As somebody mentioned, Germany has civil law, so the judges merely interpreted existing law, which is exactly what they suppose to do. Nobody is banning diesel cars yet, and even if, for sure it would be consulted with the public - Germany officials are being elected.
To be clear, if anyone asked, I would vote 'yes' - I much prefer to spend money on a new car then to treat cancer in the future.
Not sure if anyone is actually reading '+1' posts, but I would like to propose a new score category: miss-informative. I think it would be very valuable for discussions.
Putting aside all the criticism or futility of trying to deal with the widespread fake information, it is a real problem to democracies. Media is the so called forth pillar of democracy intended to check and balance the other 3 (legislative, executive and judicial). This is the pillar, which makes society check upon their representatives and without it or with a dysfunctional one democracy cease to function, especially when people either do not give a damn or do not have time to give a damn.
At the moment in the US there are already enclaves of alternative realities, and more and more bridges are being shuttered, history teaches us what usually comes next.
The point behind the currency was to be a way to transfer value...
True
People were buying them to take advantage of the price fluctuations. It kind of defeated the purpose behind them.
Not really, investments flatten (in theory) they volatility. All fiat currencies are means of transferring value and are used as investment - nothing wrong about it.
The problem with cryptocurrencies is that they are new (hipe of dreams of getting rich easy and fast - inflating the bubble), global (affects the whole world - and not all the countries like to have a competitor for their currencies, which they cannot control) and unregulated (some countries do worry about unsafe taking morgages to get rich fast, which will bankrupt people when overblown values are corrected).
The cryptocurrencies are risky and volatile investment, they have however a value, which is: limited supply of secure, fast, decentralized and anonymous contract exchanges between entities. People are using them and even though it is trivial to create a new one the momentum of implementation will keep the old ones afloat, even if there is a breakthrough in technology (e.g. algorithms) there is no obstacle to implement it in an existing protocol, so a more likely scenario is that someone would modify code and used an existing blockchain (keeping old transactions history) - as it happens.
It is hard to predict their value. In my opinion the last year end was driven by the hipe and was overblown, but there is no reason it will not soar constantly - the cryptocoins are immune to inflation, which all fiat currencies are subjected to and the more they are used the bigger part of the economy they will be.
There is however a real thread to all cryptocoins - regulations, as we can see, the sudden drops are strongly correlated with one or another country either declaring to ban use of them or outright straight banning them (China, South Korea, India).
Personally I would welcome their implementation. In general the transactions are much faster and if the taxes are embedded into the protocol it would greatly simplified process of collecting them and most importantly of checking how our taxes are spent (e.g. requiring all government addresses be verifiable to which agency they belong).
And lastly cryptocurriencies are a rescue boat for all the people in failing economies with double digits inflation. As for investments, they should be treated as very volatile and risky one - no loans or mortgages to buy some.
Let's compress water between some diamonds to extreme pressure and see what happens.. Nothing, now what? Fire the laser at it!
It was a theoretical state, which was expected based on quantum theory calculations, which is even more significant then the experiment itself, i.e. the predictions of the existing theories were proven correct in such exotic environments. Scientists new what conditions are needed to test the theory and the novel way was to design the experiment so that they achieved this new form of water (!) and were able to collect some data (it all lasted about 20ns after which both diamonds and the sample were vaporized from shock-waves created by the laser impulse).
BTW, I do not think "... a New Form of Matter..." is a correct expression here, seems little like a clickbite, it's for sure a new form of water though.
It seems to me an important feature, which obviously should be optional (e.g. a special button, like now RAW format).
As for not being able to review the images, there was a time (not so long ago), when reviewing required sending your film to being processed first and somehow photo journalism existed. Please keep in mind that, as far as I understand this request, the feature is to protect lives of journalists in rogue states, where when being found with "forbidden" photos might put them to jail or even cost their lives, and usually such situations involve no time to copy the photos and encrypt with e.g. laptop, also no WIFI around.
In my opinion the option should make the photos completely undetectable on the camera, which in the worst case can cost a journalist his camera. Of course rogue states can still just ban cameras with such features, that's why it is important to have cooperation from all camera manufactures, but let's be honest here, when was the last time corporations stood for average human being freedom risking banning their products.
It's not just about a "pretty watch", this app is available on all the phones, which all have GPS.
Unfortunately all soldiers, when not at home, would have to have military only approved personal gadgets with no personalized apps, or at least would be able to chose only from a set of pre-approved apps.
Honestly, soldiers on duty install tracking apps with sharing default option and nobody had asked any questions till all their whereabouts were made public?
Is there a score more then 5 on/.? If so, the post above deserves more.
Bashing tech-giant wagon is rolling out, it is never a problem with echo-system created by politicians, it is always someone in the spotlight at fault.
One of the reasons not often mentioned was to prevent collapsing Russian empire rocketry know-how to be exported to rogue states.
People point to all the innovations and advancements we made due to going to the moon - and that's a fair assessment - but none of that happened at the ISS.
There are many (you know, just because someone doesn't know about something it doesn't mean it doesn't exist):
In general:
- knowledge about human prolong exposure to micro-gravity in comfortable LEO
- testing equipment to sustain human well being in space in comfortable LEO
- science research in micro-gravity and outside Earth atmosphere
- testing any devices, which require human tuning and micro-gravity or outside Earth atmosphere environment
In detail (a few examples):
- a new deep space navigation system was tested on ISS
- NASA spin offs: https://spinoff.nasa.gov/flyer...
There are several potential projects that are far more interesting and more worthy, things such as exoplanet exploration rovers, landing on a comet, new and innovative space telescopes, and perhaps other space-based experiments such as laser interferometer gravitational detectors or telescopes based on photon quantum correlation.
I guess you mean just "planets", we are far far from sending rovers to exoplanets.
True, there are lots of extremely interesting concepts and ISS drains lots of resources, however in opinion of many people human exploration beyond Earth is one of them in which case ISS is just the basic we can afford.
I would just add that as the history teaches us automation was never a problem and has never put people out of work (in a long term), to the contrary it created branches of industry never conceived before, where even more people found employment, not to mention lowering goods prices, so that more people were able to afford more stuff making life quality of ordinary people better. Every time there is a breakthrough the affected industry is shouting that it is the end of the world, yet years later people cannot even imagine living without it, think about blacksmiths, ice delivery service, and on and on.
In this case I just wander if the savings will reflect the prices of goods in such stores. On the other hand my concern about this technology is quite different, there is no privacy and companies would have too much information about citizens, which should be balanced by proper regulation protecting customers from corporate abuse.
It is great indeed. A good high power source is critical for human exploration and expansion into the abyss above. I do not know about the price for it, but I would assume it is less expensive then plutonium based RTGs, which is great news.
It is still short to provide power for high power electric propulsion, but a step into right direction. There are amazing concepts waiting to happen with good and inexpensive power/propulsion systems, e.g. solar gravitational telescope, which could take images of exoplanets with resolution about 1000x1000 pixels.
Russian leaders are not particularly interested in helping Trump, they are interested in weakening US by promoting educationally challenged leaders and dividing population as much as they can through well organized social media campaigns and memes. The level of antagonism in the US population between Ds and Rs has reached levels not seen for a very long time (based on recent polls).
I commute quite a lot, and sometimes my podcast app does not work and I am forced to listen to music, after about 20min it all sounds the same to me, the same rhythm the same unimaginative lyrics. There are no phrases on the level of "Where angels fear to tread" (which comes from a book AFAIK).
I guess the ultimate goal is the "Disaster Area" from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
As in the subject. It is true that the sample is too small to be valid, however it has never happened before with any phone I owned. Usually they far outlive they usefulness. In case of this brand however, just about a month or two after its warranty expired the phone went dead, no warnings, no errors, did not fall, was taken good care of, yet still just gone, and it was a top of the line Nexus 6P. The previous one Samsung S4 (no affiliation with the company whatsoever) fell on the concrete, corner first, screen cover cracked (just in the corner, which hit the ground) - still working.
This is the best comment to the situation I have read so far.
I find it peculiar that when Intel CPUs have a bug, it is "all computers", otherwise CPUs manufacturers are named, similar when MS Windows have security issues it is "all computers", whilst otherwise an OS is named explicitly. One may say it is purely because of the sheer number, however I do listen and read a lot and the corporate PR behind the "neutral" news announcements is so obvious that it becomes comical to certain extent.
Once, when listening to some podcast the WiFi key issue was mentioned and one could almost hear the chink of silvers behind the question "Are all OSes affected by this...?". One can say that the question is very legitimate - yes it is, when it is asked in each case.
Others already explained, however I have a new and quite an interesting comparison:
Lets imagine I published a list of English words in a random order, then (according to your logic) I could claim copyrights violation on any published book, article story etc. - just a permutation of words, right?
... President Trump is a good example of this. He doesn't push for the shutdown or silencing of media organizations that he questions the reporting of....
Well, he does - at least he tries. He tried to revoke broadcasting licenses for news criticizing him. His admiration for the totalitarian rulers shows where his heart is and when US would be if it was his way.
Sorry, the truth can be bitter, especially when it requires to leave the comfort zone.
And as usual, considering the scoring I can see, I know it's the voice of one crying in the desert, however things, which should be said, have to be said.
With regard to any reply, please reread the post and do not imply anything, which is not there.
"... By the end of November, the company said, Android phones will no longer send cell-tower location data to Google, at least as part of this particular service, which consumers cannot disable...."
Translation: we are very sorry that somebody discovered our homing data being transferred, by the end of November we will have made sure that nobody will be able to detect it anymore.
It's a biased opinion. To me it seems that anytime someone says "The year of the Linux desktop never came..." simply means, "I have been using Widows, and I am use to it".
I have been using Linux exclusively since about ~1990, on few occasions I was forced to go back to Windows, but it always felt awkward, and after few days of frustration I always went back to Linux. I use it on all my devices (desktops and notebooks) and I am happy to be able to use it at work as well - never regretted my decision in the 90s.
With time going I needed Windows less and less, there are amazing tools nowadays available on Linux, something, which in old times costed thousands and was available only on Windows (e.g. R for statistics). True, gnome3 is a crap (sorry), so I switched to XFCE, true, Libreoffice is not perfect, however having occasional experience with Office makes Libreoffice milk an honey (anyway LaTeX is unbeatable), true, there are hardware issues (i.e. manufactures don't bother with Linux drivers), so I buy only hardware supporting Linux.
I love the idea of open protocols, it makes life so much easier, e.g. DICOM revolutionized health industry only in a good way.
So sorry, I do not buy "I need Windows, because Linux does not work", just be honest and say "I need Windows, because it is what I was taught and what I am used to", however I do understand that there are areas where there is no professional alternative to software available on Windows, but it is out of my experience so far. As far as I know most (!) of the enterprise stuff is being written in JAVA anyway.
Agree, the Nobel peace prize in my eyes is close to hitting the bottom, it shows how little research is done and how media driven they decision is.
BTW, the Russian guy who prevented WWIII should've gotten the Nobel peace prize in my opinion, but now it is too late.
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As somebody mentioned, Germany has civil law, so the judges merely interpreted existing law, which is exactly what they suppose to do. Nobody is banning diesel cars yet, and even if, for sure it would be consulted with the public - Germany officials are being elected.
To be clear, if anyone asked, I would vote 'yes' - I much prefer to spend money on a new car then to treat cancer in the future.
Not sure if anyone is actually reading '+1' posts, but I would like to propose a new score category: miss-informative. I think it would be very valuable for discussions.
Putting aside all the criticism or futility of trying to deal with the widespread fake information, it is a real problem to democracies. Media is the so called forth pillar of democracy intended to check and balance the other 3 (legislative, executive and judicial). This is the pillar, which makes society check upon their representatives and without it or with a dysfunctional one democracy cease to function, especially when people either do not give a damn or do not have time to give a damn.
At the moment in the US there are already enclaves of alternative realities, and more and more bridges are being shuttered, history teaches us what usually comes next.
BTW, being cynical will not help.
The point behind the currency was to be a way to transfer value...
True
People were buying them to take advantage of the price fluctuations. It kind of defeated the purpose behind them.
Not really, investments flatten (in theory) they volatility. All fiat currencies are means of transferring value and are used as investment - nothing wrong about it.
The problem with cryptocurrencies is that they are new (hipe of dreams of getting rich easy and fast - inflating the bubble), global (affects the whole world - and not all the countries like to have a competitor for their currencies, which they cannot control) and unregulated (some countries do worry about unsafe taking morgages to get rich fast, which will bankrupt people when overblown values are corrected).
The cryptocurrencies are risky and volatile investment, they have however a value, which is: limited supply of secure, fast, decentralized and anonymous contract exchanges between entities. People are using them and even though it is trivial to create a new one the momentum of implementation will keep the old ones afloat, even if there is a breakthrough in technology (e.g. algorithms) there is no obstacle to implement it in an existing protocol, so a more likely scenario is that someone would modify code and used an existing blockchain (keeping old transactions history) - as it happens.
It is hard to predict their value. In my opinion the last year end was driven by the hipe and was overblown, but there is no reason it will not soar constantly - the cryptocoins are immune to inflation, which all fiat currencies are subjected to and the more they are used the bigger part of the economy they will be.
There is however a real thread to all cryptocoins - regulations, as we can see, the sudden drops are strongly correlated with one or another country either declaring to ban use of them or outright straight banning them (China, South Korea, India).
Personally I would welcome their implementation. In general the transactions are much faster and if the taxes are embedded into the protocol it would greatly simplified process of collecting them and most importantly of checking how our taxes are spent (e.g. requiring all government addresses be verifiable to which agency they belong).
And lastly cryptocurriencies are a rescue boat for all the people in failing economies with double digits inflation. As for investments, they should be treated as very volatile and risky one - no loans or mortgages to buy some.
Let's compress water between some diamonds to extreme pressure and see what happens.. Nothing, now what? Fire the laser at it!
It was a theoretical state, which was expected based on quantum theory calculations, which is even more significant then the experiment itself, i.e. the predictions of the existing theories were proven correct in such exotic environments. Scientists new what conditions are needed to test the theory and the novel way was to design the experiment so that they achieved this new form of water (!) and were able to collect some data (it all lasted about 20ns after which both diamonds and the sample were vaporized from shock-waves created by the laser impulse).
..." is a correct expression here, seems little like a clickbite, it's for sure a new form of water though.
BTW, I do not think "... a New Form of Matter
It seems to me an important feature, which obviously should be optional (e.g. a special button, like now RAW format).
As for not being able to review the images, there was a time (not so long ago), when reviewing required sending your film to being processed first and somehow photo journalism existed. Please keep in mind that, as far as I understand this request, the feature is to protect lives of journalists in rogue states, where when being found with "forbidden" photos might put them to jail or even cost their lives, and usually such situations involve no time to copy the photos and encrypt with e.g. laptop, also no WIFI around.
In my opinion the option should make the photos completely undetectable on the camera, which in the worst case can cost a journalist his camera. Of course rogue states can still just ban cameras with such features, that's why it is important to have cooperation from all camera manufactures, but let's be honest here, when was the last time corporations stood for average human being freedom risking banning their products.
It's not just about a "pretty watch", this app is available on all the phones, which all have GPS.
Unfortunately all soldiers, when not at home, would have to have military only approved personal gadgets with no personalized apps, or at least would be able to chose only from a set of pre-approved apps.
Honestly, soldiers on duty install tracking apps with sharing default option and nobody had asked any questions till all their whereabouts were made public?
Bashing tech-giant wagon is rolling out, it is never a problem with echo-system created by politicians, it is always someone in the spotlight at fault.
The ISS had no compelling reason to be built. ...
One of the reasons not often mentioned was to prevent collapsing Russian empire rocketry know-how to be exported to rogue states.
People point to all the innovations and advancements we made due to going to the moon - and that's a fair assessment - but none of that happened at the ISS.
There are many (you know, just because someone doesn't know about something it doesn't mean it doesn't exist):
In general:
- knowledge about human prolong exposure to micro-gravity in comfortable LEO
- testing equipment to sustain human well being in space in comfortable LEO
- science research in micro-gravity and outside Earth atmosphere
- testing any devices, which require human tuning and micro-gravity or outside Earth atmosphere environment
In detail (a few examples):
- a new deep space navigation system was tested on ISS
- NASA spin offs:
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/flyer...
There are several potential projects that are far more interesting and more worthy, things such as exoplanet exploration rovers, landing on a comet, new and innovative space telescopes, and perhaps other space-based experiments such as laser interferometer gravitational detectors or telescopes based on photon quantum correlation.
I guess you mean just "planets", we are far far from sending rovers to exoplanets.
True, there are lots of extremely interesting concepts and ISS drains lots of resources, however in opinion of many people human exploration beyond Earth is one of them in which case ISS is just the basic we can afford.
I would just add that as the history teaches us automation was never a problem and has never put people out of work (in a long term), to the contrary it created branches of industry never conceived before, where even more people found employment, not to mention lowering goods prices, so that more people were able to afford more stuff making life quality of ordinary people better. Every time there is a breakthrough the affected industry is shouting that it is the end of the world, yet years later people cannot even imagine living without it, think about blacksmiths, ice delivery service, and on and on.
In this case I just wander if the savings will reflect the prices of goods in such stores. On the other hand my concern about this technology is quite different, there is no privacy and companies would have too much information about citizens, which should be balanced by proper regulation protecting customers from corporate abuse.
It is great indeed. A good high power source is critical for human exploration and expansion into the abyss above. I do not know about the price for it, but I would assume it is less expensive then plutonium based RTGs, which is great news.
It is still short to provide power for high power electric propulsion, but a step into right direction. There are amazing concepts waiting to happen with good and inexpensive power/propulsion systems, e.g. solar gravitational telescope, which could take images of exoplanets with resolution about 1000x1000 pixels.
Russian leaders are not particularly interested in helping Trump, they are interested in weakening US by promoting educationally challenged leaders and dividing population as much as they can through well organized social media campaigns and memes. The level of antagonism in the US population between Ds and Rs has reached levels not seen for a very long time (based on recent polls).
As the old saying goes, "divide and conquer".
I commute quite a lot, and sometimes my podcast app does not work and I am forced to listen to music, after about 20min it all sounds the same to me, the same rhythm the same unimaginative lyrics. There are no phrases on the level of "Where angels fear to tread" (which comes from a book AFAIK).
I guess the ultimate goal is the "Disaster Area" from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
"No animal shall sleep in a bed," ... with sheets,"
... or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; ..."
...
"No animal shall sleep in a bed
"Congress shall make no law
"Money is speech"
to be continued
As in the subject. It is true that the sample is too small to be valid, however it has never happened before with any phone I owned. Usually they far outlive they usefulness. In case of this brand however, just about a month or two after its warranty expired the phone went dead, no warnings, no errors, did not fall, was taken good care of, yet still just gone, and it was a top of the line Nexus 6P. The previous one Samsung S4 (no affiliation with the company whatsoever) fell on the concrete, corner first, screen cover cracked (just in the corner, which hit the ground) - still working.
So, no thank you.
This is the best comment to the situation I have read so far.
...?". One can say that the question is very legitimate - yes it is, when it is asked in each case.
I find it peculiar that when Intel CPUs have a bug, it is "all computers", otherwise CPUs manufacturers are named, similar when MS Windows have security issues it is "all computers", whilst otherwise an OS is named explicitly. One may say it is purely because of the sheer number, however I do listen and read a lot and the corporate PR behind the "neutral" news announcements is so obvious that it becomes comical to certain extent.
Once, when listening to some podcast the WiFi key issue was mentioned and one could almost hear the chink of silvers behind the question "Are all OSes affected by this
Sorry for my post above - is not correct in this context, I tried to delete, but there was no way.
Others already explained, however I have a new and quite an interesting comparison:
Lets imagine I published a list of English words in a random order, then (according to your logic) I could claim copyrights violation on any published book, article story etc. - just a permutation of words, right?
... President Trump is a good example of this. He doesn't push for the shutdown or silencing of media organizations that he questions the reporting of. ...
Well, he does - at least he tries. He tried to revoke broadcasting licenses for news criticizing him. His admiration for the totalitarian rulers shows where his heart is and when US would be if it was his way.
Sorry, the truth can be bitter, especially when it requires to leave the comfort zone.
And as usual, considering the scoring I can see, I know it's the voice of one crying in the desert, however things, which should be said, have to be said.
With regard to any reply, please reread the post and do not imply anything, which is not there.
" ... By the end of November, the company said, Android phones will no longer send cell-tower location data to Google, at least as part of this particular service, which consumers cannot disable. ..."
Translation: we are very sorry that somebody discovered our homing data being transferred, by the end of November we will have made sure that nobody will be able to detect it anymore.
Is it truly 50qb, i.e. all 50 are entangled, or is it 'n' times smaller (e.g. 4qb) units?
It's a biased opinion. To me it seems that anytime someone says "The year of the Linux desktop never came..." simply means, "I have been using Widows, and I am use to it".
I have been using Linux exclusively since about ~1990, on few occasions I was forced to go back to Windows, but it always felt awkward, and after few days of frustration I always went back to Linux. I use it on all my devices (desktops and notebooks) and I am happy to be able to use it at work as well - never regretted my decision in the 90s.
With time going I needed Windows less and less, there are amazing tools nowadays available on Linux, something, which in old times costed thousands and was available only on Windows (e.g. R for statistics). True, gnome3 is a crap (sorry), so I switched to XFCE, true, Libreoffice is not perfect, however having occasional experience with Office makes Libreoffice milk an honey (anyway LaTeX is unbeatable), true, there are hardware issues (i.e. manufactures don't bother with Linux drivers), so I buy only hardware supporting Linux.
I love the idea of open protocols, it makes life so much easier, e.g. DICOM revolutionized health industry only in a good way.
So sorry, I do not buy "I need Windows, because Linux does not work", just be honest and say "I need Windows, because it is what I was taught and what I am used to", however I do understand that there are areas where there is no professional alternative to software available on Windows, but it is out of my experience so far. As far as I know most (!) of the enterprise stuff is being written in JAVA anyway.
Agree, the Nobel peace prize in my eyes is close to hitting the bottom, it shows how little research is done and how media driven they decision is.
BTW, the Russian guy who prevented WWIII should've gotten the Nobel peace prize in my opinion, but now it is too late.