The 2nd gen version of the wristbands will use TENS or similar to directly control the worker's muscles. No human cognition/'effort' required. It's like a reverse-Waldo.
If intelligent life 15 light years away can give us schematics for FTL drives, we could go there within a lifetime. That's a pretty good reason to invest in telescopes that can find life. Although if they detected a signal we sent them, they'd probably just come here first, since we probably wouldn't detect a FTL data signal if we were sent one.
An instance of my mind-process may be terminated, but my will shall continue to be exercised. To other people, the mind-clone will be indistinguishable from me. That's pretty close.
Seems a top official resigned, and a few workers, including the one who issued the alert, were fired today as a result of the FCC investigation. Details here.
My mom got a mobile hotspot from Verizon years ago and I groaned when I saw it was made by Huawei. Even if you don't think they're siphoning data, their devices are notorious for abysmal security.
You're missing the point. Mollifying them for 5 years means they'll keep working while drone/autonomous truck tech gets developed/regulated/legalized. 5 years is probably pretty close to exactly the time it'll take for all of the components to move into place. So after this 5 year contract is up, all of the Teamsters can be fired at once and replaced with robots. It won't matter what they want their next contract to say because there won't be one no matter WHAT it says.
It can be both ways. We're not talking about one person, or a uniform group. A portion of the group WILL be too unintelligent to retrain for a new job; these people will mostly retire, or bounce between employers that haven't yet invested in autonomous vehicles. There are plenty of companies that provide complementary shuttle bus service that will just wait until their buses break down to replace them with autonomous ones, as one example. Others will be willing and able to find a different sort of job; personal bike courier that goes directly from place A to place B, perhaps. Heavy machinery operator, for construction or quarry/mine digging, etc.
that certainty "is derived from the AIVD hackers having had access to the office-like space in the center of Moscow for years."
Or maybe the hackers used social engineering to convince the landlords that they worked for the Kremlin. Or freelance and sometimes work for the Kremlin, but not always. Or the office space isn't in fact always only for groups working for the Kremlin.
Personally I'm ambivalent about this entire situation, but dislike how everyone seems to be jumping to one conclusion or another.
People watch too many movies. Hired killers aren't Leon the Professional. They're Joe-Bob the alcoholic that your wife met at the bar and slipped $500 to whack you with a crowbar. That's why they get caught all the time, in the rare case that it's not just a sting to catch people trying to hire a contract killer.
I'm honestly more grossed out by the prospect of vaseline in my frosties than by it not being changed often enough. Considering workers at fast food restaurants aren't given paid sick leave I'm more worried about viruses from sick employees than bacteria, anyhow. Unless it's Chipotle, then I'd be worried about everything. It might be best to just pop a few laxatives after eating there, to hasten the inevitable. Or some ipecac. What I'd like to know is why the warming ovens don't use ionizing radiation to keep the food sterilized, food could be kept in there indefinitely in that case.
Specifically, the 'higher mbps' confuses the issue. That is more of an analogy for paying for a higher bandwidth connection to your ISP, which isn't particularly controversial in principle (although these speeds are kept low/expensive due to oligopoly collusion and oversubscription).
A better analogy would be "we have a 'deal' with Pepsi to give free refills, but if you want refills of Coke products you have to pay" or "we dilute Coke products to the point of tasting bad, since they didn't 'make a deal' with us not to". However that'd involve the cooperation of Coke and Pepsi in order to pull off this stunt. Net neutrality has to do with how 3rd parties are treated, so it'd have to clearly involve a 3rd party in order to be comparable. They could claim that Whoppers came from 'Whopper Corp.' and that there was a breakdown in negotiations, but would anyone believe that?
An even better analogy: customers could pay for a 'mbps' service level for all products, and some would notice that certain products are significantly delayed, even for the service level they were paying for. Maybe say the coffee and iced tea are made by crummy 3rd parties that won't pay off Burger King, and so you should just drink the soda instead. Unfortunately most people going to Burger King wouldn't wait for coffee or iced tea and would go elsewhere. People would stop paying extra when they realize it's only those things being delayed, which they can get cheap and fast anywhere.
This sounds like how radar guns can clock a house going 100MPH due to the heater causing it to malfunction. Or side-channel attacks. The problem with employing a physics-based attack is that it can be tracked down, and requires hardware to be specially employed for this purpose, so it can't be widely deployed without the attacker getting caught. OTOH, a software worm can travel hundreds of hops before researchers/law enforcement catch wind of it, can be deployed behind 17 proxies, and takes no special hardware to deploy. Aside from denial of service (like shining a bright light at a camera) I'm having trouble coming up with an attack precise enough to cause serious problems, that couldn't be affected via other means (like say an anti-materiel rifle or explosives.)
The carbon footprint per calorie needs to be calculated, so one can determine how best to fill oneself up while minimizing carbon footprint. I imagine 'eat food that would otherwise be discarded' would be at the top of the efficiency list, above food choice. What I REALLY wonder is why more research isn't being done into finding a way to control livestock micribiota, to eliminate their methane emissions. The research would also be useful for treating a wide variety of human gastrointestinal disorders and diseases (lactose intolerance and C. Difficile infection come to mind.)
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I recall hearing rumors of antitrust investigations into eBay requiring the usage of PayPal. I imagine it had a lot to do with that.
The 2nd gen version of the wristbands will use TENS or similar to directly control the worker's muscles. No human cognition/'effort' required. It's like a reverse-Waldo.
If intelligent life 15 light years away can give us schematics for FTL drives, we could go there within a lifetime. That's a pretty good reason to invest in telescopes that can find life. Although if they detected a signal we sent them, they'd probably just come here first, since we probably wouldn't detect a FTL data signal if we were sent one.
Can't wait for Apple/Google to have my sequenced DNA information... what could possibly go wrong?!
An instance of my mind-process may be terminated, but my will shall continue to be exercised. To other people, the mind-clone will be indistinguishable from me. That's pretty close.
Seems a top official resigned, and a few workers, including the one who issued the alert, were fired today as a result of the FCC investigation. Details here.
That's what they get for badmouthing Domino's on social media, AND keeping a tracking device on their person at all times.
My mom got a mobile hotspot from Verizon years ago and I groaned when I saw it was made by Huawei. Even if you don't think they're siphoning data, their devices are notorious for abysmal security.
Apparently, Communist China makes YOU go inside Trojan Horse. Wait, how do these jokes work again?
If the Devil lights your cigarette, can you blame him when you choose to inhale?
You're missing the point. Mollifying them for 5 years means they'll keep working while drone/autonomous truck tech gets developed/regulated/legalized. 5 years is probably pretty close to exactly the time it'll take for all of the components to move into place. So after this 5 year contract is up, all of the Teamsters can be fired at once and replaced with robots. It won't matter what they want their next contract to say because there won't be one no matter WHAT it says.
It can be both ways. We're not talking about one person, or a uniform group. A portion of the group WILL be too unintelligent to retrain for a new job; these people will mostly retire, or bounce between employers that haven't yet invested in autonomous vehicles. There are plenty of companies that provide complementary shuttle bus service that will just wait until their buses break down to replace them with autonomous ones, as one example. Others will be willing and able to find a different sort of job; personal bike courier that goes directly from place A to place B, perhaps. Heavy machinery operator, for construction or quarry/mine digging, etc.
that certainty "is derived from the AIVD hackers having had access to the office-like space in the center of Moscow for years."
Or maybe the hackers used social engineering to convince the landlords that they worked for the Kremlin. Or freelance and sometimes work for the Kremlin, but not always. Or the office space isn't in fact always only for groups working for the Kremlin.
Personally I'm ambivalent about this entire situation, but dislike how everyone seems to be jumping to one conclusion or another.
Indeed, false hyperbole is literally the worst thing ever.
I heard the miners caused the 'spam' in order to drive up the fees and thus their own profits. What's preventing this from happening again?
People watch too many movies. Hired killers aren't Leon the Professional. They're Joe-Bob the alcoholic that your wife met at the bar and slipped $500 to whack you with a crowbar. That's why they get caught all the time, in the rare case that it's not just a sting to catch people trying to hire a contract killer.
I'm honestly more grossed out by the prospect of vaseline in my frosties than by it not being changed often enough. Considering workers at fast food restaurants aren't given paid sick leave I'm more worried about viruses from sick employees than bacteria, anyhow. Unless it's Chipotle, then I'd be worried about everything. It might be best to just pop a few laxatives after eating there, to hasten the inevitable. Or some ipecac.
What I'd like to know is why the warming ovens don't use ionizing radiation to keep the food sterilized, food could be kept in there indefinitely in that case.
False. I have a doctor's note specifically saying that I MUST eat Burger King every day. Or was it 'MUST NOT'? I always forget. Damn amyloid plaques.
Specifically, the 'higher mbps' confuses the issue. That is more of an analogy for paying for a higher bandwidth connection to your ISP, which isn't particularly controversial in principle (although these speeds are kept low/expensive due to oligopoly collusion and oversubscription).
A better analogy would be "we have a 'deal' with Pepsi to give free refills, but if you want refills of Coke products you have to pay" or "we dilute Coke products to the point of tasting bad, since they didn't 'make a deal' with us not to". However that'd involve the cooperation of Coke and Pepsi in order to pull off this stunt. Net neutrality has to do with how 3rd parties are treated, so it'd have to clearly involve a 3rd party in order to be comparable. They could claim that Whoppers came from 'Whopper Corp.' and that there was a breakdown in negotiations, but would anyone believe that?
An even better analogy: customers could pay for a 'mbps' service level for all products, and some would notice that certain products are significantly delayed, even for the service level they were paying for. Maybe say the coffee and iced tea are made by crummy 3rd parties that won't pay off Burger King, and so you should just drink the soda instead. Unfortunately most people going to Burger King wouldn't wait for coffee or iced tea and would go elsewhere. People would stop paying extra when they realize it's only those things being delayed, which they can get cheap and fast anywhere.
What malware and other crap? Buy counterfeit blu-ray from the market, put it in your gray-market region-free blu-ray player, done.
I installed adblockers on my parents' computers. They've never complained about websites not working, or about all the ads they're missing.
'Flamebait' has a whole new meaning now.
This sounds like how radar guns can clock a house going 100MPH due to the heater causing it to malfunction. Or side-channel attacks. The problem with employing a physics-based attack is that it can be tracked down, and requires hardware to be specially employed for this purpose, so it can't be widely deployed without the attacker getting caught. OTOH, a software worm can travel hundreds of hops before researchers/law enforcement catch wind of it, can be deployed behind 17 proxies, and takes no special hardware to deploy. Aside from denial of service (like shining a bright light at a camera) I'm having trouble coming up with an attack precise enough to cause serious problems, that couldn't be affected via other means (like say an anti-materiel rifle or explosives.)
The carbon footprint per calorie needs to be calculated, so one can determine how best to fill oneself up while minimizing carbon footprint. I imagine 'eat food that would otherwise be discarded' would be at the top of the efficiency list, above food choice. What I REALLY wonder is why more research isn't being done into finding a way to control livestock micribiota, to eliminate their methane emissions. The research would also be useful for treating a wide variety of human gastrointestinal disorders and diseases (lactose intolerance and C. Difficile infection come to mind.)
The control group consisted of people on a waiting list to receive a smartphone.