If they gather enough data, and that data can predict long term trends, then you could do anything from playing the commodities market to real estate speculation. But the short term profit would be to the company founders not the investors. Or they get established as an occasional presence and then when enough mundane encounters have happened they flip the smuggling bit in the software... lol either way, profit
Dang you got there first. Argon and you could use high frequency RF to turn the death chamber into a light show as they exit. Or have them lay back on a couch with a cobalt 60 source under the headrest. Strap them in, leave the heavily shielded room, slide the shutter mechanically to expose the source. (Dark humor: of course this has the risk of creating radiation based super villains)
They choose the date carefully. Trees are essentially CO2 starved and have adapted to the current low CO2 values compared to their early evolution. Also, even though temperatures may raise in northern latitudes the temperature rise at the equator is not the same, the net effect is broader zones of arable land. Expect the worst, lush forests from northern Greenland to the equator. But that’s really unlikely considering the entrants to the 50 year long solar minimum cycle.
Rather than single issue vote in liberals vote with your pocketbook. If you buy things that are effectively lower or lowering in CO2 then companies will move that direction. Money votes are so much more powerful than political votes. The American process of government controlling technology has a poor record. In 1968 several cars when properly tuned met air pollution standards for the 1980 goals, without catalytic converters. But they had to start using converters by government mandate. The 1970s EPA wanted to, because it was technically possible, make room air conditioners twice as efficient, and the energy use label original spec called for a minimum 8x10 metalizied label with a mil spec permanent adhesive. Small window air conditioners couldn’t support that size label. And to make air conditioners twice as efficient while running would make them use so much more material that the refining and processing and fabrication energy costs for the additional material would never be made up in the units lifetime of running.
So, putting the government in charge of specifications for technology, not so good. Grassroots make it in demand for “greener” tech, a good deal. The reason solar costs less is that some folks put in the money and created the demand early on. It’s only recently it has become really popular.
California has taken the step of requiring solar on most new construction, hopefully they left open the problem homes, like deep valley homes, or homes that wind or low head hydro might be better. And hopefully they require where reasonable grid tie ins. But to mandate it in the first place is a mistake. They could just incentivize it and it would happen.
Like a volcanic eruption in progress... a single few hours long eruption can emit millions of pounds of CO2. In the case of Hawaii, the eruption is a long ongoing progress. So maybe these figures are suspect.
They alledged Comey interfered, and demanded he be fired, when he was investigating Hillary’s email server being a national security threat. Or that the DNC and Hillary paid for the work of fiction known as the Trump Dossier, authored in part by Russian operatives under guidance from a former British spy? Or on more practical consideration that no proof has been shown of connections between “Russian collusion” and Trump? And intelligence agencies have repeatedly said there is no such evidence. Lots of smoke and mirrors, but it’s a photo of a dog and painting of the pony, so not even a good show...
There are ethical questions to debate long before legislating . A small example. If I back up the memory, in whatever form, and destroy the hardware utterly and completely, have I the entity. If I then restore it to a different hardware setup, is that unmurdering? A new entity? If I restore it to more than one hardware setup am I legally a parent? Is the first creator the parent of all derived entities? If I merge the software from two entities is that their child? Settle the science, settle or at least understand the ethics, then debate what the laws should be, then and only then consider laws regarding them. And shouldnâ(TM)t there be some basic set of tests to determine the status. Is my toaster eligible? Or my work computer. Am I obligated to to a hardware setup that currently runs simple, in comparison, software, and install software so it becomes aware. Will AI developers have to be licensed like doctors? If a developer creates a self aware software suite, are they responsible for any evil intent that develops? Establish the basic boundaries. And then consider cetaceans and suidae... the tests may wish to exclude them...
I’d suggest that you’re destroyed and recreated by transporting. The transporters use Heisenberg uncertainty compensators for one, implying a need to compensate for the destruction and re-creation. Transporters also have pattern buffers where they have been used to recreate adults from children and reform aged / damaged adults into their stored patterns. The information used during transport is very redundant. In one incident Riker was transported and the beam split. The result was two Rikers. So, pretty conclusively not transporting your atoms across a distance but rather transmitting a very accurate description of the being reduced to a corpse. Then recreated if no issues crop up.
The people in the know aren't. The financial pundits predicted a drop in bitcoin value and shorting bitcoin contracts once the futures trading opened. Bitcoin took an anticipatory drop a couple days before. Trading futures opened and quickly pushed bitcoin higher. This isn't currency, it isn't a hard asset, its not even like a stock. It's a great mechanism to move value in short order. Worried about that whole "buy an item for $50, and the merchant gets $45 or 55 when it clears" example? Well I can send BTC worth $50,000 to buy a car in Germany and the transaction will clear in under an hour. and cost $3-6. An international wire transfer goes from my bank, to the correspondent bank, to their banks correspondent bank, to their bank and can take a week to clear, but usually 3-4 business days. And costs about $40 from the US side and often similar on the other end. A wire originated in Turkey for 20,000 euros into a US Bank account cost over $400 in fees and took a currency conversion loss of $450 USD on the value at the time of the transaction top of that, so at the time $850 to move 27,900 dollars into the US account. If BITcoin were used, about a.1% fee on the exchanges at each end and using todays rates about 5-6 dollars transaction fee. so about $50 - $60 to move it netting, $800 more roughly and making 1/2 day at most instead of, in this particular case, 6 days. And no issues with time of day etc. to start the transaction. That's the real value of bitcoin. And what's really cool, if you're both on the same exchange, and have a buffer of bitcoins on each end, there's no fee in many cases as they move funds from your exchange bitcoin account to the destination bitcoin account without charge, and it's only the conversion to and from other fiat currency that costs you. Bitcoin will have arrived when I can buy a factory direct Tesla Model 3 in bitcoin while in Italy sipping a doppio.
Google owns Android, which is one of the most exploited OSes in the mobile market place. How can one consider some vested marketing interest in release of a tool to exploit the number one revenue creating mobile consumer device OSes? Nope purely research oriented. Not a tool for cyber criminals to exploit.
The electric and gasoline issue is solvable by having zero in city gas stations but plenty of electric vehicle chargers. Then install a very large solar power plant. Augment with some wind power. And talk to Tesla about a city sized battery bank. The Gigafactory is close by so shipping cost won't be painful. And just install high efficiency heat pumps. Capture the November to April cold from the nights in heat banks to offset the May to October high temps. Store some of the Summer heat to offset Winter nights. And get water from Lake Mead, but also recycle it. Make it so all point of use is separated to gray water and black water sewerage. The gray water is easier to recycle. The black water a little harder. And no outdoor non-native plants! Use porous surfaces for the sidewalks and roads (requires a separate freight to shops delivery system) and help out a bit. Capture the water and use it for the sewerage treatment system. Augment the city electric provisions with capture at point of use in the residential areas. An earth banked home will remain cooler; there are a lot of designs that would capture that 20-25 degree cooler region. Envelope designs are also pretty good in hot climates to mitigate high daytime temperatures.
This is a project I have worked over multiple times on "paper" over the years. I'd love to have Bill Gates contact me to work on this project. It is easily possible he believes global warming will present a difficult time for humans and he's researching a city in a climate that is already hot.
No mod points or I'd upvote. Yes, the liberals depend on The Big Lie tactic, and their sycophants rely on ad hominem attacks. The interesting thing about the Internet is you can do research and discover the roots of The Big Lies. Like the intelligence community opinions regards Trump and Russia being traceable to one agency, which other agencies under Obama then adopted without rigor. The Russians were involved, sure, Facebook, Google, Twitter and likely many more, took money for ads from Russian led groups. Early on a GOP primary group asked for a Russian group to prep a dossier on Trump's real estate dealings regards Russia, and Hillary took it up through the Democratic National Committee after Trump emerged the candidate. Russia prepared a fake incident with Trump and a Golden Shower act on a bed in a hotel where Obama stayed. They also prepared a sex tape with a black man and a Hillary look-a-like. So far the provable collusion lies with the DNC. You can't be an isolationist as president or president elect. Do recall Obama told the Russian president he could be more flexible after he won the election.
We know now that the likely chat in October was in regards to the Magnitsky Act on behalf a her client. Not about Hillary even though there was email to that effect it wasn't what the actual discussion concerned itself with.
Not to mention the greatest hypocrisy, that of the US government representatives meeting with all sides of elections in other countries.
Just remember a few things... Hillary approved a sale that gave the Russian government control over 20% of America's uranium, and nearly 100% of Kazakhstans, and a good chunk elsewhere from Australia to Africa. RosAtom essentially is the world's source for quantities of Uranium. And received related 145 million in "donations" to the Clinton Foundation. The Donald has not been shown to be in collusion with the russians by any agency. Comey said he wasn't, and the only intelligence agency comment with any implications was one US agency saying he might be in collusion, and that was then copied to 26 other agencies statements under Obama with zero fact checking. br>
And most importantly, the demographics of the liberals that took to the streets are also the pro gun control demographics, so the Trump (and rule of law BTW) supporters, the ones that support a constitutional process to look at the problem, they line up with the gun owner demographics.
The argument of course is was Joe Tanner's use, fair use. It certainly was not a threat to the original work. If anything it raised interest in it. But one frame of a TV show in a social media post would be hard to be anything but fair use. But not a lawyer, do deal with IP, but a Judge and Jury will decide... unless the judge outright admonishes CBS for filing a frivolous lawsuit themselves.
Looks like a candidate for being considered a SLAPP suit. Joe Tanner should amend his complaint and request both cases be merged and his damages requested be raised to 100 million as it will irreparably damage his reputation. Or at least present that from his lawyers to CBS's. There is legislation to use to fight SLAPP suits.
Source code is not enough. You need the build tool chain as well. You need to verify the tools don't inject anything in the binaries, and that the binaries produced from the exposed source are exactly the same as binaries sold or distributed by them. And one step backwards if they use open source tools is to examine the tools and build them. You need to go back to known safe code. Paranoia you say? XcodeGhost was created by hackers to infect apps on the apple app store. They convinced people to download it instead of the slower download from Apple's servers at the time. A nation state actor code do substitutions during legitimate downloads from known sites (and substitute in the checksum on the description pages).
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If they gather enough data, and that data can predict long term trends, then you could do anything from playing the commodities market to real estate speculation. But the short term profit would be to the company founders not the investors. Or they get established as an occasional presence and then when enough mundane encounters have happened they flip the smuggling bit in the software ... lol either way, profit
1 prototype 100k of electronics.
1000 production units maybe 40k for the same electronics.
Somolian pirates now operating captured drones!
If these things have residual value at all, they will become “salvage”.
So Neptune isn’t a planet? Every so often Pluto is closer to the Sun for 20 years... so Neptune has some work to do...
Dang you got there first. Argon and you could use high frequency RF to turn the death chamber into a light show as they exit. Or have them lay back on a couch with a cobalt 60 source under the headrest. Strap them in, leave the heavily shielded room, slide the shutter mechanically to expose the source. (Dark humor: of course this has the risk of creating radiation based super villains)
They choose the date carefully. Trees are essentially CO2 starved and have adapted to the current low CO2 values compared to their early evolution. Also, even though temperatures may raise in northern latitudes the temperature rise at the equator is not the same, the net effect is broader zones of arable land. Expect the worst, lush forests from northern Greenland to the equator. But that’s really unlikely considering the entrants to the 50 year long solar minimum cycle.
Rather than single issue vote in liberals vote with your pocketbook. If you buy things that are effectively lower or lowering in CO2 then companies will move that direction. Money votes are so much more powerful than political votes. The American process of government controlling technology has a poor record. In 1968 several cars when properly tuned met air pollution standards for the 1980 goals, without catalytic converters. But they had to start using converters by government mandate. The 1970s EPA wanted to, because it was technically possible, make room air conditioners twice as efficient, and the energy use label original spec called for a minimum 8x10 metalizied label with a mil spec permanent adhesive. Small window air conditioners couldn’t support that size label. And to make air conditioners twice as efficient while running would make them use so much more material that the refining and processing and fabrication energy costs for the additional material would never be made up in the units lifetime of running.
So, putting the government in charge of specifications for technology, not so good. Grassroots make it in demand for “greener” tech, a good deal. The reason solar costs less is that some folks put in the money and created the demand early on. It’s only recently it has become really popular.
California has taken the step of requiring solar on most new construction, hopefully they left open the problem homes, like deep valley homes, or homes that wind or low head hydro might be better. And hopefully they require where reasonable grid tie ins. But to mandate it in the first place is a mistake. They could just incentivize it and it would happen.
Like a volcanic eruption in progress ... a single few hours long eruption can emit millions of pounds of CO2. In the case of Hawaii, the eruption is a long ongoing progress. So maybe these figures are suspect.
Just use the graphene enhanced concrete that captures enough carbon to be carbon neutral. Bonus it’s multiple times stronger.
Horses can be much bigger than cattle.
They alledged Comey interfered, and demanded he be fired, when he was investigating Hillary’s email server being a national security threat. Or that the DNC and Hillary paid for the work of fiction known as the Trump Dossier, authored in part by Russian operatives under guidance from a former British spy? Or on more practical consideration that no proof has been shown of connections between “Russian collusion” and Trump? And intelligence agencies have repeatedly said there is no such evidence. Lots of smoke and mirrors, but it’s a photo of a dog and painting of the pony, so not even a good show...
There are ethical questions to debate long before legislating . A small example. If I back up the memory, in whatever form, and destroy the hardware utterly and completely, have I the entity. If I then restore it to a different hardware setup, is that unmurdering? A new entity? If I restore it to more than one hardware setup am I legally a parent? Is the first creator the parent of all derived entities? If I merge the software from two entities is that their child? Settle the science, settle or at least understand the ethics, then debate what the laws should be, then and only then consider laws regarding them. And shouldnâ(TM)t there be some basic set of tests to determine the status. Is my toaster eligible? Or my work computer. Am I obligated to to a hardware setup that currently runs simple, in comparison, software, and install software so it becomes aware. Will AI developers have to be licensed like doctors? If a developer creates a self aware software suite, are they responsible for any evil intent that develops? Establish the basic boundaries. And then consider cetaceans and suidae... the tests may wish to exclude them ...
I’d suggest that you’re destroyed and recreated by transporting. The transporters use Heisenberg uncertainty compensators for one, implying a need to compensate for the destruction and re-creation. Transporters also have pattern buffers where they have been used to recreate adults from children and reform aged / damaged adults into their stored patterns. The information used during transport is very redundant. In one incident Riker was transported and the beam split. The result was two Rikers. So, pretty conclusively not transporting your atoms across a distance but rather transmitting a very accurate description of the being reduced to a corpse. Then recreated if no issues crop up.
Coat all the interior windows with two way mirror film. It will make it a more fun house to work in ...
The people in the know aren't. The financial pundits predicted a drop in bitcoin value and shorting bitcoin contracts once the futures trading opened. Bitcoin took an anticipatory drop a couple days before. Trading futures opened and quickly pushed bitcoin higher. This isn't currency, it isn't a hard asset, its not even like a stock. It's a great mechanism to move value in short order. Worried about that whole "buy an item for $50, and the merchant gets $45 or 55 when it clears" example? Well I can send BTC worth $50,000 to buy a car in Germany and the transaction will clear in under an hour. and cost $3-6. An international wire transfer goes from my bank, to the correspondent bank, to their banks correspondent bank, to their bank and can take a week to clear, but usually 3-4 business days. And costs about $40 from the US side and often similar on the other end. A wire originated in Turkey for 20,000 euros into a US Bank account cost over $400 in fees and took a currency conversion loss of $450 USD on the value at the time of the transaction top of that, so at the time $850 to move 27,900 dollars into the US account. If BITcoin were used, about a .1% fee on the exchanges at each end and using todays rates about 5-6 dollars transaction fee. so about $50 - $60 to move it netting, $800 more roughly and making 1/2 day at most instead of, in this particular case, 6 days. And no issues with time of day etc. to start the transaction. That's the real value of bitcoin. And what's really cool, if you're both on the same exchange, and have a buffer of bitcoins on each end, there's no fee in many cases as they move funds from your exchange bitcoin account to the destination bitcoin account without charge, and it's only the conversion to and from other fiat currency that costs you. Bitcoin will have arrived when I can buy a factory direct Tesla Model 3 in bitcoin while in Italy sipping a doppio.
In terms of Bitcoin, transaction fees aren't skyrocketing. Only in the fiat currency you can exchange for bitcoin.
Google owns Android, which is one of the most exploited OSes in the mobile market place. How can one consider some vested marketing interest in release of a tool to exploit the number one revenue creating mobile consumer device OSes? Nope purely research oriented. Not a tool for cyber criminals to exploit.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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-- Inigo Montoya
Well there are many similarities 'tween Sad Vlad the Mad and Vizzini
The electric and gasoline issue is solvable by having zero in city gas stations but plenty of electric vehicle chargers. Then install a very large solar power plant. Augment with some wind power. And talk to Tesla about a city sized battery bank. The Gigafactory is close by so shipping cost won't be painful. And just install high efficiency heat pumps. Capture the November to April cold from the nights in heat banks to offset the May to October high temps. Store some of the Summer heat to offset Winter nights. And get water from Lake Mead, but also recycle it. Make it so all point of use is separated to gray water and black water sewerage. The gray water is easier to recycle. The black water a little harder. And no outdoor non-native plants! Use porous surfaces for the sidewalks and roads (requires a separate freight to shops delivery system) and help out a bit. Capture the water and use it for the sewerage treatment system. Augment the city electric provisions with capture at point of use in the residential areas. An earth banked home will remain cooler; there are a lot of designs that would capture that 20-25 degree cooler region. Envelope designs are also pretty good in hot climates to mitigate high daytime temperatures.
This is a project I have worked over multiple times on "paper" over the years. I'd love to have Bill Gates contact me to work on this project. It is easily possible he believes global warming will present a difficult time for humans and he's researching a city in a climate that is already hot.
No mod points or I'd upvote. Yes, the liberals depend on The Big Lie tactic, and their sycophants rely on ad hominem attacks. The interesting thing about the Internet is you can do research and discover the roots of The Big Lies. Like the intelligence community opinions regards Trump and Russia being traceable to one agency, which other agencies under Obama then adopted without rigor. The Russians were involved, sure, Facebook, Google, Twitter and likely many more, took money for ads from Russian led groups. Early on a GOP primary group asked for a Russian group to prep a dossier on Trump's real estate dealings regards Russia, and Hillary took it up through the Democratic National Committee after Trump emerged the candidate. Russia prepared a fake incident with Trump and a Golden Shower act on a bed in a hotel where Obama stayed. They also prepared a sex tape with a black man and a Hillary look-a-like. So far the provable collusion lies with the DNC. You can't be an isolationist as president or president elect. Do recall Obama told the Russian president he could be more flexible after he won the election.
We know now that the likely chat in October was in regards to the Magnitsky Act on behalf a her client. Not about Hillary even though there was email to that effect it wasn't what the actual discussion concerned itself with.
Not to mention the greatest hypocrisy, that of the US government representatives meeting with all sides of elections in other countries.
Just remember a few things ... Hillary approved a sale that gave the Russian government control over 20% of America's uranium, and nearly 100% of Kazakhstans, and a good chunk elsewhere from Australia to Africa. RosAtom essentially is the world's source for quantities of Uranium. And received related 145 million in "donations" to the Clinton Foundation. The Donald has not been shown to be in collusion with the russians by any agency. Comey said he wasn't, and the only intelligence agency comment with any implications was one US agency saying he might be in collusion, and that was then copied to 26 other agencies statements under Obama with zero fact checking. br>
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And most importantly, the demographics of the liberals that took to the streets are also the pro gun control demographics, so the Trump (and rule of law BTW) supporters, the ones that support a constitutional process to look at the problem, they line up with the gun owner demographics.
Choose your battles wisely. just say'n
The argument of course is was Joe Tanner's use, fair use. It certainly was not a threat to the original work. If anything it raised interest in it. But one frame of a TV show in a social media post would be hard to be anything but fair use. But not a lawyer, do deal with IP, but a Judge and Jury will decide ... unless the judge outright admonishes CBS for filing a frivolous lawsuit themselves.
Looks like a candidate for being considered a SLAPP suit. Joe Tanner should amend his complaint and request both cases be merged and his damages requested be raised to 100 million as it will irreparably damage his reputation. Or at least present that from his lawyers to CBS's. There is legislation to use to fight SLAPP suits.
Source code is not enough. You need the build tool chain as well. You need to verify the tools don't inject anything in the binaries, and that the binaries produced from the exposed source are exactly the same as binaries sold or distributed by them. And one step backwards if they use open source tools is to examine the tools and build them. You need to go back to known safe code. Paranoia you say? XcodeGhost was created by hackers to infect apps on the apple app store. They convinced people to download it instead of the slower download from Apple's servers at the time. A nation state actor code do substitutions during legitimate downloads from known sites (and substitute in the checksum on the description pages).
There are many other messages that remain inaccessible historically.