So you're saying the salt water pumps should be turned to spraying coal power plants, lobbyists, corrupt politicians, their mansions, and NIMBYs? How much money can we get for this project?!
Given it's made by a Chinese-owned company, perhaps they should've named it the Prolestar. Too bad it costs $45k to start, not many proles can actually afford it. The base $35k Tesla Model 3 just launched today with 55 fewer miles of range than the Polestar, which IMO is bigger news.
HDMI actually has a network data channel, so the TV might yet have network access. Also, some TVs are promiscuous and connect to open WAPs without permission.
Fighters are sometimes used for low-altitude recon, if there's a possibility of engagement. Similarly, snipers aren't always sent in to head-shot everyone they can, but to destroy weapons/equipment.
Automation is an important part of it but there's a huge piece of the puzzle you're missing. Right now, standard macroeconomic theory is that the population needs to constantly grow or else the economy is going to be fucked. So long as the upper class believes this, they're going to be reluctant to cull the population (wouldn't be that hard; if the stores stopped carrying food, few people would know where to obtain it.)
However, once they figure out a way to maintain their standard of living despite a huge die-off or other rapid decrease in population, then they can hole up in their mansions and activate the auto-sentries on the walls. Sword of Damocles Killbots IMO it'd be cheaper and easier to just buy/make an island away from the plebes than to go to the trouble, hoping one of the non-psychopathic billionaires doesn't betray you. Unless your faction's killbots have air superiority, you're still vulnerable to missiles/bombs (and even then there are surface-to-surface missiles).
The ONLY less-realistic scifi trope? Not FTL travel? Or time travel? Or reversing X's polarity? Or aliens that look and function mostly like humans, have mostly-American culture, and speak English? Or there being a colony of billions of humans on other planets? Or the moon/Earth having rockets strapped to it to blast it around space like a starship? Or people being a-ok with the ethical implications of transporters? Or the mighty-whitey trope transplanted to sci-fi, where the WASP space-fairing protagonist lands on a planet of savages and in a stroke solves their fundamental cultural problems? Or instrument panels inexplicably exploding? Or non-flammable things exploding, even? Or antigravity? Or space whales? Or...
It's an experiment on a (presumably) mostly uncontroversial Reddit personality, who has enough of a following that he'd likely get some tips. I imagine not many Redditors have their own subreddit that actually gets frequented.
"Randy," a quality assurance worker at Cognizant charged with reviewing posts flagged by moderators
He must be one of the guys who has sex on the job. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around an office having a dedicated 'lactation room', but it sounds like an appropriate place to be groping breasts.
Let's face it: it's all out there by now. Everything. Whatever can be harvested or datamined has been, and all of that has been subsequently leaked/stolen/sold.
That's what I thought at first, but keep in mind this is preemptive, deploying a second before the collision, rather than reactive like normal airbags, only deploying after a collision.
In this case, deleting the gene increases intelligence... which raises the question of why the gene spread so far. If it were the opposite I'd agree with you.
So Youtubers uploading videos of minors are going to have to choose between no comments or no monetization? This'll doom channels that are specifically about audience participation, like "leave a comment about what you want me to do in my next video". This'll push more Youtube content creators to accept kickbacks from companies to shill their products, rather than being able to rely on monetization and potentially remain unbiased.
If one mutation confers HIV resistance, AND higher intelligence... why doesn't everyone have this mutation? Does it increase metabolism too much or something? Perhaps stroke resistance is considered a downside, in societies where elderly are a drain on resources.
Hoping Waymo doesn't put the hand signals higher priority than obstacles. Last time I drove through an intersection with a traffic cop, the officer waved me through. I started to go, then a jogger with earbuds on jogged right in front of me. The officer shrieked 'stop!' and I stopped as the jogger kept going, oblivious.
This could be relevant to memory-access attacks, like escaping from VMs, Docker containers etc. It seems unlikely a server would be running a password manager app though.
Just because the backdoor was left open by China, doesn't mean they're the only ones who can walk in. Isn't that what we've been saying about "government-mandated backdoors" all along? Who's to say an American TLA won't use the same backdoor to find/plant incriminating evidence on your phone?
I'm not sure I'd want to spend a long plane ride next to two Cheech & Chong wannabes. OTOH if I were riding next to Robin Williams, please get the man some cocaine! RIP
Beresheet will also deposit a "time capsule" of digital files the size of coins containing the Bible, children's drawings, Israel's national anthem and blue and white flag, as well as memories of a Holocaust survivor.
Wrong. What you have are transistors, and the hope that someone will be able to read their on-off state at some indeterminate point in the future.
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So you're saying the salt water pumps should be turned to spraying coal power plants, lobbyists, corrupt politicians, their mansions, and NIMBYs?
How much money can we get for this project?!
Given it's made by a Chinese-owned company, perhaps they should've named it the Prolestar.
Too bad it costs $45k to start, not many proles can actually afford it. The base $35k Tesla Model 3 just launched today with 55 fewer miles of range than the Polestar, which IMO is bigger news.
HDMI actually has a network data channel, so the TV might yet have network access. Also, some TVs are promiscuous and connect to open WAPs without permission.
Fighters are sometimes used for low-altitude recon, if there's a possibility of engagement. Similarly, snipers aren't always sent in to head-shot everyone they can, but to destroy weapons/equipment.
Damn filter. Sword of Damocles < Killbots.
Automation is an important part of it but there's a huge piece of the puzzle you're missing. Right now, standard macroeconomic theory is that the population needs to constantly grow or else the economy is going to be fucked. So long as the upper class believes this, they're going to be reluctant to cull the population (wouldn't be that hard; if the stores stopped carrying food, few people would know where to obtain it.)
However, once they figure out a way to maintain their standard of living despite a huge die-off or other rapid decrease in population, then they can hole up in their mansions and activate the auto-sentries on the walls. Sword of Damocles Killbots
IMO it'd be cheaper and easier to just buy/make an island away from the plebes than to go to the trouble, hoping one of the non-psychopathic billionaires doesn't betray you. Unless your faction's killbots have air superiority, you're still vulnerable to missiles/bombs (and even then there are surface-to-surface missiles).
The ONLY less-realistic scifi trope? Not FTL travel? Or time travel? Or reversing X's polarity? Or aliens that look and function mostly like humans, have mostly-American culture, and speak English? Or there being a colony of billions of humans on other planets? Or the moon/Earth having rockets strapped to it to blast it around space like a starship? Or people being a-ok with the ethical implications of transporters? Or the mighty-whitey trope transplanted to sci-fi, where the WASP space-fairing protagonist lands on a planet of savages and in a stroke solves their fundamental cultural problems? Or instrument panels inexplicably exploding? Or non-flammable things exploding, even? Or antigravity? Or space whales? Or...
It's an experiment on a (presumably) mostly uncontroversial Reddit personality, who has enough of a following that he'd likely get some tips. I imagine not many Redditors have their own subreddit that actually gets frequented.
In Soviet Russia, crazy people laugh at YOU!
"Randy," a quality assurance worker at Cognizant charged with reviewing posts flagged by moderators
He must be one of the guys who has sex on the job. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around an office having a dedicated 'lactation room', but it sounds like an appropriate place to be groping breasts.
This Liu Cixin sounds like the brothers Strugatsky of China.
Indeed, it'd fit on a flash drive by that point.
Let's face it: it's all out there by now. Everything. Whatever can be harvested or datamined has been, and all of that has been subsequently leaked/stolen/sold.
That's what I thought at first, but keep in mind this is preemptive, deploying a second before the collision, rather than reactive like normal airbags, only deploying after a collision.
It is in Djibouti.
In this case, deleting the gene increases intelligence... which raises the question of why the gene spread so far. If it were the opposite I'd agree with you.
So Youtubers uploading videos of minors are going to have to choose between no comments or no monetization? This'll doom channels that are specifically about audience participation, like "leave a comment about what you want me to do in my next video". This'll push more Youtube content creators to accept kickbacks from companies to shill their products, rather than being able to rely on monetization and potentially remain unbiased.
If one mutation confers HIV resistance, AND higher intelligence... why doesn't everyone have this mutation? Does it increase metabolism too much or something? Perhaps stroke resistance is considered a downside, in societies where elderly are a drain on resources.
Hoping Waymo doesn't put the hand signals higher priority than obstacles. Last time I drove through an intersection with a traffic cop, the officer waved me through. I started to go, then a jogger with earbuds on jogged right in front of me. The officer shrieked 'stop!' and I stopped as the jogger kept going, oblivious.
This could be relevant to memory-access attacks, like escaping from VMs, Docker containers etc.
It seems unlikely a server would be running a password manager app though.
That's why I always use a yuge password: 1234abcd. It's a very good password. The best password, really.
Just because the backdoor was left open by China, doesn't mean they're the only ones who can walk in. Isn't that what we've been saying about "government-mandated backdoors" all along? Who's to say an American TLA won't use the same backdoor to find/plant incriminating evidence on your phone?
I'm not sure I'd want to spend a long plane ride next to two Cheech & Chong wannabes. OTOH if I were riding next to Robin Williams, please get the man some cocaine! RIP
Beresheet will also deposit a "time capsule" of digital files the size of coins containing the Bible, children's drawings, Israel's national anthem and blue and white flag, as well as memories of a Holocaust survivor.
Wrong. What you have are transistors, and the hope that someone will be able to read their on-off state at some indeterminate point in the future.
A SCOTUS ruling just today reaffirmed the 8th amendment to help restrict civil asset forfeiture. The defense was headlined by the ACLU.