A lot of child sex offenders are not true pedophiles. A lot of them are predators and use sex as a way to prove dominance and children as preys. Some also would have preferred adults but for some reason, they couldn't get what they wanted and used children as a second choice.
The first group probably wouldn't get much satisfaction from robots. And the second group would prefer regular sexbots.
Men have more free time, video games are a relatively new form of entertainment so of course you can say this extra free time is spent playing video games. But you could say that same thing of any new thing, like watching YouTube videos. Even household chores probably count since it is becoming less common for women to do everything. Just pick the thing you want to push your agenda.
With more solar and wind power, this problem will become worse, and I don't expect batteries to help that much. One solution would be grid friendly appliances. There are plenty of things that don't need power at a precise moment. Water stays hot for a few hours in boilers, you don't necessarily need your laundry right now, and if you have an electric car and have 12h to charge it and it takes only 6, it can be any 6 hours. Appliances can be made so that they run perferably when supply is high and demand is low. This information can be sent via power line communication and trigger relays. Of course, it should go with price incentives. Make the price vary for the consumer depending on the time.
In fact, it is an old trend that is coming back. Old systems had plenty of specialized chips for sound, graphics, IO, etc... As CPUs became more powerful, these specialized features ended up as software run by the CPU. Now, these accelerator chips are coming back, the difference being that they tend to be on the same die as the main CPU (SoC).
Nuclear waste can be recycled into nuclear fuel (reprocessing). But in the end, it just comes down to economics, like solar panel waste : is it cost effective to do so?
You are right in a purely thermodynamic sense, though 4x seems a bit high. But that's assuming the heat comes from the same fuel that the used to produce electricity. But the idea here is to stop using fossil fuels. And you can't easily turn hydro and wind into heat without electricity, solar is possible but not trivial, and I wouldn't recommend home nuclear heating. Of course that's for resistive heating, not heat pumps, which are typically much more efficient.
Black children have two attributes : "black" and "child". They are not protected from attacks against their "child" attribute, only against their "black" attribute.
Blacks only have single attribute, which is protected, and therefore are totally protected.
That's the reasoning. In reality however, humans have many, many attributes, and only a few of them are protected, so attacks are possible on anyone. People are not totally defined by their race and gender, thankfully.
It's meat like sugar water with a bunch of additives is honey. I suspect it will have the same general properties as real meat without any of its subtleties. Probably good enough for McDonald's but not for those who actually enjoy meat.
Technically correct. The cause is the battery and it is non-removable, so the cause is the non-removable battery. It is the old tactic of putting together two unrelated facts to imply a connection that doesn't exist.
The non-removable battery still made things worse in the sense that it made the problem much harder to deal with. They couldn't just send customers a new battery and tell them so do the swap themselves so they had to go through complex recall procedures.
Not mutually exclusive. The French Revolution is one of the most iconic movement against an oppressive political or social establishment. It lead to a period that is literally called "the terror".
Yes, that's the point... for Google. Like any private company, everything Google does serve their bottom line. But the reason Google did this and not something else is that there really is a need for faster browsing and AMP is their way of addressing it for profit. But if webpages were the same size they were 10 years ago, everything would be crazy fast now and there would be no need for AMP.
And ads aren't the problem. There were ads and analytics 10 years ago, but while they were just as annoying as they are now, they were small enough not to make dial-up users too mad.
Is 2.3 MB for a whole month's worth of blog posts, including several photos and/or CGI renderings, likewise too heavy? If so, what change would you recommend for a page like this one?
I wouldn't change anything. This is 2.3 MB worth of content, not 2.3 MB worth of scripts, fonts, stylesheets, oversized pictures, etc... I don't have a problem with large pages, I have a problem with low content/size ratio.
The point of AMP is to restrict what you can do so that pages load faster. And as a side effect, Google gets to make the rules.
But AMP would never have existed if webmasters were a bit more reasonable. We are talking about sites weighting several megabytes for the equivalent of a single blog post, with scripts creatively breaking browsers. With a 2.3MB / 66 object webpage, the author is definitively guilty of this.
How about, instead of complaining about AMP, take the core of the technology, which is actually quite good, remove the Google bits, and make your site even faster and lighter.
Considering how similar ICBMs and orbital rockets are, I can guarantee you that all nuclear powers take a very close look at rocket launches. NASA and ESA also have rules regarding space junk, which is the biggest problem with sending too many things in orbit, and work is being made to turn it into an international agreement.
The cost of the Iridium project went well into the billions (I've seen $4B) for 77 satellites. The $50 million per satellite figure is not too far off. The $5 million per satellite probably only covers only the manufacturing and not the tooling, R&D, logistics, etc..., anyways, it is obviously not representative of reality. Iridium NEXT has a budget of $3 billion, a little cheaper but still in the same ballpark.
I am always skeptical when people announce huge savings. First, it isn't like private companies love spending money for nothing, if there is a way to make satellites 10 times cheaper, it will definitely be considered. Usually, the reality is that when some part of the process becomes highly optimized, some other part become the bottleneck. For example, let's imagine there is a way to make satellites for free, the launch, maintenance, ground stations,... will become significant and it may turn out the savings won't be quite as much as expected.
A "cheap" LEO communication satellite costs around $50 million, so 700 satellites would be $35 billion... We are talking big money here. Somewhere between the GPS and the Apollo program. This kind of budget is usually reserved for international projects or large countries (i.e. US, China). So a private company... I am sure there are economies of scale to be made but I don't believe in magic. I expect it to be government-scale money no matter what.
Everybody should cheer. The purpose of economic activity is to create goods and services, not "keeping people busy". If the same number of burgers can be delivered with less labor, that is a GOOD THING.
Sure but don't forget the level of service. It may work for McDonalds because employees are being trained to work like robots but cashiers can provide added value. In a proper restaurant, the customer can do reasonable demands, or ask questions. I may want no or more salt on my fries, a different cooking for my steak. Ask about the ingredients, stuff like that. And restaurants held by actual human beings can usually accommodate my requests, it's not like it would cost them more to cook my steak rare instead of well done. One thing that pissed me off is when they replaced human operated tolls with machines (in France). The machine sucks compared to the cashier. Doesn't accept all coins and can't return change properly, giving you a huge pile of small coins instead of something sensible. Cheques are not accepted anymore unless you call a number and use a special mailbox. They sometimes miscalculate fare (ex : count a motorbike as a car, or a car as a truck) and the only way to fix the problem is to make a call and wait, sometimes quite a long time. Also foreigners are commonly confused with the machine, slowing down the line as they figure out how it works. Ok for replacing humans with machines, but only if the machines do an equivalent or better job.
Facebook has one mission and it's the same mission it's always had since Zuckerberg came up with the thing in the first place: make as much money as possible off of your users.
This can be said of any private company, from mom and pops shop to Walmart.
Because it is done under the NSA name, and given its reputation, it is likely to become the most audited code on the planet. Should they plant backdoors, they should probably do it undercover.
I know you are trolling but there may be a grain of truth in what you are saying. White people are the easiest to recognize and blacks are the hardest. It is a simple matter of contrast. I don't know if male/female makes a difference in success rate. Probably not, though makeup and beards may play a role.
NAT is not a security feature. It is a workaround for the lack of IPv4 addresses. It just has the side effect of blocking some inbound connections, but if it is what you need, this can be done with a simple firewall rule, one that most home routers are likely to have enabled by default.
It is relevant because it shows, again, the NSA poor standards.
I've always the Snowden leaks a mark or incompetence rather than malice. They have two jobs : spying and keeping secrets. And Snowden has shown that they failed at the second part. They basically turned into a data sink with no concern for security, including their own.
That they allow crooks as their contractors for top secret positions is telling. It's either because they can't be bothered doing the necessary background checks (great for an agency that is supposed to know everything...) or they are content with a company that falsifies records.
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A lot of child sex offenders are not true pedophiles. A lot of them are predators and use sex as a way to prove dominance and children as preys. Some also would have preferred adults but for some reason, they couldn't get what they wanted and used children as a second choice.
The first group probably wouldn't get much satisfaction from robots. And the second group would prefer regular sexbots.
Men have more free time, video games are a relatively new form of entertainment so of course you can say this extra free time is spent playing video games.
But you could say that same thing of any new thing, like watching YouTube videos. Even household chores probably count since it is becoming less common for women to do everything.
Just pick the thing you want to push your agenda.
People decide with their wallets.
If people prefer seats over cheaper flights, they will see elsewhere. If they don't, it means they accept the idea.
Swearing is an effective painkiller.
And yeah, this is serious, there is peer-reviewed research and all that stuff.
With more solar and wind power, this problem will become worse, and I don't expect batteries to help that much.
One solution would be grid friendly appliances. There are plenty of things that don't need power at a precise moment. Water stays hot for a few hours in boilers, you don't necessarily need your laundry right now, and if you have an electric car and have 12h to charge it and it takes only 6, it can be any 6 hours. Appliances can be made so that they run perferably when supply is high and demand is low. This information can be sent via power line communication and trigger relays.
Of course, it should go with price incentives. Make the price vary for the consumer depending on the time.
In fact, it is an old trend that is coming back.
Old systems had plenty of specialized chips for sound, graphics, IO, etc... As CPUs became more powerful, these specialized features ended up as software run by the CPU. Now, these accelerator chips are coming back, the difference being that they tend to be on the same die as the main CPU (SoC).
Nuclear waste can be recycled into nuclear fuel (reprocessing).
But in the end, it just comes down to economics, like solar panel waste : is it cost effective to do so?
You are right in a purely thermodynamic sense, though 4x seems a bit high. But that's assuming the heat comes from the same fuel that the used to produce electricity.
But the idea here is to stop using fossil fuels. And you can't easily turn hydro and wind into heat without electricity, solar is possible but not trivial, and I wouldn't recommend home nuclear heating.
Of course that's for resistive heating, not heat pumps, which are typically much more efficient.
Black children have two attributes : "black" and "child".
They are not protected from attacks against their "child" attribute, only against their "black" attribute.
Blacks only have single attribute, which is protected, and therefore are totally protected.
That's the reasoning.
In reality however, humans have many, many attributes, and only a few of them are protected, so attacks are possible on anyone. People are not totally defined by their race and gender, thankfully.
It's meat like sugar water with a bunch of additives is honey.
I suspect it will have the same general properties as real meat without any of its subtleties. Probably good enough for McDonald's but not for those who actually enjoy meat.
Technically correct. The cause is the battery and it is non-removable, so the cause is the non-removable battery. It is the old tactic of putting together two unrelated facts to imply a connection that doesn't exist.
The non-removable battery still made things worse in the sense that it made the problem much harder to deal with. They couldn't just send customers a new battery and tell them so do the swap themselves so they had to go through complex recall procedures.
Not mutually exclusive.
The French Revolution is one of the most iconic movement against an oppressive political or social establishment. It lead to a period that is literally called "the terror".
Yes, that's the point... for Google. Like any private company, everything Google does serve their bottom line.
But the reason Google did this and not something else is that there really is a need for faster browsing and AMP is their way of addressing it for profit.
But if webpages were the same size they were 10 years ago, everything would be crazy fast now and there would be no need for AMP.
And ads aren't the problem. There were ads and analytics 10 years ago, but while they were just as annoying as they are now, they were small enough not to make dial-up users too mad.
Is 2.3 MB for a whole month's worth of blog posts, including several photos and/or CGI renderings, likewise too heavy? If so, what change would you recommend for a page like this one?
I wouldn't change anything. This is 2.3 MB worth of content, not 2.3 MB worth of scripts, fonts, stylesheets, oversized pictures, etc...
I don't have a problem with large pages, I have a problem with low content/size ratio.
The point of AMP is to restrict what you can do so that pages load faster. And as a side effect, Google gets to make the rules.
But AMP would never have existed if webmasters were a bit more reasonable. We are talking about sites weighting several megabytes for the equivalent of a single blog post, with scripts creatively breaking browsers. With a 2.3MB / 66 object webpage, the author is definitively guilty of this.
How about, instead of complaining about AMP, take the core of the technology, which is actually quite good, remove the Google bits, and make your site even faster and lighter.
4 wheels don't really fix the problem, the pull is still from the middle and wheels are still to the side.
Get a backpack.
Considering how similar ICBMs and orbital rockets are, I can guarantee you that all nuclear powers take a very close look at rocket launches.
NASA and ESA also have rules regarding space junk, which is the biggest problem with sending too many things in orbit, and work is being made to turn it into an international agreement.
The cost of the Iridium project went well into the billions (I've seen $4B) for 77 satellites. The $50 million per satellite figure is not too far off. The $5 million per satellite probably only covers only the manufacturing and not the tooling, R&D, logistics, etc..., anyways, it is obviously not representative of reality.
Iridium NEXT has a budget of $3 billion, a little cheaper but still in the same ballpark.
I am always skeptical when people announce huge savings. First, it isn't like private companies love spending money for nothing, if there is a way to make satellites 10 times cheaper, it will definitely be considered. Usually, the reality is that when some part of the process becomes highly optimized, some other part become the bottleneck. For example, let's imagine there is a way to make satellites for free, the launch, maintenance, ground stations, ... will become significant and it may turn out the savings won't be quite as much as expected.
A "cheap" LEO communication satellite costs around $50 million, so 700 satellites would be $35 billion...
We are talking big money here. Somewhere between the GPS and the Apollo program. This kind of budget is usually reserved for international projects or large countries (i.e. US, China). So a private company...
I am sure there are economies of scale to be made but I don't believe in magic. I expect it to be government-scale money no matter what.
Everybody should cheer. The purpose of economic activity is to create goods and services, not "keeping people busy". If the same number of burgers can be delivered with less labor, that is a GOOD THING.
Sure but don't forget the level of service. It may work for McDonalds because employees are being trained to work like robots but cashiers can provide added value.
In a proper restaurant, the customer can do reasonable demands, or ask questions. I may want no or more salt on my fries, a different cooking for my steak. Ask about the ingredients, stuff like that. And restaurants held by actual human beings can usually accommodate my requests, it's not like it would cost them more to cook my steak rare instead of well done.
One thing that pissed me off is when they replaced human operated tolls with machines (in France). The machine sucks compared to the cashier. Doesn't accept all coins and can't return change properly, giving you a huge pile of small coins instead of something sensible. Cheques are not accepted anymore unless you call a number and use a special mailbox. They sometimes miscalculate fare (ex : count a motorbike as a car, or a car as a truck) and the only way to fix the problem is to make a call and wait, sometimes quite a long time. Also foreigners are commonly confused with the machine, slowing down the line as they figure out how it works.
Ok for replacing humans with machines, but only if the machines do an equivalent or better job.
Facebook has one mission and it's the same mission it's always had since Zuckerberg came up with the thing in the first place: make as much money as possible off of your users.
This can be said of any private company, from mom and pops shop to Walmart.
Because it is done under the NSA name, and given its reputation, it is likely to become the most audited code on the planet.
Should they plant backdoors, they should probably do it undercover.
I know you are trolling but there may be a grain of truth in what you are saying.
White people are the easiest to recognize and blacks are the hardest. It is a simple matter of contrast. I don't know if male/female makes a difference in success rate. Probably not, though makeup and beards may play a role.
NAT is not a security feature. It is a workaround for the lack of IPv4 addresses.
It just has the side effect of blocking some inbound connections, but if it is what you need, this can be done with a simple firewall rule, one that most home routers are likely to have enabled by default.
It is relevant because it shows, again, the NSA poor standards.
I've always the Snowden leaks a mark or incompetence rather than malice. They have two jobs : spying and keeping secrets. And Snowden has shown that they failed at the second part. They basically turned into a data sink with no concern for security, including their own.
That they allow crooks as their contractors for top secret positions is telling. It's either because they can't be bothered doing the necessary background checks (great for an agency that is supposed to know everything...) or they are content with a company that falsifies records.