This is so impractical from the certification perspective that it's not even funny - I can't see it happening for years simply through trying to get permission from the FAA/NTSB to even try the idea.
That particular part is easier than you think. The FAA has something called a "powered lift license" already done and in the books. They did it for Moller back in the day. (Remember that Popular Mechanics cover?)
But it's rather blindingly obvious that the actual product is a Tesla vehicle with limited edition SpaceX badging, sold at a premium. That's a time honored tradition in car manufacturing. There are fucking Eddie Bauer SUVs, after all. They're a Ford Bronco, Explorer, Expedition, or Excursion with fashion company badging. An electric car with rocket company badging has got to be at least that good for marketing.
Usually you get the badging company's logo on a bumper plate, worked into custom floormats and seat backs, and as a wheel hub insert on custom wheels only available with that edition. Sometimes you get the logo on the dashboard somewhere, passenger side. On a Tesla you'd also get the logo worked into the console computer.
Why would anyone think it was ok to ride a motorized vehicle on the sidewalk?
Carrying on the time honored Slashdot tradition of not even reading the summary I see...
They're not. They're parking on the sidewalks. And the city government is too lazy and incompetent to do their fucking jobs and enforce their own laws, as with most California cities. Until now, when somebody finally found a bigger victim. In California's victim politics, the biggest victim wins.
I hear stories like this and think of the Drake equation. I wonder if things like this are an alien race discovering some hyper advanced technology, losing control of it, and having it destroy everything.
Cheap, easy, and fast matter to energy total conversion. Just pull this lever.
Oops, that got a bit out of hand. The planet is now missing.
This is part of the "system": submit bullshit, and you get reprimanded (or fired). There's no "system" for checking to see every paper published is 100% accurate. There's also no "system" to make sure that nobody murders anybody else. What there is in both cases, is the threat of punishment. That's what's happening.
This is the system disappearing up its own asshole, with your stupid ass leading the charge. There is a system for reviewing articles submitted to journals for reasonableness. It's called peer review. It is supposed to be the distinguishing characteristic of an academic journal vs a random web site on the Internet. It is supposed to function well enough to catch obvious test cases like this. It failed. It failed laughably badly. It failed so badly it's casting a pall on the entire discipline. And I use that word loosely.
And here's your dumb ass drawing parallels with murder with a straight face. Ridiculous. As ridiculous as the entire discipline Peter Boghossian exposed.
Sue for what, exactly? He was the one who broke the rules. He should get reprimanded or fired.
Why do I suspect you're a useless leeching academic publishing a constant stream of bullshit "gender" studies? Because Peter Boghossian deserves a fucking medal. Some of the accusations against him are wholly false. The rest are straight up bullshit like you're spouting.
Yeah, perfect plan. Every time there's a blackout why fix it right away, let's wait the year or more it will take to plan the upgrade, get right-of-way for the trench, get all the needed permits and associated paperwork, then actually dig the thing and lay the cables. The local hospital can run off generators for a year, and the local populace, well screw them anyay, we all have to sacrifice for the good of the Party, eh, comrade?
Or... you could plan ahead of time, then follow your preestablished plan when the time comes.
My state (and county) actually does this. Plan ahead. Yours might not, but then, you're an idiot.
If I have a 900MHz transmitter and my power limit is 100mW, are you saying I can transmit on any harmonic frequency I want as long as my total emissions are 100mW (so maybe 95mW on 2.7GHz and 5mW on all others including my main 900MHz carrier), or is it that I can transmit 100mW on 900MHz and some other power limit for all other frequencies?
Your total emissions are limited to 100 mW. The FCC measures power being sent to the antenna, since that's by far the most convenient place to measure. This is why antenna efficiency is desirable. (Quite aside from making it easier for receivers to successfully extract your signal.)
She argues about more than that and she makes more profound points than that, but she's also frequently wrong on that particular point. For example, she claims that local energy production could operate a home without an inverter. That's just stupid and it demonstrates her poor understanding of the technologies for which she pretends to have expertise.
.Er... She's not wrong. You can, in fact, run an electric oven off of 3.3 volts DC. It'll be hooked up to the battery bank with giant copper bus bars more commonly seen in aluminum factories, but it would work. It would be silly, but it would function fine.
More to the point, an entire house can run on DC without even changing the wiring, as long as the voltage is high enough. Everything else would have to be changed out, including appliances, but the cost of wiring could remain unchanged. DC lighting is obviously easy, since LEDs are DC. DC motors are readily available as well. They're just not commonly used right now because AC is so prevalent. Kitchen gadgets, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, and washing machines could all run with DC motors.
If you're willing to change wire specifications, there are options. At 48 VDC, the house would need to be wired with 2 AWG to match the former AC capacity. That's a bit silly too, since 2 AWG is damn stiff. At 120 VDC, the house would need to be wired with 10 AWG instead of 12 AWG. That would result in no more than 3% losses over 30 m runs and would keep conductor temperatures below 85C at full load. That's not completely out of the realm of possibility. It's probably more dangerous, but it's financially and physically viable even if nothing else in our current economic situation changes.
If we project current usage pattern changes into the future, we don't need to replace the 15 A 120 V AC circuits like for like with DC. Of all the portable things in my house that I plug into a wall socket, the only two that use anything approaching the rated power of the socket are the vacuum cleaner and the hair dryer. The only two fixed things in my house that use anything approaching the rated power are the washing machine and the refrigerator. Both of those could tolerate substantial increases in conductor size to keep the DC volts down. If my vacuum cleaner becomes a robot powered by a lithium ion battery pack, its charging bay would similarly be a fixed installation that can accept a heavy wire gauge.
With the one change of the vacuum cleaner, every wall socket in my house that isn't permanently occupied by a fixed installation appliance could be converted to USB-PD and everything would still work. Lights, TVs, and all the myriad gadgets and gizmos operate off of 100 watts or less.
So yes, it's quite possible to run a whole house off of DC, and not even compromise safety. It's possible to run a whole house off of DC using current wire gauges while compromising safety somewhat. In many states it's not legal—occupancy permits are predicated on the presence of the familiar 120 V AC sockets we're familiar with. But it's possible.
Now as for decentralizing everything, that's obviously stupid. Scale allows things that are physically impossible any other way. A backyard rocket can't get into orbit. A PET scanner can't be run in your basement, nevermind a surgical theater. Those are just three examples among many of things that don't work without groups of humans larger than a family group cooperating. Anybody proposing eliminating that is proposing eliminating the species, and should be shouted down.
But you never know. We could get lucky and discover another KBO along the spacecraft's trajectory close enough to use thrusters for another close flyby.
If we get really lucky, New Horizons could find another KBO by colliding with it. There's always a chance.
The transmit power thresholds were chosen for some reason, no? Or did the FCC just pick the power levels out of a hat before?
The thresholds were picked out of a hat. The need was "we want to assure a noise floor for this frequency." The choice of exactly what that floor should be was fairly arbitrary. It was also somewhat restricted by the signal processing technology of the time. That's the part that is changing, making one number out of a hat less necessary than a slightly bigger number out of a hat. With good signal processing, a higher noise floor can be tolerated.
There's also been advances in transmitter technology. No transmitter is perfect. There are always harmonics in any transmitted signal. But the more efficient a transmitter is, the better it is at putting energy into the primary frequency, wasting less in harmonic frequencies. With nicely efficient transmitters, more of your signal shows up in the frequency you are nominally using, so there's less noise in other frequencies. Again, limiting the noise floor.
While you're at it, please explain exactly what went wrong with the 10nm process.
They pretty much have. Just not to mainstream media.
Intel was trying to use multiple masks and multiple exposures, but couldn't work out mask registration accurately enough for the multiple exposures to line up correctly.
Without having seen any studies on people who won long term lottery payouts of $1,000-$2,000 / month, I'll willing to predict / guess that in most cases it didn't profoundly affect their lives. Anyone care to predict that it did?
You will find that almost no one takes the annuity for the largest lottery prizes. There is extremely little data of the sort needed because short term greed wins so frequently. Most lottery winners are right back where they started within 5 years, because they take the lump sum payout (which is a fraction of the nominal prize amount) and shysters are capable of absorbing literally infinite amounts of money selling fools brand names. Just look at so-called "audiophiles".
You know that your system requires universal theft and prohibition. You are the one who wants to interfere in other peoples freedom.
Taxes are not theft you flaming asshole, and until you can concede that there's no talking to you. But you will be taxed, at gunpoint if necessary. I very much like the fact that men with guns will come and force you to pay your fucking taxes, you and Al Capone both.
Same with Electrical. I worry not about robots taking my job. I do however worry about self-entitled people trying to take the money I earned for doing my job.
You already pay social security you asshat. Someone's grandmother is making her electric bill payment every month using your payment into social security. UBI is more of the same.
I'll bet in 20 years time, we still have humans installing and maintaining pipes in this country - as well as many many other things.
Maintaining, yes. Installing in new build houses? That could be automated in a handful of years, as could vast swaths of other labor in current house building.
Home construction hasn't changed appreciably in terms of labor inputs since... basically ever. Humans still build houses the way humans have built houses since the 15th century. Sure the carpenter now has pneumatic tools, and the foundation was dug by one man with a machine instead of 40 men with shovels, but other than that, there's precious little difference. With electrical and plumbing work the manual labor on a house has actually gone UP in the past century. Name any other industry where labor has increased instead of decreased in that time period.
New houses are designed in CAD software. The data required is already in machine-readable format. Sure, draftsmen (I won't call them architects) would have to stop being quite so sloppy and incompetent, but that would happen. Draftsmen would become computer programmers. Except they wouldn't. Computer programmers would become draftsmen, and all the thumbfingered clowns bumbling around in AutoCAD would be out of a job.
Is this happening now? Nope. Could it happen? Oh yes.
just look at google maps at all the national and state parks around the country. it's clear they are stealing resources
Look at the exclusive logging and mining rights in "national forests" around the country and tell me that's not stealing resources. The US government treats national forests like the fucking King's Hunting Preserve from the 10th century. People with the King's ear get to go in and exploit the fuck out of natural resources the rest of us would be arrested for touching, while paying a minuscule royalty, or no royalty at all. They even call it a fucking royalty still.
" Simple things like blowing dust off 'outside' before entering the airlock, and putting on a clean suit liner inside the hab before entering a 'mud room' to put on a Mars suit, and taking that liner off only after removing and wet-cleaning the suit and the mud room before entering the Hab."
Sounds simple. You can get all that stuff from Amazon, or if you build a Walmart on Mars you can just drive their with your space buggy and pick it up.
lgw is right. You are by far the nuttiest Space Nutter on this entire site. Or any six other sites.
The solution to this would be to enact some legislation that automatically funds major departments at (say) 95% of the previously agreed budget until a new budget is agreed.
A very large chunk of that is unconstitutional.
Article I, Section 8:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States;...
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
There's a two year limit on funding the US military in any single law[1]. There has to be a new law a minimum of every two years.
The rest of the budget could be handled in the way you suggest.
---- [1] Because of the phrasing, the US Navy may be exempt from the two year limit.
Given this story and most posters feel that AI is long way away, yet we see more and more jobs being done by robots or eliminated by computers? How much intelligence were we really using in our day-to-day jobs?
Practically none. The vast majority of the human population functions on the animal level 99% of the time. Experimental rats in labs do more novel thinking than your typical human, because they're required to, while the human isn't.
There's no particular reason for that to change, either. Not soon, anyway.
All large corporate campuses ever have had this affect. "Street food" is not anything worthy of promotion or protection. On campus food service has been a thing for longer than the dipshit author of this article has been alive. The fact that it also happens in motherfucking California is meaningless.
Get this shit off Slashdot. I can't believe I wasted six sentences on such blithering idiocy.
The Rs bitched and whined for 8 years about Obamacare and then when they finally got into power, what did they have to replace it? A big NOTHINGBURGER.
Yeah, that's leadership!
Why would they replace it? It was precisely the plan they wanted. They just bitched and whined because Obama was president at the time his pansy-ass Congress passed it.
We'll know security has crossed the Rubicon when a popular online game implements support for a hardware token for login at launch, instead of waiting years to do it like Blizzard did for World of Warcraft.
Producing a sufficiently ubiquitous hardware token is the hard part. Smartphones seem the obvious candidate, but so far only Samsung and Apple seem very serious about integrating secure enclave chips, and precious little uses them outside of the OS itself.
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This is so impractical from the certification perspective that it's not even funny - I can't see it happening for years simply through trying to get permission from the FAA/NTSB to even try the idea.
That particular part is easier than you think. The FAA has something called a "powered lift license" already done and in the books. They did it for Moller back in the day. (Remember that Popular Mechanics cover?)
But it's rather blindingly obvious that the actual product is a Tesla vehicle with limited edition SpaceX badging, sold at a premium. That's a time honored tradition in car manufacturing. There are fucking Eddie Bauer SUVs, after all. They're a Ford Bronco, Explorer, Expedition, or Excursion with fashion company badging. An electric car with rocket company badging has got to be at least that good for marketing.
Usually you get the badging company's logo on a bumper plate, worked into custom floormats and seat backs, and as a wheel hub insert on custom wheels only available with that edition. Sometimes you get the logo on the dashboard somewhere, passenger side. On a Tesla you'd also get the logo worked into the console computer.
I'm just surprised it took this long.
Why would anyone think it was ok to ride a motorized vehicle on the sidewalk?
Carrying on the time honored Slashdot tradition of not even reading the summary I see...
They're not. They're parking on the sidewalks. And the city government is too lazy and incompetent to do their fucking jobs and enforce their own laws, as with most California cities. Until now, when somebody finally found a bigger victim. In California's victim politics, the biggest victim wins.
I hear stories like this and think of the Drake equation. I wonder if things like this are an alien race discovering some hyper advanced technology, losing control of it, and having it destroy everything.
Cheap, easy, and fast matter to energy total conversion. Just pull this lever.
Oops, that got a bit out of hand. The planet is now missing.
This is part of the "system": submit bullshit, and you get reprimanded (or fired). There's no "system" for checking to see every paper published is 100% accurate. There's also no "system" to make sure that nobody murders anybody else. What there is in both cases, is the threat of punishment. That's what's happening.
This is the system disappearing up its own asshole, with your stupid ass leading the charge. There is a system for reviewing articles submitted to journals for reasonableness. It's called peer review. It is supposed to be the distinguishing characteristic of an academic journal vs a random web site on the Internet. It is supposed to function well enough to catch obvious test cases like this. It failed. It failed laughably badly. It failed so badly it's casting a pall on the entire discipline. And I use that word loosely.
And here's your dumb ass drawing parallels with murder with a straight face. Ridiculous. As ridiculous as the entire discipline Peter Boghossian exposed.
Sue for what, exactly? He was the one who broke the rules. He should get reprimanded or fired.
Why do I suspect you're a useless leeching academic publishing a constant stream of bullshit "gender" studies? Because Peter Boghossian deserves a fucking medal. Some of the accusations against him are wholly false. The rest are straight up bullshit like you're spouting.
Yeah, perfect plan. Every time there's a blackout why fix it right away, let's wait the year or more it will take to plan the upgrade, get right-of-way for the trench, get all the needed permits and associated paperwork, then actually dig the thing and lay the cables. The local hospital can run off generators for a year, and the local populace, well screw them anyay, we all have to sacrifice for the good of the Party, eh, comrade?
Or... you could plan ahead of time, then follow your preestablished plan when the time comes.
My state (and county) actually does this. Plan ahead. Yours might not, but then, you're an idiot.
If I have a 900MHz transmitter and my power limit is 100mW, are you saying I can transmit on any harmonic frequency I want as long as my total emissions are 100mW (so maybe 95mW on 2.7GHz and 5mW on all others including my main 900MHz carrier), or is it that I can transmit 100mW on 900MHz and some other power limit for all other frequencies?
Your total emissions are limited to 100 mW. The FCC measures power being sent to the antenna, since that's by far the most convenient place to measure. This is why antenna efficiency is desirable. (Quite aside from making it easier for receivers to successfully extract your signal.)
She argues about more than that and she makes more profound points than that, but she's also frequently wrong on that particular point. For example, she claims that local energy production could operate a home without an inverter. That's just stupid and it demonstrates her poor understanding of the technologies for which she pretends to have expertise.
.Er... She's not wrong. You can, in fact, run an electric oven off of 3.3 volts DC. It'll be hooked up to the battery bank with giant copper bus bars more commonly seen in aluminum factories, but it would work. It would be silly, but it would function fine.
More to the point, an entire house can run on DC without even changing the wiring, as long as the voltage is high enough. Everything else would have to be changed out, including appliances, but the cost of wiring could remain unchanged. DC lighting is obviously easy, since LEDs are DC. DC motors are readily available as well. They're just not commonly used right now because AC is so prevalent. Kitchen gadgets, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, and washing machines could all run with DC motors.
If you're willing to change wire specifications, there are options. At 48 VDC, the house would need to be wired with 2 AWG to match the former AC capacity. That's a bit silly too, since 2 AWG is damn stiff. At 120 VDC, the house would need to be wired with 10 AWG instead of 12 AWG. That would result in no more than 3% losses over 30 m runs and would keep conductor temperatures below 85C at full load. That's not completely out of the realm of possibility. It's probably more dangerous, but it's financially and physically viable even if nothing else in our current economic situation changes.
If we project current usage pattern changes into the future, we don't need to replace the 15 A 120 V AC circuits like for like with DC. Of all the portable things in my house that I plug into a wall socket, the only two that use anything approaching the rated power of the socket are the vacuum cleaner and the hair dryer. The only two fixed things in my house that use anything approaching the rated power are the washing machine and the refrigerator. Both of those could tolerate substantial increases in conductor size to keep the DC volts down. If my vacuum cleaner becomes a robot powered by a lithium ion battery pack, its charging bay would similarly be a fixed installation that can accept a heavy wire gauge.
With the one change of the vacuum cleaner, every wall socket in my house that isn't permanently occupied by a fixed installation appliance could be converted to USB-PD and everything would still work. Lights, TVs, and all the myriad gadgets and gizmos operate off of 100 watts or less.
So yes, it's quite possible to run a whole house off of DC, and not even compromise safety. It's possible to run a whole house off of DC using current wire gauges while compromising safety somewhat. In many states it's not legal—occupancy permits are predicated on the presence of the familiar 120 V AC sockets we're familiar with. But it's possible.
Now as for decentralizing everything, that's obviously stupid. Scale allows things that are physically impossible any other way. A backyard rocket can't get into orbit. A PET scanner can't be run in your basement, nevermind a surgical theater. Those are just three examples among many of things that don't work without groups of humans larger than a family group cooperating. Anybody proposing eliminating that is proposing eliminating the species, and should be shouted down.
But you never know. We could get lucky and discover another KBO along the spacecraft's trajectory close enough to use thrusters for another close flyby.
If we get really lucky, New Horizons could find another KBO by colliding with it. There's always a chance.
The transmit power thresholds were chosen for some reason, no? Or did the FCC just pick the power levels out of a hat before?
The thresholds were picked out of a hat. The need was "we want to assure a noise floor for this frequency." The choice of exactly what that floor should be was fairly arbitrary. It was also somewhat restricted by the signal processing technology of the time. That's the part that is changing, making one number out of a hat less necessary than a slightly bigger number out of a hat. With good signal processing, a higher noise floor can be tolerated.
There's also been advances in transmitter technology. No transmitter is perfect. There are always harmonics in any transmitted signal. But the more efficient a transmitter is, the better it is at putting energy into the primary frequency, wasting less in harmonic frequencies. With nicely efficient transmitters, more of your signal shows up in the frequency you are nominally using, so there's less noise in other frequencies. Again, limiting the noise floor.
While you're at it, please explain exactly what went wrong with the 10nm process.
They pretty much have. Just not to mainstream media.
Intel was trying to use multiple masks and multiple exposures, but couldn't work out mask registration accurately enough for the multiple exposures to line up correctly.
It's a pretty big leap from that study to an IgNobel...
I see what you did there.
I hope you washed your hands afterwards.
is the dumbest fucking thing I've read today.
It seems you don't use twitter :-)
Or Youtube on a computer.
5. Will people really be able to lead meaningful lives without employment? (Maybe you will, but will everyone?)
This is always a good question. Ask every trust fund baby. There are hundreds, even thousands of them now.
Without having seen any studies on people who won long term lottery payouts of $1,000-$2,000 / month, I'll willing to predict / guess that in most cases it didn't profoundly affect their lives. Anyone care to predict that it did?
You will find that almost no one takes the annuity for the largest lottery prizes. There is extremely little data of the sort needed because short term greed wins so frequently. Most lottery winners are right back where they started within 5 years, because they take the lump sum payout (which is a fraction of the nominal prize amount) and shysters are capable of absorbing literally infinite amounts of money selling fools brand names. Just look at so-called "audiophiles".
You know that your system requires universal theft and prohibition. You are the one who wants to interfere in other peoples freedom.
Taxes are not theft you flaming asshole, and until you can concede that there's no talking to you. But you will be taxed, at gunpoint if necessary. I very much like the fact that men with guns will come and force you to pay your fucking taxes, you and Al Capone both.
Same with Electrical. I worry not about robots taking my job. I do however worry about self-entitled people trying to take the money I earned for doing my job.
You already pay social security you asshat. Someone's grandmother is making her electric bill payment every month using your payment into social security. UBI is more of the same.
I'll bet in 20 years time, we still have humans installing and maintaining pipes in this country - as well as many many other things.
Maintaining, yes. Installing in new build houses? That could be automated in a handful of years, as could vast swaths of other labor in current house building.
Home construction hasn't changed appreciably in terms of labor inputs since... basically ever. Humans still build houses the way humans have built houses since the 15th century. Sure the carpenter now has pneumatic tools, and the foundation was dug by one man with a machine instead of 40 men with shovels, but other than that, there's precious little difference. With electrical and plumbing work the manual labor on a house has actually gone UP in the past century. Name any other industry where labor has increased instead of decreased in that time period.
New houses are designed in CAD software. The data required is already in machine-readable format. Sure, draftsmen (I won't call them architects) would have to stop being quite so sloppy and incompetent, but that would happen. Draftsmen would become computer programmers. Except they wouldn't. Computer programmers would become draftsmen, and all the thumbfingered clowns bumbling around in AutoCAD would be out of a job.
Is this happening now? Nope. Could it happen? Oh yes.
just look at google maps at all the national and state parks around the country. it's clear they are stealing resources
Look at the exclusive logging and mining rights in "national forests" around the country and tell me that's not stealing resources. The US government treats national forests like the fucking King's Hunting Preserve from the 10th century. People with the King's ear get to go in and exploit the fuck out of natural resources the rest of us would be arrested for touching, while paying a minuscule royalty, or no royalty at all. They even call it a fucking royalty still.
" Simple things like blowing dust off 'outside' before entering the airlock, and putting on a clean suit liner inside the hab before entering a 'mud room' to put on a Mars suit, and taking that liner off only after removing and wet-cleaning the suit and the mud room before entering the Hab."
Sounds simple. You can get all that stuff from Amazon, or if you build a Walmart on Mars you can just drive their with your space buggy and pick it up.
lgw is right. You are by far the nuttiest Space Nutter on this entire site. Or any six other sites.
The solution to this would be to enact some legislation that automatically funds major departments at (say) 95% of the previously agreed budget until a new budget is agreed.
A very large chunk of that is unconstitutional.
Article I, Section 8:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; ...
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
There's a two year limit on funding the US military in any single law[1]. There has to be a new law a minimum of every two years.
The rest of the budget could be handled in the way you suggest.
----
[1] Because of the phrasing, the US Navy may be exempt from the two year limit.
Given this story and most posters feel that AI is long way away, yet we see more and more jobs being done by robots or eliminated by computers? How much intelligence were we really using in our day-to-day jobs?
Practically none. The vast majority of the human population functions on the animal level 99% of the time. Experimental rats in labs do more novel thinking than your typical human, because they're required to, while the human isn't.
There's no particular reason for that to change, either. Not soon, anyway.
All large corporate campuses ever have had this affect. "Street food" is not anything worthy of promotion or protection. On campus food service has been a thing for longer than the dipshit author of this article has been alive. The fact that it also happens in motherfucking California is meaningless.
Get this shit off Slashdot. I can't believe I wasted six sentences on such blithering idiocy.
The Rs bitched and whined for 8 years about Obamacare and then when they finally got into power, what did they have to replace it? A big NOTHINGBURGER.
Yeah, that's leadership!
Why would they replace it? It was precisely the plan they wanted. They just bitched and whined because Obama was president at the time his pansy-ass Congress passed it.
We'll know security has crossed the Rubicon when a popular online game implements support for a hardware token for login at launch, instead of waiting years to do it like Blizzard did for World of Warcraft.
Producing a sufficiently ubiquitous hardware token is the hard part. Smartphones seem the obvious candidate, but so far only Samsung and Apple seem very serious about integrating secure enclave chips, and precious little uses them outside of the OS itself.