"Ok, we have now spent half an hour on that informed and well-researched lecture on the issue. Now, to speak for the other side, here is Professor McFartypants, who we picked up from the street and gave ten minutes to prepare. Half an hour each, fair and balanced!"
It doesn't take everyone losing their jobs to robots to really screw up the economy. There's a feedback system to consider. If, say, 10% of the workforce lose their jobs to automation, they can no longer afford to buy nice things, which means less economic activity to generate employment for the rest of the population. Just look at what happens to the economy of any country during a recession, and the resulting implications for individuals caught within it. Automation can be seen as a recession that never ends, because even when productivity goes up employment barely moves.
I'm expecting to see automation lead to huge inequality for a time, with a large underclass who have no employment and little hope of employment, and a working class who are heavily taxed to pay for them and resent that their hard work is being stolen by a bunch of useless leeches.
Eventually it goes one of two ways: Either the leeches revolt and bring about some form of revolution which may or may not result in a working economic system, or the government has to evolve into a police state in order to suppress the frequent riots that arise from having a very poor, very angry population. Especially one with little else to occupy their time. The masses may be placated with the bare minimum of resources needed to keep them from mass-starvation and a steady supply of entertainment, but the upper classes will resent even that much.
You're not quite right on hobbyist electronics. It seems to have experienced something of a revival recently. The difficult electronics are now readily available in modular form, like arduinos and the many many breakout board accessories. It does tend to leave analog electronics neglected a bit, but there are still plenty of hobbyists around.
I've published a few of my hobby designs. I try to avoid SMD-only components wherever possible.
That could be legally difficult. The firmware is sure to contain bits of code from all over the place, libraries licensed from many companies and covered by copyright and patents. It could take a team of lawyers months to negotiate a public release in an accessible form.
You are not worth the trouble of arresting. They'll just ban your console from the online services.
If you offer it as a service, and draw a lot of business, or sell a product to perform the move, then they might sue you. You'd likely end up driven out of business by legal costs, and might incur a debt for legal fees several times greater than your possible lifetime earnings, but you still won't be arrested.
The Gameboy uses a similar trick - I mean the original one, the first. The firmware in the device (such as it is, it's really tiny) checks for the presence of a certain byte sequence, an encoded image. If the bytes match expectations, it gets displayed. If they aren't there, the firmware locks the device. That's why if you power it on without a cartridge in you see a scrolling blank box: The image is the Nintendo logo.
The intention was to use trademark law to prevent unlicensed publishers selling games: In order to make a game cartridge run on the Gameboy, it had to include the Nintendo logo, and thus any unlicensed publishers would get sued by Nintendo for trademark infringement. I understand that a later supreme court ruling determined that a trademark could not be considered a trademark if it was incorporated into a functional element, but that was post-Gameboy.
I'm guessing Microsoft pull the same trick. Perhaps it still works in some countries.
What repair? Manufacturer warranties for electronics usually only mean replacement. Repair just isn't economical any more on all but the most expensive electronics. Even when repair is carried out, it's usually replacing an entire board.
I'm in Britain, and guns here are not readily available. You can get them as a criminal, yes, but only if you have the right connections - it's not something that every street thug can obtain. That's why our petty street thugs mostly carry knives.
They described the procedure. It's difficult, certainly - ion-polished diamond anvils! - but it should be achievable by other laboratories. They just need to modify their own diamond anvil equipment in the same manner.
Not all of the fake reporters have those aims. Some of them simply want ad views, lots and lots of ad views. Making up news is a good way to get them. If you post a story titled "Trump's issues order permitting execution of illegal immigrants" or "Obama's secret terror cells in the white house' or 'Kim Kardashian to perform televised surgery" you are going to get a lot of views.
Though so far our record is to crawl to the moon, feel proud, then crawl back down our hole and declare the rest of the universe isn't that good anyway.
I actually did link the full text, but something in the post got mangled - not sure if it was me or Slashdot, but the link turned into plain text.
The key phrase in here is "including the federal obscenity laws." America actually has a federal law prohibiting-ish* all 'obscene' material on the internet, it's just that this law is seldom enforced because any effort to do so would be futile. It's a recurring complaint of the group Enough is Enough that this and some other laws are not enforced. The pledge is a masterpiece of political misdirection: It goes on a great length about child pornography, trafficking and abuse, but tucked away in the middle of it is a call to start cracking down on plain adult pornography as well. Of course no-one will publicly refuse to take a pledge which is almost entirely concerned with protecting children.
*Due to a rather complex tangle of laws and precedents, and laws specifically written to work around court rulings, it's not clear exactly what is prohibited. The Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act. It doesn't ban pornography directly - that would be unconstitutional - but instead imposes upon producers and distributors record-keeping requirements which are quite clearly intentionally impossible to comply with. If you want to host a porn site, you'd better have on file the name, address and verified identity of everyone who appears, including all those amateur video uploads, so you can prove they are all over eighteen.
Not quite. It was the "The Children's Internet Safety Presidential Pledge" produced by anti-pornography pressure group Enough is Enough. It starts out talking about sexual exploitation, child pornography, etc - all the things everyone can agree to fight against. But it goes on to broaden this out to include all pornography, no exceptions. This is because Enough is Enough believes that all pornography is dangerous and abusive by nature.
Here's the full text: The Children's Internet Safety Presidential Pledge
And the extract: "If elected President of the United State of America, I promise to:... Uphold the rule of law by aggressively enforce existing federal laws to prevent the sexual exploitation of children online, including the federal obscenity laws... by appointing an Attorney General who will make the prosecution of such laws a top priority in my administration.
I can think of three good reasons someone might want access to the phone. 1. It goes into classified meetings, and has a microphone. 2. Trump, like everyone else, is sure to use his personal phone for work things from time to time. Even if just looking at his web browsing history, seeing what he googles for will give an insight into upcoming decisions. 3. The Twitter. If you can issue a tweet that seems to come from the president, you could cause panic. You could make a lot of money on the stockmarket or currency exchange. Announce that the government 'will not pay interest on Democratic mistakes' and that you are issuing an executive order nullifying all national debts and liabilities. Watch the dollar plummet, buy dollars, hoax is announced an hour later, sell dollars. Or you could just say something incredibly offensive about Mohammed and see if you can get World War Three underway.
Modern electronics is not like electronics used to be. You can't always just poke the multimeter around, identify the burned-out component and replace it any more, especially in ultra-compact designs like mobile phones. There are more specialised chips, often bespoke parts. Often an entire PCB must be replaced, because even if the faulty part is a commodity one it's impossible to resolder something like a BGA package, or because it's a faulty processor that incorporates proprietary firmware. Diagnostics, when you can get it, is no longer just something you read with a multimeter - you need to be able to look up really obscure error codes and determine that something like 'error 12912.2' is actually a secret manufacture code that means, say, memory test failure.
All of which means, yes, fixing a device now does mean you need the service manual. And often spare parts specific to that device.
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Perhaps that was the real test - an evaluation of your dedication.
I don't know how it could ever be enforced.
"Ok, we have now spent half an hour on that informed and well-researched lecture on the issue. Now, to speak for the other side, here is Professor McFartypants, who we picked up from the street and gave ten minutes to prepare. Half an hour each, fair and balanced!"
Radix sort. It's actually simpler than a bubble sort, and more efficient by far on a randomly-sorted list.
It doesn't take everyone losing their jobs to robots to really screw up the economy. There's a feedback system to consider. If, say, 10% of the workforce lose their jobs to automation, they can no longer afford to buy nice things, which means less economic activity to generate employment for the rest of the population. Just look at what happens to the economy of any country during a recession, and the resulting implications for individuals caught within it. Automation can be seen as a recession that never ends, because even when productivity goes up employment barely moves.
I'm expecting to see automation lead to huge inequality for a time, with a large underclass who have no employment and little hope of employment, and a working class who are heavily taxed to pay for them and resent that their hard work is being stolen by a bunch of useless leeches.
Eventually it goes one of two ways: Either the leeches revolt and bring about some form of revolution which may or may not result in a working economic system, or the government has to evolve into a police state in order to suppress the frequent riots that arise from having a very poor, very angry population. Especially one with little else to occupy their time. The masses may be placated with the bare minimum of resources needed to keep them from mass-starvation and a steady supply of entertainment, but the upper classes will resent even that much.
You're not quite right on hobbyist electronics. It seems to have experienced something of a revival recently. The difficult electronics are now readily available in modular form, like arduinos and the many many breakout board accessories. It does tend to leave analog electronics neglected a bit, but there are still plenty of hobbyists around.
I've published a few of my hobby designs. I try to avoid SMD-only components wherever possible.
Until the components fail, and you're left with a thousand-dollar high-end graphics card that just won't work.
That could be legally difficult. The firmware is sure to contain bits of code from all over the place, libraries licensed from many companies and covered by copyright and patents. It could take a team of lawyers months to negotiate a public release in an accessible form.
You are not worth the trouble of arresting. They'll just ban your console from the online services.
If you offer it as a service, and draw a lot of business, or sell a product to perform the move, then they might sue you. You'd likely end up driven out of business by legal costs, and might incur a debt for legal fees several times greater than your possible lifetime earnings, but you still won't be arrested.
The Gameboy uses a similar trick - I mean the original one, the first. The firmware in the device (such as it is, it's really tiny) checks for the presence of a certain byte sequence, an encoded image. If the bytes match expectations, it gets displayed. If they aren't there, the firmware locks the device. That's why if you power it on without a cartridge in you see a scrolling blank box: The image is the Nintendo logo.
The intention was to use trademark law to prevent unlicensed publishers selling games: In order to make a game cartridge run on the Gameboy, it had to include the Nintendo logo, and thus any unlicensed publishers would get sued by Nintendo for trademark infringement. I understand that a later supreme court ruling determined that a trademark could not be considered a trademark if it was incorporated into a functional element, but that was post-Gameboy.
I'm guessing Microsoft pull the same trick. Perhaps it still works in some countries.
What repair? Manufacturer warranties for electronics usually only mean replacement. Repair just isn't economical any more on all but the most expensive electronics. Even when repair is carried out, it's usually replacing an entire board.
I'm in Britain, and guns here are not readily available. You can get them as a criminal, yes, but only if you have the right connections - it's not something that every street thug can obtain. That's why our petty street thugs mostly carry knives.
They described the procedure. It's difficult, certainly - ion-polished diamond anvils! - but it should be achievable by other laboratories. They just need to modify their own diamond anvil equipment in the same manner.
Expected by some. It's not a majority-held view among specialists, but it is a possibility.
It was a really, really tiny sample. It may have just pinged out of the equipment, never to be found. Only way to be sure is to make another.
Not all of the fake reporters have those aims. Some of them simply want ad views, lots and lots of ad views. Making up news is a good way to get them. If you post a story titled "Trump's issues order permitting execution of illegal immigrants" or "Obama's secret terror cells in the white house' or 'Kim Kardashian to perform televised surgery" you are going to get a lot of views.
Mars first. No need to run before you can crawl.
Though so far our record is to crawl to the moon, feel proud, then crawl back down our hole and declare the rest of the universe isn't that good anyway.
Your guide to distant worlds:
http://i.imgur.com/6jp4DVK.png
I actually did link the full text, but something in the post got mangled - not sure if it was me or Slashdot, but the link turned into plain text.
The key phrase in here is "including the federal obscenity laws." America actually has a federal law prohibiting-ish* all 'obscene' material on the internet, it's just that this law is seldom enforced because any effort to do so would be futile. It's a recurring complaint of the group Enough is Enough that this and some other laws are not enforced. The pledge is a masterpiece of political misdirection: It goes on a great length about child pornography, trafficking and abuse, but tucked away in the middle of it is a call to start cracking down on plain adult pornography as well. Of course no-one will publicly refuse to take a pledge which is almost entirely concerned with protecting children.
*Due to a rather complex tangle of laws and precedents, and laws specifically written to work around court rulings, it's not clear exactly what is prohibited. The Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act. It doesn't ban pornography directly - that would be unconstitutional - but instead imposes upon producers and distributors record-keeping requirements which are quite clearly intentionally impossible to comply with. If you want to host a porn site, you'd better have on file the name, address and verified identity of everyone who appears, including all those amateur video uploads, so you can prove they are all over eighteen.
Not quite. It was the "The Children's Internet Safety Presidential Pledge" produced by anti-pornography pressure group Enough is Enough. It starts out talking about sexual exploitation, child pornography, etc - all the things everyone can agree to fight against. But it goes on to broaden this out to include all pornography, no exceptions. This is because Enough is Enough believes that all pornography is dangerous and abusive by nature.
Here's the full text: The Children's Internet Safety Presidential Pledge
And the extract: "If elected President of the United State of America, I promise to: ... Uphold the rule of law by aggressively enforce existing federal laws to prevent the sexual exploitation of children online, including the federal obscenity laws ... by appointing an Attorney General who will make the prosecution of such laws a top priority in my administration.
No.
He said he had the most votes since Reagen. Which is still false.
I can think of three good reasons someone might want access to the phone.
1. It goes into classified meetings, and has a microphone.
2. Trump, like everyone else, is sure to use his personal phone for work things from time to time. Even if just looking at his web browsing history, seeing what he googles for will give an insight into upcoming decisions.
3. The Twitter. If you can issue a tweet that seems to come from the president, you could cause panic. You could make a lot of money on the stockmarket or currency exchange. Announce that the government 'will not pay interest on Democratic mistakes' and that you are issuing an executive order nullifying all national debts and liabilities. Watch the dollar plummet, buy dollars, hoax is announced an hour later, sell dollars. Or you could just say something incredibly offensive about Mohammed and see if you can get World War Three underway.
70 is good, but how do we get it up to 80?
Yes.
Modern electronics is not like electronics used to be. You can't always just poke the multimeter around, identify the burned-out component and replace it any more, especially in ultra-compact designs like mobile phones. There are more specialised chips, often bespoke parts. Often an entire PCB must be replaced, because even if the faulty part is a commodity one it's impossible to resolder something like a BGA package, or because it's a faulty processor that incorporates proprietary firmware. Diagnostics, when you can get it, is no longer just something you read with a multimeter - you need to be able to look up really obscure error codes and determine that something like 'error 12912.2' is actually a secret manufacture code that means, say, memory test failure.
All of which means, yes, fixing a device now does mean you need the service manual. And often spare parts specific to that device.
That would require the use of screws, which would increase the thickness by a tenth of a milimeter. Marketing dept says that is not acceptable.