Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to somehow sedate the subject and create a life cast of their face without them figuring out that you're doing it. You must then jump though a bunch of other hoops in order to unlock the subject's phone. You are under no circumstances to use the subject's own face to unlock their phone. Should you or any of your IM force be caught or killed, you will be mocked mercilessly on Slashdot.
I think there is a lack of optimization going on. Websites are now downloading more and more code to make them interactive and it's either not getting cached or it changes so often that caching it is pointless. That's a pretty dangerous precedent because it means more bandwidth is getting wasted.
Can someone explain why I have to restart Firefox at least once a day in order to play back video of any kind? And why doesn't Wunderground render properly on Firefox? It seems that everything is a lot slower these days further convincing me that trying to do anything online that used to be done with a dedicated program is a bad idea.
I can pretty much guarantee two things here: First, proponents of this report will demand that we do something this very second before we all die. Second, within a week, the cracks in the validity of the report will begin to appear and within a year, the entire thing will be debunked. This is how every attempt to use fear and crisis plays out. The goal is never to solve any problem, only to amass power.
True but the unintended consequence is the energy required to extract said elements from said minerals. That is, if you can find them where they can legally mined in areas that haven't been placed off-limits by the same environmentalists who are pushing for electric vehicles.
People are all up in arms about Congress limiting people's ability to sue banks but nobody talks about what really happens in most class-action tort cases. The lawyers are the ones getting rich with actual cash. The class members will wind up with discount coupons for cellphone accessories or something equally useless.
Take one country that ranks in the middle of the pack in terms of green energy production. Replace all diesels with electric. Allow the system to run for 20-30 years and then evaluate the consequences. How many of the original vehicles will still be on the road? How often do their battery packs need to be replaced and at what cost in terms of both cost to the user and environmental costs of producing new packs and disposing of the old ones? (Yes, the Old Ones, the ones who made us). How often does the power generation infrastructure need to be replaced and what are the monetary and environmental cost associated with that. How does that country's GDP change over that 20 year period? The goal of the study is to evaluate sustainability.
This is what they said about hybrid vehicles too. Once people realized how much it cost to replace the batteries in their hybrid, they usually said, "Screw it, I'll run on gasoline." Trends always end. And so what if they last 20 years. It takes more than 14 years to recoup the expense by not buying power from the electric company. That is "if current trends continue" as you say. But they won't. The power companies can't continue to eat the lost revenue. Rates will necessarily rise because they have to maintain the grid for the customers that can't use solar. Right now, customers are able to sell excess power back to the grid at retail rates. When, not if, that goes away, and it will go away, the cost to replace will exceed the cost savings.
At one point, it was discovered that gas stations were hacking the pumps so that the test amounts would always come out correct to fool the inspectors e.g. 1 gallon, 5 gallons, 10 gallons but all other amounts would be short. So who's the say that the OS isn't written such that benchmarks work great but other stuff doesn't.
The source of the energy is only part of the problem. If you rebuild the same distribution system, you're going to end up with the same problem. The power lines need to be buried and that costs a lot more money than stringing wire on poles.
Neal Stephenson was right when he created the "book" in The Diamond Age. Pretty cool. That said, calling it Aristotle might not be such a great idea. Aristotle was wrong about a lot of things yet his acolytes tended to prevent the truth from coming out often violently because not being questioned was the source of their power.
When the performance of these things starts to drop off and they all need to be replaced, are people going to get sticker shock when they not only have to pay more to replace them but have to pay to dispose of the old ones because of "toxic" materials?
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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to somehow sedate the subject and create a life cast of their face without them figuring out that you're doing it. You must then jump though a bunch of other hoops in order to unlock the subject's phone. You are under no circumstances to use the subject's own face to unlock their phone. Should you or any of your IM force be caught or killed, you will be mocked mercilessly on Slashdot.
Obviously. Also, ironically, there's a place near Scottsdale called Westworld.
I think there is a lack of optimization going on. Websites are now downloading more and more code to make them interactive and it's either not getting cached or it changes so often that caching it is pointless. That's a pretty dangerous precedent because it means more bandwidth is getting wasted.
Can someone explain why I have to restart Firefox at least once a day in order to play back video of any kind?
And why doesn't Wunderground render properly on Firefox? It seems that everything is a lot slower these days further convincing me that trying to do anything online that used to be done with a dedicated program is a bad idea.
Arguing over what to have for dinner. Clearly, there are too many people in the U.S. willing to be sheep.
This should be enough power, right?
Irritable Vowel Syndrome.
I mean, jeez, Mozilla, why is Firefox so friggin' SLOW?
I can pretty much guarantee two things here: First, proponents of this report will demand that we do something this very second before we all die. Second, within a week, the cracks in the validity of the report will begin to appear and within a year, the entire thing will be debunked. This is how every attempt to use fear and crisis plays out. The goal is never to solve any problem, only to amass power.
True but the unintended consequence is the energy required to extract said elements from said minerals. That is, if you can find them where they can legally mined in areas that haven't been placed off-limits by the same environmentalists who are pushing for electric vehicles.
...dammit.
People are all up in arms about Congress limiting people's ability to sue banks but nobody talks about what really happens in most class-action tort cases. The lawyers are the ones getting rich with actual cash. The class members will wind up with discount coupons for cellphone accessories or something equally useless.
Take one country that ranks in the middle of the pack in terms of green energy production. Replace all diesels with electric. Allow the system to run for 20-30 years and then evaluate the consequences. How many of the original vehicles will still be on the road? How often do their battery packs need to be replaced and at what cost in terms of both cost to the user and environmental costs of producing new packs and disposing of the old ones? (Yes, the Old Ones, the ones who made us). How often does the power generation infrastructure need to be replaced and what are the monetary and environmental cost associated with that. How does that country's GDP change over that 20 year period? The goal of the study is to evaluate sustainability.
This is what they said about hybrid vehicles too. Once people realized how much it cost to replace the batteries in their hybrid, they usually said, "Screw it, I'll run on gasoline." Trends always end. And so what if they last 20 years. It takes more than 14 years to recoup the expense by not buying power from the electric company. That is "if current trends continue" as you say. But they won't. The power companies can't continue to eat the lost revenue. Rates will necessarily rise because they have to maintain the grid for the customers that can't use solar. Right now, customers are able to sell excess power back to the grid at retail rates. When, not if, that goes away, and it will go away, the cost to replace will exceed the cost savings.
Or perhaps there was nothing broken with police procedures and the whole thing was overblown. Now they have video evidence to back it up.
The Natural Resources Defense Council spectacularly underestimates the cost of disposing of and replacing degraded panels.
Somebody needs a few more years of real-world experience and tested hypotheses before making claims like this.
I'll be it requires you to have Internet Explorer installed.
Everybody needs to react impulsively to this news and call for a ban on this stuff.
At one point, it was discovered that gas stations were hacking the pumps so that the test amounts would always come out correct to fool the inspectors e.g. 1 gallon, 5 gallons, 10 gallons but all other amounts would be short. So who's the say that the OS isn't written such that benchmarks work great but other stuff doesn't.
The source of the energy is only part of the problem. If you rebuild the same distribution system, you're going to end up with the same problem. The power lines need to be buried and that costs a lot more money than stringing wire on poles.
Neal Stephenson was right when he created the "book" in The Diamond Age. Pretty cool.
That said, calling it Aristotle might not be such a great idea. Aristotle was wrong about a lot of things yet his acolytes tended to prevent the truth from coming out often violently because not being questioned was the source of their power.
When the performance of these things starts to drop off and they all need to be replaced, are people going to get sticker shock when they not only have to pay more to replace them but have to pay to dispose of the old ones because of "toxic" materials?
Roughly 1% of Americans favor net neutrality.
Give me a stopwatch and a map and I'll fly the Alps in a plane with no windows.