People need to remember that a human life isn't really just a series of consecutive hours. It's one complete unit. Thinking of it as a series of hours reminds me of one of Zeno's paradoxes.
Just because a hacker may steal millions of hours overall, he steals zero complete lives. This is why murdering is of course worse than writing viruses.
When it comes to NASA thats not as unrealistic of a horizon as it seems though. Most of their projects take multiple administrations and many years to finish.
Everyone on this thread is acting like there are no checks to this system which, although they may not be layed out on the website, of course there are. I'm sure if you pass out and someone tries to use your chip somehow, the bartender won't let them. I'm sure if you get mischarged somehow, you'll be refunded. I'm sure if the chips were really that inaccurate that just by walking near the bar you were buying people drinks that people wouldn't get them implanted and the bar wouldn't use them. It's all common sense people.
That doesn't mean this isn't a horribly stupid idea for a myriad of other reasons though.
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What about the loss of time it took workers to complete the phone survey?
sounds like a bunch of BS to me. i think the bare minimum requirement for running a successful campaign should be a winning candidate.
'the candidate lost but the campaign won'?
in my country, car parks you.
Finally, a news story on here that actually effects me.
People need to remember that a human life isn't really just a series of consecutive hours. It's one complete unit. Thinking of it as a series of hours reminds me of one of Zeno's paradoxes. Just because a hacker may steal millions of hours overall, he steals zero complete lives. This is why murdering is of course worse than writing viruses.
When it comes to NASA thats not as unrealistic of a horizon as it seems though. Most of their projects take multiple administrations and many years to finish.
Everyone on this thread is acting like there are no checks to this system which, although they may not be layed out on the website, of course there are. I'm sure if you pass out and someone tries to use your chip somehow, the bartender won't let them. I'm sure if you get mischarged somehow, you'll be refunded. I'm sure if the chips were really that inaccurate that just by walking near the bar you were buying people drinks that people wouldn't get them implanted and the bar wouldn't use them. It's all common sense people. That doesn't mean this isn't a horribly stupid idea for a myriad of other reasons though.