It's interesting to see this sort of research. Getting rid of people's shit is actually quite difficult to do in an efficient and sanitary way. It's also a difficult UX problem, because levels of care in excreting are substantially different across cultures.
For example, in poor areas the idea of sitting on a toilet seat is a completely alien idea. People either squat over holes in the ground or stand on the toilet bowl and squat. People will occasionally shit or pee all over the toilet, causing problems. Getting the shit/pee out of the bowl along with toilet paper etc is difficult. Then there's the odors/smell/leftover shit problem.
Plus toilets need cleaning...lots of cleaning. In fact, they're cleaned more often than any other area, generally speaking. And they're still filthy.
We haven't even gotten to the "moving the shit out of the toilet" part at that point.
Then of course there's the "what do you do with the combined shit and piss of 50,000 people."
So kudos for the Gates Foundation for doing something creative with their money. These sort of structural problems get worse as time goes on. People don't understand the sheer amounts of infrastructure it takes to deal with shit like this. Here's an example:
In NYC, there are about 3 million households. Each household has 2 toilets. Each toilet requires a holding tank of 6 or 13 gallons. So at any given time there are about 18-39 million gallons of water hanging around that had to be delivered to every household. Water pressure is generally 80psi, which means you need 80psi to 3m point locations across 302 square miles (784 sq km). That pressure doesn't just fill toilets, it supplies showers, sinks, washing machines, etc.
And that's just one municipal water supply. The sewer system is completely independent
It's surprising, to be honest, that universities or governments aren't looking at these sort of issues. I mean, there are all kinds of efficiencies that are possible. For example, why not use the water pipes for AC heat transfer?
The complication is deciding when to convert it to local time, and what that local time should be. For example, you're monitoring someone's activity. Should activity be shown in the person's current local time, at the local time of when the activity took place, or in the local time of the person viewing the activity?
You have to make it clear who's time you're talking about.
Quite frankly, Bloomberg got fooled by a bunch of people who, for whatever reason, gave them this story.
Why would people do this? I can think of a bunch of reasons off the top of my head:
* someone wanted SuperMicro to play ball, and they refused. This is payback. * someone wanted SuperMicro's stock to fall, and fall a lot. * someone wanted to demonstrate they could get the press to print anything, no matter how ridiculous. * someone wanted to teach Bloomberg a lesson * someone wanted to throw doubt on the Chinese supply chain. The one that supplies like all the electronics to the US. * someone wanted China to share some of the attention
It could be all of the above. But really, the story is bullshit. The superchip is a story cooked up to fool reporters, reporters who are smart enough fool themselves into thinking they understand how computers work.
What I'm surprised at is that they didn't ask anyone in the industry about the details. You can always theoretically wire something into a mobo and hide it. You can't practically get something that small to do everything they said it could do. Even James Patterson could tell the difference.
More transistors means more power, all things being equal.
However, if you finish your job faster you can sleep faster, which probably uses less power overall. Thats the basic power philosophy of iOS. You can't just look at one thing and say it's more expensive; it's how it impacts the overall system's performance that matters. That's one difference in how Apple does things, or at least how they used to do things.
If you look at their implementation, it's a lot more secure than most implementations. Client-certificate based authentication, provisioning, etc.
The only thing it can't do is prevent connections from devices with expired certificates ie: you can't prevent them from trying to connect.
It's up to you to do signed firmware etc, but from a communications infrastructure and management point of view they're better than what you can do in a reasonable amount of time.
How much of this is slowdown is marketing driven? There's no reason to release a chip that's 50% faster if people are buying plenty of the older chip. You want to spread that out over time.
In general, employees don't get to choose to work for two firms doing the identical job, nor can they generally choose their own hours.
I'm not sure how the California Supreme Court came to its decisions. Maybe they used the same decision making process they used when they determined coffee causes cancer?
In general, Democrats would rather spend money on social services than maintenance, and most large urban areas in the US are run by Democrats. Eventually the infrastructure crumbles away, and you're fucked.
That's pretty much been the trend in all Democratically controlled cities.
You know, it's ridiculous that there are people that conflate identification with surveillance.
Establishing a person's identity is a fundamental part of any modern society. Are you who you say you are?
Otherwise, how can you tell one Singh from another?
In any case, what Liberal critics forget is that it's the intent. Why would the Indian government want to know what its citizens are doing? Is it a totalitarian state, like China? Not really. Could it be? Maybe, but India doesn't really have a history of strongman-type rule.
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I for one am looking forward to the coming mosquito genocide.
It's interesting to see this sort of research. Getting rid of people's shit is actually quite difficult to do in an efficient and sanitary way. It's also a difficult UX problem, because levels of care in excreting are substantially different across cultures.
For example, in poor areas the idea of sitting on a toilet seat is a completely alien idea. People either squat over holes in the ground or stand on the toilet bowl and squat. People will occasionally shit or pee all over the toilet, causing problems. Getting the shit/pee out of the bowl along with toilet paper etc is difficult. Then there's the odors/smell/leftover shit problem.
Plus toilets need cleaning...lots of cleaning. In fact, they're cleaned more often than any other area, generally speaking. And they're still filthy.
We haven't even gotten to the "moving the shit out of the toilet" part at that point.
Then of course there's the "what do you do with the combined shit and piss of 50,000 people."
So kudos for the Gates Foundation for doing something creative with their money. These sort of structural problems get worse as time goes on. People don't understand the sheer amounts of infrastructure it takes to deal with shit like this. Here's an example:
In NYC, there are about 3 million households. Each household has 2 toilets. Each toilet requires a holding tank of 6 or 13 gallons. So at any given time there are about 18-39 million gallons of water hanging around that had to be delivered to every household. Water pressure is generally 80psi, which means you need 80psi to 3m point locations across 302 square miles (784 sq km). That pressure doesn't just fill toilets, it supplies showers, sinks, washing machines, etc.
And that's just one municipal water supply. The sewer system is completely independent
It's surprising, to be honest, that universities or governments aren't looking at these sort of issues. I mean, there are all kinds of efficiencies that are possible. For example, why not use the water pipes for AC heat transfer?
Doing things in UTC is the way to go.
The complication is deciding when to convert it to local time, and what that local time should be. For example, you're monitoring someone's activity. Should activity be shown in the person's current local time, at the local time of when the activity took place, or in the local time of the person viewing the activity?
You have to make it clear who's time you're talking about.
The phone brand doesn't matter. If it's on wireless it can be stingrayed, and it's already been shown that DC is full of them.
Given that most Uber drivers drive for Lyft as well, does that mean that they've gone from contractors to double-dipping benefits from two employers?
Quite frankly, Bloomberg got fooled by a bunch of people who, for whatever reason, gave them this story.
Why would people do this? I can think of a bunch of reasons off the top of my head:
* someone wanted SuperMicro to play ball, and they refused. This is payback.
* someone wanted SuperMicro's stock to fall, and fall a lot.
* someone wanted to demonstrate they could get the press to print anything, no matter how ridiculous.
* someone wanted to teach Bloomberg a lesson
* someone wanted to throw doubt on the Chinese supply chain. The one that supplies like all the electronics to the US.
* someone wanted China to share some of the attention
It could be all of the above. But really, the story is bullshit. The superchip is a story cooked up to fool reporters, reporters who are smart enough fool themselves into thinking they understand how computers work.
What I'm surprised at is that they didn't ask anyone in the industry about the details. You can always theoretically wire something into a mobo and hide it. You can't practically get something that small to do everything they said it could do. Even James Patterson could tell the difference.
The messages are free, so there are no damages.
More transistors means more power, all things being equal.
However, if you finish your job faster you can sleep faster, which probably uses less power overall. Thats the basic power philosophy of iOS. You can't just look at one thing and say it's more expensive; it's how it impacts the overall system's performance that matters. That's one difference in how Apple does things, or at least how they used to do things.
Do non-binaries count against the new gender quota?
"Watching the inventor of the web work at his computer feels like what it might have been like to watch Beethoven compose a symphony"
Watching someone type is one of the most boring things imaginable, no matter who you are.
If you look at their implementation, it's a lot more secure than most implementations. Client-certificate based authentication, provisioning, etc.
The only thing it can't do is prevent connections from devices with expired certificates ie: you can't prevent them from trying to connect.
It's up to you to do signed firmware etc, but from a communications infrastructure and management point of view they're better than what you can do in a reasonable amount of time.
How much of this is slowdown is marketing driven? There's no reason to release a chip that's 50% faster if people are buying plenty of the older chip. You want to spread that out over time.
By cutting out the middleman you will be putting tens of thousands of white NGO workers on the dole. Why would you want to do that?
In general, employees don't get to choose to work for two firms doing the identical job, nor can they generally choose their own hours.
I'm not sure how the California Supreme Court came to its decisions. Maybe they used the same decision making process they used when they determined coffee causes cancer?
Why not? And in any case, someone else is the one fucking the bison in the ass.
In general, Democrats would rather spend money on social services than maintenance, and most large urban areas in the US are run by Democrats. Eventually the infrastructure crumbles away, and you're fucked.
That's pretty much been the trend in all Democratically controlled cities.
How does editorial control jibe with the DMCA safe harbor provisions?
Please Visit, do me the needful when it comes to regulation!
When you start with a higher price the price moves even higher.
iPhones are too expensive for the mass market in India, due to huge tariffs.
IF you want control over your software, close it.
I thought his name was Richard Pecker?
In that case, why are they worrying about cholera?
Instead, they should use AI to figure out where the bombs will go and actively avoid those areas.
It seems that while this is a pretty good band-aid, a better solution would be to fix the sewer system for the new peaks.
You know, it's ridiculous that there are people that conflate identification with surveillance.
Establishing a person's identity is a fundamental part of any modern society. Are you who you say you are?
Otherwise, how can you tell one Singh from another?
In any case, what Liberal critics forget is that it's the intent. Why would the Indian government want to know what its citizens are doing? Is it a totalitarian state, like China? Not really. Could it be? Maybe, but India doesn't really have a history of strongman-type rule.
So why the whining?