The old Soviet Union had a system known as " Dead Hand " whereupon it would auto-launch a retaliatory strike in the event it detected what it considered to be a nuclear attack on Soviet targets.
Considering the cosmos treats Russia as a Meteor Magnet, I wonder how this system would interpret an impact from a larger celestial body. ( Assuming it's online )
Be about right that Russia would get smacked with a building sized meteor only to trigger said system and nuke half the planet:|
Kids aren't doing this because they genuinely give a damn about Climate Change. They're doing it because it's a convenient excuse to get out of school.
Fail those who exceed the maximum number of days they can miss in a School Year.
Once you introduce consequences into the equation, you'll figure out who is serious and who isn't. ( Those who are willing to watch their friends move on to the next grade level while they repeat it are the serious ones )
Adult lesson of the day: It isn't much of a strike / protest unless you risk something in return.
In seeing Nvidia come back to reality when it comes to their GPU pricing as of late.
Walked through a Fry's recently and saw an entire SHELF full of 2080 TI cards ( maybe 30+ units ) at $1500 each. I'm pretty sure the price is WHY the shelf was still full of them.
Similar to the lesson Apple had to learn with their overpriced iPhone X, there is a limit people are willing to pay for any given product.
There is the possibility that they are not concerned about the interception of any traffic. ( Since, as you mentioned, is likely to be encrypted anyway )
However, imagine the ability to disrupt, corrupt and / or disable all network traffic running across specific hardware.
Also consider the possibility the US has a source inside Huawei which has provided with them WHY the gear shouldn't / cannot be trusted. ( It would be the only reason I could think of as to why they are so adamant about this specific company )
It would be HILARIOUS and ironic if said source was a compromised ( via NSA TAO ) network unit sitting on the Huawei network:D
I understand the thinking here that pretty much any Chinese company must bend to the will of the Chinese government which, in effect, means Huawei can become ( or, secretly, already is ) a government run company.
However, the same is true for any company in any country. Here in the US, companies have to play nice with the USG or risk losing those lucrative government contracts. Even if they don't play nice, the USG makes them unwitting participants anyway. ( See NSA Tailored Access Group ) Perhaps it is their extensive knowledge of just how EASY it is to penetrate a foreign network if you have access to the network hardware ( even briefly ) that is the source of the concern.
In the end, Germany will simply have to choose which is more important to them: Saving $$$ on network hardware or the Intelligence Data they receive.
about what Team Red or Team Blue promises they will do, you should take a deep breath and come to a simple realization...... . Regardless of which team we're talking about and regardless who is in power, they both have one thing in common: *** What they say and / or promise they will do and what they actually get done are rarely in harmony with one another. ***
Every few years they play the public like a well trained orchestra. Every few years the public falls for it, again and again. DECADES of this bullshit has brought us to where we stand today.
Do make it a point to remember this when the time comes.
In the words of Public Enemy - " Don't believe the hype "
So I'm curious how this is going to work when I bring my Camera bag ( Think Tank Glass Limo ) with me as a carry-on and the flight attendant tells me there isn't any room and I will need to check my bag. Batteries already installed in the camera bodies should be fine, but I'm curious how they'll deal with the spares I carry. Typically, one spare per camera body.
Not that I'm about to check my camera gear. I'll deplane before I do so since the airline will refuse to reimburse me for the $15k+ worth of gear in said bag when one of their thugs . . . . er ' baggage handlers ' helps themselves to the contents or bounces it off the pavement.
I suppose, under the new rules, I can just tell the flight attendant that my bag contains fully charged Li-Ion batteries and cannot be checked ?
Not only does it take a great deal of effort ( and knowledge / skill to implement ) but, we're fighting against those whose sole purpose is to hoover up as much information as they can about everyone. ( Google, Facebook, Microsoft, et. al )
They have armies of intelligent folks working this problem from the opposite end. They have nearly unlimited budgets to do it with. There is nearly zero oversight over how much data they are allowed to pull and what they do with it because Big Brother ( Government ) loves this information too much to give it up.
These days it seems like EVERYTHING has some sort of built in mechanism designed to report on consumer behavior in one form or another.
Personally, I would build said lab in the center of Antarctica where the temps are -60. If the mosquitoes made it out of the lab, it would become a mosquito shaped snowflake a few seconds later.
Is the ability to learn not only from your own mistakes, but the mistakes of others as well.
Someone else asked where is Apple in all of this and right now, Apple is, amusingly, watching this event fully understanding what is about to take place. There is a limit to what folks will pay for a smartphone. Apple learned this the hard way with their pricing arrogance and it cost them.
It seems, Huawei wasn't paying attention.
As such, they are about to learn that very same, painful lesson as Apple did.
We, as humans, tend to label something as artistic or not based on our own perceptions / ideas of what " art " is. Hell, even among our own species, we don't all agree if a piece is artistic or otherwise.
An AI may not view something in the same manner that we do, thus it may not follow the same rules to determine what is and what is not, art. ( And if we can't even agree on it, why the hell would we expect an AI to be capable of doing so ? )
I wonder if two AI's will argue over a piece where one believes it's art, and the other does not.
Greed driven corporations are pretty bad, I'll give you that. However, they don't hold a candle to the corruption and abuse of power your typical politician wields.
Watching a politician pretending to be all righteous against $subject is most amusing.
Perhaps India simply pays attention to what the likes of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, et al are doing to the United States and want absolutely no part of it.
Life is much easier if you're capable of learning from someone else's mistakes.
None of this bullshit will stop until the fines become painful enough to make them think twice about doing it.
Painful as in, the fine will damn near bankrupt your entire business. The mere thought of a fine will cause all of your investors to panic sell any stock they own in your company.
But, that will never happen because the Goverment(s) LOVE access to all that data. They just don't like to admit to it. ( publicly )
Vlad30 nailed it in his post and had his Score not already been maxed out, I would have tossed some mod points his way.
I've worked within the confines of a Unionized company for more than twenty years now and, to be honest, they impress me less and less every year. Thankfully / hopefully, I will retire from this circus soon.
When contract negotiations begin, Union Leadership will fight tooth and nail for two things:
1) Maintaining or adding head count 2) Pay raises for their members
While the hard core Unionites will disagree with me, the Union fights for the above for one reason only: Getting one or both ultimately leads to more Union Dues being paid to the Union. ( #1 is obvious, #2 is because Union Dues are a percentage of a Union Members base pay. So a pay raise for the member = a pay raise for the Union )
That's it. That's all. That is the ONLY goal the Union has. Make. More. Money.
This is why our healthcare premiums keep increasing every year because the Union doesn't give a damn about how much their members have to pay out of pocket for health insurance. As long as they get their dues, everything is golden. No one seems to notice that their meager annual raise gets negated by the rising health care premiums.
Sometimes I wonder if the Union has a secret agreement with the company during negotiations to get that paltry raise and / or headcount in exchange for allowing the company to dump more of its healthcare costs on their employees. The Union doesn't lose anything in the process, so it's a Win-Win for them. Not so much for the employees though.
That said, the other problem with Unionizing is mediocrity.
The Rockstars will do their thing for a while, until they ask themselves why they're busting their ass while the Idiot ( who doesn't even know how to turn his computer on without help ) is making the exact same pay and benefits. Eventually, they give up, scale back their efforts and their light doesn't shine quite as brightly as it used to.
On the flip side, the Idiot realizes he doesn't really need to bust his ass like the Rockstar does since they are making the same pay and benefits. There isn't any motivation or incentive here to learn or increase their productivity because, in a Union, there can't be a pay / benefit difference for those performing the same work. This person does just enough so they don't get fired.
As a result, over time, the performance of any given group tends to trend downwards towards the Idiot side of things. They meet somewhere in the middle and you end up with a team who is mediocre at best.
The final insult is when the layoffs start. Once Unionized, your amazing Rockstar skills are irrelevant. The only thing that matters is Seniority. Whomever has been there the longest, will have the most Seniority. Layoffs start from the least Senior and work their way up to the top. So if you're a Rockstar who has been there for five years, but the Idiot has been there longer, guess who gets the axe first ?:|
Once upon a time, the Unions definitely had their place in the working world. These days, however, I think they've been corrupted by the money they bring in and the idea that they represent their members is merely a smokescreen for their true agenda.
That being: Make as much money as they can at the expense of those they're pretending to represent.
Unless regulated, this is where going cashless becomes a problem.
Doing so pretty much grants folks like Visa, MasterCard and PayPal the ability to charge whatever they want for " processing " fees with zero recourse. They can't do it now because folks can still tell them to F*** Off and simply use cash.
Once / if that option no longer exists, we're screwed.
Even though ( via Citizens United ) Corporations are now " people " too, not all citizens are equal apparently. Especially when it comes to paying their share of taxes.:|
Whereas the vast majority of us pay somewhere between 20-30% in Federal Taxes every year, it seems most corporations pay no where near this amount. With some, like Amazon, not paying anything at all.
How do we fix this ?
Can it be fixed ?
Why is the majority of the tax burden sitting on the shoulders of the individual tax payer instead of the multi-billion dollar shoulders of Mega-Corp ?
"Except that every site has a different maximum number of characters, requires different special characters, some of them don't allow your favorite special characters, etc. So there's no way you can consistently use some complex patterns that you could actually possibly remember."
^^^ This
I really wish there were an enforced standard that all websites -MUST- adhere to before being allowed on the web at all. Minimum password length and character set requirements. While we're at it, storage of those credentials needs to be standardized as well.
It's pretty obvious Amazon adjusts at least some of their pricing based on customers past purchasing history and / or habits.
It explains why an.mp3 download will cost me $1.25 when the exact same download will cost.99 for someone else who doesn't normally download music from Amazon.
In time, you may change your tune a bit once you personally know someone who goes into surgery and never wakes up. Especially something ridiculously simple and / or routine.
No words can explain how you feel when you meet the Doctor and are expecting to hear one thing ( we're done, they're doing fine, etc. ) only to find out they coded on the table and the surgical team spent the last half hour trying to revive them to no avail.
The truly frustrating part is not knowing why.
Body just give up ? Medical / Anesthesia error ? Reaction to one of the meds ?
It's one of those things that will haunt you forever.
To those of you digging out your pitchforks and torches expressing disdain towards those who don't vaccinate their kiddos, let me ask you this:
How many of you get your Flu shot every year ? How many of you have received the HPV vaccine ? Pneumococcal Pneumonia Vaccine ? Shingles ?
When were your last immunization boosters ? ( for those of you who are old enough for it to apply to you )
If you haven't done any of the above ( especially the Flu one on an annual basis ) AND are joining in with the mob complaining about people who don't vaccinate their kids, what is your excuse for not getting the aforementioned vaccines ?
Before you mod-flame this question into oblivion, and I'm fairly certain that's the way it will go because it goes against the echo-chamber hive mind, do make it a point to remember that a simple strain of Flu is responsible for killing more people than probably every other disease combined.
Some of you probably do get them. I'm guessing, however, the majority do not.
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The old Soviet Union had a system known as " Dead Hand " whereupon it would auto-launch a retaliatory strike in the event it detected what it considered to be a nuclear attack on Soviet targets.
Considering the cosmos treats Russia as a Meteor Magnet, I wonder how this system would interpret an impact from a larger celestial body.
( Assuming it's online )
Be about right that Russia would get smacked with a building sized meteor only to trigger said system and nuke half the planet :|
Kids aren't doing this because they genuinely give a damn about Climate Change.
They're doing it because it's a convenient excuse to get out of school.
Fail those who exceed the maximum number of days they can miss in a School Year.
Once you introduce consequences into the equation, you'll figure out who is serious and who isn't.
( Those who are willing to watch their friends move on to the next grade level while they repeat it are the serious ones )
Adult lesson of the day:
It isn't much of a strike / protest unless you risk something in return.
In seeing Nvidia come back to reality when it comes to their GPU pricing as of late.
Walked through a Fry's recently and saw an entire SHELF full of 2080 TI cards ( maybe 30+ units ) at $1500 each.
I'm pretty sure the price is WHY the shelf was still full of them.
Similar to the lesson Apple had to learn with their overpriced iPhone X, there is a limit people are willing to pay for any given product.
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes
aka
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts
There is the possibility that they are not concerned about the interception of any traffic.
( Since, as you mentioned, is likely to be encrypted anyway )
However, imagine the ability to disrupt, corrupt and / or disable all network traffic running across specific hardware.
Also consider the possibility the US has a source inside Huawei which has provided with them WHY the gear shouldn't / cannot be trusted.
( It would be the only reason I could think of as to why they are so adamant about this specific company )
It would be HILARIOUS and ironic if said source was a compromised ( via NSA TAO ) network unit sitting on the Huawei network :D
I understand the thinking here that pretty much any Chinese company must bend to the will of the Chinese government which, in effect, means Huawei can become ( or, secretly, already is ) a government run company.
However, the same is true for any company in any country. Here in the US, companies have to play nice with the USG or risk losing those lucrative government contracts. Even if they don't play nice, the USG makes them unwitting participants anyway. ( See NSA Tailored Access Group ) Perhaps it is their extensive knowledge of just how EASY it is to penetrate a foreign network if you have access to the network hardware ( even briefly ) that is the source of the concern.
In the end, Germany will simply have to choose which is more important to them: Saving $$$ on network hardware or the Intelligence Data they receive.
It will be one or the other.
about what Team Red or Team Blue promises they will do, you should take a deep breath and come to a simple realization. ... ..
.
Regardless of which team we're talking about and regardless who is in power, they both have one thing in common:
*** What they say and / or promise they will do and what they actually get done are rarely in harmony with one another. ***
Every few years they play the public like a well trained orchestra. Every few years the public falls for it, again and again.
DECADES of this bullshit has brought us to where we stand today.
Do make it a point to remember this when the time comes.
In the words of Public Enemy - " Don't believe the hype "
Because. . . . if you keep repeating the lie, eventually people start to believe it.
So I'm curious how this is going to work when I bring my Camera bag ( Think Tank Glass Limo ) with me as a carry-on and the flight attendant tells me there isn't any room and I will need to check my bag. Batteries already installed in the camera bodies should be fine, but I'm curious how they'll deal with the spares I carry. Typically, one spare per camera body.
Not that I'm about to check my camera gear. I'll deplane before I do so since the airline will refuse to reimburse me for the $15k+ worth of gear in said bag when one of their thugs . . . . er ' baggage handlers ' helps themselves to the contents or bounces it off the pavement.
I suppose, under the new rules, I can just tell the flight attendant that my bag contains fully charged Li-Ion batteries and cannot be checked ?
This should be fun :|
Not only does it take a great deal of effort ( and knowledge / skill to implement ) but, we're fighting against those whose sole purpose is to hoover up as much information as they can about everyone. ( Google, Facebook, Microsoft, et. al )
They have armies of intelligent folks working this problem from the opposite end.
They have nearly unlimited budgets to do it with.
There is nearly zero oversight over how much data they are allowed to pull and what they do with it because Big Brother ( Government ) loves this information too much to give it up.
These days it seems like EVERYTHING has some sort of built in mechanism designed to report on consumer behavior in one form or another.
Personally, I would build said lab in the center of Antarctica where the temps are -60.
If the mosquitoes made it out of the lab, it would become a mosquito shaped snowflake a few seconds later.
Great for broadband if you're an ISP . . . . .
. . . . not so much if you're a consumer.
Guess whose side the FCC is on ?
Is the ability to learn not only from your own mistakes, but the mistakes of others as well.
Someone else asked where is Apple in all of this and right now, Apple is, amusingly, watching this event fully understanding what is about to take place.
There is a limit to what folks will pay for a smartphone. Apple learned this the hard way with their pricing arrogance and it cost them.
It seems, Huawei wasn't paying attention.
As such, they are about to learn that very same, painful lesson as Apple did.
We, as humans, tend to label something as artistic or not based on our own perceptions / ideas of what " art " is.
Hell, even among our own species, we don't all agree if a piece is artistic or otherwise.
An AI may not view something in the same manner that we do, thus it may not follow the same rules to determine what is and what is not, art.
( And if we can't even agree on it, why the hell would we expect an AI to be capable of doing so ? )
I wonder if two AI's will argue over a piece where one believes it's art, and the other does not.
Greed driven corporations are pretty bad, I'll give you that.
However, they don't hold a candle to the corruption and abuse of power your typical politician wields.
Watching a politician pretending to be all righteous against $subject is most amusing.
Perhaps India simply pays attention to what the likes of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, et al are doing to the United States and want absolutely no part of it.
Life is much easier if you're capable of learning from someone else's mistakes.
None of this bullshit will stop until the fines become painful enough to make them think twice about doing it.
Painful as in, the fine will damn near bankrupt your entire business. The mere thought of a fine will cause all of your investors to panic sell any stock they own in your company.
But, that will never happen because the Goverment(s) LOVE access to all that data. They just don't like to admit to it. ( publicly )
Doing so, however, would be a lie.
Vlad30 nailed it in his post and had his Score not already been maxed out, I would have tossed some mod points his way.
I've worked within the confines of a Unionized company for more than twenty years now and, to be honest, they impress me less and less every year. Thankfully / hopefully, I will retire from this circus soon.
When contract negotiations begin, Union Leadership will fight tooth and nail for two things:
1) Maintaining or adding head count
2) Pay raises for their members
While the hard core Unionites will disagree with me, the Union fights for the above for one reason only: Getting one or both ultimately leads to more Union Dues being paid to the Union. ( #1 is obvious, #2 is because Union Dues are a percentage of a Union Members base pay. So a pay raise for the member = a pay raise for the Union )
That's it. That's all. That is the ONLY goal the Union has. Make. More. Money.
This is why our healthcare premiums keep increasing every year because the Union doesn't give a damn about how much their members have to pay out of pocket for health insurance. As long as they get their dues, everything is golden. No one seems to notice that their meager annual raise gets negated by the rising health care premiums.
Sometimes I wonder if the Union has a secret agreement with the company during negotiations to get that paltry raise and / or headcount in exchange for allowing the company to dump more of its healthcare costs on their employees. The Union doesn't lose anything in the process, so it's a Win-Win for them. Not so much for the employees though.
That said, the other problem with Unionizing is mediocrity.
The Rockstars will do their thing for a while, until they ask themselves why they're busting their ass while the Idiot ( who doesn't even know how to turn his computer on without help ) is making the exact same pay and benefits. Eventually, they give up, scale back their efforts and their light doesn't shine quite as brightly as it used to.
On the flip side, the Idiot realizes he doesn't really need to bust his ass like the Rockstar does since they are making the same pay and benefits. There isn't any motivation or incentive here to learn or increase their productivity because, in a Union, there can't be a pay / benefit difference for those performing the same work. This person does just enough so they don't get fired.
As a result, over time, the performance of any given group tends to trend downwards towards the Idiot side of things. They meet somewhere in the middle and you end up with a team who is mediocre at best.
The final insult is when the layoffs start. Once Unionized, your amazing Rockstar skills are irrelevant. The only thing that matters is Seniority. Whomever has been there the longest, will have the most Seniority. Layoffs start from the least Senior and work their way up to the top. So if you're a Rockstar who has been there for five years, but the Idiot has been there longer, guess who gets the axe first ? :|
Once upon a time, the Unions definitely had their place in the working world. These days, however, I think they've been corrupted by the money they bring in and the idea that they represent their members is merely a smokescreen for their true agenda.
That being: Make as much money as they can at the expense of those they're pretending to represent.
Unless regulated, this is where going cashless becomes a problem.
Doing so pretty much grants folks like Visa, MasterCard and PayPal the ability to charge whatever they want for " processing " fees with zero recourse. They can't do it now because folks can still tell them to F*** Off and simply use cash.
Once / if that option no longer exists, we're screwed.
Even though ( via Citizens United ) Corporations are now " people " too, not all citizens are equal apparently. Especially when it comes to paying their share of taxes. :|
Whereas the vast majority of us pay somewhere between 20-30% in Federal Taxes every year, it seems most corporations pay no where near this amount. With some, like Amazon, not paying anything at all.
How do we fix this ?
Can it be fixed ?
Why is the majority of the tax burden sitting on the shoulders of the individual tax payer instead of the multi-billion dollar shoulders of Mega-Corp ?
"Except that every site has a different maximum number of characters, requires different special characters, some of them don't allow your favorite special characters, etc. So there's no way you can consistently use some complex patterns that you could actually possibly remember."
^^^ This
I really wish there were an enforced standard that all websites -MUST- adhere to before being allowed on the web at all. Minimum password length and character set requirements. While we're at it, storage of those credentials needs to be standardized as well.
It's pretty obvious Amazon adjusts at least some of their pricing based on customers past purchasing history and / or habits.
It explains why an .mp3 download will cost me $1.25 when the exact same download will cost .99 for someone else who doesn't normally download music from Amazon.
In time, you may change your tune a bit once you personally know someone who goes into surgery and never wakes up.
Especially something ridiculously simple and / or routine.
No words can explain how you feel when you meet the Doctor and are expecting to hear one thing ( we're done, they're doing fine, etc. )
only to find out they coded on the table and the surgical team spent the last half hour trying to revive them to no avail.
The truly frustrating part is not knowing why.
Body just give up ? Medical / Anesthesia error ? Reaction to one of the meds ?
It's one of those things that will haunt you forever.
To those of you digging out your pitchforks and torches expressing disdain towards those who don't vaccinate their kiddos, let me ask you this:
How many of you get your Flu shot every year ?
How many of you have received the HPV vaccine ?
Pneumococcal Pneumonia Vaccine ?
Shingles ?
When were your last immunization boosters ? ( for those of you who are old enough for it to apply to you )
If you haven't done any of the above ( especially the Flu one on an annual basis ) AND are joining in with the mob complaining about people who don't vaccinate their kids, what is your excuse for not getting the aforementioned vaccines ?
Before you mod-flame this question into oblivion, and I'm fairly certain that's the way it will go because it goes against the echo-chamber hive mind, do make it a point to remember that a simple strain of Flu is responsible for killing more people than probably every other disease combined.
Some of you probably do get them. I'm guessing, however, the majority do not.
Thus my question.
" These are about how are governments going to make sure the public doesn't go out and lynch the richies when the jobs become automated. "
Just legalize drugs and make them dirt cheap.
No one will even care about . . . . well . . . . pretty much anything really.