Not when you can't yet afford an autonomous car and are cursing at the guy cruising along at 50 ahead of you, getting work done comfortably while you're gripping the wheel in frustration...
I've come to realize that autonomous cars are a pre-req for flying cars. Obvious now that I see it, of course. Humans as a whole can't possibly handle flying machines when they have so much trouble with cars.

I'm skeptical about totally autonomous cars, but I think freeway driving will be increasingly automated. Thrun has said that he's let his car drive him from the bay area to Reno several times. I assume he's exaggerating a bit, but probably not by much. It's a solvable problem for good road conditions.
Oh, and as for priorities: the cost of eliminating danger from traffic to where it is "trivial" or "absent" probably isn't financially viable. Meaning you'd have to spend an inordinate amount of money for ever slimmer returns.

If you follow how rules and regulations aimed at making traffic more secure over time you'll notice that the incremental improvements are becoming smaller and smaller. In most sensible jurisdictions, the important, big stuff that saves lots of lives is in place and people are now bickering over the little stuff that is perhaps going to same a small number of people. Or, in many cases, won't save a single person, might even cause more accidents, but generates more revenue.

If you want to analyze something in terms of value to society you'll have to be prepared for a lot of unpleasant aspects.
Your argument allows for certain driverless cars in which a human is present to provide dynamic input for situations that require it. This is currently the legal requirement in Nevada.

Admitting that driverless cars cannot be truely perfected, does not preclude mass adoption - because they merely need to be safer and cheaper to operate than the current human-only traffic situation. I think we are less than a decade away from that tipping point. Does anyone else agree?
I'm not sure they'll be phased out entirely. What happens when all electrical systems go out. What do we do about inclement weather, system malfunctions. What do we do about classic cars (as in people like owning cars from decades ago). What about driving on unimproved roads (in the country). I think in urban areas and developed areas this is feasible, but I think there are some scenarios where it may not happen for a long time.

Why don't we now have self-driving trains/subways? They move on rails but we keep insisting they must be supervised by people in the vehicle (with a few exceptions like people movers at airports and amusement parks, etc).
I think the problem is they're not a "personal node", they're nodes working for Apple or Google or your telco. The idea of "node-ness" carries connotations (at least to me) of being more useful as part of a network than as individual devices - and that's way more true for the people/organisations with access to data from the whole network of nodes, than the owner/operator of a singe node.

I wonder if Google are collecting geo-spacial data about your social graph? I suspect they could, if they wanted to, work out which section of your online social network are people you meet in real life, and which are people you only interact with on-line?
Anyone serious about using this for it's intended use case (from what I can tell) would not be in this for only one year.
Have you ever noticed that at most companies, people compete for the best metrics, not the job most well done? Same thing here, I think.
Is this a developer-centric parody of http://www.vooza.com?
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One option to reduce convoy risk is have cars attach to one another such that no single car can cause a failure in the overall system (similar to trains).

We shouldn't think of automated cars as independent as we do. They are in fact simply compartments.

With that in mind, imagine cars attaching to each other to form trains and break apart as they begin to reach the desired destination.

This also has impacts on fuel efficiency since drag can be reduced across the entire system.

(Cars don't have to be the same model, they just need a formalized attachment system on the front / rear).
Yes and we will have flying cars.

The flying cars argument is silly. Yes it was a fanciful 1950s dream that never made it to reality... however autonomous flight is real.. a good portion of commercial air flight is done under autopilot (including landings).

We never even got close to flying car tech... but saying that truly self driving cars that require no dynamic input from humans at any time is something we'll get asymptotically closer to, but will never quite achieve is silly, we're already very close to this reality. I'd be very surprised if in 10 years we don't have a completely computer controlled car.
I hope new taxes don't happen. That would set back the move to driverless cars...every year we don't make the switch is a year in which tens of thousands of people die in car accidents that didn't have to happen. I suspect this is one of those areas where we're only thinking of the negative consequences, and not the positives.

What if you no longer need highway patrol officers to enforce speed limits and traffic laws? Or maybe you need a tenth as many on the road?

What if the number of times emergency responders are needed dropped precipitously because of fewer accidents? Emergency room visits are the only socialized medicine in the US (and horribly inefficient socialized medicine at that), so reducing them will have a huge impact on road-related expenditures borne by all of us.

What if we can begin to phase out signage and signals because the cars know where we're going and know when to stop and start? It will be decades before all cars are self-driving, but roads and lanes could be designated self-driving only, and those lanes could be free of extraneous signals and signs.

What if we can reduce number of miles traveled by optimizing routes, thus reducing damage to roads (subtly, but for big trucks, the differences could add up faster)?

Taxing self-driving vehicles more would be an impediment to a great good, so I hope that doesn't happen.
The greatest pleasure I get from the roads - on my scooter :) - is from other traffic. Racetracks are a different kind of fun, for when you want to go fast and corner hard.
This brings up a very interesting point - can anyone think of topics that Wikipedia has inadvertently omitted thanks to the narrow section of society that contributes significant amounts of new content to the site?

There's been a lot of talk in recent years about how the "initial work" of adding information to Wikipedia is mostly done, and that from here on out, it's going to be mainly about adding new content as it's created (new events, people, companies, etc.). But it seems possible that myopia on the part of editors could be having inadvertent effects.
Eh, my bad, don't know what I was thinking.
That's an interesting question, so I gave it a try just now.

On Windows 7 with IE 9, there were no warnings presented when downloading the zip file containing the unsigned installer executable. When the installer was extracted from the archive and run after the download completed, I got the standard Windows security warning about "The publisher could not be verified", which was far less scary that the SmartScreen warning.

So yes, it looks like that could be a viable work-around.
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DIGG killed Digg. The week after V 3.0 launched was a mess. Tons of corporate sponsored posts (AKA intrusive adverts), often multiple submissions by the same person on the front page at the same time, and other weirdness.

Reddit was right place, right time to pick up the exodus. I don't think it did anything to kill Digg.
Right on!

There is no way a mass market for personal air vehicles can happen if we need traditional pilot's licences. Following the eventual success of driverless cars, one can imagine that all-weather PAVs will not require a license because we will just be passengers.

See: http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/archive/2004/july/ts_sf...
Yeah, I think buffers (like in trains) could be an option, maybe magnetic. If it requires physical contact, though, that would mean a whole train of cars (maybe cars would be grouped into sets of ten or so?) would have to speed up and down as cars joined and left the caravan --I know we do this in everyday driving, but it's "softer".

[edit, just thinking, if we knew destination in advance, the first car would be the one going furthest and the last car in the group going the shortest so that the interruption would be inconsequential]

Back to accidents, there will the edge cases. And because it's programmed (and not a human "accident") people might find more fault in the system than they would in a human. So even though accidents and deaths would/could be reduced considerably, those that would occur might be seen as more negligent than accident. Just thinking out loud.
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No, copyright law refers to the rights of the creator of an original work. Nothing to do with copying, per se.
Thinking about it more, yea, fair point. When water loses energy and freezes, it expands, that expansion could lift a weight. Is this not a similar change in molecular structure doing a similar thing? Where is the input of energy lifting this weight.
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They are giving signed EXEs much greater leeway, since the publishers is verified by a CA, providing a secure base on which the publisher's reputation is determined.
Which is even worse; Arial looks terrible compared to Segoe UI or Calibri.