When you can buy a very capable calculator for $100 but a mathematics textbook is $200 you know something is backwards. And that $200's doesn't even get you any practical tables.
Downside: See the other Slashdot article about how Amazon is gaming the electrical grid to divert the cost of running their data centers onto the poor schlubs who live near them.
I think the articles are related because electricity costs is such a huge factor for cloud computing. You can try and use less energy, or you can try and make someone else pay your bills.
I suspect it will quickly be cheaper for the cloud industry to outsource all the datacenters outside of the US and EU to places with cheap electricity and little to no government regulation. Then all you need to do is lay some fat network, much cheaper than a power generator, and use smaller front-end server to help hide some latency.
You set upper and lower bounds ad the thermostat engages heat or AC if the ambient temperature goes outside the set limits. I fail to see what AI adds to this.
I take it your thermostat doesn't route job orders in a large cluster to avoid sending work to hot cabinets?
Only controlling the A/C doesn't sound so useful to me. At least if I'm trying to optimize for most processing done per unit of electricity.
If you think non-ionizing radiation causes leukemia, then you really have to first eliminate known environmental factors like benzene exposure. Any power line EM study that doesn't do that is probably garbage.
If the body is fed well and devoid of excess sugars toxins are easily dealt with
What is a sugar toxin?
and cancer is next to impossible.
A bold claim. My pet mouse got tumors and he never ate white foods or refined sugar.
You are misinformed.
In my previous post I didn't order anything in terms of most likely cause. My intention was to list a few alternative things to worry about that seem more significant than a glass capsule. If you have new information that is relevant and based in reality, that's great.
Please save yourself the embarrassment if it's pseudo-science crackpot stuff collected through hours of internet "research". Because no thanks, we're all quite capable of doing our own amateur confirmatory bias research via Google's sophisticated sub-string matching.
But it's hardly fair of you to criticize me for not mentioning whatever articles happened to be on your mind today, articles that I may or may not have read.
I don't have my ID permanently inserted into my body. Nor am I'm going to get my driver's license number tattooed on my arm for example.
Also realize I do not carry my ID everywhere. I have no interest in providing identification to authorities when I legally travel within the borders of my own country.
If I were forced to get a subcutaneous RFID tag I would considered that to be assault. And I'd definitely talk to a lawyer in order to proceed with both civil and criminal charges. But realistically I think the forcing of RFID tags onto people to be a very unlikely scenario in the US.
You can get ID cards and bracelets with QR codes on them today, mostly to hold contact information rather than medical records. RFID ones probably exist too but I don't think paramedics or nurses are normally looking out for them. But if you get into a car accident someone will flip through your personal belongings after you've been admitted and attempt to contact your family.
Within a hospital it is normal for patients to wear disposable bracelet, and RFID patient ID bracelets are now readily available to hospitals. But they are not really usable outside of a hospital and tend to be locked in to a particular vendor or hospital database, rather than something you might wear daily. I think the intention of RFID bracets is to avoid the wrong treatment being given to a patient, rather than to access information in an emergency situation. (database look-ups are slow and not reliable)
Can you hold on to your quaint sensibilities when being chipped means a fast track to the job you covet?
I can, because I'm old enough that I can retire by the time that day comes.
The next generation will have to decide to either accept this as beneficial technology, or actively work against this as invasive and unnecessary. And form legislation to limit it.
The materials used to encapsulate these is quite well understood., often it is glass. Cancer risk seems low as this material has been used in humans and animals for many decades.
If you were serious about preventing cancer you'd end the use of gasoline powered vehicles in major cities (benzene, etc), stop using those plug-in air fresheners (Acetaldehyde and 1,3-Dichloro-2-propanol), regulate ingredients in sunscreen (oxybenzone), etc.
If you got this deep in the thread you already know this conversation is about land laws and veered far off the topic of IP law.
As for copyright, trademark, patent and mask work law I already spelled out how they are different. I also gave examples of where DMCA altered earlier precedent. The metaphor was unnecessary because even IP law is different from itself. But the analogy was helpful in showing that assumptions of ownership can be surprising.
Boards with this CPU are almost certainly still out there. They probably are behind firewalls and not directly connected to the Internet so people aren't going to take the threat seriously. But we know that hackers can still sometimes get their fingers into machines on private networks. It will only take the tiniest bit of shell code ran by an innocuous service daemon to crack one of these systems wide open.
You're thinking of dilution of trademark. Which is distinct from failing to meet use obligations for a trademark. Both can be problematic, but dilution doesn't actually revert your rights. But if you cease to use your trademark you do lose it (after 5 years for example). Meeting the use obligation is pretty simple though.
Wrong!, there is something called "adverse possession". If someone has used a piece of land long enough,...
Fought this one in court and won already. I'm super familiar with this sort of stuff, and there are lots of limitations on where it can apply. My particular example was very carefully crafted. Playing on my lawn doesn't make it your lawn. Building some fences over my property line could (and has before).
We don''t want your fucking laws in our country. You are not welcome to rule over us at all.
Even though I'm an American, I have to comply with EU GDPR in order to offer online services to people potentially in Europe (I don't actually know when a user is in Europe, but the EU law does not appear to care that I am operating in the US)
I say: Fuck you shithead Americans.
Nintendo is a Japanese company, not American. And Japan definitely has copyright law, and it those laws apply to games. I guess shame on you for letting your government representatives sign treaties and trade agreements? Have you considered isolating yourself and only run games written in your lawless home nation?
If you want to see something really fucked, look up how territories are divided up by book publishers and distributors. (you have no freedom)
You may feel justified in taking something that has been ignored for many years. But legally you can't implicitly abandon your copyright. You have a copyright on your creations for many decades (in some cases 120 years).
(following is US law, but other countries have similar but not identical laws) Trademark on the other hand does revert if not enforced. And there is no limit in duration. Patents are active for as long as they are registered.(20 years, typically), even if you let people violate them for years. Mask Works also work for as long as they are registered(10 years from start of registration)
Now for an analogy: If I didn't mow my property for 20 years, and your kids grew up playing on it without me saying a word about it. Would they be able to visit that property any time they wanted as adults? Do your grandkids automatically get to use it too. Now I put up a fence, and call the cops on your grand kids for trespassing. Would I be a total dick? Would I have a legal right to do so? (yes and probably)
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When you can buy a very capable calculator for $100 but a mathematics textbook is $200 you know something is backwards. And that $200's doesn't even get you any practical tables.
In the US? laws were made to be broken, or overturned by bought politicians. Maybe applicable in the EU.
Downside: See the other Slashdot article about how Amazon is gaming the electrical grid to divert the cost of running their data centers onto the poor schlubs who live near them.
I think the articles are related because electricity costs is such a huge factor for cloud computing. You can try and use less energy, or you can try and make someone else pay your bills.
I suspect it will quickly be cheaper for the cloud industry to outsource all the datacenters outside of the US and EU to places with cheap electricity and little to no government regulation. Then all you need to do is lay some fat network, much cheaper than a power generator, and use smaller front-end server to help hide some latency.
You set upper and lower bounds ad the thermostat engages heat or AC if the ambient temperature goes outside the set limits. I fail to see what AI adds to this.
I take it your thermostat doesn't route job orders in a large cluster to avoid sending work to hot cabinets?
Only controlling the A/C doesn't sound so useful to me. At least if I'm trying to optimize for most processing done per unit of electricity.
If you think non-ionizing radiation causes leukemia, then you really have to first eliminate known environmental factors like benzene exposure. Any power line EM study that doesn't do that is probably garbage.
Unless I'm black or wear sunglasses.
If the body is fed well and devoid of excess sugars toxins are easily dealt with
What is a sugar toxin?
and cancer is next to impossible.
A bold claim. My pet mouse got tumors and he never ate white foods or refined sugar.
You are misinformed.
In my previous post I didn't order anything in terms of most likely cause. My intention was to list a few alternative things to worry about that seem more significant than a glass capsule. If you have new information that is relevant and based in reality, that's great.
Please save yourself the embarrassment if it's pseudo-science crackpot stuff collected through hours of internet "research". Because no thanks, we're all quite capable of doing our own amateur confirmatory bias research via Google's sophisticated sub-string matching.
But it's hardly fair of you to criticize me for not mentioning whatever articles happened to be on your mind today, articles that I may or may not have read.
Fucking Copyrights, how do they work?
I imagine this phrase goes through Judge Stanton's head at the start of every IP case.
I don't have my ID permanently inserted into my body. Nor am I'm going to get my driver's license number tattooed on my arm for example.
Also realize I do not carry my ID everywhere. I have no interest in providing identification to authorities when I legally travel within the borders of my own country.
If I were forced to get a subcutaneous RFID tag I would considered that to be assault. And I'd definitely talk to a lawyer in order to proceed with both civil and criminal charges. But realistically I think the forcing of RFID tags onto people to be a very unlikely scenario in the US.
You can get ID cards and bracelets with QR codes on them today, mostly to hold contact information rather than medical records. RFID ones probably exist too but I don't think paramedics or nurses are normally looking out for them. But if you get into a car accident someone will flip through your personal belongings after you've been admitted and attempt to contact your family.
Within a hospital it is normal for patients to wear disposable bracelet, and RFID patient ID bracelets are now readily available to hospitals. But they are not really usable outside of a hospital and tend to be locked in to a particular vendor or hospital database, rather than something you might wear daily. I think the intention of RFID bracets is to avoid the wrong treatment being given to a patient, rather than to access information in an emergency situation. (database look-ups are slow and not reliable)
Can you hold on to your quaint sensibilities when being chipped means a fast track to the job you covet?
I can, because I'm old enough that I can retire by the time that day comes.
The next generation will have to decide to either accept this as beneficial technology, or actively work against this as invasive and unnecessary. And form legislation to limit it.
The materials used to encapsulate these is quite well understood., often it is glass. Cancer risk seems low as this material has been used in humans and animals for many decades.
If you were serious about preventing cancer you'd end the use of gasoline powered vehicles in major cities (benzene, etc), stop using those plug-in air fresheners (Acetaldehyde and 1,3-Dichloro-2-propanol), regulate ingredients in sunscreen (oxybenzone), etc.
It'll be a cold day in hell before I get chipped.
Chips are for pets and property. Get one if you're looking to join the 21st century chattel slavery.
We could overturn the Citizen's United ruling with new legislation that ends corporate personhood.
Doing so would not end capitalism, it would not make us socialism, it would bring about healthier business and healthier government.
When it works for the benefit of the middle class.
When capitalism is used to prop up a ruling elite, then we stop liking it.
Capitalism is a tool, you can use it for the benefit of all, or you can destroy your nation with it.
If you got this deep in the thread you already know this conversation is about land laws and veered far off the topic of IP law.
As for copyright, trademark, patent and mask work law I already spelled out how they are different. I also gave examples of where DMCA altered earlier precedent.
The metaphor was unnecessary because even IP law is different from itself. But the analogy was helpful in showing that assumptions of ownership can be surprising.
Yeah, who would be stupid enough to hold a lithium battery close to his face and carry it everyday in his pocket.
6.8 billion people have cell phone subscriptions.
Boards with this CPU are almost certainly still out there. They probably are behind firewalls and not directly connected to the Internet so people aren't going to take the threat seriously. But we know that hackers can still sometimes get their fingers into machines on private networks. It will only take the tiniest bit of shell code ran by an innocuous service daemon to crack one of these systems wide open.
You're thinking of dilution of trademark. Which is distinct from failing to meet use obligations for a trademark. Both can be problematic, but dilution doesn't actually revert your rights. But if you cease to use your trademark you do lose it (after 5 years for example). Meeting the use obligation is pretty simple though.
Good for you. But shitting on other people doesn't achieve your goal of behaving in a more mature way.
But they didn't. We had the county revert to the original property line.
Wrong!, there is something called "adverse possession". If someone has used a piece of land long enough, ...
Fought this one in court and won already. I'm super familiar with this sort of stuff, and there are lots of limitations on where it can apply. My particular example was very carefully crafted. Playing on my lawn doesn't make it your lawn. Building some fences over my property line could (and has before).
It's marketing catering to a 30-something and 40-something mid-life crisis.
It is a bit sad that 30-somethings already want to re-live their childhood. Have things really gotten so bad?
We don''t want your fucking laws in our country. You are not welcome to rule over us at all.
Even though I'm an American, I have to comply with EU GDPR in order to offer online services to people potentially in Europe (I don't actually know when a user is in Europe, but the EU law does not appear to care that I am operating in the US)
I say: Fuck you shithead Americans.
Nintendo is a Japanese company, not American. And Japan definitely has copyright law, and it those laws apply to games. I guess shame on you for letting your government representatives sign treaties and trade agreements? Have you considered isolating yourself and only run games written in your lawless home nation?
If you want to see something really fucked, look up how territories are divided up by book publishers and distributors. (you have no freedom)
It was essentially abandoned property.
You may feel justified in taking something that has been ignored for many years. But legally you can't implicitly abandon your copyright. You have a copyright on your creations for many decades (in some cases 120 years).
(following is US law, but other countries have similar but not identical laws)
Trademark on the other hand does revert if not enforced. And there is no limit in duration.
Patents are active for as long as they are registered.(20 years, typically), even if you let people violate them for years.
Mask Works also work for as long as they are registered(10 years from start of registration)
Now for an analogy: If I didn't mow my property for 20 years, and your kids grew up playing on it without me saying a word about it. Would they be able to visit that property any time they wanted as adults? Do your grandkids automatically get to use it too. Now I put up a fence, and call the cops on your grand kids for trespassing. Would I be a total dick? Would I have a legal right to do so? (yes and probably)