All 5 counts in the indictment, which I trust you read, are all trafficing charges. Should I be able to traffic a brick of hash from Amsterdam just because its legal there?
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The microwave was supposed to be a box that you put anything uncooked into, you push a button, and you get cooked food out of. The fact that you go to your stove or grill, and the taste of leftovers is evidence that it has failed. I don't care if the new system is embedded in the box, or offloads the work to a bunch of these generic computing devices, but intelligent devices are the future.
I'll argue the scanning fridge point too - I predict in 15 years a sizeable number of people will pick a constant stock of food that will be maintained by automatic shipments, and people will only go to the store for emergency (ran out of milk unexpectedly) and custom (feel like trying this new kung pao chicken recipe tonight) stuff; both of which the system updates its rules in response to. We have the technology to do this now, but people obviously need to get used to the idea. Why exactly do you consider this scenario to be absurd? What/I/ consider to be a waste of time is going to the grocery store every time I need food.
Automation and other use of technology to overcome what many people consider to be inconveniences is not overkill. Robustness is desireable, but not always at the cost of eliminating tremendously useful feature sets. Embedded-QOS is nearly achievable by a single modern desktop if you lock it down & it's dedicated, and maybe with a couple of them for redundancy. Either way I'd sacrafice a few second reboot once a year in order to be able to come home after work every day to a full fridge, pull anything, put it in the Universal Cooker, push a single button and have any possible meal cooked exactly to taste at the microscopic level.
You don't think it would be cool to have a neural network that adjusts output based on sensor readings of what its cooking and how done it is?
That's going to take some number crunching. Granted you could do that purely in hardware, but there's a reason we make the hardware generic and wicked fast & write software.
You sound like the people who say that there's no reason for anyone to buy anything over 1GHz because there isn't any software to take advantage of it - such people
1. Have no imagination, and
2. Are content eating rubbery chicken and half popped popcorn (and the software equivalents).
That's not a smart card, that's a dumb card. If you made everyone in the US use their CCs in ATM mode, we'd have the feature of having to type in our pin#s also.
Don't be too smug that you've got some shiny system. Its a little tougher deploying new tech in a country with over 5x the population than France, and where one state engulfs any country in Europe. Also we don't really tolerate "ubiquitous systems" via government mandate over here, and I'm guessing you end up paying for it in the end. If the cure is worse than the disease ($ wise) it may make for bragging rights but not be the right thing to do - you have added system costs & maintenance to make all the systems work together so nicely (at least on the front end). If I had to type in my pin# for each CC use, I'd waste at least an hour per year - 1 hr of my time is worth ~$50, which is coincidentally my liability if my cc gets ripped off. Since this has never happened to me, your cool new system would waste more than it would save, not even counting the added upgrade & maintenance costs.
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ok but that shouldn't mean that now it's also his /data/.
All 5 counts in the indictment, which I trust you read, are all trafficing charges. Should I be able to traffic a brick of hash from Amsterdam just because its legal there? kaPOW!
The microwave was supposed to be a box that you put anything uncooked into, you push a button, and you get cooked food out of. The fact that you go to your stove or grill, and the taste of leftovers is evidence that it has failed. I don't care if the new system is embedded in the box, or offloads the work to a bunch of these generic computing devices, but intelligent devices are the future.
/I/ consider to be a waste of time is going to the grocery store every time I need food.
I'll argue the scanning fridge point too - I predict in 15 years a sizeable number of people will pick a constant stock of food that will be maintained by automatic shipments, and people will only go to the store for emergency (ran out of milk unexpectedly) and custom (feel like trying this new kung pao chicken recipe tonight) stuff; both of which the system updates its rules in response to. We have the technology to do this now, but people obviously need to get used to the idea. Why exactly do you consider this scenario to be absurd? What
Automation and other use of technology to overcome what many people consider to be inconveniences is not overkill. Robustness is desireable, but not always at the cost of eliminating tremendously useful feature sets. Embedded-QOS is nearly achievable by a single modern desktop if you lock it down & it's dedicated, and maybe with a couple of them for redundancy. Either way I'd sacrafice a few second reboot once a year in order to be able to come home after work every day to a full fridge, pull anything, put it in the Universal Cooker, push a single button and have any possible meal cooked exactly to taste at the microscopic level.
ka-pow!
You don't think it would be cool to have a neural network that adjusts output based on sensor readings of what its cooking and how done it is?
That's going to take some number crunching. Granted you could do that purely in hardware, but there's a reason we make the hardware generic and wicked fast & write software.
You sound like the people who say that there's no reason for anyone to buy anything over 1GHz because there isn't any software to take advantage of it - such people
1. Have no imagination, and
2. Are content eating rubbery chicken and half popped popcorn (and the software equivalents).
ka-pow!
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That's not a smart card, that's a dumb card. If you made everyone in the US use their CCs in ATM mode, we'd have the feature of having to type in our pin#s also.
Don't be too smug that you've got some shiny system. Its a little tougher deploying new tech in a country with over 5x the population than France, and where one state engulfs any country in Europe. Also we don't really tolerate "ubiquitous systems" via government mandate over here, and I'm guessing you end up paying for it in the end. If the cure is worse than the disease ($ wise) it may make for bragging rights but not be the right thing to do - you have added system costs & maintenance to make all the systems work together so nicely (at least on the front end). If I had to type in my pin# for each CC use, I'd waste at least an hour per year - 1 hr of my time is worth ~$50, which is coincidentally my liability if my cc gets ripped off. Since this has never happened to me, your cool new system would waste more than it would save, not even counting the added upgrade & maintenance costs.
ka-pow!
Ka-pow !