If the Majority of cash was used for criminal activities, it probably would be regulated more closely. Right now, what are the majority of Bitcoin transactions for? Drug buys? Cryptocurrency scams? Money laundering? I highly doubt that many people are using it to buy groceries right now.
Of course, I'd think that the majority of people with Bitcoin holdings now are speculators who are thinking that the price is going to $10,000. It will be interesting to see what happens when it actually hits that value.
Don't forget that the 90's "evil" Microsoft had something ridiculous like 90+ percent market share with both Windows and Office when it came to operating systems and desktop office software. AWS might be a powerful force, but it has a ton of major competitors like Azure, Google Cloud, and IBM BlueMix, plus many smaller ones like Alibaba and Rackspace. Some of those services are actually growing faster than AWS right now, and putting up enough of a fight to ensure that Amazon needs to lower their hosting costs every year to complete.
When AWS gets over 50% of all server infrastructure worldwide, THEN I would start getting really worried. I don't think that it's going to happen.
I figured that someone would just steal the car and make the modifications that way.
I would like to hope that if someone found a remote exploit of Tesla systems over their network, it would get patched quickly. That said, if Tesla continues to totally botch their Model 3 rollout and sends the company into bankruptcy, there might be a ton of unpatched cars out there in the future.
The $29 Amazon or Google speaker isn't supposed to compete with a Sonos. That's why they support BlueTooth speaker connectivity, or connectivity to your home stereo system via Chromecast.
If you really wanted a more expensive all-in-one high-fidelity model, Amazon already has one and Google will have one out soon.
Or insect sized, for that matter. Black Mirror already did the whole "killer swarm of robots" thing before with robot bees were reprogrammed to kill. This idea isn't new.
Hell... why bother even building something new for this, when you can reprogram of modify something that already exists. Frankly, I'm suprised that a black hat hacker or terrorist hasn't already found a way to hack the autopilot system in a Model S in order to use it as a weapon.
Yeah, anyone who thinks that 180 GB of data a month is enough for daily use doesn't have a modern game console. The game downloads are often over 50 GB each.
People who download PC games from Steam or stream Netflix in 4K will also blow through their data cap in a matter of days. If you're looking for a data cap to start with for home usage in 2018, it's got to be more like 500 GB to start.
You could blow through 180 GB of data by downloading just 2 or 3 games from Steam on your PC. If this is really for home service and not just for mobiles, you'll need a data cap closer to 500 GB to make it practical.
Oh, I'm sure that they'll have an Unlimited 5G data plan... for $200 a month. It will probably start throttling you after you download around 500 GB of data as well.
The plans that most people can actually afford will have much lower data caps, I'm sure.
It also means that they're going to be really late to the market, though. Both Amazon and Google are practically giving away their lower end AI speakers for $29 during the Christmas sale season, many of them with $20 gift cards attached to them.
By the time 2018 comes around, many families who wanted a voice assistant will already have one. Many of those families might also buy devices like Chromecasts to link the device to the rest of their house, and Apple is going to have a tough time getting those people back.
With something like avionics software, it probably doesn't matter if one line or a thousand lines change... the entire application would need a full regression test for safety/certification purposes. That's where the million dollar estimate probably comes from.
You could still do a point to point connection with a modem, bypassing the Internet. You would need to be on an old school copper phone line connection, though... Fiber would go over a data connection.
The funny thing is that the price will probably go up because of this, simply because the crypto got some additional press from it. There are probably a lot of people out there who nothing about Bitcoin (or cryptocurrency in general) except that it skyrocketed in value over the past few years, and they want in on the "next" Bitcoin.
No, the real question is why they restored it so quickly. I would have loved having a week or two without having to hear about the latest Trump rant on CNN.
One of the signs of a bubble is that you start getting people who think that the "rules are different now" and that the "old fundamentals don't matter anymore".
Look at the sentiment around.com stocks around 1998, and speculative real estate around 2006. People were convinced that they couldn't lose and that the value of their grossly inflated assets could only go up... until they didn't. Then the panic selling began, and the rest is history.
Nobody seems to know what the magic tipping point is for Bitcoin and it's clones... but keep in mind that it exists.
Anyone who's ever studied basic Economics knows that Bitcoin is in a price bubble right now. They real question is... when is that bubble going to pop?
I sure as hell wouldn't want to be the one buying Bitcoin today, though.
Kinda clever when you think about it... AT&T and the other telcos win by basically stopping Google from expanding their Fiber to other markets, and then cancel their lawsuits saying that they felt "defeated".
I think that most competitive businesses would happily take that kind of "defeat".
Yep... it sounds like it's time for the US to "bring freedom" to the oppressed Congolese people, so we can get those lucrative mining rights before the Russians and Chinese do!
If this was Apple, sure. His manager would have fired him just a few minutes after he walked off stage. Microsoft is more platform agnostic then they used to be, though.
Besides, even if Microsoft did fired him right away, Google might hire him just for the PR value. He's become the cloud hosting equivalent of the old Verizon spokesperson working for Sprint.
There is a part of me that makes me think that this was some viral marketing attempt to get me to watch a demo video on Azure server migrations. If you watch the presentation, you'll see that he didn't exactly try all that hard to get it working with Edge before downloading Chrome.
Azure is surprisingly open source friendly, and it wouldn't be totally surprised if this was was a (staged) attempt to demonstrate that.
If Edge was locked down due to an overly restrictive Group Policy, you can be damned sure that IE would be locked down as well. There is a reason that Microsoft is getting away from IE... it's plugin system is a security minefield.
Sorry, but I really blame "Daddy" for getting himself fired here. He should have known that the second he handed that iPhone X employee prototype over to his kid (Who was filming it ON Apple property nonetheless!), he just made a huge NDA violation that could get him fired. A simple "Yo, dummy, stop filming this!" would have probably been enough to stop him from getting in serious trouble, or even a "Don't be an idiot and post this on YouTube".
We all know how paranoid Apple is when it comes to secrecy, and he really should have known better. He should be happy that he works for Apple and not one of the three letter government agencies. Something tells me that you would get prison time if you got caught handing one of their phones over for someone to look at.
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If the Majority of cash was used for criminal activities, it probably would be regulated more closely. Right now, what are the majority of Bitcoin transactions for? Drug buys? Cryptocurrency scams? Money laundering? I highly doubt that many people are using it to buy groceries right now.
Of course, I'd think that the majority of people with Bitcoin holdings now are speculators who are thinking that the price is going to $10,000. It will be interesting to see what happens when it actually hits that value.
Don't forget that the 90's "evil" Microsoft had something ridiculous like 90+ percent market share with both Windows and Office when it came to operating systems and desktop office software. AWS might be a powerful force, but it has a ton of major competitors like Azure, Google Cloud, and IBM BlueMix, plus many smaller ones like Alibaba and Rackspace. Some of those services are actually growing faster than AWS right now, and putting up enough of a fight to ensure that Amazon needs to lower their hosting costs every year to complete.
When AWS gets over 50% of all server infrastructure worldwide, THEN I would start getting really worried. I don't think that it's going to happen.
I figured that someone would just steal the car and make the modifications that way.
I would like to hope that if someone found a remote exploit of Tesla systems over their network, it would get patched quickly. That said, if Tesla continues to totally botch their Model 3 rollout and sends the company into bankruptcy, there might be a ton of unpatched cars out there in the future.
The $29 Amazon or Google speaker isn't supposed to compete with a Sonos. That's why they support BlueTooth speaker connectivity, or connectivity to your home stereo system via Chromecast.
If you really wanted a more expensive all-in-one high-fidelity model, Amazon already has one and Google will have one out soon.
Or insect sized, for that matter. Black Mirror already did the whole "killer swarm of robots" thing before with robot bees were reprogrammed to kill. This idea isn't new.
Hell... why bother even building something new for this, when you can reprogram of modify something that already exists. Frankly, I'm suprised that a black hat hacker or terrorist hasn't already found a way to hack the autopilot system in a Model S in order to use it as a weapon.
Yeah, anyone who thinks that 180 GB of data a month is enough for daily use doesn't have a modern game console. The game downloads are often over 50 GB each.
People who download PC games from Steam or stream Netflix in 4K will also blow through their data cap in a matter of days. If you're looking for a data cap to start with for home usage in 2018, it's got to be more like 500 GB to start.
You could blow through 180 GB of data by downloading just 2 or 3 games from Steam on your PC. If this is really for home service and not just for mobiles, you'll need a data cap closer to 500 GB to make it practical.
Oh, I'm sure that they'll have an Unlimited 5G data plan... for $200 a month. It will probably start throttling you after you download around 500 GB of data as well.
The plans that most people can actually afford will have much lower data caps, I'm sure.
There are tons of standalone iOS Podcast apps, though. Overcast is a good one.
It also means that they're going to be really late to the market, though. Both Amazon and Google are practically giving away their lower end AI speakers for $29 during the Christmas sale season, many of them with $20 gift cards attached to them.
By the time 2018 comes around, many families who wanted a voice assistant will already have one. Many of those families might also buy devices like Chromecasts to link the device to the rest of their house, and Apple is going to have a tough time getting those people back.
With something like avionics software, it probably doesn't matter if one line or a thousand lines change... the entire application would need a full regression test for safety/certification purposes. That's where the million dollar estimate probably comes from.
You could still do a point to point connection with a modem, bypassing the Internet. You would need to be on an old school copper phone line connection, though... Fiber would go over a data connection.
Or, install Linux and be invulnerable to most web malware because its incompatible with your OS.
Of course, many of your Windows games will be incompatible as well.
The funny thing is that the price will probably go up because of this, simply because the crypto got some additional press from it. There are probably a lot of people out there who nothing about Bitcoin (or cryptocurrency in general) except that it skyrocketed in value over the past few years, and they want in on the "next" Bitcoin.
Yeah, be a responsible parent! Use Netflix Kids mode as a e-babysitter, not Kids YouTube :)
No, the real question is why they restored it so quickly. I would have loved having a week or two without having to hear about the latest Trump rant on CNN.
One of the signs of a bubble is that you start getting people who think that the "rules are different now" and that the "old fundamentals don't matter anymore".
Look at the sentiment around .com stocks around 1998, and speculative real estate around 2006. People were convinced that they couldn't lose and that the value of their grossly inflated assets could only go up... until they didn't. Then the panic selling began, and the rest is history.
Nobody seems to know what the magic tipping point is for Bitcoin and it's clones... but keep in mind that it exists.
Anyone who's ever studied basic Economics knows that Bitcoin is in a price bubble right now. They real question is... when is that bubble going to pop?
I sure as hell wouldn't want to be the one buying Bitcoin today, though.
Kinda clever when you think about it... AT&T and the other telcos win by basically stopping Google from expanding their Fiber to other markets, and then cancel their lawsuits saying that they felt "defeated".
I think that most competitive businesses would happily take that kind of "defeat".
Yep... it sounds like it's time for the US to "bring freedom" to the oppressed Congolese people, so we can get those lucrative mining rights before the Russians and Chinese do!
If this was Apple, sure. His manager would have fired him just a few minutes after he walked off stage. Microsoft is more platform agnostic then they used to be, though.
Besides, even if Microsoft did fired him right away, Google might hire him just for the PR value. He's become the cloud hosting equivalent of the old Verizon spokesperson working for Sprint.
And, YES, I know that Chrome isn't an open source browser. Please don't remind me of that. I should have said "multi platform friendly" instead.
There is a part of me that makes me think that this was some viral marketing attempt to get me to watch a demo video on Azure server migrations. If you watch the presentation, you'll see that he didn't exactly try all that hard to get it working with Edge before downloading Chrome.
Azure is surprisingly open source friendly, and it wouldn't be totally surprised if this was was a (staged) attempt to demonstrate that.
If Edge was locked down due to an overly restrictive Group Policy, you can be damned sure that IE would be locked down as well. There is a reason that Microsoft is getting away from IE... it's plugin system is a security minefield.
Sorry, but I really blame "Daddy" for getting himself fired here. He should have known that the second he handed that iPhone X employee prototype over to his kid (Who was filming it ON Apple property nonetheless!), he just made a huge NDA violation that could get him fired. A simple "Yo, dummy, stop filming this!" would have probably been enough to stop him from getting in serious trouble, or even a "Don't be an idiot and post this on YouTube".
We all know how paranoid Apple is when it comes to secrecy, and he really should have known better. He should be happy that he works for Apple and not one of the three letter government agencies. Something tells me that you would get prison time if you got caught handing one of their phones over for someone to look at.