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[phinds]

I said bad words...

Wait ... what? YOU said bad words? I'm shocked. Shocked I say.

 

[nsaspook]

https://www.autoblog.com/2020/06/01/video-tesla-model-3-crashes-into-overturned-truck/

According to a roughly translated excerpt from CNA, the driver was expecting the car to brake without his input.

"The police said that the driver of the Tesla electric vehicle, Huang, claimed to have the vehicle assist system turned on, and the speed was fixed at 110 kilometers per hour," the article says. "He thought that the car itself would detect the obstacle and automatically brake, but he was surprised that the car did not slow down."

From this passage, it sounds like the driver was using either adaptive cruise control or some form of Tesla's Autopilot driving assistance technology, though it was not directly named or confirmed. This type of speculation sprouts from Tesla's previous issues with its Autopilot system, which is not autonomous nor self-driving. Autopilot remains a safety-focused driver assistance program that requires driver attention at all times. Self-driving cars do not exist yet.

 

[sysprog]

I think that Tesla, Inc. is culpable for the misunderstanding. From https://www.tesla.com/autopilot:

Autopilot enables your car to steer, accelerate and brake automatically within its lane.​

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Current Autopilot features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous.​

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and:

It seems to that something like this would be less dangerously irresponsible:

 

[jack action]

A convicted murderer who momentarily died says his life sentence has been served

An Iowa inmate serving a life sentence says he should be a free man after he became ill, momentarily died, and had to be revived at the hospital.

 

[Tom.G]

A convicted murderer who momentarily died says his life sentence has been served

Yeah, I read about that at the time (8 months ago) and can't fault his logic. Any follow-up on whether he got away with it?

 

[strangerep]

“The men in the ward had nothing against the medic’s outfit,”[...]

Yes -- that's why the gentleman in the background has his hands folded in a strategic position over his lap.

 

[sysprog]

Yeah, I read about that at the time (8 months ago) and can't fault his logic. Any follow-up on whether he got away with it?

The Appellate Court affirmed the decision to dismiss $-$
From https://cases.justia.com/iowa/court-of-appeals/2019-18-1824.pdf?ts=1573067396:

As such, the district court did not err in dismissing Schreiber’s PCR application because “no conceivable state of facts” support Schreiber’s claim. See Allison, 914 N.W.2d at 892. Schreiber is either alive, in which case he must remain in prison, or he is dead,³ in which case this appeal is moot.

³ Given Schreiber appears to have signed his name on the PCR application and his motion for reconsideration—both filed after his “death”—we find this possibility unlikely.​

 

[nsaspook]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/doj-indicts-founder-anti-money-174452828.html

DOJ Indicts Founder of Anti-Money Laundering Bitcoin Project for Money Laundering

 

[berkeman]

Uh-oh. Well, I guess "sharing is caring"...

https://abc7news.com/health/live-newsom-gives-covid-19-at-bay-area-motel/6284720/

 

[nsaspook]

Spoiler

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Teenager spends INR 1.6 million on PUBG in-app purchases

News article: https://indianexpress.com/article/t...khagar-pubg-16-lakh-in-app-purchases-6489572/

In a bizarre incident, a teenage boy from Punjab spent a whopping Rs 16 lakh on popular battle royale game PUBG making in-app purchases. The 17-year-old spent money from his parents’ account to buy in-game cosmetic items, artillery, passes for tournaments, and virtual ammunition...

The parents were unaware of the situation as the boy told his parents that he was using the smartphone for studying online during the lockdown... Making online transactions became easier for the boy as the bank details and card details were saved on the smartphone only. Most of the in-game transactions were made in a month’s period.

The boy’s parents revealed that they learned about the transactions upon receiving bank details. The boy would delete messages of transactions from their smartphones and often shuffled money between two accounts to avoid zeroing down the balance. The teenager also ended up emptying his mother’s provident fund and his own bank account.

 

[Tom.G]

A true learning experience... for the parents!

 

[Borg]

Celebrities and their baby names.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/08/sport/usain-bolt-baby-name-intl-scli-spt/index.html

 

[Ibix]

Not sure if this belongs here or in the cute animals thread:
https://news.sky.com/video/cat-help...-the-dean-of-canterbury-isnt-looking-12023114

 

[strangerep]

Celebrities and their baby names.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/08/sport/usain-bolt-baby-name-intl-scli-spt/index.html

"Olympia Lightning Bolt". So,... no pressure on the innocent little child then. Stay away from Maccas.

 

[BillTre]

Shocking!

 

[fresh_42]

 

[fresh_42]

No joke: Someone blackmailed the Deutsche Bank. He demanded 1,000,000 €. And he added his true bank account data at the same institute for the transfer.

Maybe it's even funnier that he got away with a monetary fine. Next blackmail will be on € 1,004,500.

 

[jack action]

Helicopter removes ‘Into the Wild’ bus that lured Alaska travelers to their deaths

There were 15 bus-related search and rescue operations by the state between 2009 and 2017, according to Feige’s department.

In April, a Brazilian tourist was evacuated from the bus by helicopter. And last year, a newlywed woman from Belarus died after being swept away while trying to cross the Teklanika River on her way to the bus.

Another hiker drowned in 2010.

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[fresh_42]

Welcome to the EU, Tom!

 

[nsaspook]

https://rojakdaily.com/lifestyle/ar...-sandwich-fell-onto-keyboard-and-logs-her-out

 

[berkeman]

Kind of a new spin on the old excuse "The dog ate my homework"...

 

[phinds]

Hey, I'd log her out too if she dropped a sloppy joe on me !

 

[nsaspook]

https://mothership.sg/2020/08/transparent-toilets-tokyo-shibuya//
Transparent toilets installed in parks in Tokyo

 

[berkeman]

Hey, I'd log her out too if she dropped a sloppy joe on me !

Hey! Gimme back my homework!

 

[berkeman]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/08/us/bear-attack-national-park-service-trnd/index.html

 

[phinds]

What not to do in a bear attack ...

Reminds me of the advice a Yellowstone Park ranger gave to some campers who asked about off-trail camping. He told them to go by the ranger station and they would get little bells to attach to their clothes so the bears would avoid them, and some pepper spray for otherwise.

He also told them to be aware of the bear signs so they'd know if they were in bear territory. Brown bear poop, he told them, will likely have some squirrel fir and maybe some berries in it but the grizzly bear stuff may have little bells and smell like pepper spray.

 

[nsaspook]

https://www.gatechecked.com/woman-walks-onto-aircraft-wing-after-she-said-she-was-too-hot-3498

Woman Walks Onto Aircraft Wing After She Said She Was “Too Hot”

 

[jack action]

https://www.gatechecked.com/woman-walks-onto-aircraft-wing-after-she-said-she-was-too-hot-3498

Woman Walks Onto Aircraft Wing After She Said She Was “Too Hot”

I don't see what the big deal is :

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[fresh_42]

I don't see what the big deal is :

Maybe she has forgotten to borrow the appropriate shoes before stepping on the lane.

 

[nsaspook]

 

[jack action]

Driver arrested after jumping over drawbridge on Detroit’s west side
Driver suspected of being under influence from using ‘whippits,' police say​

“And I looked, I said, ‘No he ain’t,’” said drawbridge operator Andre Locke.

Locke, who witnessed the incident, said he hit the emergency stop and the bridge jammed.

“Over he went, blew out all four of his tires, and then he crashed into the other gate,” Locke said.

 

[diogenesNY]

Driver arrested after jumping over drawbridge on Detroit’s west side
Driver suspected of being under influence from using ‘whippits,' police say​

Yep... whippits be like that.

diogenesNY

p.s. ...not that I would know...

 

[Rive]

Bad language warning

Within 20 minutes of them being on display to the public there were reports of the parrots swearing at a customer, and things quickly escalated.

First I thought about linking some vid too, but then I've decided against it.
I will check it in private

 

[sysprog]

A guy I knew had a 'Severe Macaw', and that bird seemed to know the meanings of some the words that he could say. He could say the word for an object and then pick up the said object $-$ this isn't an image of that bird, but it's an image of a bird of that species:

 

[Astronuc]

Gang who stole Isaac Newton and Galileo books by abseiling into building to avoid motion sensors jailed
https://news.yahoo.com/gang-stole-isaac-Newton-galileo-174127927.html

First editions of significant works by Sir Isaac Newton, the Italian astronomer Galileo, and Spanish painter Francisco Goya were among some 200 books - with an estimated worth of £2m - stolen from the warehouse during the five-hour operation, which saw thieves cut holes in the warehouse roof and abseil in, landing on ledges to avoid detection by sensors.

I did a double take on the headline. These are not books about Newton and Galileo, but books by them. They should be in a museum library for the public, not some private stash.

 

[mfb]

A Swedish company developing autonomous trucks applied for a license to test them on public roads. It was denied for two reasons:

• The trucks do not have a drivers license
• The trucks cannot blow into an alcohol test machine

I would expect the second issue to be easy to fix for engineers, but for the drivers license the trucks might need to be 18 years old?

 

[atyy]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/08/us/bear-attack-national-park-service-trnd/index.html

After seeing that I initially thought there was an exception for HAM operators as I read "Morse code is no longer required to get your HAM radio license" as "Moral code is no longer required to get your HAM radio license".

 

[fresh_42]

I would expect the second issue to be easy to fix for engineers

Would an alcohol test be positive, if the truck is run on bio-diesel?

 

[Astronuc]

Facebook's nudity-spotting AI mistook a photo of some onions for 'sexually suggestive' content
https://www.yahoo.com/news/facebooks-nudity-spotting-ai-mistook-100056234.html

What are they teaching those AI algorithms?

 

[mfb]

Round, roughly skin-colored.

 

[fresh_42]

 

[mfb]

Today's news: Albert Einstein now dead for 65 years 2 months and 23 days.

Clickbait version: You won't believe for how long exactly Albert Einstein has been dead already!

 

[Buzz Bloom]

Today's news: Albert Einstein now dead for 65 years 2 months and 23 days.

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

65 years 5 months and 23 days.

 

[mfb]

Oops, typo.

Today on the Einstein Newsletter: Someone made a mistake in yesterday's newsletter.

 

[jack action]

I now feel protected.

The EU Just Banned Rolls-Royce’s Illuminated Hood Ornament to Reduce Light Pollution

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The $4,558 optional hood ornament has been available since 2013.

[...] if you live in an EU country and Rolls is already fitted with the glowing figurine, you’ll have to take it into an authorized dealership and have it swapped out for the traditional stainless-steel version free of charge.

The ban can be traced back to Regulation No. 48 of the ECE, which aims to cut down on light pollution caused by motor vehicles within the political and economic union. [...] In fact, the illuminated figurine is only lit when the car is stationary and its other lights are on.

 

[mfb]

All this seems to be "sourced" to the Daily Mail and then everyone copied it (with or without reference), I would be skeptical.

£3,500 for a piece of glass and an LED looks a bit overpriced.
At the current conversion rate this is $4,516 but different news include different prices, some up to $6000, and you can find these prices in groups, i.e. people copy them from each other blindly.

Edit: I checked the EU regulation and "pollution" doesn't appear there. Not even once.

 

[Ibix]

All this seems to be "sourced" to the Daily Mail and then everyone copied it (with or without reference), I would be skeptical.

"Skeptical" doesn't even begin to describe the appropriate reaction to anything sourced from the Daily Mail, particularly if it's about Europe.

Edit: I checked the EU regulation and "pollution" doesn't appear there. Not even once.

From what I read of it, it appears to be a standards document for legal layouts and colours of lights on some classes of vehicle. Presumably a Rolls is a class M or N vehicle and a glowing figurine doesn't meet the standard. Edit: on the plus side, I've now found an advantage of Brexit - if I had a Rolls with a glowing hood ornament, I could keep it.

 

[mfb]

Break in at Escape Room: thieves crack safe but find only riddles

No, this is not from a satire website.

 

[Keith_McClary]

I now feel protected.

Hood ornament? What hood ornament?