This would make a big difference to accountants. To most of us, LibreOffice Calc does the job, but it's missing a lot of little features that heavy users depend on, and working around them would be too much of a PITA.
If dumb rich bastards are going to get themselves killed in accidents, it's much safer and more environmentally friendly for them to use a high-end racing bicycle than a supercar or small aircraft.
Electronic currency doesn't work for intersteller commerce, as information travels too slowly to be practical.
The Star Trek universe always had FTL communication ("subspace radio" that appears to travel at infinite speed) with practically infinite bandwidth, so in Star Trek at least that wasn't a valid reason to not use electronic currency.
There's actually no such thing as truly unlimited (literally infinite) greed, and I think that's going to become a problem soon. Even Larry Ellison has a limit to how much he wants. Give someone a replicator and they would eventually get bored with making things from it, in fact when the novelty of having one wears off I think they'd realize that they produced a lot of junk that was only good for novelty value itself.
Back to the absence of infinite want being a problem - a lot of conservatives still hang onto trickle-down economics, and honestly think that 99% of the population can make a decent living for themselves by producing luxury goods and services for the 1% - if those damn regulations would stop holding everything back. This economy consisting of an elite cadre of massive hyperconsumers served by billions of producers is what our economy has been geared for and assumes will work, and we're in for a rude awakening when the limits of the astronomical but finite wants of the 1% are reached. Who will drive growth then?
Of course there's a lot more potential for growth in the wants of everyday people with practically zero disposable income, and the economy might do much better by enabling their wants to grow, but that's commie talk. And it's rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic - we've already crashed into the automationberg.
I work in marketing, and have paid for "advertorials" many times. The most effective ads are ones not marked as advertisements. I don't see any problem with this, it's way more common than you think.
Now you see, that's because you're an abominable monster. Humans have this mental construct called a "sense of honesty" which makes them feel offense at this kind of activity.
Actually the broken clock is the correct analogy here. Austrian economics predicts a crash not quite constantly, but under a certain set of conditions which very commonly exists - including a lead-up to the '08 recession, and right now. Their predictions that economies are sure to melt down "any minute now" are rarely correct.
Economics really is just political debate using numbers, and much of the trouble in the world comes from people using economists' opinions for anything beyond entertainment value. People are going to look back on today's economists the way we look back at alchemists.
Racing drivers can achieve energy savings of more than 75% by swapping out some components and driving more slowly around the track. This will improve reliability and efficiency!
Karma? Well, sure... We call it human nature and awareness. It's obviously not going to follow me into a new life, I don't see how a star can be subjected to karma anyhow.
Karma that has effects within a person's lifetime is "pop-culture Karma" as seen on "my name is Earl," and it could theoretically be scientifically disproven. Personally I'm sure it would be.
The religious definitions of Karma, as far as I'm aware, only have effects in the "next life" and are therefore untestable just like the invisible pink unicorn.
Was just going to say this. Similar to the reason Singapore gets a free pass on being a faux-democratic authoritarian dictatorship - its just too nice of a place for businesses.
And automatic encryption can easily be handled by pushing public keys into DNS. Yes, the NSA could force people to push fake keys into DNS, but then no-one would trust it any more.
And this would be different than what they did to the CA system in what way?
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AT LEAST that old. I remember at least as far back as 2012, TSA master keys seemed to be easily available on the black market.
Games in general are why my gaming PC still runs Windows. Last Windows computer I have.
Tried Dia? I know it does flowcharts and UML but I just use it for network diagrams, it works well for that at least.
Tried SciTE? It's based on Scintilla like Notepad++
This would make a big difference to accountants. To most of us, LibreOffice Calc does the job, but it's missing a lot of little features that heavy users depend on, and working around them would be too much of a PITA.
I'm guess they didn't go out of their way to use BP-2-free sunscreen...
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Didn't Microsoft destroy Skype's decentralized architecture so that they could make it possible to wiretap?
Oh no no no, they did it for "performance reasons" ;-)
If dumb rich bastards are going to get themselves killed in accidents, it's much safer and more environmentally friendly for them to use a high-end racing bicycle than a supercar or small aircraft.
Electronic currency doesn't work for intersteller commerce, as information travels too slowly to be practical.
The Star Trek universe always had FTL communication ("subspace radio" that appears to travel at infinite speed) with practically infinite bandwidth, so in Star Trek at least that wasn't a valid reason to not use electronic currency.
There's actually no such thing as truly unlimited (literally infinite) greed, and I think that's going to become a problem soon. Even Larry Ellison has a limit to how much he wants. Give someone a replicator and they would eventually get bored with making things from it, in fact when the novelty of having one wears off I think they'd realize that they produced a lot of junk that was only good for novelty value itself.
Back to the absence of infinite want being a problem - a lot of conservatives still hang onto trickle-down economics, and honestly think that 99% of the population can make a decent living for themselves by producing luxury goods and services for the 1% - if those damn regulations would stop holding everything back. This economy consisting of an elite cadre of massive hyperconsumers served by billions of producers is what our economy has been geared for and assumes will work, and we're in for a rude awakening when the limits of the astronomical but finite wants of the 1% are reached. Who will drive growth then?
Of course there's a lot more potential for growth in the wants of everyday people with practically zero disposable income, and the economy might do much better by enabling their wants to grow, but that's commie talk. And it's rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic - we've already crashed into the automationberg.
So what have Japan, Italy, Estonia, and (until the recent immigrant influx) Germany done to collectively damage their DNA so badly?
Or, you know, use some kind of contraception, but that's for nerds and fags right?
I don't know why some people think that population reduction can only occur through mass-murder/pandemic. People can have less babies you know.
I work in marketing, and have paid for "advertorials" many times. The most effective ads are ones not marked as advertisements. I don't see any problem with this, it's way more common than you think.
Now you see, that's because you're an abominable monster. Humans have this mental construct called a "sense of honesty" which makes them feel offense at this kind of activity.
Actually the broken clock is the correct analogy here. Austrian economics predicts a crash not quite constantly, but under a certain set of conditions which very commonly exists - including a lead-up to the '08 recession, and right now. Their predictions that economies are sure to melt down "any minute now" are rarely correct.
And a broken clock is right twice a day.
Economics really is just political debate using numbers, and much of the trouble in the world comes from people using economists' opinions for anything beyond entertainment value. People are going to look back on today's economists the way we look back at alchemists.
Racing drivers can achieve energy savings of more than 75% by swapping out some components and driving more slowly around the track. This will improve reliability and efficiency!
I think it is funny that anyone is shocked at the fact a "gathering" that involves drug use and pyrotechnics is being watched.
So you're saying that all 4th of July celebrations are routinely monitored?
Karma? Well, sure... We call it human nature and awareness. It's obviously not going to follow me into a new life, I don't see how a star can be subjected to karma anyhow.
Karma that has effects within a person's lifetime is "pop-culture Karma" as seen on "my name is Earl," and it could theoretically be scientifically disproven. Personally I'm sure it would be.
The religious definitions of Karma, as far as I'm aware, only have effects in the "next life" and are therefore untestable just like the invisible pink unicorn.
Was just going to say this. Similar to the reason Singapore gets a free pass on being a faux-democratic authoritarian dictatorship - its just too nice of a place for businesses.
If all else fails, there's out-of-band key exchange...
Thadeus Zu can't claim innocence while having an actual cyberpunk hacker name on his birth certificate :-P
And automatic encryption can easily be handled by pushing public keys into DNS. Yes, the NSA could force people to push fake keys into DNS, but then no-one would trust it any more.
And this would be different than what they did to the CA system in what way?
If you give it too much continuous you could accidentally the whole thing.
Turning the existing per-child subsidies into mincome bonuses for parents could work.