First we need to learn to identify risks for ourselves. Only then can we properly evaluate and accept risks.
America has been sold on the risk of terrorist violence, because of one attack over a decade ago. So we allow ourselves to be groped, violated and irradiated because we do not properly understand the risk. We allow budgets to soar unchecked because of the great terrorist threat.
On a more recent note : the same folks who sold us the terrorist lie are currently churning out lies about Syria. Overstating the "absolutely undeniable proof" that the regime is using chemical weapons, in order to spend another trillion on cruise missiles, spy planes, and everything else needed to defeat the eeeevil Syrian leaders.
The American people need to apply some critical thinking, evaluate these risks for themselves, and make third voices heard.
I pay local companies for my utilities. (Water, Electricity, garbage removal)
I pay local grocery providers for food
I pay airline fees for travel.
I listen to ungodly amounts of commercials on terrestrial radio, or pay for music via satellite, radio, etc
The government may have had a hand in getting these things started, and might run oversight to keep them in place... but the individual companies run like any other private business and expect to turn a profit. At best, the government keeps them from running amok with monopolies or collusion so that my electricity bill isn't as extortion laced as my cable bill.
P.S. if you form a group to provide a service, you're not a government. You are a service provider.
It only becomes a problem if you have a special reason to know that Bob is likely to steal your sandwich. If my PB Sandwich, stored under 2 layers (sandwich bag + Lunch box) simply being in the same communal fridge at work is enough to trip Bob's lethal allergies... then Bob needs to know better than to keep his food in that fridge.
The robot isn't getting paid on commission though, so it has no reason to lie or mislead you (other than the parent company wanting to sell more vehicles in general)
Also, any questions and answers will be in writing, giving the customer a better recourse if promises turn out to be false. I'm sure BMW can make some boilerplate disclaimer to prevent legal action, but if word spreads of the AI blatantly lying about specs, it could seriously impact bottom line.
Apparently those in power, with ties to the military industrial complex, can only satiate their greed for a decade before they need to spark up another invasion
Pretty much, yes. There is a LITTLE profit to most tickets, but not much.
I mentioned above... many theatres sold Iron Man 3 tickets at a significant loss, because Disney is getting monopolistic and the theatres can't really afford to NOT show Iron Man 3. Disney said Bend Over, and the theatres couldn't really argue.
12 > 2... but 2 > 0 . If the choices are "See a decent movie for full price, or nothing at all" then I'm going to stick with nothing at all. Selling the ticket cheap gets my butt into the theatre, where I might buy popcorn, play some video games, see a trailer for some movie I didn't realize was coming out next weekend... etc
In reality though, this isn't a movie theatre's decision. The Studios are what drive ticket sales. Disney, Sony, Fox, etc. get nearly 100% of the ticket prices, and sometimes even MORE than 100%. There was a dust-up recently when Disney flexed it's Marvel Muscles, and wanted significantly MORE than $12 per ticket from the theatres, for the rights to show Iron Man 3. This put theatres in a tough spot. They can't exactly say NO. "sorry, we're not showing Iron Man because Disney wanted to put us over a barrel and we stood up for ourselves" So they took the loss and hoped to make up the difference on concession sales. Given that reality, I can't see the Studios agreeing to $2 tickets, when the theatre will make most of the bonus cash from it.
Can't wait to see what happens when the next Star Wars comes out...
Strictly formula, by the numbers movies will keep asses in seats for a while, but it's only so long before a real stinker shows up and sinks a franchise for a decade. The Batman and Superman franchises got hit hard with this, and those both have veritable goldmines of source material from which to draw. Smurfs and Chipmunks will be scraping barrel bottom much sooner.
If studios bank on that sequel every year... that one bomb can put a long term crimp in their financials.
Glad I'm not the only one who keyed in on that line
While they certainly did violate the spirit of many laws, the directly violated the fucking words of the Constitution. Not just a little bit, not kinda-sorta from a certain perspective. No, they shat upon the 4th Amendment from top to bottom, and it took them this long to admit "Well, maybe this isn't exactly what we're supposed to be doing..."
A "crisis" like this will increase what the market will bear. A new threat, a new boogieman. Quick QUICK! Pay me extra money. Wire-swap-man is gonna get ya! Think of the children!!
That's why the releases come in small chunks, or with warnings first.
As much as they are demonized, people like Snowden aren't out to cause damage. He's not doing it for the lulz, or trying to troll the government just because he can. He genuinely believes that the people need to know what their government is doing. So he gives us a tiny hint of the information. Just a little taste. Enough for the government to know he's not bluffing, and hopefully with enough time for the government to come clean.
Only when they don't fess up and start to fix the wrong doings... only then does the real dirt come out. Hopefully, the government will take efforts to save, move or otherwise help any innocent parties who might be harmed by the release. If not, the failing will be on the government, as they were given ample time.
Problem is that the government doesn't know which brainpan to put a bullet in, until that person speaks up... at least not until we get our own Great Firewall in America.
Right now, most of the "speaking up" is done in warnings, or in small chunks. If it ever gets to the point where someone like Snowden or Greenwald would be tracked down and summarily executed, they wouldn't be releasing encrypted files or small portions of the data. They wouldn't be trying to hand carry it between countries. The whole package would be put out there as the opening salvo, complete and plain text, to drive the country mad from the revelation.
You assume the banks actually WANT to catch the criminals. They'll just use this as an excuse to fleece their customers. "We're now adding a $1/month anti-wire-payment-switching fee to all accounts." Add a little spin, and the cost is there to protect YOU, Mr or Mrs Customer... and there you have it. The millions stolen will be reimbursed in short order. After that, it's pure profit.
I've always felt that the reason they remained mostly unscathed after the world wars was mostly just sheer size.
Britain, the only other major empire in recent history (Rome is not recent) was always restricted by size and by their own benevolence (possibly forced benevolence based on their size.) Whenever they invaded or took over another country -India, South Africa, etc- they left the majority of the native population intact. When the Americans landed, they expanded and utterly destroyed the indigenous people, claiming everything for themselves.
Back to my original point, the USA is now this behemoth in both land mass and population. Rivaled only by China, India, possibly Russia and maybe Brazil, if they get feisty. The amount of devastation wrought upon Germany (just as an example) in the World Wars would hardly scratch the eastern seaboard of the USA
Trying it back to TFA, if the USA is ever to lose this position of power, it won't be due to any external force. It won't be an invasion or foreign assault. It will be undermining from within. A situation like this NSA's dragnet have the potential to rip the country asunder.
Probably because most highways are around 60 MPH. From a stop (i.e. metered freeway entrances) entering with a car that has a 0-60 time in the teens will be significantly more difficult and dangerous that something like this, which will be up to "flow of traffic" speed by the time you merge.
You might want control, and maybe you can handle it safely... but in the grand scheme of things, the less meat puppets we have operating heavy machinery, the safer we'll all be.
Similar thing happened to me a while back. Two charges for $1 at some clothing shop in Australia... where I'm not. I can only guess they were testing the waters. Luckily my bank caught it quickly and locked down the card before anything monumental could get through.
This is why I wouldn't ever consider having my cell phone be something which can directly access my money.
This is why I actually manage my money.
I have several different accounts, one of which is my "play" account. There's a debit card associated, which I use at bars or gamestop, and can send money from that account via phone if I want... but that account is extremely limited (never over $500) and isn't tied to any bills or recurring payments of any kind. So if that account ever gets compromised, meh, no big deal. The money is insured by the bank, so I'll get it all back... and while the account is in limbo, I'm still able to live normally
Frankly the soft target isn't your phone, it is your online user name and password. THAT is the point where most people fall down. Why bother breaking they crypto when you can just social engineer or guess your way into the account? Not to say you shouldn't be concerned about the strength of the crypto but it's not what keeps me up at night.
Because breaking the crypto on a hardware/software platform will give you access to thousands, if not millions, of accounts. Social engineering has to be one on a 1 by 1 basis, or via mass spam broadcast, which relies on a lot more factors, including people not just being lazy and ignoring it.
There are some pretty simple engineering solutions for the problem. One quick example, give the ship 2 different fuel tanks (and possibly 2 different sets of thrusters) One fuel tank and thruster set gets us to the asteroid, at which point it shuts down. The 2nd set provide delta-v towards earth, only having enough fuel to get it into position (with maybe a bit extra, just in case... but not enough extra to crash into us)
In the long run, we'll probably move production away from earth. I wonder if Mars has similar points to our Lagrange... dunno. Them tiny little excuses for moons probably don't provide enough pull to offset... eh. Cross that bridge when we get to it
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First we need to learn to identify risks for ourselves. Only then can we properly evaluate and accept risks.
America has been sold on the risk of terrorist violence, because of one attack over a decade ago. So we allow ourselves to be groped, violated and irradiated because we do not properly understand the risk. We allow budgets to soar unchecked because of the great terrorist threat.
On a more recent note : the same folks who sold us the terrorist lie are currently churning out lies about Syria. Overstating the "absolutely undeniable proof" that the regime is using chemical weapons, in order to spend another trillion on cruise missiles, spy planes, and everything else needed to defeat the eeeevil Syrian leaders.
The American people need to apply some critical thinking, evaluate these risks for themselves, and make third voices heard.
I pay local companies for my utilities. (Water, Electricity, garbage removal)
I pay local grocery providers for food
I pay airline fees for travel.
I listen to ungodly amounts of commercials on terrestrial radio, or pay for music via satellite, radio, etc
The government may have had a hand in getting these things started, and might run oversight to keep them in place ... but the individual companies run like any other private business and expect to turn a profit. At best, the government keeps them from running amok with monopolies or collusion so that my electricity bill isn't as extortion laced as my cable bill.
P.S. if you form a group to provide a service, you're not a government. You are a service provider.
It only becomes a problem if you have a special reason to know that Bob is likely to steal your sandwich. If my PB Sandwich, stored under 2 layers (sandwich bag + Lunch box) simply being in the same communal fridge at work is enough to trip Bob's lethal allergies... then Bob needs to know better than to keep his food in that fridge.
The end result is probably nothing more than the DJs' lawyers feeling like they can sleep a little better at night.
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They will probably have a kiosk in the dealership.
The robot isn't getting paid on commission though, so it has no reason to lie or mislead you (other than the parent company wanting to sell more vehicles in general)
Also, any questions and answers will be in writing, giving the customer a better recourse if promises turn out to be false. I'm sure BMW can make some boilerplate disclaimer to prevent legal action, but if word spreads of the AI blatantly lying about specs, it could seriously impact bottom line.
So we have, chronologically, the original DS, then the 3DS, then the 2DS.
Apparently Nintendo is taking a page from Microsoft's console numbering playbook.
Apparently those in power, with ties to the military industrial complex, can only satiate their greed for a decade before they need to spark up another invasion
Pretty much, yes. There is a LITTLE profit to most tickets, but not much.
I mentioned above... many theatres sold Iron Man 3 tickets at a significant loss, because Disney is getting monopolistic and the theatres can't really afford to NOT show Iron Man 3. Disney said Bend Over, and the theatres couldn't really argue.
12 > 2 ... but 2 > 0 . If the choices are "See a decent movie for full price, or nothing at all" then I'm going to stick with nothing at all. Selling the ticket cheap gets my butt into the theatre, where I might buy popcorn, play some video games, see a trailer for some movie I didn't realize was coming out next weekend... etc
In reality though, this isn't a movie theatre's decision. The Studios are what drive ticket sales. Disney, Sony, Fox, etc. get nearly 100% of the ticket prices, and sometimes even MORE than 100%. There was a dust-up recently when Disney flexed it's Marvel Muscles, and wanted significantly MORE than $12 per ticket from the theatres, for the rights to show Iron Man 3. This put theatres in a tough spot. They can't exactly say NO. "sorry, we're not showing Iron Man because Disney wanted to put us over a barrel and we stood up for ourselves" So they took the loss and hoped to make up the difference on concession sales. Given that reality, I can't see the Studios agreeing to $2 tickets, when the theatre will make most of the bonus cash from it.
Can't wait to see what happens when the next Star Wars comes out...
True to an extent.
Strictly formula, by the numbers movies will keep asses in seats for a while, but it's only so long before a real stinker shows up and sinks a franchise for a decade. The Batman and Superman franchises got hit hard with this, and those both have veritable goldmines of source material from which to draw. Smurfs and Chipmunks will be scraping barrel bottom much sooner.
If studios bank on that sequel every year ... that one bomb can put a long term crimp in their financials.
Glad I'm not the only one who keyed in on that line
While they certainly did violate the spirit of many laws, the directly violated the fucking words of the Constitution. Not just a little bit, not kinda-sorta from a certain perspective. No, they shat upon the 4th Amendment from top to bottom, and it took them this long to admit "Well, maybe this isn't exactly what we're supposed to be doing..."
A "crisis" like this will increase what the market will bear. A new threat, a new boogieman. Quick QUICK! Pay me extra money. Wire-swap-man is gonna get ya! Think of the children!!
These morons are creating the next generation of terrorists with their stupidity.
Well ... yeah.
If we don't create a new wave of terrorists, how will we justify stealing more civil liberties, and the ever inflating defense budget?
That's why the releases come in small chunks, or with warnings first.
As much as they are demonized, people like Snowden aren't out to cause damage. He's not doing it for the lulz, or trying to troll the government just because he can. He genuinely believes that the people need to know what their government is doing. So he gives us a tiny hint of the information. Just a little taste. Enough for the government to know he's not bluffing, and hopefully with enough time for the government to come clean.
Only when they don't fess up and start to fix the wrong doings ... only then does the real dirt come out. Hopefully, the government will take efforts to save, move or otherwise help any innocent parties who might be harmed by the release. If not, the failing will be on the government, as they were given ample time.
Problem is that the government doesn't know which brainpan to put a bullet in, until that person speaks up... at least not until we get our own Great Firewall in America.
Right now, most of the "speaking up" is done in warnings, or in small chunks. If it ever gets to the point where someone like Snowden or Greenwald would be tracked down and summarily executed, they wouldn't be releasing encrypted files or small portions of the data. They wouldn't be trying to hand carry it between countries. The whole package would be put out there as the opening salvo, complete and plain text, to drive the country mad from the revelation.
You assume the banks actually WANT to catch the criminals. They'll just use this as an excuse to fleece their customers. "We're now adding a $1/month anti-wire-payment-switching fee to all accounts." Add a little spin, and the cost is there to protect YOU, Mr or Mrs Customer ... and there you have it. The millions stolen will be reimbursed in short order. After that, it's pure profit.
I've always felt that the reason they remained mostly unscathed after the world wars was mostly just sheer size.
Britain, the only other major empire in recent history (Rome is not recent) was always restricted by size and by their own benevolence (possibly forced benevolence based on their size.) Whenever they invaded or took over another country -India, South Africa, etc- they left the majority of the native population intact. When the Americans landed, they expanded and utterly destroyed the indigenous people, claiming everything for themselves.
Back to my original point, the USA is now this behemoth in both land mass and population. Rivaled only by China, India, possibly Russia and maybe Brazil, if they get feisty. The amount of devastation wrought upon Germany (just as an example) in the World Wars would hardly scratch the eastern seaboard of the USA
Trying it back to TFA, if the USA is ever to lose this position of power, it won't be due to any external force. It won't be an invasion or foreign assault. It will be undermining from within. A situation like this NSA's dragnet have the potential to rip the country asunder.
Probably because most highways are around 60 MPH. From a stop (i.e. metered freeway entrances) entering with a car that has a 0-60 time in the teens will be significantly more difficult and dangerous that something like this, which will be up to "flow of traffic" speed by the time you merge.
You might want control, and maybe you can handle it safely ... but in the grand scheme of things, the less meat puppets we have operating heavy machinery, the safer we'll all be.
Similar thing happened to me a while back. Two charges for $1 at some clothing shop in Australia ... where I'm not. I can only guess they were testing the waters. Luckily my bank caught it quickly and locked down the card before anything monumental could get through.
I'm not saying it was aliens, but ...
It was aliens.
This is why I wouldn't ever consider having my cell phone be something which can directly access my money.
This is why I actually manage my money.
I have several different accounts, one of which is my "play" account. There's a debit card associated, which I use at bars or gamestop, and can send money from that account via phone if I want... but that account is extremely limited (never over $500) and isn't tied to any bills or recurring payments of any kind. So if that account ever gets compromised, meh, no big deal. The money is insured by the bank, so I'll get it all back... and while the account is in limbo, I'm still able to live normally
Frankly the soft target isn't your phone, it is your online user name and password. THAT is the point where most people fall down. Why bother breaking they crypto when you can just social engineer or guess your way into the account? Not to say you shouldn't be concerned about the strength of the crypto but it's not what keeps me up at night.
Because breaking the crypto on a hardware/software platform will give you access to thousands, if not millions, of accounts. Social engineering has to be one on a 1 by 1 basis, or via mass spam broadcast, which relies on a lot more factors, including people not just being lazy and ignoring it.
There are some pretty simple engineering solutions for the problem. One quick example, give the ship 2 different fuel tanks (and possibly 2 different sets of thrusters) One fuel tank and thruster set gets us to the asteroid, at which point it shuts down. The 2nd set provide delta-v towards earth, only having enough fuel to get it into position (with maybe a bit extra, just in case... but not enough extra to crash into us)
In the long run, we'll probably move production away from earth. I wonder if Mars has similar points to our Lagrange ... dunno. Them tiny little excuses for moons probably don't provide enough pull to offset... eh. Cross that bridge when we get to it