Personally I'd rather we used more government printed money. The alternative we have now is banks creating "money" by issuing loans. Society would be better off if we removed bank managers from their current privileged position.
Or calculators 20+ years ago. My dad used to recommend one of the cheaper programmable calculators to his students, suggesting they cut a hole to press the missing button.
In Australia ATM, a dodgy deal with the monopoly owners of the grid's "poles and wires" has enabled and encouraged a massive over investment. Causing prices to rise for just about everyone. At the same time, in response to recent economic woes, the government was offering large subsidies to residential investment in solar panels.
As I travel around our suburbs now, solar is everywhere. And there is actually talk about the grid going into a death spiral. Their customers are reacting to rising prices by installing more solar arrays, even though the government subsidies have ended. There's a good chance that some of the over investment in the grid will never be needed at all.
And your nuclear reactor is also turning mass into energy to drive it. Both the mass of the exhaust and it's velocity must take away mass from your craft.
This is true of most circumvention tools, and something that the authors of these tools are all well aware of. We could really use a global money laundering system, so those that benefit most from these tools can contribute to their funding.
Writing code is nothing like working in a factory producing identical components. It's more like designing a house, followed by an office building, a bridge, a power drill, a pacemaker, a roller coaster, a lunar lander,...
If every developer is doing their job perfectly, they will literally *never* write the same code twice. Every single task they do will be different from all of their previous tasks. So how do you measure their output?
One of the original demo's I saw for the canvas was green screening performed in javascript. For another quick use case, a game might use pixel colours to detect collisions instead of tracking objects manually.
That might actually be an improvement on the current system. What we have now is low level banks issuing digital currency as loans to people. The digital currency is immediately transferred to someone else (or why would you ask for the loan?) and the new owner is tracked by another (or perhaps the same) bank. The "prime interest rate" doesn't really control how much currency the banks create. That only effects the bottom line of the banks 30 days after the currency is created.
This government does not need to reduce spending. A blind goal of imposing austerity will cripple us. While the economy is currently recovering, this will be short lived. When the next crisis hits, we need a government willing to spend.
The government is not like a company or a household. When governments run a deficit, or banks lend money, they add to the money supply the rest of us use. I would much prefer the government to give us money instead of relying on greedy banks for it. But during a crisis, the banking sector will reduce the flow of new money. If the government attempts to do the same, we'll end up like Greece.
Has anyone on the project thought about extending the design to include secure key storage? (I'm thinking specifically of something like TRESOR / TreVisor)
The wealthy have captured the government legislation process. If you try to raise the tax rate they will just lobby the government, or buy media time to convince the population that this new tax will effect them too.
Eventually we will revolt in some form, if the economy continues to favour the rich the outcome is inevitable. I only suggested the guillotine to emphasise the problems that France had after its introduction. After replacing their rulers, the new ones turned out to be as bad or worse than the old ones. We may face similar turmoil after we attempt to fix the problem, as often the cure can be worse than the plague. History has repeated this pattern many times.
Consider the 1920's, everything was booming. The rich were getting richer off everyone else, but the imbalance was smaller than today. Then the market crashed, leading to the Depression as governments failed to react in the right way to cushion the economy. In Germany and other places, the downtrodden rose up against the old rulers and replaced them. Eventually leading to WWII.
I hope we are not going to repeat these mistakes again. But the warning signs are there that we may be heading down the same well trodden path.
Orders for production of documents are among the most significant procedures available to the Senate to deal with matters of public interest giving rise to questions of ministerial accountability.
It is open to the Senate to treat a refusal to table documents as a contempt of the Senate. In cases of government refusal without due cause, however, the Senate has preferred political remedies. In extreme cases the Senate, to punish the government for not producing a document, could resort to more drastic measures than censure of the government, such as refusing to consider government legislation. (See also Chapter 19, Relations with the Executive Government, under Remedies against executive refusal of information.)
Lets hope that they continue to pressure the government for this information. The rest of the voting process is open, why not the counting software? Or at least easy access to the raw data, so members of the public can analyse it themselves.
First we need to revolt against the ridiculously wealthy and send them all to the guillotine. After that it will still take a generation to sort out the mess, less if we can find the right people to re-design a working financial system.
How about the ability to re-flash one on board ECU to attack the rest. Disable the breaks, push the throttle to the floor and yank the steering wheel side to side? The only thing they didn't do was attack it remotely.
QoS and traffic management can help you cope with a bottleneck and still get some important traffic through. But it can only work by choosing which traffic to drop. Who should decide what traffic is most important? What if your customers start using a new high bandwidth service? Why do you get to decide that this traffic is unimportant and should be dropped?
There is only one equitable solution to this problem. Upgrade the network so that the choke point no longer exists and no traffic needs to be dropped at all. This may mean laying more fiber, upgrading routers, or striking a deal with the biggest producers of data so they can completely bypass the choke point.
But there are often at least two companies involved in the negotiations, (Netflix, Comcast, Cogent, Verizon,...) and none of them want to pay for the upgrades. So what do you do then? Should we force ISP's to upgrade network links at their expense, passing the costs on to their customers? (IMHO, yes). Or should ISP's be able to strong arm everyone else to pay for the upgrades?
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Personally I'd rather we used more government printed money. The alternative we have now is banks creating "money" by issuing loans. Society would be better off if we removed bank managers from their current privileged position.
Have you watched any of google's self driving demo videos? I'd say their car drives like an old lady. Overly cautious IMHO.
Or calculators 20+ years ago. My dad used to recommend one of the cheaper programmable calculators to his students, suggesting they cut a hole to press the missing button.
Car? First sale doctrine. It's yours.
Software? It's not yours, you (most likely) agreed to a license to use it, which may include a fee per feature.
Are click through licenses, after purchase / install valid? Debatable, and untested in the court room.
In Australia ATM, a dodgy deal with the monopoly owners of the grid's "poles and wires" has enabled and encouraged a massive over investment. Causing prices to rise for just about everyone. At the same time, in response to recent economic woes, the government was offering large subsidies to residential investment in solar panels.
As I travel around our suburbs now, solar is everywhere. And there is actually talk about the grid going into a death spiral. Their customers are reacting to rising prices by installing more solar arrays, even though the government subsidies have ended. There's a good chance that some of the over investment in the grid will never be needed at all.
And your nuclear reactor is also turning mass into energy to drive it. Both the mass of the exhaust and it's velocity must take away mass from your craft.
A similar board, http://wrtnode.com/.
And chess AI's don't play in the same way as humans.
This is true of most circumvention tools, and something that the authors of these tools are all well aware of. We could really use a global money laundering system, so those that benefit most from these tools can contribute to their funding.
There are limits. 4 hours at room temperature would be a problem.
Bringing it out cold would violate the health codes they have to follow...
Writing code is nothing like working in a factory producing identical components. It's more like designing a house, followed by an office building, a bridge, a power drill, a pacemaker, a roller coaster, a lunar lander, ...
If every developer is doing their job perfectly, they will literally *never* write the same code twice. Every single task they do will be different from all of their previous tasks. So how do you measure their output?
One of the original demo's I saw for the canvas was green screening performed in javascript. For another quick use case, a game might use pixel colours to detect collisions instead of tracking objects manually.
That might actually be an improvement on the current system. What we have now is low level banks issuing digital currency as loans to people. The digital currency is immediately transferred to someone else (or why would you ask for the loan?) and the new owner is tracked by another (or perhaps the same) bank. The "prime interest rate" doesn't really control how much currency the banks create. That only effects the bottom line of the banks 30 days after the currency is created.
This government does not need to reduce spending. A blind goal of imposing austerity will cripple us. While the economy is currently recovering, this will be short lived. When the next crisis hits, we need a government willing to spend.
The government is not like a company or a household. When governments run a deficit, or banks lend money, they add to the money supply the rest of us use. I would much prefer the government to give us money instead of relying on greedy banks for it. But during a crisis, the banking sector will reduce the flow of new money. If the government attempts to do the same, we'll end up like Greece.
Has anyone on the project thought about extending the design to include secure key storage? (I'm thinking specifically of something like TRESOR / TreVisor)
The wealthy have captured the government legislation process. If you try to raise the tax rate they will just lobby the government, or buy media time to convince the population that this new tax will effect them too.
Eventually we will revolt in some form, if the economy continues to favour the rich the outcome is inevitable. I only suggested the guillotine to emphasise the problems that France had after its introduction. After replacing their rulers, the new ones turned out to be as bad or worse than the old ones. We may face similar turmoil after we attempt to fix the problem, as often the cure can be worse than the plague. History has repeated this pattern many times.
Consider the 1920's, everything was booming. The rich were getting richer off everyone else, but the imbalance was smaller than today. Then the market crashed, leading to the Depression as governments failed to react in the right way to cushion the economy. In Germany and other places, the downtrodden rose up against the old rulers and replaced them. Eventually leading to WWII.
I hope we are not going to repeat these mistakes again. But the warning signs are there that we may be heading down the same well trodden path.
Orders for production of documents are among the most significant procedures available to the Senate to deal with matters of public interest giving rise to questions of ministerial accountability. It is open to the Senate to treat a refusal to table documents as a contempt of the Senate. In cases of government refusal without due cause, however, the Senate has preferred political remedies. In extreme cases the Senate, to punish the government for not producing a document, could resort to more drastic measures than censure of the government, such as refusing to consider government legislation. (See also Chapter 19, Relations with the Executive Government, under Remedies against executive refusal of information.)
Lets hope that they continue to pressure the government for this information. The rest of the voting process is open, why not the counting software? Or at least easy access to the raw data, so members of the public can analyse it themselves.
And when the power fails, you'll have one more thing to worry about. No thank you. I prefer my basic services to be basic.
First we need to revolt against the ridiculously wealthy and send them all to the guillotine. After that it will still take a generation to sort out the mess, less if we can find the right people to re-design a working financial system.
Until you know you can pay your credit card every month, ensure your limit is lower than your income so you can't be tempted.
How about the ability to re-flash one on board ECU to attack the rest. Disable the breaks, push the throttle to the floor and yank the steering wheel side to side? The only thing they didn't do was attack it remotely.
QoS and traffic management can help you cope with a bottleneck and still get some important traffic through. But it can only work by choosing which traffic to drop. Who should decide what traffic is most important? What if your customers start using a new high bandwidth service? Why do you get to decide that this traffic is unimportant and should be dropped?
There is only one equitable solution to this problem. Upgrade the network so that the choke point no longer exists and no traffic needs to be dropped at all. This may mean laying more fiber, upgrading routers, or striking a deal with the biggest producers of data so they can completely bypass the choke point.
But there are often at least two companies involved in the negotiations, (Netflix, Comcast, Cogent, Verizon, ...) and none of them want to pay for the upgrades. So what do you do then? Should we force ISP's to upgrade network links at their expense, passing the costs on to their customers? (IMHO, yes). Or should ISP's be able to strong arm everyone else to pay for the upgrades?
That is the fundamental argument.
And since it is outside our observable natural world, it is by definition super-natural.