If you are working on behalf of a foreign government, doing so without registering as a foreign agent is a crime. Now since not everyone knows this, the normal enforcement action is a letter informing you that you need to fill out a form and send it in before you continue; but technically it's a felony.
Since the Internet Research Agency is a well-establish psy-ops company, they know very well that they're breaking US law.
I'd guess the trick is not causing creating hazardous conditions in the battery. It doesn't matter how fast you drain a gas tank, but draining a battery quickly will create heat at the point of greatest resistance.
Presumably the batteries and cells have short circuit protection that prevents you from draining it faster than is safe when it is intact. But the safe discharge rate might be considerably lower for a severely compromised battery.
If that's the only alternative you can see to allowing them to spend fully half their time on non-productive tasks, I'd say you've never seen a competent manager.
You are absolutely right; it's my job to make you efficient. That's why you'd never, ever have a 40 hour work week with only 20 hours of work if you were my employee. I'd give you at least 10 hours of ax-sharpening assignments. Evaluate this product; figure whether X cold be done or how to do Y better. This kind of assignment not only makes the group more competitive, it's interesting for you.
I'll tolerate up to maybe 20% of your time frittered away, but there's no way you'd get a positive review from me if you wasted 50% of your time.
When I ran a development team, I soon learned you have to police people who develop the habit of spending long, non-productive hours at work. These people are not the high performers.
I'm not talking about flow sessions where someone spends twelve or even eighteen hours without realizing the time is passing -- that exploits a natural behavior of brains when they're fully engaged. I'm talking about people frittering away hours dancing around work without doing it. Keeping your ass in the chair longer is a way for a lazy person to convince himself he's a hard worker.
Nobody can give their best for seventy hours a week, week in and week out. It's a challenge getting peak effort out of people working forty hours a week. Routine long hours are often a sign of lack of management planning and vigilance.
The issue isn't with the software per se, but what the examination of the software revealed about the units as a system. If you used op amps instead of microcontrollers most of those issues would still be there.
The sensors used are temperature sensitive. The configuration used by the police disabled ambient temperature checks, which I guess you could call a digital issue. The device lacks a breath temperature sensor, which means that people with warmer than average breath could get false positives.
These devices also should be re-calibrated after a fixed number of uses; instead the state was re-calibrating them on a fixed schedule. While that schedule might work for an *average* device, devices that had been heavily could b e giving spurious readings.
On the flip side the device uses two different types of sensors to measure alcohol, and rejects readings where the sensors give different answers. This might mitigate some of the defects in how the state used them, but nobody can be sure. All we have is the assurance of the state authorities that the devices "have been tested to meet our business needs," without any specifics about what the test entailed.
The danger of these things is that they give you a number and it all seems so scientific and precise. You don't get the hemming and hawing that comes with a human opinion, metadata that helps you decide how certain you should be of that opinion. Layman don't understand the limitations of technology, they assume the tech should "just work". I'd trust a sophomore engineering student to devise policy for using these things over a police chief with decades of law enforcement experience.
It's actually quite easy to find who to bill. The telephone network has been doing it for decades with landline long distance calling and of course the 900 numbers that people used to call for phone sex.
Every time someone calls you on a non-business line, $0.10 should get transferred from their account to yours.
These scams work because the scammers can externalize their costs on a massive scale. A robocaller can make thousands of calls an hour, millions of calls over the course of a month, because the marginal cost of the next call is zero. Commercial robocalling operations charge less than a penny a minute.
Internalizing the cost of a spam call is a market solution. It doesn't depend on some government bureaucrat reviewing the telephone number called and the purpose of the call and deciding if it's allowed. It's dependent on that communication being worth a dime to the originator, which spam calls are not. The market price charged by robocalling service bureaus is less than a penny a minute.
During the Industrial Revolution, patents were only national in scope. It was normal for everyone to "steal" patented inventions from other countries... so normal it was pretty common to copy patented inventions from your own country too. The system couldn't keep up with the sheer volume of infringement.
Of course today we have large and formidable law firms that specialize in international IP law. We have databases and search engines that make it feasible to run a patent troll firm on a shoestring.
During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), China attempted to industrialize with things like back yard steel mills operated by collectives of people with no actual expertise in metallurgy. It's the kind of thing only an armchair philosopher could think feasible. From there, China took the proven path from near-medieval conditions to industrial supremacy: copying ideas. And since they're a sovereign nation, there's nothing anyone outside can do to stop them. You can only persuade.
One difference between China and the US in the early 21st Century is that China is still governed with its national interests paramount across the board. China's sole aim has been to increase its national economic power and prestige, and it's been highly successful. The US, on the other hand, while remaining firmly nationalistic in military affairs, has adopted a kind of internationalism as the establishment political position in economic affairs. In simple terms, it could be stated this way: what's economically best for nations collectively is economically best for the US. And, in fact, if you don't look too closely, that's worked out pretty well too.
Technically the applies to any "foreign principal", which includes "...foreign political parties, a person or organization outside the United States except U.S. citizens, and any entity organized under the laws of a foreign country or having its principal place of business in a foreign country."
So the law is written to take the obvious work-arounds into account. The only way around is if the principal hiring you hides its foreign affiliation, but the court could still find you guilty if they believe you guilty of "contrived ignorance" -- e.g. pretending not to know the obvious. So -- don't act as the agent for *anyone* wishing to engage in electioneering unless you can determine that they're a US organization (e.g. a PAC).
Well, that's not the operational profile Musk is pitching. He's pitching greater scheduling flexibility than trains, allowing traffic to be added on a flexible ad hoc basis up to the carrying capacity of the tubes.
But he hasn't proved he can make the concept physically work yet, much less operate it economically. Assuming that it is physically feasible with near-term technology, economic feasibility depends on it carrying enough traffic to recoup the fabulous investment costs. And to me, that's the biggest uncertainty. If there's not enough traffic, the cost per trip goes way up, which leaves you with a Catch-22.
The farm-to-table tomato scenario is obviously far-fetched, but a farm to wholesaler scenario might be possible for a system with high use rates. Tomatoes shipped across country can be six weeks old by the time they're put up for sale, which is why they are picked green and artificially "ripened" near the point of sale with ethylene gas.
If you imagine a small shop, sure it's hard to see. But the thing is as businesses get larger the principle of get the customer's money soon and hang on to it as long as possible starts to get pushed to what the layman appears ridiculous lengths. With enough volume, pennies per unit in time value of money add up to significant amounts.
It's like my old school friend who became an automotive engineer, and was astonished by how engineers sweat bullets over $0.50 on e $30,000 vehicle. If it's an F-150 pickup you're adding up that $0.50 over almost a million units annually.
Who wanted the Internet before it existed? Who wanted New Coke? That pretty much brackets the range of possibilities.
Manufacturing is certainly a plausible use because one of the well-established ways to improve a manufacturer's profitability is to reduce the amount of capital tied up in materials inventory. That savings is limited by how quickly you can get those materials from your supplier. If getting the stuff you need to fill orders is slow and unreliable, you have no choice but to stock those materials.
Imagine maybe twenty-five years from now. Your highly automated factory in Louisville gets an order for widgets, so it places an order for sub-widgets to a supplier's automated factory in Grand Rapids, about 400 miles away. An hour or so later the sub-widgets are finished, loaded on an autonomous vehicle for delivery the Grand Rapids hyperloop terminal. Another autonomous vehicle picks them up at the Louisville terminus and delivers them to your loading dock, maybe four hours after you get the order. This enables you to fill the order the next day, but the real advantage of this system isn't speed; it's reduced parts inventory.
This is certainly a plausible scenario, but it's highly dependent on all the parts working. If you don't have a cheap and reliable way to get widgets to and from the hyperloop, there's not really much point in building one for manufacturing.
This just means that the Silicon Valley computer industry is larger than any Canadian counterparts. People go where there are the most jobs in their field. Tech companies in particular locate jobs where qualified people are looking.
That creates a Catch-22, and there's something to be said for a contrarian strategy where you locate jobs where the cost of living means people can live better on lower salaries. But it doesn't entirely negate the networking effect advantages of being the biggest technology center.
I think you mean to ask how *precise* it is. The mentioned applications (atomic clocks, laser gyros) are all precision applications.
Many practical applications would depend on being able to manufacture crystals that have a specific desired frequency,. For example quartz timepieces employ a quartz crystal that is machined by lasers or polishing to have a precise resonant frequency of 2^15 (32768) Hz, enabling one watch after another to keep precisely the same time. You just route the oscillator output through 15 frequency dividers and you get a 1 second signal to drive a stepper motor.
But we're talking about is a more exotic process and it's not clear you could tweak time crystals that way.
There's been recent work to develop chip-sized atomic clocks. These are more precise than quartz but could be use on battery-powered circuit boards. This kind of application would requiring mass producing time crystals with the same frequency, even if it wasn't a convenient one like 2^15.
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If you are working on behalf of a foreign government, doing so without registering as a foreign agent is a crime. Now since not everyone knows this, the normal enforcement action is a letter informing you that you need to fill out a form and send it in before you continue; but technically it's a felony.
Since the Internet Research Agency is a well-establish psy-ops company, they know very well that they're breaking US law.
I'd guess the trick is not causing creating hazardous conditions in the battery. It doesn't matter how fast you drain a gas tank, but draining a battery quickly will create heat at the point of greatest resistance.
Presumably the batteries and cells have short circuit protection that prevents you from draining it faster than is safe when it is intact. But the safe discharge rate might be considerably lower for a severely compromised battery.
I still miss computers having a power button that isn't a suggestion.
If that's the only alternative you can see to allowing them to spend fully half their time on non-productive tasks, I'd say you've never seen a competent manager.
You are absolutely right; it's my job to make you efficient. That's why you'd never, ever have a 40 hour work week with only 20 hours of work if you were my employee. I'd give you at least 10 hours of ax-sharpening assignments. Evaluate this product; figure whether X cold be done or how to do Y better. This kind of assignment not only makes the group more competitive, it's interesting for you.
I'll tolerate up to maybe 20% of your time frittered away, but there's no way you'd get a positive review from me if you wasted 50% of your time.
You're supposed to us IBM Cloud Services to leak data.
When I ran a development team, I soon learned you have to police people who develop the habit of spending long, non-productive hours at work. These people are not the high performers.
I'm not talking about flow sessions where someone spends twelve or even eighteen hours without realizing the time is passing -- that exploits a natural behavior of brains when they're fully engaged. I'm talking about people frittering away hours dancing around work without doing it. Keeping your ass in the chair longer is a way for a lazy person to convince himself he's a hard worker.
Nobody can give their best for seventy hours a week, week in and week out. It's a challenge getting peak effort out of people working forty hours a week. Routine long hours are often a sign of lack of management planning and vigilance.
The issue isn't with the software per se, but what the examination of the software revealed about the units as a system. If you used op amps instead of microcontrollers most of those issues would still be there.
The sensors used are temperature sensitive. The configuration used by the police disabled ambient temperature checks, which I guess you could call a digital issue. The device lacks a breath temperature sensor, which means that people with warmer than average breath could get false positives.
These devices also should be re-calibrated after a fixed number of uses; instead the state was re-calibrating them on a fixed schedule. While that schedule might work for an *average* device, devices that had been heavily could b e giving spurious readings.
On the flip side the device uses two different types of sensors to measure alcohol, and rejects readings where the sensors give different answers. This might mitigate some of the defects in how the state used them, but nobody can be sure. All we have is the assurance of the state authorities that the devices "have been tested to meet our business needs," without any specifics about what the test entailed.
The danger of these things is that they give you a number and it all seems so scientific and precise. You don't get the hemming and hawing that comes with a human opinion, metadata that helps you decide how certain you should be of that opinion. Layman don't understand the limitations of technology, they assume the tech should "just work". I'd trust a sophomore engineering student to devise policy for using these things over a police chief with decades of law enforcement experience.
Reporters, using statistical tests? What is this world coming to?
You forgot the irony tag.
Which is having the AI select the suggestions to use.
Is that like used oil or something?
It's actually quite easy to find who to bill. The telephone network has been doing it for decades with landline long distance calling and of course the 900 numbers that people used to call for phone sex.
Every time someone calls you on a non-business line, $0.10 should get transferred from their account to yours.
These scams work because the scammers can externalize their costs on a massive scale. A robocaller can make thousands of calls an hour, millions of calls over the course of a month, because the marginal cost of the next call is zero. Commercial robocalling operations charge less than a penny a minute.
Internalizing the cost of a spam call is a market solution. It doesn't depend on some government bureaucrat reviewing the telephone number called and the purpose of the call and deciding if it's allowed. It's dependent on that communication being worth a dime to the originator, which spam calls are not. The market price charged by robocalling service bureaus is less than a penny a minute.
During the Industrial Revolution, patents were only national in scope. It was normal for everyone to "steal" patented inventions from other countries... so normal it was pretty common to copy patented inventions from your own country too. The system couldn't keep up with the sheer volume of infringement.
Of course today we have large and formidable law firms that specialize in international IP law. We have databases and search engines that make it feasible to run a patent troll firm on a shoestring.
During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), China attempted to industrialize with things like back yard steel mills operated by collectives of people with no actual expertise in metallurgy. It's the kind of thing only an armchair philosopher could think feasible. From there, China took the proven path from near-medieval conditions to industrial supremacy: copying ideas. And since they're a sovereign nation, there's nothing anyone outside can do to stop them. You can only persuade.
One difference between China and the US in the early 21st Century is that China is still governed with its national interests paramount across the board. China's sole aim has been to increase its national economic power and prestige, and it's been highly successful. The US, on the other hand, while remaining firmly nationalistic in military affairs, has adopted a kind of internationalism as the establishment political position in economic affairs. In simple terms, it could be stated this way: what's economically best for nations collectively is economically best for the US. And, in fact, if you don't look too closely, that's worked out pretty well too.
Technically the applies to any "foreign principal", which includes "...foreign political parties, a person or organization outside the United States except U.S. citizens, and any entity organized under the laws of a foreign country or having its principal place of business in a foreign country."
So the law is written to take the obvious work-arounds into account. The only way around is if the principal hiring you hides its foreign affiliation, but the court could still find you guilty if they believe you guilty of "contrived ignorance" -- e.g. pretending not to know the obvious. So -- don't act as the agent for *anyone* wishing to engage in electioneering unless you can determine that they're a US organization (e.g. a PAC).
Well, sure, but why should Google care as long as they're getting their money?
They're only doing this as a PR gesture. Note that this only applies to actual *campaign* ads -- not to ads promoting fake news.
And if that individual is not registered as the agent of a foreign government, he commits a felony under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938.
Well, that's not the operational profile Musk is pitching. He's pitching greater scheduling flexibility than trains, allowing traffic to be added on a flexible ad hoc basis up to the carrying capacity of the tubes.
But he hasn't proved he can make the concept physically work yet, much less operate it economically. Assuming that it is physically feasible with near-term technology, economic feasibility depends on it carrying enough traffic to recoup the fabulous investment costs. And to me, that's the biggest uncertainty. If there's not enough traffic, the cost per trip goes way up, which leaves you with a Catch-22.
The farm-to-table tomato scenario is obviously far-fetched, but a farm to wholesaler scenario might be possible for a system with high use rates. Tomatoes shipped across country can be six weeks old by the time they're put up for sale, which is why they are picked green and artificially "ripened" near the point of sale with ethylene gas.
If you imagine a small shop, sure it's hard to see. But the thing is as businesses get larger the principle of get the customer's money soon and hang on to it as long as possible starts to get pushed to what the layman appears ridiculous lengths. With enough volume, pennies per unit in time value of money add up to significant amounts.
It's like my old school friend who became an automotive engineer, and was astonished by how engineers sweat bullets over $0.50 on e $30,000 vehicle. If it's an F-150 pickup you're adding up that $0.50 over almost a million units annually.
Who wanted the Internet before it existed? Who wanted New Coke? That pretty much brackets the range of possibilities.
Manufacturing is certainly a plausible use because one of the well-established ways to improve a manufacturer's profitability is to reduce the amount of capital tied up in materials inventory. That savings is limited by how quickly you can get those materials from your supplier. If getting the stuff you need to fill orders is slow and unreliable, you have no choice but to stock those materials.
Imagine maybe twenty-five years from now. Your highly automated factory in Louisville gets an order for widgets, so it places an order for sub-widgets to a supplier's automated factory in Grand Rapids, about 400 miles away. An hour or so later the sub-widgets are finished, loaded on an autonomous vehicle for delivery the Grand Rapids hyperloop terminal. Another autonomous vehicle picks them up at the Louisville terminus and delivers them to your loading dock, maybe four hours after you get the order. This enables you to fill the order the next day, but the real advantage of this system isn't speed; it's reduced parts inventory.
This is certainly a plausible scenario, but it's highly dependent on all the parts working. If you don't have a cheap and reliable way to get widgets to and from the hyperloop, there's not really much point in building one for manufacturing.
This just means that the Silicon Valley computer industry is larger than any Canadian counterparts. People go where there are the most jobs in their field. Tech companies in particular locate jobs where qualified people are looking.
That creates a Catch-22, and there's something to be said for a contrarian strategy where you locate jobs where the cost of living means people can live better on lower salaries. But it doesn't entirely negate the networking effect advantages of being the biggest technology center.
Sure, you're correct nowt that circuitry is cheap. But really what you need is something precise and repeatably manufacturable..
Yes, I was pedantic, because your question is broken if you don't understand the difference between accurate and precise, which you clearly don't.
I think you mean to ask how *precise* it is. The mentioned applications (atomic clocks, laser gyros) are all precision applications.
Many practical applications would depend on being able to manufacture crystals that have a specific desired frequency,. For example quartz timepieces employ a quartz crystal that is machined by lasers or polishing to have a precise resonant frequency of 2^15 (32768) Hz, enabling one watch after another to keep precisely the same time. You just route the oscillator output through 15 frequency dividers and you get a 1 second signal to drive a stepper motor.
But we're talking about is a more exotic process and it's not clear you could tweak time crystals that way.
There's been recent work to develop chip-sized atomic clocks. These are more precise than quartz but could be use on battery-powered circuit boards. This kind of application would requiring mass producing time crystals with the same frequency, even if it wasn't a convenient one like 2^15.