Oh yes. It causes young smartphone-zombies to appear at seemingly random locations in small groups. While these kids are technically located "outside", these digital lemmings do not in any way interact with the real world.
First of all, please stop confusing economy and finance. At no point in history those two were further apart then today. Economy is about people doing and making things for each other. No money is needed for economy. If you need an example, look at any parent who raises a child.
Finance, on the other hand, is all about money. That money used to involve work, but the financial sector found out long ago that automatic gambling machines yielded more than actual work. The fiat money of today can be (and is) conjured out of thin air by banks and central banks. During the recent crises, central banks have made up more money than ever before, to stabilize their "hopes and dreams".
Alas they spent it on the wrong people. The European Central Bank, for example, buys "financial products" from internationals without ever caching them, they cant: it is their way of getting money into the virtual economy and caching would take it out again. In short, multinationals already DO have a Universal Basic Income. If you know that, why on earth would it be good to give it to multinationals and bad to give it to real people? Hint: real people might be lazy and greedy, but multinationals are guaranteed to be!
I think they just wanted to create the digital equivalent of gold. I sincerely doubt that bitcoin was anything else than a simulation. Only people were so stupid as to believe it was real money. And the fun thing with money is that it automatically becomes money if you only believe in it.
to kill browsers every 30 seconds to keep targets focused on their work
As a web programmer, I need tons of documentation that is mainly available on-line. If I got the CIA's luddite infection, I couldn't deliver much useful
So the blame is 100% on Microsoft. The whole Windows 10 debacle shows that Microsoft's updates cannot be trusted. So the Windows population now consists of mainly two groups: those who could not switch updates off on time (and now never can switch off again because they have windows 10 involuntarily) and those who could switch them off and dare not install anything from Microsoft ever again. Microsoft itself has made terribly sure that updates are not installed if it can be avoided.
Does this mean it would be possible to write a counter-app? I mean an app that tells you what to wear, what to say and how to behave such that the police app will judge you as "low risk"?
That is not at all a strange thought. When the Dutch started building their first waterworks, they used enormous amounts of wood that was not situated in the water before. After a few decades, this brought a plague of the naval shipworm, who gladly made use of this new paradise. The Dutch off course were less amused by this creature that attacked their wooden structures.
In a way you would be turning your light sensor into a light pen. Yes, this is grandpa speaking, who can still remember how beautiful his Commodore 64 was with a light pen. In effect, the screen is built up of horizontal lines that are "painted" sequentially. So the light pen would detect a light peak, send a signal to the computer, who looked at the where the video chip was currently painting. That way, the computer "knew" where you pointed the light pen at.
So yes, I can totally imagine that you would be able to read a QR code from your own screen that way.
I have studied aeronautics and I was told that U.S. aeronautical engineers were called "gypsies". All the U.S. aircraft were designed by the same team of engineers, who were hired for a design job, fired afterwards and therefore went from factory to factory to be able to make a living. For us European students, it was totally absurd that you would have to spend a large part of your life studying and still end up as a dragged-around gypsy.
I have seen a "3d print" version of this, where the regular plastic is used instead of wax. It is a nice way of making complex things, but there are a few drawbacks:
You have more work designing the cast- and ventilation channels.
You will have to destroy the mold if the part is not "wedge-shaped" enough to be taken out. This can be a problem if the object you just cast is very delicate. It certainly takes some work. Usually, you have to sand the object to get rid of the mold
You need more material than you need for the object itself. There should be enough material in the casting funnel to "press" the material into the mold. However, this material can be reused. It certainly takes a lot of effort to remove the ventilation channels and casting funnel from the object. Even more so if the object is delicate.
This removal also can make the objects slightly different. When the objects are gas turbine rotor blades, the tolerances are very small.
Off course, there are also advantages, such as the ability to control the material's properties during casting using chills
That does not contradict the article. If you remember Snowden, you know that the US fits the definition "govenrment cracking down on dissident" just fine.
If the power fails, I don't think these fixed propellers used for the lift are going into autorotation. But luckily, that does not matter, as the stability will be gone as well. But hey, if you survived the blades while getting into the aircraft, you probably won't mind a bit of excitement...
In short, this does not look like anything that could ever get an approval from the aviation authorities
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American voters from all political parties
What? Both of them?
(I know there are more political parties in the USA, but Americans themselves do not seem to know it.)
Oh yes. It causes young smartphone-zombies to appear at seemingly random locations in small groups. While these kids are technically located "outside", these digital lemmings do not in any way interact with the real world.
... to which satan added that it was a hell of a moth.
The chicken-and-egg problem is easily solved in this case:
"What chicken?"
Be careful. You might get what you wish for. With all the scary anti-privacy laws, the UK is definitely heading in the "right" direction.
Well, at least for me, the USA has banned human passengers. Why does the USA makes so many separate rules if they simply mean "stay away"?
I think he knows it all too well.
First of all, please stop confusing economy and finance. At no point in history those two were further apart then today. Economy is about people doing and making things for each other. No money is needed for economy. If you need an example, look at any parent who raises a child.
Finance, on the other hand, is all about money. That money used to involve work, but the financial sector found out long ago that automatic gambling machines yielded more than actual work. The fiat money of today can be (and is) conjured out of thin air by banks and central banks. During the recent crises, central banks have made up more money than ever before, to stabilize their "hopes and dreams".
Alas they spent it on the wrong people. The European Central Bank, for example, buys "financial products" from internationals without ever caching them, they cant: it is their way of getting money into the virtual economy and caching would take it out again. In short, multinationals already DO have a Universal Basic Income. If you know that, why on earth would it be good to give it to multinationals and bad to give it to real people? Hint: real people might be lazy and greedy, but multinationals are guaranteed to be!
I think they just wanted to create the digital equivalent of gold. I sincerely doubt that bitcoin was anything else than a simulation. Only people were so stupid as to believe it was real money. And the fun thing with money is that it automatically becomes money if you only believe in it.
Businesses that rely on geo locks? Those businesses SHOULD die off.
I'm afraid those businesses haven't read RFC 2119.
to kill browsers every 30 seconds to keep targets focused on their work
As a web programmer, I need tons of documentation that is mainly available on-line. If I got the CIA's luddite infection, I couldn't deliver much useful
So the blame is 100% on Microsoft. The whole Windows 10 debacle shows that Microsoft's updates cannot be trusted. So the Windows population now consists of mainly two groups: those who could not switch updates off on time (and now never can switch off again because they have windows 10 involuntarily) and those who could switch them off and dare not install anything from Microsoft ever again. Microsoft itself has made terribly sure that updates are not installed if it can be avoided.
Does this mean it would be possible to write a counter-app? I mean an app that tells you what to wear, what to say and how to behave such that the police app will judge you as "low risk"?
In other words, add a metric shitload of things that the user does not want anyway. Just like Firefox.
Every Ubuntu user knows that SE is the Satanic Edition.
Even if there is no suitable launch window in a decade, put him in the rocket and let him test it anyway. It could make America great again!
I haven't bough anything from Tesla in my life, but I don't think he gets the message.
That is not at all a strange thought. When the Dutch started building their first waterworks, they used enormous amounts of wood that was not situated in the water before. After a few decades, this brought a plague of the naval shipworm, who gladly made use of this new paradise. The Dutch off course were less amused by this creature that attacked their wooden structures.
Isn't there a Dalek running the US, with the "exterminate" message replaced with "deregulate"?
In a way you would be turning your light sensor into a light pen. Yes, this is grandpa speaking, who can still remember how beautiful his Commodore 64 was with a light pen. In effect, the screen is built up of horizontal lines that are "painted" sequentially. So the light pen would detect a light peak, send a signal to the computer, who looked at the where the video chip was currently painting. That way, the computer "knew" where you pointed the light pen at.
So yes, I can totally imagine that you would be able to read a QR code from your own screen that way.
I have studied aeronautics and I was told that U.S. aeronautical engineers were called "gypsies". All the U.S. aircraft were designed by the same team of engineers, who were hired for a design job, fired afterwards and therefore went from factory to factory to be able to make a living. For us European students, it was totally absurd that you would have to spend a large part of your life studying and still end up as a dragged-around gypsy.
I have seen a "3d print" version of this, where the regular plastic is used instead of wax. It is a nice way of making complex things, but there are a few drawbacks:
Off course, there are also advantages, such as the ability to control the material's properties during casting using chills
That does not contradict the article. If you remember Snowden, you know that the US fits the definition "govenrment cracking down on dissident" just fine.
Or prosthetics. For example, this would be great on glasses.
Looking at the picture, that was exactly my idea.
If the power fails, I don't think these fixed propellers used for the lift are going into autorotation. But luckily, that does not matter, as the stability will be gone as well. But hey, if you survived the blades while getting into the aircraft, you probably won't mind a bit of excitement...
In short, this does not look like anything that could ever get an approval from the aviation authorities
Liability is with the owner, because he was forced to sign a contract that makes him liable for anything.
There, fixed that for you.