Adult movies with actual stories (and no grotesque killinga, no explosions, no cynicism) might actually start doing well again. Even the kids get tired of the cotton-candy.
The US has increasingly been facing second-world problems for several decades, since Reagan. That suggests that our "superpower" is flowing through a second-world infrastructure. Good luck finding engineers to disagress with that assessment.
Most of the first-world countries are now limited to a small region of northern Europe.
Excellent. I always wondered what gave these M.... F.... the right to do this. The ISPs claim that the riot of traffic to your server would clobber your neighbors' bandwidth. (IE they'd have to actually invest in fiber. Or actually charge you a fair rate for that increased traffic. But it always seemed that the real answer was more sinister.) In this case, that excuse doesn't wash, and so I too wish you good luck.
Nicely done. Except that you spread the 20.6 Mkm^3 over the ENTIRE surface area of the earth.
The oceans cover about 70% of the surface, let's call it 75% (for outslop). Then that would be a sea rise of about 20.6/(510*.75) km or about 54 meters.
I strongly suspect that it will not be AI that solves the n-body problem in a meaningful way. Because artificial "intelligence" is a misnomer commonly applied to non-creative, non-elegant, glorified calculators that not only can't think outside the box, but are still capable of being derailed by a single misplaced decimal point. So while some of us love our fuzzy giant thinkertoys, they are still struggling to work up to gnat level in the intelligence department.
Your location is detectable because your phone has a transmitter inside. Unless it is free to operate, it will not transmit, and your location cannot be calculated. It requires power to operate. (For the optimists out there, it also requires not being in airplane-mode to operate.) It requires being in "free-space" to operate.
You are therefore free to decide when, and when not, you wish your location to be known. Perhaps you know someone who can install a power-off switch in the phone (or convert the ringer switch to one). Or perhaps you have a phone which lets you remove the battery, or know someone who can modify the phone so that the battery can be removed. Or perhaps you wish to carry the phone in a Faraday-cage-style bag or can.
There are options. Of course you'll have to be willing to give up some convenience. They are hoping you'll not be.
"How much memory is available on iOS? It’s hard to say exactly."
Exactly. Because it's an appliance. And you're either willing to take it apart and learn how it works so you can make it do what's needed, or you accept that you're an appliance operator and stop bitching about it.
Some people dispose of that fallacy by the time they reach 40 or 50 - once they learn enough history to realize that we keep repeating it as if determined to prove that 'smarter than' is a fallacy.
NY-to-LA at 4000mph for a fortunate few at inconceivably-enormous cost? That may have appeal for the self-appointed "job-creators", but strays laughably far from any possible reality.
In a local transit scenario, this technology will rule. Support infrastructure is very lightweight. The path of individual tube "cars" under computer control means NON-MASS transit with highly-individualized trajectories for everyone, right down to the sub-neighborhood level. No engines, no fuel, no batteries, just huge centralized (and thus greatly efficient) vacuum generators powered with *whatever*. Vacuum-powered "switches" so simple that (apart from seal maintenance) there's nothing to fail. Acceleration and braking through sectorized control of pressures.
I'll put on the tinfoil hat and suspect a conspiracy. Of the same kind that made 9/11 possible: incompetence, laziness, and lack of stimulation of a knee-jerk (which is the only time we get things done, if we can remember long enough). It should be amazing is that noone has lept into the HUGE chasm of opportunity and rolled out a turnkey (but, see knee-jerk).
One aspect: Kids are a lot cheaper. Ask any school hiring teachers. When they're only worrying about the short term (because we're all gonna die soon, I guess), they'll chase out real talent and settle for cheap.
Old as Rome: It takes talent to build the roads and bridges and catch the horses. When that's all done, get rid of the expensive talent and hire roadsweepers and gate-lifters. Again, because we're all gonna die tomorrow.
Basically I'm saying the US is living through a sick period in which profit is the measure of all. I can say that because I've been around long enough to see the sea-change. Nobody will pay me to say it, because it's not the fashion. But the phones and the databanks will all go away eventually, as sanity returns, and the world will return to a place where everyday know-how like Ben Franklin had, will once again count for more than fancy wigs and penis-extenders.
"a ref drop-down, with sub-options like "Book" "Web" "Magazine" etc., would be far more useful."
That actually exists It's part of the editing bar that appears at the top of each edit box, when you have that enabled.
But it (was at least) a preference, and there's (was at least) more than one to choose from. In Preferences>Editing select "Show edit Toolbar". Then when editing, find the toolbar at the top of the edit box, Click on "Cite" over on the right side, and then on the left side (lousy UI) a "Templates" box appears. Viola, more options than you'd ever want to enter.
Texting is not that disruptive. In-house jamming is another option. Pretty hard to DF if it's intermittent enough. Very annoying if the signal is properly-modulated. Tech wins wars. Arise o ye chosen ones.
and see for yourself. Anti-tracker plugins like Ghostery stop that brand of foolishness, but do nothing to avoid fingerprinting. You'll need a fairly sophisticated user-agent spoofer, since some very big sites (Youtube for one) will -not function- with some -very common- user-agent strings. Just try.
One (eastern) Indian version of this goes something like "That which you hate, that you become." I've -read- that there were some who hated God in hopes that doing so leads to enlightenment.
Particularly useful are courses tailored to we STEM-types (not that they should be so-limited), just as there are "physics for poets" classes. They can set up a dialogue between "the Two Cultures" which is particularly helpful (just because you CAN make an atomic bomb... or mine tar-sands, or drug restrained undergrads to probe their minds at McGill... SHOULD you? ). It helps you to understand the impact of your work on the humanity which pays for it (and to explain yourself in terms that recognize universal concerns). They can raise the kind of questions that E.O. Wilson considers essential for the best scientists, and help us to cognize and affirm the limitations of the scientific method explored by JWN Sullivan, Kuhn, Feyerabend, et. al.
The most influential class in my life was such a class, devised by a physicist to explore experiences people had while making scientific discoveries, and comparing them to age-old pre-scientific experiences. Once I finished school, the questions that single class provoked occupied my (non-tech) free time for the next 15 years... and so enriched my life. "There's more in Heaven and on Earth... Horatio."
WiFi light bulbs could be turned into a really great network to do WiFi surveillance everywhere all the time. No more pesky difficulties caused by those low-level signals... everything could be vacuumed up. Might even fit a little mini-cam in there as well!
Considering that he's been previously backed up by the NYTimes in 2005, Wyden, Bill Binney and Thomas Drake (who started at NSA in 1979, and lost everything)... among others. But maybe, for whatever reason, you didn't hear what they've all had to say, over and over. Somehow the American people have this filter over their ears when people warn them that their phones are tracking their location and sending their texting off to third parties. Only when it takes on a Hollywood aspect can they hear, just a little.
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Adult movies with actual stories (and no grotesque killinga, no explosions, no cynicism) might actually start doing well again. Even the kids get tired of the cotton-candy.
The US has increasingly been facing second-world problems for several decades, since Reagan. That suggests that our "superpower" is flowing through a second-world infrastructure. Good luck finding engineers to disagress with that assessment.
Most of the first-world countries are now limited to a small region of northern Europe.
Excellent. I always wondered what gave these M.... F.... the right to do this. The ISPs claim that the riot of traffic to your server would clobber your neighbors' bandwidth. (IE they'd have to actually invest in fiber. Or actually charge you a fair rate for that increased traffic. But it always seemed that the real answer was more sinister.) In this case, that excuse doesn't wash, and so I too wish you good luck.
Google, NSA, what's the difference?
Nicely done. Except that you spread the 20.6 Mkm^3 over the ENTIRE surface area of the earth.
The oceans cover about 70% of the surface, let's call it 75% (for outslop). Then that would be a sea rise of about 20.6/(510*.75) km or about 54 meters.
Comparison: during the last ice age, seas were as much as 130 meters (~400 feet) lower than they are today. When that ice melted, -high- rates were on the order of 500 years for 9 meters. http://phys.org/news/2012-07-geoscientists-trigger-rapid-sea.html
Right on. Phil Dick was right about that part.
I strongly suspect that it will not be AI that solves the n-body problem in a meaningful way. Because artificial "intelligence" is a misnomer commonly applied to non-creative, non-elegant, glorified calculators that not only can't think outside the box, but are still capable of being derailed by a single misplaced decimal point. So while some of us love our fuzzy giant thinkertoys, they are still struggling to work up to gnat level in the intelligence department.
Your location is detectable because your phone has a transmitter inside. Unless it is free to operate, it will not transmit, and your location cannot be calculated. It requires power to operate. (For the optimists out there, it also requires not being in airplane-mode to operate.) It requires being in "free-space" to operate.
You are therefore free to decide when, and when not, you wish your location to be known. Perhaps you know someone who can install a power-off switch in the phone (or convert the ringer switch to one). Or perhaps you have a phone which lets you remove the battery, or know someone who can modify the phone so that the battery can be removed. Or perhaps you wish to carry the phone in a Faraday-cage-style bag or can.
There are options. Of course you'll have to be willing to give up some convenience. They are hoping you'll not be.
"How much memory is available on iOS? It’s hard to say exactly."
Exactly. Because it's an appliance. And you're either willing to take it apart and learn how it works so you can make it do what's needed, or you accept that you're an appliance operator and stop bitching about it.
This discovery comes just in the nick of time as the myth of Nessie dies out and tourism is plummeting.
Some people dispose of that fallacy by the time they reach 40 or 50 - once they learn enough history to realize that we keep repeating it as if determined to prove that 'smarter than' is a fallacy.
*sigh* can't tell these kids today anything
NY-to-LA at 4000mph for a fortunate few at inconceivably-enormous cost? That may have appeal for the self-appointed "job-creators", but strays laughably far from any possible reality.
In a local transit scenario, this technology will rule. Support infrastructure is very lightweight. The path of individual tube "cars" under computer control means NON-MASS transit with highly-individualized trajectories for everyone, right down to the sub-neighborhood level. No engines, no fuel, no batteries, just huge centralized (and thus greatly efficient) vacuum generators powered with *whatever*. Vacuum-powered "switches" so simple that (apart from seal maintenance) there's nothing to fail. Acceleration and braking through sectorized control of pressures.
Beleive it or not the intelligence community does serve a useful purpose
They're certainly good for getting tens of Billions of tax$ into contractor's hands. Apart from that, why'd 911 happen??
I'll put on the tinfoil hat and suspect a conspiracy. Of the same kind that made 9/11 possible: incompetence, laziness, and lack of stimulation of a knee-jerk (which is the only time we get things done, if we can remember long enough). It should be amazing is that noone has lept into the HUGE chasm of opportunity and rolled out a turnkey (but, see knee-jerk).
One aspect: Kids are a lot cheaper. Ask any school hiring teachers. When they're only worrying about the short term (because we're all gonna die soon, I guess), they'll chase out real talent and settle for cheap.
Old as Rome: It takes talent to build the roads and bridges and catch the horses. When that's all done, get rid of the expensive talent and hire roadsweepers and gate-lifters. Again, because we're all gonna die tomorrow.
Basically I'm saying the US is living through a sick period in which profit is the measure of all. I can say that because I've been around long enough to see the sea-change. Nobody will pay me to say it, because it's not the fashion. But the phones and the databanks will all go away eventually, as sanity returns, and the world will return to a place where everyday know-how like Ben Franklin had, will once again count for more than fancy wigs and penis-extenders.
"a ref drop-down, with sub-options like "Book" "Web" "Magazine" etc., would be far more useful."
That actually exists It's part of the editing bar that appears at the top of each edit box, when you have that enabled.
But it (was at least) a preference, and there's (was at least) more than one to choose from. In Preferences>Editing select "Show edit Toolbar". Then when editing, find the toolbar at the top of the edit box, Click on "Cite" over on the right side, and then on the left side (lousy UI) a "Templates" box appears. Viola, more options than you'd ever want to enter.
"So what's the big deal"
Careful you don't bend over too fast and rip your fashionable jeans.
Texting is not that disruptive. In-house jamming is another option. Pretty hard to DF if it's intermittent enough. Very annoying if the signal is properly-modulated. Tech wins wars. Arise o ye chosen ones.
Yes, there are. But for those with privacy concerns, fingerprinting is MUCH easier with JS turned on. Just go over to Panopticlick
https://panopticlick.eff.org/index.php?action=log&js=yes
and see for yourself. Anti-tracker plugins like Ghostery stop that brand of foolishness, but do nothing to avoid fingerprinting. You'll need a fairly sophisticated user-agent spoofer, since some very big sites (Youtube for one) will -not function- with some -very common- user-agent strings. Just try.
This link maybe more useful for exploring: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Hashima+island&ll=32.627828,129.738579&spn=0.011439,0.015364&hnear=Hashima+Island&t=m&z=16
One (eastern) Indian version of this goes something like "That which you hate, that you become." I've -read- that there were some who hated God in hopes that doing so leads to enlightenment.
Particularly useful are courses tailored to we STEM-types (not that they should be so-limited), just as there are "physics for poets" classes. They can set up a dialogue between "the Two Cultures" which is particularly helpful (just because you CAN make an atomic bomb ... or mine tar-sands, or drug restrained undergrads to probe their minds at McGill ... SHOULD you? ). It helps you to understand the impact of your work on the humanity which pays for it (and to explain yourself in terms that recognize universal concerns). They can raise the kind of questions that E.O. Wilson considers essential for the best scientists, and help us to cognize and affirm the limitations of the scientific method explored by JWN Sullivan, Kuhn, Feyerabend, et. al.
The most influential class in my life was such a class, devised by a physicist to explore experiences people had while making scientific discoveries, and comparing them to age-old pre-scientific experiences. Once I finished school, the questions that single class provoked occupied my (non-tech) free time for the next 15 years ... and so enriched my life. "There's more in Heaven and on Earth ... Horatio."
WiFi light bulbs could be turned into a really great network to do WiFi surveillance everywhere all the time. No more pesky difficulties caused by those low-level signals ... everything could be vacuumed up. Might even fit a little mini-cam in there as well!
Considering that he's been previously backed up by the NYTimes in 2005, Wyden, Bill Binney and Thomas Drake (who started at NSA in 1979, and lost everything) ... among others. But maybe, for whatever reason, you didn't hear what they've all had to say, over and over. Somehow the American people have this filter over their ears when people warn them that their phones are tracking their location and sending their texting off to third parties. Only when it takes on a Hollywood aspect can they hear, just a little.
"that the content of calls have remained private"
As Chevy Chase used to say: "As far as you know."
Doubt that the machines can be told to record conversations "of interest"? A week of MP3s doesn't take up much space.