Indeed. They might accidentally wander on to your lawn too.
This law is pure 'for the children' type protectionist crap. Should someone watch while crossing the street? Yes of course. Could they get hurt by not looking? Yep.
Do you need a LAW and FINE to tell people to do what they already know they should be doing?... and furthermore punishment for something where there is no victim? Not at all.
Now, if someone causes an accident there are already ways to hold them responsible (protip: a $35 fine isn't it). If they don't cause an accident, then no-harm, no-foul. This law will be enforced for 15 minutes then forgotten except when they decide to 'crack down' and 'do something' like target minorities.
Remember that what has been proposed is a very long vacuum tube so there would be normal air pressure outside so even with a slight deformation you are going to have a rupture which would send out a shockwave traveling at the speed of sound and anything in the tube would be pulverized.
Ignoring the rest of your nonsense because there's only so much time in the world...but this one is just too easy because you're simply too ignorant or too stupid to understand how pressure works.
The difference in pressure between two areas along whatever separates them exerts the pressure on that isolating material. Given the lowest pressure you can have is zero (total vacuum) and standard pressure at sea level is 1ATM or ~15 PSI...the largest pressure possible against the hyperloop tube is a measly 15PSI. Considering modern submarines experience about 500 times that pressure at max working depth (which is still significantly less than crush depth) I'm pretty sure we can design a hyperloop tube that won't magically implode like the train cars put under negative pressure...you know, the train cars which were never MEANT to be evacuated and weren't designed for those pressures.
Buy yah, go on hyping your nonsense about how the hyperloop is impossible.
Tesla is circling the train? Oh...yeah...ok. Let me buy that tesla stock from you then since it's practically worthless anyhow. Take $10 a share?
Your doom and gloom doesn't match the reality that's actually happening.
SpaceX is the only entity launching and landing cargo rockets. BO is great and all, but their rocket was/is a little toy in comparison and does not put any meaningful payload into orbit. As for the cost savings - this has been demonstrated. Not sure what planet you're on but a couple hundred grand in fuel and some refurb costs is less than the estimated 'wholesale' ~$35m cost of the rocket in my book.
Model 3 shipment numbers are about one month behind targets. Boo hoo. Other than those eagerly waiting their turn to buy one no one else seems overly worried about this.
I'll wait for the Q3 'blood bath' and see what happens to the stock price. *Giggle*
And have you actually calculated the energy cost for doing so?
Considering (major maintenance aside) it's a one-time effort with minor maintenance to cover the inevitable minor leaks which is technically reversible if you chose....I pulled up some basic info which says it which 'costs' about 100kJ to empty 1 m^3 at sea level. (plus inefficiencies of your pumping system)
Let's take a 5m diameter, 100km tunnel...about 8x10^6 m^3 so 800GJ or 222MWh
Is the reduction in lift off mass less costly and a reusable rocket less expensive than a single use rocket?
Considering the refueling costs are a couple hundred grand plus a minor refurb/recert cost vs. $60ish million for a whole rocket I'd say yes. There have been a few instances where they needed the max payload and the rocket had to be expended. The Falcon heavy solves that problem (well, up to it's max launch payload of course).
The tank (and related systems) are not trivial cost either...plus you have to either hard-land that engine or bring fuel along to soft-land it anyhow. That sounds like a solution looking for a problem.
Speaking of snake oil...this whole video is selling FUD and is all speculation nonsense.
The guy can have all the PHDs he wants but the nonsense 'can't work' claims are idiotic. His implication that making a long vacuum tube is impossible...is idiotic. If we can make one 100m segment, that can be repeated 1000x and you have 100km.
The "vacuum energy" he goes on about? Well yeah, if you use tanks meant to contain liquids under high vacuum as your 'how easy it is to break' example then you're just an idiot trying to fear monger. It's trivial to design a tube that can withstand a hard vacuum...material science is well in advance of that. (ahem, submarines)
Diamonds are almost entirely speculative value. Their scarcity vs. usefulness does not come anywhere close to justifying their cost. That you can credit DeBeers for entirely. If the bubble bursts on diamonds, the actual utility value is very small, manufactured diamonds substitute seamlessly (or are the primary source) for almost any industrial need, and the need for jewelry-grade stones is very small outside of...well...jewelry.
Gold is a similar, but not as extreme example. It IS a very useful metal and cannot be manufactured but a large portion of the value is still speculative.
Diamonds are a far bigger scam than any crypto currency. At least the price of bitcoin follows market demand instead of monopoly cartel decisions.
The biggest difference...the stock market is an extremely mature game at this point. Joe Q. Public is only getting bits and pieces and has virtually no clue what actually goes on.
The crypto market is extremely immature but big enough to be noticed now. It won't be long before it's controlled and manipulated to a very large degree for very great profit to those who have the power/money/computing to do so.
First off, it only tracks the wallet addresses. Those are arbitrary and there's a functionally unlimited number of them with no mechanism to guarantee a link to an individual. You can 'follow the money' all you want but you still have to identify who's hold it and if a certain transaction is for illegal goods or legitimate purposes.
Furthermore, there are 'bitcoin mixers' which intentionally obfuscate the path of the coins by sending them in random amounts through random paths. While not impossible to track through, it greatly complicates any attempt to tie a particular amount of coin back to some particular address....which, again, you still need to tie to a person.
The hardest part of it all, and where there's some traction on linking bitcoin purchases to individuals are the initial trade of fiat to crypto. But once you're in the game, or if you provide a service that gets paid for in crypto...then you can be pretty damn anon unless you keep records otherwise.
It doesn't surprise me AT ALL that the cameras aren't (reported as) changing police behavior at all.
BECAUSE THERE IS NO WORKING METHOD TO HOLD POLICE ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS.
Period fucking dot.
People know this. Cops know this. Politicians know this but pretend otherwise.
After numerous cases with full video of police doing things directly against their own rules, laws, and ethics and the cops almost universally getting nothing more than a slap on the wrist... why would one more video of the same actually matter? Especially when half of them can be disabled, covered, or left off their person when inconvenient?
The cameras simply serve to ignite public outrage further
In reality I'm sure they would return your wagers if the machine was found defective.
In the rest of reality, they do not actively check each machine before each wager. Only after a large win (loss to them). If you had reason to believe a machine was broken I presume there's a method to have the machine checked and play voided. Good luck getting that to happen though.
Last I checked, SpaceX has been launching resupply missions which include replacement parts.
If you mean replacement MODULES, well TBD as we haven't added any since SpaceX has gotten it's act together as far as I know.
With the Falcon Heavy and and BFS I don't expect there'd be much issue with launching modules. It's more a matter of planned obsolescence. Some critical components that aren't (easily) replaceable have a designed lifetime...and then you have to re-evaluate or retire.
With SpaceX and others ramping up it's not really the launch capability anymore. It's the design...we could LAUNCH a whole new space station fairly easily but designing and building it costs and costs and costs. Welcome to politics driving decisions instead of engineers per usual.
Anyone can look at the 6 month history of anything and point out 'yep, woulda bought there, sold there, bought again there, sold there...bought a TON there and sold it all....hmmm...there and there, and I'd be rich off a $10k investment...I woulda done it too if not for those meddling teenagers'
The swipe just reads the card. You can swipe your card at CVS/Walgreens/etc. ahead of the bill total usually too. Not so when you're using chip but that's another story.
The machine takes your card info, holds it, then waits for the cashier to hit the complete/send to CC machine buttons - at which point that machine gets the final total, asks for your OK, and then processes the transaction.
Forget the cheap cable...miracast should be the answer (and charge a DeX license fee instead of selling hardware if they want).
I actually proposed this to the engineers on-site for the launch event and caused some consternation at the time. I was "that guy" asking for the feature they didn't have, didn't think of, and pretty much would make their product useless:)
With that said, I have one and use it. It needs some refinement around the apps and all to be truly useful by itself. Instead it does work as a good platform for Citrix and getting back to our VM farm at work.
BB KeyOne, while a complete piece of crap, is an option. Anecdotally I couldn't get a single person on my support team to even try it out when I offered the demo unit we bought to them...it's that bad by reputation alone.
Other than that, consider the detachable keyboards for Samsung. They flip on the back side of the case so you can use the full screen and otherwise provide a full, tactile keyboard very similar to the old BB Bold (which wasn't my favorite tactile KB...that being the Curve) and quite good. No battery. No cables.
I never hit the touch bar by accident (or on purpose) and have no problems with typing on my new MBP.
Granted I have it buried on my desk and hooked up to a Dell USB-C dock, monitor, and logitech KB/Mouse. It seems to work just fine for me! It is a bit difficult to use TouchID though until I take the crap off of it.
Agreed. The 'average' user doesn't even HAVE a desktop anymore. The closest would be an iMac or similar AIO but even that's a strong minority compared to laptops (and tablets/phones).
I still don't think the 'average *desktop* user' has anywhere near dual Xeon and 256GB of Ram.
Because his current 'incarceration' still allows him to communicate and continue his work. If it was just the physical aspect you might have a point, but his whole platform is about communication and dissemination of information.
He fled a valid Warrant, that's why the Brits still want him.
Or so the excuse goes...
Knowing the premise of the warrant is bogus and just an illegal attempt by the government to controls someone, you still believe that the due process following his surrender would somehow be completely legitimate and above board?
The tooth fairy still leaves a quarter under your pillow too I assume.
Don't forget that MS practically catered to pirates of the time (read: students and younger computer geeks) by having essentially no copy protection. In the age of complex activation codes and 'check the manual for the 3rd word on the 7th page' you could activate office 98, Win 95/98, NT, and several other packages with comically simple one-time activation codes 111-1111111 465-anything I believe worked as well (or was it 425, memory is fuzzy) 7777-7777777 1112-1111111
It wasn't until they were solidly in control of the market that realistic key control came to use (Win98 used longer, alpha-numeric codes).
Being a geek in the 90s I'll say from personal experience that the reason all us teens and 20-somethings were able to learn these platforms and build our knowledge was because they could easily be had for free. Businesses and OEMs still paid, but everyone who actually had to LEARN this crap usually got it for free.
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Indeed. They might accidentally wander on to your lawn too.
This law is pure 'for the children' type protectionist crap. Should someone watch while crossing the street? Yes of course. Could they get hurt by not looking? Yep.
Do you need a LAW and FINE to tell people to do what they already know they should be doing? ... and furthermore punishment for something where there is no victim? Not at all.
Now, if someone causes an accident there are already ways to hold them responsible (protip: a $35 fine isn't it). If they don't cause an accident, then no-harm, no-foul. This law will be enforced for 15 minutes then forgotten except when they decide to 'crack down' and 'do something' like target minorities.
Remember that what has been proposed is a very long vacuum tube so there would be normal air pressure outside so even with a slight deformation you are going to have a rupture which would send out a shockwave traveling at the speed of sound and anything in the tube would be pulverized.
Ignoring the rest of your nonsense because there's only so much time in the world...but this one is just too easy because you're simply too ignorant or too stupid to understand how pressure works.
The difference in pressure between two areas along whatever separates them exerts the pressure on that isolating material. Given the lowest pressure you can have is zero (total vacuum) and standard pressure at sea level is 1ATM or ~15 PSI...the largest pressure possible against the hyperloop tube is a measly 15PSI. Considering modern submarines experience about 500 times that pressure at max working depth (which is still significantly less than crush depth) I'm pretty sure we can design a hyperloop tube that won't magically implode like the train cars put under negative pressure...you know, the train cars which were never MEANT to be evacuated and weren't designed for those pressures.
Buy yah, go on hyping your nonsense about how the hyperloop is impossible.
Tesla is circling the train? Oh...yeah...ok. Let me buy that tesla stock from you then since it's practically worthless anyhow. Take $10 a share?
Your doom and gloom doesn't match the reality that's actually happening.
SpaceX is the only entity launching and landing cargo rockets. BO is great and all, but their rocket was/is a little toy in comparison and does not put any meaningful payload into orbit. As for the cost savings - this has been demonstrated. Not sure what planet you're on but a couple hundred grand in fuel and some refurb costs is less than the estimated 'wholesale' ~$35m cost of the rocket in my book.
Model 3 shipment numbers are about one month behind targets. Boo hoo. Other than those eagerly waiting their turn to buy one no one else seems overly worried about this.
I'll wait for the Q3 'blood bath' and see what happens to the stock price. *Giggle*
And have you actually calculated the energy cost for doing so?
Considering (major maintenance aside) it's a one-time effort with minor maintenance to cover the inevitable minor leaks which is technically reversible if you chose....I pulled up some basic info which says it which 'costs' about 100kJ to empty 1 m^3 at sea level. (plus inefficiencies of your pumping system)
Let's take a 5m diameter, 100km tunnel...about 8x10^6 m^3 so 800GJ or 222MWh
The energy needed is large, but not unreasonable.
Is the reduction in lift off mass less costly and a reusable rocket less expensive than a single use rocket?
Considering the refueling costs are a couple hundred grand plus a minor refurb/recert cost vs. $60ish million for a whole rocket I'd say yes. There have been a few instances where they needed the max payload and the rocket had to be expended. The Falcon heavy solves that problem (well, up to it's max launch payload of course).
The tank (and related systems) are not trivial cost either...plus you have to either hard-land that engine or bring fuel along to soft-land it anyhow. That sounds like a solution looking for a problem.
Speaking of snake oil...this whole video is selling FUD and is all speculation nonsense.
The guy can have all the PHDs he wants but the nonsense 'can't work' claims are idiotic. His implication that making a long vacuum tube is impossible...is idiotic. If we can make one 100m segment, that can be repeated 1000x and you have 100km.
The "vacuum energy" he goes on about? Well yeah, if you use tanks meant to contain liquids under high vacuum as your 'how easy it is to break' example then you're just an idiot trying to fear monger. It's trivial to design a tube that can withstand a hard vacuum...material science is well in advance of that. (ahem, submarines)
Diamonds are almost entirely speculative value. Their scarcity vs. usefulness does not come anywhere close to justifying their cost. That you can credit DeBeers for entirely. If the bubble bursts on diamonds, the actual utility value is very small, manufactured diamonds substitute seamlessly (or are the primary source) for almost any industrial need, and the need for jewelry-grade stones is very small outside of...well...jewelry.
Gold is a similar, but not as extreme example. It IS a very useful metal and cannot be manufactured but a large portion of the value is still speculative.
Diamonds are a far bigger scam than any crypto currency. At least the price of bitcoin follows market demand instead of monopoly cartel decisions.
The biggest difference...the stock market is an extremely mature game at this point. Joe Q. Public is only getting bits and pieces and has virtually no clue what actually goes on.
The crypto market is extremely immature but big enough to be noticed now. It won't be long before it's controlled and manipulated to a very large degree for very great profit to those who have the power/money/computing to do so.
Yes ... and no.
First off, it only tracks the wallet addresses. Those are arbitrary and there's a functionally unlimited number of them with no mechanism to guarantee a link to an individual. You can 'follow the money' all you want but you still have to identify who's hold it and if a certain transaction is for illegal goods or legitimate purposes.
Furthermore, there are 'bitcoin mixers' which intentionally obfuscate the path of the coins by sending them in random amounts through random paths. While not impossible to track through, it greatly complicates any attempt to tie a particular amount of coin back to some particular address....which, again, you still need to tie to a person.
The hardest part of it all, and where there's some traction on linking bitcoin purchases to individuals are the initial trade of fiat to crypto. But once you're in the game, or if you provide a service that gets paid for in crypto...then you can be pretty damn anon unless you keep records otherwise.
It doesn't surprise me AT ALL that the cameras aren't (reported as) changing police behavior at all.
BECAUSE THERE IS NO WORKING METHOD TO HOLD POLICE ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS.
Period fucking dot.
People know this. Cops know this. Politicians know this but pretend otherwise.
After numerous cases with full video of police doing things directly against their own rules, laws, and ethics and the cops almost universally getting nothing more than a slap on the wrist ... why would one more video of the same actually matter? Especially when half of them can be disabled, covered, or left off their person when inconvenient?
The cameras simply serve to ignite public outrage further
In theory, a machine fault 'voids all play'.
In reality I'm sure they would return your wagers if the machine was found defective.
In the rest of reality, they do not actively check each machine before each wager. Only after a large win (loss to them). If you had reason to believe a machine was broken I presume there's a method to have the machine checked and play voided. Good luck getting that to happen though.
Last I checked, SpaceX has been launching resupply missions which include replacement parts.
If you mean replacement MODULES, well TBD as we haven't added any since SpaceX has gotten it's act together as far as I know.
With the Falcon Heavy and and BFS I don't expect there'd be much issue with launching modules. It's more a matter of planned obsolescence. Some critical components that aren't (easily) replaceable have a designed lifetime...and then you have to re-evaluate or retire.
With SpaceX and others ramping up it's not really the launch capability anymore. It's the design...we could LAUNCH a whole new space station fairly easily but designing and building it costs and costs and costs. Welcome to politics driving decisions instead of engineers per usual.
It can be a bubble and a scam.
If you flip flop and get out before it dies, there's no reason you can't make money off it.
It's easy to predict the past...
Anyone can look at the 6 month history of anything and point out 'yep, woulda bought there, sold there, bought again there, sold there...bought a TON there and sold it all....hmmm...there and there, and I'd be rich off a $10k investment...I woulda done it too if not for those meddling teenagers'
+1 for anyone who gets the reference
The swipe just reads the card. You can swipe your card at CVS/Walgreens/etc. ahead of the bill total usually too. Not so when you're using chip but that's another story.
The machine takes your card info, holds it, then waits for the cashier to hit the complete/send to CC machine buttons - at which point that machine gets the final total, asks for your OK, and then processes the transaction.
FYI the credit reporting agencies know your salary history...or at least what's on your W2/taxes.
Even if you refuse to provide it directly, the info is out there and not impossible to get.
Forget the cheap cable...miracast should be the answer (and charge a DeX license fee instead of selling hardware if they want).
I actually proposed this to the engineers on-site for the launch event and caused some consternation at the time. I was "that guy" asking for the feature they didn't have, didn't think of, and pretty much would make their product useless :)
With that said, I have one and use it. It needs some refinement around the apps and all to be truly useful by itself. Instead it does work as a good platform for Citrix and getting back to our VM farm at work.
BB KeyOne, while a complete piece of crap, is an option. Anecdotally I couldn't get a single person on my support team to even try it out when I offered the demo unit we bought to them...it's that bad by reputation alone.
Other than that, consider the detachable keyboards for Samsung. They flip on the back side of the case so you can use the full screen and otherwise provide a full, tactile keyboard very similar to the old BB Bold (which wasn't my favorite tactile KB...that being the Curve) and quite good. No battery. No cables.
I never hit the touch bar by accident (or on purpose) and have no problems with typing on my new MBP.
Granted I have it buried on my desk and hooked up to a Dell USB-C dock, monitor, and logitech KB/Mouse. It seems to work just fine for me! It is a bit difficult to use TouchID though until I take the crap off of it.
If you're replacing a 7 year old PC then pretty much any decent laptop is faster.
You don't work for 'most companies' I see :)
You're not wrong in your point, but the actual implementation in most large companies is not as you describe.
Agreed. The 'average' user doesn't even HAVE a desktop anymore. The closest would be an iMac or similar AIO but even that's a strong minority compared to laptops (and tablets/phones).
I still don't think the 'average *desktop* user' has anywhere near dual Xeon and 256GB of Ram.
Because his current 'incarceration' still allows him to communicate and continue his work. If it was just the physical aspect you might have a point, but his whole platform is about communication and dissemination of information.
He fled a valid Warrant, that's why the Brits still want him.
Or so the excuse goes...
Knowing the premise of the warrant is bogus and just an illegal attempt by the government to controls someone, you still believe that the due process following his surrender would somehow be completely legitimate and above board?
The tooth fairy still leaves a quarter under your pillow too I assume.
Don't forget that MS practically catered to pirates of the time (read: students and younger computer geeks) by having essentially no copy protection. In the age of complex activation codes and 'check the manual for the 3rd word on the 7th page' you could activate office 98, Win 95/98, NT, and several other packages with comically simple one-time activation codes
111-1111111
465-anything I believe worked as well (or was it 425, memory is fuzzy)
7777-7777777
1112-1111111
It wasn't until they were solidly in control of the market that realistic key control came to use (Win98 used longer, alpha-numeric codes).
Being a geek in the 90s I'll say from personal experience that the reason all us teens and 20-somethings were able to learn these platforms and build our knowledge was because they could easily be had for free. Businesses and OEMs still paid, but everyone who actually had to LEARN this crap usually got it for free.