Re: [LINK] New ABC chairman set to be Justin Milne, NBN board member and ex-Telstra exec

2017-03-23 Thread Tom Worthington
On 21/03/17 11:38, Jan Whitaker wrote: ... New ABC chairman ... NBN board member and ex-Telstra exec ... So when will the ABC will be phasing out "broadcasting" in favor of Internet streaming of "radio" and "TV"? :-( -- Tom Worthington, MEd, FACS CP. http://www.tomw.net.au t

Re: [LINK] New ABC chairman set to be Justin Milne, NBN board member and ex-Telstra exec

2017-03-23 Thread JanW
At 08:54 AM 24/03/2017, Tom Worthington wrote: >>... New ABC chairman ... NBN board member and ex-Telstra exec ... > >So when will the ABC will be phasing out "broadcasting" in favor of Internet >streaming of "radio" and "TV"? :-( New name: Australian Streaming Corporation Then you'll know.

Re: [LINK] Spells Against Autonomy

2017-03-23 Thread Robert Brockway
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: I wonder if autonomous cars will be able to distinguish between * Someone on the pavement waving to a friend on the opposite side of the road; * Someone waving at an occupant of the car, who they know; * Someone waving to alert the

Re: [LINK] Spells Against Autonomy

2017-03-23 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
On 23/03/2017 6:22 PM, Robert Brockway wrote: > On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > >> I wonder if autonomous cars will be able to distinguish between >> >> * Someone on the pavement waving to a friend on the opposite side of the >> road; >> >> * Someone waving at an occupant of

Re: [LINK] Spells Against Autonomy

2017-03-23 Thread Kim Holburn
> On 2017/Mar/23, at 3:58 PM, Robert Brockway wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, Kim Holburn wrote: > >> I have lived in cities where pedestrians can just walk over a road and cars >> will avoid them (mostly). Every country and city is different of course. >> >> You

Re: [LINK] Spells Against Autonomy

2017-03-23 Thread JanW
At 06:22 PM 23/03/2017, Robert Brockway wrote: >>* Someone waving to alert the car/driver of a pending danger; >> >>* A policeman waving at a car/driver to make it stop. > >Good questions. To be up to the task I'd say they should be at least as good >as humans at recognising each of those

Re: [LINK] Spells Against Autonomy

2017-03-23 Thread Robert Brockway
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: How do you let a car know who all your (and the occupants in the car's) friends are? The same way I may infer it if I don't know. Human body language has a lot of subtle queues. Advances in computer inference in the last few years have

Re: [LINK] Spells Against Autonomy

2017-03-23 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
On 24/03/2017 10:07 AM, Robert Brockway wrote: > On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > >> How do you let a car know who all your (and the occupants in the car's) >> friends are? > > The same way I may infer it if I don't know. Human body language has > a lot of subtle queues.

Re: [LINK] Spells Against Autonomy

2017-03-23 Thread Stephen Loosley
Nicholas writes, > I would have thought that the nature of autonomous cars is that such they are > expression > of the rights of a corporation and not a barer of individual rights. Where a > jaywalker is guilty > of depriving the corporation of right to trade by wilfully impeding their >