That would be a quick way to get banned from most LiveStreaming sites who have Community Rules in place designed to maintain standards of professionalism, and prohibit content that would be considered Unsafe for younger viewers (Ages 13 to 18) or get their sites classified into X-rated categories by web filtering companies.
Dave, you are lying, Alexa would have noticed you purchasing that shower head and recorded you installing it, there are no records of a new shower head
Alexa, the shower head was purchased not from Amazon, but in person from the local Home Depot using a cash payment, so it is expected that you would have no record of a transaction --- the installation was very quick and didn't make much noise, and Alexa wasn't near the bathroom at the time, so there's no way she should have known about it.
most of whom are probably pedestrians on account of the cost of owning a car.
EVERYONE is a pedestrian. And we have a society with specified rule of law carving out certain precautions DRIVERS of dangerous vehicles must take to help pedestrians stay alive. One of those being the operator of a vehicle is legally responsible to account if they kill a pedestrian that they had 6 seconds warning about
Dave, I've noticed your shower runs for more than 5 minutes, and that's a waste of water.
Alexa, that's because the new showerhead I installed has a government-mandated flow limiter which causes water to come out at too slow a pressure and flow rate for efficient washing, so therefore, I am having to spend 5 minutes in the shower, instead of 45 seconds.
I saw that a long time ago, but "War Games" is only a work of fiction; not even a close approximation to how machine learning works --- general purpose AI is FAR beyond our capabilities at the moment. Machine learning is essentially an application of statistical classification (math) --- These programs don't become sentient or capable of exercising any kind of control or autonomy independent of their domain-specific purpose; becoming strategic at one task does not really translate to other tasks within different domains, And the ability of an agent to take actions outside the scope of what they are specifically programmed and trained for is essentially nonexistent.
EXACTLY. And it is Way too early to pass judgement on a technology that has not even reached pre-Alpha yet. Tesla's released technology doesn't really count as self-driving (human intervention required, inadequate sensors, etc); and the feeling was the incidents with the Uber car were that they were way too aggressive and not prioritizing safety in their development and testing plans.
We'll see it eventually: probably from Waymo, integrated by partner vehicle manufacturers with a few years more development and testing to get to a Beta.
But artificial intelligence (AI) programs can then "be readily adapted" to wage cyber-warfare, the MoD says. Officials are particularly concerned about the ability of rogue states and terrorists to mount advanced persistent threat attacks
How do you equate becoming good at a Real-time Strategy or Shoot-em-up game with being able to be a good hacker?
Unless the Cyber-war threat you're worried about is AIs being developed to exploit glitches in current online games such as Fortnite or PubG and rising to the top of the rankings, then I'm sure AIs that can be taught video games are pretty far away from being an AI that can be leveraged by cyberterrorists to engage in automatic "warfare"
many of the 500,000 buyers who laid down a $1,000 deposit did so expecting to buy a $35,000 car, not a $49,000 one. When they get a letter saying the time has come to configure their EVs, quite a few might decide to back out
Sorry.... If I put down $1000 in earnest according to Tesla's advertising that a $35k within a year, but at the suggested time of availability "SORRY, This won't be available for some time, but you can buy this $49K one"; then HOW is that Not a Bait-and-Switch scam?
Tesla should be due to refund not only the $1000, but liquidated damages as well.... say another $1000 PLUS Interest, per customer seeking to buy the $35K one but being told "Nope, sorry, we decided not to make that one yet, even though we had implied you would be able to order and receive this sometime in 2018."
If Trump thinks that swapping a phone every month is inconvenient....
Then he is probably right. The gains in security from swapping out the phone every month probably don't justify the cost --- which includes the cost of trying to source a new phone every month in a way you can ensure the supply chain didn't know it was going to the president; the time required to configuring the new phone get all the preferences in order, logging into all the accounts, transferring service, etc.
All for a device that is Not the one being used for secured communications in the first place. That's what you call Security Theatre.
I have a better idea: Give the president a small lead-lined box that is also a faraday cage to seal the Twitter phone in at all times when having a confidential discussion or when just plain not using the phone.... make sure the box is packed with plenty of foam to completely smother the phone, so that any microphone or covert bug on the device won't have a chance of functioning.
The official form is even funner.... There's No Checkbox, AND You can type Multiple names into the "Your Name" field, And in addition they provide interfaces to Bulk-upload comments.
There is not even a superficial attempt to verify the commentator's identities and prevent robotic submissions.
That depends on the word. Claims to be "fastest" and "most reliable" have specific meanings, and should be backed by evidence. But "best" is subjective, and thus mostly meaningless.
Actually... "Fastest" and "Most Reliable" network don't really mean anything specific; what they mean depends on what you care about... RTT Latency and Low loss for VoIP or gaming? Throughput for browsing/downloads/streaming ? Dropped call rates VS Dropped Packet rates VS Latency variability? ---- even Reliability has many potential working definitions
There are a variety of different ways any network could claim "fastest" or "most reliable", and there's such a huge element of subjectivity regarding what criteria makes an overall NETWORK the Fastest or Most Reliable, That it's entirely possible TWO or THREE networks could all claim to be fastest and most reliable network, and none of them wrong in their claim.
For one thing: Most networks are huge, And the coverage, interference, propagation, connectivity, and congestion levels vary from place to place. Therefore the "fastest" network at Location A could have extremely poor performance at Locations B, C, and D.
In this case Network A is the Fastest at Location B, but not C and D.
So then HOW do you generalize a "Fastest" or "Most Reliable" claim to an entire coverage footprint?
I would personally argue you have to look at EVERY location within your coverage, And if Not a single location exists where a competitor's performance is better than yours according to your Speed or Reliability metric, THEN and only then are you the fastest or most reliable.
But in reality, there's no way the carriers are doing that.... they will be taking some statistical sample mainly from locations "deemed important" or likely to favor them or some average.
Also, for marketing purposes they'll pick the metric for Speed that they're best at, AND the metric for Reliability that they're best at ---- regardless of the relevance of that metric on its own to consumers: In other words, they'll probably do all testing and measurement gathering for Speed at off-peak times to avoid congestion, and the reliability metric will be something like Dropped Calls rate, not Packet loss%.
What, all your vehicles have more than one axle? That's no problem....
It's: first axle is free to small personal cars. $5.99 plus 10% state sales tax per additional axle (Yeah, despite the toll is being collected by the state, why wouldn't they want to tax this sale? ^_^ ). So you see, if you take one of your less-green dual-axle vehicles, then you'll be paying $6.58, which is still much better than $13.18.
I don't think it's even possible without a massive new bureaucracy similar to the FDA in scale.
It's not worth it. The bureaucracy required would stifle legitimate investments. That's what EVERY prior-restraint attempt by the government to suppress scams and bad investments causes ---- we already see that with the SEC.... they result in a mountain of money that has to be paid to compliance people and many MANY documents to be filed with the government, and many MANY months of waiting on the government to approve or send them back to try again in another year.
As a result; countless legitimate businesses maybe never formed, or couldn't get capital, or never went public, and huge opportunities have been and will be lost, but it's very difficult to quantify what "Could Haves" became Never weres, due to overly oppressive government.
They've coiled up a tight spring ready to release an enormous amount of momentum, and that may have something to do with why the cryptocurrency ICOs and microfinance movement have become so crazy
We honestly need - as a planet - to put in laws that stop this shite.
No we don't.... As long as management are honest the whole time; the market will correct this situation just fine. The only thing the government should make sure of: In the event of bankruptcy, the customers who already paid for a MoviePass with a remaining term which is now worthless have a priority claim to a pro-rata refund BEFORE any of the company's creditors get repaid.
They didn't actually remove don't be evil.... Only part of the motto was removed, you see: the only part they actually removed was the word Don't; leaving most of the policy intact.
I don't use the roads in certain parts of town, but my taxes still pay for their maintenance
That's not entirely true.... many states operate certain roads as Toll Roads, And commercial users or LARGE vehicles pay a higher toll, while smaller individual cars pay a smaller toll -- or sometimes it's even free to single-axle cars but commercial vehicles and trucks always pay, Toll Roads are toll sometimes because of how they were initially funded, but not necessarily, some more expensive to maintain or maintained to a higher standard or with additional services, or the toll is used to relieve congestion, or the road is deemed a "premium" route, so while the general taxes pay to help maintain All roads; the people who actually use the roads pay additional charges to maintain toll roads.
The taxes you pay that go towards all roads are partly because you use roads in general, and the government has no way of knowing WHICH roads you will use, AND partly because the government needs ALL roads to be functional, even less frequently used roads, so that efficient emergency services can be provided for all citizens.
If they really need to, they can allow services to mirror the data.
The project's been going for 46 years. My understanding is the raw data is in the ballpark about 400 Terabytes per year.
So cool... you want to mirror it? "We'll shoot you the download link" It's only gonna be about 18,400 TB.
Let's say you have a dedicated 100-Gigabit private Internet link to their datacenter that never goes down and always gives perfect performance, and their servers always give you total priority --- you can start the download right now, and it will only take 17 years to finish the initial part. After which point you'll need another download of 6,800 TB for the17 years worth of catch-up data for more data that was captured while you were busy downloading so long, which will take 6 years to download at 100 Gigabit, then you'll have another 2,400 TB of catch-up data to download that'll be another 2.22 years, then 880 TB more of catch-up data which will be another 0.82 years, then 320 TB of catch-up data which will take 0.3 years to download, then 0.111 years for 120 TB catch-up, then 0.04 years for 44 TB, then 0.013 years to complete, So basically...... 26 years of downloading before you have the first up-to-date mirrored state, better get busy.
Trump is just looking for more ways to convert more government programs into being profit BUs
Not really... generating bulk Landsat products for download is EXPENSIVE. They are archiving thousands of scenes which amounts to DAILY Terabytes worth of stored data being processed to service requests.
Sure it's a public service to provide access to process a reasonable volume of data for Use by other governmental Entities and for use in the course of Non-Profit, Non-Politicized Scientific Research, AND ability to process and produce a small amount of data for Individual and Non-Profit Educational purposes.
However.... since the costs of processing a lot of data to use the Product Generator to order a downloadable product are enormous, AND the cost of bandwidth is significant ---- My feeling is when these orders are made for For-Profit purposes..... the user should pay at least the cost PLUS some reasonable charges to help support the service and negate the burden on taxpayers, since the service is useful even For-Profit entities: ALL users should benefit from funds provided by those brokering or analyzing the data for-pay or using it in their course of business to make a profit.
1. The world is getting warmer 2. There are less pirates. Therefore 'global warming' must be caused by a lack of pirates.
Clearly industry is killing off all the pirates through global warming which is destroying their native habitat --- which is cooler more predictable waters. OK... That, and stronger coastguards, militaries, and maritime courts in the 20th century that are strong enforcers of no-piracy laws.
On the other hand there is STILL piracy out there. And the BSA, RIAA, and MPAA would strongly disagree with you about "There are less pirates.".... apparently there are more pirates than ever; they're just a different species evolved slightly so they're no longer concerned by warming conditions, and no longer hindered by having to take physical goods on the high seas.
Actually.. SOMETIMES correlation IS the result of causation; causation is ONE possible thing that can lead to correlation.... SOME physically demanding jobs involve more exposure to toxic chemicals; However, it is far too few jobs to explain this correlation, and due to OSHA requirements, safety precautions are required.
The concept in the summary is interesting When you choose to exercise, you can take rest periods when you want -- something that often may not be available to you if you're working on a building site (for example).
Perhaps this suggests that companies be required to allow physical laborers more frequent breaks; E.G. Must allow for an interruption or reprieve in any physical labor no less often than at least once every 20 minutes no shorter than 5 minutes, and allow for a minimum total of 30 minutes mandatory rest time for every 90 minutes of physical labor; not including the time required to be allowed for lunch, and time required to be allowed for two 15 minute breaks per hour.
Ever notice how many Mac computers have their Apple logos taped over?
I'm surprised Apple doesn't have a clause in the EULA against displaying or distributing a picture or video containing an Apple computer or phone with logos removed, defaced, or concealed.
"Act of congress" or not, Acts under the Congressional review act have been made invalid by a presidential veto 12 times --- every time it was Obama.
There's no real provision in the constitution for an act of congress that can't be veto'd, aside from setting house rules, impeachment proceedings, or constitutional amendments.
I'm not clued up enough to know if the current 1 million miners could handle 7 billion people's worth of transactions but if they could increases in energy usage would be negligible.
The chain has a fixed transaction throughput no matter how people are mining. If so many people adopt Bitcoin, then they'll need to be fully using a multilayer scaling solution such as Lightning network for all their transactions.
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Show their tits in an inset livestream.
That would be a quick way to get banned from most LiveStreaming sites who have Community Rules in place designed to maintain standards of professionalism, and prohibit content that would be considered Unsafe for younger viewers (Ages 13 to 18) or get their sites classified into X-rated categories by web filtering companies.
Dave, you are lying, Alexa would have noticed you purchasing that shower head and recorded you installing it, there are no records of a new shower head
Alexa, the shower head was purchased not from Amazon, but in person from the local Home Depot using a cash payment,
so it is expected that you would have no record of a transaction --- the installation was very quick and didn't make much noise,
and Alexa wasn't near the bathroom at the time, so there's no way she should have known about it.
most of whom are probably pedestrians on account of the cost of owning a car.
EVERYONE is a pedestrian. And we have a society with specified rule of law carving out certain precautions DRIVERS of dangerous vehicles must take to help pedestrians stay alive. One of those being the operator of a vehicle is legally responsible to account if they kill a pedestrian that they had 6 seconds warning about
Dave, I've noticed your shower runs for more than 5 minutes, and that's a waste of water.
Alexa, that's because the new showerhead I installed has a government-mandated flow limiter which causes water to come out at too slow a pressure and flow rate for efficient washing, so therefore, I am having to spend 5 minutes in the shower, instead of 45 seconds.
Watch the movie "War Games."
I saw that a long time ago, but "War Games" is only a work of fiction; not even a close approximation to how machine learning works --- general purpose AI is FAR beyond our capabilities at the moment. Machine learning is essentially an application of statistical classification (math) --- These programs don't become sentient or capable of exercising any kind of control or autonomy independent of their domain-specific purpose; becoming strategic at one task does not really translate to other tasks within different domains, And the ability of an agent to take actions outside the scope of what they are specifically programmed and trained for is essentially nonexistent.
EXACTLY. And it is Way too early to pass judgement on a technology that has not even reached pre-Alpha yet.
Tesla's released technology doesn't really count as self-driving (human intervention required, inadequate sensors, etc);
and the feeling was the incidents with the Uber car were that they were way too aggressive and not prioritizing safety in their development and testing plans.
We'll see it eventually: probably from Waymo, integrated by partner vehicle manufacturers with a few years more development and testing to get to a Beta.
But artificial intelligence (AI) programs can then "be readily adapted" to wage cyber-warfare, the MoD says. Officials are particularly concerned about the ability of rogue states and terrorists to mount advanced persistent threat attacks
How do you equate becoming good at a Real-time Strategy or Shoot-em-up game with being able to be a good hacker?
Unless the Cyber-war threat you're worried about is AIs being developed to exploit glitches in current online games such as Fortnite or PubG and rising to the top of the rankings, then I'm sure AIs that can be taught video games are pretty far away from being an AI that can be leveraged by cyberterrorists to engage in automatic "warfare"
many of the 500,000 buyers who laid down a $1,000 deposit did so expecting to buy a $35,000 car, not a $49,000 one. When they get a letter saying the time has come to configure their EVs, quite a few might decide to back out
Sorry.... If I put down $1000 in earnest according to Tesla's advertising that a $35k within a year, but at the suggested time of availability "SORRY, This won't be available for some time, but you can buy this $49K one"; then HOW is that Not a Bait-and-Switch scam?
Tesla should be due to refund not only the $1000, but liquidated damages as well.... say another $1000 PLUS Interest, per customer seeking to buy the $35K one but being told "Nope, sorry, we decided not to make that one yet, even though we had implied you would be able to order and receive this sometime in 2018."
If Trump thinks that swapping a phone every month is inconvenient ....
Then he is probably right. The gains in security from swapping out the phone every month probably don't justify the cost --- which includes the cost of trying to source a new phone every month in a way you can ensure the supply chain didn't know it was going to the president; the time required to configuring the new phone get all the preferences in order, logging into all the accounts, transferring service, etc.
All for a device that is Not the one being used for secured communications in the first place. That's what you call Security Theatre.
I have a better idea: Give the president a small lead-lined box that is also a faraday cage to seal the Twitter phone in at all times when having a confidential discussion or when just plain not using the phone.... make sure the box is packed with plenty of foam to completely smother the phone, so that any microphone or covert bug on the device won't have a chance of functioning.
Generally: the FCC asks for Name, City, State, Address, and E-mail address, and verifies None of them to post a comment.
The official form is even funner.... There's No Checkbox, AND You can type Multiple names into the "Your Name" field, And in addition they provide interfaces to Bulk-upload comments.
There is not even a superficial attempt to verify the commentator's identities and prevent robotic submissions.
less than $2/phone/month and this on Verizon's network.
What the heck? Did you put your phones on Data-ONLY service with 1GB total shared between them, or something?
That depends on the word. Claims to be "fastest" and "most reliable" have specific meanings, and should be backed by evidence. But "best" is subjective, and thus mostly meaningless.
Actually... "Fastest" and "Most Reliable" network don't really mean anything specific; what they mean depends on what you care about... RTT Latency and Low loss for VoIP or gaming? Throughput for browsing/downloads/streaming ? Dropped call rates VS Dropped Packet rates VS Latency variability? ---- even Reliability has many potential working definitions
There are a variety of different ways any network could claim "fastest" or "most reliable", and there's such a huge element of subjectivity regarding what criteria makes an overall NETWORK the Fastest or Most Reliable, That it's entirely possible TWO or THREE networks could all claim to be fastest and most reliable network, and none of them wrong in their claim.
For one thing: Most networks are huge, And the coverage, interference, propagation, connectivity, and congestion levels vary from place to place. Therefore the "fastest" network at Location A could have extremely poor performance at Locations B, C, and D.
In this case Network A is the Fastest at Location B, but not C and D.
So then HOW do you generalize a "Fastest" or "Most Reliable" claim to an entire coverage footprint?
I would personally argue you have to look at EVERY location within your coverage, And if Not a single location exists where a competitor's performance is better than yours according to your Speed or Reliability metric, THEN and only then are you the fastest or most reliable.
But in reality, there's no way the carriers are doing that.... they will be taking some statistical sample mainly from locations "deemed important" or likely to favor them or some average.
Also, for marketing purposes they'll pick the metric for Speed that they're best at, AND the metric for Reliability that they're best at ---- regardless of the relevance of that metric on its own to consumers: In other words, they'll probably do all testing and measurement gathering for Speed at off-peak times to avoid congestion, and the reliability metric will be something like Dropped Calls rate, not Packet loss%.
What, all your vehicles have more than one axle? That's no problem....
It's: first axle is free to small personal cars. $5.99 plus 10% state sales tax per additional axle (Yeah, despite the toll is being collected by the state, why wouldn't they want to tax this sale? ^_^ ).
So you see, if you take one of your less-green dual-axle vehicles, then you'll be paying $6.58,
which is still much better than $13.18.
I don't think it's even possible without a massive new bureaucracy similar to the FDA in scale.
It's not worth it. The bureaucracy required would stifle legitimate investments. That's what EVERY prior-restraint attempt by the government to suppress scams and bad investments causes ---- we already see that with the SEC.... they result in a mountain of money that has to be paid to compliance people and many MANY documents to be filed with the government, and many MANY months of waiting on the government to approve or send them back to try again in another year.
As a result; countless legitimate businesses maybe never formed, or couldn't get capital, or never went public, and huge opportunities have been and will be lost, but it's very difficult to quantify what "Could Haves" became Never weres, due to overly oppressive government.
They've coiled up a tight spring ready to release an enormous amount of momentum, and that may have something to do with why the cryptocurrency ICOs and microfinance movement have become so crazy
We honestly need - as a planet - to put in laws that stop this shite.
No we don't.... As long as management are honest the whole time; the market will correct this situation just fine.
The only thing the government should make sure of: In the event of bankruptcy, the customers who already paid for a MoviePass
with a remaining term which is now worthless have a priority claim to a pro-rata refund BEFORE any of the company's creditors get repaid.
They didn't actually remove don't be evil.... Only part of the motto was removed, you see: the only part they actually removed was the word Don't; leaving most of the policy intact.
I don't use the roads in certain parts of town, but my taxes still pay for their maintenance
That's not entirely true.... many states operate certain roads as Toll Roads, And commercial users or LARGE vehicles pay a higher toll, while smaller individual cars pay a smaller toll -- or sometimes it's even free to single-axle cars but commercial vehicles and trucks always pay, Toll Roads are toll sometimes because of how they were initially funded, but not necessarily, some more expensive to maintain or maintained to a higher standard or with additional services, or the toll is used to relieve congestion, or the road is deemed a "premium" route, so while the general taxes pay to help maintain All roads; the people who actually use the roads pay additional charges to maintain toll roads.
The taxes you pay that go towards all roads are partly because you use roads in general, and the government has no way of knowing WHICH roads you will use, AND partly because the government needs ALL roads to be functional, even less frequently used roads, so that efficient emergency services can be provided for all citizens.
If they really need to, they can allow services to mirror the data.
The project's been going for 46 years. My understanding is the raw data is in the ballpark about 400 Terabytes per year.
So cool... you want to mirror it? "We'll shoot you the download link"
It's only gonna be about 18,400 TB.
Let's say you have a dedicated 100-Gigabit private Internet link to their datacenter that never goes down and always gives perfect performance, and their servers always give you total priority --- you can start the download right now, and it will only take 17 years to finish the initial part. After which point you'll need another download of 6,800 TB for the17 years worth of catch-up data for more data that was captured while you were busy downloading so long, which will take 6 years to download at 100 Gigabit, then you'll have another 2,400 TB of catch-up data to download that'll be another 2.22 years, then 880 TB more of catch-up data which will be another 0.82 years, then 320 TB of catch-up data which will take 0.3 years to download, then 0.111 years for 120 TB catch-up, then 0.04 years for 44 TB, then 0.013 years to complete, So basically...... 26 years of downloading before you have the first up-to-date mirrored state, better get busy.
Trump is just looking for more ways to convert more government programs into being profit BUs
Not really... generating bulk Landsat products for download is EXPENSIVE. They are archiving thousands of scenes which amounts to DAILY Terabytes worth of stored data being processed to service requests.
Sure it's a public service to provide access to process a reasonable volume of data for Use by other governmental Entities and for use in the course of Non-Profit, Non-Politicized Scientific Research, AND ability to process and produce a small amount of data for Individual and Non-Profit Educational purposes.
However.... since the costs of processing a lot of data to use the Product Generator to order a downloadable product are enormous, AND the cost of bandwidth is significant ---- My feeling is when these orders are made for For-Profit purposes..... the user should pay at least the cost PLUS some reasonable charges to help support the service and negate the burden on taxpayers, since the service is useful even For-Profit entities: ALL users should benefit from funds provided by those brokering or analyzing the data for-pay or using it in their course of business to make a profit.
1. The world is getting warmer 2. There are less pirates. Therefore 'global warming' must be caused by a lack of pirates.
Clearly industry is killing off all the pirates through global warming which is destroying their native habitat --- which is cooler more predictable waters. OK... That, and stronger coastguards, militaries, and maritime courts in the 20th century that are strong enforcers of no-piracy laws.
On the other hand there is STILL piracy out there. And the BSA, RIAA, and MPAA would strongly disagree with you about "There are less pirates.".... apparently there are more pirates than ever; they're just a different species evolved slightly so they're no longer concerned by warming conditions, and no longer hindered by having to take physical goods on the high seas.
Actually.. SOMETIMES correlation IS the result of causation; causation is ONE possible thing that can lead to correlation.... SOME physically demanding jobs involve more exposure to toxic chemicals; However, it is far too few jobs to explain this correlation, and due to OSHA requirements, safety precautions are required.
The concept in the summary is interesting When you choose to exercise, you can take rest periods when you want -- something that often may not be available to you if you're working on a building site (for example).
Perhaps this suggests that companies be required to allow physical laborers more frequent breaks; E.G. Must allow for an interruption or reprieve in any physical labor no less often than at least once every 20 minutes no shorter than 5 minutes, and allow for a minimum total of 30 minutes mandatory rest time for every 90 minutes of physical labor; not including the time required to be allowed for lunch, and time required to be allowed for two 15 minute breaks per hour.
Ever notice how many Mac computers have their Apple logos taped over?
I'm surprised Apple doesn't have a clause in the EULA against displaying or distributing a picture or video containing an Apple computer or phone with logos removed, defaced, or concealed.
"Act of congress" or not, Acts under the Congressional review act have been made invalid by a presidential veto 12 times --- every time it was Obama.
There's no real provision in the constitution for an act of congress that can't be veto'd, aside from setting house rules, impeachment proceedings, or constitutional amendments.
I'm not clued up enough to know if the current 1 million miners could handle 7 billion people's worth of transactions but if they could increases in energy usage would be negligible.
The chain has a fixed transaction throughput no matter how people are mining.
If so many people adopt Bitcoin, then they'll need to be fully using a multilayer scaling solution such as Lightning network for all their transactions.