The only thing stopping more wars since is weapons are so good, war is unprofitable.
Not following you here, unless you are only talking about war at the scale of WWI and WWII. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan (Russian and American incursions), Bosnia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, would all beg to differ. Those are just some of the bigger actions, and don't even touch on Africa or Central and South America. The economy of war is the deliberate building of things to destroy, and someone is making a shit ton of profit on it.
The WannaCry payment address has collected just over 17 BTC https://blockchain.info/addres...
May 13 had the lowest bitcoin trading volume in the last 30 days @ around 75k BTC traded.
So, the total number of payments for wannacry equals approximately.022% percent of BTC transactions on the day with the lowest trading volume in the last month. Total payments for wannacry are approximately.0017% of last weeks BTC volume of over 1M BTC.
I don't think ransomware is the primary driver of BTC transactions, and statistics support that.
So if you want to Apple, you have to apple apple your apple. The benefit of appling your apples is that you can then apple apple your apple and apple your apple apple. You will also be able to apple your apple without having to apple apple apple apple. Best of all, if you lose your apple, you can apple the apple apple, and apple apple the apple remotely.
the columnist knows absolutely everything that the general manager knows
Not even close. Does a columnist know detailed injury info that isn't released to the public, what went on at the practice that is closed to the public, or what the coaching strategy (and how well the players are following it) was?
A reporter can see the in-game performances, but there is more to any sport then just the games themselves.
malware that installs a mining client on your PC and steals CPU time
I did some math back in January. A Core i7 3930k can do about 66 MEGAhash/sec. Playing with the profit calculator showed a CPU miner will generate about $0.001196/month. So, a botnet with 100k nodes would get you about $120/month. High end AMD GPUs would bump that up by about 5x, but I expect there are a lot less of those available. Seems there would be much better ways to put said botnet to use. That doesn't take into account any difficulty changes, or the recent price surge, so YYMV.
So how pray tell is this mythical device of yours to determine what song you are actually trying to play, and where to find it?
If you have anything resembling a sane directory structure, plex can sort and categorize your data, find additional metadata and puts a pretty front end on it. I'm not sure if any of that is open source, but it shows it can be done.
IIRC, there is, or was, a service that would scan a file and try to determine appropriate metadata. Add those together, and you're mostly there.
If all of those options fail, it would be easy enough to have a plugin architecture that allows streaming from the music service of your choice.
disclose private conversations you pick up via radio when you are sailing
If someone broadcasts a message without making any attempt to encrypt or otherwise obfuscate the content of the message, how can it be considered private?
Is your phone running 7.x? I have a new phone that I loaded LineageOS 14.1 (currently based on Android 7.1.2) on, and it's got the per-app permission controls that are incorporated directly into android now. Previously you had to load something like XPrivacy to get that level of permission selection.
BUILD: construct by putting parts or material together over a period of time.
Parts list:
Used laptop
More RAM for used laptop
SSD for laptop
You seem to not be getting the concept that your process would be better labeled as upgrading, especially when compared to building a PC from a motherboard, case, power supply, RAM , SSD, graphics card, etc.
"Don't feed the AC trolls" they said. Oh well, here we go.
I'm sure this AC will be the first in line for all the seasonal fruit and vegetable picking jobs that would immediately open up. Or maybe AC would prefer the garment factory making sneakers, shirts, or yoga pants. But maybe that's too much of a commitment, construction site or landscaping day laborer gives so many more options.
And we'll have plenty of natural resources, and access to the components needed to make computers, iPhones, tablets, etc. I mean, once we have a chance to move the factories to the US from China, Singapore, and the other Asian countries where they are currently located.
With all this new economic growth, everyone should be able to afford the new $3500 iPhone and a $60k Ford Focus.
You are correct. They went to the government, lobbied for subsidies to build out broadband networks they had no intention of completing. They also have local monopolies that lower competition levels and increase profits. That's how to profit with crony capitalism.
I'm not a big government fan, but when it comes to services that have reached utility level (aka everyone needs them to function in society, like water, electricity, and now internet access) the profit driven "free market" approach only seems to create monopolies that drive up prices and lower the quality of service.
Would you be fine with companies treating consumers like this in the physical world?
One of the grocery stores (Kroger/King Soopers/City Market group) here is getting close to that with their loyalty rewards program. You can get personalized coupons through their phone app. I'm sure a number of the variables you listed, and others, play into what coupons, and at what discounts, are provided to individual users. I don't have the app, only a card with no phone number attached, so I couldn't elaborate much more. I'm aware of this b/c my neighbor was explaining all the ways the app kept track of her shopping habits and then gifted her with coupons. She went on and on about how wonderful it all was to only have to bring her phone and not keep track of physical coupons.
If you own a home and a tree on your property falls on your neighbor and injures them; aren't you liable?
Yep. It's my tree, and I could have taken better care of it so that it wouldn't be prone to breaking. I also have insurance (homeowners or renters) to cover me in case of accidents.
You have friends over for a party; your gas oven blows up and kills one of your guests; aren't you liable?
I guess that would depend. Did my lack of maintenance or improper installation cause the accident, or was it a manufacturing defect? If it was a manufacturing defect that should have generated a recall, the insurance company or I will likely be going after damages from the manufacturer.
Same scenario, but you rent instead of own, then isn't the owner of the apartment liable?
If I'm a renter, then maintenance of the landscaping or appliances that come with the rental aren't my responsibility. If I was aware of a problem, and didn't report it, I guess I could have some portion of blame.
Hopefully we can figure that out vis-a-vis robots before there's too many cases where we must have the answer.
Those are all cases that have been visited multiple times, with multiple variations. They're similar examples, but not quite on the level of "I'm inside this rolling box that I'm not in control of". Historically the driver, and in some cases the owner, of the vehicle is liable for damages. Defining "driver" in the case of autonomous cars seems be one of the points that will have to be worked out before they will be fully integrated into society.
No matter how proactive we try to be with creating law ahead of the implementation, there will be plenty of corner cases that statutes won't clealy cover. From the USian perspective, I expect most of those corner cases will get sorted out via litigation, not legislation.
that needs to change because the "driver" cannot be held responsible.
Your use of quotes there is interesting and important. The people inside a fully autonomous cars are passengers, not drivers. If someone is driving a car, it's not autonomous. Essentially, the manufacturer *is* the driver. Their programming, sensors, algorithms, and maps are what is used to control the vehicle, the passenger isn't involved. If I'm not in control of a vehicle, I have no intention of being liable for its actions.
if the owner modifies the car or fails to perform maintenance, and that causes the AI to malfunction, the owner should probably still be held responsible.
Another interesting choice of wording. I don't think manufacturers will sell fully autonomous cars. They will lease them, they will license them for use, or something similar will happen. If the manufacturer is going to accept increased liability for accidents, they are going to want increased maintenance levels and less modifications. To get that level of control of the car, they won't sell them, they will be rented in some way. I could even see where they don't lease or rent an actual car. Instead, you would subscribe to a service. The car manufacturer then has fleets of different types of autonomous vehicles waiting to be told where/when to pick you up. You need a truck to haul lumber and building supplies, select that type in the app. You need an SUV or other vehicle that can carry 5+ people, same deal.
This isn't all going to happen at once, as human driven cars will be phased out over time, but eventually, there won't be any humans legally driving cars (at least in anything resembling an urban area, the pace and method of change in rural areas will be different), and they won't own the ones they are riding in.
Yep, that's the next level. Once machines can build themselves, from mining to manufacture and repair, all that's needed for the machine apocalypse is an AI that makes the logical conclusion that humans are inefficient energy sinks and the machine world would be better off without them.
If Chevy took the route that John Deere took when they were challenged regarding the ability of individuals to repair their own equipment, the car actually belongs to them. "John Deere said that those who buy tractors are actually purchasing an "implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle.""
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The only thing stopping more wars since is weapons are so good, war is unprofitable.
Not following you here, unless you are only talking about war at the scale of WWI and WWII. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan (Russian and American incursions), Bosnia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, would all beg to differ. Those are just some of the bigger actions, and don't even touch on Africa or Central and South America. The economy of war is the deliberate building of things to destroy, and someone is making a shit ton of profit on it.
The WannaCry payment address has collected just over 17 BTC https://blockchain.info/addres... .022% percent of BTC transactions on the day with the lowest trading volume in the last month. Total payments for wannacry are approximately .0017% of last weeks BTC volume of over 1M BTC.
I don't think ransomware is the primary driver of BTC transactions, and statistics support that.
May 13 had the lowest bitcoin trading volume in the last 30 days @ around 75k BTC traded.
So, the total number of payments for wannacry equals approximately
So if you want to Apple, you have to apple apple your apple. The benefit of appling your apples is that you can then apple apple your apple and apple your apple apple. You will also be able to apple your apple without having to apple apple apple apple. Best of all, if you lose your apple, you can apple the apple apple, and apple apple the apple remotely.
apple
the columnist knows absolutely everything that the general manager knows
Not even close. Does a columnist know detailed injury info that isn't released to the public, what went on at the practice that is closed to the public, or what the coaching strategy (and how well the players are following it) was?
A reporter can see the in-game performances, but there is more to any sport then just the games themselves.
malware that installs a mining client on your PC and steals CPU time
I did some math back in January. A Core i7 3930k can do about 66 MEGAhash/sec. Playing with the profit calculator showed a CPU miner will generate about $0.001196/month. So, a botnet with 100k nodes would get you about $120/month. High end AMD GPUs would bump that up by about 5x, but I expect there are a lot less of those available. Seems there would be much better ways to put said botnet to use. That doesn't take into account any difficulty changes, or the recent price surge, so YYMV.
fail to take into account that the difficulty is constantly increasing
The first 3 I found in a search had either pre-filled the current difficulty, or had a field for you to select the difficulty.
So how pray tell is this mythical device of yours to determine what song you are actually trying to play, and where to find it?
If you have anything resembling a sane directory structure, plex can sort and categorize your data, find additional metadata and puts a pretty front end on it. I'm not sure if any of that is open source, but it shows it can be done. IIRC, there is, or was, a service that would scan a file and try to determine appropriate metadata. Add those together, and you're mostly there.
If all of those options fail, it would be easy enough to have a plugin architecture that allows streaming from the music service of your choice.
disclose private conversations you pick up via radio when you are sailing
If someone broadcasts a message without making any attempt to encrypt or otherwise obfuscate the content of the message, how can it be considered private?
Is your phone running 7.x? I have a new phone that I loaded LineageOS 14.1 (currently based on Android 7.1.2) on, and it's got the per-app permission controls that are incorporated directly into android now. Previously you had to load something like XPrivacy to get that level of permission selection.
Define limited. The US Federal Reserve can create and destroy US dollars at will. Are dollars still money?
no government will adjudicate public or private debts using it
That seems to be changing.
The bandwidth is awesome, but the latency is horrible.
extremely creless
I see what you did there.
It's 127k dots per square inch. AKA 356 dpi.
BUILD: construct by putting parts or material together over a period of time.
Parts list:
You seem to not be getting the concept that your process would be better labeled as upgrading, especially when compared to building a PC from a motherboard, case, power supply, RAM , SSD, graphics card, etc.
simply touch and drag your finger over the spot
which then copy/pastes, or drag/drops something that you didn't want pasted/moved.
I'm sure this AC will be the first in line for all the seasonal fruit and vegetable picking jobs that would immediately open up. Or maybe AC would prefer the garment factory making sneakers, shirts, or yoga pants. But maybe that's too much of a commitment, construction site or landscaping day laborer gives so many more options.
And we'll have plenty of natural resources, and access to the components needed to make computers, iPhones, tablets, etc. I mean, once we have a chance to move the factories to the US from China, Singapore, and the other Asian countries where they are currently located.
With all this new economic growth, everyone should be able to afford the new $3500 iPhone and a $60k Ford Focus.
They'll go where the money is.
You are correct. They went to the government, lobbied for subsidies to build out broadband networks they had no intention of completing. They also have local monopolies that lower competition levels and increase profits. That's how to profit with crony capitalism.
If the government did it, they would be putting the finishing touches on their plan to roll ISDN
Like they did in Chattanooga, TN, Longmont, CO, and tens of other cities across the US? Oh wait, you said ISDN, not Gigabit fibre.
I'm not a big government fan, but when it comes to services that have reached utility level (aka everyone needs them to function in society, like water, electricity, and now internet access) the profit driven "free market" approach only seems to create monopolies that drive up prices and lower the quality of service.
Would you be fine with companies treating consumers like this in the physical world?
One of the grocery stores (Kroger/King Soopers/City Market group) here is getting close to that with their loyalty rewards program. You can get personalized coupons through their phone app. I'm sure a number of the variables you listed, and others, play into what coupons, and at what discounts, are provided to individual users. I don't have the app, only a card with no phone number attached, so I couldn't elaborate much more. I'm aware of this b/c my neighbor was explaining all the ways the app kept track of her shopping habits and then gifted her with coupons. She went on and on about how wonderful it all was to only have to bring her phone and not keep track of physical coupons.
If you own a home and a tree on your property falls on your neighbor and injures them; aren't you liable?
Yep. It's my tree, and I could have taken better care of it so that it wouldn't be prone to breaking. I also have insurance (homeowners or renters) to cover me in case of accidents.
You have friends over for a party; your gas oven blows up and kills one of your guests; aren't you liable?
I guess that would depend. Did my lack of maintenance or improper installation cause the accident, or was it a manufacturing defect? If it was a manufacturing defect that should have generated a recall, the insurance company or I will likely be going after damages from the manufacturer.
Same scenario, but you rent instead of own, then isn't the owner of the apartment liable?
If I'm a renter, then maintenance of the landscaping or appliances that come with the rental aren't my responsibility. If I was aware of a problem, and didn't report it, I guess I could have some portion of blame.
Hopefully we can figure that out vis-a-vis robots before there's too many cases where we must have the answer.
Those are all cases that have been visited multiple times, with multiple variations. They're similar examples, but not quite on the level of "I'm inside this rolling box that I'm not in control of". Historically the driver, and in some cases the owner, of the vehicle is liable for damages. Defining "driver" in the case of autonomous cars seems be one of the points that will have to be worked out before they will be fully integrated into society. No matter how proactive we try to be with creating law ahead of the implementation, there will be plenty of corner cases that statutes won't clealy cover. From the USian perspective, I expect most of those corner cases will get sorted out via litigation, not legislation.
that needs to change because the "driver" cannot be held responsible.
Your use of quotes there is interesting and important. The people inside a fully autonomous cars are passengers, not drivers. If someone is driving a car, it's not autonomous. Essentially, the manufacturer *is* the driver. Their programming, sensors, algorithms, and maps are what is used to control the vehicle, the passenger isn't involved. If I'm not in control of a vehicle, I have no intention of being liable for its actions.
if the owner modifies the car or fails to perform maintenance, and that causes the AI to malfunction, the owner should probably still be held responsible.
Another interesting choice of wording. I don't think manufacturers will sell fully autonomous cars. They will lease them, they will license them for use, or something similar will happen. If the manufacturer is going to accept increased liability for accidents, they are going to want increased maintenance levels and less modifications. To get that level of control of the car, they won't sell them, they will be rented in some way. I could even see where they don't lease or rent an actual car. Instead, you would subscribe to a service. The car manufacturer then has fleets of different types of autonomous vehicles waiting to be told where/when to pick you up. You need a truck to haul lumber and building supplies, select that type in the app. You need an SUV or other vehicle that can carry 5+ people, same deal.
This isn't all going to happen at once, as human driven cars will be phased out over time, but eventually, there won't be any humans legally driving cars (at least in anything resembling an urban area, the pace and method of change in rural areas will be different), and they won't own the ones they are riding in.
I'll go crank up Red Barchetta by Rush now.
I did mention entertainment in my post.
Yep, that's the next level. Once machines can build themselves, from mining to manufacture and repair, all that's needed for the machine apocalypse is an AI that makes the logical conclusion that humans are inefficient energy sinks and the machine world would be better off without them.
I mean who's car do they think it is?
If Chevy took the route that John Deere took when they were challenged regarding the ability of individuals to repair their own equipment, the car actually belongs to them. "John Deere said that those who buy tractors are actually purchasing an "implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle.""