There may be a difference between recording telephone conversations - which is what you may be talking about - and non-telephony. However, activating a device connected to the Internet by Wi-Fi when there might be one or more persons in the room could be illegal everywhere. It's not a telephone call situation. This is somewhat like someone placing a hidden microphone connected to a recording device in a room. This scenario shows up in detective novels. The suggestion that in some locations the recording individual/company (Face Book) has given permission is good enough to allow recording is a stretch. In those locations where both ends of the recording are required to approve could be difficult if there are multiple people in a room where the one person who gave permission isn't there.
I thought it was illegal in the US to secretly electronically record conversations without the approval of those being recorded. Opt out would not be an option.
I pretty much agree with most of what you wrote. By locking out China, and incidentally others, China and other western countries, can lock out the US from its tech advances as well as access to non tech markets for manufactured goods. Others could develop equivalent or better tech and marketable products than the US. The Harley-Davidson example may indicate another option. There are likely to be no winners in a trade war. Which country will be the biggest loser? It might be the US.
For sometime China has been sending students to study at US and European universities, obtaining bachelors and higher degrees. Some have brought this expertise back to China and established world class university programs in STEM areas and now produce outstanding home grown graduates. Eventually, if not now, these folks will develop home grown technology which may be as good as that being developed in western universities and private corporations. Sure, it might be easier and cheaper to steal needed tech from elsewhere, but restrictions on exports may turn the tables resulting in China becoming a technology power house. How long will this take? Time will tell.
I assume you left of the/sarcasm code. If the beach is at the edge of salt water the water is not too useful for drinking or irrigation. It can be made so with enough energy input for reverse osmosis deionization or distillation.
With all this employee information and decision automation, did the software notify the appropriate authorities that a terminated employee was eligible for unemployment compensation? I'm not sure if contract employees are able to get unemployment compensation. And in this case, what about when the employee contract is renewed, will unemployment compensation be cancelled automatically?
Maybe they need the income to make up for that lost because they aren't selling as much user data to folks who use it for advertising or to others, like Cambridge, to create profiles of users for political targeting.
It might be easier for people to get tickets if they were available at at United States Post offices and postal stations. Folks would need to plan their travel plans in advance because post offices aren't open 24/7, but even most small tows have postal service outlets.
Are these jobs those that require knowing how to use a shovel or jobs knowing how to use advanced programming languages, jobs requiring advanced knowledge and experience in synthetic chemistry, chemical engineering, health care positions such as nursing, structural engineering, architecture, financial management, finish carpentry....? The nature of the openings will make a big difference in the statistic discussed.
Not sure about hybrid or all electric cars, but on my hybrid Prius I think the power brakes use an electric pump, not the typical vacuum assist to the master brake cylinder/piston set up. I think power steering makes use of a linear electric motor as part of the rack in a rack and pinion mechanism. These cars may not depend on the motor/motors running to work, though if the car is turned off, I wonder if the steering column will lock.
I've never seen any Office documents embedded with Flash, Shockwave or Silverlight inclusions that I know of. Blocking these because they could contain malware means that someone will, or has already, figured out another vector to inject malware into Office files. Others more knowledgeable can comment on the possibility.
... Though I'd be happy to see Amazon stop using the USPS -- they are the least reliable of all of the other services Amazon uses, packages sometimes show up days after they were marked "delivered", or don't show up at all....
This may depend on where one lives and the mail box situation. Where I live we have community mail boxes that are locked when a package is delivered. Only the USPS has access to these boxes so there's some security involved. Packages aren't just dropped on the front step and stolen by people following the mail carrier or the mail carrier's truck. Not everyone has this advantage but I'd recommend groups of neighbors to set up community postal boxes. It's easy to do.
I've never had a miss delivered package from the USPS. Besides, I've received packages from Amazon on Sunday delivered by USPS and I'm pretty sure Fed EX ground doesn't deliver on Sunday, but not sure about UPS.
As far as I know changing your number won't make any difference - you'll get just as many robocalls. I don't think you can hide from these callers.
I likely get as many of these calls as anyone else. Considering all the calls every US telephone gets, if the FCC fined all the robo callers $1,500 per call, we might wipe out the national debt fairly quickly. That is, of course, if they could collect that money. My guess they're not going to collect much from Adrian Abramovich, the name mentioned in the original post.
An earlier/. post noted that apparently lightning strikes can cause brain implants to stop working and I asked there if they also affected heart pacemakers to stop working. What about these devices?
Are they somehow protected form EMP from nearby lightening strikes? Turning of the pacemaker might not be too bad for the patient, though I don't know, but making it create other kinds of heart beat problems could be fatal.
My understanding is that most of the problem with the Great Barrier Reef is due to global warming. Another couple of degrees C increase in average global temperature, we'll have a runaway situation in environmental destruction and these expenditures won't be of much use solving the problem. Putting this cash into reducing the use of carbon fuel by converting to renewable electricity generation might be a better use.
So, what kind of communications will be used when EW equipment is totally compromised and put out of commission? There's not much one can do to communicate with unmanned vehicles and even autonomous ones can be disabled. For communication with manned vehicles (planes, trucks, etc.) or individual groups of troops does the military drop back to smoke signals, semaphores, or very, very long wires? Pilots and ground forces may have to depend on individual initiative to get the job done. The battle field will become even more dangerous than it already is.
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There may be a difference between recording telephone conversations - which is what you may be talking about - and non-telephony. However, activating a device connected to the Internet by Wi-Fi when there might be one or more persons in the room could be illegal everywhere. It's not a telephone call situation. This is somewhat like someone placing a hidden microphone connected to a recording device in a room. This scenario shows up in detective novels. The suggestion that in some locations the recording individual/company (Face Book) has given permission is good enough to allow recording is a stretch. In those locations where both ends of the recording are required to approve could be difficult if there are multiple people in a room where the one person who gave permission isn't there.
I thought it was illegal in the US to secretly electronically record conversations without the approval of those being recorded. Opt out would not be an option.
I pretty much agree with most of what you wrote. By locking out China, and incidentally others, China and other western countries, can lock out the US from its tech advances as well as access to non tech markets for manufactured goods. Others could develop equivalent or better tech and marketable products than the US. The Harley-Davidson example may indicate another option. There are likely to be no winners in a trade war. Which country will be the biggest loser? It might be the US.
For sometime China has been sending students to study at US and European universities, obtaining bachelors and higher degrees. Some have brought this expertise back to China and established world class university programs in STEM areas and now produce outstanding home grown graduates. Eventually, if not now, these folks will develop home grown technology which may be as good as that being developed in western universities and private corporations. Sure, it might be easier and cheaper to steal needed tech from elsewhere, but restrictions on exports may turn the tables resulting in China becoming a technology power house. How long will this take? Time will tell.
I assume you left of the /sarcasm code. If the beach is at the edge of salt water the water is not too useful for drinking or irrigation. It can be made so with enough energy input for reverse osmosis deionization or distillation.
With all this employee information and decision automation, did the software notify the appropriate authorities that a terminated employee was eligible for unemployment compensation? I'm not sure if contract employees are able to get unemployment compensation. And in this case, what about when the employee contract is renewed, will unemployment compensation be cancelled automatically?
That's what they may be saying now. They're not in the business of making money for someone else and not for themselves.
Maybe they need the income to make up for that lost because they aren't selling as much user data to folks who use it for advertising or to others, like Cambridge, to create profiles of users for political targeting.
Microsoft's experience in entertainment delivery, Groove Music, probably shows the way. Maybe it'll last a year, if that.
It might be easier for people to get tickets if they were available at at United States Post offices and postal stations. Folks would need to plan their travel plans in advance because post offices aren't open 24/7, but even most small tows have postal service outlets.
The same could be said of the children of legal and illegal immigrants were they given the opportunity to be educated to the extent of their ability.
Are these jobs those that require knowing how to use a shovel or jobs knowing how to use advanced programming languages, jobs requiring advanced knowledge and experience in synthetic chemistry, chemical engineering, health care positions such as nursing, structural engineering, architecture, financial management, finish carpentry....? The nature of the openings will make a big difference in the statistic discussed.
Just what I was thinking. Seems to me I read that by 4 billion years from now the sun will be a red giant the size of the earth's orbit.
Musk and NASA better speed up getting the human race to Mars as well as other inhabitable planets.
Not sure about hybrid or all electric cars, but on my hybrid Prius I think the power brakes use an electric pump, not the typical vacuum assist to the master brake cylinder/piston set up. I think power steering makes use of a linear electric motor as part of the rack in a rack and pinion mechanism. These cars may not depend on the motor/motors running to work, though if the car is turned off, I wonder if the steering column will lock.
The next time a couple of their cars are involved in an accident, they'll stop making and selling cars.
No, you won't be giving your money to Hulu. Comcast will shut Hulu down.
I've never seen any Office documents embedded with Flash, Shockwave or Silverlight inclusions that I know of. Blocking these because they could contain malware means that someone will, or has already, figured out another vector to inject malware into Office files. Others more knowledgeable can comment on the possibility.
... Though I'd be happy to see Amazon stop using the USPS -- they are the least reliable of all of the other services Amazon uses, packages sometimes show up days after they were marked "delivered", or don't show up at all. ...
This may depend on where one lives and the mail box situation. Where I live we have community mail boxes that are locked when a package is delivered. Only the USPS has access to these boxes so there's some security involved. Packages aren't just dropped on the front step and stolen by people following the mail carrier or the mail carrier's truck. Not everyone has this advantage but I'd recommend groups of neighbors to set up community postal boxes. It's easy to do.
I've never had a miss delivered package from the USPS. Besides, I've received packages from Amazon on Sunday delivered by USPS and I'm pretty sure Fed EX ground doesn't deliver on Sunday, but not sure about UPS.
As far as I know changing your number won't make any difference - you'll get just as many robocalls. I don't think you can hide from these callers. I likely get as many of these calls as anyone else. Considering all the calls every US telephone gets, if the FCC fined all the robo callers $1,500 per call, we might wipe out the national debt fairly quickly. That is, of course, if they could collect that money. My guess they're not going to collect much from Adrian Abramovich, the name mentioned in the original post.
An earlier /. post noted that apparently lightning strikes can cause brain implants to stop working and I asked there if they also affected heart pacemakers to stop working. What about these devices?
If there's nearly 6,000 signatures I would guess there are already at least 5,000 signatures on the petition.
Why isn't BLU closed from doing business in the US? Close them down after returning all subscription fees to subscribers.
Are they somehow protected form EMP from nearby lightening strikes? Turning of the pacemaker might not be too bad for the patient, though I don't know, but making it create other kinds of heart beat problems could be fatal.
My understanding is that most of the problem with the Great Barrier Reef is due to global warming. Another couple of degrees C increase in average global temperature, we'll have a runaway situation in environmental destruction and these expenditures won't be of much use solving the problem. Putting this cash into reducing the use of carbon fuel by converting to renewable electricity generation might be a better use.
So, what kind of communications will be used when EW equipment is totally compromised and put out of commission? There's not much one can do to communicate with unmanned vehicles and even autonomous ones can be disabled. For communication with manned vehicles (planes, trucks, etc.) or individual groups of troops does the military drop back to smoke signals, semaphores, or very, very long wires? Pilots and ground forces may have to depend on individual initiative to get the job done. The battle field will become even more dangerous than it already is.