They have improved recently. For instance, here's the MicroChip marketing for them. Power draw can be lower than quartz. Accuracy can be good enough, and actually more stable with varying temperature.
IP law is not a moral issue, it is one of law. Both companies are playing games with the law - trying to get what they can out of it. It's not about good vs. evil, it's about people responding rationally to the incentives they have in front of them. Ultimately, it's about whether the law is having the intended effect or not and - short of illegal behavior - that is where the remedy lay.
It is however, a fine place for intellectually or emotionally challenged individuals to spout off within the limitations of their ability.
Largely accurate, but mainstream "news" is largely becoming a restating of fights on Twitter. So now it's affecting all of us, whether we use the platform or not.
Stock is simply a form of ownership. I guess we could abolish joint ownership and just let wealthy families control everything like the good 'ol days. The part you hate about it (people making money by trading) is a feature, not a flaw. It's a system where human nature works for the common good. Yes, you have people playing the market, but in exchange for that behavior that you don't like, you get the much greater good of liquidity and access to vast amounts of capital. I can be a part-owner of any company I want - I don't have to be part of the royal court or landed gentry. I can get a small share of the exact same company that they can and benefit from its growth in a way that was inconceivable to my ancestors. Companies have access to a huge pile of cash without relying on a few big holders of capital. Which brings me to...
Interest. I voluntarily and happily pay interest on my home so that I'm building equity in something with real value rather than giving a landlord the bulk of my life's income. Yeah, the banker makes money from my labor. But so what? He makes a lot less than the landlord would if I didn't have access to capital. On the business side, businesses similarly can go to banks or the bond market to finance expansion. Yes, the bank or bondholders make a little off the top simply by possessing capital, but in exchange the business can make far more money and hire more workers.
In other words, you are listing only the bad things, which are an order of magnitude smaller than the good things that come with easier access to capital.
Look at countries which don't have agricultural futures markets. Farmers can't get a contract for their crops, and so are left guessing what the crop will be worth at the end of the year - far too late to make a decision. They would much rather trade a small amount of the total in exchange for an ability to plan ahead with a concrete price at the end of the season. Again, yes, someone is making money by simply having money - but the farmers do far better overall and it is easily worth the tradeoff.
Profit is literally a math equation and has nothing to do with screwing people out of anything.
IP... I'll grant you, that is a lot fuzzier. I think it probably has value in the short term, but we've let it get out of hand. It's hard to justify giving someone a government-granted monopoly for 100 years or so.
I'll add another to your list: the concept of limited liability in the form of corporations. This completely screws with the whole libertarian individual responsibility concept that our country was founded upon. I can understand not wanting Granny's assets in her retirement fund to be at risk when a company she owns does a Very Bad Thing, but it seems excessive to extend this protection to activist owners.
I wouldn't, because I don't use Twitter. But if Twitter were the center of my universe, I might find it easiest to do that so that I can go and read the articles and not have to search back through my twitter feed to comment. The browser workflow would include two bookmarks - one for the content and one for the tweet.
I don't know what any of you do with Twitter, but marking things for followup seems reasonable enough. It's not necessarily just for reading the tweet, but for the content linked in the tweet or as a reminder to revisit it later to see how the conversation has progressed or to comment yourself.
Stock, interest, profit, and intellectual property are completely different concepts. That you conflate them all tells me all I need to know about your opinion. Hell, profit is just a math operation.
Thieves are dumb, so you can't rule this out. But think about it: a guy has his thumb chopped off and the guy who has his thumb possesses a completely unique piece of evidence that ties him alone to the crime. Further, this thumb is useless unless he actually USES it. It's an electronic ID chip, so he immediately subjects himself to an absolutely known time and location with every swipe.
Look, I'm not a lawyer. Maybe you are right, maybe you are wrong. To try it out, call 911 repeatedly and drone on about your constitutional rights and then get back to us if they let you use the internet in prison.
I certainly wouldn't want to go up against the government in court in what amounts to a DoS attack.
Haha, I actually thought about that as I posted it. Fortunately the call center is run by government and they aren't nearly agile enough to make such a change.
Oh, and I forgot one more mitigation strategy. If people started scripting fake CIDs, you could just insert the phone-equivalent of a captcha. No one said the adversary won't eventually adapt.
These aren't emails, it is a phone system. There is a non-zero cost associated with phone calls, and huge blasts meant to effectively DoS the hotline would be a felony.
But if script kiddies did this on a smaller scale, it wouldn't really make a difference. The chances of their script picking numbers where a person on the other end will actually answer a mystery number is pretty low. The autodialer would never connect in a large number of cases, and it wouldn't waste as much (human) time.
Right now the procedure to tie up an operator (or simply tie up the queue) is: 1. Call the number 2. Wait in the queue
To achieve the same effect with a callback system as I propose: 1. Download caller-id spoofing app 2. Call the number 3. Leave fake number that matches you spoofed number
The number of people who will do the second scenario is much smaller than the number of people who will do the first scenario. Further, the people getting spoofed callbacks from ICE in the second scenario will likely be confused and won't take up much of the operator's time. I'm not suggesting that they eliminate the problem - merely that they mitigated it somewhat.
That's not really true anymore. There is RealID, which is pretty much fully implemented at this point. There are a few states with waivers because they haven't given all of their citizens the new IDs yet, but database connections are one of the criteria for compliance.
Maybe they can, but they don't and they won't. Getting people to follow a social media meme by dialing a phone number is easy. Getting people to follow a social media meme involving the machinations of caller ID spoofing is not as easy. So your problem set is smaller, and your problem is easier to manage. Don't let perfection get in the way of progress.
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What state doesn't offer Medicaid?
What do you want? It's free.
Right, because exposure to high concentrations of helium is so common... let's design based on that!
It's cheaper, smaller, more stable with temperature, and draws less power. But I'm sure you know better than an EE at Apple.
Remember, these are fancy electronic toys, not pacemakers.
Poor people in the US get free healthcare.
But they can't be integrated on chip.
First of all, of course it's a toy - it's a smartphone and a smart watch we are talking about.
Second, don't you think "exposure to high concentrations of helium" is a bit of an edge case???
They have improved recently. For instance, here's the MicroChip marketing for them. Power draw can be lower than quartz. Accuracy can be good enough, and actually more stable with varying temperature.
But not in the presence of helium :)
It's more than just $$$, it's space. Instead of a discrete quartz crystal somewhere, they can etch a little resonator right on an existing chip.
IP law is not a moral issue, it is one of law. Both companies are playing games with the law - trying to get what they can out of it. It's not about good vs. evil, it's about people responding rationally to the incentives they have in front of them. Ultimately, it's about whether the law is having the intended effect or not and - short of illegal behavior - that is where the remedy lay.
It is however, a fine place for intellectually or emotionally challenged individuals to spout off within the limitations of their ability.
Largely accurate, but mainstream "news" is largely becoming a restating of fights on Twitter. So now it's affecting all of us, whether we use the platform or not.
Stock is simply a form of ownership. I guess we could abolish joint ownership and just let wealthy families control everything like the good 'ol days. The part you hate about it (people making money by trading) is a feature, not a flaw. It's a system where human nature works for the common good. Yes, you have people playing the market, but in exchange for that behavior that you don't like, you get the much greater good of liquidity and access to vast amounts of capital. I can be a part-owner of any company I want - I don't have to be part of the royal court or landed gentry. I can get a small share of the exact same company that they can and benefit from its growth in a way that was inconceivable to my ancestors. Companies have access to a huge pile of cash without relying on a few big holders of capital. Which brings me to...
Interest. I voluntarily and happily pay interest on my home so that I'm building equity in something with real value rather than giving a landlord the bulk of my life's income. Yeah, the banker makes money from my labor. But so what? He makes a lot less than the landlord would if I didn't have access to capital. On the business side, businesses similarly can go to banks or the bond market to finance expansion. Yes, the bank or bondholders make a little off the top simply by possessing capital, but in exchange the business can make far more money and hire more workers.
In other words, you are listing only the bad things, which are an order of magnitude smaller than the good things that come with easier access to capital.
Look at countries which don't have agricultural futures markets. Farmers can't get a contract for their crops, and so are left guessing what the crop will be worth at the end of the year - far too late to make a decision. They would much rather trade a small amount of the total in exchange for an ability to plan ahead with a concrete price at the end of the season. Again, yes, someone is making money by simply having money - but the farmers do far better overall and it is easily worth the tradeoff.
Profit is literally a math equation and has nothing to do with screwing people out of anything.
IP... I'll grant you, that is a lot fuzzier. I think it probably has value in the short term, but we've let it get out of hand. It's hard to justify giving someone a government-granted monopoly for 100 years or so.
I'll add another to your list: the concept of limited liability in the form of corporations. This completely screws with the whole libertarian individual responsibility concept that our country was founded upon. I can understand not wanting Granny's assets in her retirement fund to be at risk when a company she owns does a Very Bad Thing, but it seems excessive to extend this protection to activist owners.
My only use for it is to control Cheerlights :)
I wouldn't, because I don't use Twitter. But if Twitter were the center of my universe, I might find it easiest to do that so that I can go and read the articles and not have to search back through my twitter feed to comment. The browser workflow would include two bookmarks - one for the content and one for the tweet.
I don't know what any of you do with Twitter, but marking things for followup seems reasonable enough. It's not necessarily just for reading the tweet, but for the content linked in the tweet or as a reminder to revisit it later to see how the conversation has progressed or to comment yourself.
It will be replaced by a selection of other emojis, including mad, laughing, sad, laughing, and woah.
Stock, interest, profit, and intellectual property are completely different concepts. That you conflate them all tells me all I need to know about your opinion. Hell, profit is just a math operation.
Why only immigrant criminals? Are your pure-blood native criminals too stupid?
Thieves are dumb, so you can't rule this out. But think about it: a guy has his thumb chopped off and the guy who has his thumb possesses a completely unique piece of evidence that ties him alone to the crime. Further, this thumb is useless unless he actually USES it. It's an electronic ID chip, so he immediately subjects himself to an absolutely known time and location with every swipe.
Yeah, that thief will be very hard to catch.
Look, I'm not a lawyer. Maybe you are right, maybe you are wrong. To try it out, call 911 repeatedly and drone on about your constitutional rights and then get back to us if they let you use the internet in prison.
I certainly wouldn't want to go up against the government in court in what amounts to a DoS attack.
Haha, I actually thought about that as I posted it. Fortunately the call center is run by government and they aren't nearly agile enough to make such a change.
Oh, and I forgot one more mitigation strategy. If people started scripting fake CIDs, you could just insert the phone-equivalent of a captcha. No one said the adversary won't eventually adapt.
These aren't emails, it is a phone system. There is a non-zero cost associated with phone calls, and huge blasts meant to effectively DoS the hotline would be a felony.
But if script kiddies did this on a smaller scale, it wouldn't really make a difference. The chances of their script picking numbers where a person on the other end will actually answer a mystery number is pretty low. The autodialer would never connect in a large number of cases, and it wouldn't waste as much (human) time.
Hmm, I'm not communicating this well.
Right now the procedure to tie up an operator (or simply tie up the queue) is:
1. Call the number
2. Wait in the queue
To achieve the same effect with a callback system as I propose:
1. Download caller-id spoofing app
2. Call the number
3. Leave fake number that matches you spoofed number
The number of people who will do the second scenario is much smaller than the number of people who will do the first scenario. Further, the people getting spoofed callbacks from ICE in the second scenario will likely be confused and won't take up much of the operator's time. I'm not suggesting that they eliminate the problem - merely that they mitigated it somewhat.
There is no national DL database
That's not really true anymore. There is RealID, which is pretty much fully implemented at this point. There are a few states with waivers because they haven't given all of their citizens the new IDs yet, but database connections are one of the criteria for compliance.
Maybe they can, but they don't and they won't. Getting people to follow a social media meme by dialing a phone number is easy. Getting people to follow a social media meme involving the machinations of caller ID spoofing is not as easy. So your problem set is smaller, and your problem is easier to manage. Don't let perfection get in the way of progress.