This is exactly why I have two e-mail accounts. One for daily use on the phone and one for banking not on the phone. The annoying thing is that makes the banking one hard to check easily. I can't get notifications. And those might be time sensitive.
I wish that banks could figure this out. What they need is to let you provide two e-mail accounts. One for all messages and one for anything that involves authorizing transactions or recovering passwords.
this is one of the rare instances where a corporate death penalty would have served the economy. The flaw in corporations is they can sometimes be a vehicle for externalizing risks from the people who profit when risks harm others. Having the share holders and board punished is the only way to prevent that flaw in the corprorate system. If you amass information on other people it creates a risk to those people that didn't exist before. It's your responsibility to protect that and if you don't there has to be consequences. There's plenty of other companies in this market so having one go boom would be a good incentive to the others.
First I know what a block chain is and how I would do it. I can see there is no need for a currency at a technical level.
On the otherhand it seems to be that it's not possible to have a distributed blockchain without having some limiter on who can emit it. That is, it has to be hard to compute the hash or anyone can come along, unwind the past transactions and double spend.
So how does a blockchain work when there's no limits on how fast one can hash?
Or conversely if there's no incentive to hash via either mining or fees then why would anyone do it. And if no none is doing it, then the difficulty of doublespending goes down.
This last feature seems like it's the built in end state of bitcoin by the way. Once miners lose interest then the dificulty goes down. And then someone will have enough latent compute power to come along and run a double spending operation.
That's hilarious! I came here to post that too. Last time I referenced Marshal Brain's story on Slashdot I got shit for it. But it's a great concept piece that becomes ever closer. It's second half is of course the whole point he was trying to make, not the dystopian frog boiling first half.
"I personally am betting on ASIC-resistant, mineable coins."
Perhaps you just haven't met the right ASIC yet, dear. She'll come along, just wait. And Don't worry either because, in a few years Quantum Computers will wipe them all out.
Surely all these people displaced by automation can return to manually plowing fields and manually harvesting? Or maybe they can run teams of horses for the carriage trade? perhaps they can connect phone calls at exchanges? Maybe they can stoke coal in the boilers of steam ships? Perhaps they can go house to house collecting the nightsoil buckets? maybe they can go around lighting the gas street lamps? Can't they act as runners for telegraph messages?
No need to worry about automation when all the jobs I just named are currently unfilled.
Or we can stop worrying that job categories do go away with progress but new things fill them in. Telegraphs replace semaphore operators who replaced messengers.
Your point about NHS is spot on, though perhaps you were being ironic. Things like NHS and Obamacare allow economic mobility. IN cases where communities are tied to a small number of industries a technological seachange can be disrutptive if familes can't move to find new work or wait for it to come to their community.
I don't get it. If you have an IPO then you can sell shares. SOmething is missing here. I think the missing thing has to be that VMware will have to issue new shares. For something this big, It's existing shareholders will need to approve that or else the Board has to vested with the ability to sell a massive amount of new shares.
just state wide? loser. Did it cover pre-existing conditions? Did you get it from your employer? Did you have anyone in your family with pre-existing conditions.?
When did we allow electronics to make phone connections. I should have to tell the Operator what URL I want to be connected to. I think I'll put my wooden shoe in a automated loom.
Not trolling. Serious question. Different states have different policies and it seems likely have acceptable outcomes in their respective societies. North Korea allegedly is the worst, with the mandated document editors saving copies of, and watermarking everything you write. But even in the US we've lived with having all printers watermark all documents (why you run out of yellow ink so fast) as well as PRISM and other data slurps. On the flip side law enforcement has had to confront cryptography for centuries and presumably most of it was uncrackable in it's own era. The key difference is ubiquity and the accessibility to the tools by a non-expert. Their is precedence for law enforcement not allowing cryptography. For example, when encrypted CB radios were put on the market they were quickly nixed (drug smugglers used them, allegedly).
depends a lot on how much you are vested in content. If you are an Internet provider with little content holdings then you have the option of playing gate keeper or playing neutral and not betting on winners. The short term strategy is to milk the system by gate keeping but that slows innovation and opens you to competition; the long term win is to be the best and biggest net neutral internet provider. What you don't have is the third option which is favor your own content over others.
AT&T sees two problems: how to make bets in a changing landscape and it's lack of content holding compared to competitors. Thus they would prefer to calm the waters and have a market where their weakness isn't exposed. On the other hand, if they could merge with a content company things would change.
Their catch-22 is they hadn't pulled off the merger yet, and people won't let them if they are playing the king maker strategy too early.
Hence their position is both admirable and machiavelian.
How much is technician time worth? How much is the warrantee worth? how much is the risk they take on opening up a phone and breaking something else? How much was having the minder in the store run through some other diagnostics for you to avoid an unneeded battery change? (they do that for "free" for most people-- i've been told I don't need a new battery too.) A street corner vendor bypasses all that and takes no risk on using a lowbidder battery. So yeah they cost less and for somepeople they do just the job they want. Apple is selling complete satisfaction so they tak a more full service approach. Not everyones cup of tea but if your own time has any value then it certainly is worth it.
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has always been at war with eurasia
This is exactly why I have two e-mail accounts. One for daily use on the phone and one for banking not on the phone. The annoying thing is that makes the banking one hard to check easily. I can't get notifications. And those might be time sensitive.
I wish that banks could figure this out. What they need is to let you provide two e-mail accounts. One for all messages and one for anything that involves authorizing transactions or recovering passwords.
this is one of the rare instances where a corporate death penalty would have served the economy. The flaw in corporations is they can sometimes be a vehicle for externalizing risks from the people who profit when risks harm others. Having the share holders and board punished is the only way to prevent that flaw in the corprorate system. If you amass information on other people it creates a risk to those people that didn't exist before. It's your responsibility to protect that and if you don't there has to be consequences. There's plenty of other companies in this market so having one go boom would be a good incentive to the others.
First I know what a block chain is and how I would do it. I can see there is no need for a currency at a technical level.
On the otherhand it seems to be that it's not possible to have a distributed blockchain without having some limiter on who can emit it. That is, it has to be hard to compute the hash or anyone can come along, unwind the past transactions and double spend.
So how does a blockchain work when there's no limits on how fast one can hash?
Or conversely if there's no incentive to hash via either mining or fees then why would anyone do it. And if no none is doing it, then the difficulty of doublespending goes down.
This last feature seems like it's the built in end state of bitcoin by the way. Once miners lose interest then the dificulty goes down. And then someone will have enough latent compute power to come along and run a double spending operation.
So a promotion then? Glad it all worked out for you.
Skynet will do the retraining.
That's hilarious! I came here to post that too. Last time I referenced Marshal Brain's story on Slashdot I got shit for it. But it's a great concept piece that becomes ever closer. It's second half is of course the whole point he was trying to make, not the dystopian frog boiling first half.
"I personally am betting on ASIC-resistant, mineable coins."
Perhaps you just haven't met the right ASIC yet, dear. She'll come along, just wait. And Don't worry either because, in a few years Quantum Computers will wipe them all out.
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optics could not be worse for a german automaker.
I guess they were out of baby seals.
Surely all these people displaced by automation can return to manually plowing fields and manually harvesting? Or maybe they can run teams of horses for the carriage trade? perhaps they can connect phone calls at exchanges? Maybe they can stoke coal in the boilers of steam ships? Perhaps they can go house to house collecting the nightsoil buckets? maybe they can go around lighting the gas street lamps? Can't they act as runners for telegraph messages?
No need to worry about automation when all the jobs I just named are currently unfilled.
Or we can stop worrying that job categories do go away with progress but new things fill them in. Telegraphs replace semaphore operators who replaced messengers.
Your point about NHS is spot on, though perhaps you were being ironic. Things like NHS and Obamacare allow economic mobility. IN cases where communities are tied to a small number of industries a technological seachange can be disrutptive if familes can't move to find new work or wait for it to come to their community.
I don't get it. If you have an IPO then you can sell shares. SOmething is missing here. I think the missing thing has to be that VMware will have to issue new shares. For something this big, It's existing shareholders will need to approve that or else the Board has to vested with the ability to sell a massive amount of new shares.
Tax Man
or are they talking about the Kanas City team named after Lourde's song
just state wide? loser. Did it cover pre-existing conditions? Did you get it from your employer? Did you have anyone in your family with pre-existing conditions.?
When did we allow electronics to make phone connections. I should have to tell the Operator what URL I want to be connected to. I think I'll put my wooden shoe in a automated loom.
Wasn't that the whole point of obama care. Economic mobility even when you have a pre-existing condition.
Boy are you naive.
move along. this is just astrotruf
Not trolling. Serious question. Different states have different policies and it seems likely have acceptable outcomes in their respective societies. North Korea allegedly is the worst, with the mandated document editors saving copies of, and watermarking everything you write. But even in the US we've lived with having all printers watermark all documents (why you run out of yellow ink so fast) as well as PRISM and other data slurps. On the flip side law enforcement has had to confront cryptography for centuries and presumably most of it was uncrackable in it's own era.
The key difference is ubiquity and the accessibility to the tools by a non-expert.
Their is precedence for law enforcement not allowing cryptography. For example, when encrypted CB radios were put on the market they were quickly nixed (drug smugglers used them, allegedly).
I like the part where the robot says, "Sigmoid, you have 5 seconds to comply before I RELU your ass up the SoftMax"
Then you become the hot swap. your brain goes in the trash and someone elses goes in your body.
depends a lot on how much you are vested in content. If you are an Internet provider with little content holdings then you have the option of playing gate keeper or playing neutral and not betting on winners. The short term strategy is to milk the system by gate keeping but that slows innovation and opens you to competition; the long term win is to be the best and biggest net neutral internet provider. What you don't have is the third option which is favor your own content over others.
AT&T sees two problems: how to make bets in a changing landscape and it's lack of content holding compared to competitors. Thus they would prefer to calm the waters and have a market where their weakness isn't exposed. On the other hand, if they could merge with a content company things would change.
Their catch-22 is they hadn't pulled off the merger yet, and people won't let them if they are playing the king maker strategy too early.
Hence their position is both admirable and machiavelian.
I'm pretty excited about having hot swappable organs all ready for my old age stored in my lobotomized clone body.
How much is technician time worth? How much is the warrantee worth? how much is the risk they take on opening up a phone and breaking something else? How much was having the minder in the store run through some other diagnostics for you to avoid an unneeded battery change? (they do that for "free" for most people-- i've been told I don't need a new battery too.) A street corner vendor bypasses all that and takes no risk on using a lowbidder battery. So yeah they cost less and for somepeople they do just the job they want. Apple is selling complete satisfaction so they tak a more full service approach. Not everyones cup of tea but if your own time has any value then it certainly is worth it.