I was about to say the same, but with some numbers for context:
Currently, about 700,000 people hold 50% of the world's wealth. While that's 700 times the number of people in control compared to BTC, it also $280T or roughly 1000 times the total market cap of BTC.
I think the point being made is not where iron comes from. The interesting thing is that humans had iron tools and weapons in the Bronze Age before we knew how to get it out of the ground. Apparently, it wasn't really clear how that happened. The Bronze Age is so named because we knew how to cast bronze, the Iron Age came after. So where did we get the iron? Meteorites.
Yes, but you'd have to actually enable "OK Google". Who does that besides my parents because they think it's "nifty"?
While it's certainly true that any system with a mic, be it a home device or a smartphone, could be hacked; I'm definitely not going to intentionally enable such a device to listen to and record my conversations.
diverted after the detection of a wi-fi network called "bomb on board" Spotted the dumb-ass teenager.
Listen up children. As totally unfair as it may seem, we don't always get to say (or print) what we want when we want. Most of the time, people will look at you as the annoying little prick that you are being at that moment. And that's fine I suppose. Who wants the world to be a better place anyway? But one of the areas that you absolutely DO NOT FUCK AROUND is commercial aviation.
If you feel like pushing a boundary, do it somewhere else. Seriously. You and your parents may find out just how unfair the world really is at the cost of prison time or fines that will force you or your parents into a lifetime of servitude. And honestly, it can even be worse than that, like an air marshal whose wife just left him and decides to take it out on you by stepping on your neck to control you...killing you in the process. There would be no public outcry or lawsuit. No one would give one shit about your death if you "joked" about a bomb on a plane. The only possible outcome would be yet another ban on cell phones on airplanes.
Yeah! I mean, it's not like we give billions of dollars to other industries like oil. Or have paid trillions of dollars in protecting those same interest abroad.
But it's not just oil. How about the $5.3 billion in improper subsidies for Boeing for the Dreamliner? Or that Boeing and Lockheed get billion dollar subsidies for launching absolutely nothing into space. Pork-barrel spending is never truer than in aerospace. How about the $20 billion we give to farmers to NOT GROW CROPS.
Do you know what Big Oil, Big Aerospace, and Big Agriculture all have in common? They are predominantly located in red states. Not that all subsidies are republican-related of course. $1T goes to medicare, medicaid, and ACA. $366B goes to safety net programs. Hell, $1.5B goes to the entertainment industry every year.
Personally, I'm very interested in the coming electrification of the auto industry and have invested my own money into it. It was a smart move. Anyone with half a head could see it coming a decade ago.
That's a fair point. But for most of the last 50 years, NK hit the news only a few times a year if that. There was a slight uptick when Kim Jong-un took over.
But since the election, there has been a steady increase in coverage and rhetoric. There's been that "ramping-up" that I was talking about. I'm feeling like a frog in the warming water. If we go to war with NK, everyone in the US will feel it is perfectly justified and we had no choice. The war machine will spin up, and defense contractors will rake in 100's of billions to trillions of dollars from US taxpayers in the form of long-term debt.
Maybe that's too "tin foil hat", but it wouldn't shock me to see us go to war in the next three years. It will probably happen in the last 14 months of Trump's term, and the argument will be made that we shouldn't switch presidents in midst of a war.
We'll "win" that war. There will be much rejoicing in SK. And there will be lots of infrastructure rebuilding contracts to hand out, most of which will go through several layers of outsourcing until it reaches a point where the people actually doing the work will be getting less than 1% of the original contract amount.
I have a long-standing axiom that the more something is advertised to be true, the less likely it is to actually be true. Oft-repeated superlative phrases like "fastest network", "number one in service", "widest selection", etc. can generally be taken as slowest, worst, and limited respectively.
If you feel like you're being manipulated, it's because you are. This is particularly true when you see sudden ramp-up in coverage about a story, nation, or technology where previously there had been none. A single story is one thing, but one followed by a break of a few months and then two more with shorter breaks between, then suddenly one every 2-3 weeks on the same subject sets off my BS meter.
My question: Does this change our calculus on efficacy of various alloys? If test material was equally mislabeled, there may be no safety concerns, but how we determine what metals must be present to meet certain strength and durability thresholds would likely be inaccurate.
If test material had the advertised specification but the production material deviated, then we might have serious safety concerns.
When our investigations of violent criminal organizations come to a halt because we cannot access a phone, even with a court order, lives may be lost.
Lives may be lost, but liberty will be preserved.
Let's put the cards on the table, shall we? This has little or nothing to do with saving lives, and everything about garnering power through the acquisition of data...lots and lots of data. While those who seek this power wouldn't word it quite this way, it's about a nation subjugating its citizenry.
Next step, aerosolized chemical agents to keep people calm and docile. You want Reavers? Cause that's how you get Reavers.
While poking fun at the whole idea (and themselves) provides a good laugh for everyone, building a sufficiently powerful beacon is something that should be given a fair amount of thought. You only have to research Beserker Theory, or read Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem (particularly 'Dark Forest') to see why. There exists a non-zero chance the reason we don't see the galaxy teeming with extraterrestrial life is that an advanced civilization simply comes along and destroys all other civilizations once they make themselves known. They do this simply because...why put your own civilization at risk on the chance the new civilization is or becomes malevolent?
But everyone has fun with this idea of a beacon, it raises enough money and in a big party and to much fanfare they turn it on. Years go by and everyone forgets about the stupid shenanigans that went on. Then 200 years later the Sun is obliterated.
It doesn't really matter, because whether or not we exist in a simulated universe doesn't really answer anything. If a civilization has the computational power to simulate a universe, one that we are living in, so what? My next question would be whether or not that civilization exists in a simulation.
It's not unlike the question asked by those who believe in God, "Don't you wonder where it all came from?" Yes, I do, but that is not evidence of God because my next question would be, "Where did God come from?". If their answer is God has always been, my reply would be why go the extra step for God and just believe the universe has always been.
Unless you are getting hired directly out of school for a tech job, whether or not you have a degree in tech means almost nothing. It's your experience that counts. If Mrs. Mauldin majored in music, graduated, found that was a dumb idea and worked her way up through the ranks over 20 years before landing the Chief Security role at Equifax, I have no problem with that.
This woman may have to take the fall, but often, even senior security staff don't get to dictate everything you think they should. Cost considerations can override their wishes, inconvenience can override it. They can often set guidelines for IT staff that do not report to them and feel no obligation to do what they say.
For years their mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the Earth - where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.
For instance, it reveals that for reasons I can't quite put a finger on, I deeply dislike Jared Leto. Not the characters he plays, the man himself. Why? I don't know him. He could be a pretty cool dude. But no. After watching this short, I can still say that I don't like that guy.
Some have suggested monitors, but if size is an issue and you having the lighting conditions for it, may I suggest a projector? Head over to Projector Central to check out what may work for you. With 30k hour lamp life, I like the LG PF1000U or PF1500.
You could also drop Robert Heron a line and ask him. He's probably forgotten more about TVs than most of us could ever hope to know.
It's a bad thing because they call the service "Unlimited", and by that they mean limited. It's also bad because mobile broadband is recently being considered as a substitute for fixed-line internet service to rural and remote areas. It's a bad thing because it's stupidly expensive.
But maybe you're right, as long as they downgrade their own video options as well it's not a net neutrality issue. It's unlikely that net neutrality is going to survive though, and it's even more unlikely that VZW will downgrade their own video services. But is that really true? If I have a 25Mbps connection and I choose to utilize that to download Linux distros, videos, audio, pictures, or stupid amounts of Word docs; that's nobody's business but mine. That's what true net neutrality is. They've offered 25Mbps for a price. I agreed to pay that price. Stop looking at my packets
You know, having children does benefit the childless as well.
I'll do my best to remember that when in a restaurant, movie theater, or airplane and a child is screaming bloody murder about something. I'll just silently chant it over and over in my head. "This will benefit me in the long run. This will benefit me in the long run."
Just kidding. Children are pretty great. Annoying to be sure, and a little smelly and messy, but generally ok.
14 trillion cameras for 7 billion people? That's 2000 cameras per man, woman, and child on the planet. That just doesn't seem to make any sense. Between current and old phones, the old web cam for the PC, and some older unused HD video recorders, I personally have about 20. Most are packed up in a box of old tech junk. Someone who had a lot may have 100 as a total guess. So where would the other 1900 come from? Most cameras set up for surveillance do so to record the activities of many.
If we assumed there are currently 2000 cameras per person, and even that every person in the United States had 100 cameras in their possession, that would leave 613,700,000,000 cameras unaccounted for in the US. That's one camera for every 170 square feet of the nation. I don't think we're quite at that level of surveillance yet.
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I was about to say the same, but with some numbers for context:
Currently, about 700,000 people hold 50% of the world's wealth. While that's 700 times the number of people in control compared to BTC, it also $280T or roughly 1000 times the total market cap of BTC.
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
https://blockchain.info/charts...
I think the point being made is not where iron comes from. The interesting thing is that humans had iron tools and weapons in the Bronze Age before we knew how to get it out of the ground. Apparently, it wasn't really clear how that happened. The Bronze Age is so named because we knew how to cast bronze, the Iron Age came after. So where did we get the iron? Meteorites.
Pretty cool.
Yes, but you'd have to actually enable "OK Google". Who does that besides my parents because they think it's "nifty"?
While it's certainly true that any system with a mic, be it a home device or a smartphone, could be hacked; I'm definitely not going to intentionally enable such a device to listen to and record my conversations.
diverted after the detection of a wi-fi network called "bomb on board"
Spotted the dumb-ass teenager.
Listen up children. As totally unfair as it may seem, we don't always get to say (or print) what we want when we want. Most of the time, people will look at you as the annoying little prick that you are being at that moment. And that's fine I suppose. Who wants the world to be a better place anyway? But one of the areas that you absolutely DO NOT FUCK AROUND is commercial aviation.
If you feel like pushing a boundary, do it somewhere else. Seriously. You and your parents may find out just how unfair the world really is at the cost of prison time or fines that will force you or your parents into a lifetime of servitude. And honestly, it can even be worse than that, like an air marshal whose wife just left him and decides to take it out on you by stepping on your neck to control you...killing you in the process. There would be no public outcry or lawsuit. No one would give one shit about your death if you "joked" about a bomb on a plane. The only possible outcome would be yet another ban on cell phones on airplanes.
Yeah! I mean, it's not like we give billions of dollars to other industries like oil. Or have paid trillions of dollars in protecting those same interest abroad.
But it's not just oil. How about the $5.3 billion in improper subsidies for Boeing for the Dreamliner? Or that Boeing and Lockheed get billion dollar subsidies for launching absolutely nothing into space. Pork-barrel spending is never truer than in aerospace. How about the $20 billion we give to farmers to NOT GROW CROPS.
Do you know what Big Oil, Big Aerospace, and Big Agriculture all have in common? They are predominantly located in red states. Not that all subsidies are republican-related of course. $1T goes to medicare, medicaid, and ACA. $366B goes to safety net programs. Hell, $1.5B goes to the entertainment industry every year.
Personally, I'm very interested in the coming electrification of the auto industry and have invested my own money into it. It was a smart move. Anyone with half a head could see it coming a decade ago.
http://www.motherjones.com/pol...
http://nation.time.com/2011/04...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03...
https://www.economist.com/news...
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
https://www.cbpp.org/research/...
Tell the IBM PHB's that you switched to Swiss 721.
(joke for the graphic designers out there).
https://xkcd.com/927/
and I will be able to refute this claim by kicking it
That's a fair point. But for most of the last 50 years, NK hit the news only a few times a year if that. There was a slight uptick when Kim Jong-un took over.
But since the election, there has been a steady increase in coverage and rhetoric. There's been that "ramping-up" that I was talking about. I'm feeling like a frog in the warming water. If we go to war with NK, everyone in the US will feel it is perfectly justified and we had no choice. The war machine will spin up, and defense contractors will rake in 100's of billions to trillions of dollars from US taxpayers in the form of long-term debt.
Maybe that's too "tin foil hat", but it wouldn't shock me to see us go to war in the next three years. It will probably happen in the last 14 months of Trump's term, and the argument will be made that we shouldn't switch presidents in midst of a war.
We'll "win" that war. There will be much rejoicing in SK. And there will be lots of infrastructure rebuilding contracts to hand out, most of which will go through several layers of outsourcing until it reaches a point where the people actually doing the work will be getting less than 1% of the original contract amount.
I have a long-standing axiom that the more something is advertised to be true, the less likely it is to actually be true. Oft-repeated superlative phrases like "fastest network", "number one in service", "widest selection", etc. can generally be taken as slowest, worst, and limited respectively.
If you feel like you're being manipulated, it's because you are. This is particularly true when you see sudden ramp-up in coverage about a story, nation, or technology where previously there had been none. A single story is one thing, but one followed by a break of a few months and then two more with shorter breaks between, then suddenly one every 2-3 weeks on the same subject sets off my BS meter.
My question: Does this change our calculus on efficacy of various alloys? If test material was equally mislabeled, there may be no safety concerns, but how we determine what metals must be present to meet certain strength and durability thresholds would likely be inaccurate.
If test material had the advertised specification but the production material deviated, then we might have serious safety concerns.
to the term "facial detection".
When our investigations of violent criminal organizations come to a halt because we cannot access a phone, even with a court order, lives may be lost.
Lives may be lost, but liberty will be preserved.
Let's put the cards on the table, shall we? This has little or nothing to do with saving lives, and everything about garnering power through the acquisition of data...lots and lots of data. While those who seek this power wouldn't word it quite this way, it's about a nation subjugating its citizenry.
Next step, aerosolized chemical agents to keep people calm and docile. You want Reavers? Cause that's how you get Reavers.
Or they could, you know, donate it to SETI.
While poking fun at the whole idea (and themselves) provides a good laugh for everyone, building a sufficiently powerful beacon is something that should be given a fair amount of thought. You only have to research Beserker Theory, or read Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem (particularly 'Dark Forest') to see why. There exists a non-zero chance the reason we don't see the galaxy teeming with extraterrestrial life is that an advanced civilization simply comes along and destroys all other civilizations once they make themselves known. They do this simply because...why put your own civilization at risk on the chance the new civilization is or becomes malevolent?
But everyone has fun with this idea of a beacon, it raises enough money and in a big party and to much fanfare they turn it on. Years go by and everyone forgets about the stupid shenanigans that went on. Then 200 years later the Sun is obliterated.
Just sayin'
It doesn't really matter, because whether or not we exist in a simulated universe doesn't really answer anything. If a civilization has the computational power to simulate a universe, one that we are living in, so what? My next question would be whether or not that civilization exists in a simulation.
It's not unlike the question asked by those who believe in God, "Don't you wonder where it all came from?" Yes, I do, but that is not evidence of God because my next question would be, "Where did God come from?". If their answer is God has always been, my reply would be why go the extra step for God and just believe the universe has always been.
I'm so sure of our ability to protect your identity, I'm posting my social security number for all to see!
Actually, law enforcement can force you to use your fingerprint to unlock your phone. They just can't force you to use your passcode.
Unless you are getting hired directly out of school for a tech job, whether or not you have a degree in tech means almost nothing. It's your experience that counts. If Mrs. Mauldin majored in music, graduated, found that was a dumb idea and worked her way up through the ranks over 20 years before landing the Chief Security role at Equifax, I have no problem with that.
This woman may have to take the fall, but often, even senior security staff don't get to dictate everything you think they should. Cost considerations can override their wishes, inconvenience can override it. They can often set guidelines for IT staff that do not report to them and feel no obligation to do what they say.
I wouldn't skewer this woman just yet.
For years their mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the Earth - where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.
Huh? This short reveals a lot!
For instance, it reveals that for reasons I can't quite put a finger on, I deeply dislike Jared Leto. Not the characters he plays, the man himself. Why? I don't know him. He could be a pretty cool dude. But no. After watching this short, I can still say that I don't like that guy.
Pretty revealing.
Some have suggested monitors, but if size is an issue and you having the lighting conditions for it, may I suggest a projector? Head over to Projector Central to check out what may work for you. With 30k hour lamp life, I like the LG PF1000U or PF1500.
You could also drop Robert Heron a line and ask him. He's probably forgotten more about TVs than most of us could ever hope to know.
It's a bad thing because they call the service "Unlimited", and by that they mean limited. It's also bad because mobile broadband is recently being considered as a substitute for fixed-line internet service to rural and remote areas. It's a bad thing because it's stupidly expensive.
But maybe you're right, as long as they downgrade their own video options as well it's not a net neutrality issue. It's unlikely that net neutrality is going to survive though, and it's even more unlikely that VZW will downgrade their own video services. But is that really true? If I have a 25Mbps connection and I choose to utilize that to download Linux distros, videos, audio, pictures, or stupid amounts of Word docs; that's nobody's business but mine. That's what true net neutrality is. They've offered 25Mbps for a price. I agreed to pay that price. Stop looking at my packets
You know, having children does benefit the childless as well.
I'll do my best to remember that when in a restaurant, movie theater, or airplane and a child is screaming bloody murder about something. I'll just silently chant it over and over in my head. "This will benefit me in the long run. This will benefit me in the long run."
Just kidding. Children are pretty great. Annoying to be sure, and a little smelly and messy, but generally ok.
It's the parents I tend to dislike.
14 trillion cameras for 7 billion people? That's 2000 cameras per man, woman, and child on the planet. That just doesn't seem to make any sense. Between current and old phones, the old web cam for the PC, and some older unused HD video recorders, I personally have about 20. Most are packed up in a box of old tech junk. Someone who had a lot may have 100 as a total guess. So where would the other 1900 come from? Most cameras set up for surveillance do so to record the activities of many.
If we assumed there are currently 2000 cameras per person, and even that every person in the United States had 100 cameras in their possession, that would leave 613,700,000,000 cameras unaccounted for in the US. That's one camera for every 170 square feet of the nation. I don't think we're quite at that level of surveillance yet.
now obligatory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...