OK, Brains-of-a-wombat - in words of one syllable:
Electric cars are are powered by electricity.
Electricity made by burning hydrocarbons in a more efficient plant than a petrol engine, and probably more efficient than a diesel engine in a car, maybe, perhaps,
About 30% of the electricity is lost in distribution, and another 20% in charging the battery and the transmission, But some is recovered by dynamic braking
So, the devil is in the detail, and not the white house.
OK, I lied about the "words of one syllable" and "not in the Whitehouse" bits.
I expect it to be much earlier. I am a boomer, from the UK, so it might be different where you are, but...
The majority of the people my age that I have stayed in contact with for over 20 years have died, despite the fact that we have the NHS (poor lifestyle choices but mostly not really bad - cancer the biggest killer for those that survived the rock and roll era).
Our "Social Security" system was a Ponzi scheme from day one, and was started by our grandparents. I admit we have not addressed that, but personally, I have been bleating about it since about 1963. It diverted us from the strategy my first boss (born in Victorian times) recommended "invest in your own family". By taking so much of our income, even people in upper middle class it left nothing much left after survival. However, that probably improved sympathy for the poor here.
"Social Security" is now being run with some kind of Victorian "punish the poor" morality, and any contact with it is likely to kill you through stress. The young are the driving force behind this, but the victims have a fairly uniform age distribution.
You can keep your thumbs up, but, while anyone can implement HTTPS, few can do so without paying well over the odds for a cert. A cert is issued by a computer after a trivial amount of computing time, on the basis of the most trivial of investigation (probably only a check of the domain registry). This is about $0.1 worth of service, for which you are charged over $50, but there is no competition. various attempts at not for profit cert issuing have been stifled by the big boys.
This is a big time scam.
To promote this scam, Google et al have been deprecating sites with actual information on, in favour of shopping sites and their "affiliates" to the extent that Google searches are massively less useful than in 1997 unless you are a shopper.
Something must be done - I don't care if governments or blockchains are involved, but if everyone is forced to have a cert, they should bloody well be free! If someone is allowed to run a registry, they should be required by law (on pain of billion dollar fines, pitchforks or nuking from high orbit as required) to issue certs to all the domains they register to whoever registered them. The payment card operator is required to verify who owns the card - so the registry, who knows who paid, knows the identity of the domain's owner.
I don't give a damn what they say, chording will rise again
As someone who used to punch cards with a hand punch*, I doubt it very much.
* The keyboard was sort of like a hex keypad, with one key for each of the 12 punch positions. Three hole codes for punctuation required three fingers simultaneously: Just try coding to get the feel of it.
A company shows a track record of failing to grasp the concept of security. Person visits said company's site, and finds malware infestation has a strong hold? Then does it again?
Surely the definition of stupidity is when you keep on doing the same thing and expect different results?
to make it very clear: Equifux are scum. DANGEROUS scum. Don't go there! Not now. Not ever.
Hopefully, one day soon Oracle will realise that if they want to sell Sparc hardware, they need to provide docs and support to the BSDs. Right now, OpenBSD supports the T series as well as it can, but some Oracle engineers on the case would make a world of difference.
Some people like their hardware, but don't like Solaris very much. (I know I am not the only one).
Oracle need to realise (as IBM eventually came to, after a near-death experience) that you have to be nice to the nerds, cos they are the ones people ask for advice. A few $$$ spent on BSD support would be worth millions in PR. More nerds playing with Sparc means more skilled staff available to support (and recommend) it in the workplace. Raising the second hand value of hardware (by widening the range of software that will run on it) is unlikely to take sales from the new kit - it reduces the TCO of new kit by reducing depreciation, and big companies will not put their mission critical software on second-hand systems.
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Electric cars are are powered by electricity.
Electricity made by burning hydrocarbons in a more efficient plant than a petrol engine, and probably more efficient than a diesel engine in a car, maybe, perhaps,
About 30% of the electricity is lost in distribution, and another 20% in charging the battery and the transmission, But some is recovered by dynamic braking
So, the devil is in the detail, and not the white house.
OK, I lied about the "words of one syllable" and "not in the Whitehouse" bits.
I believe it is mostly that deadly Hydrogen Monoxide that is killing us all.
I believe these were the ones made in Cuba!
I think "Follow the monkey" is currently more popular in the USA.
I expect it to be much earlier. I am a boomer, from the UK, so it might be different where you are, but ...
The majority of the people my age that I have stayed in contact with for over 20 years have died, despite the fact that we have the NHS (poor lifestyle choices but mostly not really bad - cancer the biggest killer for those that survived the rock and roll era).
Our "Social Security" system was a Ponzi scheme from day one, and was started by our grandparents. I admit we have not addressed that, but personally, I have been bleating about it since about 1963. It diverted us from the strategy my first boss (born in Victorian times) recommended "invest in your own family". By taking so much of our income, even people in upper middle class it left nothing much left after survival. However, that probably improved sympathy for the poor here.
"Social Security" is now being run with some kind of Victorian "punish the poor" morality, and any contact with it is likely to kill you through stress. The young are the driving force behind this, but the victims have a fairly uniform age distribution.
This is a big time scam.
To promote this scam, Google et al have been deprecating sites with actual information on, in favour of shopping sites and their "affiliates" to the extent that Google searches are massively less useful than in 1997 unless you are a shopper.
Something must be done - I don't care if governments or blockchains are involved, but if everyone is forced to have a cert, they should bloody well be free! If someone is allowed to run a registry, they should be required by law (on pain of billion dollar fines, pitchforks or nuking from high orbit as required) to issue certs to all the domains they register to whoever registered them. The payment card operator is required to verify who owns the card - so the registry, who knows who paid, knows the identity of the domain's owner.
We need a moderation option -infinity: annoying turd!
FTFY
Me? I am relying on Batman!
(and avoiding closed source software).
FTFY
The same way we are all using 3D already.
Oh, will they? Who's declared this? The Elders of the Internet?
I seem to remember someone predicting this in about 1973. Probably around the time I heard we were all getting hoverboards.
As someone who used to punch cards with a hand punch*, I doubt it very much.
* The keyboard was sort of like a hex keypad, with one key for each of the 12 punch positions. Three hole codes for punctuation required three fingers simultaneously: Just try coding to get the feel of it.
Real pythons are a good bit faster and more accurate (and if well trained probably write PHP natively).
FTFY
I knew you would never detect my fiendish plot! Mwaa-ha-ha-ha!
I think your sarcasm detector needs re-calibration.
200 libraries of congress.
Surely the definition of stupidity is when you keep on doing the same thing and expect different results?
to make it very clear: Equifux are scum. DANGEROUS scum. Don't go there! Not now. Not ever.
THIS MEANS YOU!
Well, we can start by killing all the lawyers.
NO. That is the British strategy. The American way involves sheriffs and posses.
No.
The real problem is that privacy rules are not protected by jail terms for company directors.
Where can I find the legendary "joke encryption code"? I have several jokes I think I should encrypt for the greater safety of the universe.
Some people like their hardware, but don't like Solaris very much. (I know I am not the only one).
Oracle need to realise (as IBM eventually came to, after a near-death experience) that you have to be nice to the nerds, cos they are the ones people ask for advice. A few $$$ spent on BSD support would be worth millions in PR. More nerds playing with Sparc means more skilled staff available to support (and recommend) it in the workplace. Raising the second hand value of hardware (by widening the range of software that will run on it) is unlikely to take sales from the new kit - it reduces the TCO of new kit by reducing depreciation, and big companies will not put their mission critical software on second-hand systems.
No. *BSD is what Linux was trying to be.