I have to say, restoring cell service is probably more important than copper service. Hardly anyone has landlines. Notice how they hardly mention that it is copper wires they are talking about...
I agree. The price seems to be going up because people are speculating that it will continue to go up and more, causing the price to further rise. Few people are buying it as a tool for exchanging goods and services. As a result, there's not much backing the current value other than rarity, which probably isn't enough. It will drop drastically in value eventually once the speculating stops.
Machinery, robots, and automation have been taking over jobs for hundreds of years. Humans have been resisting those automation takeovers for just as long. The earliest of these are Luddites. they smashed up weaving machinery because it was taking over their jobs. Below is the link, very interesting read.
However, despite all the automation and machinery over the centuries, the number of jobs available have continued to increase. Rather than completely replacing jobs, automation shifted jobs to new positions or industries that may require more thinking that automation is not capable of doing. As a result, productivity has skyrocketed, giving us the amazing quality of life compared to quality of life centuries ago.
For example, in 1880 50% of Americans worked on farms. Today, 1% of Americans work on farms. That's a 49% job loss. However, we don't see a 49% unemployment. Those jobs have shifted to other industries, while we still get amazing food production.
There's no indication that this automation increase, productivity increase, and job type shift will change. There's also no indication that Luddites will stop resisting the change. However, there no reason to start taxing robots. People still have jobs, jobs availability is still increasing, still paying income tax, and it's an incredible complication to the tax code. There already exists job training federal aid for those put out of work by outsourcing. A possible solution to automation job shifting is to expand that for job loss caused by automation to help people learn to new job types.
$515,000 is not much for a large business (same as 5 telemarketing employees for a year approximately). Even if they do pay, it's unlikely to make a difference to their behavior.
Companies have been selling your information for all of recorded history. Many companies make money from this. The only difference is now your ISP can join in. You won't notice a difference.
Climate change is not doomsday nor does it in any way compare to nuclear holocaust. It is a different climate, one in which humans and life can continue to prosper. Comparing that to total destruction of half of the world while the half would have to live in nuclear fallout for thousands of year is just a joke.
The government can subsidize the costs and offer service for well below the actual costs, which is unfair competition.
The issue in high costs with broadband come from partial or complete monopolies of ISPs. ISPs like Comcast can charge whatever they want in many areas because they are the only viable option.
In order to reduce costs, the government can help introduce competition. When many companies offer similar service, they compete for customers in price and customers win. I really like this idea in Virginia of providing a means for municipalities to introduce competition rather than become competitors themselves. It provides a means to offer lots of competition to companies like Comcast. This is something Comcast fights with a passion since they won't make as much money.
It does not make sense to disregard evidence of stealth based on program cost overruns. Stealth is one aspect of the F-35 that has gone well. Keep an open mind and make decision based on data, not hype or preconceived biases.
The F-35 does not support external stores and opening the bay doors or lowering gear degrade the aerodynamics, making evasion maneuvers that they were practicing very difficult. Turning on the transponder makes a lot of sense in this case.
Google it, you'll get that it has to do with number of transistors, not complexity.
"The observation made in 1965 by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since the integrated circuit was invented. Moore predicted that this trend would continue for the foreseeable future."
For those who are not aware, the American dream is the opportunity for prosperity and success through productive work, regardless of class in society. It's not working to death at 60 hours a week for $13 an hour. It's not working one day a week at $100 an hour and being lazy the rest. You can do that if you want, but it's your choice. A successful person chooses a field in demand and becomes productive in that field. Or perhaps finds a need for a product, and invents and markets that product. There's an infinite number of ways to become successful, and everyone can do it. Being an Uber driver for life probably isn't one of them (though Uber driving may help you along the way of getting to success, such as paying for college).
If it's off-the-shelf components, then no new code is required.
For example, a quadrotor with a homemade bomb attached, ignition linked to an RF control. It's very easy, and very dangerous. Not a single line of code is required.
Can you put together a reliable propulsion system for long flight? Can you make it take off vertically reliably? Can you make it fly fast? Can you create accurate flight control to impact a target? Can the vehicle accurately verify it is the correct target before impact? Can you make a jammer that won't interfere with it's own communication? Can you make a warhead from off the shelf components that have a real impact on a target? Can you show in flight testing that it will be reliable for years to come? Can you set up constant communications as it flies hundreds of miles over the ocean? Can you REALLY guarantee that it can't be hacked?
A cruise missile is a difficult thing to design and make for these reasons and many more.
A right is a liberty, a freedom to do something without the government interfering.
The internet is a service, someone's labor for which they need compensation.
You never have a right to another person's services or goods. At best you could say it's a good idea to pool resources. Even that involves forcing those who do not want to pool resources into giving up their resources. As a result, a byproduct of pooling resources is a gradual reduction of individuals choosing what to do with their own resources.
It worries me that so many politicians are giving away our resources as if it's a gift (we're paying for it after all, not the politician) and calling that "gift" a right. In this case, I can get internet access without the government "gifting" me with it. A program to make internet available to all areas is certainly a better way to frame the proposal (but not for free).
Being that the program was classified, they would have just ordered are large number of assets without telling her the reason for them. If I were HP and the NSA wanted to buy a large numbers of servers, I would sell the servers to them as well.
From the article
Fiorina said. “They were ramping up a whole set of programs and needed a lot of data crunching capability to try and monitor a whole set of threats... What I knew at the time was our nation had been attacked.”
The summary makes it sound like she purposely did it to screw over Americans. There's nothing to indicate that. The waterboarding issue is added on even though it is not related. This is a flame bait summary, and a misleading article. We really don't need articles on Slashdot that demonize people like this.
The best way to test the emissions software, and the best from an engineering validation perspective, is to compare the Volkswagen software readings against direct measurements of the emissions (out of the tailpipe). This is a much more accurate method of regulation, and would have prevented this Volkswagen fiasco from the beginning. Regulators should test it this way rather than assume a vehicle manufacturer wrote software correctly, or even deliberately miswrote it. Access to software source code becomes unnecessary.
The summary misrepresents the article. Coke disclosed the list to offset the idea that they were funding research to downplay obesity and Coke links.
The list was released after the company’s chief executive, Muhtar Kent, promised to be transparent about its partnerships and support for scientific research related to obesity. The move was prompted by criticism that the company has used its vast resources to play down the role of Coke products in the spread of obesity...
Nowhere in the summary does it say that all the research it funded supported a specific conclusion. Rather, just it implies the opposite, that Coke funded everyone.
“What I find most remarkable about this list is its length and comprehensiveness,” said Dr. Nestle, author of the book “Soda Politics.” “No organization, no matter how small, goes unfunded. Any scientist or dietitian who is willing to take Coca-Cola funding gets it.”
The only problem with this list is the conflict of interest in taking funding from a beverage company to study the effects of the beverage in diets.
Whoever wrote the summary, please read the article carefully!!
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, said that four of its websites were hacked in recent weeks. To block the attackers, government officials were forced to shut down some of its services.
... NOAA makes satellite data and imagery available through the Web as well as file transfer networks for downloads.
It was just the web sites, not satellites. This is far overblown.
Both of these crimes are malicious actions for political gain, not accidents or a cop defending an innocent. Neither are justified by motive or by result.
The presence US classified documents implies US government. It's not proof, but that's probably what she's thinking. It may be other news agencies, competitive journalists, people she's pissed off, foreign governments, all just checking up on what's she's doing and ready to set her up for arrest.
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Ok, so they're going to force everyone to have a smart phone or laptop to bring to the store or other locations as proof of purchase?
Do they think everyone has one or can afford to have one?
Is that better than a small piece of paper, both recyclable and convenient?
Is receipt waste a big issue in California?
Are they really thinking this through?
I have to say, restoring cell service is probably more important than copper service. Hardly anyone has landlines. Notice how they hardly mention that it is copper wires they are talking about ...
Most people won't realize their transactions are public. Hence the privacy issue.
A reference would be appreciated rather than an assumption that everyone in this study was drinking sugary processed coffee.
I agree. The price seems to be going up because people are speculating that it will continue to go up and more, causing the price to further rise. Few people are buying it as a tool for exchanging goods and services. As a result, there's not much backing the current value other than rarity, which probably isn't enough. It will drop drastically in value eventually once the speculating stops.
Machinery, robots, and automation have been taking over jobs for hundreds of years. Humans have been resisting those automation takeovers for just as long. The earliest of these are Luddites. they smashed up weaving machinery because it was taking over their jobs. Below is the link, very interesting read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
However, despite all the automation and machinery over the centuries, the number of jobs available have continued to increase. Rather than completely replacing jobs, automation shifted jobs to new positions or industries that may require more thinking that automation is not capable of doing. As a result, productivity has skyrocketed, giving us the amazing quality of life compared to quality of life centuries ago.
For example, in 1880 50% of Americans worked on farms. Today, 1% of Americans work on farms. That's a 49% job loss. However, we don't see a 49% unemployment. Those jobs have shifted to other industries, while we still get amazing food production.
There's no indication that this automation increase, productivity increase, and job type shift will change. There's also no indication that Luddites will stop resisting the change. However, there no reason to start taxing robots. People still have jobs, jobs availability is still increasing, still paying income tax, and it's an incredible complication to the tax code. There already exists job training federal aid for those put out of work by outsourcing. A possible solution to automation job shifting is to expand that for job loss caused by automation to help people learn to new job types.
$515,000 is not much for a large business (same as 5 telemarketing employees for a year approximately). Even if they do pay, it's unlikely to make a difference to their behavior.
Companies have been selling your information for all of recorded history. Many companies make money from this. The only difference is now your ISP can join in. You won't notice a difference.
Climate change is not doomsday nor does it in any way compare to nuclear holocaust. It is a different climate, one in which humans and life can continue to prosper. Comparing that to total destruction of half of the world while the half would have to live in nuclear fallout for thousands of year is just a joke.
The government can subsidize the costs and offer service for well below the actual costs, which is unfair competition.
The issue in high costs with broadband come from partial or complete monopolies of ISPs. ISPs like Comcast can charge whatever they want in many areas because they are the only viable option.
In order to reduce costs, the government can help introduce competition. When many companies offer similar service, they compete for customers in price and customers win. I really like this idea in Virginia of providing a means for municipalities to introduce competition rather than become competitors themselves. It provides a means to offer lots of competition to companies like Comcast. This is something Comcast fights with a passion since they won't make as much money.
It does not make sense to disregard evidence of stealth based on program cost overruns. Stealth is one aspect of the F-35 that has gone well. Keep an open mind and make decision based on data, not hype or preconceived biases.
The F-35 does not support external stores and opening the bay doors or lowering gear degrade the aerodynamics, making evasion maneuvers that they were practicing very difficult. Turning on the transponder makes a lot of sense in this case.
Google it, you'll get that it has to do with number of transistors, not complexity.
"The observation made in 1965 by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since the integrated circuit was invented. Moore predicted that this trend would continue for the foreseeable future."
For those who are not aware, the American dream is the opportunity for prosperity and success through productive work, regardless of class in society. It's not working to death at 60 hours a week for $13 an hour. It's not working one day a week at $100 an hour and being lazy the rest. You can do that if you want, but it's your choice. A successful person chooses a field in demand and becomes productive in that field. Or perhaps finds a need for a product, and invents and markets that product. There's an infinite number of ways to become successful, and everyone can do it. Being an Uber driver for life probably isn't one of them (though Uber driving may help you along the way of getting to success, such as paying for college).
You're switching subjects. You stated a cruise missile, not the drones that DARPA is asking for.
If you just want a bomb on an aircraft, none of the things you mentioned in your original post are necessary (communication, radios, jamming, etc).
If it's off-the-shelf components, then no new code is required.
For example, a quadrotor with a homemade bomb attached, ignition linked to an RF control. It's very easy, and very dangerous. Not a single line of code is required.
You're over simplifying a cruise missile.
Can you put together a reliable propulsion system for long flight?
Can you make it take off vertically reliably?
Can you make it fly fast?
Can you create accurate flight control to impact a target?
Can the vehicle accurately verify it is the correct target before impact?
Can you make a jammer that won't interfere with it's own communication?
Can you make a warhead from off the shelf components that have a real impact on a target?
Can you show in flight testing that it will be reliable for years to come?
Can you set up constant communications as it flies hundreds of miles over the ocean?
Can you REALLY guarantee that it can't be hacked?
A cruise missile is a difficult thing to design and make for these reasons and many more.
This assumes all wind is blowing everywhere in the world to maximize the capacity of wind power. Unless that is happening, nuclear is still ahead.
A right is a liberty, a freedom to do something without the government interfering.
The internet is a service, someone's labor for which they need compensation.
You never have a right to another person's services or goods. At best you could say it's a good idea to pool resources. Even that involves forcing those who do not want to pool resources into giving up their resources. As a result, a byproduct of pooling resources is a gradual reduction of individuals choosing what to do with their own resources.
It worries me that so many politicians are giving away our resources as if it's a gift (we're paying for it after all, not the politician) and calling that "gift" a right. In this case, I can get internet access without the government "gifting" me with it. A program to make internet available to all areas is certainly a better way to frame the proposal (but not for free).
Being that the program was classified, they would have just ordered are large number of assets without telling her the reason for them. If I were HP and the NSA wanted to buy a large numbers of servers, I would sell the servers to them as well.
From the article
Fiorina said. “They were ramping up a whole set of programs and needed a lot of data crunching capability to try and monitor a whole set of threats... What I knew at the time was our nation had been attacked.”
The summary makes it sound like she purposely did it to screw over Americans. There's nothing to indicate that. The waterboarding issue is added on even though it is not related. This is a flame bait summary, and a misleading article. We really don't need articles on Slashdot that demonize people like this.
The best way to test the emissions software, and the best from an engineering validation perspective, is to compare the Volkswagen software readings against direct measurements of the emissions (out of the tailpipe). This is a much more accurate method of regulation, and would have prevented this Volkswagen fiasco from the beginning. Regulators should test it this way rather than assume a vehicle manufacturer wrote software correctly, or even deliberately miswrote it. Access to software source code becomes unnecessary.
The summary misrepresents the article. Coke disclosed the list to offset the idea that they were funding research to downplay obesity and Coke links.
The list was released after the company’s chief executive, Muhtar Kent, promised to be transparent about its partnerships and support for scientific research related to obesity. The move was prompted by criticism that the company has used its vast resources to play down the role of Coke products in the spread of obesity ...
Nowhere in the summary does it say that all the research it funded supported a specific conclusion. Rather, just it implies the opposite, that Coke funded everyone.
“What I find most remarkable about this list is its length and comprehensiveness,” said Dr. Nestle, author of the book “Soda Politics.” “No organization, no matter how small, goes unfunded. Any scientist or dietitian who is willing to take Coca-Cola funding gets it.”
The only problem with this list is the conflict of interest in taking funding from a beverage company to study the effects of the beverage in diets.
Whoever wrote the summary, please read the article carefully!!
From the article,
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, said that four of its websites were hacked in recent weeks. To block the attackers, government officials were forced to shut down some of its services.
... NOAA makes satellite data and imagery available through the Web as well as file transfer networks for downloads.
It was just the web sites, not satellites. This is far overblown.
Both of these crimes are malicious actions for political gain, not accidents or a cop defending an innocent. Neither are justified by motive or by result.
The presence US classified documents implies US government. It's not proof, but that's probably what she's thinking. It may be other news agencies, competitive journalists, people she's pissed off, foreign governments, all just checking up on what's she's doing and ready to set her up for arrest.