Man has discovered (created?) a new tool - and humans are taking advantage of it. Discovery or creation of tools have aligned with rapid growth of humans before.
Fire, Hammers, the Wheel, Machines, Beer, now this.
Therefore it stands to reason that bigger children will emerge through the use of this tool.
"There's a giant coal plant outside our offices providing power....but we purchased electricity credits in some far off land to offset this"
My local power corp allows me to purchase Green Energy too -- all through the same wires. I get to pay more for the same electricity coming to my house - but am lead to believe it really came from a solar panel somewhere on a mountain.
Yes - and the liberals get caught in a loop where they believe that an endless stream of money exists to hand out and support different programs. And the environment is on fire leading to environmental terrorism.
It isn't just a Conservative problem. Liberals get stuck in the same loop. I think -- *People* get stuck in a loop and their personal bias skews the information presented.
I love how talk radio hosts make things up too. "I can't find anything disproving this - so... I don't know... this might be true" Nothing proving a negative so it must be true.
I read a blog post from a guy who worked at the pizzeria while in college. One tenant of the "theory" is that the members meet and run the operation from the basement.
The previous employee says... "there isn't a basement in this building - it's on a cement slab." The owner has even confirm this separately in a BBC article.
Of course this employee wasn't privy to the secret bat tunnel entrance in the back parking lot !:-P
Seriously - google search shows that there's a "Boston Bomber" like search of misinformation going on where somebody has discovered evidence of a "space beneath" the building because....well....there's a picture of a basement in the building next door. OMG. ha ha ha -- somebody else followed up and pointed out that the purported pictures show Round European electrical outlets so the pictures can't possibly be from the USA. Wrong building !! whoa duh.
How uninformed can people be ? -- but doesn't stop them from Post First and Asking Questions Later. (pFAQl ?) Post FAQ. Post Truth. Interesting.
I don't think there's a checkout in this model. You just fill your bag and walk out.
The self-service pay stations are a temp solution until they can be removed. IBM ran an ad in the 1990's that predicted the future for RFID technology - just grab items and walk out. Walmart tried to do it - requiring vendors to place RFID in all items. I don't know why the Walmart initiative failed.
Maybe technology has made the important step forward.
But you're correct - this is a labor saving initiative. People will be replaced by machines. Those new jobs? Robots. Here they come.
At one time Walmart pushed vendors to put RFID in all items. They hoped to remove checkout lines - fill your basket and walk out the door.
Maybe technology has moved that magic step forward. Plus the world is **ready** for this - we've all been using self-checkout stations for awhile now --- and many of us are still waiting in the Thanksgiving lines at Walmart.
Prime is working for our family. Beyond "Top Gear Two" (TGT:-) The Grand Tour being a favorite - we do buy more. Just click and it arrives - terrific for those things We Need but it isn't worth driving to the store to get them.
A local grocery store is putting in some kind of "drive in" --- details short at this time. Change is coming.
I thought the same thing - but then read several articles describing this actually is a feature -- one case somebody died. If the car isn't locked in this manner the doors will open as expected.
I wonder the reason behind this feature?
This is ridiculous. What if it goes wrong? You hit a pole or land in a pond and something short-circuits - can't open the doors?! My car - like most I'm sure - will unlock the doors if the airbags go off. Great! But if it fails I can still pull the latch and open the door (granted from inside and needs two pulls of the latch). There is no way that I know of to lock the car.
Next we'll find out Chrysler designed it and hackable from the internet.
The headrests from the front seats of my car cannot be removed - all part of some fancy anti-whiplash system. This seems to be a fairly common "modern" design. Sure - the technician probably knows of a way to do it...but you ain't doing it in an emergency.
Although difficult - the back ones do come out. Seems to be by design - slides up to the top...then one side becomes very very difficult to pull on.
Finally - a use for all of that "Star Wars" missile defense technology developed back in the 1980's !!!!
Of course - they never were able to get short an actual missile out of the sky, it kinda had to follow a predicable path, but still all that can be dusted off and made ready again.
I think that program (SDI) was estimated to cost a few trillion USD$. How many drone killers will it take to pay that off?
Yes it is fantastic. I grew up on dbx and xdbx (at least AIX version added wonderful stuff). WinDbg is a frustrating mess of amazing-power coupled to arcane commands. VS lays over this what xdbx did for dbx.
Best VS debugger feature was IntelliTrace (C# /.NET "only" feature). Still need to have the Enterprise or Ultimate license - but if you have it - wow. One can walk code backwards from a break-point looking to answer the inevitable question "how did execution get to this line?"
Although none of the MS tools provides "where" like a dbx/core dump provides (although WinDbg can come close).
For all of the hate that some spew at MS - the one thing they have always been good at is ease of access for complex technology. SQL Server - easy to use. VS - easy to code. Windows 8 - never mind.
was that 10 million voters? or people? Napkin math: 2.3 children per family - that would have been ~4 million voters (assuming 2 parent households). Then subtract from that the typical percentage of voter turn out (typical 60% turnout) --- should have increased by ~2.6 million voters. Obviously turnout was lower this year - looks to be under 50%.
Maybe they were ghost people on paper - all part of the master initiative to rig the voting system run by the NSA. Or, even worse --- Russian Sleeper cell members here to tamper with the US election system!
Michael Moore warned of this several weeks/months back. He reminded us all that the primary race was fronted by Bernie and Trump. A protest vote from both camps - get the establishment out of DC ! Only Trump was able to make it to the next round. For those who wanted to send a protest message there was only Trump.
Now - let us hope Trump doesn't roll-over and get folded into the establishment. That he really does knock heads and push back - clear the log jam. without blowing the world up.
Yes exactly. Back several months ago Trump responded to criticism by saying "that was sarcasm - don't you get sarcasm" That was when I began to realize that I needed to listen (hear) his words and NOT read them. Reading leaves out the tone. Michael Moore also said as much - even Glenn Beck began to get it (his "I'm sorry" comments on NBC election night coverage was spot on). Personally I'm middle-road slanting liberal (but think Moore is crazy) and find Beck sounding more sane these days.
Yet - take Trump seriously not literally is very insightful. Which I believe could be dangerous for the world stage. Will the world realize this important message? Don't take Trump at this word - take him at his actions. There will be lots of people running around saying "this is what he meant."
I used to joke with friends "sure send Trump to DC as punishment" and that "federal govt is irrelevant - they haven't done anything for years and I'm still alive" So now I'll find out if that is true.
Along that vein I do hope he doesn't roll over and walk the party-line - that he pushes back at an ineffective and stupid congress, shake things up. Michael Moore pointed out that not long ago it was Bernie and Trump - both outsiders, both shakers, both "big differences" from mainstream. Moore suggested Trump would win because Americans had had enough. It was a protest vote!! None of us like Trump - but he is the definition of an outsider.
I just wonder whether he "gets" the law and won't do something that gets him impeached. He has to do this job for 4 years - one can't quit and say "you're all jackasses - I'm out of here"
Now please excuse me while I convert all my stock to gold and bury it in the backyard.
Right - I've heard the Sharia law one (anti-muslim fodder) and the UN invade USA / Guns / 4th Ammendment.
Thankfully though I have not encountered the others. My cousin is rather "on the right" and even she hasn't posted those others.
Breitbart though is dangerous. Flagrant falsehoods and misleading headlines. And with the rumored tight relationship - it could be an interesting 4 years.
Well -- if Buzzfeed says it's true... then it must be. Although where's the link to the article? Or is the original Post fraudulent by falsely claiming Buzzfeed did such a story?
I mean, really, all of the stories in my FB feed appear to be true. So I doubt their math.
oh - now I get it !! This guy is a plant. He's an early drop of the Skynet invaders and step 1 is to change the time standard to be one that computers can understand.
No - save humanity - don't do it !
Wow - hmm....now that is a nice wooden horse just out my front door. But I digress.
Don't fall for this wolf in sheep cloth. Leave the hen house door locked.
What if the difference was split and we moved the clocks forward:30 minutes --- and called it done. no more DST. Living way up north 30 minutes doesn't make a big difference. 60 does - I get the staying up later point for summer and shopping etc. Plus the "safety" of the morning bus route (just last week the kids were all standing in the dark waiting for the bus - and now they have morning sun). Great - but now I drive home in the dark and that kind of sucks --- plus the sun isn't done moving yet... it will soon be dark at 4pm... so 1 hour doesn't make any difference.
30 minutes - get it done.
Plus we'll be more inline with India timekeeping. They operate this way.
Yeah! While I appreciate the Global workforce and having a meeting at 6PM would be easier to schedule... plus I could literally sleep until Noon.... I just think the heavy lift of understanding that "4am" is Early in the new system would be impossible. Today if somebody says "let's meet at 4am" I can say "you're crazy - the sun isn't up yet" But in the new system.... I have no clue what that reference would mean. And when I travel to the West Coast USA and somebody says "let's meet at 4am" I still won't know if that's Crazy early either. Noon is lunchtime... I'll see you at Noon. Absolute measurements don't leave room for Relative ones.
Geez - I decided to read the article including the FCC document.
Expanded Cable (level of service referenced in the blogs) has increased as described. The number of Channels delivered in the service has also increased from 44 to 181 - yet price per channel has decreased from $0.60 to $0.45.
What I didn't notice was whether the 2015 prices included HDTV? I know I pay extra to get HD (even though the world is HD - but I digress) - and I can't think of any "boost" to prices back in 1993. Set-top boxes rentals existed. Plus - cable operators now pay a local-TV fee where that was "free" / included. Meaning - the pie is being split by more takers. And as we all know companies like Disney/Fox/etc fight over how much the cable companies pay them -- so it isn't just "the cable" operator raising fees.
In a market based economy the provider never leaves money on the table !!! duh.
The run up to this had twice daily calls coming to my house. Then nothing since.
I found it interesting that a few months ago I'd get a few calls per month. But they must known the police were coming and trying to build up cash quickly before disappearing and leaving others holding the bag. In the final weeks the call rate intensified and changed nature - I now had Live people calling (had been strictly "This is automated message from IRS -please call us back you are being sued"). No time to wait - get the live ones and convert them to cash.
There is a legit reason to spoof. People in hiding from abusive spouses, basic PBX, anonymous tips, reporters --- anyone who either wants to hide their identity or assume another one. For instance - when I call from my office I want the caller ID to be that of the main front desk so that a customer can have the call answered when they call back (if I'm busy or maybe somebody else can help them). This requires spoofing - even when I'm using my virtual phone.
How to lock it down? It is the Text that is spoofed sometimes - not the number. "IRS" is the text, but the number is 314-1592.
We used to have an after hours call center - they handled calls for several businesses. If they called a customer back for us - they spoofed our caller id. If I called from my home afterhours - I spoofed my company caller ID rather than my home, again with virtual PBX software. Okay - may be can be encrypted somehow to make sure that only "I" spoof my company. But for people in hiding, or a true anonymous tip, it is a one-off thing that doesn't have an easy answer.
I've heard this is a hard problem to solve. Interviews with experts all paint the complex picture.
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Man has discovered (created?) a new tool - and humans are taking advantage of it. Discovery or creation of tools have aligned with rapid growth of humans before.
Fire, Hammers, the Wheel, Machines, Beer, now this.
Therefore it stands to reason that bigger children will emerge through the use of this tool.
"There's a giant coal plant outside our offices providing power....but we purchased electricity credits in some far off land to offset this"
My local power corp allows me to purchase Green Energy too -- all through the same wires. I get to pay more for the same electricity coming to my house - but am lead to believe it really came from a solar panel somewhere on a mountain.
Yes - and the liberals get caught in a loop where they believe that an endless stream of money exists to hand out and support different programs. And the environment is on fire leading to environmental terrorism.
It isn't just a Conservative problem. Liberals get stuck in the same loop. I think -- *People* get stuck in a loop and their personal bias skews the information presented.
I love how talk radio hosts make things up too. "I can't find anything disproving this - so ... I don't know... this might be true" Nothing proving a negative so it must be true.
I read a blog post from a guy who worked at the pizzeria while in college. One tenant of the "theory" is that the members meet and run the operation from the basement.
The previous employee says... "there isn't a basement in this building - it's on a cement slab." The owner has even confirm this separately in a BBC article.
Of course this employee wasn't privy to the secret bat tunnel entrance in the back parking lot ! :-P
Seriously - google search shows that there's a "Boston Bomber" like search of misinformation going on where somebody has discovered evidence of a "space beneath" the building because....well....there's a picture of a basement in the building next door. OMG. ha ha ha -- somebody else followed up and pointed out that the purported pictures show Round European electrical outlets so the pictures can't possibly be from the USA. Wrong building !! whoa duh.
How uninformed can people be ? -- but doesn't stop them from Post First and Asking Questions Later. (pFAQl ?) Post FAQ. Post Truth. Interesting.
I don't think there's a checkout in this model. You just fill your bag and walk out.
The self-service pay stations are a temp solution until they can be removed. IBM ran an ad in the 1990's that predicted the future for RFID technology - just grab items and walk out. Walmart tried to do it - requiring vendors to place RFID in all items. I don't know why the Walmart initiative failed.
Maybe technology has made the important step forward.
But you're correct - this is a labor saving initiative. People will be replaced by machines. Those new jobs? Robots. Here they come.
Even cashiers are being automated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
At one time Walmart pushed vendors to put RFID in all items. They hoped to remove checkout lines - fill your basket and walk out the door.
Maybe technology has moved that magic step forward. Plus the world is **ready** for this - we've all been using self-checkout stations for awhile now --- and many of us are still waiting in the Thanksgiving lines at Walmart.
Prime is working for our family. Beyond "Top Gear Two" (TGT :-) The Grand Tour being a favorite - we do buy more. Just click and it arrives - terrific for those things We Need but it isn't worth driving to the store to get them.
A local grocery store is putting in some kind of "drive in" --- details short at this time. Change is coming.
I thought the same thing - but then read several articles describing this actually is a feature -- one case somebody died. If the car isn't locked in this manner the doors will open as expected.
I wonder the reason behind this feature?
This is ridiculous. What if it goes wrong? You hit a pole or land in a pond and something short-circuits - can't open the doors?! My car - like most I'm sure - will unlock the doors if the airbags go off. Great! But if it fails I can still pull the latch and open the door (granted from inside and needs two pulls of the latch). There is no way that I know of to lock the car.
Next we'll find out Chrysler designed it and hackable from the internet.
The headrests from the front seats of my car cannot be removed - all part of some fancy anti-whiplash system. This seems to be a fairly common "modern" design. Sure - the technician probably knows of a way to do it...but you ain't doing it in an emergency.
Although difficult - the back ones do come out. Seems to be by design - slides up to the top...then one side becomes very very difficult to pull on.
Finally - a use for all of that "Star Wars" missile defense technology developed back in the 1980's !!!!
Of course - they never were able to get short an actual missile out of the sky, it kinda had to follow a predicable path, but still all that can be dusted off and made ready again.
I think that program (SDI) was estimated to cost a few trillion USD$. How many drone killers will it take to pay that off?
They were all bought from the fake Apple Store.
http://www.forbes.com/pictures...
Yes it is fantastic. I grew up on dbx and xdbx (at least AIX version added wonderful stuff). WinDbg is a frustrating mess of amazing-power coupled to arcane commands. VS lays over this what xdbx did for dbx.
Best VS debugger feature was IntelliTrace (C# / .NET "only" feature). Still need to have the Enterprise or Ultimate license - but if you have it - wow. One can walk code backwards from a break-point looking to answer the inevitable question "how did execution get to this line?"
Although none of the MS tools provides "where" like a dbx/core dump provides (although WinDbg can come close).
For all of the hate that some spew at MS - the one thing they have always been good at is ease of access for complex technology. SQL Server - easy to use. VS - easy to code. Windows 8 - never mind.
You'd think one could trust these amoral website companies to keep everything secure from "the man" --- but noooo!
I'm running out of passwords. Password1, Password2, Password123456, now i'll just hold down the 99999999 key.
Right - alter my world view. Why didn't I think of that? !
was that 10 million voters? or people? Napkin math: 2.3 children per family - that would have been ~4 million voters (assuming 2 parent households). Then subtract from that the typical percentage of voter turn out (typical 60% turnout) --- should have increased by ~2.6 million voters. Obviously turnout was lower this year - looks to be under 50%.
Maybe they were ghost people on paper - all part of the master initiative to rig the voting system run by the NSA. Or, even worse --- Russian Sleeper cell members here to tamper with the US election system!
Or simply at home packing for Canada.
Michael Moore warned of this several weeks/months back. He reminded us all that the primary race was fronted by Bernie and Trump. A protest vote from both camps - get the establishment out of DC ! Only Trump was able to make it to the next round. For those who wanted to send a protest message there was only Trump.
Now - let us hope Trump doesn't roll-over and get folded into the establishment. That he really does knock heads and push back - clear the log jam. without blowing the world up.
Yes exactly. Back several months ago Trump responded to criticism by saying "that was sarcasm - don't you get sarcasm" That was when I began to realize that I needed to listen (hear) his words and NOT read them. Reading leaves out the tone. Michael Moore also said as much - even Glenn Beck began to get it (his "I'm sorry" comments on NBC election night coverage was spot on). Personally I'm middle-road slanting liberal (but think Moore is crazy) and find Beck sounding more sane these days.
Yet - take Trump seriously not literally is very insightful. Which I believe could be dangerous for the world stage. Will the world realize this important message? Don't take Trump at this word - take him at his actions. There will be lots of people running around saying "this is what he meant."
I used to joke with friends "sure send Trump to DC as punishment" and that "federal govt is irrelevant - they haven't done anything for years and I'm still alive" So now I'll find out if that is true.
Along that vein I do hope he doesn't roll over and walk the party-line - that he pushes back at an ineffective and stupid congress, shake things up. Michael Moore pointed out that not long ago it was Bernie and Trump - both outsiders, both shakers, both "big differences" from mainstream. Moore suggested Trump would win because Americans had had enough. It was a protest vote!! None of us like Trump - but he is the definition of an outsider.
I just wonder whether he "gets" the law and won't do something that gets him impeached. He has to do this job for 4 years - one can't quit and say "you're all jackasses - I'm out of here"
Now please excuse me while I convert all my stock to gold and bury it in the backyard.
Right - I've heard the Sharia law one (anti-muslim fodder) and the UN invade USA / Guns / 4th Ammendment.
Thankfully though I have not encountered the others. My cousin is rather "on the right" and even she hasn't posted those others.
Breitbart though is dangerous. Flagrant falsehoods and misleading headlines. And with the rumored tight relationship - it could be an interesting 4 years.
Well -- if Buzzfeed says it's true... then it must be. Although where's the link to the article? Or is the original Post fraudulent by falsely claiming Buzzfeed did such a story?
I mean, really, all of the stories in my FB feed appear to be true. So I doubt their math.
oh - now I get it !! This guy is a plant. He's an early drop of the Skynet invaders and step 1 is to change the time standard to be one that computers can understand.
No - save humanity - don't do it !
Wow - hmm....now that is a nice wooden horse just out my front door. But I digress.
Don't fall for this wolf in sheep cloth. Leave the hen house door locked.
What if the difference was split and we moved the clocks forward :30 minutes --- and called it done. no more DST. Living way up north 30 minutes doesn't make a big difference. 60 does - I get the staying up later point for summer and shopping etc. Plus the "safety" of the morning bus route (just last week the kids were all standing in the dark waiting for the bus - and now they have morning sun). Great - but now I drive home in the dark and that kind of sucks --- plus the sun isn't done moving yet ... it will soon be dark at 4pm... so 1 hour doesn't make any difference.
30 minutes - get it done.
Plus we'll be more inline with India timekeeping. They operate this way.
Yeah! While I appreciate the Global workforce and having a meeting at 6PM would be easier to schedule... plus I could literally sleep until Noon.... I just think the heavy lift of understanding that "4am" is Early in the new system would be impossible. Today if somebody says "let's meet at 4am" I can say "you're crazy - the sun isn't up yet" But in the new system.... I have no clue what that reference would mean. And when I travel to the West Coast USA and somebody says "let's meet at 4am" I still won't know if that's Crazy early either. Noon is lunchtime... I'll see you at Noon. Absolute measurements don't leave room for Relative ones.
Oh - and when is New Years under the new system?
The audio from Neil Armstrong can finally be corrected.
Geez - I decided to read the article including the FCC document.
Expanded Cable (level of service referenced in the blogs) has increased as described. The number of Channels delivered in the service has also increased from 44 to 181 - yet price per channel has decreased from $0.60 to $0.45.
What I didn't notice was whether the 2015 prices included HDTV? I know I pay extra to get HD (even though the world is HD - but I digress) - and I can't think of any "boost" to prices back in 1993. Set-top boxes rentals existed. Plus - cable operators now pay a local-TV fee where that was "free" / included. Meaning - the pie is being split by more takers. And as we all know companies like Disney/Fox/etc fight over how much the cable companies pay them -- so it isn't just "the cable" operator raising fees.
In a market based economy the provider never leaves money on the table !!! duh.
The run up to this had twice daily calls coming to my house. Then nothing since.
I found it interesting that a few months ago I'd get a few calls per month. But they must known the police were coming and trying to build up cash quickly before disappearing and leaving others holding the bag. In the final weeks the call rate intensified and changed nature - I now had Live people calling (had been strictly "This is automated message from IRS -please call us back you are being sued"). No time to wait - get the live ones and convert them to cash.
There is a legit reason to spoof. People in hiding from abusive spouses, basic PBX, anonymous tips, reporters --- anyone who either wants to hide their identity or assume another one. For instance - when I call from my office I want the caller ID to be that of the main front desk so that a customer can have the call answered when they call back (if I'm busy or maybe somebody else can help them). This requires spoofing - even when I'm using my virtual phone.
How to lock it down? It is the Text that is spoofed sometimes - not the number. "IRS" is the text, but the number is 314-1592.
We used to have an after hours call center - they handled calls for several businesses. If they called a customer back for us - they spoofed our caller id. If I called from my home afterhours - I spoofed my company caller ID rather than my home, again with virtual PBX software. Okay - may be can be encrypted somehow to make sure that only "I" spoof my company. But for people in hiding, or a true anonymous tip, it is a one-off thing that doesn't have an easy answer.
I've heard this is a hard problem to solve. Interviews with experts all paint the complex picture.