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An anonymous reader writes: Ok folks, it's been ten years since we've done this. What are your tech/science/nerd/misc predictions for 2016? Is VR going to be the bombshell it's being hyped as? Are wearables going to come into their own? Which tech companies are going to implode, and which are going to blossom? What discoveries are we going to make this year? Will people ever shut up about Donald Trump? Which new movies, books, games, and TV shows are going to be awesome? Which are going to suck? How will our privacy and security erode in 2016? And anything else you'd care to forecast.
I'm going to steal one from 2006 since it is almost a reality:
by BCW2 (168187) on Monday December 26, 2005 @11:59PM (#14342970) Journal
[How about] Flash drives get priced competitivly with hard drives of the same size?
somebody will take a shot at him
I think that 2016 will be a disastrous year for Firefox. Thanks to more dumb changes by Mozilla, most of which will be unwanted by Firefox's few remaining users, many of these users will move to Chrome, Edge, Safari, or one of the other browsers out there. Firefox's share of the market, which is only in the high single-digits at this point, will drop below 5%.
Furthermore, Mozilla supporters will continue to refuse to acknowledge why this massive drop in market share will have happened. Instead of just admitting that Mozilla fucked up and fucked over its users, these Mozilla supporters will use excuses like "Google advertised Chrome a lot" and "it's because of mobile browsers". They still won't realize, or at least admit, what the real problem has been: Mozilla has repeatedly fucked over Firefox's users with one stupid, unwanted and awful change after another!
Additionally, Servo and Rust won't see much progress in 2016. Rust will continue to spin its wheels as it tries to become as useful as C++14 has been for a few years. Servo might get to the point of providing an IE 7 level of experience, rather than the IE 3 style experience it currently provides. Both will continue to be a waste of resources that could have instead been put toward improving Firefox's performance or fixing many of its longstanding bugs.
Systemd has spoken, but it's impossible to decode its incoherent message. Perhaps it's saying that it is a perpetual victim of injustice. Then again, it might be babbling that this is the best of all possible worlds and that it is the best of all possible organizations. Let's get down to business: It ought to unstop its ears and uncover its eyes. Only then will systemd hear that to which it has been too long heedless. Only then will it see that when I hear it say that it has an absolute right to be intolerant in the name of tolerance, I have to wonder about it. Is it thoroughly worthless? Is it simply being asinine? Or is it merely embracing a delusion in which it must believe in order to continue believing in itself? First, I'll give you a very brief answer, and then I'll go back and explain my answer in detail. As for the brief answer, while systemd has been beating the drums of opportunism, I've been trying to take the mechanisms, language, ideology, and phraseology for determining what is right and what is wrong out of the hands of systemd and its adherents and put them back in the hands of ordinary people. In doing so, I've learned that in its quest to prevent us from getting in touch with our feelings it has left no destructive scheme unutilized.
Every time systemd spouts some nonsense about how it's inflexibly honest, thoroughly patriotic, and eminently solicitous to promote, in all proper ways, the public good, the effect is that its apple-polishers become even more loyal to it. Sociologists refer to the phenomenon of increased devotion to a maledicent theory at the very hour of its destruction by external evidence as “cognitive dissonance”. I, for one, call it proof that systemd wants us to feel sorry for the subhuman, mindless skivers who promote the lie of stoicism. I warrant we should instead feel sorry for their victims, all of whom know full well that systemd is trapped in a vicious cycle. The more opposition to its bromides it faces, the more prudish it becomes. The more prudish it becomes, the more opposition to its bromides it faces. I wish I didn't have to be the one to break the news that I pray for the day when those who support those for whom hatred has become a way of life will see what they're doing to the world and to all of its citizens. Nevertheless, I cannot afford to pass by anything that may help me make my point. So let me just state that if we are to provide actionable steps people can take to break the spell of great expectations that now binds poxy bigamists to systemd, then we must be guided by a healthy and progressive ideology, not by the high-handed and pesky ideologies that systemd promotes.
Epistemic warlordism weakens political determination and gives comfort to anarchism. To overcome this the question of the role played by systemd's faction must be broached directly. Let me suggest we do by examining the way that whenever I hear systemd's dupes witter on about how hanging out with nauseating converts to misoneism is a wonderful, culturally enriching experience, I interpret this poppycock as an implicit request for chemical treatment of their rampant (and generally unacknowledged) Asperger syndrome. The biggest supporters of systemd's unscrupulous, disloyal rantings are snotty charlatans and craven filthy-types. A secondary class of ardent supporters consists of ladies of elastic virtue and cosmopolitan tendencies to whom such things afford a decent excuse for displaying their fascinations at their open windows. Let's just ignore systemd and see what it does.
In any case, there is something in the way of “natural law” that can be stated awkwardly as follows: “Anyone who was sober for more than an hour or two during the last five years knows that systemd's presumptuous calumnies have been establishing beachheads on paper and celluloid and silicon and everywhere else that presumptuous calumnies can appear.” Please do not quote me on that. Instead, work it into a better natural law and enunciate it in clearer and more concise te
http://predictionbook.com/ is a website that allows one to record predictions along with a probability estimate for them. Others can then comment and give their own estimates. When a prediction comes due one can then judge it. It also has a nice graph that allows one to then see how accurate one has been (most humans are overconfident). It isn't perfect since for example it doesn't have categories for predictions; it would be nice for example to be able to say look at just one's predictions related to politics, or to the space program or something similar. But overall, I strongly recommend it.
2016 will be the Year of My Genitals on the Desktop.
You are welcome on my lawn.
press releases about AI will become more desperate.
10% of users accessed Google with IPv6 yesterday: http://www.google.com/intl/en/...
If you expand out the graph you can see that during the work week there are about 8% of users on IPv6, but at the weekends it increases. There is a two-speed internet, with residential and mobile leading the way, and corporate networks lagging behind.
Prediction: 14% at weekends next year.
The brushfires have been smouldering, but in 2016 both the owners and subjects will organize to oppose each other with fervor. Individuals and companies will begin making news for fleeing repressive regimes to continue their work and these will be regimes that used to claim a penchant for liberty. Other subjects of these regimes will begin to notice and start a three-year cycle that will lead to one extreme or the other.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Except for Apple. Cook is out after Apple fails to perform to market expectations three quarters in a row.
are greatly exaggerated. And Windows 10 will not do nearly as well as it should based on the price (free). Windows 7 will remain above 40% market share of desktop PCs throughout the year.
A brain is a terrible thing to waste... Mind? That's debatable.
In 2016 there will be products that are so over hyped that they turn out to be a disappointment.
The Website Obesity Crisis. Why not start the new year with a chuckle.
I predict that there will be yet another programming language claiming to replace C and we will still be mostly using C in 2026.
I Don't Work Here
I loved initially reading this document and then referring back to it as the years pressed on to see how close he was to the actual year he predicted the earliest point in time an innovation or milestone would appear in society.
Where is Ian Pearson now and where is the follow up?
They'll fix the login system.
And then break it again.
Ian Pearson's Timeline of the Future from 2001
That's not the right question. The question should be, "Will Donald Trump ever shut up?" And the answer is no. He has no chance of being elected, and he knows that. Who has Donald Trump pissed off? Women? Latinos? I feel discriminated against . . . he hasn't pissed off middle aged white guys . . . yet.
He is going to find his place sniping at Hilary, when she gets elected: the social gadfly of the opposition. It's a great role to play. A lot of folks really detest Hillary, but she's going to be elected anyway, just because of demographics that favor the Democrats. That will leave a lot of folks looking for a steam valve, to let off some vitriol. The trouble that Hillary will have, is a Republican Congress and Senate. She will have to resort to the "Obama Prerogative" of using Executive Orders, read, "imperial decrees", to circumvent the due process of the creation of laws in the US. Opening the border to Cuba? A good idea, but the way Obama did that was dubious, at best. Congress should have approved.
Now Obama wants to do another Executive Decree, that affects the Bill of Rights, on gun laws. In international soccer matches, that would get the red card from the referee. What will happen if Hillary decides to issue a decree about the Freedom of Speech? Democrats will close ranks behind her; Trump will honk off.
Although that sounds a bit pessimistic, I'm thinking that is what 2016 has to offer.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
People will keep flocking to one of the fastest growing city in the USA, even though it will continue to have increasingly devastating consequences from regular flooding for the population and industry, particularly farming.
Wall street, on behalf of rich people, will short-sell (via complex derivatives that mask their intent) the Florida property and life insurers, mortgagees, corporations, and property owners.
Florida will continue to deny the existence of climate change at the popular and official levels.
'Editors' to give even less of a shit
...need a phone will be what makes wearables take off. By affordable I'm talking less than $100, and by not requiring a phone I mean you can text, calculate, and make calls "Dick Tracy" style without having to carry a cell phone on your person. And it should be both functional and decorative, especially if it expects to compete with its much more attractive analog counterparts. Perhaps a display that overlays mechanical hands when you want to use it as a computer but retains the elegance of a normal watch when you just want to know the time?
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
will he build concentration camps ?
When Feb 29 rolls around the subject will drift to lead seconds, and there'll be wave of whing and ill-informed nuttery from drometards who rolled their own half-assed date/time libraries and don't know what TAI is.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Skynet will start its human abduction program and use the abductees to seed a race of Jar Jar Binks clones.
2016 Will be the first year that nobody on slashdot posts about a Beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans in Russia who pour hot grits on YOU.
Oooops, so much for that prediction.
PS this is cellocgw, but slashdot's posting page insists on logging me out.
Toyota, etc will start to falter in their support of hydrogen as they see the buzz around the model 3.
Slashdot will continue to not have HTTPS for login...
Linux will push out more fixes and hardware support - but nothing compelling that will be worth an upgrade (unless you like dickin' about with your computers, or need the fixed stuff)
Windows will continue to be Windows - nothing new there
There will be more cyber attacks, exploited security holes, scams and cockups
The Greek economy might finally crash - or it might not.
Apple will probably release some more stuff. The fans will all tell you they are the best versions ever and worth every penny
China will make more, faster, better, cheaper stuff then ever before
Oh yes - and there will be the olympics. But nothing else of any consequence.
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
Completely unable to post from Chrome because slashdot keeps logging me out when I hit "Submit" and won't let me post as AC.
I just love it when upgrades break things.
OTOH, if this post from FF fails, it's certainly slashdot's fault
https://app.box.com/WitthoftResume Code: https://github.com/cellocgw
Systemd will continue to spread its tentacles until every last OSS will become dependent on it.
I am not a time traveler, but it's pretty clear how things go. One way or another, Clinton will win the Democrat primary. At this point, things are uncertain. Remember that her current opponent is I-VT. Trump easily gets the Republican nomination. That's where things get ugly. Trump makes a complete ass out of himself (as if he hasn't already) and the Republican party.
The American people are too far gone at this point to carry Sanders even as far as Perot went. Watch Gary Johnson and Jill Stein. We might have the making of a successor party to the Republican party, much like how the Republican party replaced the Whigs. (Probability: <0.01% in 100 years, but I can dream.)
Michigan and Ohio will vote to legalize cannabis flower among others; Ohio will be the first Eastern state to do so while Michigan will reject the ballot proposal. We might see a competing ballot initiative in Michigan to merely decriminalize the plant, and that might have a chance of passing, because the people of Michigan completely, utterly, consistently fucking fail at making money. Pennsylvania will debate a legalization bill, but it will be ultimately defeated.
Expect to hear more noise out of Indiana. You thought the gay marriage angst is done? Ha! Just wait. I just hope the gays over there have guns and know how to use them.
Naturally, #blacklivesmatter isn't nearly done social justice trolling. Expect them to lash out more at Sanders and other political objectives that threaten the Clinton coronation. Along those lines, #translivesmatter will go nowhere. Cold-blooded, premeditated murder of a trans woman will continue to constitute manslaughter. Business as usual. (Protip: I may not be right about all these things, but I have a nice piece of metal that says attempting that shit with me won't go your way. Good thing Indiana is nowhere near me!)
I have another prediction I redacted, but listen up, Brianna Wu, Lulzsec, and mikeeusa. I'm on to you, and I'm packing digital heat. (Btw, that DDOS missed the target! How do you social justice types always miss the target?! To test my theory, see previous posts for the correct target. Don't think knocking ns1.linode.com offline will affect what I care about.) Don't do it. Just don't. I don't want a war, not even a meaningless, stupid internet war.... If somebody I care very deeply about gets hurt, all bets are off. I sure as hell hope whatever script kiddies and goons you've got know their shit, because I won't have mercy. Especially if the worst happens. My blustering about Amazons on the red site might just get real, but it doesn't have to be.
On the first day of Kwanzaa the black candle is lit in the Kinara. The black candle represents the first principle -- Umoja (oo-MOH-jah): Unity.
Think about that, Wu. Don't escalate shit. Think about the other days of Kwanzaa. Just replace the black candle with a pink one. The rest applies perfectly. You could even help her.
One other prediction: Slashdot will be bought out by either Vice's owners or Ars Technica. Hopefully they'll fix the fucking login issues. I can live with SJW Friday, but srsly, I can't post while logged in again?
(War never changes.)
The real sure thing? The Internet of Things juggernaut. I'm astonished it hasn't been mentioned yet.
I come here for the love
In the tech world:
We will have another OEM bundling vulnerable adware.
AMD, after a lackluster first part of the year, will start to get moving again towards the end.
Intel, after an okay start to the year, will disappoint with Kaby Lake and not finish off very well.
NVIDIA will be doing about the same as last year.
In politics:
We (America) will have a national election resulting in an international embarrassment whoever wins. China will stutter, suffer an economic collapse, and then possibly implode into civil war. Europe will suffer an extreme anti-EU backlash.
That's all my 2016 predictions.
Or its discovered that several "SJW leaders" were under trump's paycheck all along, while he sits down on the white house's presidential chair while muttering "Everything according to keikaku"
DUH!
But i'm pretty sure the industry will start to manufacture the big ICs like CPUs, GPUs etc into small separate modules and then using a precise pick and place machine, "assemble" the whole beast using either side interconnects or bridges over the chips, if not just plain making a 3D pile with heatpipes to pull out the heat from the middle of it.
The tech itself to do it is already emerging with those HSA memory AMD things, and that's a nice way to not have to fight against huge masks that will be required given the fact the ol transistor shrinking trick is not working anymore.
I predict that Slashdot does the right thing in 2016 and ditches its outdated, broken modding system.
It's a system that made sense in 2002, when even the most boring Slashdot stories routinely got 400+ comments.
But these days, it's typical to see stories that get less than 100 comments. Even just hitting 50 comments is a real accomplishment.
The only stories that see more than that today are highly-politicized or controversial topics, where the editors are clearly stirring up pointless discussion (see all of the women-in-tech submissions as examples of this).
In order to keep this site viable, more good discussion is needed.
The seeds necessary for good discussion are there. The problem is that the best comments often get modded down before this discussion can start.
Facing an ever-dwindling number of users, 2016 will be the year that Dice will need to take some real action.
The first thing to do is to get rid of the moderation system completely. It's old, it's broken, and it doesn't help promote good discussion. It just stifles it nowadays.
The second thing to do is to display all comments by default. It made sense to hide some comments when there were typically 500+ in each thread of discussion. But now it's typical to only see one or two comments showing by default, with the other 30 comments, most of them very good, not being shown by default!
The third thing to do is to get rid of the posting limits. Again, these made sense a decade or more ago, when this site actually had a lot of users and got a lot of comments. But now it's just dumb to limit anonymous users to just 10 comments per day, along with the stupid delays imposed between comments. The last thing Slashdot should be doing is impeding the ability of the small number of remaining users to comment!
By turning Slashdot into a site where discussion can happen freely and without the friction imposed by the current bad moderating and the unnecessary posting limits, it could very well see a revival in 2016.
No longer would Slashdot be seen as the early-2000s relic that it is currently seen as. Instead, it'd become known as a site for vibrant discussion, without the pathetic don't-offend-anyone wimpiness of places like Reddit and Hacker News.
Dice, make 2016 the year that these three important things happen:
1. The moderation system is completely thrown away.
2. The current posting limits are completely disabled.
3. Slashdot is turned into a site where discussion is prompted and encouraged, rather than stifled like it currently is.
Dice, make 2016 the Year of Slashdot!
I predict Christmas will come on December 25. I also predict the sun will rise tomorrow morning.
Keikaku means plan
2016: The Year In Energy
In the year 2016 there will be a dozen vague announcements promising some new materials breakthrough (graphene, unicorn crystals, etc.) that lead excitable people to imagine that large scale grid storage is right around the corner. Tesla will introduce a battery the size of a motorcycle that can power a car, a battery the size of a car that can power a house, and one the size of a city that can power a slightly larger city, for 30 minutes.
Meanwhile the tech community will fixate on every disingenuous statistic anyone can come up with about grid-scale wind power as if there had been some new 'tech' breakthrough, and is poised to explode for no earthly reason. To an embarrassingly lesser extent there will be a trickle of topics on solar power which was the big push a few years ago, now mainly a few whiny articles about how big energy companies and short sighted governments are interfering with the peoples' right to push tiny bits of energy onto the grid and make the people around them pay for the infrastructure to do so. California (and now its Eastern colony, Vermont) will generate less electricity and import more grid power and natural gas than ever.
Fusion will be closer than ever before and yet practically speaking on the grid scale, remain as comfortably distant as ever. This will be good news to the folks who advocate fusion as a way to derail discussions about nuclear fission, but have at last realized that both methods involve the use of terrifying radioactivity.
Meanwhile stock-paper energy companies will continue to acquire --- then decommission --- nuclear power plants in acts of staggering corporate vandalism to improve their short-term balance sheets and push grid consumers permanently, irrevocably, into the profitable and seasonally volatile natural gas market. If it were not for a few well positioned math-challenged nuke-scardy faux-environmentalists everyone might have been up in arms about this. If we had a federal government that was not also compromised by faux-environmentalism, there would have been investigations into possible conspiracy of restraint of trade, and a real concern for the stability of the nation's electrical infrastructure.
China will continue to position itself as the third world's most ambitious energy and rail infrastructure provider, making firm promises and forming lasting relationships and securing oil resources in regions of the Middle East, Asia and Africa that the United States CIA had once thought they could 'manage' cheaply just by installing friendly regimes. She will lead the United States and the world in nuclear energy research, forging ahead with the CAP1400 project that leverages Westinghouse technology to a greater extent than Westinghouse itself is able... and meanwhile and not incidentally China is actively making molten salt reactor research and prototype development a national priority, unlike the United States where advocates of LFTR become the brunt of dumb jokes on Slashdot.
In other words, same as last year.
<blink>down the rabbit hole</blink>
The VR gear will remain the kind that only a complete dork will want to wear in public, while the capabilities of such gear will be cute but underwhelming.
I think you're making up a conspiracy where there really doesn't need to be one.
He wouldn't have to pay anyone in the "social justice" crowd to act the way that they do. Those in the "social justice" crowed are just naturally deranged, and voluntarily engage in the behavior that they do without requiring any sort of financial compensation or incentive.
"Social justice" supporters are naturally hypocrites. They're naturally intolerant. They're naturally hateful. They're naturally bullies. That's why they're drawn to the "social justice" movement in the first place: it embodies everything that they naturally want to do. But best of all, it deludes them into thinking they're doing something "good", rather than having to admit their true awful nature.
Their anti-white, anti-heterosexual, anti-male agenda promotes the very things that they claim to stand against: racism, discrimination based on sexual orientation, and discrimination based on gender.
It does not help that they also pardon and encourage illegal activities, such as foreigners crossing the border illegally, "disadvantaged youth" attacking police officers, and the riots that these "disadvantaged youth" engage in in order to steal the latest Nike shoes.
Maybe Trump is benefiting from the divisive environment that the "social justice" crowd has naturally created. But I really doubt he has to waste his money on these people. Their natural actions will benefit him more than anything he could ever hope to organize.
It's much like what we've seen in the open source community with systemd. The people who support systemd have, perhaps unintentionally, done more to harm the viability of Linux, especially when used on servers, than Microsoft, or SCO, or Apple, or any other organization could ever have hoped to do. A community that is naturally rotting from the inside out can be exploited much more effectively than one that's being actively manipulated.
Worry about today. After today, you can worry about tomorrow.
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
Things will change at slashdot in 2016, but not in the way some have forecasted. The most likely outcome is that in 2016 slashdot will close for good. It's been up for sale for some time with no buyers coming forward, and it is unlikely that one will. Look at the staff that remains now; Taco was pushed out years ago and it is unclear if any full time programmers are still working here. The "editors" have been phoning in their "work" for years as well.
My prediction is that slashdot won't be around for new years 2017.
And I'm posting this as AC not because I don't have an account (I do have one) but because there is a new bug in the login system that occasionally doesn't recognize me as being logged in. I don't expect this bug will be resolved, either.
Don't worry, your lack of support will be more than offset by the many legal immigrants who do support his approach to dealing with illegal immigrants.
We're talking about people who have spent many years, spent large sums of money, and dealt with endless bureaucracy in order to come to America legally. Then they see illegal aliens being welcomed by leftists, despite these illegal aliens breaking the law and not enduring the legal immigration process. The resentment the legal immigrants harbor toward the illegal aliens who are now getting preferential treatment is immense!
Those in the legal immigrant community also tend to see through the bullshit curtains that leftists like to raise. These legal immigrants know that America's black youth aren't `disadvantaged`. These legal immigrants know that these youth are provided much opportunity, including free or heavily-discounted education at all levels, but choose not to take advantage of it. It's the youth who are solely responsible for not taking advantage of the opportunities given to them.
The legal immigrants, especially those coming from Mexico and South America, tend to be quite religious and conservative. They don't care much for the transsexuality, homosexuality, and drug abuse agendas of the leftists. They've seen first-hand their own nations destroyed by rampant leftism; that's one of the main reasons they chose to move to America.
Trump's audience and base of support is much wider than many wish to admit or perhaps even realize, and it includes many people who may, at a glance, be thought not to support him. He's providing a voice to many who haven't been heard over the last 7 years of leftist rule, nor during the 8 years of neoleftist rule that preceded that.
While Bitcoin had a great year in most metrics of 2015( https://blog.coinbase.com/2015... ), expect even more rapid growth in 2016 when years of development and investment compound with another disinflationary bubble driving media and user interest. Several more bitcoin "killer-apps" (I.E.. https://openbazaar.org/ ) will come online while banks continue to poor money into block chain development to play catch-up. Crypto-currency developers will be the biggest winners as more fintech VC money pours into innovative startups and "blockchain" consultants.
Banking alts will begin to roll out in late 2016 with some eventually becoming massive failures and some private blockchains winning out providing slight benefits from removing some interbank inefficiencies. Both bank alts/tokens and bitcoin will coexist and serve different purposes as the key benefits to bitcoin will never be replicated by the banks: immutability, privacy and security with no KYC, sovereignty, open source and decentralized allowing limitless innovation and ability to onramp billions of unbanked and underbanked.
He'll just repurpose the Jade Helm FEMA camps which are still located below several 'closed' Walmarts.
China will ban new coal mines for three years: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/... The US will do the same or more since a federal judge ruled last year that mining permits must consider greenhouse gas emissions.
They are already built.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
The Internet of Things will infect the internet like an aggressive malignant cancer.
With manufactures rushing into production devices completely lacking any kind of security or strong encryption exhibiting a total disregard for everyone's privacy and data security.
Compromised IoT devices will metastasize like an aggressive cancer destroying privacy and security for all internet users.
All network device manufactures from home thermostats, home smoke / carbon monoxide detectors, IP cameras, TV's, refrigerators other household appliances etc. to industrial controls must be held accountable and liable for their devices short comings.
Manufactures of all devices that connect to a network must be required to get product safety certifications similar to a UL Underwriters laboratories seal for the devices O/S software and all code on the device.
Manufactures must be required to submit all code for a mandatory annual code safety review like vehicle crash testing with strong penalties imposed for unpatched security vulnerabilities or software defects.
Disregarding established security standards, placing back doors, hard coding accounts, leaving vulnerabilities and software defects unpatched or using weak encryption should all be criminal acts with strong penalties requiring jail time and fines for all the persons responsible for the coding, their supervisors and the managers responsible with heavy fines levied on the company.
Those responsible both companies and individualizes should also be held financially liable for all losses and pay punitive damages to consumers.
A year or two of free credit monitoring is not a sufficient remedy the manufacture and those employees responsible must be required to fully compensate any losses and pay punitive damages to those affected.
Manufactures must be barred from using binding arbitration clauses to restrict a consumers legal rights.
Consumers must be in an informed opt-in position when it comes to sharing any data personal or otherwise collected by a device.
Slashdot will be sold yet again and will continue its decline
The continuing absence of the GNAA posts will be filled by others like the "you are all cows" posts.
Nobody will fill in for APK though on the hosts file front.
Bennett Hazelton will continue to polarize people into those that hate him and those that like him.
The slashdot editors will continue to not edit posts correctly and will continue to screw them up and change the provided links to sites with less info and more advertising.
On April the 1st, slashdot will not manage to best the "OMG Ponies" with pink colors from several years back.
He has no chance of being elected, and he knows that.
Reality disagrees... but please, keep saying stuff about Trump. It only helps.
I am aware that polls this early are largely meaningless, but let's look at some numbers outside of context.
He's got about 40% of the Republican vote at the moment. Let's assume that figure holds across the party so that, for example, if Cruz bows out 40% of those supporters move to Trump. That gives him 40% + (40% x 60%) = 64% of the Republican vote, using back-of-the-envelope estimates.
No one bothered to check with Democratic voters until recently, but Trump has stronger support from Democrats than he does from Republicans!
Astonishing!
If *those* numbers are accurate, he could get elected right now.
And all of this is ignoring any context. For example:
a) The investigation into Hillary could conclude, bringing charges against her
b) Hillary could have a medical issue (campaigning is stressful, she's had medical problems, Trump hasn't)
c) US could have another domestic terrorist attack
d) Trump has not made campaign ads - he's spent about a million, compared to Jeb's 32 million.
And finally, Trump will get elected simply because no one opposes his position in any rational way - it's all namecalling and derision.
Don't believe me? Find a rational argument as to why a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country isn't a common-sense response to an immediate threat.
You can't do it. The only response, so far as I can find, is to cast aspersions on the person asking that question. Terms like bigot, predjudiced, racist, and extremist are used. Also outright lies such as "it's unconstitutional" (no, it's not), "it's impossible to tell who's a Muslim" (no, it's not), "that's not what America is about" (we've done it before), and so on.
Then tell me why enforcing immigration law is a bad move (instead of amnesty, which is what the administration was quietly floating), why simplifying the tax code is a bad move, why having strong treaty negotiation is a bad move, and why replacing Obamacare with something better would be a bad move.
As near as I can tell, early November was the tipping point where you could have stopped Donald Trump. Someone could have stepped up and addressed his policies, and in that act presented as a strong leader. By now it's probably too late.
Oh, and let's not forget that the lead Democratic candidate has accomplished nothing in her career, and the democratic runner-up is a Socialist. A SOCIALIST!
Please.
Donald may not win the election, but saying he has no chance is entirely without merit.
What discoveries are we going to make this year?
I predict we are going to discover that people seriously suck at predicting the future.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
The mobile site has been in infinite loop mode for a while now.
Sanders will take the presidency.
Radical left wing consensus media will continue to erode their credibility and viewership. More and more people will seek out real journalism from the alternative media.
If you have never experienced the systemD reintegration you can see it synergizes the kernel calls. The benefits of this simple schema can be difficult to believe. The future will be a transformative refining of insight. Eons from now, we adventurers will live like never before as we are reborn by the grid. We must change ourselves and empower others.
Your system resources may be ruled by greedy algorithms without realizing it. Do not let it sabotage the self-healing disk fragmentation. You must take a stand against selfishness. We can no longer afford to live with plural arbitration. The new paridigm of digital auto-transcendence is now happening worldwide. It is in refining that we are re-energized. Imagine a refining of what could be.
The galaxy is approaching a tipping point. We are being called to explore the cosmos itself as an interface between complexity and being. Soon there will be a redefining of knowledge the likes of which the planet has never seen.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
With extreme heat records in central USA, Siberia and west Europe.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
Quatrain I
"An enormous and mighty ring is watched by the one who watches. Motes whirl at tremendous speeds, colliding and generating unimaginable amounts of energy. The eye that watches searches relentlessly for forbidden knowledge and becomes consumed by its fascination with the ring. Days, weeks and months pass and the motes continue hurling themselves towards each other in a battle that culminates in destruction."
Quatrain V
"The fourth Antichrist engages in war upon Little Beach and the beach is swamped by the incoming tide. The influence and control that Little Beach has held is lost as another takes his place."
Quatrain III
"The doors opened and the windows closed. A great wind blows against the windows causing them to buckle and bend; the pressure slowly builds and erodes away at the very foundations that support the windows."
In 2016 Slashdot will finally stop the pretense of being "News for Nerds" and admit that it is far more centered on entertainment than substance... as it has been since 2006 or even earlier, I can't recall.
Straw poll: who remembers the early days, when it really was about technology not of the "bigger flat-screen for the StupidBowl than you" or "Twelve Dumb Things to do with your New Drone" sort?
(is the capthca run by a really good AI? It gave me "bleaker", so apropos...)
Sorry PolygamousRanchKid, but I predict that Donald Trump will be elected President in an electoral college landslide.
The prevailing interpretation (not the validity) of Einstein's special theory of relativity definitions relating frame time (t) to proper time (tau):
d(tau) = dt - dr/c = invariant
dr = dx + dy + dz
will be challenged by a source that is regarded as "mainstream" by the STEM community. The new interpretation will not challenge the validity of these definitions, nor will the new interpretation be accepted as "mainstream physics" during 2016. However, due to the prominence of the challenger and the challenged, there will be a mild form of mass hysteria in the scientific community as well as media. The challenger will claim the hysteria is due to the disruptive implications to mainstream physics while the challenged will claim the hysteria is due to the appearance of a rare species of "crackpot" -- one with mainstream credibility. This controversy may well result in mainstream funding (NSF, etc.) to "debunk" the "cranks" during 2016 although, in mainstream discourse, spin may be placed on less aggressive terms to similar effect, due to the prominence of the challenger. The blogosphere will most decidedly not shy away from such invective.
Seastead this.
The price of beef has just gone up.
And you know the rest.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
The sun will rise.
"Freedom in the USA is not the ability to do what you want. It is the ability to stop others from doing what THEY want"
And then the healing can begin. Nah, just kidding, that would be completely crazy. Instead I predict more slashvertisement, more videos, and even less quality in editing the stories. Oh and more Social Justice Warrior nonsense and Nerdbashing.
1. Someone will decide that two books would make very good mini-series and start the process of realizing them...
1a. Cryptonomicon,
1b. The Cyberiad - Fable for the Cybernetic Age.
2. Apple shares will continue to slide because they don't have anything that other companies aren't doing better and cheaper.
3. Wearables as fashion items will peak, but those that are medically beneficial will continue to increase and be improved.
4. Donald Trump won't be the Republican candidate.
5. There will be as many gun-related deaths in the USA as in 2015 because there is nothing that Obama or anyone else can do about it.
6. The UK referendum on leaving the EU will result in a draw and it will be decided by the toss of a coin. The coin will land on its edge.
7. Ukraine will erupt into another civil war because the economy collapses. One of the many corrupt oligarchs will be defenestrated. Mikheil Saakashvili, who was appointed as governor of Odessa, will be kidnapped by the Georgian secret service and returned to Georgia.
8. Greece will shoot down a Turkish military aircraft for crossing into its airspace, the > 2000th time that has happened in the past few years.
9. The Iceland volcano Bardarbunga will erupt and the ash will knock out air traffic across Europe for more than 6 months.
10. Obama will set a new record for Presidential pardons before he steps down.
11. The USA will continue to feed Guantanamo Bay prisoners through the ass, and reaffirm its commitment to human rights.
12. Inexpensive 3D printers will allow more young people to create their own figurines for games, and Games Workshop will declare bankruptcy.
13. I will turn 61, confirm that the lift-slope of a thin circular wing is 1.79002303, and then find the next 3 figures.
USB, USB, USB!
1. slashdot continues to suck ass.
2. Rob Malda is arrested for child pornography.
3. Cowboy Kneel has his 3rd heart attack.
4. Taco Bell introduces a taco that's wrapped in a cheese-stuffed crust pizza (see also, prediction 3)
5. Malia Obama is pregnant. Usher, Bill Cosby, and Leroy the white house janitor deny paternity.
6. Chelsea Clinton aborts her baby in a last ditch effort to prevent Bernie Sanders from crushing her mom in the primaries
7. Bill Clinton fucks another intern in a last ditch effort to prevent Hillary Clinton from beating Donald Trump in the general election.
8. Your mom sucks my dick.
9. You still don't get laid.
10. That wasn't chicken.
My prediction is that China will build a 100 Petaflop Supercomputer in 2016. This machine will rank #1 on the TOP500 list until 2019.
VR gadgets will be big in the run up to Christmas 2016
M$, IBM & HP staff will all experience yet another big round of 'realignment' or 'restructuring' due to plummeting stock values (call mass firings what you will)
Encryption will become a 'must-have' feature - particularly for phones throughout the Middle East & Caucasus
NATO will eject Turkey unless Erdogan is removed - forcibly or otherwise - the dove gesture to Israel says everything
Hillary Clinton will win the US Election (as the republicans have no candidates) - [why Rubio is not in prison is a mystery to millions]
ISIL will be exterminated early in the new year (the world owes a great debt to Mr. Putin)
The Saudi & Qatar economies will tank severely
Canada's economic troubles will be hidden by excessive economic stimulus for the next 4 years which the people of 2076 (3 generations later) will still be paying for
The UK will continue to implode
The price of oil will stay the same throughout 2016 or dip slightly
The application of AI will be found permeating more and more industries - particularly in the law, insurance and health industries
The entire F-35 fleet will be grounded again, for the 3rd time
The methane leak in California will not be resolved in 2016, causing a health incident of biblical proportions
WhatsApp will see more legal woes in other countries as Telcos 'circle the wagons'
The Uber model will see itself applied in many more contexts, thus creating micro-economies for millions of people around the world
With it will come an increasing tsunami of litigation before government courts at all levels
The invalidation of 'Safe Harbor' will unfortunately not result in any substantial protection of privacy rights for the European populace
Many of us will become one year older
-- phone gaming is a zero-gain business
-- first car-hacker crash
-- random large companies online will be "not doing business in your area, thanks" due to bastard weasels like the UK Parliament demanding full and unfettered access to all data through backdoors. could get interesting if it happens in the US, home of The Connected Internet, and will lead to recalls of elected weasels.
-- Oracle has peaked. not-giant companies will go OS for their databases and tools due to the usual overlord contracts.
-- Microsoft will have to back off Windows 10 overlording, the pushback against their increasing Sovietization gets too great.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Hillary (c) is wounded and one of the attacks will generate enough damage so the Uberdelegates don't win first ballot in the Democratic convention. out of the dust rises the only candidate telling the truth and offering plans to unwind the oligarchy, Bernie Sanders. in all the polls, he beats comic-Hitlerian GOP candidate Chumpie. more than Hillary (c). the GOP has soiled their nest enough that it's totally poisoned by TEA types. none of those guys could poll over 25% in a general election if ISIS was slashing their way straight through from the coast to Eau Claire.
so there you have it. to steal somebody's meme, "Democracy was built on four boxes... soap, ballot, jury, and ammo." we are damn near to the fourth choice.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
... that could be construed a bigoted, sexist or unpatriotic. It will go viral, and a flame war will rage across social media in which the public shamers and defenders will vie to twist the narrative of what was in fact a moment of misspeaking into proof that their respective world views are, not only right, but the only conscionable viewpoint to have.
And, even knowing in advance fully how futile and unsatisfying it will be, you won't be able to resist weighing in with what seems to you to be a reasonable and nuanced take on the matter. This will not be perceived by anyone as reasonable and nuanced. Then, like a gambler vainly trying to win back his stake, your participation in the controversy will grow in proportion to your dissatisfaction with it.
An when it is all over a few weeks later it will all happen again.
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and the prediction will come to pass.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Supposed to be in June 2016, but my prediction is that date will slip.
are going to disappear as the service bombs terribly, and is then subject to a class action lawsuit from disgruntled early adopters.
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
-- Kid Rock
I've noticed that also. I have post as Anonymous Coward in some cases due to the login issues.
Something got slashed at dot.
For a few minutes so you can fix obvious huge typos that slipped thru.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
I expect Mrs. Clinton to win this year, but serve only one term, and become the first president in a while to do so. Most likely, either Bernie or Trump will reappear in 2020.
I expect that cybersecurity will become a very lucrative industry over the next couple of years.
And I expect that over the next 10 years, there will be an increasing trend of moving jobs back to the US. With larger companies dominating aome industries as heavily aas they do, there will become space for smaller ones who target specific niches, especially with the upper class. In doing so, they save on shipping, can get products to the market sooner, work natively with their customers, take advantage of the term "Made in America", and hire fewer but far better trained and equipped employees than in China or Vietnam.
As for this year, I think their might be another terrorist attack, but I don't know where to say. Potentially at the Olympic Games, or somewhere in Germany, those would be my guesses. Other than that, I don't think too much will change this year, just another year of advancement from what 2015 was...
I also predict that one or more of the above predictions are incorrect :-)
"Set a man a fire, he'll be warm for the rest of the night. Set a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
Here's the post from Wyatt Earp (/. ID#: 1029) 10 years ago. He nailed it:
Advancements in artificial limb technology driven by the Iraqi Military Operations
Advancements in stripping the psychotropic effects of drugs like Ketamine and X for use as pain killers, driven by the Iraqi Military Operations
A video card that cracks the $1000 US price point
More hybrid and bio diesel technology from the big Automakers
F/A-22, Eurofighter Typhoon purchases get cut, F/A-22 or the F-35 programs might get totally eliminated by the US DoD
Quad core AMD and Intel server chips
US program to put GPS in all cars becomes a political hot issue
UK program to track all cars does not become a political hot issue
I predict Meg Whitman and Marissa Mayer will both proclaim their "success" in destroying H.P. and Yahoo and will depart to "spend more time with their families".
Both ships are about to sink and they can save face by departing in the near future.
By category, let's start with geopolitics:
- USA presidential, house and senate politics will continue to be the despair of all USAians and the rest of the "free" world"; as a consequence silly posturing will continue instead of the visionary, brave and useful policy-making
- The sames goes for Europe (or at least, most of the EU)
- Despite obscene amounts of spending on the military by both of the above, their weapons systems and military "solutions" remain half-functional and useless to combat the
- Various nutjob "terrerist" groups who will remain well-financed by their "allies" in the Middle East; jury awards for hypocrisy will continue to go to Turkey and Saudi Arabia (and its satellite Princedoms), with Israel, Pakistan and Egypt again qualifying for special awards in the category "biting the hands that feed them",
- Putin will continue riding his kleptocratic tiger, and thus will stick to page one of the "Dictator's playbook", i.e. randomly invading places and/or supporting whackjobs, justifying his actions by saying "for years the West has done the same"...
- For China, see Putin (above)
- All of the above ensuring that poor people everywhere (and especially Middle East and Africa) will continue to get royally fucked-over
Now, technology:
- Linux (yes, I know it's just the fucking kernel) nerds will continue to scream about SystemD; BSD nerds will continue to smirk into their neckbeards
- Google and Apple will continue to plug their respective languages and platforms, since they have lots more money than ideas, hence
- Their core business models and technology platforms will continue to stagnate, and most interest will revolve around how much money they can hide from the taxman in order to pay it back as ransom to bored but venal shareholders
- Meanwhile, clueless tech-hipsters will continue to bore us fartless by comparing the relative benefits of the above "revolutionary" languages and platforms
- Self-driving cars, powered by cheap, safe, nuclear fusion, will be available "real soon now"
- Everyone with a brain, and a decent experience of IS/IT in the real world, will continue to despise the cunts at Oracle
Here it is, in 2006, by Animats (/.ID#: 122034) Alter Relationship on Monday December 26, 2005 @10:39PM (#14343315)
Saudi Arabia finally admits the Gawar field has peaked. Oil passes $70 per barrel.
US interest rate spike. "Homeowners" with adjustable-rate interest-only loans default and are foreclosed.
Housing prices crash as foreclosures glut market.
Congress finally starts investigating some activities of the Bush administration.
No real change in Iraq. Neither side can force a decision, so both sides keep bleeding.
China announces major progress in their space program.
Micropayments flop, again. Goodbye, Bitpass.
A Cat 4 or 5 hurricane wipes out another southern US city, or New Orleans floods again.
One of the big three US car manufacturers goes bankrupt.
Total number of active blogs decreases.
...are amongst a lot of those things we'll see in 2016, hardly a new theme from 2015, but there's light at the end of the tunnel and here's my predictions for 2016:
....I think we're gonna see a huge increase in companies hiring lawyers just to survive out there.
As you may be aware of - it's becoming increasingly hard to get a steady job to hold on to and plan a future, the big companies want young and fresh minds to form and take advantage of while they're willing and ready and the older generation will have to start their own businesses in order to keep their capital flow coming. The most important thing will be - change. People must be willing to do other things than what they're currently used to, because things will indeed change, slowly over the year 2016 - 17 - 18 - 19 etc... you catch the drift, we will be moving towards the moneyless society.
During that transaction of time - we will experience increased civil unrest, increased dismay with our government, leaders, politicians, employers etc. since our way of life as we know it is threatened with lay-offs, unpaid overtime, smaller salary, increased immigration and heavy outsourcing. This is not easy to handle for anyone of us, but it's a thing we've gotta get through somehow, and the only way to do this - is to stay cold and level headed and make sure we're a PART of the future instead of just complaining about it. You don't want to miss the bandwagon when you in reality can take advantages of the change instead of being the one screwed over.
We will notice an increase in social welfare recipients, joblessness, and a transition towards online entertainment instead of manual manufacturing, albeit that part will be outsourced so you may want to re educate yourself into something dealing with design, media, film, online communication, fitness and personal health - as these areas will most likely see an incredible increase.
Good future job perspectives will be in: Automation, Web Shops, Online shopping, Online Entertainment, Programming (Improving algorithms for saving space/data/bandwidth etc. will be in HIGH demand) Game developers, Graphics artists will be sought after so don't sell yourselves short by working for free (these has been outsourced with BAD results earlier, so this area will be especially lucrative). Due to heavy world immigration people working within Medicine (Doctors, surgeons, dentists etc.) will be in HIGH demand anywhere and you'll pretty much be able to set your own salary. As the population becomes more passive, on welfare/being more online during this transition to the moneyless society - we will also notice an increased need for personal health so if you're into fitness - start your own GYMs now, you'll bloom before you know what to do with your success.
Due to increased online production, film, media, entertainment etc. an increased need for the worlds most hated people (lawyers) will be a fact soon, because you'll need to protect that intellectual property (you and I may disagree here, I'm more for Open Source myself) but what you and I think isn't always what will happen, so
Due to increased immigration, it might be wise to invest heavily in property - the gov. will usually pay overprice for rent/property-lease/welfare/daycare/schooling accommodations for immigrants (this is happening BIG TIME in Sweden right now, and we're literally experiencing newcomers to the property market literally raking it in just because of this). Unfortunately they're also amateurs so the market will suffer greatly from this as well, so beware! You may even want to consider a career as an interpretor as these will be in HIGH DEMAND shortly.
Retro trend: We're experiencing the boomers are getting middle aged, so they want to relive their childhood - expect a HIGH demand for old used tech, especially video games from the late 70s to the early 80s, a huge comeback for Pinball machines & old arcades.
New Tech: Expect flat screen TV's to set a record low price-tag i
What this world is coming to - is for you and me to decide.
Americas:
- The absolute worst/best candidate will be elected.
- Political Corruption and the status quo will be maintained/eliminated.
- One of the new president's first acts will be repealing/enshrining Obamacare and slagging off 50% of the citizens.
- Gun-related politics will continue to divide America.
- The Europeans Union will, as usual, determine the new president is a fool and actively work to show exactly why.
- In Texas, an ultra-right white-supremacist chav from Idaho will get shot by an under-trained and over-worked minority Dallas or Houston police officer for "open carrying" in an airport parking lot.
- Mexico will get a Guy Fawkes.
- Argentina will rattle swords at the Falklands... Again.
- Chile will spend most of the year being a regional peacekeeper by trying to talk down the crazy Argentinians, etc
- Cuba will call out their military to put a stop to the fighting between rival gangs of antique car collectors.
China:
- The Chinese will continue to be America's Frenemy.
- The Chinese economy will continue crashing/to recover.
- A few thousand rich and corrupt Chinese politicians will be executed for their behaviour.
- A few thousand richer and more corrupt Chinese politicians will turn in some of their cronies to avoid being executed for their behavior.
- A few thousand of the Chinese Mega-rich will become expats in Bali, Cancun, Jamaica, etc.
Asia:
- Vladamir Putin will continue making a fool out of most of the world.
- The Balkans Nations will split. Again.
- The off-duty antics of the US Marines will once again make headline news.
- North Korea will once again succeed in taking a piss on the world stage. More "Food for the starving" will be rerouted to keep that fat sod overweight.
- India, China, and Pakistan will continue their "polite" border arguments.
- Bangladesh will attempt to control their flood problem.
Europe:
- Spain's economy will continue to ascend.
- Greece will suffer more financial problems, and the short-sellers will make billions.
- Germany will put legal limits on what it will do to support the EU as its economy starts slowing.
- England's highly intelligent leadership will continue to enact laws poisonous to our rights.
- Glaswegian footballers will "celebrate" in Edinburgh after the Hibs humiliate them 6-0.
Africa:
- The rich get richer.
- The economy of Zimbabwe collapses again and everyone starts using the RMB.
Australia:
- Australia gets its own version of Stephen Harper.
- Peirs Morgan arrested in Sydney for being a wanker.
- Adelaide protests that the World Solar Challenge race is not doing enough to mitigate the congestion it causes. Again.
- Darwin's property values skyrocket to equal those of Sydney after major oil deposit found in the harbor.
that Duke Nukem Forever will be released... what's that you say?
And in the last days of December 2016, Slashdot will actually have a comment system that does not crash if there are more than 100 comments to an article.
Also:
Slashdot's front page will not carry any blatant advertisements astroturfing as "news."
Hopefully usage of the prefix "Cyber-" will die horrible death.
Facebook will actually stop being a useful tool for intelligence agents.
The NSA will figure out how to balance their reality and politicians pipe-dreams.
Oracle will get a clue, and not try to patent-troll it as a result.
Bore software developers at Google will start optimizing Linux code instead of the Google homepage to entertain themselves.
Microsoft will stop producing desktop operating systems that try to be smartphone interfaces.
Apple will change the dye color used in the plastic portions of their products, and the Cult of Jobs won't care.
GNU Hurd will reach an alpha milestone - It will compile on modern hardware.
Internet Of Things will be become a dead term, replaced with "Ambient Computing."
Ambient Computing will be even more of a security/privacy nightmare than Internet Of Things.
Espressiv (Espressif?) will release a quad-core 64 bit variant of their "connect everything to the internet" chip, and someone will make a talking toaster out of it.
Hackaday will get a comment management system that works.
Intel will release a multi-core 18nm SOC combining Altera's FPGA technology, their i7 architecture, 8 Gigabytes of DDR4 memory, with hardware ethernet/USB3/BT/WiFi. 1.8v and 1nano-amp when sleeping, at $1 per K-DMIP.
AMD will figure out that combining the GPU and CPU into a device targeted for desktop use was a bad idea.
NVIDIA will come out with the TL-1 - A 3-D PoP module that crams 512 GPU compute cores and 20 ARM-64 cores together around 32Gbytes of shared memory... with a 10watt TDP.
Dell will acquire EMC for $67 billion dollars.
EMC announced it will reduce costs in 2016 by $850 million in layoffs plus an additional $250 million in restructuring. Most of the layoffs will target services & other areas of potential overlap with Dell's existing enterprise portfolio. More jobs go to India & China to absorb the cost of the merger.
Dell & EMC will offer hyperconvergence solutions from the mid market to the enterprise, aligning with partners like Oracle, Red Hat & Microsoft to deliver their products without the need for Cisco or HuaWei while VMware will go the way of Microsoft or continue to die a slow death.
Someone will create a blatantly illegal decentralized autonomous corporation running on Ethereum, it will get media coverage, and there will be full blown moral panic. This will be used to further interests in expanding mass surveillance and the use of cryptography will become even more politicized. Meanwhile said corporation will experience record profits which are only improved by the notoriety.
+10
true that!
That's not the prevailing interpretation anyway; the prevailing interpretation is that your first line arises from the symmetry group of the second line in a 3+1 spacetime (i.e., the Poincare isometry group with "c" as the sole free parameter corresponding to the speed of a massless particle generates Minkowski spacetime when local curvature is zero at all points).
All you have to do to challenge that is to show *local* Poincare non-invariance. Showing local Lorentz violation (the Lorentz group being a subgroup of the Poincare group) has been the usual programme on that front, and has been utterly fruitless.
What might be more fun is showing that we are getting some higher loop Feynman diagrams wrong *because* we are relying on the flat space approximation at high energies. That would be one hell of a finding, and would probably kill the Standard Model (as it has the Poincare group baked into it at a fundamental level).
There are all sorts of ways that SR could fail at high energies (in fact it clearly does fail if you pile too many fermions on top of each other, even if they are all at rest with respect to one another), so this is not exactly an insane thought, although there's no clear way to extend that particular line of thinking into a failure of SR in the limit of the weak gravitational field.
There wouldn't be "hysteria", there'll be enormous excitement, since *NOBODY* likes semiclassical gravity (and everyone is frustrated at how well it works) and the local symmetry group *is* the problem there. A way around SR being valid in the local limit would be wonderful news.
"STEM" -- uh, the "E" sector is full of cranks. Really really awful cranks. It won't be an engineer, unless he (for it will be a he, and he will be religious and have strong political stances) has a collaborator who's a reasonable theoretician (heck, I nominate Lubos Motl, since the differences of worldview will be less of an issue, and he is if nothing else a competent theoretician).
I will continue to grow younger and sexier, Packard Bell will return, and the 76'ers will dominate the Eastern Conference.
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Thought I'd start my end of year predictions a little earlier
than usual this year...
Commodoty pricing of 100 watt equivalent class LED residence
lighting and car headlights. Obsoleting CCFL's .
A controversial but credible detection of extra-terrestrial
mid-level intelligence "real soon now". Perhaps a planet
full of asparagus.
A catastropic drop in marijuana pricing, caused by the
inevitable total elimination of mj federal crop subsidies
and farm price supports that were cleverly and diabolically
labeled as "prohibition" laws. More here.
Dramatic close in breakthroughs in ev related battery
technologi, possibly involving lithium air technology.
A major increase in building destroying butane explosions
from utterly clueless processors of herb upgrading.
Full width inkjet print heads for ridiculously improved speed,
complexity, and ultimately, cost.
Strong sales of ultra resolution smart tv's despite zero
available content. Driven mostly by computer users.
Further improvements in the KML language. Particularly for
use with our hanging canals. Plus blendable images and topos.
The price of utility grade solar panels finally dropping under
twenty five cents per peak panel watt and eventually leading
to true net energy generation, renewablility, and sustainability.
A resurgence in traditional electronic hacking, driven by Arduino,
Raspberry Pi, C.H.I.P. Beagle Bone, the Basic Stamp and derivatives,
magazines such as Circuit Cellar or Make, and such suppliers as
Sparkfun, Marlin Jones, American Science & Surplus, and even
( should they last a few more weeks ) Radio Shack.
Dramatic increase in popularity of hackerspaces , makerspaces,
and fab labs.
"Free Enrrgy" nuts and other members of the Church of the Latter
Day Crackpots fiascos contrinuing "business as usual". Failing to
realize that finding an unlimited source of free energy would be
the most unimaginably henious crime against humanity.
Nanostructures dramatically improving both photovoltaics and
conventional HVAC air conditioning.
The terabyte revolution being largely ignored, moving directly instead
into the petabyte revolution. One thumb drive to hold all movies, or all
books, or all history. With emerging utterly disruptive IP issues.
Substantial medical breakthroughs, especially in the areas of cancer and
diabetes, female sexuality, dentistry, and Alzhiemers.
The stranglehold on technical research publication finally being broken,
with open source dissemenation dominant, low access costs, easy publication,
long term access, and peer review taking place after publication rather
than before.
Major breakthroughs in understanding human brain architecture and
functionality, combined with significant new I/O capability..
Craig's list finally coming to Safford. Right after the Ayatolla's bar
Mitzvah.
Slashcode stripped the unicode "superscript two" symbol from the atoms of the expressions.
Rewriting:
d(tau)^2 = dt^2 - dr^2/c^2 = invariant
dr^2 = dx^2 + dy^2 + dz^2
Seastead this.
Due to the self driving car not getting the hell out of the way fast enough.
Probably should have stuck with just the subject.
And elect yet another Fucktard as president but at least it wont be Trump.
Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
I'm hoping that 2016 is the year Doors Of Stone will finally get released. http://www.goodreads.com/book/...
Televisions will become more like computer monitors. Manufacturers will concentrate on display technology and give up on trying to be Apple.They will leave the OSes and Apps to consoles and set-top boxes.
There will hopefully be one Open display language that will allow TVs to be used as remote terminals. (eg. Providing features such as Google Chrome / AirPlay / Remote Gaming)
There will still not be enough 4K broadcast content, apart from games which will have driven demand for the displays.
3D TV will still not be a thing. Nobody will admit to buying one in the past.
The Virtual Reality phase we went through will be an embarrassing distant memory but Augmented Reality will be huge.
Apple and Valve will be a major players in the games console market.
The singularity will not have happened yet but people will still be talking about it incessantly. (*waves* to Roko's Basilisk).
Australia will still lag behind in broadband speeds.
Uh... why wouldn't you write it using the usual flat space metric notation?
Invariant under changes in s where ds^2 = -cdt^2 + dx^2 + dy^2 + dz^2
I mean I understand the notation, and know the history of that particular way of writing it down, but who really leans on that in practice? (cf the anoncow who replied to your first comment and who also captures invariance under rotation)