>If you believe Elon (and we know not to always believe him)...
I used to think that... but find me a tweet (even the joke ones) that hasn't turned into reality. Car in orbit past Mars? check Flamethrower? check Boring company? check
He's rich enough to turn his jokes & whims into reality. I now take all of his tweets seriously - especially the jokes.
Yes, it's called the Lightning Network. It's in testing now- reduces fees to a fraction of a penny.
Scaling up a system to handle massive traffic securely, quickly, and cheaply is not a trivial problem. Ask any company with growing pains. Be patient - a lot of very smart people are on this.
Today nobody is doing in-car advertising. The first one to try will get a LOT of bad press and lose market share. The real question is: who's stupid enough to be the first to try this?
Find me a car newer than a Model T that won't be rendered inoperable by an EMP....and GP is wrong. Safety equipment will always be mandatory, and ever increasing. Heaven forbid someone gets bruised when a deer jumps in front of a self-driving car and totals it.
Correction: mild hypertension can *sometimes* be controlled by choice. You make is sound like taking medication is for the dumb and lazy.
Look at the studies for the affects of salt on blood pressure. Some people can drop their pressure 3 points with reduced salt - for others, it doesn't change anything. The latest studies actually say that there is *no* benefit to severe salt restriction!
If you're fat, losing weight is always a good idea. I'm not. I'm actually borderline clinically under-weight. Losing weight would probably kill me. Nothing to be done there.
Limiting caffeine intake is another oft recommended item. I don't drink pop, and have 1 cup of coffee a day. I'm not at risk there either.
And adding exercise - if you're not overweight, the measurable impact of blood pressure is again minimal.
I'm glad you could use lifestyle changes, but don't say that this works for everyone.
>This is the 21st century, I expect no less than that every every software component automatically and silently updates itself
Oh, HELL no.
I am sick and tired of apps moving around the GUI and removing features in the name of "latest update". I'm now to the point that I refuse to update an app unless I have a good reason. That does mean that my phone has +50 pending updates - but unless they give me a good reason in the update notes, I ain't doing it.
I've had enough. I want my phone to be my phone, and to be stable. I'm not turning it over to an auto-update process that breaks my apps randomly.
>The Arab emirates that compose five nations will have to be evacuated prior to 2025 as warming in that area will be so severe that the land can not support human life nor can things like air conditioning save the day.
I'll bet you $10,000 that is completely, totally, untrue. In fact, I'll double-or-nothing you that in 2025 the population of the UAE will be higher than today.
What the hell does " encrypting at rest" prevent in this context?...
Aside - I used to carry the entire backup of the data, unencrypted to the offsite storage.
You answered your own question. Say you dropped, lost, or were robbed of those backups. Or say that someone at the off-site location did the same. Vola! 100% data leakage, quick & easy! Unencryped backups with personal info are just plain reckless- and sometimes illegal.
Anyone who's comparing LOtR to GoT clearly doesn't understand anything about Tolkien and why he was writing his stories....and if you mess with something you don't understand, you will wreck it. Badly.
Ditto. Of the 4 I saw deployed first hand, 3 had issues around docking & power management. Waking from suspend was always a gamble. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. Docking would sometimes blank out all screens, with unknown causes and inconsistent ways to get it back alive again. Sometimes at random it would run very, very hot and drain the battery quickly - and killing processes didn't help. Had to reboot to settle it down.
Company-wide, Surface devices were so problematic that we've switched back to normal laptops. Too many support calls and returns. Updating the firmware (which seemed to be updated monthly for a while there) was a routine process in the futile hopes of fixing issues.
I call BS on the "1 in 100,000" number. I wouldn't believe a number of "1 in 100", based on our company's experience.
That was really the only good Kinect game I ever found. All other games had a bunch of troubles: direct sunlight anywhere in the room made it useless, small kids often wouldn't be detected (good gravy, the tears in our house over that...), and it required a decent amount of open floor-space. I don't want to have to move a recliner just to play a game!
Good hardware, but the software just wasn't up to scratch...
A couple weeks back when China made a big fuss over crypto, BTC went on sale. The temporary price drop from FUD made a great time to buy.
Then everyone took a moment to consider China's regulations (because, seriously, they aren't REALLY going to opt out of something that profitable). Nothing they did altered the fundamental objectives and demand for the coin. It's a global unregulated coin. One country can't do anything more than cause a blip of FUD.
Since then, we've been back to all time highs.
So, bring it on! I want to buy the dip again. Buy low, sell high boys and girls!
Are you thinking of Canadian Social Insurance Numbers? There is nothing special about the last 4 of a US Social Security number - short of "0000" and "9999" being invalid.
>The best way to work out who is illegal, using fake ID or just treaded a social security number is to request layers of other photo ID.
That used to be true. Now there are 12 states that do or have issued drivers license (photo ID) to illegal aliens.A drivers license from these states is unreliable to establish legal residency.
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Oregon , and DC
Checksum? I think you're confusing credit card numbers with SSN's. SSN has no checksum.
The first 3 digits are the geographical location of where the number was issued, never above 740. The middle 2 digits are Group Numbers, which was roughly chronologically issued batches. The last 4 digits are Serial Numbers - issued strictly chronology in sequence. (more info: http://www.usrecordsearch.com/... )
No checkums. You have no way to tell if a given number is used or valid, short of validating the geographic portion.
Even then, the geographic field isn't reliable. My SSN, for example, is from a state I lived in about a year of my life as an infant. Ask me where I'm from and where I've lived, and that state won't come up.
A Social Security number is a username, not a password.
Having a mere SSN should not be enough to authenticate a person is who they say they are, it's just a way to tell me from you. Any person or system using a SSN as proof of identity is just plain lazy - especially since SSN is now practically public domain information. (Thanks Equifax!)
>2. Single gender bathrooms in retail. With all the PC rabble-rousers, I predict that more and more locations will give up and not offer a restroom at all. You can't get a lawsuit for not having a gender-choice-of-the week restroom if you don't have restrooms. [[taps side of head]]
>4. Food delivery and prepackaged meal delivery services. I foresee the opposite. Restaurant owners don't want to deal with delivery staff and logistics, unless they have to. (Pizza is probably the only one that makes sense, despite the hassle). 3rd party delivery companies will start to crop up once drone delivery makes it cost effective. Cooking at home is trending down. It's too much work, takes too much time, and makes a mess. Skills are not being passed down to the next generation.
>8. Single family home lawn supplies. Lawns will be replaced by gardens and more people will live in multi-family towers next to green parks I don't know anyone who wants to live in an urban tower. That's for college students and poor people. As automated driving becomes mainstream, the range of suburbs will expand. I can tolerate a longer commute if I can wake up slowly with coffee and morning news. Automated driving will allow higher speed limits too, further increasing the commute range. I want a nice lawn. I don't want to put in the work for a lawn-sized garden. Those things are a lot of work to maintain. Ever notice that good gardens are the domain of the retired?
>9. Cell phone stores. You're making many arguments here. First one is an argument against the cellphone upgrade cycle. I'm seeing that accelerating, with no end in sight. Second is the advancement of low power devices. There's a place for that (IoT), but not in the hand-held personal computer space. Power requirements for personal mobile computing are increasing. Batteries are increasing, not disappearing. Next is the actual, physical store. Ya and no. Sure, I can order a phone online - but some things are that are best done by an expert. Just yesterday I drove to a cell phone store to get them to help port a land-line number to a new cell phone. I didn't want to spend all day in phone call "wrong dept" purgatory, I just wanted an expert to get it done. Dropped in the store, and bam, a bored guy who's done it a hundred times uses his company's magic, secret web site to make it happen. Everyone's happy.
I am surprised that you didn't' say "half of all gas stations". Electric is going to kill the gas station business model. It's going to be a slow, painful death as the market for gas slowly dries up. (see what I did there)
This wasn't just flushed money- it was cut up first.That's not a normal thing to do.
My first thought? Mental illness. Sounds like some of the stories you hear from that government office that helps you reclaim money destroyed by fire, mold, or a dementia patient who starts shredding money they had hidden in the house. See also: https://www.frbservices.org/op...
The distributed ledger is the opposite of anonymous- everyone has a full copy of all transactions. To use a bank analogy, you have a land of numbered Swiss bank accounts, and the transactions are published in a daily newspaper. Cracking who owns what is simply an exercise in meta data analysis.
Released in the 1978, "Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record" is a great book with most of the record's images and a bunch of cool info. I have a copy - very fun reading.
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>If you believe Elon (and we know not to always believe him)...
I used to think that... but find me a tweet (even the joke ones) that hasn't turned into reality.
Car in orbit past Mars? check
Flamethrower? check
Boring company? check
He's rich enough to turn his jokes & whims into reality. I now take all of his tweets seriously - especially the jokes.
Yes, it's called the Lightning Network. It's in testing now- reduces fees to a fraction of a penny.
Scaling up a system to handle massive traffic securely, quickly, and cheaply is not a trivial problem. Ask any company with growing pains. Be patient - a lot of very smart people are on this.
What if all the world's volcanoes erupt at once?
Today nobody is doing in-car advertising. The first one to try will get a LOT of bad press and lose market share.
The real question is: who's stupid enough to be the first to try this?
If I test drive a car that serves up an ad, not only am I not buying that car - I'm black-listing that brand forever.
Bring it on punk - see how fast you can drop market share.
Find me a car newer than a Model T that won't be rendered inoperable by an EMP. ...and GP is wrong. Safety equipment will always be mandatory, and ever increasing. Heaven forbid someone gets bruised when a deer jumps in front of a self-driving car and totals it.
Great idea! You first. Set up a server and start by paying other people to read your E-Mail.
I'll wait.
Correction: mild hypertension can *sometimes* be controlled by choice. You make is sound like taking medication is for the dumb and lazy.
Look at the studies for the affects of salt on blood pressure. Some people can drop their pressure 3 points with reduced salt - for others, it doesn't change anything. The latest studies actually say that there is *no* benefit to severe salt restriction!
If you're fat, losing weight is always a good idea. I'm not. I'm actually borderline clinically under-weight. Losing weight would probably kill me. Nothing to be done there.
Limiting caffeine intake is another oft recommended item. I don't drink pop, and have 1 cup of coffee a day. I'm not at risk there either.
And adding exercise - if you're not overweight, the measurable impact of blood pressure is again minimal.
I'm glad you could use lifestyle changes, but don't say that this works for everyone.
>This is the 21st century, I expect no less than that every every software component automatically and silently updates itself
Oh, HELL no.
I am sick and tired of apps moving around the GUI and removing features in the name of "latest update". I'm now to the point that I refuse to update an app unless I have a good reason. That does mean that my phone has +50 pending updates - but unless they give me a good reason in the update notes, I ain't doing it.
I've had enough. I want my phone to be my phone, and to be stable. I'm not turning it over to an auto-update process that breaks my apps randomly.
>The Arab emirates that compose five nations will have to be evacuated prior to 2025 as warming in that area will be so severe that the land can not support human life nor can things like air conditioning save the day.
I'll bet you $10,000 that is completely, totally, untrue.
In fact, I'll double-or-nothing you that in 2025 the population of the UAE will be higher than today.
What the hell does " encrypting at rest" prevent in this context? ...
Aside - I used to carry the entire backup of the data, unencrypted to the offsite storage.
You answered your own question. Say you dropped, lost, or were robbed of those backups. Or say that someone at the off-site location did the same. Vola! 100% data leakage, quick & easy! Unencryped backups with personal info are just plain reckless- and sometimes illegal.
This is why you encrypt at rest.
Anyone who's comparing LOtR to GoT clearly doesn't understand anything about Tolkien and why he was writing his stories. ...and if you mess with something you don't understand, you will wreck it. Badly.
Ditto. Of the 4 I saw deployed first hand, 3 had issues around docking & power management. Waking from suspend was always a gamble. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. Docking would sometimes blank out all screens, with unknown causes and inconsistent ways to get it back alive again. Sometimes at random it would run very, very hot and drain the battery quickly - and killing processes didn't help. Had to reboot to settle it down.
Company-wide, Surface devices were so problematic that we've switched back to normal laptops. Too many support calls and returns. Updating the firmware (which seemed to be updated monthly for a while there) was a routine process in the futile hopes of fixing issues.
I call BS on the "1 in 100,000" number. I wouldn't believe a number of "1 in 100", based on our company's experience.
You're thinking of "Kinect Party".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That was really the only good Kinect game I ever found. All other games had a bunch of troubles: direct sunlight anywhere in the room made it useless, small kids often wouldn't be detected (good gravy, the tears in our house over that...), and it required a decent amount of open floor-space. I don't want to have to move a recliner just to play a game!
Good hardware, but the software just wasn't up to scratch...
That's how you create Technical Debt.
Every upgrade cycle you skip makes the next one that much harder...
Only if you don't place a value on time & convenience.
Case #1: Oops, I left my laptop bag in the car. Will I ever see it again?
Case #2: I want to do a grocery run over lunch. Can I just take the jug or milk to the cooler, or must I schlep all the bags to my desk?
A couple weeks back when China made a big fuss over crypto, BTC went on sale. The temporary price drop from FUD made a great time to buy.
Then everyone took a moment to consider China's regulations (because, seriously, they aren't REALLY going to opt out of something that profitable). Nothing they did altered the fundamental objectives and demand for the coin. It's a global unregulated coin. One country can't do anything more than cause a blip of FUD.
Since then, we've been back to all time highs.
So, bring it on! I want to buy the dip again. Buy low, sell high boys and girls!
Are you thinking of Canadian Social Insurance Numbers? There is nothing special about the last 4 of a US Social Security number - short of "0000" and "9999" being invalid.
The credit card checksum uses the Luhn Alogrithm:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Even the wikipedia article states there is no checksum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Got a source for your statement that only 500 combinations of the 10,000 possible are valid?
>The best way to work out who is illegal, using fake ID or just treaded a social security number is to request layers of other photo ID.
That used to be true. Now there are 12 states that do or have issued drivers license (photo ID) to illegal aliens.A drivers license from these states is unreliable to establish legal residency.
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Oregon , and DC
Checksum? I think you're confusing credit card numbers with SSN's. SSN has no checksum.
The first 3 digits are the geographical location of where the number was issued, never above 740.
The middle 2 digits are Group Numbers, which was roughly chronologically issued batches.
The last 4 digits are Serial Numbers - issued strictly chronology in sequence.
(more info: http://www.usrecordsearch.com/... )
No checkums. You have no way to tell if a given number is used or valid, short of validating the geographic portion.
Even then, the geographic field isn't reliable. My SSN, for example, is from a state I lived in about a year of my life as an infant. Ask me where I'm from and where I've lived, and that state won't come up.
This.
A Social Security number is a username, not a password.
Having a mere SSN should not be enough to authenticate a person is who they say they are, it's just a way to tell me from you. Any person or system using a SSN as proof of identity is just plain lazy - especially since SSN is now practically public domain information. (Thanks Equifax!)
I like your list, but I quibble with a few:
>2. Single gender bathrooms in retail.
With all the PC rabble-rousers, I predict that more and more locations will give up and not offer a restroom at all.
You can't get a lawsuit for not having a gender-choice-of-the week restroom if you don't have restrooms. [[taps side of head]]
>4. Food delivery and prepackaged meal delivery services.
I foresee the opposite. Restaurant owners don't want to deal with delivery staff and logistics, unless they have to. (Pizza is probably the only one that makes sense, despite the hassle). 3rd party delivery companies will start to crop up once drone delivery makes it cost effective.
Cooking at home is trending down. It's too much work, takes too much time, and makes a mess. Skills are not being passed down to the next generation.
>8. Single family home lawn supplies. Lawns will be replaced by gardens and more people will live in multi-family towers next to green parks
I don't know anyone who wants to live in an urban tower. That's for college students and poor people.
As automated driving becomes mainstream, the range of suburbs will expand. I can tolerate a longer commute if I can wake up slowly with coffee and morning news. Automated driving will allow higher speed limits too, further increasing the commute range.
I want a nice lawn. I don't want to put in the work for a lawn-sized garden. Those things are a lot of work to maintain. Ever notice that good gardens are the domain of the retired?
>9. Cell phone stores.
You're making many arguments here. First one is an argument against the cellphone upgrade cycle. I'm seeing that accelerating, with no end in sight.
Second is the advancement of low power devices. There's a place for that (IoT), but not in the hand-held personal computer space. Power requirements for personal mobile computing are increasing. Batteries are increasing, not disappearing.
Next is the actual, physical store. Ya and no. Sure, I can order a phone online - but some things are that are best done by an expert. Just yesterday I drove to a cell phone store to get them to help port a land-line number to a new cell phone. I didn't want to spend all day in phone call "wrong dept" purgatory, I just wanted an expert to get it done. Dropped in the store, and bam, a bored guy who's done it a hundred times uses his company's magic, secret web site to make it happen. Everyone's happy.
I am surprised that you didn't' say "half of all gas stations". Electric is going to kill the gas station business model. It's going to be a slow, painful death as the market for gas slowly dries up. (see what I did there)
This wasn't just flushed money- it was cut up first.That's not a normal thing to do.
My first thought? Mental illness. Sounds like some of the stories you hear from that government office that helps you reclaim money destroyed by fire, mold, or a dementia patient who starts shredding money they had hidden in the house.
See also: https://www.frbservices.org/op...
My 2nd guess is counterfeit money.
You probably know this already, but you already get one free per year from each of the 3 credit reporting agencies. (Thanks Uncle Sam!)
If you time it right, you can pull one every 4 months (rotating agencies, using each one yearly)
https://www.annualcreditreport...
^ This.
The distributed ledger is the opposite of anonymous- everyone has a full copy of all transactions. To use a bank analogy, you have a land of numbered Swiss bank accounts, and the transactions are published in a daily newspaper. Cracking who owns what is simply an exercise in meta data analysis.
...than the blog post.
Released in the 1978, "Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record" is a great book with most of the record's images and a bunch of cool info. I have a copy - very fun reading.
(Posted as FYI for those who didn't know)