Bruce Schneier once calculated that just increment a 128-bit integer from 0 to MAX would take more energy than you could extract from the sun (from now to it turns supernova) even if you enclosed it in a dyson sphere, and that even if the increment was implemented in the most efficient way possible (by just moving a single atom one step).
Yes I totally agree. Your example shows just how complex issues like this are and how many different variables that must be considered before we can make a informed judgment. As it is now we just have large number of unknowns.
But the whole premise is that these people will continue to drive no matter what. It does not matter what the other road users will accept or not, they will still share the road with these people regardless.
Better results yes but we are talking about people that have to defend their actions and inactions in order to remain in office and as it turns out inaction is seen by the public as a far more cardinal sin so in order to cover your ass you perform action even when nothing warrants it just so you can claim that you did something.
Same with governors that does not pardon wrongly convicted people because if there is just that one tiny chance that the one you pardoned then goes and commit a crime then you can kiss your reelection goodbye. Not pardoning people however and thus remaining "tough on crime" will most likely not make you lose the next election no matter how upset people are.
He is talking about the elderly who will continue to drive anyway so something like Autopilot will make these avoid many problems, that it cannot help them avoid _all_ problems does not invalidate the prior statement.
And? I bet you that you can find people who administrate 30k+ servers where not a single one runs Windows, or where not a single one runs Linux, or where not a single one runs any http server what so ever and so on. Your anecdote is just an anecdote and nothing more.
The EU budget is determined in advance and the collected fees are included in the current year's budget via the so called "correction mechanism". And the ceilings for the budget is laid down 7 years in advance, and it have to pass the commission, the council and the parliament where full consensus of all member states is required.
The exact amount of the fee is put into the EU budget and the member state fees are reduced with the exact same amount so in the end all this means that the EU member states have to pay $648 million less in fees for the 2019 fiscal years. So no, this is not a government revenue stream.
All fines from the EU gets included into the budget and the member state fees are then reduced with the amount so in this the EU member states have to pay $648 million less for the 2019 budget than they would normally do.
There are no enforcement costs. This is just like the tape tax that also is nothing like a tax in where the collection of the fees will be handled by a non governmental company that is created and funded by the copyright industry. This whole stupidity comes 100% from the politicians believing the copyright lobby groups when they cry that the bad evil internet is eating all their profits and have zero to do with EU wanting money.
Except of course that "tax" was just how it was reported. In reality it was a fee that the copyright holders would collect so no money would go to the EU or any of it's member countries.
Their DNA would only be 100% identical at the very moment the egg split in two. Your DNA is not static, the environment, nutrition, exercise and so on all can turn on and off genes in your DNA so as they age the difference between those twins DNA grows bigger and bigger.
That is not what they are suing for, don't know why TFS makes that claim. If one reads the lawsuit filing (it's linked in TFS) one can see that they claim that people will think that the Bandersnatch book from the movie is an actual CYOA book from Chooseco and since that book is dark and disturbing people will be scared away from CYOA books and thus Chooseco will suffer harm...
If you read the actual lawsuit filing that is linked from TFS one can see that Chooseco isn't claiming that Netflix said that they where inspired, they claim that people will believe that the Bandersnatch book from the movie is an actual CYOA book from Chooseco and that will scare people away from their brand since the book in the movie is dark and disturbing.
Extra hilarious are these two claims:
35. Netflix has benefitted from its association with Chooseco's iconic brand. Bandersnatch has been discussed widely in the press and many reviews of the movie include the phrase or even reference the book series.
36. The association between Bandersnatch and Choose Your Own Adventure has been widely discussed on social media. That discussion demonstrates the dilution of the brand.
So basically, Netflix didn't say that their movie is a CYOA movie but reviewers and people on social media does and therefore we want money from Netflix...
No they didn't and neither does Chooseco claim that they did. If you read the actual lawsuit filing that where linked in TFS then you can see that their complaint is based on that #1 The protagonist in the movie refers to the fictional Bandersnatch book that he bases his game on as a "Choose Your Own Adventure book" and #2 that the movie is dark and disturbing.
So they claim that Netflix "dilutes the goodwill for and positive associations with Chooseco's mark and tarnishes its products". So they basically are saying that people will now no longer buy CYOA books to their kids since they have seen on Netflix that they are all dark and contain disturbing contents.
Since they (TitanSeal) only stores the sha256 digest of the PDF in the blockchain you can only use the audit trail to see if the document is forged if you also have access to the first version of the document (so that you can see that it was in the ledger at a time prior to the second document that is presented to you) and even then you cannot be sure that the first version is actually the first version since there can be earlier versions who's hash is stored in the blockchain only that you have not seen this document yet so you do not know it's hash.
They are using the Ethereum public blockchain so yes it's energy intensive. And if they would have used a private chain (to fit your single writer) then the whole idea of distributed trust vanishes instantly.
No there will not. All that they store in the blockchain is the sha256 digest of the PDF that you got when you where born. Loose the PDF or (with your invasion and destruction of offices) you can no longer even verify that the document you have (or had) was authentic. The only way to do that is to use this site: https://clerk.titanseal.com/ve... so once that disappears so does your chances of checking that record.
And in this case you have to put your trust in not only a single organisation but also on a single page. In fact you have to trust that this site: https://clerk.titanseal.com/ve... actually will verify that the pdf that some one have given you is authentic. And since they give zero details on how they verify the authenticity of the pdf you just have to assume total blind trust here.
It's even less usable than a standard database if you lookup how this all works (they have bought this service from TitanSeal.com) because they do not store any documents at all. They simply create a sha256 digest of the pdf that they send you and insert that in the metadata field in a Ethereum block, so the "only thing" that you can do here is that you can present the pdf to some one else and they can verify that yep it's in the blockchain.
In the end I don't actually know what exactly that information gives us, yes they have a verify function at their site but what if the site goes down, how then will I know that the digest is just not from random person uploading whatever to Etherum?
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Then perhaps wait with the panic till that actually happens?
Bruce Schneier once calculated that just increment a 128-bit integer from 0 to MAX would take more energy than you could extract from the sun (from now to it turns supernova) even if you enclosed it in a dyson sphere, and that even if the increment was implemented in the most efficient way possible (by just moving a single atom one step).
Yes I totally agree. Your example shows just how complex issues like this are and how many different variables that must be considered before we can make a informed judgment. As it is now we just have large number of unknowns.
But the whole premise is that these people will continue to drive no matter what. It does not matter what the other road users will accept or not, they will still share the road with these people regardless.
Better results yes but we are talking about people that have to defend their actions and inactions in order to remain in office and as it turns out inaction is seen by the public as a far more cardinal sin so in order to cover your ass you perform action even when nothing warrants it just so you can claim that you did something.
Same with governors that does not pardon wrongly convicted people because if there is just that one tiny chance that the one you pardoned then goes and commit a crime then you can kiss your reelection goodbye. Not pardoning people however and thus remaining "tough on crime" will most likely not make you lose the next election no matter how upset people are.
He is talking about the elderly who will continue to drive anyway so something like Autopilot will make these avoid many problems, that it cannot help them avoid _all_ problems does not invalidate the prior statement.
And? I bet you that you can find people who administrate 30k+ servers where not a single one runs Windows, or where not a single one runs Linux, or where not a single one runs any http server what so ever and so on. Your anecdote is just an anecdote and nothing more.
The EU budget is determined in advance and the collected fees are included in the current year's budget via the so called "correction mechanism". And the ceilings for the budget is laid down 7 years in advance, and it have to pass the commission, the council and the parliament where full consensus of all member states is required.
So, no it does not work like you describe.
The exact amount of the fee is put into the EU budget and the member state fees are reduced with the exact same amount so in the end all this means that the EU member states have to pay $648 million less in fees for the 2019 fiscal years. So no, this is not a government revenue stream.
The exact amount of the fine is decreased from the member state fees so the EU as an organization does not gain a single cent from this.
All fines from the EU gets included into the budget and the member state fees are then reduced with the amount so in this the EU member states have to pay $648 million less for the 2019 budget than they would normally do.
There are no enforcement costs. This is just like the tape tax that also is nothing like a tax in where the collection of the fees will be handled by a non governmental company that is created and funded by the copyright industry. This whole stupidity comes 100% from the politicians believing the copyright lobby groups when they cry that the bad evil internet is eating all their profits and have zero to do with EU wanting money.
Except of course that "tax" was just how it was reported. In reality it was a fee that the copyright holders would collect so no money would go to the EU or any of it's member countries.
Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
Their DNA would only be 100% identical at the very moment the egg split in two. Your DNA is not static, the environment, nutrition, exercise and so on all can turn on and off genes in your DNA so as they age the difference between those twins DNA grows bigger and bigger.
That is not what they are suing for, don't know why TFS makes that claim. If one reads the lawsuit filing (it's linked in TFS) one can see that they claim that people will think that the Bandersnatch book from the movie is an actual CYOA book from Chooseco and since that book is dark and disturbing people will be scared away from CYOA books and thus Chooseco will suffer harm...
In the lawsuit they claim that $25M is an "conservative" estimate of the real damages that they have suffered :-D
If you read the actual lawsuit filing that is linked from TFS one can see that Chooseco isn't claiming that Netflix said that they where inspired, they claim that people will believe that the Bandersnatch book from the movie is an actual CYOA book from Chooseco and that will scare people away from their brand since the book in the movie is dark and disturbing.
Extra hilarious are these two claims:
35. Netflix has benefitted from its association with Chooseco's iconic brand. Bandersnatch has been discussed widely in the press and many reviews of the movie include the phrase or even reference the book series.
36. The association between Bandersnatch and Choose Your Own Adventure has been widely discussed on social media. That discussion demonstrates the dilution of the brand.
So basically, Netflix didn't say that their movie is a CYOA movie but reviewers and people on social media does and therefore we want money from Netflix...
No they didn't and neither does Chooseco claim that they did. If you read the actual lawsuit filing that where linked in TFS then you can see that their complaint is based on that #1 The protagonist in the movie refers to the fictional Bandersnatch book that he bases his game on as a "Choose Your Own Adventure book" and #2 that the movie is dark and disturbing.
So they claim that Netflix "dilutes the goodwill for and positive associations with Chooseco's mark and tarnishes its products". So they basically are saying that people will now no longer buy CYOA books to their kids since they have seen on Netflix that they are all dark and contain disturbing contents.
Then you missed the whole plot for it was nonsense, the kidnapper released the "Princess" long before the guy fucked the pig.
Since they (TitanSeal) only stores the sha256 digest of the PDF in the blockchain you can only use the audit trail to see if the document is forged if you also have access to the first version of the document (so that you can see that it was in the ledger at a time prior to the second document that is presented to you) and even then you cannot be sure that the first version is actually the first version since there can be earlier versions who's hash is stored in the blockchain only that you have not seen this document yet so you do not know it's hash.
They are using the Ethereum public blockchain so yes it's energy intensive. And if they would have used a private chain (to fit your single writer) then the whole idea of distributed trust vanishes instantly.
No there will not. All that they store in the blockchain is the sha256 digest of the PDF that you got when you where born. Loose the PDF or (with your invasion and destruction of offices) you can no longer even verify that the document you have (or had) was authentic. The only way to do that is to use this site: https://clerk.titanseal.com/ve... so once that disappears so does your chances of checking that record.
And in this case you have to put your trust in not only a single organisation but also on a single page. In fact you have to trust that this site: https://clerk.titanseal.com/ve... actually will verify that the pdf that some one have given you is authentic. And since they give zero details on how they verify the authenticity of the pdf you just have to assume total blind trust here.
It's even less usable than a standard database if you lookup how this all works (they have bought this service from TitanSeal.com) because they do not store any documents at all. They simply create a sha256 digest of the pdf that they send you and insert that in the metadata field in a Ethereum block, so the "only thing" that you can do here is that you can present the pdf to some one else and they can verify that yep it's in the blockchain.
In the end I don't actually know what exactly that information gives us, yes they have a verify function at their site but what if the site goes down, how then will I know that the digest is just not from random person uploading whatever to Etherum?