I guess you didn't even read the slashdot version of the article that says they can do it 83% cheaper in space...you know 'we need something that is cheaper in space than on earth'\
But your anonymous coward post does suggest you're most likely a troll or the article submitter trying to get comments.
Instead we have 4 internet company that mange to own all the lines.
You have 4 telecom companies and that's it. Shaw, Rogers, Telus, Bell. They all treat you rather poorly when it comes to price gouging since they have the market cornered. Even Shaw and Rogers traded assets, basically western canada and eastern so they don't compete with each other, so each company can suck as much as they can out of someone with no viable alternatives.
It's great how we as a society keep passing a ton of laws that make us feel good or urge them but nothing stops them from disabling access or interfering with access to prevent it from being effective.
It's like a recent steam game issue. during the summer sale someone used a DMCA to pull someones game off steam, without giving them a chance to fight it. They were able to fight it I believe but in the end the damage was done by missing out a big chunk of steam sales.
No one pays any consequences for tripping you even if they determine the trip was a foul and invalid. So they'll keep doing it.
The system needs to calculate based on probability of survival. First priority is the driver. No one will buy something that might kill them to save someone else. It should not be up to someone else / something else. After it first calculates best odds of survival for the driver, the next part it factors in is how can it save the most lives without violating the life of the drive, and commit to that action.
Maybe a pedestrian gets run over, maybe it heads in the center of a crowd, hopefully casualties will be minimized in the last second by people jumping out of the way.
At the end of the day, no one is going to sign a blank check to sacrifice their life for someone elses.
What if the group of people were ignoring cars because most of them stopped in time to let them cross whenever they want. So they try their luck one too many times, and this time the car kills you to save them? I think not.
Remember the IT member who told you, "Hey, this is insecure, we should change this" And you blew him off because you didn't want the expense or didn't care, or thought it would never happen, or thought you knew better? Congratulations, your red face and excuses you're making now to hide the fact that you were told and warned about this are priceless.
Social media eventually flooded with advertisements, marketing gags, share or like this or you're a terrible person and stopped having content from people.
Lot of people are now very cautious at what they post because too many humans are not responsible enough to have that information or opinion without trying to twist it to fit their agenda.
You would have to be able to harness the break down of reality in a black hole to pull it off or otherwise violate the laws of physics as we know them for/our/ universe to be able to generate another full universe like a video game.
Thermal limits among other things prohibit what he is saying. Just because we haven't hit the limits doesn't mean there isn't a limit.
More short term near sighted fill my profits spewing from the people who benefit the most from it. Electric cars are better right/now/ and in small counties. 1 billion used batteries every ten years. That's for every car on the road.
How do you think that'll stack for recycling and what not? You know a shit ton of it will end up in dumps with toxic liquids leaking out. Know how expensive to replace those car batteries are? Imagine if every 10-7 years cars required their entire fuel system removed and install with a new one, gas tank, fuel injectors, fuel lines, carbs, the whole works. Yeah, about the same price.
As greedy as those oil infrastructure types are, and in the inefficencies with hydrogen, we know about them, they are true, in the long run, using large renewable facilities gathering solar wind / hydrodam power, even at the 40% efficency, are going to be better in the long run.
The equipment for hydrogen isn't nearly as toxic, and much more recyclable and reusable. In the end, it is currently the ultimate power storage system, as the byproduct is consumable water.
Should space exploration ever happen in larger scale, having well developed hydrogen fuel cell systems will go a long way as well.
TL;DR -Batteries for a few people seem great. 1 billion batteries per 10 years bad. Most of it will not be recycled. Way worse than k-cups. Hydrogen less efficient, equipment / left overs more recyclable, less deadly / toxic. More sustainable long term, like hundreds of years, vs sounds great for the next 50.
Most of the congestion I've seen in Vancouver, Canada is from piss poor driving skills.
Lot of the slow down is caused by shitty merging, slow merging, slow exits, poor acceleration to match speeds causing frequent accordion effects. Unsure drivers get in front from merge lanes not at the highway speed frequently. It causes a lot of slow downs, it adds up over the day, which makes it worse as these poor skilled drivers cause even more problems as the space between vehicles is reduced.
So basically, their lack of skill increases the difficulty of driving, which makes them cause even more slow downs.
If we have self driving cars simply driving properly it will already significantly reduce congestion. In a perfect system all cars could go the speed limit always without being slowed down. (Perfection is impossible, but we should be able to get a lot closer than where we are now)
If you have income that doesn't tie you to a location you just don't try to live downtown in a major city.
If you want that, you have encouragement to do things to receive even more money. Otherwise the population is free to spread out and take up living in parts of the country that could use more people with money to grow their economy. Prices will be cheaper, population more spread out and local businesses will see an influx of customers. It all sounds good.
Who says they were even hacked or data was actually released? Just have to report that this occured, can drop some data you don't care about. Why wouldn't a government do that?
Although the tin hat people are often to the extreme, overall they're not wrong. Mind control drugs? How about senseless entertainment in a form of a box that keeps you inside watching it? Food that tastes good but makes you fat and larthergic, more likely to keep watching TV, less likely to interfere with government decisions.
No, not mind control rays, but social engineering to create the society that suits them best.
Feels like someone is trying to desensitize us from data breaches so they don't have to be responsible or upgrade their infrastructure to prevent it from happening.
It would probably be less appealing to me if I had then to enter prompts on my device instead of it being ready to go. May as well directly install the app from my device.
Yeah that's sadly the same old argument we've always had.
More security and less freedom / privacy, or more freedom and less security. How safe do you want to be? The problem is like a corporation. Once they have everyone using their product so that they have complete control of the market, they start doing terrible things. Invasion of privacy unecessary to the sale of 3rd parties etc.
So while the government protects us for now, once we no longer share the same direction, well, too late, they have full control and will do everything to remain in power. Prevent people from getting together to remove the current government. Slander, threats, policies and other things to make it just difficult in general.
It's more akin to increasing the cost, say an expensive toll for the highway, and saying you have to pay more because they made it wider and removed the speed limit. Even though you were fine getting to your destination at 100 KM/H and your car only goes 130 KM/H, and they want you to pay the same price as the people who take their ferrari and go 300 KM/H on the highway.
Yeah they really need to off better priced middle and lower packages. I don't need 100 mbit. 25-50 is more than enough. Internet should be like 40$ a month for those speeds.
If it works exceedingly well as hoped for, the fact that it's an inflatable means storage is easier.
This would allow for much more construction to be performed or easier delivery. Like, more food, oxygen and water since the inflatable rooms are lighter and take less space while deflated.
Problem is dissidents in other countries could be targeted. If they allow governments to access tor exit node information, (I'd destroy the equipment after police raided it, probably infected with something now)
Takes just one friend in a political or police department to share information collected from the TOR node with authorities to have people with different opinions arrested.
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Posting as anon so you can comment and moderate on the same post? Nice.
I guess you didn't even read the slashdot version of the article that says they can do it 83% cheaper in space...you know 'we need something that is cheaper in space than on earth'\
But your anonymous coward post does suggest you're most likely a troll or the article submitter trying to get comments.
Instead we have 4 internet company that mange to own all the lines.
You have 4 telecom companies and that's it. Shaw, Rogers, Telus, Bell. They all treat you rather poorly when it comes to price gouging since they have the market cornered. Even Shaw and Rogers traded assets, basically western canada and eastern so they don't compete with each other, so each company can suck as much as they can out of someone with no viable alternatives.
5 MBIT connection runs you around 55$ now.
It's great how we as a society keep passing a ton of laws that make us feel good or urge them but nothing stops them from disabling access or interfering with access to prevent it from being effective.
It's like a recent steam game issue. during the summer sale someone used a DMCA to pull someones game off steam, without giving them a chance to fight it. They were able to fight it I believe but in the end the damage was done by missing out a big chunk of steam sales.
No one pays any consequences for tripping you even if they determine the trip was a foul and invalid. So they'll keep doing it.
The system needs to calculate based on probability of survival. First priority is the driver. No one will buy something that might kill them to save someone else. It should not be up to someone else / something else. After it first calculates best odds of survival for the driver, the next part it factors in is how can it save the most lives without violating the life of the drive, and commit to that action.
Maybe a pedestrian gets run over, maybe it heads in the center of a crowd, hopefully casualties will be minimized in the last second by people jumping out of the way.
At the end of the day, no one is going to sign a blank check to sacrifice their life for someone elses.
What if the group of people were ignoring cars because most of them stopped in time to let them cross whenever they want.
So they try their luck one too many times, and this time the car kills you to save them? I think not.
...figure out the ping command. Sending packets? Only a mastermind.
It's like claiming you won a discussion by saying 'Nuh uhh' more times or a blunt object because you're too dumb to use words.
And there you go.
Remember the IT member who told you, "Hey, this is insecure, we should change this" And you blew him off because you didn't want the expense or didn't care, or thought it would never happen, or thought you knew better? Congratulations, your red face and excuses you're making now to hide the fact that you were told and warned about this are priceless.
Not that expected behavior is going to change.
Legally.
Social media eventually flooded with advertisements, marketing gags, share or like this or you're a terrible person and stopped having content from people.
Lot of people are now very cautious at what they post because too many humans are not responsible enough to have that information or opinion without trying to twist it to fit their agenda.
So it dies.
You would have to be able to harness the break down of reality in a black hole to pull it off or otherwise violate the laws of physics as we know them for /our/ universe to be able to generate another full universe like a video game.
Thermal limits among other things prohibit what he is saying. Just because we haven't hit the limits doesn't mean there isn't a limit.
More short term near sighted fill my profits spewing from the people who benefit the most from it. Electric cars are better right /now/ and in small counties.
1 billion used batteries every ten years. That's for every car on the road.
How do you think that'll stack for recycling and what not? You know a shit ton of it will end up in dumps with toxic liquids leaking out.
Know how expensive to replace those car batteries are? Imagine if every 10-7 years cars required their entire fuel system removed and install with a new one, gas tank, fuel injectors, fuel lines, carbs, the whole works. Yeah, about the same price.
As greedy as those oil infrastructure types are, and in the inefficencies with hydrogen, we know about them, they are true, in the long run, using large renewable facilities gathering solar wind / hydrodam power, even at the 40% efficency, are going to be better in the long run.
The equipment for hydrogen isn't nearly as toxic, and much more recyclable and reusable. In the end, it is currently the ultimate power storage system, as the byproduct is consumable water.
Should space exploration ever happen in larger scale, having well developed hydrogen fuel cell systems will go a long way as well.
TL;DR -Batteries for a few people seem great. 1 billion batteries per 10 years bad. Most of it will not be recycled. Way worse than k-cups.
Hydrogen less efficient, equipment / left overs more recyclable, less deadly / toxic.
More sustainable long term, like hundreds of years, vs sounds great for the next 50.
Most of the congestion I've seen in Vancouver, Canada is from piss poor driving skills.
Lot of the slow down is caused by shitty merging, slow merging, slow exits, poor acceleration to match speeds causing frequent accordion effects. Unsure drivers get in front from merge lanes not at the highway speed frequently. It causes a lot of slow downs, it adds up over the day, which makes it worse as these poor skilled drivers cause even more problems as the space between vehicles is reduced.
So basically, their lack of skill increases the difficulty of driving, which makes them cause even more slow downs.
If we have self driving cars simply driving properly it will already significantly reduce congestion. In a perfect system all cars could go the speed limit always without being slowed down. (Perfection is impossible, but we should be able to get a lot closer than where we are now)
8640 minutes of /non stop/ commercials.
If you have income that doesn't tie you to a location you just don't try to live downtown in a major city.
If you want that, you have encouragement to do things to receive even more money. Otherwise the population is free to spread out and take up living in parts of the country that could use more people with money to grow their economy. Prices will be cheaper, population more spread out and local businesses will see an influx of customers. It all sounds good.
Lot of drone users have common sense.
The problem is average intelligence, 50% of the population is less intelligent than average, and some of them can buy drones.
Complicated scheme?
Who says they were even hacked or data was actually released? Just have to report that this occured, can drop some data you don't care about.
Why wouldn't a government do that?
Although the tin hat people are often to the extreme, overall they're not wrong. Mind control drugs?
How about senseless entertainment in a form of a box that keeps you inside watching it?
Food that tastes good but makes you fat and larthergic, more likely to keep watching TV, less likely to interfere with government decisions.
No, not mind control rays, but social engineering to create the society that suits them best.
Feels like someone is trying to desensitize us from data breaches so they don't have to be responsible or upgrade their infrastructure to prevent it from happening.
It would probably be less appealing to me if I had then to enter prompts on my device instead of it being ready to go. May as well directly install the app from my device.
Yeah that's sadly the same old argument we've always had.
More security and less freedom / privacy, or more freedom and less security.
How safe do you want to be? The problem is like a corporation. Once they have everyone using their product
so that they have complete control of the market, they start doing terrible things. Invasion of privacy unecessary to the sale of 3rd parties etc.
So while the government protects us for now, once we no longer share the same direction, well, too late, they have full control and will do everything to remain in power. Prevent people from getting together to remove the current government. Slander, threats, policies and other things to make it just difficult in general.
It's more akin to increasing the cost, say an expensive toll for the highway, and saying you have to pay more because they made it wider and removed the speed limit. Even though you were fine getting to your destination at 100 KM/H and your car only goes 130 KM/H, and they want you to pay the same price as the people who take their ferrari and go 300 KM/H on the highway.
Yeah they really need to off better priced middle and lower packages. I don't need 100 mbit. 25-50 is more than enough.
Internet should be like 40$ a month for those speeds.
As long as they give you a good service at a reasonable price, it's reasonable.
If it works exceedingly well as hoped for, the fact that it's an inflatable means storage is easier.
This would allow for much more construction to be performed or easier delivery. Like, more food, oxygen and water since the inflatable rooms are lighter and take less space while deflated.
Problem is dissidents in other countries could be targeted. If they allow governments to access tor exit node information, (I'd destroy the equipment after police raided it, probably infected with something now)
Takes just one friend in a political or police department to share information collected from the TOR node with authorities to have people with different opinions arrested.
I wonder if they're going to sue washing machines for having a light cycle?
I suppose it matters more about how it is used.