They can always do this if they are after you specifically. But they can't go fishing for Enemies of the State. Not unless they want to go kicking in ever door in town.
That's the beauty of blockchains, isn't it? You can trace transactions back through the chain. OK, so the source is an anonymous wallet address. But one can find other occurrences of that address and eventually trace it back to something that occurred in meatspace.
So the extra electricity used by crytocurrency mining comes entirely from fossil fuel plants. Even if they're located in an area which gets its electricity from hydro, their extra power consumption means there's less hydro power available to send to neighboring locales. That neighboring locale has to make up that electricity shortfall somehow, so a coal or gas plant near them ends up burning more fuel to generate it.
You are assigning some sort of rank to electricity usage that doesn't exist. Why can't I say that my Bitcoin mining operation is using the hydropower and the old couple down the street trying to stay warm are causing the demand for fossil fuel generation. Or the rich guy recharging his Tesla?
It's more accurate to assume that everyone's demand or energy savings comes out of the same mix of generation. And a kWh saved either in insulating one's house or switching to efficient lighting is the same as one saved by not mining. And those saved kWhs come out of your utilities power mix depending on how smart they make their purchasing decisions.
you or your next of kin have to deal with a large corporation
If I'm just some average Joe, yes.
If I'm some poor hobo, there are public assistance programs that will step up to take my case against 'deep pockets' companies. In fact, I see a future of bums stepping in front of the cars with the funny LIDAR units on top to get a piece of Google's net worth.
Or shutting down in the middle of Bumf*ck, Nowhere when the conditions get too bad. The meatsacks inside can just freeze to death. The AI will still be OK come spring thaw.
This isn't zero sum game theory. My employer stands to benefit by rewarding productivity with greater pay so long as she doesn't have to pay the cost of poor morale and dissension caused by the lower paid employees. I talk and, in order to maintain peace, everyone gets paid the same*. So I leave for better pay and my employer is stuck with the losers. If I shut up, I get more. Some of the low performers might catch on and start complaining. But thy can be fired for causing trouble. My boss is left with high performers and low performers who at least understand economics.
*I used to work for an outfit that distributed a fixed pot of pay increases among groups of employees. And then they'd publish a poorly obfuscated chart of 'rank' and seniority vs pay increases. It turned out that anyone with passable math/logic skills (these were engineers) could figure out who got what. So practically everyone got the median raise. Just to quell dissension. The solution was to have an extra 'high performers' raise pool. But the understanding was that recipients were to STFU about receiving anything from this.
The good thing about this being an autonomous vehicle is that there are likely cameras and sensors all around the vehicle that will be able to tell investigators exactly what happened.
I'm looking forward to something akin to the Russian dash cam video sites.
Why would you assume that the receipt / delivery side can't / won't be automated?
That will have little bearing on the noise it will make. Never mind electric vehicles and handling equipment, just moving pallets around makes quite a bit of racket.
Slashdot Mirror
Did you honestly think all of that happened without servers?
Its containers all the way down.
Everyone thinks they are Takumi. Everyone thinks they are expert drifters. And more often than not, they fuck up.
you can only show them shooting at things to kill or destroy them.
Lots of target shooting. Hunting too, if that's your thing. Lots of emphasis on safety and very little ass-hattery compared to the driving vids.
More people die in auto accidents. Ban car videos when?
Uploaded to a file server.
YouTube is becoming pointless anyway as they move to shovel more advertising down our throats.
When the robot revolution starts, just dress as a strawberry.
All the free KoolAid you can drink.
If that is true, why does not one exist?
Because business can't monetize the content of users' secure communications.
They can always do this if they are after you specifically. But they can't go fishing for Enemies of the State. Not unless they want to go kicking in ever door in town.
But no tart cards.
These booths are for the use of our paying customers.
Please limit your changing time if others are waiting.
-- Thank you.
That's the beauty of blockchains, isn't it? You can trace transactions back through the chain. OK, so the source is an anonymous wallet address. But one can find other occurrences of that address and eventually trace it back to something that occurred in meatspace.
you need the Blockchain PLUS some 3rd party tool
Like a web browser? Now who would have one of those?
not a basic need.
Neither is watching porn
Watch it there, buddy. You are treading in dangerous territory.
So the extra electricity used by crytocurrency mining comes entirely from fossil fuel plants. Even if they're located in an area which gets its electricity from hydro, their extra power consumption means there's less hydro power available to send to neighboring locales. That neighboring locale has to make up that electricity shortfall somehow, so a coal or gas plant near them ends up burning more fuel to generate it.
You are assigning some sort of rank to electricity usage that doesn't exist. Why can't I say that my Bitcoin mining operation is using the hydropower and the old couple down the street trying to stay warm are causing the demand for fossil fuel generation. Or the rich guy recharging his Tesla?
It's more accurate to assume that everyone's demand or energy savings comes out of the same mix of generation. And a kWh saved either in insulating one's house or switching to efficient lighting is the same as one saved by not mining. And those saved kWhs come out of your utilities power mix depending on how smart they make their purchasing decisions.
I fail to understand how paying more money for an under performer benefited your employer.
Perhaps he was the son of an important customer.
you or your next of kin have to deal with a large corporation
If I'm just some average Joe, yes.
If I'm some poor hobo, there are public assistance programs that will step up to take my case against 'deep pockets' companies. In fact, I see a future of bums stepping in front of the cars with the funny LIDAR units on top to get a piece of Google's net worth.
and just staying put in the driveway
Or shutting down in the middle of Bumf*ck, Nowhere when the conditions get too bad. The meatsacks inside can just freeze to death. The AI will still be OK come spring thaw.
I get two or three caught on the 'roo bars every day.
10Base5 Ethernet.
7 figure salary
Counting the decimal places?
Your employer benefits
So do I.
This isn't zero sum game theory. My employer stands to benefit by rewarding productivity with greater pay so long as she doesn't have to pay the cost of poor morale and dissension caused by the lower paid employees. I talk and, in order to maintain peace, everyone gets paid the same*. So I leave for better pay and my employer is stuck with the losers. If I shut up, I get more. Some of the low performers might catch on and start complaining. But thy can be fired for causing trouble. My boss is left with high performers and low performers who at least understand economics.
*I used to work for an outfit that distributed a fixed pot of pay increases among groups of employees. And then they'd publish a poorly obfuscated chart of 'rank' and seniority vs pay increases. It turned out that anyone with passable math/logic skills (these were engineers) could figure out who got what. So practically everyone got the median raise. Just to quell dissension. The solution was to have an extra 'high performers' raise pool. But the understanding was that recipients were to STFU about receiving anything from this.
1/2 tsp processors
Add Linux distro to taste
The good thing about this being an autonomous vehicle is that there are likely cameras and sensors all around the vehicle that will be able to tell investigators exactly what happened.
I'm looking forward to something akin to the Russian dash cam video sites.
We're working on it.
Why would you assume that the receipt / delivery side can't / won't be automated?
That will have little bearing on the noise it will make. Never mind electric vehicles and handling equipment, just moving pallets around makes quite a bit of racket.