You are listing applications. Of course, once these applications are on the horizon, the money starts flowing. But without basic research, that would never have happened. They would instead have funnelled the money into developing better tubes.
Traditionally, domains and servers sized by the FBI become honeypots afterwards, right? I would be disappointed if they were to break with this convenient reallocation of resources now.
You only have to adjust your definition of 'terrorist comnnections'.
For the NSA, an Nth degree connection is most likely enough. As in: your number has in the past called some number, that was also called by a number which had been in contact with a number which is suspected to have once been used by someone who's name is on one of their lists. This kind of 'meta-information' is exactly what they are fishing for after all.
I am more interested in how they got 'some' with no terrorist connections. Maybe only brand new phone numbers on their first use?
Isn't the idea to use it as currency? There is no 'making out' involved in exchange of currency, just a transfer of values.
The whole printing money out of cpu cycles thing was odd anyways and seemed more like a built in fundraiser/motiviation to get the thing started in the first place.
And how is fiddling with the route on a GPS only device different from fiddling with the route on a GPS enabled phone? Because one of these seems to be legal as stated by the summary.
I don't see how this is paranoia. I wouldn't use the same password for my phone and my banking acount. But the fact you can't change your fingerprints pretty much forces you to. Worse, you will use the same print in the future, forever.
So how long is that password going to last, with all the regular leaks, phone-malware and whatnot? How many years? If any single application you gave the fingerprint to has a security hole, just one of them, then all other are immedeately compromised. And there is no way you can change that, even if you knew it happened.
And the best part is, because the 'password' is so strongly linked to your person, everyone who got it can easily figure out which other locks it might open for them, other than your phone.
Lastly, the argument of 'the xyz could do it if they really wanted' is just a bad one and I'm sick of hearing it. This is still a question of economics. Sure there could be agents following everyone around, grabbing fingerprints from the used glasses in restaurants and so on... would only cost like a trillion dollars until we have all the data. Or we have them all upload their prints to their phones, which we already have backdoors into anyway, so it costs one of our IT people 10 minutes to issue the download command. One thing will never happen, the other is more than likely.
So there is really such a big difference between one big balloon and lots of small balloons containing the same volume of helium? Because otherwise I'd say this has been done before.
A programmer usually only writes a program once and then it gets copied for no further costs unlimited times. Still programmer has been a job for quite some time now. Shouldn't we have all the programs we need by now? Why are there still programmers employed?
As soon as we can do more with less, we simply go and do much more.
And if you wanted to live a life by the average standards of a 1960s household, you could actually do that with 10-15 hours of work per week as far as products are concerend, that are actually affected by automation. The things that would keep you from achieving this are most likely exactly the things that did not get much of an efficieny boost through automation: services and basic resources.
"I would really like to know how the U.S. fatality rate of 11.4 per 100,000 compares to that of other nations, like the Dominican Republic, Iran, and Thailand, but I'm too lazy. Ah screw it, I'll just make it a news topic on slashdot and wait until someone else does it for karma." - timothy
The cost of electricity has gone up, because electricity companies have to buy renewable energy from the producers for a set (high) price. Then they push this price on to the customer.
So not the inefficiency is pushing up prices, but the actual amount of energy produced is. If those things were more efficient, energy prices would be even higher. Yes this is a stupid system.
Yes, it would make much more sense to go for the 'non polluting' option of renewables + nuclear.
Sadly this is not possible, because the political driving factor behind the rise of renewables (the green party) was also founded (!) on anti-nuclear sentiments. It is hard to imagine them giving up their very core believes now that they have almost reached their goal. On a general note, people who are in favor of renewables are usually also politically close to the green party, which hates on nuclear by principle.
So we are going for the 'green' option instead, even though it does not make much sense and will cause more pollution in the forseeable future instead of less. Good idea + political dogma = mediocre results
I would pilot an ingame mech fighting Starship Troopers-like aliens, that is really a miniature Terminator hunting bugs in a corn field. Yes. Though I would just as well pilot the real thing.
There is no DRM on the books I bought so far. I can lend them whoever I want. But I sure as hell won't lend them my Kindle. They got to bring their own.
Oh and my local library is lending out ebooks. Which you have to return. I still don't understand how that is supposed to work, because there is no DRM on those books either. But yes, lending ebooks is a thing apparently.
The paperwhite with backlight on is only for reading in a situation with dim lighting. Which is has always been an eye-strainer, even with conventional books. At least with the backlight, you have the option to increase lighting a bit. Not as comfortable as natural lighting, but better than reading a book with little light.
However, when there is ambient light, the backlighting of the paperwhite adds almost nothing.It looks exactly the same on a sunny day outside, sitting in the shades, with backlight on 100% and 0%. It looks like a piece of paper, readable, but not glowing.
So it is not meant to be used with a backlight. but you have the option to do so.
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You are listing applications.
Of course, once these applications are on the horizon, the money starts flowing.
But without basic research, that would never have happened. They would instead have funnelled the money into developing better tubes.
Traditionally, domains and servers sized by the FBI become honeypots afterwards, right?
I would be disappointed if they were to break with this convenient reallocation of resources now.
You only have to adjust your definition of 'terrorist comnnections'.
For the NSA, an Nth degree connection is most likely enough.
As in: your number has in the past called some number, that was also called by a number which had been in contact with a number which is suspected to have once been used by someone who's name is on one of their lists.
This kind of 'meta-information' is exactly what they are fishing for after all.
I am more interested in how they got 'some' with no terrorist connections. Maybe only brand new phone numbers on their first use?
By that definition any currency which undergoes deflation at some point is a ponzi scheme.
Or really any currency. After all, if no user B ever shoes up to take those dollars from you in exchange of wares, they are worthless.
Isn't the idea to use it as currency?
There is no 'making out' involved in exchange of currency, just a transfer of values.
The whole printing money out of cpu cycles thing was odd anyways and seemed more like a built in fundraiser/motiviation to get the thing started in the first place.
And how is fiddling with the route on a GPS only device different from fiddling with the route on a GPS enabled phone?
Because one of these seems to be legal as stated by the summary.
Goal is to be bought by some bigger corp for a rediculous amount of money.
It's a little surpising she manged to do all that, given how small she is.
Heightism.
I don't see how this is paranoia.
I wouldn't use the same password for my phone and my banking acount. But the fact you can't change your fingerprints pretty much forces you to.
Worse, you will use the same print in the future, forever.
So how long is that password going to last, with all the regular leaks, phone-malware and whatnot? How many years?
If any single application you gave the fingerprint to has a security hole, just one of them, then all other are immedeately compromised. And there is no way you can change that, even if you knew it happened.
And the best part is, because the 'password' is so strongly linked to your person, everyone who got it can easily figure out which other locks it might open for them, other than your phone.
Lastly, the argument of 'the xyz could do it if they really wanted' is just a bad one and I'm sick of hearing it.
This is still a question of economics.
Sure there could be agents following everyone around, grabbing fingerprints from the used glasses in restaurants and so on... would only cost like a trillion dollars until we have all the data.
Or we have them all upload their prints to their phones, which we already have backdoors into anyway, so it costs one of our IT people 10 minutes to issue the download command.
One thing will never happen, the other is more than likely.
So there is really such a big difference between one big balloon and lots of small balloons containing the same volume of helium?
Because otherwise I'd say this has been done before.
This sounds like a very specific problem with a certain firmware to me.
It's not an inherent problem with the SSD technology.
'Hard as Rock Wood' makes you think of a lady?
That's about 90.3 m/s!
A programmer usually only writes a program once and then it gets copied for no further costs unlimited times.
Still programmer has been a job for quite some time now.
Shouldn't we have all the programs we need by now? Why are there still programmers employed?
That idea is flawed.
As soon as we can do more with less, we simply go and do much more.
And if you wanted to live a life by the average standards of a 1960s household, you could actually do that with 10-15 hours of work per week as far as products are concerend, that are actually affected by automation. The things that would keep you from achieving this are most likely exactly the things that did not get much of an efficieny boost through automation: services and basic resources.
You will still have to precisely define the goals of what the machine is supposed to learn and then later do.
Which is basicly what coding is.
"I would really like to know how the U.S. fatality rate of 11.4 per 100,000 compares to that of other nations, like the Dominican Republic, Iran, and Thailand, but I'm too lazy.
Ah screw it, I'll just make it a news topic on slashdot and wait until someone else does it for karma."
- timothy
The cost of electricity has gone up, because electricity companies have to buy renewable energy from the producers for a set (high) price.
Then they push this price on to the customer.
So not the inefficiency is pushing up prices, but the actual amount of energy produced is.
If those things were more efficient, energy prices would be even higher.
Yes this is a stupid system.
Yes, it would make much more sense to go for the 'non polluting' option of renewables + nuclear.
Sadly this is not possible, because the political driving factor behind the rise of renewables (the green party) was also founded (!) on anti-nuclear sentiments.
It is hard to imagine them giving up their very core believes now that they have almost reached their goal.
On a general note, people who are in favor of renewables are usually also politically close to the green party, which hates on nuclear by principle.
So we are going for the 'green' option instead, even though it does not make much sense and will cause more pollution in the forseeable future instead of less.
Good idea + political dogma = mediocre results
Oh noes, we are wasting precious sunlight with all this inefficiency!
Wouldn't that also put his life in danger though?
Surely there are parties that want to get these information and a simple murder would be an easy way to gain access (along with everyoen else).
I would pilot an ingame mech fighting Starship Troopers-like aliens, that is really a miniature Terminator hunting bugs in a corn field.
Yes.
Though I would just as well pilot the real thing.
We'd send our drones after them if they wouldn't hack them and send them back.
There is no DRM on the books I bought so far.
I can lend them whoever I want.
But I sure as hell won't lend them my Kindle. They got to bring their own.
Oh and my local library is lending out ebooks. Which you have to return. I still don't understand how that is supposed to work, because there is no DRM on those books either.
But yes, lending ebooks is a thing apparently.
The paperwhite with backlight on is only for reading in a situation with dim lighting.
Which is has always been an eye-strainer, even with conventional books.
At least with the backlight, you have the option to increase lighting a bit. Not as comfortable as natural lighting, but better than reading a book with little light.
However, when there is ambient light, the backlighting of the paperwhite adds almost nothing.It looks exactly the same on a sunny day outside, sitting in the shades, with backlight on 100% and 0%. It looks like a piece of paper, readable, but not glowing.
So it is not meant to be used with a backlight.
but you have the option to do so.