1) Eliminate minimum wage and allow the market to set the rate through competition. Minimum wage sets a nationwide standard of how little a person in a position like this is worth.
MANY employers feel employees are a burden they wish they could do without and feel like paying them even minimums is too much. They'd LOVE to pay zero, maybe toss them a sandwich for pay. If the law allowed it, they would do it! Nevermind if people can survive off that. There are always tons of applicants for every job so they are disposable people.
Have you considered moving? $125K for a job doesn't sound THAT high, and surely you can make that in other cities where the cost of living is either lower or you could get a mansion for that much cost.
Hell, you could even take an income hit and still end up with more left over at the end of the month.
Also noting, $125K a year is not very much to raise a family. If both parents work, I would expect closer to $200K even in my area, where it is a LOT cheaper to live that SF.
There were already similar stories in the US where Amazon workers lived in camper RVs and travelled from warehouse to warehouse as work was needed. So it does happen here.
Beyond that, I used to work in an office park with small number of fulfillment warehouses. During a health kick phase of my life, I used to spend an hour a day walking the office park in loops. It was reasonably safe and let me de-stress from work. It was during these walks when I happened to look into the adjacent woods you normally could not see from within the office park or the road and realized there were numerous tents set up, some carefully camouflaged.
This wasn't even Amazon but a much smaller fulfillment operation, mainly for Brother products. And it was 8 years ago.
Here is the thing, piles of cash and bricks of coke may be illegal but they are not threats to a plane.
Guy with a gun, maybe. Plenty of cops carry guns and nobody thinks twice so I don't think merely having a gun is dangerous. Intent makes the difference.
Guy with a bomb, well yes, we probably can say he is a threat to the plane. But somebody with a bag full of cash is not. What the hell are they going to do, buy a lot of food from the fight attendants or spend something on Skymall? Oh shit. The horrors.
There are two things going on there, both really bad.
One, we apparently have non-sworn, non-law enforcement employees doing searches and making inspections where they have an incentive to "find stuff" for direct payout.
Two, all of this bullshit is taking place within the DEA/FBI/US Government's already well-known policies and practices of presumptive guilt on cash or people which results in seizures of private property, like currency, under the purely speculative claims that it may be drug-related.
It's not even just piles of cash. They now routinely run your credit and debit cards and can and do seize your entire bank account balances merely because you had an ATM card with access to money. Never mind how you got it. Maybe you have a six-figure job. Maybe you won a lottery or maybe you are just wealthy. Doesn't matter. They can and will take it all.
Presumptive seizures were already a travesty. But now we have low wage flunkies sniffing around too. Are these people even able to testify in court? I've never heard of a drug case where the primary witness was an Amtrak porter or something. But hell, many of these cases never even GET to court because they do the presumptive guilt thing and it's all over.
This isn't Trump's fault. It's been going on for decades and nobody has stopped it because the damn agencies get to keep the money and fuck all if you get between them and money they want, even if it is your legally earned money. Their job is to send people to prison.
Phones put on test stands would never feel the flexing that occurs in daily use. They probably issued phones for real-world walk-around testing but I bet they did so carefully putting the prototype phones into carry bags and otherwise treating them with kid gloves, rather than jamming them into pants pockets and sitting on them.
The rush to get these things manufactured and on sale probably left no time at all for issuing prototypes out for actual testing, plus they may have been paranoid about that anyway.
It's all so stupid anyway. Everybody is used to plugging in their devices all the time these days. I have chargers at home, in the car, and at work. Miniscule improvements in battery life mean nothing. It's going to be plugged in almost all the time anyway.
Hawking is wrong about which class of jobs are threatened, and wrong about the consequences. Lower class jobs are set to be wiped out AND the results of that will be far worse than Hawking estimates, but he is right to be concerned about overpopulation and so forth.
Take an average youth looking for their starter job. Today, they might flip burgers or work a cash register or some other similar entry level job. But in the near future, a lot of fast food jobs are going to be automated. And self-checkout continues to spread.
What will the average youth do for work? There won't be a lot of options. And kids who have no jobs and no hope of getting one often fall into crime and other habits that impact society. We could easily have mobs of kids roaming cities because they have nothing else to do, and if they end up irate or angry, it could result in riots, looting, fires, etc.
It gets worse.
As we automate cars and trucks, we won't need a whole slew of other jobs. Automated cars won't crash as much so we won't need body shops and mechanics, insurance agents and related workers (this goes right into white collar workers too). Police won't write as many tickets which will directly impact many towns that depend on that revenue. Likewise lawyers and courts will suffer reduced case load from car accidents and personal injuries that don't happen, so clinics and doctors geared toward that kind of care will have fewer patients paying them.
Meanwhile, automated cars will make it far less likely for people to make impulse stops such as for fast food or snacks at gas stations. And automated cars might go refuel themselves in the middle of night to take advantage of down time or empty roads. Or they might be plug-in. In all these cases, there will be far less need for people to work at places where drivers make those stops. You won't need gas station clerks. And yes automated refueling is possible. There have been prototype robot gas stations in the works for 20 years. Only the fact that labor was cheap has kept it from becoming an option.
The net result of all these changes are a LOT of lower class people who will have no job options. And nobody is slowing down having babies. Populations are soaring. There won't be jobs for all.
Does society owe anyone a job? Probably not. But we have to realize society will demand something be done about mass unemployment and youths running rampant in the cities and towns. We'll want it fixed. Jobs are one way to try to do that. Of course there needs to be some kind of job to do. I don't see anything on the horizon that promises to employ the number of people we have now much less in 20 years.
Hawking is absolutely right that this is the biggest threat humanity has faced. It is itself a huge, dangerous issue. And one way societies have solved over population and unemployment problems is by having wars. Which is not going to be fun for anyone.
Coffee is another one. Every 30 days or so, there is media coverage declaring coffee is healthy and good for you. And then 30 days after that, more media coverage declaring coffee is going to kill you.
Ultimately life is fatal. We all die. I am not particularly interesting in living in a live sanitized and isolated for my protection and devoid of fun, just so I can maybe live a bit longer before I die. Screw that.
But the aspartame thing makes sense. There are an awful lot of very heavy people who drink Diet Coke or similar things, and often drink a LOT of it, with some idea that it is better to drink than the sugar version. And yet they never lose weight on Diet Coke. They tend to gain weight and so they drink more Diet Coke and gain more weight and it never ends.
This sort of thing was possible in the 70s and 80s and did happen a few times for a few minutes on some local stations and networks.
But a lot has changed since then. Every TV and cable station is now heavily automated. The automation programs run the timing and breaks and it is simply not possible for anyone to switch in anything and have it run for 30 continuous minutes. And even if some human did manage to do it AND nobody noticed, which is not likely as they DO have their own people watching the feeds, then the automation would block or override or start squealing and throwing warnings which would get a lot of attention.
Why the hell is anyone taking a tweet for expert and actual reporting anyway? What the fuck? I am running out of sympathy for a world in which bullshit like that can be taken seriously. It's really past time for the next Chicxulub or alien invasion to wipe the slate clean.
This tablet is not better than the Fire, it is worse, for two main reasons:
One, cost. The Amazon Fire cheap tablet can be found on sale for $35, making it slightly cheaper. There is no word on whether you can get a cover for it with the words "Don't Panic" printed on it. But you probably can.
Two, Android version. While the Fire is restricted to Amazon's ecosystem, it is quite easy to override all of that with something like CM which makes it into a regular old Android tablet. And it actually runs a LOT better with CM than the Amazon OS, which makes it a fantastic value for $35.
Maybe the B&N version is OK if you can't find the Fire on sale. But whatever. I can find people making ROMs and otherwise supporting the Amazon tablet because a fair number of people own them and have hacked at them. B&N will be lucky to sell a handful of their tablet and it won't garner much enthusiast support unless the hardware is some kind of magical thing, which seems unlikely.
Does China even drink coffee? Would they settle for the crap sold by Starbucks? When China adopts western stuff, they tend to want the best. Which Starbucks is not.
Do they even WANT coffee? What else can Starbucks even sell? Tea?
China pretty much invented tea. Or at least certainly mastered it, centuries ago. They have their own ways of preparing it and drinking it which have NOTHING to do with American concepts of tea, except water is nominally involved. They do not need Starbucks to have tea. They don't want American tea.
What did Starbucks think they could ever possible sell to China? Idiocy.
De Boers is missing the point. Of course De Boers wants to defend the cost of their diamonds, but they are wrong to equate cost with worth. Something is worth what someone is willing to pay for it.
If the average person cannot tell at glance whether a diamond is manufactured or mined, then the difference doesn't matter. Well it matters only to the mining companies and jewelers. The typical diamond-wearer is not going to carry around a detector machine so they can validate their diamond to anyone.
Or is De Boers implying you won't be able to have a social party or workplace or any place where people with wedding rings show up and NOT have one of these scanners present, you know, just to make sure only people with real diamonds are allowed in? Fuck you De Boers. Your own stupidity is your certain doom.
Maybe what needs to happen is that people stop regarding diamonds as important and desired. After all, diamonds have only been a "thing" for about a hundred years mainly thanks to marketing. Nobody really cared about diamonds at all until marketing turned them into a big deal. But like all things created by marketing, they can also be UNcreated as tastes change and people want other things.
If people still desire to judge their own place against others, and diamonds are no longer a simple and easy way to measure that (i.e. who has the bigger diamond ring means they spent a lot), then people will find other ways to compare themselves. They already do this with who has the bigger/more expensive house or car, or at the other end, who has the best electric car and tiny house. Or they compare kids or pets or gadgets or macaroni salad.
I thought radar was typically used to know how far one is from the ground? Seems a lot more straightforward than detecting thumps and bumps.
Radar takes a lot of power to run and a non-trivial amount of weight and space for something you only use ONE time. So when possible they try to come up with other ways to do it.
In this case I have no idea what they were using but nobody has mentioned radars, but they have mentioned that the lander was running on very small batteries designed to only last a couple days on the surface. This suggests they didn't have the power for a radar.
Well, this one is for all you Apple fans who jumped up and down and breathlessly supported Apple over the Santa Barbara phone case.
The company you cherished and supported and defended and swore could do no wrong.... was stabbing you in the back and selling you down the river the whole time.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
The truth is, big companies like Apple don't get to become big companies like Apple unless they sell out LONG before they get that big. They've ALL sold out. They ALL happily hand over your data all the time. You have NO privacy. NOBODY will protect you. And if you ever really believed otherwise, you were a fool.
And my main PC monitor is a $300 37" 1080P TV monitor I got from Costco. It works great for the computer -gaming on this thing is surreal. But it also works great for movies, spreadsheets, porn, etc. And it works great as a TV. The speakers even work very well.
I am sure your $1000 screen is nicer and probably better, but I'll settle for "good enough for me" for 1/3 the price.
GSM was full of holes and worthless and now its direct descendant LTE has similar holes. WHAT A SURPRISE.
And of course the industry rubbed their hands about the GSM issues and they will do so again about LTE. Everyone has spent too much money on this shit to go back now and fix it.
Apple had some major issues with their early iPhone security because they were of course GSM-only for a long time and any competitor who wanted to listen in on test calls or record everything only needed to setup a GSM eavesdropping station, would would fit in a briefcase and could be run from a car in the parking lot, and they'd have the whole thing. I have no doubt that happened. And now, it will with LTE too.
The presentation was by a woman, too. The world has changed, basement dwellers.
No. Multiple companies have electric planes in the works. One powered by the sun flew around the world. Airbus has several different concepts in the works.
It's not really novel anymore and nobody has proven it's practical for a mass production. Normal aviation powerplants need to be lightweight and powerful which are not things easily achieved with current batteries and electric motors.
None of these concepts solve the problem of utility lines. A LOT of streets are criss-crossed with the damn things and none of it is on maps.
One advantage of airports is that they don't have overhead wires all over the place. And one advantage of regular cars is that they don't need to care about overhead wires, which is great, because cities and utility companies love stringing crap everywhere and making it all into an eyesore.
Fingerprints are an inherently insecure way to 'secure' a device of any kind because there are techniques to obtain latent fingerprints, which we all leave everywhere anyway, and use them to make a replica fingerprint which will open devices, security doors, phones, whatever, which is supposedly secured by said prints.
If you secure anything with fingerprints as your sole method of security, you have accepted having no security. It's a really bad way to secure anything unless you just don't care.
A normal search warrant already gives the police the right to obtain those latent prints and, hell, make you submit to fingerprinting on the old ink pad or the new electronic scanners. The same warrant also gives them the right to seize the devices that they wish to open.
Apparently the cops think they don't have the right to go through the steps to make a replica print and get the device to open. They are manufacturing something rather than just looking at the evidence. Personally I don't see a hill of difference here between that need and a police raid that seizes a padlocked box for which the police are unable to find a key. They would get a locksmith to open it, or more likely, cut the lock. So you have a locked phone. Make a replica print. Done.
This fingerprint warrant just sounds like they didn't want to spend time on doing it the hard way. Or they were after something else.
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1) Eliminate minimum wage and allow the market to set the rate through competition. Minimum wage sets a nationwide standard of how little a person in a position like this is worth.
MANY employers feel employees are a burden they wish they could do without and feel like paying them even minimums is too much. They'd LOVE to pay zero, maybe toss them a sandwich for pay. If the law allowed it, they would do it! Nevermind if people can survive off that. There are always tons of applicants for every job so they are disposable people.
Have you considered moving? $125K for a job doesn't sound THAT high, and surely you can make that in other cities where the cost of living is either lower or you could get a mansion for that much cost.
Hell, you could even take an income hit and still end up with more left over at the end of the month.
Also noting, $125K a year is not very much to raise a family. If both parents work, I would expect closer to $200K even in my area, where it is a LOT cheaper to live that SF.
There were already similar stories in the US where Amazon workers lived in camper RVs and travelled from warehouse to warehouse as work was needed. So it does happen here.
Beyond that, I used to work in an office park with small number of fulfillment warehouses. During a health kick phase of my life, I used to spend an hour a day walking the office park in loops. It was reasonably safe and let me de-stress from work. It was during these walks when I happened to look into the adjacent woods you normally could not see from within the office park or the road and realized there were numerous tents set up, some carefully camouflaged.
This wasn't even Amazon but a much smaller fulfillment operation, mainly for Brother products. And it was 8 years ago.
Never heard of that. A soda-can bomb would be about as powerful as a grenade, which means probably very unlikely to take down a plane all by itself.
Here is the thing, piles of cash and bricks of coke may be illegal but they are not threats to a plane.
Guy with a gun, maybe. Plenty of cops carry guns and nobody thinks twice so I don't think merely having a gun is dangerous. Intent makes the difference.
Guy with a bomb, well yes, we probably can say he is a threat to the plane. But somebody with a bag full of cash is not. What the hell are they going to do, buy a lot of food from the fight attendants or spend something on Skymall? Oh shit. The horrors.
There are two things going on there, both really bad.
One, we apparently have non-sworn, non-law enforcement employees doing searches and making inspections where they have an incentive to "find stuff" for direct payout.
Two, all of this bullshit is taking place within the DEA/FBI/US Government's already well-known policies and practices of presumptive guilt on cash or people which results in seizures of private property, like currency, under the purely speculative claims that it may be drug-related.
It's not even just piles of cash. They now routinely run your credit and debit cards and can and do seize your entire bank account balances merely because you had an ATM card with access to money. Never mind how you got it. Maybe you have a six-figure job. Maybe you won a lottery or maybe you are just wealthy. Doesn't matter. They can and will take it all.
Presumptive seizures were already a travesty. But now we have low wage flunkies sniffing around too. Are these people even able to testify in court? I've never heard of a drug case where the primary witness was an Amtrak porter or something. But hell, many of these cases never even GET to court because they do the presumptive guilt thing and it's all over.
This isn't Trump's fault. It's been going on for decades and nobody has stopped it because the damn agencies get to keep the money and fuck all if you get between them and money they want, even if it is your legally earned money. Their job is to send people to prison.
Phones put on test stands would never feel the flexing that occurs in daily use. They probably issued phones for real-world walk-around testing but I bet they did so carefully putting the prototype phones into carry bags and otherwise treating them with kid gloves, rather than jamming them into pants pockets and sitting on them.
The rush to get these things manufactured and on sale probably left no time at all for issuing prototypes out for actual testing, plus they may have been paranoid about that anyway.
It's all so stupid anyway. Everybody is used to plugging in their devices all the time these days. I have chargers at home, in the car, and at work. Miniscule improvements in battery life mean nothing. It's going to be plugged in almost all the time anyway.
It's not entirely vaporware. I've seen retrofitted fuel-cell powered semi trucks on the road. They exist now.
This is merely a fancier, more ground-up approach.
Hawking is wrong about which class of jobs are threatened, and wrong about the consequences. Lower class jobs are set to be wiped out AND the results of that will be far worse than Hawking estimates, but he is right to be concerned about overpopulation and so forth.
Take an average youth looking for their starter job. Today, they might flip burgers or work a cash register or some other similar entry level job. But in the near future, a lot of fast food jobs are going to be automated. And self-checkout continues to spread.
What will the average youth do for work? There won't be a lot of options. And kids who have no jobs and no hope of getting one often fall into crime and other habits that impact society. We could easily have mobs of kids roaming cities because they have nothing else to do, and if they end up irate or angry, it could result in riots, looting, fires, etc.
It gets worse.
As we automate cars and trucks, we won't need a whole slew of other jobs. Automated cars won't crash as much so we won't need body shops and mechanics, insurance agents and related workers (this goes right into white collar workers too). Police won't write as many tickets which will directly impact many towns that depend on that revenue. Likewise lawyers and courts will suffer reduced case load from car accidents and personal injuries that don't happen, so clinics and doctors geared toward that kind of care will have fewer patients paying them.
Meanwhile, automated cars will make it far less likely for people to make impulse stops such as for fast food or snacks at gas stations. And automated cars might go refuel themselves in the middle of night to take advantage of down time or empty roads. Or they might be plug-in. In all these cases, there will be far less need for people to work at places where drivers make those stops. You won't need gas station clerks. And yes automated refueling is possible. There have been prototype robot gas stations in the works for 20 years. Only the fact that labor was cheap has kept it from becoming an option.
The net result of all these changes are a LOT of lower class people who will have no job options. And nobody is slowing down having babies. Populations are soaring. There won't be jobs for all.
Does society owe anyone a job? Probably not. But we have to realize society will demand something be done about mass unemployment and youths running rampant in the cities and towns. We'll want it fixed. Jobs are one way to try to do that. Of course there needs to be some kind of job to do. I don't see anything on the horizon that promises to employ the number of people we have now much less in 20 years.
Hawking is absolutely right that this is the biggest threat humanity has faced. It is itself a huge, dangerous issue. And one way societies have solved over population and unemployment problems is by having wars. Which is not going to be fun for anyone.
Coffee is another one. Every 30 days or so, there is media coverage declaring coffee is healthy and good for you. And then 30 days after that, more media coverage declaring coffee is going to kill you.
Ultimately life is fatal. We all die. I am not particularly interesting in living in a live sanitized and isolated for my protection and devoid of fun, just so I can maybe live a bit longer before I die. Screw that.
But the aspartame thing makes sense. There are an awful lot of very heavy people who drink Diet Coke or similar things, and often drink a LOT of it, with some idea that it is better to drink than the sugar version. And yet they never lose weight on Diet Coke. They tend to gain weight and so they drink more Diet Coke and gain more weight and it never ends.
This sort of thing was possible in the 70s and 80s and did happen a few times for a few minutes on some local stations and networks.
But a lot has changed since then. Every TV and cable station is now heavily automated. The automation programs run the timing and breaks and it is simply not possible for anyone to switch in anything and have it run for 30 continuous minutes. And even if some human did manage to do it AND nobody noticed, which is not likely as they DO have their own people watching the feeds, then the automation would block or override or start squealing and throwing warnings which would get a lot of attention.
Why the hell is anyone taking a tweet for expert and actual reporting anyway? What the fuck? I am running out of sympathy for a world in which bullshit like that can be taken seriously. It's really past time for the next Chicxulub or alien invasion to wipe the slate clean.
If I use a Samsung Galaxy Notes 7 to steal a Tesla, what happens ?!?
Use a Note 7 to steal a Tesla and crash it into the back of a Ford Pinto hatchback.
That should make a nice explosion visible from orbit.
a TODDLER!
This tablet is not better than the Fire, it is worse, for two main reasons:
One, cost. The Amazon Fire cheap tablet can be found on sale for $35, making it slightly cheaper. There is no word on whether you can get a cover for it with the words "Don't Panic" printed on it. But you probably can.
Two, Android version. While the Fire is restricted to Amazon's ecosystem, it is quite easy to override all of that with something like CM which makes it into a regular old Android tablet. And it actually runs a LOT better with CM than the Amazon OS, which makes it a fantastic value for $35.
Maybe the B&N version is OK if you can't find the Fire on sale. But whatever. I can find people making ROMs and otherwise supporting the Amazon tablet because a fair number of people own them and have hacked at them. B&N will be lucky to sell a handful of their tablet and it won't garner much enthusiast support unless the hardware is some kind of magical thing, which seems unlikely.
What the HELL was Starbucks thinking?
Does China even drink coffee? Would they settle for the crap sold by Starbucks? When China adopts western stuff, they tend to want the best. Which Starbucks is not.
Do they even WANT coffee? What else can Starbucks even sell? Tea?
China pretty much invented tea. Or at least certainly mastered it, centuries ago. They have their own ways of preparing it and drinking it which have NOTHING to do with American concepts of tea, except water is nominally involved. They do not need Starbucks to have tea. They don't want American tea.
What did Starbucks think they could ever possible sell to China? Idiocy.
If Star Trek has taught me anything, it is that I like mini skirts a lot, and also nearly every alien world looks a lot like a rock quarry.
Likewise, Dr. Who agrees: companions seem to prefer mini-skirts and most alien worlds almost always look like rock quarries.
That's good enough for me.
De Boers is missing the point. Of course De Boers wants to defend the cost of their diamonds, but they are wrong to equate cost with worth. Something is worth what someone is willing to pay for it.
If the average person cannot tell at glance whether a diamond is manufactured or mined, then the difference doesn't matter. Well it matters only to the mining companies and jewelers. The typical diamond-wearer is not going to carry around a detector machine so they can validate their diamond to anyone.
Or is De Boers implying you won't be able to have a social party or workplace or any place where people with wedding rings show up and NOT have one of these scanners present, you know, just to make sure only people with real diamonds are allowed in? Fuck you De Boers. Your own stupidity is your certain doom.
Maybe what needs to happen is that people stop regarding diamonds as important and desired. After all, diamonds have only been a "thing" for about a hundred years mainly thanks to marketing. Nobody really cared about diamonds at all until marketing turned them into a big deal. But like all things created by marketing, they can also be UNcreated as tastes change and people want other things.
If people still desire to judge their own place against others, and diamonds are no longer a simple and easy way to measure that (i.e. who has the bigger diamond ring means they spent a lot), then people will find other ways to compare themselves. They already do this with who has the bigger/more expensive house or car, or at the other end, who has the best electric car and tiny house. Or they compare kids or pets or gadgets or macaroni salad.
I thought radar was typically used to know how far one is from the ground? Seems a lot more straightforward than detecting thumps and bumps.
Radar takes a lot of power to run and a non-trivial amount of weight and space for something you only use ONE time. So when possible they try to come up with other ways to do it.
In this case I have no idea what they were using but nobody has mentioned radars, but they have mentioned that the lander was running on very small batteries designed to only last a couple days on the surface. This suggests they didn't have the power for a radar.
Well, this one is for all you Apple fans who jumped up and down and breathlessly supported Apple over the Santa Barbara phone case.
The company you cherished and supported and defended and swore could do no wrong.... was stabbing you in the back and selling you down the river the whole time.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
The truth is, big companies like Apple don't get to become big companies like Apple unless they sell out LONG before they get that big. They've ALL sold out. They ALL happily hand over your data all the time. You have NO privacy. NOBODY will protect you. And if you ever really believed otherwise, you were a fool.
And my main PC monitor is a $300 37" 1080P TV monitor I got from Costco. It works great for the computer -gaming on this thing is surreal. But it also works great for movies, spreadsheets, porn, etc. And it works great as a TV. The speakers even work very well.
I am sure your $1000 screen is nicer and probably better, but I'll settle for "good enough for me" for 1/3 the price.
GSM was full of holes and worthless and now its direct descendant LTE has similar holes. WHAT A SURPRISE.
And of course the industry rubbed their hands about the GSM issues and they will do so again about LTE. Everyone has spent too much money on this shit to go back now and fix it.
Apple had some major issues with their early iPhone security because they were of course GSM-only for a long time and any competitor who wanted to listen in on test calls or record everything only needed to setup a GSM eavesdropping station, would would fit in a briefcase and could be run from a car in the parking lot, and they'd have the whole thing. I have no doubt that happened. And now, it will with LTE too.
The presentation was by a woman, too. The world has changed, basement dwellers.
No. Multiple companies have electric planes in the works. One powered by the sun flew around the world. Airbus has several different concepts in the works.
It's not really novel anymore and nobody has proven it's practical for a mass production. Normal aviation powerplants need to be lightweight and powerful which are not things easily achieved with current batteries and electric motors.
None of these concepts solve the problem of utility lines. A LOT of streets are criss-crossed with the damn things and none of it is on maps.
One advantage of airports is that they don't have overhead wires all over the place. And one advantage of regular cars is that they don't need to care about overhead wires, which is great, because cities and utility companies love stringing crap everywhere and making it all into an eyesore.
What the hell is a "Vlad is Fat" reference? A meme loses basically all of it's power, or supposed humor, when the context is missing.
Fingerprints are an inherently insecure way to 'secure' a device of any kind because there are techniques to obtain latent fingerprints, which we all leave everywhere anyway, and use them to make a replica fingerprint which will open devices, security doors, phones, whatever, which is supposedly secured by said prints.
If you secure anything with fingerprints as your sole method of security, you have accepted having no security. It's a really bad way to secure anything unless you just don't care.
A normal search warrant already gives the police the right to obtain those latent prints and, hell, make you submit to fingerprinting on the old ink pad or the new electronic scanners. The same warrant also gives them the right to seize the devices that they wish to open.
Apparently the cops think they don't have the right to go through the steps to make a replica print and get the device to open. They are manufacturing something rather than just looking at the evidence. Personally I don't see a hill of difference here between that need and a police raid that seizes a padlocked box for which the police are unable to find a key. They would get a locksmith to open it, or more likely, cut the lock. So you have a locked phone. Make a replica print. Done.
This fingerprint warrant just sounds like they didn't want to spend time on doing it the hard way. Or they were after something else.