Yes, I have a bank that is so security conscious, that if I use a cash machine that isn't part of my regular routine or even use EBay, they freeze the account until I call in and confirm that it was me making the purchase. One time, that involves a 45 minute wait in the pissing rain at a gas station.
There was a major split in Ethereum because one group realized there was a theoretical vulnerability in the protocols that would allow someone to raid other wallets. That was the reason for the split. Then the original founders attempted to bridge this fork by reunifying the two blockchains, but without fixing the original issue.
I personally don't trust anything that makes use of RPC calls or requires server processes to run.
I think the antibiotics get broken down while inside the animal. There are also hormones they give the animals to put on weight. We've banned them in the UK and Europe.
That would be the ultimate future cyberpunk sci-fi space colony. An entire asteroid mined first for its rare metals, then the geothermal sources tapped in order to drive quantum computer based cryptocurrency mining and a fusion reactor powered scalar weapon defense network.
The idea of making the computation expensive is to control the rate at which new bitcoins are created and so control "bitcoin inflation" with regard to how many bitcoins are mined per week. People used to mine bitcoins with their PC's using CPU's. Then others got clever and created GPU based mining code which was 100x faster. That gave those with SLI cards a 400x advantage. That meant the bitcoin difficulty has to be raised. Board makers like ASUS came out with motherboards with 19 PCI slots to run mining rigs with dozens of GPU's. Then new users developed ASIC based mining rigs when were even faster than GPU's and multithreaded CPU systems combined , x1000 faster. Consortiums that set up mining pools formed as well. They combined the efforts of dozens of mining rigs based on CPU's, GPU's and ASIC chips in order to eliminate duplication of effort.
The unfortunate thing was that 40 years ago, ready made meals were the food of the future. We had food technicians who were paid to find the correct combination of fats, proteins, natural glues, preservatives, and water retaining chemicals all used simply to make mechanically reclaimed meat and other cutoffs taste the same as the main portions. The side effect; all those chemicals had the side effect of making people retain water and put on weight. Instant meals are now considered to be toxic by dietitians. It's the first thing they tell you to stop eating.
You only need to look at the pollution maps in rural areas. Green fields may only be two blocks away from the housing developments along the freeway and main surface roads, but the pollution on those streets is as a bad a major city.
Your vision system is calculating the vertical and horizontal displacements of the picture. It does that to handle motion stabilization in order to reduce image shaking. That's a useful piece of information, so it gets sent to the region of the brain responsible for synchronizing all sensory input before being sent to your consciousness. The human equivalent of a Kalman filter.
Some jobs have already gone and we didn't really notice. Traffic duty cops were replaced by traffic lights. Elevator operators were replaced by electronic systems. Print shops with teams of men loading and unloading copper boilerplate on to metal drums were replaced by laser printers, PostScript, font files and word processors. There was a riot over this - the Wapping Street Dispute. Long distance telephone operators were replaced by automatic exchanges. Snail mail was replaced by instant messaging, Email and web sites. Don't forget the Luddites and their opposition to punch-card looms. One punch card loom could guarantee precision made garments with exactly the same pattern each time, while it took four operators to make one garment manually.
Most of the work now seems to be building up vision databases of everything from nuts and bolts, medicines and medical instruments. Having an intelligent robot in any field requires being able to recognize various objects.
The cable companies usually provide a free personal video recorder (PVR) within the cable box. You can set the timer to record programs from up to three different channels simultaneously. Then you can choose where and when you want to watch programming.
That's really the difference between the 1980's and present day. Back then, *everyone* had to watch the same program at the same time if they wanted to be cool and hip with their friends. Sometimes, teachers would recommend that you watch a particular science documentary. Now you can usually find any particular video on Youtube
I used to pay for cable. But once Virgin Media and Sky got into a squabble over the costs of channel syndication, and ended up blocking the the brand new series of Battlestar Galactica that was playing at the time (and was the only show I really wanted to watch), I canceled my entire cable subscription. Every month sales people would call me up asking if I wanted to upgrade my service. Every month. I would tell them exactly why I wasn't going to upgrade. They lost around £50/month for a good few years because of an ego fight between executives.
They were encouraged too by the government. During World War II, they saw the importance of propoganda through all those war movies. Then they saw how a movie could influence things like fashion, political opinion and public perception. Just by depicting one stereotype in a good or bad role could affect the whole country. Then they see that as a way of trying to impose progressive politics.
I think it does. I tried out the pizza tracker two days ago. Even made a video using my smartphone. They do use the deliverators GPS. I could see the icon slide around the streets between the pizza shop and my place. The funny thing was watching this slice of pizza wander all around the back alleys of the neighborhood like one of those maze solving AI algorithms. The deliverator was a new driver who didn't know which direction led downtown and which led out of town and ultimately had to call me to get directions.
Maybe they are disabled or some other medical injury (sprained angle, leg in cast). Hobbling down a flight of stairs and across several corridors isn't going to be practical.
More details on the cheating tools used would be helpful. The first seems to be aim-botting (which is using AI scripts to automatic aim weapons). The other is stream-sniping which involves intercepting someone's else servers communication to see their screen and make annoying comments on their strategy.
High speed trains? Everyone knows that humans would die from asphyxiation if they went faster than 20mph. Leave the high speed travel to the professional horsemen.
To establish some kind of colony on Mars, we would need to know how to recycle everything; air, water, materials, biological waste products. packaging, energy efficient mining and manufacturing. Figure out all of those there, and doing them here comes for free.
They have automated the driving of mining trucks. The human drivers are now located in air-conditioned offices, ready to take over if something goes wrong:
They are making mining equipment like drills and rock crushers remotely operated. Same with the cranes used to load containers into ships https://www.ericsson.com/asset...
That sounds like the job adverts for diversity coordinators and multicultural directors in with inner-city London councils. "Must speak native Tobagan, have first-hand experience of the problems of disabled people of color from Equatorial regions in a non-native European environment." Lo and behold the only person qualified is the partner of the social director.
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If that occasional fuckup happens on a motorway in fog and black ice conditions, it's going to be a category 5 splatterfest.
Yes, I have a bank that is so security conscious, that if I use a cash machine that isn't part of my regular routine or even use EBay, they freeze the account until I call in and confirm that it was me making the purchase. One time, that involves a 45 minute wait in the pissing rain at a gas station.
There was a major split in Ethereum because one group realized there was a theoretical vulnerability in the protocols that would allow someone to raid other wallets. That was the reason for the split. Then the original founders attempted to bridge this fork by reunifying the two blockchains, but without fixing the original issue.
I personally don't trust anything that makes use of RPC calls or requires server processes to run.
I think the antibiotics get broken down while inside the animal. There are also hormones they give the animals to put on weight. We've banned them in the UK and Europe.
That would be the ultimate future cyberpunk sci-fi space colony. An entire asteroid mined first for its rare metals, then the geothermal sources tapped in order to drive quantum computer based cryptocurrency mining and a fusion reactor powered scalar weapon defense network.
DopeWars on Facebook did the same.
Folding@Home could always exchange their own crypto-currency for work done. Call them ProteoCoins and convert the CPU time donated into ProteoCoins.
The idea of making the computation expensive is to control the rate at which new bitcoins are created and so control "bitcoin inflation" with regard to how many bitcoins are mined per week. People used to mine bitcoins with their PC's using CPU's. Then others got clever and created GPU based mining code which was 100x faster. That gave those with SLI cards a 400x advantage. That meant the bitcoin difficulty has to be raised. Board makers like ASUS came out with motherboards with 19 PCI slots to run mining rigs with dozens of GPU's. Then new users developed ASIC based mining rigs when were even faster than GPU's and multithreaded CPU systems combined , x1000 faster. Consortiums that set up mining pools formed as well. They combined the efforts of dozens of mining rigs based on CPU's, GPU's and ASIC chips in order to eliminate duplication of effort.
The unfortunate thing was that 40 years ago, ready made meals were the food of the future. We had food technicians who were paid to find the correct combination of fats, proteins, natural glues, preservatives, and water retaining chemicals all used simply to make mechanically reclaimed meat and other cutoffs taste the same as the main portions. The side effect; all those chemicals had the side effect of making people retain water and put on weight. Instant meals are now considered to be toxic by dietitians. It's the first thing they tell you to stop eating.
We just offshored all the manufacturing industries to China and closed them down in the USA and Europe. Problem solved.
You only need to look at the pollution maps in rural areas. Green fields may only be two blocks away from the housing developments along the freeway and main surface roads, but the pollution on those streets is as a bad a major city.
Given the weight problems of some people, if this planet is spherical, it will be flat by the time they are finished roaming around,
Your vision system is calculating the vertical and horizontal displacements of the picture. It does that to handle motion stabilization in order to reduce image shaking. That's a useful piece of information, so it gets sent to the region of the brain responsible for synchronizing all sensory input before being sent to your consciousness. The human equivalent of a Kalman filter.
Some jobs have already gone and we didn't really notice. Traffic duty cops were replaced by traffic lights. Elevator operators were replaced by electronic systems. Print shops with teams of men loading and unloading copper boilerplate on to metal drums were replaced by laser printers, PostScript, font files and word processors. There was a riot over this - the Wapping Street Dispute. Long distance telephone operators were replaced by automatic exchanges. Snail mail was replaced by instant messaging, Email and web sites. Don't forget the Luddites and their opposition to punch-card looms. One punch card loom could guarantee precision made garments with exactly the same pattern each time, while it took four operators to make one garment manually.
Most of the work now seems to be building up vision databases of everything from nuts and bolts, medicines and medical instruments. Having an intelligent robot in any field requires being able to recognize various objects.
The cable companies usually provide a free personal video recorder (PVR) within the cable box. You can set the timer to record programs from up to three different channels simultaneously. Then you can choose where and when you want to watch programming.
That's really the difference between the 1980's and present day. Back then, *everyone* had to watch the same program at the same time if they wanted to be cool and hip with their friends. Sometimes, teachers would recommend that you watch a particular science documentary. Now you can usually find any particular video on Youtube
I used to pay for cable. But once Virgin Media and Sky got into a squabble over the costs of channel syndication, and ended up blocking the the brand new series of Battlestar Galactica that was playing at the time (and was the only show I really wanted to watch), I canceled my entire cable subscription. Every month sales people would call me up asking if I wanted to upgrade my service. Every month. I would tell them exactly why I wasn't going to upgrade. They lost around £50/month for a good few years because of an ego fight between executives.
They were encouraged too by the government. During World War II, they saw the importance of propoganda through all those war movies. Then they saw how a movie could influence things like fashion, political opinion and public perception. Just by depicting one stereotype in a good or bad role could affect the whole country. Then they see that as a way of trying to impose progressive politics.
I think it does. I tried out the pizza tracker two days ago. Even made a video using my smartphone. They do use the deliverators GPS. I could see the icon slide around the streets between the pizza shop and my place. The funny thing was watching this slice of pizza wander all around the back alleys of the neighborhood like one of those maze solving AI algorithms. The deliverator was a new driver who didn't know which direction led downtown and which led out of town and ultimately had to call me to get directions.
Maybe they are disabled or some other medical injury (sprained angle, leg in cast). Hobbling down a flight of stairs and across several corridors isn't going to be practical.
More details on the cheating tools used would be helpful. The first seems to be aim-botting (which is using AI scripts to automatic aim weapons). The other is stream-sniping which involves intercepting someone's else servers communication to see their screen and make annoying comments on their strategy.
https://kotaku.com/epic-is-sui...
High speed trains? Everyone knows that humans would die from asphyxiation if they went faster than 20mph. Leave the high speed travel to the professional horsemen.
To establish some kind of colony on Mars, we would need to know how to recycle everything; air, water, materials, biological waste products. packaging, energy efficient mining and manufacturing. Figure out all of those there, and doing them here comes for free.
They have automated the driving of mining trucks. The human drivers are now located in air-conditioned offices, ready to take over if something goes wrong:
https://www.oemoffhighway.com/...
They are making mining equipment like drills and rock crushers remotely operated. Same with the cranes used to load containers into ships
https://www.ericsson.com/asset...
https://www.ericsson.com/en/pu...
That sounds like the job adverts for diversity coordinators and multicultural directors in with inner-city London councils. "Must speak native Tobagan, have first-hand experience of the problems of disabled people of color from Equatorial regions in a non-native European environment."
Lo and behold the only person qualified is the partner of the social director.