The difficulty of transporting oil away from the tar sands works as a tax on that oil. A tax which is applied right at the production of the worst kind of fossil fuel we currently have. Keystone XL will remove most of that tax. As it is, tar sand oil is right on the cusp of being economical, and therefore lowering the costs is going to increase production a lot.
No other technology - not solar, not wind, not whatever green scheme you dream up - can produce electricity on a large scale.
This is not true. Both solar and wind can scale as far as you want. There are few places where at least one is not an option, and both can generate way more energy than the world uses (particularly solar).
Given the current construction times for nuclear reactors in the West which approaches a couple of decades from proposal to first production, nuclear is likely to be too little, too late. But by all means, build some nuclear power plants. Particularly if you are in a country which is fucked when it comes to solar and wind, like England.
How bits have to change before it is no longer infringing?
Copyright does not work like that. If you AES encrypt something and end up with Star Wars, you are completely in the clear. Your copy of Star Wars is not copyrighted, because it is not a copy of Star Wars, it is just a bunch of random bits that showed up.
Is it the data that is infringing, or how I created it?
The latter.
So am I going to get sued because these 30 billion bits, manipulated in one specific way, could become Star Wars?
And if you do an A/B test, most "people" can't tell the difference between Coke or Pepsi. These are not smart people.
Limiting sales to smart people is not going to get the record company execs any yachts.
Automatic gain adjustment based on proper human hearing models would limit the volume of the range compressed songs, even the peaks. I.e. non-compressed songs would be allowed higher peak volume.
If you do an A B X test, people will consistently prefer loud over quiet, even if the volume difference is small. People still listen to songs on the radio, and if your song is not loud enough, it will not get popular.
This could be trivially avoided if the radio stations did automatic gain adjustment based on a proper model of how humans perceive sound.
I think it will be obvious to the reader which of us uses baseless smear without references.
As to Putin, I have made my views on him perfectly clear. Shall I compare him to Hitler again just to placate you? George Bush junior is no Hitler and not even a Putin, but that is damning with faint praise.
Leaving marks or not is a choice for any half-way competent torturer. Being brutal without leaving marks is something which was first developed around 1920 and which has been refined since then. England, France, and the United States have led the world in this, and various governments around the world have been quick to learn from their examples. The reason is, of course, to mislead people like you into believing that torture is not torture.
Yes, it is a horrible idea to give those HAM guys more freedom. Every time we relax the rules for them, we get disasters of biblical proportions, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!
You can easily do more than one bit per second per Hertz. There is no need to go to 1600GHz. 256 QAM gives you 8 bits per second per Hertz, leaving you with 100GHz. Now go 10-way MIMO and you are at 10GHz. Polarize and you are at 5GHz.
Fitting 20 antennas per supported frequency band into a phone is left as an exercise for the reader.
Also, cell phone networks always calculate as if they have precisely one customer per cell. The 800Gbps is shared.
LTE is definitely a generation ahead of 3G. The latency is massively different; 4G feels very different from 3G in the same way that ethernet-over-fibre feels different from VDSL. 4G can actually feel like an OK DSL line. 5G with 1ms latency should be able to compete favourably with low-speed fibre.
(Latency is also why it is laughable that UK providers pretend that they are selling fibre optic broadband. It is a sign of the missing consumer protection laws in the UK.)
Videoing does not help. Almost everyone can drive just fine when drunk; a car has four wheels and generally stays pointed in the same direction if you do not mess with it.
The problem is what happens when something unusual occurs. That is when being drunk gets you and people around you killed. If you are just videoing someone, you are unlikely to catch them in such a situation, and even if you do, it is too late.
I completely agree. In the normal situation. This is not a normal situation.
This is a situation where health is put a risk on a global scale because we cannot be arsed to pay a few thousand ambulance drivers, and so infected people are left at home to infect their community. It is complete stupidity.
Those ambulance drivers are risking their lives every day. The least we can do is pay them their normal wages.
We can't even find the money to make sure that everyone in our own countries are treated without bankrupting them, what makes you think we'd be able to pay another country's medical bills too?
a) Of course we can. Practically the entire Western world has universal healthcare, and the one country which does not pays more than average on health care per capita.
b) We are not talking about actual treatment. Only about finding a few hundred million dollars to keep existing medical personnel paid while governments in the affected countries are in deep trouble.
If Ebola gets to Western countries, a few hundred million dollars are gone in the blink of an eye.
Do you seriously believe that an article which mentions 2000MPH in general means 2000MPH +/- 0.5MPH? If so, I am not sure how to convince you otherwise.
A lot more could be accomplished by just throwing (not very much) money at the problem. Like Sierra Leone where ambulance drivers are only on half pay due to government budget cuts. It is ridiculous that we (first world countries) cannot find the money to make sure that health care workers in the affected countries are paid reasonable wages.
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The difficulty of transporting oil away from the tar sands works as a tax on that oil. A tax which is applied right at the production of the worst kind of fossil fuel we currently have. Keystone XL will remove most of that tax. As it is, tar sand oil is right on the cusp of being economical, and therefore lowering the costs is going to increase production a lot.
Your solutions must be cost neutral or very nearly cost neutral or must be cheaper then existing models.
If you want to keep the system active and you really have no choice here... then you're going to have to play the game. Learn the rules or lose.
What if the set of cost neutral solutions is empty?
No other technology - not solar, not wind, not whatever green scheme you dream up - can produce electricity on a large scale.
This is not true. Both solar and wind can scale as far as you want. There are few places where at least one is not an option, and both can generate way more energy than the world uses (particularly solar).
Given the current construction times for nuclear reactors in the West which approaches a couple of decades from proposal to first production, nuclear is likely to be too little, too late. But by all means, build some nuclear power plants. Particularly if you are in a country which is fucked when it comes to solar and wind, like England.
How bits have to change before it is no longer infringing?
Copyright does not work like that. If you AES encrypt something and end up with Star Wars, you are completely in the clear. Your copy of Star Wars is not copyrighted, because it is not a copy of Star Wars, it is just a bunch of random bits that showed up.
Is it the data that is infringing, or how I created it?
The latter.
So am I going to get sued because these 30 billion bits, manipulated in one specific way, could become Star Wars?
Yes.
And if you do an A/B test, most "people" can't tell the difference between Coke or Pepsi. These are not smart people.
Limiting sales to smart people is not going to get the record company execs any yachts.
Automatic gain adjustment based on proper human hearing models would limit the volume of the range compressed songs, even the peaks. I.e. non-compressed songs would be allowed higher peak volume.
If you do an A B X test, people will consistently prefer loud over quiet, even if the volume difference is small. People still listen to songs on the radio, and if your song is not loud enough, it will not get popular.
This could be trivially avoided if the radio stations did automatic gain adjustment based on a proper model of how humans perceive sound.
I think it will be obvious to the reader which of us uses baseless smear without references.
As to Putin, I have made my views on him perfectly clear. Shall I compare him to Hitler again just to placate you? George Bush junior is no Hitler and not even a Putin, but that is damning with faint praise.
Leaving marks or not is a choice for any half-way competent torturer. Being brutal without leaving marks is something which was first developed around 1920 and which has been refined since then. England, France, and the United States have led the world in this, and various governments around the world have been quick to learn from their examples. The reason is, of course, to mislead people like you into believing that torture is not torture.
See Torture and Democracy by Darius Rejali.
Optimizing one law to aid abuse of a different law does not sound like a good idea.
They could do all that, but really, would they bother? Just to save the cost of a frequency license? That sounds rather far-fetched.
Yes, it is a horrible idea to give those HAM guys more freedom. Every time we relax the rules for them, we get disasters of biblical proportions, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!
You have no clue how these borderline-failed states work.
Wow, your eloquent debating skills really showed me there. I shall immediately change my opinion.
The ambulance drivers were being paid then. They are not being paid now. Fixing that is trivial.
Cell phone network latency is measured from handset to cell. What you do with it after it leaves the cell does not concern the standard.
You can easily do more than one bit per second per Hertz. There is no need to go to 1600GHz. 256 QAM gives you 8 bits per second per Hertz, leaving you with 100GHz. Now go 10-way MIMO and you are at 10GHz. Polarize and you are at 5GHz.
Fitting 20 antennas per supported frequency band into a phone is left as an exercise for the reader.
Also, cell phone networks always calculate as if they have precisely one customer per cell. The 800Gbps is shared.
Don't worry, 2018 leaves plenty of time for crashes to wipe out your retirement plans.
LTE is definitely a generation ahead of 3G. The latency is massively different; 4G feels very different from 3G in the same way that ethernet-over-fibre feels different from VDSL. 4G can actually feel like an OK DSL line. 5G with 1ms latency should be able to compete favourably with low-speed fibre.
(Latency is also why it is laughable that UK providers pretend that they are selling fibre optic broadband. It is a sign of the missing consumer protection laws in the UK.)
Well, in Denmark that would be the random checkpoint. No suspicion or probable cause is needed to ask for a breathalyzer test in Denmark.
It was possible in July. Why is it not possible in December?
Videoing does not help. Almost everyone can drive just fine when drunk; a car has four wheels and generally stays pointed in the same direction if you do not mess with it.
The problem is what happens when something unusual occurs. That is when being drunk gets you and people around you killed. If you are just videoing someone, you are unlikely to catch them in such a situation, and even if you do, it is too late.
I completely agree. In the normal situation. This is not a normal situation.
This is a situation where health is put a risk on a global scale because we cannot be arsed to pay a few thousand ambulance drivers, and so infected people are left at home to infect their community. It is complete stupidity.
Those ambulance drivers are risking their lives every day. The least we can do is pay them their normal wages.
We can't even find the money to make sure that everyone in our own countries are treated without bankrupting them, what makes you think we'd be able to pay another country's medical bills too?
a) Of course we can. Practically the entire Western world has universal healthcare, and the one country which does not pays more than average on health care per capita.
b) We are not talking about actual treatment. Only about finding a few hundred million dollars to keep existing medical personnel paid while governments in the affected countries are in deep trouble.
If Ebola gets to Western countries, a few hundred million dollars are gone in the blink of an eye.
That has nothing to do with the question about significancy :)
That is what significancy is! What else would it be?
Do you seriously believe that an article which mentions 2000MPH in general means 2000MPH +/- 0.5MPH? If so, I am not sure how to convince you otherwise.
A lot more could be accomplished by just throwing (not very much) money at the problem. Like Sierra Leone where ambulance drivers are only on half pay due to government budget cuts. It is ridiculous that we (first world countries) cannot find the money to make sure that health care workers in the affected countries are paid reasonable wages.