Samsung has multi layers of protection and authentication for it's bootloader. You can hack it but give up security by doing so - which is kind of reasonable to be honest.
Banks have to keep actual bills in a vault, and anything that moves bank-to-bank sends a truck rolling at 3am the next business day. Only Bank of America has problems finding everyone's money in the vaults.
You're reading some out of date encyclopedias. Banks keep digital ledgers these days and most certainly do not roll trucks at 3AM to cover transactions (how exactly would international money transfers work for that?)
Just like when people do trades in oil, bullion, etc. No one actually ships you a barrel (or a million) of oil. You 'own' whatever amount that happily sits (or will sit for futures) in the same storage facility it did when the last 5 people 'owned' it... all mixed together with what other people own.
Beyond that, fractional reserve banking is the norm AND banks can back deposit sheets with assets, not just currency IIRC. It's part of the scam known as 'banking' and your explanation is very out of date.
You realize virtually no 'normal' people trade on the actual exchange, right? E-trade, etc. are all dark pools and they settle the majority of their trades internally so they never hit the actual open market.
HFT can be rolled back as well.
As to GP - yes, you can roll back a transaction with an opposite one following it. However, whether or not you can do that depends on having access to the wallet private key you need to send from. If someone bought BTC for $0.00 and sent that to a wallet the exchange did not have the private key for, they would have no technical means to force the reversal. You can't own negative BTC so you couldn't 'overdraft' the exchange side wallet even.
This is part of the reason coinbase enforce a lengthy settlement for buying crypto.
You assume that everyone gets 10 days plus paid holidays...which is certainly not the case.
Many jobs don't even have paid sick time and don't get me started on the healthcare they don't offer (or costs a fortune for horrible coverage you can't use anyhow) that would help reduce the number of needed sick days.
I've never figured out why flights with assigned seats don't load back to front to speed things up. Those seated would have fewer people banging into them as they walk past and the aisles wouldn't be such a jumbled mess of waiting on people in front of you. The downside is that the first class might have less chance to cram their bags into all spaces they can, but I'll let them sacrifice for me.
They do, generally, board back to front.
Except First/premium/etc. seats that are towards the front go first...since if you paid extra you want to stand in line less. These seats generally have dedicated bag space, fewer seats to share said space and often come with free checked luggage (or those who fly first have status so same result). This mixes up the order but not horribly as it's a limited # of seats.
Except people with status who get to cut the line. Yeah, this is FUBAR. People from any seat get in the next queue and mess up the boarding line.
Except people who cheat on groups and get away with it. More and more annoying...and slower boarding.
Except people who bring 17 items, half of which don't fit, and then spend 10 minutes arguing. Give up hope now...
Except people who can't step out of the isle to re-pack their bag so they can have the 14 items they MUST have from the very beginning of the flight. Oh god...no more...
Except the people who get lost and can't read numbers or try to change seats...
Except...yeah, it's pointless.
In theory, a strict boarding order could fill the plane MUCH faster. But getting people to follow that would be nearly impossible - the time spent arguing with each out-of-order customer while accommodating the 'priority' people pretty kills it before it begins.
Free checked bags though? Yeah, that's a HUGE time saver for boarding if people don't try to cram a huge suitcase and oversize backpack into the limited overhead and then fight for who gets what space. Check it and be done...except not for a 10% increase in ticket price.
It's simple really - just trust your government: If no one but the cops have guns, no one but Bad Guys* will get shot!
* Bad Guys, as defined by the cop at the time of shooting based on his/her sole personal judgment and interpretation of events. Any attempts to resist** said shooting (or any other demand) will be met with additional shooting until the Bad Guy is certified a non-threat.
** Resist as defined by the cop at the time of said action based on his/her sole personal judgment and interpretation of events. Any resistance will be met with immediate deadly force by any and all means available.
Because the fuel cost to do so is minimal and, even excluding telemetry data and simply practicing the complexity of landing three boosters simultaneously, the scrap/parts value of the boosters is rather substantial.
With all those difficulties I can see why no one - especially Samsung - has come up with a waterproof phone that also has a decent battery while retaining the headphones jack. Right?
*eyeroll*
Is it harder than not having one? Yes. Is it better? Fuk no. The "difficulty" in providing a product that people want is called 'business'. It's what good companies do for their customers so their customers keep buying their products.
And besides, it's not REALLY that hard to do compared to all the other insane shit they've crammed into phones these days.
TBH a picture of a computer DOES tell you a fair bit about it. Having an idea of the power/cooling/size alone coupled with the approx tech level can give you a good approximation of the computing power.
Now, it's Russia so it's probably just an Alienware box with fancy lights they imported illegally but let's give em a break..000000001 BTC is still worth some rubles:)
Welcome to the PC Police folks. Now anything "bad" you say, think, do, display, endorse, allow, don't challenge, or otherwise are in any associated with is reason to hang you out to dry everywhere forever in a fit of righteousness.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain who decides what and when something is bad with very little 'why' involved. Oh crap...I mean person of unknown gender located in a region generally near an item of environmentally friendly, non-GMO, vegan cloth-like covering which may or may not be protecting their privacy or identity as it best suits them.
Well netflix just bumped up their price by 40%... technically it's now the 'option' for 2 screens and HD content while the existing $8/month now just gets you standard definition and one screen but it's the old bait and switch for sure.
And while Netflix is pouring money into building out their own shows and movies since they learned hard and fast how easy it is to have their catalog pulled from them...they're missing a lot of what I'd want to watch. No other streaming service has it all either of course...
Since the girlfriend watches netflix often the sub will stay but I'm not adding more despite being able to easily afford it. It's simply too inconvenient to go searching through a dozen streaming services to (hopefully) find the movie I want to watch when there are...options...which allow you to download it for free in less time.
So basically you're saying that channels that almost no one watches or cares about should continue to get money they don't deserve or own at the expense of other programming?
At what point do we say: hey that's higher-quality crap than they'd be able to produce on their own and still just about no one watches it...maybe we should stop wasting money?
Someone should put together a network of all these streaming services!
They can negotiate access to each service on a large scale basis and show savings as a whole. Then...get this!!!...combine all those streaming services - call then 'channels' - into a single platform and sell it to people at a single price point lower than having to get each one individually. They could have a single, standard interface, single bill, single helpdesk and since it's such a broad offering they'd even have the resources to build a dedicated device that perfectly meets the requirements and provides the best service possible.
Since all this is coming over network cabling...why don't we call them 'cable companies' and they can offer 'cable television service' to us? Wouldn't that be great??? A single platform with all the content and a single bill much smaller than buying anything individually? And no need to look for 'free streams' of anything that might be of questionable quality.
Oh oh oh... and maybe since we're paying them money for all this they won't even need to have commercials! They'll make all their money off direct payment instead of advertising./sigh...
The Space Shuttle was practically a recoverable single-use vehicle. So much of it underwent refurbishment, testing, or outright replacement it's honestly a stretch to call it reusable. It's closer to recycling:)
SpaceX has done the opposite and is working towards a model of fuel, launch, return, refuel, relaunch. They have enough telemetry to monitor, redundancy to address failures, and durability to not require refurbishment...or they are closing in on that goal. They're already closer than the Space Shuttle ever was. The heat-shield tiles on the Shuttle along required tremendous work after every launch.
Besides all that, your doubts seem to not have materialized. SpaceX has already refurbished and relaunched quite a few boosters. I expect they know very well what it costs to relaunch, particularly since they've already quotes retail prices and savings for it. Keep doubting... the rest of us will simply enjoy watching the 'impossible' become commonplace.
I assume your area is not a major metropolitan one. In big cities the speed limits are 25-35 MPH (lower near schools, higher on highways of course). Typically people rarely drive the speed limit. Either they are stuck in traffic and going well below it (or stopped at a light) or there is no traffic and they go as fast as they can (well, within vaguely sane bounds). IOW, people get stuck behind a few stopped cars, go aroudn them, speed through the next few green lights until they catch a red one or more traffic, and repeat.
I based this off working in NYC for 20 years and frequent travel to a dozen+ other major cities around the US (including Chicago)
I'm amused by the confirmation bias in your second paragraph, but not enough to actually dignify it with a response.
Turns out the wage gap really is simply because of personal choices.
...when it comes to Uber drivers. The unfortunate thing here is that sexists will seize upon this and tout it as evidence that there is no such thing as an unjustified gender pay gap, without acknowledging that the factors causing it here are not relevant to other industries and types of employment.
And others will simply dismiss one of the few clear examples of detailed factual information from which clear conclusions can be drawn.
But, ya know, confirmation bias is not really a thing either./sarcasm
At some point, some sane person will point out that men and women, while equal, are still DIFFERENT.
Those differences manifest in many ways with various benefits and negatives. As a man, I'd LOVE to have the default option to stay at home and play housewife or not have to worry about my income being the main/required one for survival as most women still have in their minds today.
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Only if you want to use KNOX that is.
Samsung has multi layers of protection and authentication for it's bootloader. You can hack it but give up security by doing so - which is kind of reasonable to be honest.
It's ironic to see these phones out now...
Everyone laughed at Dell when they launched a 5" phone/tablet. Granted it had larger bezels and all but still! They were ahead of their time it seems.
my bank account, i.e. numbers in a computer
Banks have to keep actual bills in a vault, and anything that moves bank-to-bank sends a truck rolling at 3am the next business day. Only Bank of America has problems finding everyone's money in the vaults.
You're reading some out of date encyclopedias. Banks keep digital ledgers these days and most certainly do not roll trucks at 3AM to cover transactions (how exactly would international money transfers work for that?)
Just like when people do trades in oil, bullion, etc. No one actually ships you a barrel (or a million) of oil. You 'own' whatever amount that happily sits (or will sit for futures) in the same storage facility it did when the last 5 people 'owned' it ... all mixed together with what other people own.
Beyond that, fractional reserve banking is the norm AND banks can back deposit sheets with assets, not just currency IIRC. It's part of the scam known as 'banking' and your explanation is very out of date.
You realize virtually no 'normal' people trade on the actual exchange, right? E-trade, etc. are all dark pools and they settle the majority of their trades internally so they never hit the actual open market.
HFT can be rolled back as well.
As to GP - yes, you can roll back a transaction with an opposite one following it. However, whether or not you can do that depends on having access to the wallet private key you need to send from. If someone bought BTC for $0.00 and sent that to a wallet the exchange did not have the private key for, they would have no technical means to force the reversal. You can't own negative BTC so you couldn't 'overdraft' the exchange side wallet even.
This is part of the reason coinbase enforce a lengthy settlement for buying crypto.
Haven't you heard? False reports represent less than 1% of accusations and over 99% of statistics are functionally meaningless.
You assume that everyone gets 10 days plus paid holidays...which is certainly not the case.
Many jobs don't even have paid sick time and don't get me started on the healthcare they don't offer (or costs a fortune for horrible coverage you can't use anyhow) that would help reduce the number of needed sick days.
It's all about the overhead space! ...or occasionally not stewing in the icky terminal. Especially if you're flying business or first.
I've never figured out why flights with assigned seats don't load back to front to speed things up. Those seated would have fewer people banging into them as they walk past and the aisles wouldn't be such a jumbled mess of waiting on people in front of you. The downside is that the first class might have less chance to cram their bags into all spaces they can, but I'll let them sacrifice for me.
They do, generally, board back to front.
Except First/premium/etc. seats that are towards the front go first...since if you paid extra you want to stand in line less. These seats generally have dedicated bag space, fewer seats to share said space and often come with free checked luggage (or those who fly first have status so same result). This mixes up the order but not horribly as it's a limited # of seats.
Except people with status who get to cut the line. Yeah, this is FUBAR. People from any seat get in the next queue and mess up the boarding line.
Except people who cheat on groups and get away with it. More and more annoying...and slower boarding.
Except people who bring 17 items, half of which don't fit, and then spend 10 minutes arguing. Give up hope now...
Except people who can't step out of the isle to re-pack their bag so they can have the 14 items they MUST have from the very beginning of the flight. Oh god...no more...
Except the people who get lost and can't read numbers or try to change seats...
Except...yeah, it's pointless.
In theory, a strict boarding order could fill the plane MUCH faster. But getting people to follow that would be nearly impossible - the time spent arguing with each out-of-order customer while accommodating the 'priority' people pretty kills it before it begins.
Free checked bags though? Yeah, that's a HUGE time saver for boarding if people don't try to cram a huge suitcase and oversize backpack into the limited overhead and then fight for who gets what space. Check it and be done...except not for a 10% increase in ticket price.
Cut that out. I have a spelling disability.
It's simple really - just trust your government: If no one but the cops have guns, no one but Bad Guys* will get shot!
* Bad Guys, as defined by the cop at the time of shooting based on his/her sole personal judgment and interpretation of events. Any attempts to resist** said shooting (or any other demand) will be met with additional shooting until the Bad Guy is certified a non-threat.
** Resist as defined by the cop at the time of said action based on his/her sole personal judgment and interpretation of events. Any resistance will be met with immediate deadly force by any and all means available.
I mean, completely ignoring the article and referring to basic definitions of GEO and LEO
GEO: 36,000km (72,000km round trip minmum)
LEO: 1,000km (2,000km round trip minimum)
Light flitters about at 300,000km/s
Basic math here says GEO requires 240ms just to bounce a signal to GEO and 6ms for LEO.
So THERE. It's two orders of magnitude better and I've fed a troll today to help prevent their extinction.
Because the fuel cost to do so is minimal and, even excluding telemetry data and simply practicing the complexity of landing three boosters simultaneously, the scrap/parts value of the boosters is rather substantial.
With all those difficulties I can see why no one - especially Samsung - has come up with a waterproof phone that also has a decent battery while retaining the headphones jack. Right?
*eyeroll*
Is it harder than not having one? Yes. Is it better? Fuk no. The "difficulty" in providing a product that people want is called 'business'. It's what good companies do for their customers so their customers keep buying their products.
And besides, it's not REALLY that hard to do compared to all the other insane shit they've crammed into phones these days.
Your analogy fails miserable as most do.
TBH a picture of a computer DOES tell you a fair bit about it. Having an idea of the power/cooling/size alone coupled with the approx tech level can give you a good approximation of the computing power.
Now, it's Russia so it's probably just an Alienware box with fancy lights they imported illegally but let's give em a break. .000000001 BTC is still worth some rubles :)
Welcome to the PC Police folks. Now anything "bad" you say, think, do, display, endorse, allow, don't challenge, or otherwise are in any associated with is reason to hang you out to dry everywhere forever in a fit of righteousness.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain who decides what and when something is bad with very little 'why' involved. Oh crap...I mean person of unknown gender located in a region generally near an item of environmentally friendly, non-GMO, vegan cloth-like covering which may or may not be protecting their privacy or identity as it best suits them.
Well netflix just bumped up their price by 40% ... technically it's now the 'option' for 2 screens and HD content while the existing $8/month now just gets you standard definition and one screen but it's the old bait and switch for sure.
And while Netflix is pouring money into building out their own shows and movies since they learned hard and fast how easy it is to have their catalog pulled from them...they're missing a lot of what I'd want to watch. No other streaming service has it all either of course...
Since the girlfriend watches netflix often the sub will stay but I'm not adding more despite being able to easily afford it. It's simply too inconvenient to go searching through a dozen streaming services to (hopefully) find the movie I want to watch when there are...options...which allow you to download it for free in less time.
So basically you're saying that channels that almost no one watches or cares about should continue to get money they don't deserve or own at the expense of other programming?
At what point do we say: hey that's higher-quality crap than they'd be able to produce on their own and still just about no one watches it...maybe we should stop wasting money?
Someone should put together a network of all these streaming services!
They can negotiate access to each service on a large scale basis and show savings as a whole. Then...get this!!!...combine all those streaming services - call then 'channels' - into a single platform and sell it to people at a single price point lower than having to get each one individually. They could have a single, standard interface, single bill, single helpdesk and since it's such a broad offering they'd even have the resources to build a dedicated device that perfectly meets the requirements and provides the best service possible.
Since all this is coming over network cabling...why don't we call them 'cable companies' and they can offer 'cable television service' to us? Wouldn't that be great??? A single platform with all the content and a single bill much smaller than buying anything individually? And no need to look for 'free streams' of anything that might be of questionable quality.
Oh oh oh ... and maybe since we're paying them money for all this they won't even need to have commercials! They'll make all their money off direct payment instead of advertising. /sigh...
Did anyone think to check in the 'frunk'? It's there. I say so.
The Space Shuttle was practically a recoverable single-use vehicle. So much of it underwent refurbishment, testing, or outright replacement it's honestly a stretch to call it reusable. It's closer to recycling :)
SpaceX has done the opposite and is working towards a model of fuel, launch, return, refuel, relaunch. They have enough telemetry to monitor, redundancy to address failures, and durability to not require refurbishment...or they are closing in on that goal. They're already closer than the Space Shuttle ever was. The heat-shield tiles on the Shuttle along required tremendous work after every launch.
Besides all that, your doubts seem to not have materialized. SpaceX has already refurbished and relaunched quite a few boosters. I expect they know very well what it costs to relaunch, particularly since they've already quotes retail prices and savings for it. Keep doubting ... the rest of us will simply enjoy watching the 'impossible' become commonplace.
They didn't buy bose yet, did they?
I assume your area is not a major metropolitan one. In big cities the speed limits are 25-35 MPH (lower near schools, higher on highways of course). Typically people rarely drive the speed limit. Either they are stuck in traffic and going well below it (or stopped at a light) or there is no traffic and they go as fast as they can (well, within vaguely sane bounds). IOW, people get stuck behind a few stopped cars, go aroudn them, speed through the next few green lights until they catch a red one or more traffic, and repeat.
I based this off working in NYC for 20 years and frequent travel to a dozen+ other major cities around the US (including Chicago)
I'm amused by the confirmation bias in your second paragraph, but not enough to actually dignify it with a response.
If it's less than 1.0 I think it counts as a micro-aggression.
Or at least a mini-aggression!
Deci-aggression?
Turns out the wage gap really is simply because of personal choices.
...when it comes to Uber drivers. The unfortunate thing here is that sexists will seize upon this and tout it as evidence that there is no such thing as an unjustified gender pay gap, without acknowledging that the factors causing it here are not relevant to other industries and types of employment.
And others will simply dismiss one of the few clear examples of detailed factual information from which clear conclusions can be drawn.
But, ya know, confirmation bias is not really a thing either. /sarcasm
At some point, some sane person will point out that men and women, while equal, are still DIFFERENT.
Those differences manifest in many ways with various benefits and negatives. As a man, I'd LOVE to have the default option to stay at home and play housewife or not have to worry about my income being the main/required one for survival as most women still have in their minds today.