The whole agreement, the whole conference was nothing more than public relations and marketing. The only thing that was achieved in reality is, that it makes it a tiny bit harder for the fossil fuelers to promote climate change denialism, beyond that nothing much at all was done. Underwater front properties will still be underwater front properties, fossil fuelers assets in the ground will still retain considerable value for a time before being dumped on pension funds and collapsing (coal first, seriously you should check your retirement assets to ensure no coal investments), environmental havoc will still be wreaked upon the environment and the aimed temperature rise is a guide to be ignored. As for taking care with regard to an inevitable major methane surge and some very serious short term harm, meh (could the 'sky' burn or more accurately explode in some localised locations?).
So do not buy a drone bigger than 250 grams and you are done. Basically no one has the right to fly those at normal altitude use over some one else's property without their permission and that includes public space. Want a toy, fine buy the toy and play with it. Want a larger one that could quite readily cause major harm, and then registration and a licence will be required. Licence and registration fee will never be that higher ie beyond user pays (want one, pay for the cost of licensing and registration, plus paying for the victims of bad users). Although likely more division will be required for sizes 250 grams to 25 kilograms seems a bit much and likely another size break is required. So toy grade, hobby grade and beyond hobby grade, say beyond 1000 grams and requirement for training and licensing and higher registration fees.
Laws are meant to cover everyone having one and not just a select few, so laws to cover tens of millions of drones in the sky at the same time, those laws to limit abuses. With millions in the sky at the same time, every one can readily imagine the problems that will occur and how people will be affected.
So short term greed, results in interesting tit bits like this "A 1994 study had indicated that the concentration of lead in the blood of the U.S. population had dropped 78% from 1976 to 1991". So prior to that we were blithely creating the lead head generations and tea baggers and a massive crime wave. The greater the exposure the more likely they are to be crazy Gopers. How many people ended up dying as a result of that greed, that went on to fuel sic even more greed driven stupidity. The lead might be diminishing but the damage has been done in many decision makers and bad decisions result which cause even more pain, suffering and death. Now if only a few more of them would get tangled up in their own machinations and cease to be a problem for the rest of us. Seriously you can really see the impact of lead poisoning in the current structure of our society and the decisions being made by those most affected by lead poisoning.
On slashdot, we always made the analogy of DRM in automotive tradition of being like buying a car and the manufacturer being able to control the brand of fuel you put in it. It would seem that instead of just taking that as an explanation, various corporate douche bags are taking it to heart and trying to do it with every possible product they can. Corporations always complain about too many regulations but those asshats are the ones who always force the implementation of more regulations because of their abuses.
'ER', neither being Hawaiian or USAian, I am rather indifferent to US funding of it's states. Just saying that fair is fair and what ever they demand is fair. If they require astronomers to strip naked and cover their faces and hands in red paint, as a sign of repentance for the harm caused by immigrants to the Hawaiian people, then so be it. The mountain is their place of worship and their church and as such is entitled to respect and protection, however uncomfortable it might be;).
It really depends on the coding language. Properly done, the coding language simply becomes a part of teaching language, mathematics, physics and chemistry. Done arse about face without a uniform teaching coding language and you have shit. Imagine this kind of bullshit with mathematics, not one formula system but hundreds of commercial for profit patented formula systems, oh yeah, teaching maths would be easy. Again doing the moronic thing with teaching language, not one dictionary or grammar system but hundreds of them proprietary and patented, yep learning to communicate real bloody easy.
Straight up greed of the corporate players is fucking the system up, from stupidly teaching children their QWEs to stubbornly refusing to create a logical, open and free (just like fucking maths and just like fucking english) coding language. No way, no how, to many fucked up psychopaths pursuing the own greed to ever let that happen.
Do not confuse any socio-political system with the actions of individuals. No matter the socio-political system psychopaths, will corrupt it every single time in their favour and collapse the system over time. Communism, capitalism, socialism, democracy, anarchy, all collapse under the corruptive influence of psychopaths, simple fact of life.
For artificial intelligence the focus should be on application. So most current application, translation services. So automatic written translation in proper context from one language to another. Second step spoken language recognition and translation, from one language to another and of course as part of that from human language to computer language, something that a computer can reliably interpret to carry out actions. This all require a learning computer ie learning written and spoken mannerism and language usage. So AI with very limited function, basically the core of AI development, not thinking for us, simply contextual understanding of instructions.
Obvious benefit to humanity from this kind of AI, every one being able to talk to everyone else, exchange ideas, minimise divisions and focus on our real problems and the psychopaths at the top causing them. Breaking down communications barriers as is already being demonstrated is changing our world. This being exemplified by the steady shift to social democracy from other forms of government and this in conjunction with the recognition of the extreme harm psychopaths cause to human society (get rid of them and pretty much any style of government works effectively and with them pretty much any style of government devolves and collapses).
There seems to be a bit of a disconnect with regards to 'Anonymous', the idea that "activist claiming to speak for the group", is false. Anyone can and does speak anonymously for 'Anonymous" if they so choose, there is no 'claim' about it, it is fact. The only time people make claims about 'Anonymous' is when they do it publicly and not anonymously 'Anonymous'. Do it anonymously and they are just as 'Anonymous', as any one else;). Donald Trump certainly is becoming a famous lesson for what not to become, hmm, chemical cocktails to an excess?
Perhaps you have failed to hear how empty political promises are. Let's see some legislation written up and put to a vote and then and only then can any say with any semblance of certainty what the politician is saying is actually what the intend. Years back, prior to right wing outsourcing, couldn't find trained people, then you trained them. Now, it's like they have never ever heard of it, what train people for the position, what a crazy idea. The modern corporate era is such a fuck up.
The Hawaiian people did not voluntarily join, they were invaded and conquered and then disenfranchised by a corporate take over, only guilt, forces you to lie. For what ever reason they choose, for what ever purpose they choose, it is their fucking right. So get off their fucking mountain, until they say you can be up, for what ever reason they choose as acceptable. Shit the US accepts extorting people with medicines that cost thousands of dollars, pay or die. Americans accept their country extorting other countries supply your resources or die. No matter how few Americans have how much, whilst millions have fuck all, it is celebrated and the greedy worshipped. That mountain is their church and they have a right to worship as they see fit, as they did before they were conquered and denied their rights by a nation of genocidal racists. Get over it, it is a fact of history, want to void the guilt, so making the same mistakes and apologise for the ones made in your name.
Credit card fraud is an easy problem to solve, one simple solution. Gather biometrics of the purchaser at point of sale or product receipt (for online sales). Fraudulent purchase and they have given themselves away and even if they use a gullible mule, that mule will turn them in. So easiest way to gather biometric data, require a finger print on a seal able adhesive material along with a photo, that is kept and turned in at end of shift and stored (you gain the print and skin cells and an image of the person making the purchase or taking receipt of goods). You could even just do the photo but not as effective as skin cell samples.
Bury all your assets in a single currency and what happens when any one you want to buy anything from, says, nuh uh, you ain't stickin me with that funny money just because you want to cheat on taxes. So likely problem coming up for bitcoin, how many bitcoins do the originators have and how will that affect things, you know, ponzi scheme side of things. So how many crypto currencies are out there now, with their own creators trying to achieve the same ponzi scheme, make millions of them real easy and then release it for the mugs to grind away at nothing and become you ponzi scheme sales force. Tracking the flow of bitcoins across the internet is being used to mark people for criminal investigation. I would seriously suggest you only ever transfer them by hand and never ever across digital communications line, at minimum you are guaranteeing an tax evasion investigation.
Many places have point of sale laws. If the conditions of contract are not clearly established at the point of sale, they do not exist. This is reasonable because, you have the cost of shopping, going to the store, getting the product and returning home and in the case of software installation costs. Any agreement post the purchase is invalid, as in sound contractual terms, they should reimburse your costs associated with the purchase and the return, when you are presented new conditions that you disagree with. This includes documentation inside the box, let alone scattered across the internet. They are basically just putting up a legal bluff, in most countries they are screwed and they know it, they are just fending it off by giving a back door to you via their software to your government. They would lose a class action law suit if brought against them in the right jurisdiction, especially say the UK or Australia with far stronger consumer rights laws eg https://www.accc.gov.au/consum... (what American companies are allowed to get away with is just mind boggling, now wonder they wanted to force crappy laws US on Australia via the TPP, the Toilet Paper Protocol, named so for what it does to countries constitutions.)
There are no actual real statistics on Medicare fraud contrary to typical right wing lies that run it from ten billion to eighty billion, just made up numbers to push death on those who can not afford health care on a minimum wage.
Defence spending is a straight up black hole for any governments treasury, except of course the payment of defence force personal who can also provide much needed assistance in emergency situations. Consider the name 'destroyer' what a wonderfully apt name for a piece of human technology that totally describes it purpose as a destroyer of humanity, designed for the sake of destruction and nothing else, insanity in description and purpose. At least it they switched to a light carrier fleet, those vessels would be able to significantly contribute during natural disasters (transport, helicopter rescue, administration and medical facilities).
NASA of course points a path to the future and humanity reaching out to the rest of the galaxy. This always decried by those whose egos see no purpose in life beyond posing about in front of the rest of us, their primitive egos and lusts on display, so ignorant in their pride.
Still basically it is nothing but script kiddies for profit. The coders and distributors try to make as much money as possible out of idiot amateurs and it is the idiots who get caught and provide cover for the coders and distributors activities. Nothing new just another investigatory frothing beat up for, we need more money and power now. One second the biggest culprits are other governments, then it is terrorists and then it is back to organised crime. Personally I am waiting for the alien hackers threat, you know, you just know, it will eventually happen as all the other threats lose their budget pumping hype.
I don't play semantics I just go with reasonable rules https://www.accc.gov.au/busine.... Failure would be no longer fit for the purpose for which is was intended ie supplying a reasonable charge to allow reasonable use of the device. I know some countries are tougher on this, than those that blatantly favour corporate profits but I think they need to be even tougher and not be sucked down by corrupted foreign government influence.
This from Apple "Your battery is designed to retain up to 80 per cent of its original capacity at 1,000 complete charge cycles. The one-year warranty includes service coverage for a defective battery". So 1000 full discharges and recharges, one year only covers defective and not designed failure. The more you use it, the quicker you lose it (mind you somehow you think it is evil to allow a user replaceable battery in the design). You must also pay for shipping if necessary, during which all your data will be deleted and never forget those are the rules today and not in a years time let alone five years. Your cheering being screwed over, while I am demanding user replaceable batteries at a fraction of the cost to the end user, just who are you looking out for.
All great explanation of why now but all ignore the easiest one, "enter showrooms at the end of the decade". Quite simply they are forecasting demand and adjusting for it. Why make the announcement now, FUD, fear uncertainty doubt, basically to steal sales from Telsa by getting people to hold off. Problem off sports cars are starting to be seen more as dork machines and not the chariots of heroes and heroines, just douchy shit heads with too much money posing around in a pretty dysfunctional vehicles (comfort levels in a porsche suck, ride is awful, getting in and out a pain, shitty storage, pretty dang fucking useless beyond poseur status and the internet versus the idiot box is turning that on it's head). Makes a whole lot more sense to go the compact sports utility vehicle, TESLA will do really with with the cSUV and unless competitors do the same they will fall behind. With out mainstream media controlling the message, function will win out over form and especially over poseur status (just come off as a lame arse loser victim of marketing).
All electric vehicles will cause city prices to go up, well, at least not the underwater front cities. The other bug change on the horizon, arcologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., cities within cities. Definitely all electric or foot traffic. That being the drive (heh heh), being able to walk to school (continuing mature age education), walk to work, work to all government services, walk to medical services (if you are still capable of walking), walk to restaurants, walk to shopping, in fact everything you need in walking distance. Driving is extremely dangerous and pretty much sucks dead dogs balls, high walk ability index places are now going for top dollar. A cluster of arcologies puts a huge amount of social services and infrastructure in easy, ready access, with better controls in place to manage it all.
The ban of fossil fuellers in metropolitan areas is a lot closer than most people would think. You could provide transit spots on the periphery of metropolitan zones where people could park their fossil fuellers to get into an automated compact electric rental to use in the city.
Home grown, implies the terrorist indoctrination was local. Born in the US, true but the indoctrination was all Saudi Arabia, the bullshit by the US government to cover that up is just mind boggling. What did happen in Saudi Arabia, what was done to those people in Saudi Arabia. For all the world it looks like an early accidental work place triggering of implanted response. Likely part of a team, taking into account the very narrow nature of weapons and explosives (very focused thought, not a whole bunch of different weapons), the volume of weapons indicating more than one team. What was the real target and how many Saudi mk ultras are left floating about. No random act of terror this, just a plan running into a glitch. Yet, the US government still gives Saudi Arabia a free hand because it feeds into sales for the US military industrial complex. Stop the Saudis and they end the profits from the Terror Wars, this bullshit has being going on decades, WTF America.
In all seriousness, it kind of makes more sense to embed a device in the body, somewhere in the blood flow, based around Rfid style technology. Device stays inactive until a query is transmitted, then uses that energy to carry out a test cycle and respond. You eliminate every thing from the device beyond the energy conversion circuit, the testing circuit and the transmitter. It also only works when you want it to work, being passive the rest of the time. This would enable more device to be inserted to test for other things. Likely a standard set of rules to govern which testing devices are placed where, to facility testing, because something like that could become a default at birth addition for some individuals.
Dude "Built-in 27.3-watt-hour rechargeable lithium-polymer battery" http://www.apple.com/au/ipad-a..., the only way they will last five years is if you do not use them, the more you use them the quicker they will die. "Apple warrants the included hardware product
and accessories against defects in materials and
workmanship for one year from the date of original
retail purchase. Apple does not warrant against
normal wear and tear, nor damage caused by
accident or abuse", this from their warranty page. So yeah your battery failing in months due to use, not even covered. So where are you getting five years from, with a built in battery guaranteed 100% to fail, the more you use it the quicker it will fail. Same goes for all the other purposefully designed to fail tablets, absofuckinglutely nothing to do with appearance and everything to do with designed obsolescence and letting psychopaths manage anything.
Sneaky, very very sneaky. US are tending (wonderful wishy washy word that) down from a peak well and truly above what other countries are barely starting to catch up to and not to forget the US outsources a lot of it's pollution to other countries, the US gets the products and they get shit wages, very bad working conditions and uncontrolled pollution but of course that is their governments fault. This ignoring the US standard invade and conquer if you refuse to sell your resources for funny money and provide working in poverty labour.
So semi floating cities in tsunami and tropical cyclone zone, well, I suppose that will work for as long as it works right up until the first major tsunami or tropical cyclone and the millions or mourners point it out as a really bad idea.
The only sound thing they can do is establish a treaty with another country to accept those people as citizens and establish a trust for them, based around trading off access to the fishing and mining resources, via that country to commercial players.
Taking the US constitution as an example - "prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion". See that bit impeding the free exercise of a religion, well that mountain was and is their church, establish as such millennia before you got there and disfiguring or destroying or illegally occupying a church pretty fucking much totally fucking impedes the free exercise of their religion, to suck it the fuck up and leave them alone.
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The whole agreement, the whole conference was nothing more than public relations and marketing. The only thing that was achieved in reality is, that it makes it a tiny bit harder for the fossil fuelers to promote climate change denialism, beyond that nothing much at all was done. Underwater front properties will still be underwater front properties, fossil fuelers assets in the ground will still retain considerable value for a time before being dumped on pension funds and collapsing (coal first, seriously you should check your retirement assets to ensure no coal investments), environmental havoc will still be wreaked upon the environment and the aimed temperature rise is a guide to be ignored. As for taking care with regard to an inevitable major methane surge and some very serious short term harm, meh (could the 'sky' burn or more accurately explode in some localised locations?).
So do not buy a drone bigger than 250 grams and you are done. Basically no one has the right to fly those at normal altitude use over some one else's property without their permission and that includes public space. Want a toy, fine buy the toy and play with it. Want a larger one that could quite readily cause major harm, and then registration and a licence will be required. Licence and registration fee will never be that higher ie beyond user pays (want one, pay for the cost of licensing and registration, plus paying for the victims of bad users). Although likely more division will be required for sizes 250 grams to 25 kilograms seems a bit much and likely another size break is required. So toy grade, hobby grade and beyond hobby grade, say beyond 1000 grams and requirement for training and licensing and higher registration fees.
Laws are meant to cover everyone having one and not just a select few, so laws to cover tens of millions of drones in the sky at the same time, those laws to limit abuses. With millions in the sky at the same time, every one can readily imagine the problems that will occur and how people will be affected.
So short term greed, results in interesting tit bits like this "A 1994 study had indicated that the concentration of lead in the blood of the U.S. population had dropped 78% from 1976 to 1991". So prior to that we were blithely creating the lead head generations and tea baggers and a massive crime wave. The greater the exposure the more likely they are to be crazy Gopers. How many people ended up dying as a result of that greed, that went on to fuel sic even more greed driven stupidity. The lead might be diminishing but the damage has been done in many decision makers and bad decisions result which cause even more pain, suffering and death. Now if only a few more of them would get tangled up in their own machinations and cease to be a problem for the rest of us. Seriously you can really see the impact of lead poisoning in the current structure of our society and the decisions being made by those most affected by lead poisoning.
On slashdot, we always made the analogy of DRM in automotive tradition of being like buying a car and the manufacturer being able to control the brand of fuel you put in it. It would seem that instead of just taking that as an explanation, various corporate douche bags are taking it to heart and trying to do it with every possible product they can. Corporations always complain about too many regulations but those asshats are the ones who always force the implementation of more regulations because of their abuses.
There seems to be more than one opinion of the subject, this https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... The United States of marketing and public relations would be far more accurate, the empire of double speak.
'ER', neither being Hawaiian or USAian, I am rather indifferent to US funding of it's states. Just saying that fair is fair and what ever they demand is fair. If they require astronomers to strip naked and cover their faces and hands in red paint, as a sign of repentance for the harm caused by immigrants to the Hawaiian people, then so be it. The mountain is their place of worship and their church and as such is entitled to respect and protection, however uncomfortable it might be ;).
It really depends on the coding language. Properly done, the coding language simply becomes a part of teaching language, mathematics, physics and chemistry. Done arse about face without a uniform teaching coding language and you have shit. Imagine this kind of bullshit with mathematics, not one formula system but hundreds of commercial for profit patented formula systems, oh yeah, teaching maths would be easy. Again doing the moronic thing with teaching language, not one dictionary or grammar system but hundreds of them proprietary and patented, yep learning to communicate real bloody easy.
Straight up greed of the corporate players is fucking the system up, from stupidly teaching children their QWEs to stubbornly refusing to create a logical, open and free (just like fucking maths and just like fucking english) coding language. No way, no how, to many fucked up psychopaths pursuing the own greed to ever let that happen.
Do not confuse any socio-political system with the actions of individuals. No matter the socio-political system psychopaths, will corrupt it every single time in their favour and collapse the system over time. Communism, capitalism, socialism, democracy, anarchy, all collapse under the corruptive influence of psychopaths, simple fact of life.
For artificial intelligence the focus should be on application. So most current application, translation services. So automatic written translation in proper context from one language to another. Second step spoken language recognition and translation, from one language to another and of course as part of that from human language to computer language, something that a computer can reliably interpret to carry out actions. This all require a learning computer ie learning written and spoken mannerism and language usage. So AI with very limited function, basically the core of AI development, not thinking for us, simply contextual understanding of instructions.
Obvious benefit to humanity from this kind of AI, every one being able to talk to everyone else, exchange ideas, minimise divisions and focus on our real problems and the psychopaths at the top causing them. Breaking down communications barriers as is already being demonstrated is changing our world. This being exemplified by the steady shift to social democracy from other forms of government and this in conjunction with the recognition of the extreme harm psychopaths cause to human society (get rid of them and pretty much any style of government works effectively and with them pretty much any style of government devolves and collapses).
There seems to be a bit of a disconnect with regards to 'Anonymous', the idea that "activist claiming to speak for the group", is false. Anyone can and does speak anonymously for 'Anonymous" if they so choose, there is no 'claim' about it, it is fact. The only time people make claims about 'Anonymous' is when they do it publicly and not anonymously 'Anonymous'. Do it anonymously and they are just as 'Anonymous', as any one else ;). Donald Trump certainly is becoming a famous lesson for what not to become, hmm, chemical cocktails to an excess?
Perhaps you have failed to hear how empty political promises are. Let's see some legislation written up and put to a vote and then and only then can any say with any semblance of certainty what the politician is saying is actually what the intend. Years back, prior to right wing outsourcing, couldn't find trained people, then you trained them. Now, it's like they have never ever heard of it, what train people for the position, what a crazy idea. The modern corporate era is such a fuck up.
The Hawaiian people did not voluntarily join, they were invaded and conquered and then disenfranchised by a corporate take over, only guilt, forces you to lie. For what ever reason they choose, for what ever purpose they choose, it is their fucking right. So get off their fucking mountain, until they say you can be up, for what ever reason they choose as acceptable. Shit the US accepts extorting people with medicines that cost thousands of dollars, pay or die. Americans accept their country extorting other countries supply your resources or die. No matter how few Americans have how much, whilst millions have fuck all, it is celebrated and the greedy worshipped. That mountain is their church and they have a right to worship as they see fit, as they did before they were conquered and denied their rights by a nation of genocidal racists. Get over it, it is a fact of history, want to void the guilt, so making the same mistakes and apologise for the ones made in your name.
Credit card fraud is an easy problem to solve, one simple solution. Gather biometrics of the purchaser at point of sale or product receipt (for online sales). Fraudulent purchase and they have given themselves away and even if they use a gullible mule, that mule will turn them in. So easiest way to gather biometric data, require a finger print on a seal able adhesive material along with a photo, that is kept and turned in at end of shift and stored (you gain the print and skin cells and an image of the person making the purchase or taking receipt of goods). You could even just do the photo but not as effective as skin cell samples.
Bury all your assets in a single currency and what happens when any one you want to buy anything from, says, nuh uh, you ain't stickin me with that funny money just because you want to cheat on taxes. So likely problem coming up for bitcoin, how many bitcoins do the originators have and how will that affect things, you know, ponzi scheme side of things. So how many crypto currencies are out there now, with their own creators trying to achieve the same ponzi scheme, make millions of them real easy and then release it for the mugs to grind away at nothing and become you ponzi scheme sales force. Tracking the flow of bitcoins across the internet is being used to mark people for criminal investigation. I would seriously suggest you only ever transfer them by hand and never ever across digital communications line, at minimum you are guaranteeing an tax evasion investigation.
Many places have point of sale laws. If the conditions of contract are not clearly established at the point of sale, they do not exist. This is reasonable because, you have the cost of shopping, going to the store, getting the product and returning home and in the case of software installation costs. Any agreement post the purchase is invalid, as in sound contractual terms, they should reimburse your costs associated with the purchase and the return, when you are presented new conditions that you disagree with. This includes documentation inside the box, let alone scattered across the internet. They are basically just putting up a legal bluff, in most countries they are screwed and they know it, they are just fending it off by giving a back door to you via their software to your government. They would lose a class action law suit if brought against them in the right jurisdiction, especially say the UK or Australia with far stronger consumer rights laws eg https://www.accc.gov.au/consum... (what American companies are allowed to get away with is just mind boggling, now wonder they wanted to force crappy laws US on Australia via the TPP, the Toilet Paper Protocol, named so for what it does to countries constitutions.)
There are no actual real statistics on Medicare fraud contrary to typical right wing lies that run it from ten billion to eighty billion, just made up numbers to push death on those who can not afford health care on a minimum wage.
Defence spending is a straight up black hole for any governments treasury, except of course the payment of defence force personal who can also provide much needed assistance in emergency situations. Consider the name 'destroyer' what a wonderfully apt name for a piece of human technology that totally describes it purpose as a destroyer of humanity, designed for the sake of destruction and nothing else, insanity in description and purpose. At least it they switched to a light carrier fleet, those vessels would be able to significantly contribute during natural disasters (transport, helicopter rescue, administration and medical facilities).
NASA of course points a path to the future and humanity reaching out to the rest of the galaxy. This always decried by those whose egos see no purpose in life beyond posing about in front of the rest of us, their primitive egos and lusts on display, so ignorant in their pride.
Still basically it is nothing but script kiddies for profit. The coders and distributors try to make as much money as possible out of idiot amateurs and it is the idiots who get caught and provide cover for the coders and distributors activities. Nothing new just another investigatory frothing beat up for, we need more money and power now. One second the biggest culprits are other governments, then it is terrorists and then it is back to organised crime. Personally I am waiting for the alien hackers threat, you know, you just know, it will eventually happen as all the other threats lose their budget pumping hype.
I don't play semantics I just go with reasonable rules https://www.accc.gov.au/busine.... Failure would be no longer fit for the purpose for which is was intended ie supplying a reasonable charge to allow reasonable use of the device. I know some countries are tougher on this, than those that blatantly favour corporate profits but I think they need to be even tougher and not be sucked down by corrupted foreign government influence.
This from Apple "Your battery is designed to retain up to 80 per cent of its original capacity at 1,000 complete charge cycles. The one-year warranty includes service coverage for a defective battery". So 1000 full discharges and recharges, one year only covers defective and not designed failure. The more you use it, the quicker you lose it (mind you somehow you think it is evil to allow a user replaceable battery in the design). You must also pay for shipping if necessary, during which all your data will be deleted and never forget those are the rules today and not in a years time let alone five years. Your cheering being screwed over, while I am demanding user replaceable batteries at a fraction of the cost to the end user, just who are you looking out for.
All great explanation of why now but all ignore the easiest one, "enter showrooms at the end of the decade". Quite simply they are forecasting demand and adjusting for it. Why make the announcement now, FUD, fear uncertainty doubt, basically to steal sales from Telsa by getting people to hold off. Problem off sports cars are starting to be seen more as dork machines and not the chariots of heroes and heroines, just douchy shit heads with too much money posing around in a pretty dysfunctional vehicles (comfort levels in a porsche suck, ride is awful, getting in and out a pain, shitty storage, pretty dang fucking useless beyond poseur status and the internet versus the idiot box is turning that on it's head). Makes a whole lot more sense to go the compact sports utility vehicle, TESLA will do really with with the cSUV and unless competitors do the same they will fall behind. With out mainstream media controlling the message, function will win out over form and especially over poseur status (just come off as a lame arse loser victim of marketing).
All electric vehicles will cause city prices to go up, well, at least not the underwater front cities. The other bug change on the horizon, arcologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., cities within cities. Definitely all electric or foot traffic. That being the drive (heh heh), being able to walk to school (continuing mature age education), walk to work, work to all government services, walk to medical services (if you are still capable of walking), walk to restaurants, walk to shopping, in fact everything you need in walking distance. Driving is extremely dangerous and pretty much sucks dead dogs balls, high walk ability index places are now going for top dollar. A cluster of arcologies puts a huge amount of social services and infrastructure in easy, ready access, with better controls in place to manage it all.
The ban of fossil fuellers in metropolitan areas is a lot closer than most people would think. You could provide transit spots on the periphery of metropolitan zones where people could park their fossil fuellers to get into an automated compact electric rental to use in the city.
Home grown, implies the terrorist indoctrination was local. Born in the US, true but the indoctrination was all Saudi Arabia, the bullshit by the US government to cover that up is just mind boggling. What did happen in Saudi Arabia, what was done to those people in Saudi Arabia. For all the world it looks like an early accidental work place triggering of implanted response. Likely part of a team, taking into account the very narrow nature of weapons and explosives (very focused thought, not a whole bunch of different weapons), the volume of weapons indicating more than one team. What was the real target and how many Saudi mk ultras are left floating about. No random act of terror this, just a plan running into a glitch. Yet, the US government still gives Saudi Arabia a free hand because it feeds into sales for the US military industrial complex. Stop the Saudis and they end the profits from the Terror Wars, this bullshit has being going on decades, WTF America.
In all seriousness, it kind of makes more sense to embed a device in the body, somewhere in the blood flow, based around Rfid style technology. Device stays inactive until a query is transmitted, then uses that energy to carry out a test cycle and respond. You eliminate every thing from the device beyond the energy conversion circuit, the testing circuit and the transmitter. It also only works when you want it to work, being passive the rest of the time. This would enable more device to be inserted to test for other things. Likely a standard set of rules to govern which testing devices are placed where, to facility testing, because something like that could become a default at birth addition for some individuals.
Dude "Built-in 27.3-watt-hour rechargeable lithium-polymer battery" http://www.apple.com/au/ipad-a..., the only way they will last five years is if you do not use them, the more you use them the quicker they will die. "Apple warrants the included hardware product and accessories against defects in materials and workmanship for one year from the date of original retail purchase. Apple does not warrant against normal wear and tear, nor damage caused by accident or abuse", this from their warranty page. So yeah your battery failing in months due to use, not even covered. So where are you getting five years from, with a built in battery guaranteed 100% to fail, the more you use it the quicker it will fail. Same goes for all the other purposefully designed to fail tablets, absofuckinglutely nothing to do with appearance and everything to do with designed obsolescence and letting psychopaths manage anything.
Sneaky, very very sneaky. US are tending (wonderful wishy washy word that) down from a peak well and truly above what other countries are barely starting to catch up to and not to forget the US outsources a lot of it's pollution to other countries, the US gets the products and they get shit wages, very bad working conditions and uncontrolled pollution but of course that is their governments fault. This ignoring the US standard invade and conquer if you refuse to sell your resources for funny money and provide working in poverty labour.
So semi floating cities in tsunami and tropical cyclone zone, well, I suppose that will work for as long as it works right up until the first major tsunami or tropical cyclone and the millions or mourners point it out as a really bad idea.
The only sound thing they can do is establish a treaty with another country to accept those people as citizens and establish a trust for them, based around trading off access to the fishing and mining resources, via that country to commercial players.
Taking the US constitution as an example - "prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion". See that bit impeding the free exercise of a religion, well that mountain was and is their church, establish as such millennia before you got there and disfiguring or destroying or illegally occupying a church pretty fucking much totally fucking impedes the free exercise of their religion, to suck it the fuck up and leave them alone.