That's a lot harder to figure out, since every currency note has to be manufactured, and occasionally cleaned, or burned and remanufactured, there are also the processing of raw materials that went into every currency note. Furthermore, all the human labor and equipment involved in counting, processing, and distributing coins and notes. Even with electronic payments; there is a massive amount of 24x7 server and datacenter infrastructure to run JUST the banking functions, and these applications are closed-source, and not necessarily designed to be efficient in terms of the size and power consumption of the centralized infrastructures required to support them.
It's worth pointing out that unlike other currencies... BTC's not manufactured, so there's not a small number of single locations where energy is consumed. If BTC is using 0.5% of the world energy.... it's not the SAME as a country, because all the energy consumption is NOT in one place. BTC uses distributed mining, and the locations of mines are likely to be in places where there is a surplus of energy resulting in the cost being low ---- as pointed out, Bitcoin can help provide a stable base energy demand to justify construction of more renewable energy production capacity that humans need anyways, and when the NORMAL demand picks up, Bitcoin mining will slow down/move elsewhere, because mining becomes less profitable the more demand there is for the energy.
In 2014, Assange allegedly breached the embassy's network security, reading confidential diplomatic material and setting up his own secret communications network.
Seriously? After all the hospitality they've provided Assange? They need to write up formal charges for this and extradite him for computer crimes committed at the embassy. He should get a LONG stay in an Ecuadorian prison that will make the Sweden rape allegations look small by comparison.
That means the fee is charged even when Comcast doesn't have to make any upgrades at the house or apartment you're moving into.
It doesn't matter.... it's not like the fee is unfair or large compared to the monthly rate -- it is STILL going to require Comcast employee labor to update records in their system to get your service up and running, and you can consider some of the install fee to help recover some of the customer service employee labor costs that are common for service setup for many people. One-time initial activation fees are pretty common for services, even some cell phone carriers use an initial fee for setup, and it's part of the way companies choose to recover some of their costs and make their profits.
Therefore, for the DACA or Dreamers, or anything involving immigration, it is up to CONGRESS
Exactly. DACA was never authorized by congress; it was an Unauthorized initiative of the executive branch to discriminatorily delay some enforcement actions against SOME people illegally present while others would be subject to being deported.
Options are either (A) Congress addresses this promptly, OR (B) Enforce the laws of this country as written and proceed to deport the "Dreamers".
The headline said: Smarter People Don't Have Better Passwords, Study Finds
The summary said: students with better grades use bad passwords in the same proportion as students with bad ones.
Counterpoint: Better grades are not a measure of "smartness" or intelligence --- Grades are a course-specific measure of performance in class on typically assignments and tests which are bound to frequently have some level of instructor subjectivity embedded into the result: At the very least in advanced subjects, the instructors tends to chooses to emphasize some topics on exams and are bound to leave out other topics, some students are more concerned about learning than grinding specific instructor-emphasized line items for high grades in particular classes and may spend more time deepening their knowledge of material in depth and breadth, so by being less concerned about gaming grading results to ensure an A they actually learn a lot more from the course of study than the A student but perhaps get a B or C, because they weren't hammering flash cards on the small selection of topics the professor wants them to answer on a high-stakes time limited exam or narrow-deadline assignment, And grade are affected by things that don't necessarily equate to a student being smart or not.... some of the prodigies that started the tech revolution were college dropouts or got bad scores, so high grades don't equate to intelligence, they never did
Secondly.... General intelligence and Security-Awareness / security-specific intelligence may be correlated weakly but less so than one would expect with general good grades
Obesity is especially dangerous in London, as it makes it harder to dodge the knives, knives, knives.
Actually... they've banned carrying around knives in the UK now, and citizens will occasionally be searched to make sure they dont' have any. So now they just need to be able to dodge wrenches, clubs, baseball bats, spears, sharp punji sticks, and other improvised weapons.
If you expect the government to pay for the consequences, they should also have the right to prevent.
Right to prevent, sure.... but don't mess with the food companies. Childhood obesity is Not a problem with foods --- It's a problem with kids not getting enough exercise and having a bad overall diet.
The logical thing to do then is to mandate that children complete a certain number of exercise hours per week and keep a food diary, with food intake meeting certain qualifications Before they are allowed to use public transportation ---- If Not, then you can walk.
That and I think Blockbuster went IPO the same day RedHat did.
They need a second IPO to raise funds to meet demand generated by the recent Retro VHS craze. Tapes flying off the shelves faster than the trucks can bring them in.:Kappa
And professionalism is all about squashing passions.
Actually "Professionalism" is highly subjective, AND changes over time and varies from group to group and organization to organization, because it is a cultural concept. Within some organizations any sort of joking or funning around would be unprofessional --- within others its the way of life within the codebase, AND GNU is also its own culture...
It's important that GNU culture is not made subservient or dissolved so as to adapt to the commercial world's professional ideals.
Do not come say "Resistance is futile, Your culture will adapt to service our (Commercial highly business-centric culture that values proprietary and not offending anyone over having fun)", Because that's in effect what some of the developers are saying.
1. Mandatory Disclosure of KNOWN security bugs in a consumer product by any governmental entity, First to the manufacturer for a designated "Fix" period, after which, all vulnerability details shall be available to the public through FOIA request.
2. NO HORDING DEVICE OR SERVICE EXPLOITS: A security researcher, company, member of law enforcement, government, or any other party having accidentally, or intentionally: a successful defeat for a security measure on any common consumer product, OR public service must minimize the amount of proprietary or other users' data exposed during any proof of concept testing, and make minimal efforts to fully disclose their activities and all details of potential vulnerabilities to the operator of the service within 15 days of discovery, or they shall be deemed liable for holding means of fraudulent access with intent to commit a crime and fined the estimated value of the exploit not less than $10000 for a natural person, and not less than $100,000 for other persons.
3. Prohibition against selling for a profit, importing, trafficking in, or incorporating PAID security exploits, PAID software, or COMMERCIAL devices that are designed with a specific built-in function to defeat security measures or intercept data by falsifying network or over-the-air signals or "impersonating" another device into a commercial product, or conducting security exploits in the course of business, except if the course of business is pentesting and the exploit is used in the course of business against ONLY systems fully owned by the customer within the scope of a security testing engagement, OR If the complete source code for all software and design specifications for all hardware and details of all exploits are disclosed to the public 30 days prior to the sale or release of the commercial product.
4. Mandated Disclosures by MANUFACTURERS of the existence of ALL intentional security backdoors and remote means of access into any consumer or commercial smart phone, computer, appliance, or network device with criminal penalties for failing, AND public disclosure of any foreign governments or persons/organizations outside the manufacturer or outside the US that will have Access Credentials, Backdoor Access Procedures, Security Keys, or other Digital Signing or Decryption keys that are significant and could be used to exploit a device.
I am in full agreement here. My hope for a while has been that the recent appearance of wrongdoing/malfeasance by FBI/DOJ LEADERSHIP politicizing investigations Or creating at least the idea of possible political bias and impropriety in the seemingly potential abuse of FBI/DOJ powers and resources by its leadership lying to the courts to "investigate" targets on the opposite political side has begun sewing seeds of distrust in the FBI within the Congress and within the executive ----- such that they'll recognize that mandating backdoors would be a major risk even to members of our own government, AND on the Flip side.... the law should actually Ban or Dissuade companies like Apple from incorporating backdoors or marketing products with backdoors in their security WITHOUT CLEARLY AND CONSPICUOUSLY DISCLOSING that might be accessible to foreign governments, for national security reasons.
No problem. Bring all of them to IT Services asap, we'll get right on it...tomorrow at the latest.
No... it HAS to be done to roll out a critical update to the IP cameras by lunch today, otherwise any resulting damage and repair costs resulting from still running unpatched firmware will be deducted from IT's budget. ^_^
That's not true. Your secretary ordering goods is acting as your agent, with authority to bind you as principal.
Nope. The secretary is acting on your behalf, but has no legal agency: at least we'll assume you didn't give the secretary a credit card and authorize the assistant to pay for and complete the order. The employee handbook even specifically says the employee has no such agency to bind the company or their manager to a contract.
Technically, an arrangement to meet with a planned purchase has been made, but there's no binding contract to buy any services just calling on the phone to place an order: the parties to the agreement haven't even shown evidence of their commitment.
It's still possible you could appear to pick up your order, and they tell you they were out of X, or cannot fulfill --- you have no recourse, just because they told you it will be ready in 15 minutes does not make it a contract, And you could fail to go pick up your order, which might leave them a bit upset, but their recourse is essentially to refuse you future orders, or require you prepay or sign something.
For example: I sometimes deal with Raspberry PIs being used for organizational purposes, and in order to set them up I need to format and image a SD card. I have a number of environmental controllers whose only network interface is a Serial port, and the procedure to kick off a firmware update is to load the new.BIN file onto a SD card, and then boot up the controller with the card containing a new firmware file, And also, system logfiles, and some test equipment's log data is written to SD.
There are plenty such use cases where "Portable media" is the only viable option to accomplish vital tasks.
I have to ask: is the desirability of the behavior that you describe, really limited to chatbots?
It's not limited to Chatbots, BUT since in the future all telemarketing calls are likely to be from chatbots (What callcenter could pass on the savings of not employing humans?) --- I would suggest new laws be passed under the banner of preventing chatbots from facilitating increased abuses against consumers AND enabling consumers to better filter and control calls automatically.
Part of the point is I want to have my OWN Automated chatbot that will ask a few questions to everyone that calls me before passing the call onto me, And I want to make sure i'm not receiving calls that are just solicitations/spam, And I want to tell them to leave a 30 second message with the essence of what they have to say, if they're a bot calling me for an important purpose.
Why would adopting additional children be considered bad?
It wouldn't be considered bad. And it's just an example of one kind of regulation that could be used to help avoid the availability of rejuvenation causing population armageddon --- If that's an issue.
Other ideas would be to start teraforming and colonizing other planets, moons, and other bodies and space, then move large percentages of the populations to the colonies and find LARGE stashes of additional resources, which could eliminate the need for regulation.
Another thought would be.... What if the miracle/magical "Rejuvenation" treatment were required to be administered to (A) young people before puberty, and (B) People who have already aged so much, they no longer have any reproductive capacity?
People would ideally receive the treatment somewhere between Age 9 and 10, and the treatment would be designed to suspend further sexual development / "aging" processes which also delays by hundreds of years your ability to reproduce -- Ideally you could live to age 80 or so, and a number of years later at your choosing: After you've "Lived the full live", you end the rejuvenation treatment a few years before the time you are ready to have your own kids -- at the time choose to continue aging and sexual development for 60 more years, And when your physical age corresponds to 60 or so, you are allowed to resume rejuvenation indefinitely.
This would also help give any gender fluid individuals ample opportunity to choose what biological sex they develop as --- Aging is so heinous, the only compassionate/moral thing to do is to suspend aging and sexual development for everyone until they've reached the age of majority and the mental maturity to make these important decisions; Not just when and If to have kids, but whether you will be a man or a woman, Etc.
What makes you think a machine can enter a legally binding contract?
Your secretary making the call on your behalf to setup an appointment or order goods does not enter you into a legally binding contract, either --- it's a good faith order, but not binding until goods or money have been exchanged and accepted by the otherparty.
In this case, the contract is not "made" until you receive goods or make payment.
I legitimately feel sorry for service workers who are going to have to take orders from Duplex. It seems oddly dehumanizing to be ordered around by a machine.
They're not being "ordered around by a machine". They are employed by a human, and the employee's job is to record the appointment being scheduled or order for goods being made, so their business can service the order ----- Think of it like an E-commerce employee: it is the same deal.... Orders come in from online customers on a specialized website, and an employee watching prints off the order to be executed.
That would work in the service industry true, BUT the only problems are....
(1) Most small service companies don't have a website suitable for ecommerce, and the custom programming is expensive
(2) The problem with Ecommerce websites in general is there's no "standardized" interface provided to allow you to make an automated order for goods or services through a 3rd party tool --- how are you supposed to tell your Google Home... "OK Google, get a hot pizza delivered"; If all the restaurants have bespoke websites only designed for use by humans, but no standardized interface, AND 90% of them only take orders by the phone, because they're small business, and the tens of thousands to invest in custom website development doesn't make sense in their mind for the small number of online orders they'd be expected to receive?.
Right.... I just want a law that any chatbot used on the telephone must NOT attempt to lie or deceive and MUST answer truthfully, in particular, when asked questions about the call or itself, Must answer all such questions to the full extent without hanging up the call, attempting to misdirect, or attempting to transfer the call to another person or line, such as "Is this an automatic call?", "Do I have an account with your company?", "Is this call a solicitation or sales call?", "Are you a chatbot?", and, about the company that made or accepted the call, and about the chatbot operator's client whom they are making the call on behalf of, and the listing of any chain of 3rd parties engaging the client --- the Chatbot must provide their complete name, Addresses, and Registered agent names and addresses for All upon request.
More likely it will be being middle class or lower which kills people
More likely: Disease. A population that has a longer turnover is less able to evolve and adapt --- humans as a species already have this problem to an extent; living 75 years or so more than most species.
once it is priced at $50k per year per person (in 2018 dollars) to stop this from creating too much of a strain on resources.
Such insane pricing would give rise to 'generic' unauthorized versions. You take a flight to some shady country, don't ask too many questions, and you get a pirated version of the $50k medication for $20.
If it's a choice between people dying of old age and restrictions on reproduction I'd choose restrictions on reproduction.
I favor freedom of choice for each individual --- I suggest you be allowed to pick between.... [1] No concessions, But no access to this special treatment AND [2] Access to this special treatment, with an agreed upon restriction/caveat.... (1) As a condition to receiving a rejuvenate treatment like this --- If you are a child at the time, then nothing special is required, but on the other hand: If you are a fertile man/woman able to produce a child or fertilize an egg, then you will receive at the same time as treatment starts, an extra surgical or chemical procedure specific to your biological sex such as vasectomy or tubal ligation that acts to help ensure no more viable eggs or sperm will be released that could lead to intercourse resulting in offspring, and your ability to reproduce is going to be curtailed from that day forward, AND [2] If some method is found to reverse the sterilization procedure, then you agree not to reverse it --- If you reverse it, or are found to have a child other than a child you adopted or had BEFORE the process, then you are banned from further rejuvenation treatments.
You've watched too much.... there are other ways to ascertain how long ago blood stopped flowing through the body, etc. Although the high salt-content bath could double as an embalming solution as well.
A person found face down indicates either foul play or action taken by the deceased.
Or involuntary action where the deceased had turned over face into the water. In theory the high salt content SHOULD burn the nose and eyes causing the person to wake up immediately.
The number of drownings not involving a medical condition are not zero, but they're rare compared to how often people are using flotation tanks.
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But how much energy is used by other currencies?
That's a lot harder to figure out, since every currency note has to be manufactured, and occasionally cleaned, or burned and remanufactured, there are also the processing of raw materials that went into every currency note. Furthermore, all the human labor and equipment involved in counting, processing, and distributing coins and notes. Even with electronic payments; there is a massive amount of 24x7 server and datacenter infrastructure to run JUST the banking functions, and these applications are closed-source, and not necessarily designed to be efficient in terms of the size and power consumption of the centralized infrastructures required to support them.
It's worth pointing out that unlike other currencies... BTC's not manufactured, so there's not a small number of single locations where energy is consumed. If BTC is using 0.5% of the world energy.... it's not the SAME as a country, because all the energy consumption is NOT in one place. BTC uses distributed mining, and the locations of mines are likely to be in places where there is a surplus of energy resulting in the cost being low ---- as pointed out, Bitcoin can help provide a stable base energy demand to justify construction of more renewable energy production capacity that humans need anyways, and when the NORMAL demand picks up, Bitcoin mining will slow down/move elsewhere, because mining becomes less profitable the more demand there is for the energy.
In 2014, Assange allegedly breached the embassy's network security, reading confidential diplomatic material and setting up his own secret communications network.
Seriously? After all the hospitality they've provided Assange? They need to write up formal charges for this and extradite him for computer crimes committed at the embassy. He should get a LONG stay in an Ecuadorian prison that will make the Sweden rape allegations look small by comparison.
That means the fee is charged even when Comcast doesn't have to make any upgrades at the house or apartment you're moving into.
It doesn't matter.... it's not like the fee is unfair or large compared to the monthly rate -- it is STILL going to require Comcast employee labor to update records in their system to get your service up and running, and you can consider some of the install fee to help recover some of the customer service employee labor costs that are common for service setup for many people. One-time initial activation fees are pretty common for services, even some cell phone carriers use an initial fee for setup, and it's part of the way companies choose to recover some of their costs and make their profits.
Therefore, for the DACA or Dreamers, or anything involving immigration, it is up to CONGRESS
Exactly. DACA was never authorized by congress; it was an Unauthorized initiative of the executive branch to discriminatorily delay some enforcement actions against SOME people illegally present while others would be subject to being deported.
Options are either (A) Congress addresses this promptly, OR (B) Enforce the laws of this country as written and proceed to deport the "Dreamers".
The headline said: Smarter People Don't Have Better Passwords, Study Finds
The summary said: students with better grades use bad passwords in the same proportion as students with bad ones.
Counterpoint: Better grades are not a measure of "smartness" or intelligence --- Grades are a course-specific measure of performance in class on typically assignments and tests which are bound to frequently have some level of instructor subjectivity embedded into the result: At the very least in advanced subjects, the instructors tends to chooses to emphasize some topics on exams and are bound to leave out other topics, some students are more concerned about learning than grinding specific instructor-emphasized line items for high grades in particular classes and may spend more time deepening their knowledge of material in depth and breadth, so by being less concerned about gaming grading results to ensure an A they actually learn a lot more from the course of study than the A student but perhaps get a B or C, because they weren't hammering flash cards on the small selection of topics the professor wants them to answer on a high-stakes time limited exam or narrow-deadline assignment, And grade are affected by things that don't necessarily equate to a student being smart or not.... some of the prodigies that started the tech revolution were college dropouts or got bad scores, so high grades don't equate to intelligence, they never did
Secondly.... General intelligence and Security-Awareness / security-specific intelligence may be correlated weakly but less so than one would expect with general good grades
Obesity is especially dangerous in London, as it makes it harder to dodge the knives, knives, knives.
Actually... they've banned carrying around knives in the UK now, and citizens will occasionally be searched
to make sure they dont' have any. So now they just need to be able to dodge wrenches, clubs, baseball bats, spears, sharp punji sticks, and other improvised weapons.
If you expect the government to pay for the consequences, they should also have the right to prevent.
Right to prevent, sure.... but don't mess with the food companies. Childhood obesity is Not a problem with foods --- It's a problem with kids not getting enough exercise and having a bad overall diet.
The logical thing to do then is to mandate that children complete a certain number of exercise hours per week and keep a food diary, with food intake meeting certain qualifications Before they are allowed to use public transportation ---- If Not, then you can walk.
That and I think Blockbuster went IPO the same day RedHat did.
They need a second IPO to raise funds to meet demand generated by the recent Retro VHS craze. Tapes flying off the shelves faster than the trucks can bring them in. :Kappa
And professionalism is all about squashing passions.
Actually "Professionalism" is highly subjective, AND changes over time and varies from group to group and organization to organization, because it is a cultural concept. Within some organizations any sort of joking or funning around would be unprofessional --- within others its the way of life within the codebase,
AND GNU is also its own culture...
It's important that GNU culture is not made subservient or dissolved so as to adapt to the commercial world's professional ideals.
Do not come say "Resistance is futile, Your culture will adapt to service our (Commercial highly business-centric culture that values proprietary and not offending anyone over having fun)", Because that's in effect what some of the developers are saying.
I also want to see:
1. Mandatory Disclosure of KNOWN security bugs in a consumer product by any governmental entity, First to the manufacturer for a designated "Fix" period, after which, all vulnerability details shall be available to the public through FOIA request.
2. NO HORDING DEVICE OR SERVICE EXPLOITS: A security researcher, company, member of law enforcement, government, or any other party having accidentally, or intentionally: a successful defeat for a security measure on any common consumer product, OR public service must minimize the amount of proprietary or other users' data exposed during any proof of concept testing, and make minimal efforts to fully disclose their activities and all details of potential vulnerabilities to the operator of the service within 15 days of discovery, or they shall be deemed liable for holding means of fraudulent access with intent to commit a crime and fined the estimated value of the exploit not less than $10000 for a natural person, and not less than $100,000 for other persons.
3. Prohibition against selling for a profit, importing, trafficking in, or incorporating PAID security exploits, PAID software, or COMMERCIAL devices that are designed with a specific built-in function to defeat security measures or intercept data by falsifying network or over-the-air signals or "impersonating" another device into a commercial product, or conducting security exploits in the course of business, except if the course of business is pentesting and the exploit is used in the course of business against ONLY systems fully owned by the customer within the scope of a security testing engagement, OR If the complete source code for all software and design specifications for all hardware and details of all exploits are disclosed to the public 30 days prior to the sale or release of the commercial product.
4. Mandated Disclosures by MANUFACTURERS of the existence of ALL intentional security backdoors and remote means of access into any consumer or commercial smart phone, computer, appliance, or network device with criminal penalties for failing, AND public disclosure of any foreign governments or persons/organizations outside the manufacturer or outside the US that will have Access Credentials, Backdoor Access Procedures, Security Keys, or other Digital Signing or Decryption keys that are significant and could be used to exploit a device.
I am in full agreement here. My hope for a while has been that the recent appearance of wrongdoing/malfeasance by FBI/DOJ LEADERSHIP politicizing investigations Or creating at least the idea of possible political bias and impropriety in the seemingly potential abuse of FBI/DOJ powers and resources by its leadership lying to the courts to "investigate" targets on the opposite political side has begun sewing seeds of distrust in the FBI within the Congress and within the executive ----- such that they'll recognize that mandating backdoors would be a major risk even to members of our own government, AND on the Flip side.... the law should actually Ban or Dissuade companies like Apple from incorporating backdoors or marketing products with backdoors in their security WITHOUT CLEARLY AND CONSPICUOUSLY DISCLOSING that might be accessible to foreign governments, for national security reasons.
No problem. Bring all of them to IT Services asap, we'll get right on it...tomorrow at the latest.
No... it HAS to be done to roll out a critical update to the IP cameras by lunch today, otherwise any resulting damage and repair costs resulting from still running unpatched firmware will be deducted from IT's budget. ^_^
That's not true. Your secretary ordering goods is acting as your agent, with authority to bind you as principal.
Nope. The secretary is acting on your behalf, but has no legal agency: at least we'll assume you didn't give the secretary a credit card and authorize the assistant to pay for and complete the order. The employee handbook even specifically says the employee has no such agency to bind the company or their manager to a contract.
Technically, an arrangement to meet with a planned purchase has been made, but there's no binding contract to buy any services just calling on the phone to place an order: the parties to the agreement haven't even shown evidence of their commitment.
It's still possible you could appear to pick up your order, and they tell you they were out of X, or cannot fulfill --- you have no recourse, just because they told you it will be ready in 15 minutes does not make it a contract, And you could fail to go pick up your order, which might leave them a bit upset, but their recourse is essentially to refuse you future orders, or require you prepay or sign something.
OK... I have 1000 of these for you to get Whitelisted before this afternoon, and I'll have another 1000 tomorrow morning.
For example: I sometimes deal with Raspberry PIs being used for organizational purposes, and in order to set them up I need to format and image a SD card. I have a number of environmental controllers whose only network interface is a Serial port, and the procedure to kick off a firmware update is to load the new .BIN file onto a SD card, and then boot up the controller with the card containing a new firmware file, And also, system logfiles, and some test equipment's log data is written to SD.
There are plenty such use cases where "Portable media" is the only viable option to accomplish vital tasks.
I have to ask: is the desirability of the behavior that you describe, really limited to chatbots?
It's not limited to Chatbots, BUT since in the future all telemarketing calls are likely to be from chatbots (What callcenter could pass on the savings of not employing humans?) --- I would suggest new laws be passed under the banner of preventing chatbots from facilitating increased abuses against consumers AND enabling consumers to better filter and control calls automatically.
Part of the point is I want to have my OWN Automated chatbot that will ask a few questions to everyone that calls me
before passing the call onto me, And I want to make sure i'm not receiving calls that are just solicitations/spam, And
I want to tell them to leave a 30 second message with the essence of what they have to say, if they're a bot calling me for an important purpose.
Why would adopting additional children be considered bad?
It wouldn't be considered bad. And it's just an example of one kind of regulation that could be used to
help avoid the availability of rejuvenation causing population armageddon --- If that's an issue.
Other ideas would be to start teraforming and colonizing other planets, moons, and other bodies and space, then
move large percentages of the populations to the colonies and find LARGE stashes of additional resources,
which could eliminate the need for regulation.
Another thought would be.... What if the miracle/magical "Rejuvenation" treatment were required to be administered to (A) young people before puberty, and (B) People who have already aged so much, they no longer have any reproductive capacity?
People would ideally receive the treatment somewhere between Age 9 and 10, and the treatment would be designed to suspend
further sexual development / "aging" processes which also delays by hundreds of years your ability to reproduce -- Ideally you could live to age 80 or so, and a number of years later at your choosing: After you've "Lived the full live", you end the rejuvenation treatment a few years before the time you are ready to have your own kids -- at the time choose to continue aging and sexual development for 60 more years, And when your physical age corresponds to 60 or so, you are allowed to resume rejuvenation indefinitely.
This would also help give any gender fluid individuals ample opportunity to choose what biological sex they develop as --- Aging is so heinous, the only compassionate/moral thing to do is to suspend aging and sexual development for everyone until they've reached the age of majority and the mental maturity to make these important decisions; Not just when and If to have kids, but whether you will be a man or a woman, Etc.
What makes you think a machine can enter a legally binding contract?
Your secretary making the call on your behalf to setup an appointment or order goods does not enter you into a legally binding contract, either --- it's a good faith order, but not binding until goods or money have been exchanged and accepted by the otherparty.
In this case, the contract is not "made" until you receive goods or make payment.
I legitimately feel sorry for service workers who are going to have to take orders from Duplex. It seems oddly dehumanizing to be ordered around by a machine.
They're not being "ordered around by a machine". They are employed by a human, and the employee's job is to record the appointment being scheduled or order for goods being made, so their business can service the order ----- Think of it like an E-commerce employee: it is the same deal.... Orders come in from online customers on a specialized website, and an employee watching prints off the order to be executed.
That would work in the service industry true, BUT the only problems are....
(1) Most small service companies don't have a website suitable for ecommerce, and the custom programming is expensive
(2) The problem with Ecommerce websites in general is there's no "standardized" interface provided to allow you to make an automated order for goods or services through a 3rd party tool --- how are you supposed to tell your Google Home... "OK Google, get a hot pizza delivered"; If all the restaurants have bespoke websites only designed for use by humans, but no standardized interface, AND 90% of them only take orders by the phone, because they're small business, and the tens of thousands to invest in custom website development doesn't make sense in their mind for the small number of online orders they'd be expected to receive?.
Right.... I just want a law that any chatbot used on the telephone must NOT attempt to lie or deceive and MUST answer truthfully, in particular, when asked questions about the call or itself, Must answer all such questions to the full extent without hanging up the call, attempting to misdirect, or attempting to transfer the call to another person or line, such as "Is this an automatic call?", "Do I have an account with your company?", "Is this call a solicitation or sales call?", "Are you a chatbot?", and, about the company that made or accepted the call, and about the chatbot operator's client whom they are making the call on behalf of, and the listing of any chain of 3rd parties engaging the client --- the Chatbot must provide their complete name, Addresses, and Registered agent names and addresses for All upon request.
More likely it will be being middle class or lower which kills people
More likely: Disease. A population that has a longer turnover is less able to evolve and adapt --- humans as a species already have this problem to an extent; living 75 years or so more than most species.
once it is priced at $50k per year per person (in 2018 dollars) to stop this from creating too much of a strain on resources.
Such insane pricing would give rise to 'generic' unauthorized versions. You take a flight to some shady country, don't ask too many questions, and you get a pirated version of the $50k medication for $20.
If it's a choice between people dying of old age and restrictions on reproduction I'd choose restrictions on reproduction.
I favor freedom of choice for each individual --- I suggest you be allowed to pick between.... [1] No concessions, But no access to this special treatment AND [2] Access to this special treatment, with an agreed upon restriction/caveat.... (1) As a condition to receiving a rejuvenate treatment like this --- If you are a child at the time, then nothing special is required, but on the other hand: If you are a fertile man/woman able to produce a child or fertilize an egg, then you will receive at the same time as treatment starts, an extra surgical or chemical procedure specific to your biological sex such as vasectomy or tubal ligation that acts to help ensure no more viable eggs or sperm will be released that could lead to intercourse resulting in offspring, and your ability to reproduce is going to be curtailed from that day forward, AND [2] If some method is found to reverse the sterilization procedure, then you agree not to reverse it --- If you reverse it, or are found to have a child other than a child you adopted or had BEFORE the process, then you are banned from further rejuvenation treatments.
You've watched too much.... there are other ways to ascertain how long ago blood stopped flowing through the body, etc. Although the high salt-content bath could double as an embalming solution as well.
There's been no evidence published that he was subjected to any slow-acting poisons.
A person found face down indicates either foul play or action taken by the deceased.
Or involuntary action where the deceased had turned over face into the water. In theory the high salt content SHOULD burn the nose and eyes causing the person to wake up immediately.
The number of drownings not involving a medical condition are not zero, but they're rare compared to how often people are using flotation tanks.