Regardless of the system you use, setting up a system like this directly on the Internet is what's to blame. Obviously it's a little more expensive to develop a proper web application and checks and balances on what it can do but no part that is not the "View" should be online.
There are always people that fall through the cracks but the majority of people had options to get out but were more worried about their possessions and looters than their lives, this was announced at least a week in advance and nobody started moving until 0-48 hours before when the situation was already dire.
And living up hurricane alley, does the majority of people have proper preparations, sufficient food? Again, no. How hard is it to store a couple of crates of water and canned food? I live nowhere near hurricane seasons but if I get snowed in or my power goes out for a few weeks, I can make due and I've vacated my property twice already in the last 3 years because of adverse weather.
It's sad for elderly, disabled and children that have to rely on others when the others are so blasé about the whole situation.
So if less particulate matter is flying around, then that means the greenhouse effect caused by said particles also decreases, again, cancelling each other out.
The problem is that we don't yet understand what drives either cooling or warming effects on climate and on a geological scale human effects can't really be quantified. We tend to point blame at something that's immediately visible instead of trying to figure out the cause. I do work in a research department so I am fully aware of the effects publishing papers quickly and immediately digestible by the press has on grant money but climate works, as you said, on geological time scales and trying to fuck around with "solutions" seems counterintuitive.
People have known about the existence of the liquid as far back as the Egyptians. Fill a bag with water and flour or tapioca and it behaves the same way.
The problem with these designs which have been coming and going for decades and every other speed bump or road project with similar properties is the durability.
Roads are a pure hell hole of abrasion, it's why you don a hot as hell leather suit on a motorbike even in the middle of summer. Asphalt and concrete, which is a very durable, non-stretchy substance needs to be replaced every few years. Stretchy substances or even things that move ever so slightly like tiles, hell even bridge joints (or energy absorbing materials or solar freaking roadways) have the byproduct of encapsulating anything that fits in the folds/gaps which subsequently destroys it very quickly.
Either way you would want your AV to identify it. What's more surprising is that Microsoft doesn't find it a bug that ANY software can identify itself as something it's not, just think of the logging and troubleshooting issues when your program due to a typo doesn't show up in the log.
You obviously haven't used certs as authentication, but they're to be handled just like regular passwords. You have a private and public key, no reason to keep the private key accessible to any sort of theft, you can encrypt them so that any use requires a password however the password doesn't traverse the network but without it the cert is useless. In most cases you can also revoke the cert, LetsEncrypt-style cert providers allow you to both instantly revoke and have a short enough lifespan.
I haven't seen any design yet beyond a single tube however the problem I wanted to demonstrate are not necessarily axial forces, the problem is that ANY failure of ANY portion will cause cascading failures. Even if you suddenly collapse a single tube due to loss of integrity of that tube (eg. metal fatigue or a puncture) the force, regardless of how it propagates (eg. you say inwards so let's go with that) will rip off the expansion joint which would cause major damage to the next tube which in turn collapses etc.
For a failure to stop propagating you would have to pressurize the ENTIRE tube to atmospheric pressure BEFORE the cascading failure reaches the next tube. However pressurizing that fast, as you correctly observed, will cause a giant pressure wave to hit every car and accelerate them down the tube until the forces hit equilibrium (or a wall for that matter) and the pressure wave from air rushing in uncontrollably (which would be very, very cold, instantly freezing every tube it passes - a quick change from baking in the hot California sun all day) would come from the other end eventually those two waves would be hitting each other somewhere in the middle unless, again, you can get rid of all that energy somewhere in between.
A little pressure relief/escape hatch isn't going to work, everyone in the tunnel while it is still under vacuum would either freeze to death from the inrushing air or just fly away, most likely, the pressure relief valves would freeze themselves - a problem often observed in... high pressure environments. MRI's have the same kind of problem although somewhat inverted, when an MRI fails, the huge pressure wave from the expanding Helium gasses, force down every door, freeze the room and even though huge pressure relief valves are present, they generally freeze before they even full open.
You're woefully uninformed about vacuum tubes. Stack a car on a soda can, then make a dent in the can. See what happens. Now stack a bunch of soda cans, make a dent in one see what happens.
Elon is the king of vaporware, even worse than Duke Nukem Forever. I don't know if you've noticed but very few of his stuff makes it to market and what does is hugely under the stated promise and over the stated cost. Tesla still doesn't have the cost, range, charge speed nor buildout of universal charging stations. SpaceX won't make it to Mars anymore, the Falcon heavy isn't even out of its design stage, the hyperloop is still an electric cart that barely makes it to the end of a tunnel even under the best of circumstances and with days of setup.
Well, if it's a black box without input or output, then you can say whatever you want about the computer, it doesn't make any difference whether it has if it doesn't "do" anything.
To arrive at "AI" you need to be able to evaluate it's inputs and it's outputs and see whether they are sufficiently intelligent. As I said, we haven't defined intelligence ourselves yet but it seems to involve being able to make progressively 'better' decisions based on past experiences, and we know we can do that (somewhat). The other factor in intelligence is being able to act with foresight, being able to predict and we can make statistical predictions already fairly accurately.
The final point about intelligence is being able to "apply" what you've learned in the past to a totally new data set and be correct about it most of the time but also discard data either new or old if it doesn't fit a particular model. That's what Watson and pretty much every other "AI" out there has trouble with. It can act statistically perfect on pretty much any data set, but give it incomplete or brand new information that does not closely fit anything it has seen before and it will go haywire, acting upon the new information and even classifying things as correct/incorrect which, when you keep iterating on it, you just start getting garbage, intelligence is able to discern and adapt on such information.
Our brain doesn't actually store a whole "lot" of information. It stores models and transformations, a perfect example is when you remember something, colors, cars etc. can change from memory to memory which implies we're not storing a picture of the car in our brain but rather a bunch of pointers to models of cars we have in our brain and over time this information ages out and/or gets replaced and/or optimized. Our brain also doesn't do a supercomputer worth of information processing, we're just very good at applying various reduction filters and compression and then when we have to recall or reclassify, we need to do minimal work.
Once you can run a model like "cancer research" on a desktop computer, you will be able to talk about an 'intelligence'.
According to the Muslims and Christians, Islam started when Abraham sent away his son Ishmael he had made with his sex slave and his son Isaac started Judaism. Judaism eventually became Christianity.
According to scientific evidence we have (which is sparse), all the religions in that region started from the pantheon of gods of various sheep herders that eventually streamlined into the different branches we now know. They all claim the same god and ancestry and they all can be traced back to the same groups of people with similar religions, so to say one came first is dishonest. Until Alexander the Great made the decision not to enforce a state religion (unlike the Persians/Chaldeans/Egyptians before him) there really wasn't just one or two solid religious establishments and this is why you see such influence from Babylonian and Egyptian religions and a bunch of common ideologies amongst all of them.
It's an interesting archeological research project that sadly even media like National Geographic or PBS seldom covers because they don't want to piss anyone off with reality.
Book burnings, although they did happen, didn't happen early on. Before the printing press, books were very, very expensive and thus reserved only for the very rich and the church which, even after the printing press became ubiquitous, the church wanted to keep it that way, hence the book burnings. It's also why the mass is still held in Latin in many denominations or why Mother Teresa didn't actually help anyone, it's just a matter of keeping the poor dumb, sick and dependent on the church.
No. There is no such thing as "AI" (yet). It's possible but probably not within our lifetimes. It's taken us well over 30 years since functional MRI came into the market and we're just beginning to understand what general areas of the brain are involved in doing "something", let alone individual neurons and synapses.
To claim the ability to "create intelligence" when we don't even understand the question yet is hubris (and salesmanship) on the side of IBM. Trust me, there will be several boom-bust cycles before AI becomes 'intelligent'.
Because in most cases it's a waste of time and money to respond to licensing inquiries you won't be able to afford or even to negotiate small deals.
But if you want cheap licensing, there are plenty of small fry audio licensing websites out there. Many photographers use it for wedding videos and the like. You can even get some sites (songfreedom.com) that do pop songs licenses starting at ~$20/mo. But again, if you're a big channel and want to use big names, be prepared to spend big money.
It's called investment in your business. Everyone on Youtube hopes to hit it big, so if you want a big name soundtrack, you have to invest and pay the license fee.
For most record companies or even many individual musicians and bands, you can find sales or licensing information right on their website. If not, contact them and say what you want to do and what you can offer (doesn't have to be money). Small bands and individual musicians will often allow you to use media for free in exchange for exposure and attribution, larger companies often want a deal and exchange of money. If you're a channel with ~100k viewers, good promoters may even contact you to put their music on.
If nothing else, you CAN buy blanket media licensing rights. I have pooled licenses for my digital signage customers for sports results, stock images, videos, music and the like. It's not cheap, these companies start negotiating at ~$25k/year although that gives you content for ~1-5k viewers per day.
The English language is old enough that even if there were initial copyright, it no longer exists. Copyright only exists on pieces that are ~40-100 years old (depending on your jurisdiction and how well a rights holder has kept up with the paperwork).
The reason copyright exists is to allow people to profit of their art when performing it in public. You get great leeway as it is with modern licensing schemes and fair use laws, if you want to embed the digits in your work, then talk to the creator and get a revenue sharing deal going, it's not that hard.
The music labels don't want you to buy the song on Amazon or iTunes, they want you to pay $1M for the right to use it in your 'work' AND charge the end-user $10 every time they hear it.
I quoted fairly recent (2010?) Supreme Court case law for you. It is established in the US that the State does not have the right to limit you to bear small arms by requiring permits (again, not talking about shotguns or long guns aka assault weapons).
You're lucky, in my neck of the woods it gets chucked up on the wrong porch sometime in the middle winter in a halfopen plastic bag. This invariably makes the bag invisible, being covered in 2m of snow slid out bare. So in the spring I get to scrape off a solid brick of paper. Sometimes I even get 2 or 3, one on each porch that is on my house.
The "resources" are trees, glue and ink. Not the cleanest method. Somehow the product has to get paid for, in most cases it's small business that pays for it or even tax payers through phone company subsidies. This is thousands of dollars worth of virtually trash (when was the last time YOU used a paper phone book) that is going to be invested in online ads, infrastructure or other forms of investment.
Money that doesn't move is worthless. The economy has by and large benefited from technological progress. You don't see horse poop in the streets anymore and nobody chucks their wastewater in the street either.
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Regardless of the system you use, setting up a system like this directly on the Internet is what's to blame. Obviously it's a little more expensive to develop a proper web application and checks and balances on what it can do but no part that is not the "View" should be online.
There are always people that fall through the cracks but the majority of people had options to get out but were more worried about their possessions and looters than their lives, this was announced at least a week in advance and nobody started moving until 0-48 hours before when the situation was already dire.
And living up hurricane alley, does the majority of people have proper preparations, sufficient food? Again, no. How hard is it to store a couple of crates of water and canned food? I live nowhere near hurricane seasons but if I get snowed in or my power goes out for a few weeks, I can make due and I've vacated my property twice already in the last 3 years because of adverse weather.
It's sad for elderly, disabled and children that have to rely on others when the others are so blasé about the whole situation.
Point me at a set of scientific studies that show sudden warming above previous peaks on the geological time scales.
So if less particulate matter is flying around, then that means the greenhouse effect caused by said particles also decreases, again, cancelling each other out.
The problem is that we don't yet understand what drives either cooling or warming effects on climate and on a geological scale human effects can't really be quantified. We tend to point blame at something that's immediately visible instead of trying to figure out the cause. I do work in a research department so I am fully aware of the effects publishing papers quickly and immediately digestible by the press has on grant money but climate works, as you said, on geological time scales and trying to fuck around with "solutions" seems counterintuitive.
So "air pollution which tends to cool the oceans" and air pollution which causes global warming and warmer ocean temperatures.
And then you wonder why people don't believe the global warming narrative.
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People have known about the existence of the liquid as far back as the Egyptians. Fill a bag with water and flour or tapioca and it behaves the same way.
The problem with these designs which have been coming and going for decades and every other speed bump or road project with similar properties is the durability.
Roads are a pure hell hole of abrasion, it's why you don a hot as hell leather suit on a motorbike even in the middle of summer. Asphalt and concrete, which is a very durable, non-stretchy substance needs to be replaced every few years. Stretchy substances or even things that move ever so slightly like tiles, hell even bridge joints (or energy absorbing materials or solar freaking roadways) have the byproduct of encapsulating anything that fits in the folds/gaps which subsequently destroys it very quickly.
Either way you would want your AV to identify it. What's more surprising is that Microsoft doesn't find it a bug that ANY software can identify itself as something it's not, just think of the logging and troubleshooting issues when your program due to a typo doesn't show up in the log.
Even without AV this is a serious bug.
Then we just dump some millions of tons of lye in the oceans to prevent the acidity.
You obviously haven't used certs as authentication, but they're to be handled just like regular passwords. You have a private and public key, no reason to keep the private key accessible to any sort of theft, you can encrypt them so that any use requires a password however the password doesn't traverse the network but without it the cert is useless. In most cases you can also revoke the cert, LetsEncrypt-style cert providers allow you to both instantly revoke and have a short enough lifespan.
I haven't seen any design yet beyond a single tube however the problem I wanted to demonstrate are not necessarily axial forces, the problem is that ANY failure of ANY portion will cause cascading failures. Even if you suddenly collapse a single tube due to loss of integrity of that tube (eg. metal fatigue or a puncture) the force, regardless of how it propagates (eg. you say inwards so let's go with that) will rip off the expansion joint which would cause major damage to the next tube which in turn collapses etc.
For a failure to stop propagating you would have to pressurize the ENTIRE tube to atmospheric pressure BEFORE the cascading failure reaches the next tube. However pressurizing that fast, as you correctly observed, will cause a giant pressure wave to hit every car and accelerate them down the tube until the forces hit equilibrium (or a wall for that matter) and the pressure wave from air rushing in uncontrollably (which would be very, very cold, instantly freezing every tube it passes - a quick change from baking in the hot California sun all day) would come from the other end eventually those two waves would be hitting each other somewhere in the middle unless, again, you can get rid of all that energy somewhere in between.
A little pressure relief/escape hatch isn't going to work, everyone in the tunnel while it is still under vacuum would either freeze to death from the inrushing air or just fly away, most likely, the pressure relief valves would freeze themselves - a problem often observed in ... high pressure environments. MRI's have the same kind of problem although somewhat inverted, when an MRI fails, the huge pressure wave from the expanding Helium gasses, force down every door, freeze the room and even though huge pressure relief valves are present, they generally freeze before they even full open.
You're woefully uninformed about vacuum tubes. Stack a car on a soda can, then make a dent in the can. See what happens. Now stack a bunch of soda cans, make a dent in one see what happens.
Elon is the king of vaporware, even worse than Duke Nukem Forever. I don't know if you've noticed but very few of his stuff makes it to market and what does is hugely under the stated promise and over the stated cost. Tesla still doesn't have the cost, range, charge speed nor buildout of universal charging stations. SpaceX won't make it to Mars anymore, the Falcon heavy isn't even out of its design stage, the hyperloop is still an electric cart that barely makes it to the end of a tunnel even under the best of circumstances and with days of setup.
Well, if it's a black box without input or output, then you can say whatever you want about the computer, it doesn't make any difference whether it has if it doesn't "do" anything.
To arrive at "AI" you need to be able to evaluate it's inputs and it's outputs and see whether they are sufficiently intelligent. As I said, we haven't defined intelligence ourselves yet but it seems to involve being able to make progressively 'better' decisions based on past experiences, and we know we can do that (somewhat). The other factor in intelligence is being able to act with foresight, being able to predict and we can make statistical predictions already fairly accurately.
The final point about intelligence is being able to "apply" what you've learned in the past to a totally new data set and be correct about it most of the time but also discard data either new or old if it doesn't fit a particular model. That's what Watson and pretty much every other "AI" out there has trouble with. It can act statistically perfect on pretty much any data set, but give it incomplete or brand new information that does not closely fit anything it has seen before and it will go haywire, acting upon the new information and even classifying things as correct/incorrect which, when you keep iterating on it, you just start getting garbage, intelligence is able to discern and adapt on such information.
Our brain doesn't actually store a whole "lot" of information. It stores models and transformations, a perfect example is when you remember something, colors, cars etc. can change from memory to memory which implies we're not storing a picture of the car in our brain but rather a bunch of pointers to models of cars we have in our brain and over time this information ages out and/or gets replaced and/or optimized. Our brain also doesn't do a supercomputer worth of information processing, we're just very good at applying various reduction filters and compression and then when we have to recall or reclassify, we need to do minimal work.
Once you can run a model like "cancer research" on a desktop computer, you will be able to talk about an 'intelligence'.
Depends on who you ask.
According to the Muslims and Christians, Islam started when Abraham sent away his son Ishmael he had made with his sex slave and his son Isaac started Judaism. Judaism eventually became Christianity.
According to scientific evidence we have (which is sparse), all the religions in that region started from the pantheon of gods of various sheep herders that eventually streamlined into the different branches we now know. They all claim the same god and ancestry and they all can be traced back to the same groups of people with similar religions, so to say one came first is dishonest. Until Alexander the Great made the decision not to enforce a state religion (unlike the Persians/Chaldeans/Egyptians before him) there really wasn't just one or two solid religious establishments and this is why you see such influence from Babylonian and Egyptian religions and a bunch of common ideologies amongst all of them.
It's an interesting archeological research project that sadly even media like National Geographic or PBS seldom covers because they don't want to piss anyone off with reality.
Book burnings, although they did happen, didn't happen early on. Before the printing press, books were very, very expensive and thus reserved only for the very rich and the church which, even after the printing press became ubiquitous, the church wanted to keep it that way, hence the book burnings. It's also why the mass is still held in Latin in many denominations or why Mother Teresa didn't actually help anyone, it's just a matter of keeping the poor dumb, sick and dependent on the church.
No. There is no such thing as "AI" (yet). It's possible but probably not within our lifetimes. It's taken us well over 30 years since functional MRI came into the market and we're just beginning to understand what general areas of the brain are involved in doing "something", let alone individual neurons and synapses.
To claim the ability to "create intelligence" when we don't even understand the question yet is hubris (and salesmanship) on the side of IBM. Trust me, there will be several boom-bust cycles before AI becomes 'intelligent'.
Because in most cases it's a waste of time and money to respond to licensing inquiries you won't be able to afford or even to negotiate small deals.
But if you want cheap licensing, there are plenty of small fry audio licensing websites out there. Many photographers use it for wedding videos and the like. You can even get some sites (songfreedom.com) that do pop songs licenses starting at ~$20/mo. But again, if you're a big channel and want to use big names, be prepared to spend big money.
I do agree that copyright eventually expires.
It's called investment in your business. Everyone on Youtube hopes to hit it big, so if you want a big name soundtrack, you have to invest and pay the license fee.
For most record companies or even many individual musicians and bands, you can find sales or licensing information right on their website. If not, contact them and say what you want to do and what you can offer (doesn't have to be money). Small bands and individual musicians will often allow you to use media for free in exchange for exposure and attribution, larger companies often want a deal and exchange of money. If you're a channel with ~100k viewers, good promoters may even contact you to put their music on.
If nothing else, you CAN buy blanket media licensing rights. I have pooled licenses for my digital signage customers for sports results, stock images, videos, music and the like. It's not cheap, these companies start negotiating at ~$25k/year although that gives you content for ~1-5k viewers per day.
The English language is old enough that even if there were initial copyright, it no longer exists. Copyright only exists on pieces that are ~40-100 years old (depending on your jurisdiction and how well a rights holder has kept up with the paperwork).
The reason copyright exists is to allow people to profit of their art when performing it in public. You get great leeway as it is with modern licensing schemes and fair use laws, if you want to embed the digits in your work, then talk to the creator and get a revenue sharing deal going, it's not that hard.
The music labels don't want you to buy the song on Amazon or iTunes, they want you to pay $1M for the right to use it in your 'work' AND charge the end-user $10 every time they hear it.
If people spend 22% more time on pages, they are spending 22% longer watching ads on those pages. It's not a design flaw, it's a feature!
The other alternative is to use a custom CSS in your browser that adapts things to the styles you like.
I quoted fairly recent (2010?) Supreme Court case law for you. It is established in the US that the State does not have the right to limit you to bear small arms by requiring permits (again, not talking about shotguns or long guns aka assault weapons).
You're lucky, in my neck of the woods it gets chucked up on the wrong porch sometime in the middle winter in a halfopen plastic bag. This invariably makes the bag invisible, being covered in 2m of snow slid out bare. So in the spring I get to scrape off a solid brick of paper. Sometimes I even get 2 or 3, one on each porch that is on my house.
The "resources" are trees, glue and ink. Not the cleanest method. Somehow the product has to get paid for, in most cases it's small business that pays for it or even tax payers through phone company subsidies. This is thousands of dollars worth of virtually trash (when was the last time YOU used a paper phone book) that is going to be invested in online ads, infrastructure or other forms of investment.
Money that doesn't move is worthless. The economy has by and large benefited from technological progress. You don't see horse poop in the streets anymore and nobody chucks their wastewater in the street either.