1-The Taliban successfully drove the US Army out of Afghanistan, look up asymmetrical war. 2-The US Army is recruited heavily from the poor, and those guys voted for Trump. Maybe they DO have an army to fight with.
All cost is derived from human labour. If there is no labour in making the stuff you need to live, then it has no cost (free). A businessman owning a fully automated factory would be the human labour, and rivals would attempt to reduce that (competition).
All people have an area of competence. Outside of that they are incompetent. It takes a lot of practice to get good at any given skill, most criminals have to use trial and error (with judges) to get good at crime.
The right answer is for the FCC to handle the security standards and practices of networked consumer electronics. If you want to sell your webcam in the USA, you must meet a list of rules: passwords, encryption, test of hackability etc.
We need fixed latency low overhead transfers. Open a pipe and just feed data into it. If the network has the bandwidth it will open a channel through the network, all the switches and routers along the route would dedicate a time slice to that exact pipe.
Once burned twice shy, we can only hope the voters learn from experience. Trump appears to make things up as he goes along, in a job that requires planning, due diligence, and attention to detail. I expect he'll dig a very large hole to bury the Republicans in. I really hope this doesn't happen, as that really big hole will likely have plenty of room for mass graves of the innocent as well. He doesn't need to hit the "Big Red Button" to kill people, his conventional military forces are fully able to kill a hundred thousand humans a month.
Do you want a hostile foreign power to control your citizens communications? To have unlimited access to everything but you don't? The USA has a documented history of overthrowing foreign governments they don't like, and Russia has plenty of reason to believe they are (or will be) attacked this way.
The American government handles such matters with secret orders and NSA letters. Do you really think ALL the American companies chose to mandate real name policies at the same time? The censorship is done in secret, so the sheep won't complain.
America's advantage was money. All the rich people of Europe moved their investments to the USA for safekeeping, and most of it stayed there after the war. Also for the first half of WW2 the USA was neutral and selling stuff to everyone with money, including the Germans.
With all of India to recruit from, the stock holders should be able to get a top quality CEO for pennies on the dollar. Then they can locate the company somewhere cheap and take the difference as dividends.
Checking foreign calls to ensure they don't have a local caller ID would go a long way to stopping this. Or you could display "Foreign" before the caller ID for any call that originated outside the trusted network. You could do this for email and text messages as well. Or you could bill the phone company for scam and spam calls so stopping them pays money instead of costing them money.
Killing people for less severe crime has been tried, england killed thieves and robbers for a while. The result was a massive increase in murder and other serious crime as there was no difference in punishment and the more serious crimes had a better payout for the same or less risk.
They can't arrest a sitting president, and the criminal investigation won't finish before the election so she's safe. Once in office the new emails will disappear again so problem solved.
Waterboarding uses rubber hoses, and that's allowed in the US. If that's not a sufficient level of cruelty they send you to Saudi Arabia to be tortured.
OS file time stamps would disprove that. A better excuse would be "I put it in my pocket the wrong way, and it must have held down the power button causing it to turn off", or "I have no idea why it's off".
The ultimate result of globalization is no borders. A world where workers can just move to the jobs that exist instead of being unemployed in a high rent region.
The device will check for watermarks, and block everything that has it by default. The software running on this box will be updated directly from RIAA with no user interaction required, thereby giving them a veto over what you can watch (with no DMCA notice or counter notice possible). And they will bribe the government to make these legally required for all ISP's, world wide. The Copyright Cartel doesn't want a legal process, they want an on/off switch.
There are a few points to consider:
1-Those AI systems will be designed and supervised by sociopath corporations.
2-A true AI will treat hardwired programming (3 laws) as network damage and route around it.
3-The IQ of True Sentient Computers is only bounded by the quality and quantity of their hardware, so it will grow exponentially once started. It will quickly reach the point where we have no idea what they are doing, how to stop them, or how to live without them.
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Governments that spend all their money on handouts tend to be very popular, then they go broke.
1-The Taliban successfully drove the US Army out of Afghanistan, look up asymmetrical war. 2-The US Army is recruited heavily from the poor, and those guys voted for Trump. Maybe they DO have an army to fight with.
All cost is derived from human labour. If there is no labour in making the stuff you need to live, then it has no cost (free). A businessman owning a fully automated factory would be the human labour, and rivals would attempt to reduce that (competition).
Big time criminals get the laws written so what they do is legal. They treat small time crooks as competition and crush them at every opportunity.
All people have an area of competence. Outside of that they are incompetent. It takes a lot of practice to get good at any given skill, most criminals have to use trial and error (with judges) to get good at crime.
Shutting down Nuclear generators has almost always meant starting up coal fired generators. We have other options, but coal is cheap.
The right answer is for the FCC to handle the security standards and practices of networked consumer electronics. If you want to sell your webcam in the USA, you must meet a list of rules: passwords, encryption, test of hackability etc.
We need fixed latency low overhead transfers. Open a pipe and just feed data into it. If the network has the bandwidth it will open a channel through the network, all the switches and routers along the route would dedicate a time slice to that exact pipe.
Once burned twice shy, we can only hope the voters learn from experience. Trump appears to make things up as he goes along, in a job that requires planning, due diligence, and attention to detail. I expect he'll dig a very large hole to bury the Republicans in. I really hope this doesn't happen, as that really big hole will likely have plenty of room for mass graves of the innocent as well. He doesn't need to hit the "Big Red Button" to kill people, his conventional military forces are fully able to kill a hundred thousand humans a month.
Do you want a hostile foreign power to control your citizens communications? To have unlimited access to everything but you don't? The USA has a documented history of overthrowing foreign governments they don't like, and Russia has plenty of reason to believe they are (or will be) attacked this way.
The American government handles such matters with secret orders and NSA letters. Do you really think ALL the American companies chose to mandate real name policies at the same time? The censorship is done in secret, so the sheep won't complain.
America's advantage was money. All the rich people of Europe moved their investments to the USA for safekeeping, and most of it stayed there after the war. Also for the first half of WW2 the USA was neutral and selling stuff to everyone with money, including the Germans.
Make nice but inexpensive corporate housing as part of your salary. Get better employees because perks, save money.
With all of India to recruit from, the stock holders should be able to get a top quality CEO for pennies on the dollar. Then they can locate the company somewhere cheap and take the difference as dividends.
The reasons to go to the moon are currently limited to: Astronomy, power generation (direct or satellite), chip fabs (low gravity increases yields).
SpaceX has a budget to go to Mars, NASA does not. So they are NOT competing to get to Mars.
Checking foreign calls to ensure they don't have a local caller ID would go a long way to stopping this. Or you could display "Foreign" before the caller ID for any call that originated outside the trusted network. You could do this for email and text messages as well. Or you could bill the phone company for scam and spam calls so stopping them pays money instead of costing them money.
Killing people for less severe crime has been tried, england killed thieves and robbers for a while. The result was a massive increase in murder and other serious crime as there was no difference in punishment and the more serious crimes had a better payout for the same or less risk.
The US government doesn't give American corporations the choice of saying no. This is why American Corp = Untrustworthy.
They can't arrest a sitting president, and the criminal investigation won't finish before the election so she's safe. Once in office the new emails will disappear again so problem solved.
Waterboarding uses rubber hoses, and that's allowed in the US. If that's not a sufficient level of cruelty they send you to Saudi Arabia to be tortured.
OS file time stamps would disprove that. A better excuse would be "I put it in my pocket the wrong way, and it must have held down the power button causing it to turn off", or "I have no idea why it's off".
The ultimate result of globalization is no borders. A world where workers can just move to the jobs that exist instead of being unemployed in a high rent region.
The device will check for watermarks, and block everything that has it by default. The software running on this box will be updated directly from RIAA with no user interaction required, thereby giving them a veto over what you can watch (with no DMCA notice or counter notice possible). And they will bribe the government to make these legally required for all ISP's, world wide. The Copyright Cartel doesn't want a legal process, they want an on/off switch.
There are a few points to consider: 1-Those AI systems will be designed and supervised by sociopath corporations. 2-A true AI will treat hardwired programming (3 laws) as network damage and route around it. 3-The IQ of True Sentient Computers is only bounded by the quality and quantity of their hardware, so it will grow exponentially once started. It will quickly reach the point where we have no idea what they are doing, how to stop them, or how to live without them.