Well it will be pretty much difficult to do such thing in NA. Try to limit people's access to jobs and watch the lawsuits. What can be done here is to heavily tax companies that don't allow telecommute when possible (something like $25000/year/employee for starters). And heavily tax (to insupportable levels) office space in city downtown.
As a result, either the businesses that shouldn't be there will move out, or there will be enough money for building and maintaining proper public transit.
Stop f**g the motorists as they are the symptom not the problem.
Private funding is great in many areas. This is particularly true of science that addresses problems that society needs to solve (e.g. medicine) or that captures people's imaginations (e.g. astronomy).
I'll leave it to you as an exercise to compare the amounts of private funding that went to astronomy vs. "economics" (paid-for publications and think-tanks included). Why would that have happened?
They probably needed something "new" and thus patentable. And since all the good possibilities were already used (prior art), they came up with the contraption that you like to hate.
This is not about the mechanical connector (you can always use an adapter cable). This is about those device manufacturers that verify via USB protocol that the charger is made by them too. So the device won't work with anything else regardless of the fact that the cable fits. The idea is that the check should be on the maximum current supported by the charger, not on its make and model.
Which Apple phone uses a standard USB connector? Or are thinking to use a cable? An iPhone dock with a dangling cable? Just purrfect for a Ferrari, eh?
The cases where the FDIC insured stuff just "vanishes" are very rare. It would be something like cash lost in a fire. Then indeed printing a replacement won't change anything. In reality that cash is not lost - it just changes hands, ending in the pockets of an unscrupulous banker and his acolytes. Now if you're printing a replacement you got more money than before, and exactly the same quantity of goods / services to buy. What will happen?
So you're being "made whole" either from taxation or inflation, i.e. from your own money. Which means you still have lost that amount (directly or through reduced purchase power). No word on what should happen to the guys that ran away with the loot?
Who could have guessed they have credit cards down there???
The Brits got such a great deal with partially funding BBC via advertising. Instead of directly funding BBC via taxes, they now spend the same amount on increased products prices, and get to watch advertising instead of useful programming.
Getting alerts is one thing and controlling from a central location is a pretty much different beast.
You can implement the first as an electrically isolated box with a temperature sensor. It does not need to be connected in any other way to the fridge controls. The box can be connected to the internet and send e-mail alerts. An attacker breaking into the box could reprogram it to send false alerts or not send alerts at all. But he won't be able to take control over the fridge itself and reprogram the thermostat or shut it down.
The second (controlling lighting/HVAC from a central station) introduces a single point of failure exposed to internet so you'd better run it on its own dedicated network. Yes it costs money to run extra cables. But it also costs money to firewall it when connected to Internet, while the results cannot be guaranteed in any way.
Someone that haven't yet commented on a certain beta (and thus is still receiving mod points), please mod the parent up. The worst thing to do to security is to interconnect everything and, on top of it, have some "central" authority to manage all the stuff. Unfortunately this is the thinking of most CIOs today. While autonomous, distributed, locally managed subsystems have always proved to be more resilient to attacks.
Muahahaha you have to see it in action on the Wikipedia "Cloud computing" page. Just a sample: In common usage, the term "my butt" is essentially a metaphor for the Internet.
So those "kids directing laser pointers towards airplanes" could in reality be officers mishandling their LIDARs? And, BTW, if pointing lasers at pilots/drivers is such a serious thing, why are police officers allowed to do it?
Not really. It actually involves not building any more skyscrapers hosting cubicle farms. Especially when all the "work" done there does not require physical presence at all. To paraphrase you, "building more office space downtown makes traffic worse".
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Well it will be pretty much difficult to do such thing in NA. Try to limit people's access to jobs and watch the lawsuits. What can be done here is to heavily tax companies that don't allow telecommute when possible (something like $25000/year/employee for starters). And heavily tax (to insupportable levels) office space in city downtown.
As a result, either the businesses that shouldn't be there will move out, or there will be enough money for building and maintaining proper public transit.
Stop f**g the motorists as they are the symptom not the problem.
How comes that if public transit is such a Good Thing(TM), people don't use it "enough" and it ends up being subventioned by motorists?
I'll leave it to you as an exercise to compare the amounts of private funding that went to astronomy vs. "economics" (paid-for publications and think-tanks included). Why would that have happened?
They probably needed something "new" and thus patentable. And since all the good possibilities were already used (prior art), they came up with the contraption that you like to hate.
I think they got the wrong family. Maybe Borgia would be a better fit.
This is not about the mechanical connector (you can always use an adapter cable). This is about those device manufacturers that verify via USB protocol that the charger is made by them too. So the device won't work with anything else regardless of the fact that the cable fits. The idea is that the check should be on the maximum current supported by the charger, not on its make and model.
Does it run Office?
Sure thing?
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She was a student
Her father was an engineer
Won't you shed a tear
For my yellow rose
My yellow rose
Amen.
Which Apple phone uses a standard USB connector? Or are thinking to use a cable? An iPhone dock with a dangling cable? Just purrfect for a Ferrari, eh?
Mhh how about Apple changing the iPhone connector once more? Yehaaaw your Mercedes is now obsolete lol. Let's do it, "it's good for the economy" (TM).
Because now you'll have to pay AT&T monthly in order to use it or the GPS. It's good for the economy!!!
The cases where the FDIC insured stuff just "vanishes" are very rare. It would be something like cash lost in a fire. Then indeed printing a replacement won't change anything. In reality that cash is not lost - it just changes hands, ending in the pockets of an unscrupulous banker and his acolytes. Now if you're printing a replacement you got more money than before, and exactly the same quantity of goods / services to buy. What will happen?
So you're being "made whole" either from taxation or inflation, i.e. from your own money. Which means you still have lost that amount (directly or through reduced purchase power). No word on what should happen to the guys that ran away with the loot?
Who could have guessed they have credit cards down there???
The Brits got such a great deal with partially funding BBC via advertising. Instead of directly funding BBC via taxes, they now spend the same amount on increased products prices, and get to watch advertising instead of useful programming.
And what happens if FDIC goes bust too?
Getting alerts is one thing and controlling from a central location is a pretty much different beast.
You can implement the first as an electrically isolated box with a temperature sensor. It does not need to be connected in any other way to the fridge controls. The box can be connected to the internet and send e-mail alerts. An attacker breaking into the box could reprogram it to send false alerts or not send alerts at all. But he won't be able to take control over the fridge itself and reprogram the thermostat or shut it down.
The second (controlling lighting/HVAC from a central station) introduces a single point of failure exposed to internet so you'd better run it on its own dedicated network. Yes it costs money to run extra cables. But it also costs money to firewall it when connected to Internet, while the results cannot be guaranteed in any way.
Someone that haven't yet commented on a certain beta (and thus is still receiving mod points), please mod the parent up. The worst thing to do to security is to interconnect everything and, on top of it, have some "central" authority to manage all the stuff. Unfortunately this is the thinking of most CIOs today. While autonomous, distributed, locally managed subsystems have always proved to be more resilient to attacks.
You must have a pretty miserable life if you're looking at it in no other way than from a ROI perspective.
Muahahaha you have to see it in action on the Wikipedia "Cloud computing" page. Just a sample: In common usage, the term "my butt" is essentially a metaphor for the Internet.
That's exactly why buffer overflows are so common. Most programmers will be happy with "the simplest thing" and never add bounds checking.
So those "kids directing laser pointers towards airplanes" could in reality be officers mishandling their LIDARs? And, BTW, if pointing lasers at pilots/drivers is such a serious thing, why are police officers allowed to do it?
Not really. It actually involves not building any more skyscrapers hosting cubicle farms. Especially when all the "work" done there does not require physical presence at all. To paraphrase you, "building more office space downtown makes traffic worse".