It took a lot of digging and some inference, but apparently in-store purchases on Black Friday 2016 were about $45 billion, so the online fraction is still only about 10% of the total. I guess that doesn't make a good headline, though...
The theory behind this "revolt" seems to be that the big network providers won't be able to detect this traffic and throttle it. But I suspect that, with enough work, they could find some feature that would allow the packets to be identified as coming from ZeroTier clients. Am I wrong? Can you prove it?
Another problem with this proposal is that only 0.01% of the population can understand what ZeroTier does, so even if ALL of them adopt it, they won't have a significant impact on the network. Also, they'll still be paying Comcast et al for their bandwidth, plus paying something to ZeroTier for support, and
taking on a little extra overhead for their "obscurity". Thanks, I'll pass.
The Cray-3 was using 3D chip stacking back in the early 1990's, but it was with low-integration gallium arsenide chips. Even so, the cooling was insane - immersion in a flourocarbon fluid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
My dad had a "self-winding" watch (analog, obviously) that drew its energy from your motion. This was probably around 1970. I guess this new watch is the same thing, only for people who don't move around much.
Because people would prank it, by uploading hashes of Donald Trump's official picture and similar stuff. They probably will have an asexual person (90-year-old nun or similar) who checks each incoming picture, to make sure it's really a nude.
Law firms do this kind of thing routinely - scanning and indexing documents in lawsuits is essential these days. A quick web search finds companies that will scan your docs for a few cents per page, so your estimate is an order of magnitude low, but it's still pretty cheap. Oh, well, HP let it go to Agilent and then to Keysight, so they obviously didn't value their history very highly.
"Tracking" isn't very useful, if you have to predefine the GPS coordinates. I suppose a divorce lawyer could use this to see when a cheating spouse was visiting a particular house, but in general, $1000 per location would get kind of pricy for general surveillance.
When should he ditch the "virtual" privacy, and get a real private network? Should he wait until he's 60 years old, a billionaire, living on a private island in the Mediterranean with a slide-off roof on his volcano for launching helicopter attacks on MI5, or should he go ahead and set up his private network now so that he and his teenage friends can chat in secret?
I really want an option, on my Android phone, to turn off the stupid voice assistant that's constantly triggering when I'm trying to play music through my car stereo!!!!!!! Not that I'm bitter about it or anything...
Back in the last financial crisis, Matt Taibbi described Goldman Sachs as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money". I guess nothing has changed much since then - they smell money, so they're going after it.
Since the invention of hexadecimal. It was such a pain, working with all those 1's and 0's on your screen. Lots of cutting and pasting to get anything done. People looking over your shoulder at your screen couldn't tell what you were doing, though, so browsing for porn at work was easier.
The state of Alaska has essentially implemented a small Basic Income scheme since 1982 - the Alaska Permanent Fund gives permanent residents an amount varying up to about $2000 per year from a trust fund from natural resource royalties (mostly oil). Everybody there seems to love it, and treats it as a right rather than an insulting welfare program, as far as I can tell. Criminals are excluded to various degrees, but otherwise there's no criteria other than residency.
There's no reason the country as a whole couldn't do something like this, although it'd cost a lot up-front. Maybe UBI's biggest problem is just marketting, and it would be popular once established. Something to think about.
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It took a lot of digging and some inference, but apparently in-store purchases on Black Friday 2016 were about $45 billion, so the online fraction is still only about 10% of the total. I guess that doesn't make a good headline, though...
Another problem with this proposal is that only 0.01% of the population can understand what ZeroTier does, so even if ALL of them adopt it, they won't have a significant impact on the network. Also, they'll still be paying Comcast et al for their bandwidth, plus paying something to ZeroTier for support, and taking on a little extra overhead for their "obscurity". Thanks, I'll pass.
But doesn't the mapmaking lobby have some counter-influence? Surely they sell a lot more flat maps than globes these days.
But will it warn me about sites that don't support Unicode?
The Cray-3 was using 3D chip stacking back in the early 1990's, but it was with low-integration gallium arsenide chips. Even so, the cooling was insane - immersion in a flourocarbon fluid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
My dad had a "self-winding" watch (analog, obviously) that drew its energy from your motion. This was probably around 1970. I guess this new watch is the same thing, only for people who don't move around much.
Because people would prank it, by uploading hashes of Donald Trump's official picture and similar stuff. They probably will have an asexual person (90-year-old nun or similar) who checks each incoming picture, to make sure it's really a nude.
Law firms do this kind of thing routinely - scanning and indexing documents in lawsuits is essential these days. A quick web search finds companies that will scan your docs for a few cents per page, so your estimate is an order of magnitude low, but it's still pretty cheap. Oh, well, HP let it go to Agilent and then to Keysight, so they obviously didn't value their history very highly.
"Tracking" isn't very useful, if you have to predefine the GPS coordinates. I suppose a divorce lawyer could use this to see when a cheating spouse was visiting a particular house, but in general, $1000 per location would get kind of pricy for general surveillance.
When should he ditch the "virtual" privacy, and get a real private network? Should he wait until he's 60 years old, a billionaire, living on a private island in the Mediterranean with a slide-off roof on his volcano for launching helicopter attacks on MI5, or should he go ahead and set up his private network now so that he and his teenage friends can chat in secret?
The aliens only want you to think it's been there for billions of years...
I really want an option, on my Android phone, to turn off the stupid voice assistant that's constantly triggering when I'm trying to play music through my car stereo!!!!!!! Not that I'm bitter about it or anything...
They're big cities, and there's a lot of business transacted between them. Everything doesn't happen on the coasts, you know.
Back in the last financial crisis, Matt Taibbi described Goldman Sachs as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money". I guess nothing has changed much since then - they smell money, so they're going after it.
Just because something is exponential, that doesn't mean you can't compute it. Maybe our overlords have really, really big computers.
Since the invention of hexadecimal. It was such a pain, working with all those 1's and 0's on your screen. Lots of cutting and pasting to get anything done. People looking over your shoulder at your screen couldn't tell what you were doing, though, so browsing for porn at work was easier.
They should have named it "su -c 'rm -rf /' -". Why go half-way?
Alexa, say "mark has no sense of humor".
And if you remove the display, it can go even deeper!
You do realize that using video conferencing instead of face-to-face collaboration doesn't work near as well in practice as it does in theory?
It's like phone sex vs in-person sex. Of course, most programmers wouldn't know that.
Boy, no wonder Firefox consumes so much power. All those extra screens....
It's because they're l'oath to complete the purchase, and want to keep it separate.
if (C = C++) {
Change that and it works fine.
There's no reason the country as a whole couldn't do something like this, although it'd cost a lot up-front. Maybe UBI's biggest problem is just marketting, and it would be popular once established. Something to think about.
Trump constantly contradicts himself. http://www.politico.com/magazi...