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• On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 29: Autonomous Vehicles Will Change Everything

  

  Derek Kerton ( profile ), 25 Jun, 2015 @ 11:31am

  Re: Get the fuck off the road

  Hah. Sure.
  
  And that's exactly why you drive without a license, right? Driving on public roads is a god-given right in the USA. Not some privilege that requires a Permit from the state.
  
  Or do you have that wrong?

• On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 29: Autonomous Vehicles Will Change Everything

  

  Derek Kerton ( profile ), 25 Jun, 2015 @ 11:30am

  Re:

  Sure, but the thinking in the IBM analogy is:
  
  "Looking at the way things are today, I don't see how your proposed future makes any sense."
  
  And that is always the wrong way to predict the future. None of the better prediction methods are accurate either, but at least they don't make the fallacy of looking at each invention in a silo, assume nothing else will change, and compare how the innovation would fit into the world of today.

• On the post: Russia's Internet Propaganda Farm Is Being Dragged To Court For Labor Violations

  

  Derek Kerton ( profile ), 25 Jun, 2015 @ 11:23am

  Re: Re: Re:

  ...found a handsome man. I'm not clear on what that's supposed to prove.

• On the post: Took Longer Than I Expected: Bill O'Reilly Yanks Video Games Into Charleston Massacre For No Reason At All

  

  Derek Kerton ( profile ), 25 Jun, 2015 @ 11:37am

  Well Said

  This is priceless:
  
  "And it's not like O'Reilly really wants entertainment mediums saddled with the responsibility for what evil people do."
  
  Well done. Let's assess if there has been any violence bred from anger fomented by Fox News, assign a reasonable cost, and make Rupert pay the bill.

• On the post: Taylor Swift Is Not The Savior Artists Need

  

  Derek Kerton ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2015 @ 12:40pm

  Re: Taylor Swift says it's not for her but those starting; Masnick nuances that away claiming 3-months not paid doesn't matter.

  Funny how big "BEWARE: NUANCE AHEAD" signs can't stop the morons from driving off the cliff.
  
  And massive stakes in the ground like "Apple was stupid not to pay" serve more as punji sticks for idiots than clarifiers.

• On the post: Germany Says You Can't Sell Adult Ebooks Until After 10 PM

  

  Derek Kerton ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2015 @ 12:56pm

  Will This Be Their Downfall?

  Hey, is anybody going to do the Hitler's Last Words meme treatment to this decision yet? You know, the ones overlaid on the movie Downfall:
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6262709/Hitler-Downfall-parodies-25-worth-watching.html
  
  Seems needed.

• On the post: The NYPD Can't Hire Black Officers Because It's Hassled Too Many Black Men

  

  Derek Kerton ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2015 @ 06:50pm

  disqualified from serving

  Disqualified from serving, disinterested in applying.
  
  Double diss.

• On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 29: Autonomous Vehicles Will Change Everything

  

  Derek Kerton ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2015 @ 03:21pm

  Re: Re: Autonomous Vehicles

  To be clear, I'm talking about the "transition period" when both bot and human drivers coexist. I expect this period to be a long one, since we're going to be buying classic cars for at least a decade more, and then the fleet takes a decade or more to age off the road. Even culture is able to change as fast as the car fleet. (Think about how popular Hummers were in 2000.)
  
  Long-term, once the transition is made and infrastructure is redesigned for Type 4 autonomous cars, it will be dangerous for humans to drive.

• On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 29: Autonomous Vehicles Will Change Everything

  

  Derek Kerton ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2015 @ 03:10pm

  Re: Autonomous Vehicles

  I agree with you up to here:
  
  "It will soon become prohibitively expensive to insure the human-driven cars and drivers."
  
  There will be little change in the risk factors, the risk premium, and the risk coverage for human operated vehicles. If anything, it might drop a bit because the robots can practice defensive driving around the humans.

• On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 29: Autonomous Vehicles Will Change Everything

  

  Derek Kerton ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2015 @ 03:15pm

  Naysayers

  Autonomous driving is an extremely ripe field for naysayers. It just seems so far-fetched.
  
  But the arc of technology is easily tracked. The medium-term capabilities of autonomous vehicles are easily predictable. Complex ADAS systems are here already. Ray Kurzweil warns us that technology is exponential -- you can't predict the next 10 years by looking at the rate of change in the past 10 years without making vast underestimates.
  
  I know many will disagree with us few, and it in 10 years, you will forget how wrong your forecasts were. But the naysaying is on par with IBM's chief predicting a market for 7 computers in the world. If you just look at your feet, and individual waves, you're never see the tide flow in.

• On the post: Boom: House Rejects Fast Track… For Now

  

  Derek Kerton ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2015 @ 02:14pm

  Re: Re: "T"

  WTF, Mike. Your comments system turned my T into an R.
  
  This is censorship!!

• On the post: Federal Election Committee Tries To Shut Down 'Stop Hillary' PAC Because Donors Might Think Hillary Clinton Is Behind It

  

  Derek Kerton ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2015 @ 03:31pm

  OMG! They Only Understand Newspeak

  DC officials are so immersed in their NewSpeak language courses from Orwell U, class of '84, that they can no longer understand English.
  
  Patriot Act? A-OK.
  Free Trade? A-OK.
  USA Freedom Act? A-OK.
  "Representatives" in the house? Sure.
  Money is speech? Of course it is!
  Corporations are people? Natch!
  "Hands Off the Internet" means "Hands On the Internet"? Duh!
  
  Stop Hillary? Nope, that may be confused with being pro-Hillary.

• On the post: Boom: House Rejects Fast Track… For Now

  

  Derek Kerton ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2015 @ 04:28pm

  Re: "T"

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• On the post: Feds Who Didn't Even Discover The OPM Hack Themselves, Still Say We Should Give Them Cybersecurity Powers

  

  Derek Kerton ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2015 @ 04:25pm

  Re:

  Would you also agree that Germany should stop doing business with us, since we bugged the Chancellor?
  
  I agree that it's not OK, but we haven't exactly got the moral high ground.

• On the post: Feds Who Didn't Even Discover The OPM Hack Themselves, Still Say We Should Give Them Cybersecurity Powers

  

  Derek Kerton ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2015 @ 04:23pm

  Re:

  I don't know if you wrote dot as singular by mistake, or as wit. But I'll guess wit, and mark you "funny".

• On the post: Guy Reveals Airtel Secretly Inserting JavaScript, Gets Threatened With Jail For Criminal Copyright Infringement

  

  Derek Kerton ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2015 @ 12:14pm

  Re: Just because criminals can claim "copyright", doesn't make copyright bad.

  When my pool's ph level equilibrium is around 7.2, and the water is measured at 2.0 all the time, I will ALWAYS be anti-acid, and in favor more base.
  
  It's not an extreme position, it's a desire to resolve a caustic, acidic environment that is corrosive to all components of the system.

• On the post: White House's Cybersecurity Guy Proud Of His Lack Of Cybersecurity Knowledge Or Skills

  

  Derek Kerton ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2015 @ 10:20am

  Re: in first

  PS, the Kennedy School (where he went) offers degrees in International Diplomacy, not MBAs.

• On the post: White House's Cybersecurity Guy Proud Of His Lack Of Cybersecurity Knowledge Or Skills

  

  Derek Kerton ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2015 @ 10:19am

  Re: in first

  Hey...I was going to comment on DK effect. But searched, found you had done so, and was one millisec away from clicking insightful...before seeing you diss me in the latter part of your comment.
  
  So, in child-like response: FU. Your degree and education is stupid, too. Stupid was the core of your curriculum. And many other broad, sweeping, incorrect criticisms.
  
  There, balance is achieved.

• On the post: Putin's Internet Propaganda War Is Much Bigger And Weirder Than You Think, Now Extending Into The States

  

  Derek Kerton ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2015 @ 09:38am

  Re: The REAL giveaway is referencing New York Times Magazine

  Huh, Wha? You just scored a point for Techdirt and against Putin.
  
  Techdirt was consistent to point out propaganda of the US, and propaganda of Russia. That is not an error or an about-face.
  
  Two Dmitri points...er..I mean demerit points. No borscht for you in cafetorium.

• On the post: Putin's Internet Propaganda War Is Much Bigger And Weirder Than You Think, Now Extending Into The States

  

  Derek Kerton ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2015 @ 09:36am

  Re: Re:

  Correct. I started by doing my own trolling, then I outsourced it to Russia.
  
  They'll troll twice has hard for half as much.

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