: What are these "benefits"?
Technically, any proximity-triggered explosive (land mine, anti-tank mine, anti-ship mine) is an autonomous weapon. The benefit is they are a cheap way to defend fixed assets.
: and who are these countries?
Any country who shares a border with a hostile nation. Or who has facilities in hostile territory.
Because land mines (and anti-tank and anti-ship mines) certainly provide benefits when used to defend fixed assets. And I'm not sure how you'd ban a hand grenade tied to a trip-wire.
All the existing blockchain schemes use public-key algorithms that are susceptible to Shor's Algorithm running on a quantum computer, which would allow transactions to be forged at will. Sure, quantum computers may be a decade or two away, but why would anyone invest in any technology that has such a limited shelf-life? (Apart from pump-and-dump speculators).
I remember walking past Snap's outlet on Venice Beach a few times last June and noticing that customers were always outnumbered by security guards, and I never saw anyone buy anything.
The Spectacles vending machine was pretty cute though - lots of tourists were taking pics of it.
On the plus side, it's a very effective form of carbon sequestration. All that dead algae will sit on the ocean floor for millenia and eventually turn into oil.
For some categories of intellectual property it makes sense, for others it would be a disaster.
Trademarks and logos need to last at least as long as the product itself to protect consumers against counterfeits.
Pharmaceutical patents probably need to remain at 20 years. As things stand, after a 7-year FDA approval the drug companies have only 13 years to recoup the 9-figure development costs.
But for software copyright/patents it makes sense. In any case, most software is protected by keeping the source code secret.
If you really want to dislike something, Unicode 6.2 provides a "thumbs down" character (U+1F44E) that you can put in a comment. It isn't supported by many fonts yet, but that will change. Of course, if you REALLY dislike something, Unicode 6.2 also provides a "pile of poo" character (U+1F4A9).
The BadImplementation error is because there's no ICCCM-compliant window manager running. You could try running a window manager remotely, but it's fiddly.
The BadLength error might actually be a bug.
There are two things holding back the server.
(1) It doesn't ship with an ICCCM-compliant window manager, and a lot of application will abort without one. You can run one remotely, but it's tricky.
(2) It doesn't support any of the X extensions. RENDER and SHAPE would be useful.
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: What are these "benefits"?
Technically, any proximity-triggered explosive (land mine, anti-tank mine, anti-ship mine) is an autonomous weapon. The benefit is they are a cheap way to defend fixed assets.
: and who are these countries?
Any country who shares a border with a hostile nation. Or who has facilities in hostile territory.
Because land mines (and anti-tank and anti-ship mines) certainly provide benefits when used to defend fixed assets. And I'm not sure how you'd ban a hand grenade tied to a trip-wire.
But they'll be back in fashion in a year or two.
All the existing blockchain schemes use public-key algorithms that are susceptible to Shor's Algorithm running on a quantum computer, which would allow transactions to be forged at will. Sure, quantum computers may be a decade or two away, but why would anyone invest in any technology that has such a limited shelf-life? (Apart from pump-and-dump speculators).
I remember walking past Snap's outlet on Venice Beach a few times last June and noticing that customers were always outnumbered by security guards, and I never saw anyone buy anything. The Spectacles vending machine was pretty cute though - lots of tourists were taking pics of it.
On the plus side, it's a very effective form of carbon sequestration. All that dead algae will sit on the ocean floor for millenia and eventually turn into oil.
For some categories of intellectual property it makes sense, for others it would be a disaster. Trademarks and logos need to last at least as long as the product itself to protect consumers against counterfeits. Pharmaceutical patents probably need to remain at 20 years. As things stand, after a 7-year FDA approval the drug companies have only 13 years to recoup the 9-figure development costs. But for software copyright/patents it makes sense. In any case, most software is protected by keeping the source code secret.
If you really want to dislike something, Unicode 6.2 provides a "thumbs down" character (U+1F44E) that you can put in a comment. It isn't supported by many fonts yet, but that will change. Of course, if you REALLY dislike something, Unicode 6.2 also provides a "pile of poo" character (U+1F4A9).
The TV Hat looks awesome, but it's a virtual reality setup, not augmented reality. You can't see where you're going while you're wearing it.
The BadImplementation error is because there's no ICCCM-compliant window manager running. You could try running a window manager remotely, but it's fiddly. The BadLength error might actually be a bug.
There are two things holding back the server. (1) It doesn't ship with an ICCCM-compliant window manager, and a lot of application will abort without one. You can run one remotely, but it's tricky. (2) It doesn't support any of the X extensions. RENDER and SHAPE would be useful.