Make no mistake: there IS a coming job crisis as we continue to replace people with automation. The lower end of jobs will be hit especially hard by this, deeply affecting people who already had few job options anyway. Left unchecked, that is a recipei for civil unrest and riots and mass numbers of youth have nothing else to do and no hope. The UK saw riots like that in the 80s. It's bad.
The writing is on the wall that this is going to happen in the US. Now the question is, does the US owe these people anything? Is it society's problem when there are far fewer minimum wage jobs? Traditionally the answer is no. But these kids will have no hope and absolutely nothing to lose by going on rampages and stealing what they can't afford to buy. It may end up being the worst period of civil unrest in American history and we can see it coming now. Do we say this is not society's problem and do nothing, or do we do what we can to mitigate this disaster before it gets out of control? Citizens will demand the future government DO SOMETHING. We have time now to keep it from getting that bad. We can probably do more now than we will be able to do in 20 years. But do we have the will? I doubt it.
Universal Income, or whatever it will be called, is an interesting idea but the fatal flaw with it is that as long as people keep having kids and we still allow immigration, then there will always be more and more and more and more people who want the money.
Eventually there won't be enough money to pay for this and we have living examples of what happens. Several towns in New England had very generous benefits for unemployed, the poor, etc. The few local people making use of these benefits were cared for thanks to the generosity of the towns, who assumed they would only ever need to support a few such beneficiaries. Things were fine.
But word got out about how amazing things were in these towns, how you could get money and food and a free place to stay, etc. and more and more indigents and especially foreign refugees began arriving in those towns having travelled there specifically to acquire the benefits. The towns suddenly became burdened with dozens and dozens and then hundreds of people in need and the entire towns were destroyed economically from trying to keep up with their commitment to the poor.
So if we adopt a national benefit, then the birthrate alone is going to bankrupt the country (nevermind that we're always on deficit spending anyway so we are already technically bankrupt). Minority groups already have much higher birthrates than the traditional caucasian groups so the country will continue toward "the browning of America" as some have called it with more and more people born every year. So the universal income would balloon out of control right away.
This is going to be a challenging period for the USA. I probably won't live to see how bad things get. THAT is the only thing I am happy about.
How do we know it wasn't Ecuador who cut him off? Maybe they are sick of being used as a tool for this guy, who, instead of acting like he wants asylum, is busy actively conducting various ongoing activities that are considered crimes in many countries?
He's afraid of being extradited? Well duh. The rape charge is one thing. He needs to man up and deal with it. But all the OTHER shit he's pulled is not excused because of his fear of being held accountable.
Why DOES he have all this freedom to break more laws? Why does he think he is above the law? And since he acts that way, dragging Ecuador along with him, why should they keep supporting him? He's a bully and a criminal hiding behind the generosity of his hosts. Even if they continue to allow him to live there, nobody ever said he had to have all the accoutrements of a normal life. He could be given a closet to live in and scraps of food and if he does not like it, he can leave. Hell, I would throw a mop at him and make him earn his keep. Janitor Julian. Piso Mojado, my friend.
Just like mom says, if you want to stay at home, you are going to do chores and you are going to behave. If you don't like it, get a job and move out. Nobody is stopping you.
Since Amazon has clearly clobbered the bogeyman of honest reviews in exchange for a discount, maybe now they can DO something about the fraud that is co-mingling.
For those not up to speed, co-mingling takes place when various suppliers all certify they have x number of identical products and they ship these items to Amazon who then holds them for fulfillment. As far as Amazon is concerned, the items supplied by Larry are the same as those supplied by Sara so the items get pooled together and orders are filled by whichever one makes sense to Amazon.
The problem is, a LOT of vendors are faking it, certifying other products are the same or supplying counterfeit versions. Suppose you order a bottle of Coke. Larry and Sara both sell Coke on Amazon and both of them ship the bottles to Amazon and Amazon then fills the orders. But Sara hasn't supplied a REAL Coke, no she's sent in some store brand drink.
You order a Coke on Amazon from Larry's store. Amazon says well, we have 15 Cokes in stock, and Larry's are the same as Sara's so we'll send you one from Sara's supply since it's closer to you. Your Coke arrives and you spew it all over the place when it turns out to be store brand and not the real Coke. So you leave a bad review! Larry has shipped you fake coke and he's cheating! His reputation takes a pounding and he doesn't even know why.
Larry is then put in the spot of trying to make things right with you even though HIS Cokes were fine and it was Amazon who shipped you the fake one. Amazon does zero policing to validate products are what they say, so Sara gets away with it.
This sort of fraud is happening all the time now. Legit vendors are faced with bad reviews for fake products they didn't supply, but they have to turn around and make the customer happy or else Amazon penalizes them for negative reviews and bad feedback.
The fake suppliers don't care because they don't get caught very often and even if they do, they just toss the account and make a new one, and of course they never had legit merchandise to sell anyway so any sales that DO take place stand odds to be fulfilled with the real merchandise.
Amazon is doing nothing to fix this and thousands of honest vendors are being slammed with bad reviews about fake or counterfeit or dangerous products that got co-mingled into the system.
Co-mingling of goods was already a huge issue Amazon is doing nothing to fix it.
But god forbid somebody get a discount to do a review. Oh no, can't have that.
Here's the thing: the people doing those reviews are at least incentivized to do a review. The co-minglers, on the other hand, are already up to fraud the moment they start.
Something is worth what someone is willing to pay. That's all.
For something like this, if one group stole it, then another group can also steal it and not pay a dime. You can't sell something if your buyer can obtain it for free. Why would they pay? Makes no sense.
Anyway, I would not want anything to do with this stuff. Somebody ELSE can find out if it's a honey pot and somebody ELSE can stick their finger up the NSA's butt hole and make them mad. Making the NSA mad at you is not a game.
This. The update went fine on all of my computers that touch the internet or do internety things. Hooray for security patches. But the update failed on one PC that happens to do nothing more than run security cameras and record video. Nobody uses it for surfing or any other work. So the broken update is of no consequence on any PC where it would matter.
Wake me up when any of these bloggers demonstrate ethics. They're FAR too interested in posting things meant to gain clicks and ethics is somewhere down the ladder below "feed the dog" in terms of importance.
Not only that but they tend to be PROUD of not having to act like real journalists with sources and confirmations and ethics and an editor to answer to. None of that stuff matters or has ever mattered to most bloggers, and yet they demand press credentials to events and get them, companies like Apple shower them in invites and free review samples and treat them occasionally to travel costs and meals and even stipends. All the while, they run around acting like they have a better grasp on things than "real" journalists for traditional media outlets.
It's all bullshit. There are SO many kickbacks and spiffs and freebies flowing, it has spawned hundreds of bloggers and Youtubers and Twitchers many of who are in it for the free shit they can snag and the ego kick from having people read and click.
It's easy to bash the incumbents but let's not just hand the keys to the city over to Google just yet.
They're not handing over the keys. OTMR is a normal part of wiring poles. It happens ALL the time. Google is asking for something that Comcast and AT&T themselves use in other areas for the same reasons: OTMR works and everybody wins.
Unless you are an AT&T or Comcast and you don't want a competitor coming in. Then suddenly it becomes a big deal.
OTMR is done ALL the time, all over the US and probably in other countries. It's not drastic. It's NORMAL.
You know, a word that means the opposite of drastic. Normal. A word that means, well, normal.
AT&T and Comcast NORMALLY have little to no problem with OTMR except well, in this case, a competitor they don't want is the one who needs to do a lot of OTMR. And then suddenly the thing everybody has done for years is drastic.
Riiiight. Nothing fishy going in here. They just, you know, faxed it over, while the rep was out of town. Perfectly drastic. I mean, normal.
How and why Star Trek did what it did was a LOT more complicated than simply beaming onto whatever miscellaneous set was available, as you state.
Go read the "These Are the Voyages" books. Even the free sample from Amazon will do.
Star Trek had almost nothing to work with and no budget and went to extremes to make the show look as good as they could. Sometimes they failed but a lot or times they succeeded. I never much cared for the old show but having now read how they did it and why, and how much genius went into simple things like lighting a set... it's completely different now.
Of course they knew all along how to get into the phone, probably five different ways.
But all the public+media+dog had was speculation and unfortunately a big spotlight on the subject device.
Normally they work in secret and in the shadows and crack these phones all the time. But this one had everybody watching, and when everyone is watching, you do not get out your best-kept secrets and reveal them in front of the cameras. The agencies didn't want to confirm any of that by suddenly showing up with a cracked phone, thus revealing they had various techniques to do exactly what they wanted. So they tried the front door approach with Apple, and then some other approach where they can make some outside company look like the source and patsy.
Meanwhile all the much more secret techniques remain secret. Done.
But all the various bloggers and media people want to know exactly how it was done, which is exactly why they went to some effort to find a disposable way in rather than reveal their secrets. Meh. Who cares. Privacy is an illusion. If for a moment anyone thinks their iPhone is some kind of sacred secret place only they can access, well, they are fools. Nothing is secret.
Since every KB is tracked and recorded, what he REALLY hacked is T-Mobile's latent power to bill his sorry butt for the data he used. And I am sure they will do just that.
And if he refuses to pay, it becomes theft of service just like stealing electricity or cable TV and his sorry butt will end up in jail.
We don't "own" any of these worlds so we have no right to do jack shit to them.
And if these worlds already have some kind of life, then we might jeopardize that life by dumping ours on top of it. We already know life on Earth comes in a Bazillion(TM) different forms, some of which look like your annoying cousin Larry, and some of which look like rocks. So we go off to some world that looks like it's all rock and seed it, and whoa, it turns out the rocks are a life form and we just wiped it out. Nice work humans. Assholes.
Then they were stupid as fuck to allow that contingency clause for a series of actions (the launch contractor phases) that Spacecom itself had NO control over and didn't actually do itself.
Their job was to build the bird and deliver it. They did that. Hopefully Facebook paid their sorry butts for it. So the next set of steps was on SpaceX and it blew up. OK, well it's probably not Spacecom's fault.. Nobody knows. But probably not their fault.
Now they are saying the buyer they had no longer wants to buy them because something that was probably not their fault was a contingency? Are they idiots or just THAT fucking desperate to get the company sold? Maybe they are both.
What the hell is a big dollar client like Facebook doing contracting satellites out to a company apparently effectively insolvent and running on promises of being bought out? Facebook could buy a satellite from anyone. Maybe they need to rethink who they hire. These people look like morons.
Presumably Facebook contracted with this company to supply the satellite. They did that. They should have gotten paid.
If you or I go buy a new car, we pay for it, and wreck it on the way home, the car dealer is not going to be out. We agreed to pay. Likewise Facebook surely agreed to pay for the damn thing. So what are they whining about?
The failure on the pad probably wasn't their fault so even if there was some kind of contingency, they should still get paid. They delivered the vehicle to the launch contractor. The launch contractor is responsible for the rest of the process. Blabbering about demanding a free launch or something AT THIS POINT is really unprofessional when the cause is not even known. What if it turns out the satellite WAS the cause? Then they are demanding someone else cover their failure.
I hate to say it but they sure sound like Ferengi demanding compensation or something of equal value well before anyone even knows what really happened.
None of it is plausible. You space nutters with your "antimatter fuel" nonsense. You can't travel near the speed of light. We know that from basic Physics. How are you going to travel "a few thousands light years"?
Bah. Fully qualified experts used to insist going faster than 35 MPH would be fatal. Not crashing, mind you: just going faster than that. It would turn the body to jelly and shatter all your bones. You'd die instantly. When that turned out to not be true, the bar was moved to 100 MPH. That wasn't true either. Then they said we would never fly. We did. Then they said we'd never survive breaking the sound barrier. We did. Then they insisted 1000 MPH was lethal. It isn't. They said helicopters were impossible. They aren't. They said we would never survive going into space, that we would die the moment we tried, that we would never get to the moon much less back from it.
A lot of supposed experts have said we can't do one thing or another, and of course always backed up with charts and numbers and science and stacks of absolutes. And yet time after time they are proven WRONG. The science they relied upon and swore upon to say 35 MPH was lethal---- absolute crap, despite their assurances to the contrary. Most of us break THAT one multiple times a day. I know I have exceeded over four times that speed in my car and I am still here.
The only thing these experts have proven is the overwhelming ability to be wrong about their science and underestimate what people are capable of doing. So perhap it is possible to break the C barrier. We will try. We might even do it. And perhaps it will become just another 35 MPH barrier, meaningless and forgotten.
Agree totally, airspace over a property does not belong to the property owner. It 'belongs' to the Federal Government and is managed and otherwise supervised by the FAA. Property owners can no more shoot at drones than they can shoot down airliners or shoot at cars passing on roads next to their property. Can't do any of those things.
However states ARE passing laws regarding airspace use, in what seems to be clear violation of FAA jurisdiction. For example, the State of Georgia has designated six-mile no-fly zones around the state capitol building and governor's mansion residence. This means most of downtown Atlanta is in a no-fly zone and this impacts various users including all sorts of legitimate motion picture or TV productions, at least four colleges which might have drones in their course work, and of course any private citizens who might want to fly one on their own yards.
The mansion sits in the middle of a heavily residential area surrounded by some of the wealthiest homes in the area, which means those residents are more likely to have high end drones fully capable of performance flying, but the state says no. There is no justification given for this; the state simply doesn't want anyone flying near these places. It scares them. Terrifies them.
With several airports also scattered around Atlanta, the two zones marked off limits by the state add to a huge area where drones aren't allowed, and virtually guarantee people are going to fly anyway because such a huge area leaves few options for drone users except to break the laws.
You have no right to open fire upon drones any more than you have a right to do that to cars passing by your house.
Destruction of property, discharging a firearm in a dangerous manner, reckless endangerment, criminal damage to property, vandalism, theft... there's an endless list of crimes someone can be charged with for shooting at drones.
You do not own the airspace over your home. You have absolutely no right to shoot at drones or aircraft or anything else, because, well, you don't own the airspace. If you do shoot at them, I hope you enjoy the massive legal machinery of Amazon landing square on your head. They have bored lawyers waiting to eat this one for snacks.
Well, for now it is only in those few places. But DOCSIS 3.1 does offer the potential to easily upgrade almost any cable customer, eventually. Minor head-end changes and new customer modems are all it needs, so at some point probably almost any Comcast customer will be able to get it.
And "at some point" is going to be soon, as this is rolling out everywhere in the next 18 months. The fact that they can do this without digging one shovel of dirt is pretty neat. It is a solid solution. It's too bad it's Comcast.
The TSA is security theater. They do nothing to address the actual security risks and vulnerabilities, which are numerous and very dangerous.
For example, the major airport near me is extremely vulnerable to things like vehicles getting on a runway. There is less protecting those runways than there is protecting my backyard. Oh there are cameras and crap but it's far too big to patrol. Security cannot stop someone who really wants to get out there, so imagine if some terrorists on the back of a truck got on to the runways and began shooting up planes in the queue to take off. Hit the first plane and it stops, Then go down the line taking out plane after plane which can't escape, can't back up, can't go anywhere. Thousands could die. Blow up the fuel depot for extra fun. It's unprotected. Hit more than one airport like this at the same time and air travel will collapse worldwide.
Even the TSA checkpoint is meaningless. Someone with a backpack bomb could kill hundreds queued up in those lines. You don't need to get through security. The potential victims are all nicely lined up there.
Where are these "local helipads" supposed to be? There are various private buildings with helipads on their roofs, and plenty of open parks and maybe some parking decks with room on their roofs, but nearly all of these are private properties not open to the public. Most of them show "PRIVATE!" when seen from the air.
I can't think of a single spot in my city where you could do this kind of operation. Sure you could use a park once or twice, but try to make it routine and the cops will probably cite you for trespassing.
My Nexus 6 is similar to your X Force... perhaps somebody can get one of the Nexus 6 ROMs to work on not just your device but all the other Motorola models that are relatively similar.
But even Google says they will stop guaranteeing updates for the Nexus 6 once Nougat is released. Keep in mind, the Nexus 6 was still a current product up until 9 months ago and you can still get them new in the box. But they've already warned us to not expect much. Not sure if this is Google or Motorola or both declaring this thing dead but damnit this was still a mainline product within the last year. And now it's already an orphan?
Well, I suppose I should not be too upset: the four Android phones I had before this one got only one or two updates between them, ever. The Nexus 6 has gotten monthly security patches and IIRC 3 major OS updates in the last few months.
We haven't found signs or evidence because what we are looking for, or expecting to find, is just all wrong.
To understand the problem, first think about what we know of life. It is all around us. The Earth is covered in life, in the air, in the soil, in the sea, on the land. It is everywhere. From small microbes to giant whales and even bigger creatures that have long since died out. Life comes in so many forms, it might as well be an infinite variety. It remains well beyond human ability to catalog and classify and identify.
So we have a lesson staring us in the face: life comes in all shapes and sizes and kinds, and that's just this ONE planet. If this is typical, we can expect other planets might have similar diversity. When we look out into space, logically, we could look for this sort of world. It is, afterall, the only one we know. The only pattern.
But that's not what happens when we look for life out there. Oh hell no. All we look for is radio signals. Look at the Earth: teeming with life, crawling with it, covered in it. Only one has ever invented radio. And then only for a bit over 100 years. None of the other billions of fine creatures has ever bothered with radio. That we know of. Just one.
So when we look out into space, we aren't looking for life at all. We ARE looking for a copy of us, in this brief window when we had radio and made enough noise with it that it might be heard across short interstellar distances. But nobody really knows how far our signals get. And if you were on alien world doing what we do, listening for signals, but you did it 200 years ago, the Earth would be a silent and dead world. So that settles it: there is no life in space. Right?
This is basically what is being said now: we, in our infinite wisdom, have decided to look only for exactly what we are this very moment, and having not found that so far, we have unilaterally decided the universe is empty and nobody is home.
This is absolutely asinine. The stupidest mistake in human history: to expect to find ourselves out there, to LOOK only for that, using only primitive methods only really useful because it's all we've managed to invent, and we we do not find signs of life after just a few years looking, we declare the universe is dead.
Netcraft now confirms: the universe is dead and you will be too, soon.
That's pretty fucking arrogant.
"Pathetic Earthlings. Throwing your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling WHO or WHAT is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would have hidden from it in terror." -Dessler of Gamilas
Terraforming Venus was shown back in the old Cosmos series. We humans made it rain or some such thing. Hurray! We are on our way to making another home!
The rains fell on Venus and out of the rocks emerged some sort of worm-like life form, which was promptly killed off by our helpful rain. The point the show was trying to make was that we don't understand all the consequences of doing things like that.
My additional point is that we humans don't OWN the Solar System, or even the Earth. We have no automatic right to do anything as we please. Sure, nothing is standing in our way but that does not give us right to do whatever the hell we want, terraforming Mars or Venus or plonking down bases all over the place.
And if we are exceedingly lucky and somehow manage to survive and actually become a space-faring race, we may eventually run across worlds where life already exists. Then what? We have even less right to do with it as we wish. And if we are really unlucky, we will run into some worlds inhabited by intelligent beings who won't particularly like human invaders. We sure as hell won't have any rights there.
This may sound all silly scifi but up to now in human history, everywhere mankind has gone, we have owned. The plants and animals and microbes have never objected. This doesn't extend out there. We may find, in fact, that the environment of space and other words presents a very strong objection.
They want to further obfuscate and restrict observations and reporting of the process, the people, the companies, the machines, the software, and the flaws and exploits and unresolved issues.
They have already gone to great lengths to silence reporting and brush issues under the carpet and pretend everything is fine when multiple independent observers and investigators have revealed major problems that SHOULD have us all questioning the whole process.
By making it a critical infrastructure, they will shove it all behind a wall and merely promise us all is well. When they have done this before, they have LIED. We have no reason to trust them and every reason to doubt every single thing they say.
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Make no mistake: there IS a coming job crisis as we continue to replace people with automation. The lower end of jobs will be hit especially hard by this, deeply affecting people who already had few job options anyway. Left unchecked, that is a recipei for civil unrest and riots and mass numbers of youth have nothing else to do and no hope. The UK saw riots like that in the 80s. It's bad.
The writing is on the wall that this is going to happen in the US. Now the question is, does the US owe these people anything? Is it society's problem when there are far fewer minimum wage jobs? Traditionally the answer is no. But these kids will have no hope and absolutely nothing to lose by going on rampages and stealing what they can't afford to buy. It may end up being the worst period of civil unrest in American history and we can see it coming now. Do we say this is not society's problem and do nothing, or do we do what we can to mitigate this disaster before it gets out of control? Citizens will demand the future government DO SOMETHING. We have time now to keep it from getting that bad. We can probably do more now than we will be able to do in 20 years. But do we have the will? I doubt it.
Universal Income, or whatever it will be called, is an interesting idea but the fatal flaw with it is that as long as people keep having kids and we still allow immigration, then there will always be more and more and more and more people who want the money.
Eventually there won't be enough money to pay for this and we have living examples of what happens. Several towns in New England had very generous benefits for unemployed, the poor, etc. The few local people making use of these benefits were cared for thanks to the generosity of the towns, who assumed they would only ever need to support a few such beneficiaries. Things were fine.
But word got out about how amazing things were in these towns, how you could get money and food and a free place to stay, etc. and more and more indigents and especially foreign refugees began arriving in those towns having travelled there specifically to acquire the benefits. The towns suddenly became burdened with dozens and dozens and then hundreds of people in need and the entire towns were destroyed economically from trying to keep up with their commitment to the poor.
So if we adopt a national benefit, then the birthrate alone is going to bankrupt the country (nevermind that we're always on deficit spending anyway so we are already technically bankrupt). Minority groups already have much higher birthrates than the traditional caucasian groups so the country will continue toward "the browning of America" as some have called it with more and more people born every year. So the universal income would balloon out of control right away.
This is going to be a challenging period for the USA. I probably won't live to see how bad things get. THAT is the only thing I am happy about.
How do we know it wasn't Ecuador who cut him off? Maybe they are sick of being used as a tool for this guy, who, instead of acting like he wants asylum, is busy actively conducting various ongoing activities that are considered crimes in many countries?
He's afraid of being extradited? Well duh. The rape charge is one thing. He needs to man up and deal with it. But all the OTHER shit he's pulled is not excused because of his fear of being held accountable.
Why DOES he have all this freedom to break more laws? Why does he think he is above the law? And since he acts that way, dragging Ecuador along with him, why should they keep supporting him? He's a bully and a criminal hiding behind the generosity of his hosts. Even if they continue to allow him to live there, nobody ever said he had to have all the accoutrements of a normal life. He could be given a closet to live in and scraps of food and if he does not like it, he can leave. Hell, I would throw a mop at him and make him earn his keep. Janitor Julian. Piso Mojado, my friend.
Just like mom says, if you want to stay at home, you are going to do chores and you are going to behave. If you don't like it, get a job and move out. Nobody is stopping you.
Since Amazon has clearly clobbered the bogeyman of honest reviews in exchange for a discount, maybe now they can DO something about the fraud that is co-mingling.
For those not up to speed, co-mingling takes place when various suppliers all certify they have x number of identical products and they ship these items to Amazon who then holds them for fulfillment. As far as Amazon is concerned, the items supplied by Larry are the same as those supplied by Sara so the items get pooled together and orders are filled by whichever one makes sense to Amazon.
The problem is, a LOT of vendors are faking it, certifying other products are the same or supplying counterfeit versions. Suppose you order a bottle of Coke. Larry and Sara both sell Coke on Amazon and both of them ship the bottles to Amazon and Amazon then fills the orders. But Sara hasn't supplied a REAL Coke, no she's sent in some store brand drink.
You order a Coke on Amazon from Larry's store. Amazon says well, we have 15 Cokes in stock, and Larry's are the same as Sara's so we'll send you one from Sara's supply since it's closer to you. Your Coke arrives and you spew it all over the place when it turns out to be store brand and not the real Coke. So you leave a bad review! Larry has shipped you fake coke and he's cheating! His reputation takes a pounding and he doesn't even know why.
Larry is then put in the spot of trying to make things right with you even though HIS Cokes were fine and it was Amazon who shipped you the fake one. Amazon does zero policing to validate products are what they say, so Sara gets away with it.
This sort of fraud is happening all the time now. Legit vendors are faced with bad reviews for fake products they didn't supply, but they have to turn around and make the customer happy or else Amazon penalizes them for negative reviews and bad feedback.
The fake suppliers don't care because they don't get caught very often and even if they do, they just toss the account and make a new one, and of course they never had legit merchandise to sell anyway so any sales that DO take place stand odds to be fulfilled with the real merchandise.
Amazon is doing nothing to fix this and thousands of honest vendors are being slammed with bad reviews about fake or counterfeit or dangerous products that got co-mingled into the system.
Co-mingling of goods was already a huge issue Amazon is doing nothing to fix it.
But god forbid somebody get a discount to do a review. Oh no, can't have that.
Here's the thing: the people doing those reviews are at least incentivized to do a review. The co-minglers, on the other hand, are already up to fraud the moment they start.
Something is worth what someone is willing to pay. That's all.
For something like this, if one group stole it, then another group can also steal it and not pay a dime. You can't sell something if your buyer can obtain it for free. Why would they pay? Makes no sense.
Anyway, I would not want anything to do with this stuff. Somebody ELSE can find out if it's a honey pot and somebody ELSE can stick their finger up the NSA's butt hole and make them mad. Making the NSA mad at you is not a game.
This. The update went fine on all of my computers that touch the internet or do internety things. Hooray for security patches. But the update failed on one PC that happens to do nothing more than run security cameras and record video. Nobody uses it for surfing or any other work. So the broken update is of no consequence on any PC where it would matter.
ymmv but I'm not losing sleep on it.
Wake me up when any of these bloggers demonstrate ethics. They're FAR too interested in posting things meant to gain clicks and ethics is somewhere down the ladder below "feed the dog" in terms of importance.
Not only that but they tend to be PROUD of not having to act like real journalists with sources and confirmations and ethics and an editor to answer to. None of that stuff matters or has ever mattered to most bloggers, and yet they demand press credentials to events and get them, companies like Apple shower them in invites and free review samples and treat them occasionally to travel costs and meals and even stipends. All the while, they run around acting like they have a better grasp on things than "real" journalists for traditional media outlets.
It's all bullshit. There are SO many kickbacks and spiffs and freebies flowing, it has spawned hundreds of bloggers and Youtubers and Twitchers many of who are in it for the free shit they can snag and the ego kick from having people read and click.
It's easy to bash the incumbents but let's not just hand the keys to the city over to Google just yet.
They're not handing over the keys. OTMR is a normal part of wiring poles. It happens ALL the time. Google is asking for something that Comcast and AT&T themselves use in other areas for the same reasons: OTMR works and everybody wins.
Unless you are an AT&T or Comcast and you don't want a competitor coming in. Then suddenly it becomes a big deal.
OTMR is done ALL the time, all over the US and probably in other countries. It's not drastic. It's NORMAL.
You know, a word that means the opposite of drastic. Normal. A word that means, well, normal.
AT&T and Comcast NORMALLY have little to no problem with OTMR except well, in this case, a competitor they don't want is the one who needs to do a lot of OTMR. And then suddenly the thing everybody has done for years is drastic.
Riiiight. Nothing fishy going in here. They just, you know, faxed it over, while the rep was out of town. Perfectly drastic. I mean, normal.
How and why Star Trek did what it did was a LOT more complicated than simply beaming onto whatever miscellaneous set was available, as you state.
Go read the "These Are the Voyages" books. Even the free sample from Amazon will do.
Star Trek had almost nothing to work with and no budget and went to extremes to make the show look as good as they could. Sometimes they failed but a lot or times they succeeded. I never much cared for the old show but having now read how they did it and why, and how much genius went into simple things like lighting a set... it's completely different now.
Of course they knew all along how to get into the phone, probably five different ways.
But all the public+media+dog had was speculation and unfortunately a big spotlight on the subject device.
Normally they work in secret and in the shadows and crack these phones all the time. But this one had everybody watching, and when everyone is watching, you do not get out your best-kept secrets and reveal them in front of the cameras. The agencies didn't want to confirm any of that by suddenly showing up with a cracked phone, thus revealing they had various techniques to do exactly what they wanted. So they tried the front door approach with Apple, and then some other approach where they can make some outside company look like the source and patsy.
Meanwhile all the much more secret techniques remain secret. Done.
But all the various bloggers and media people want to know exactly how it was done, which is exactly why they went to some effort to find a disposable way in rather than reveal their secrets. Meh. Who cares. Privacy is an illusion. If for a moment anyone thinks their iPhone is some kind of sacred secret place only they can access, well, they are fools. Nothing is secret.
Since every KB is tracked and recorded, what he REALLY hacked is T-Mobile's latent power to bill his sorry butt for the data he used. And I am sure they will do just that.
And if he refuses to pay, it becomes theft of service just like stealing electricity or cable TV and his sorry butt will end up in jail.
Smart move there Einstein.
We don't "own" any of these worlds so we have no right to do jack shit to them.
And if these worlds already have some kind of life, then we might jeopardize that life by dumping ours on top of it. We already know life on Earth comes in a Bazillion(TM) different forms, some of which look like your annoying cousin Larry, and some of which look like rocks. So we go off to some world that looks like it's all rock and seed it, and whoa, it turns out the rocks are a life form and we just wiped it out. Nice work humans. Assholes.
Then they were stupid as fuck to allow that contingency clause for a series of actions (the launch contractor phases) that Spacecom itself had NO control over and didn't actually do itself.
Their job was to build the bird and deliver it. They did that. Hopefully Facebook paid their sorry butts for it. So the next set of steps was on SpaceX and it blew up. OK, well it's probably not Spacecom's fault.. Nobody knows. But probably not their fault.
Now they are saying the buyer they had no longer wants to buy them because something that was probably not their fault was a contingency? Are they idiots or just THAT fucking desperate to get the company sold? Maybe they are both.
What the hell is a big dollar client like Facebook doing contracting satellites out to a company apparently effectively insolvent and running on promises of being bought out? Facebook could buy a satellite from anyone. Maybe they need to rethink who they hire. These people look like morons.
Presumably Facebook contracted with this company to supply the satellite. They did that. They should have gotten paid.
If you or I go buy a new car, we pay for it, and wreck it on the way home, the car dealer is not going to be out. We agreed to pay. Likewise Facebook surely agreed to pay for the damn thing. So what are they whining about?
The failure on the pad probably wasn't their fault so even if there was some kind of contingency, they should still get paid. They delivered the vehicle to the launch contractor. The launch contractor is responsible for the rest of the process. Blabbering about demanding a free launch or something AT THIS POINT is really unprofessional when the cause is not even known. What if it turns out the satellite WAS the cause? Then they are demanding someone else cover their failure.
I hate to say it but they sure sound like Ferengi demanding compensation or something of equal value well before anyone even knows what really happened.
None of it is plausible. You space nutters with your "antimatter fuel" nonsense. You can't travel near the speed of light. We know that from basic Physics. How are you going to travel "a few thousands light years"?
Bah. Fully qualified experts used to insist going faster than 35 MPH would be fatal. Not crashing, mind you: just going faster than that. It would turn the body to jelly and shatter all your bones. You'd die instantly. When that turned out to not be true, the bar was moved to 100 MPH. That wasn't true either. Then they said we would never fly. We did. Then they said we'd never survive breaking the sound barrier. We did. Then they insisted 1000 MPH was lethal. It isn't. They said helicopters were impossible. They aren't. They said we would never survive going into space, that we would die the moment we tried, that we would never get to the moon much less back from it.
A lot of supposed experts have said we can't do one thing or another, and of course always backed up with charts and numbers and science and stacks of absolutes. And yet time after time they are proven WRONG. The science they relied upon and swore upon to say 35 MPH was lethal---- absolute crap, despite their assurances to the contrary. Most of us break THAT one multiple times a day. I know I have exceeded over four times that speed in my car and I am still here.
The only thing these experts have proven is the overwhelming ability to be wrong about their science and underestimate what people are capable of doing. So perhap it is possible to break the C barrier. We will try. We might even do it. And perhaps it will become just another 35 MPH barrier, meaningless and forgotten.
Agree totally, airspace over a property does not belong to the property owner. It 'belongs' to the Federal Government and is managed and otherwise supervised by the FAA. Property owners can no more shoot at drones than they can shoot down airliners or shoot at cars passing on roads next to their property. Can't do any of those things.
However states ARE passing laws regarding airspace use, in what seems to be clear violation of FAA jurisdiction. For example, the State of Georgia has designated six-mile no-fly zones around the state capitol building and governor's mansion residence. This means most of downtown Atlanta is in a no-fly zone and this impacts various users including all sorts of legitimate motion picture or TV productions, at least four colleges which might have drones in their course work, and of course any private citizens who might want to fly one on their own yards.
The mansion sits in the middle of a heavily residential area surrounded by some of the wealthiest homes in the area, which means those residents are more likely to have high end drones fully capable of performance flying, but the state says no. There is no justification given for this; the state simply doesn't want anyone flying near these places. It scares them. Terrifies them.
With several airports also scattered around Atlanta, the two zones marked off limits by the state add to a huge area where drones aren't allowed, and virtually guarantee people are going to fly anyway because such a huge area leaves few options for drone users except to break the laws.
You have no right to open fire upon drones any more than you have a right to do that to cars passing by your house.
Destruction of property, discharging a firearm in a dangerous manner, reckless endangerment, criminal damage to property, vandalism, theft... there's an endless list of crimes someone can be charged with for shooting at drones.
You do not own the airspace over your home. You have absolutely no right to shoot at drones or aircraft or anything else, because, well, you don't own the airspace. If you do shoot at them, I hope you enjoy the massive legal machinery of Amazon landing square on your head. They have bored lawyers waiting to eat this one for snacks.
Well, for now it is only in those few places. But DOCSIS 3.1 does offer the potential to easily upgrade almost any cable customer, eventually. Minor head-end changes and new customer modems are all it needs, so at some point probably almost any Comcast customer will be able to get it.
And "at some point" is going to be soon, as this is rolling out everywhere in the next 18 months. The fact that they can do this without digging one shovel of dirt is pretty neat. It is a solid solution. It's too bad it's Comcast.
The TSA is security theater. They do nothing to address the actual security risks and vulnerabilities, which are numerous and very dangerous.
For example, the major airport near me is extremely vulnerable to things like vehicles getting on a runway. There is less protecting those runways than there is protecting my backyard. Oh there are cameras and crap but it's far too big to patrol. Security cannot stop someone who really wants to get out there, so imagine if some terrorists on the back of a truck got on to the runways and began shooting up planes in the queue to take off. Hit the first plane and it stops, Then go down the line taking out plane after plane which can't escape, can't back up, can't go anywhere. Thousands could die. Blow up the fuel depot for extra fun. It's unprotected. Hit more than one airport like this at the same time and air travel will collapse worldwide.
Even the TSA checkpoint is meaningless. Someone with a backpack bomb could kill hundreds queued up in those lines. You don't need to get through security. The potential victims are all nicely lined up there.
Where are these "local helipads" supposed to be? There are various private buildings with helipads on their roofs, and plenty of open parks and maybe some parking decks with room on their roofs, but nearly all of these are private properties not open to the public. Most of them show "PRIVATE!" when seen from the air.
I can't think of a single spot in my city where you could do this kind of operation. Sure you could use a park once or twice, but try to make it routine and the cops will probably cite you for trespassing.
My Nexus 6 is similar to your X Force... perhaps somebody can get one of the Nexus 6 ROMs to work on not just your device but all the other Motorola models that are relatively similar.
But even Google says they will stop guaranteeing updates for the Nexus 6 once Nougat is released. Keep in mind, the Nexus 6 was still a current product up until 9 months ago and you can still get them new in the box. But they've already warned us to not expect much. Not sure if this is Google or Motorola or both declaring this thing dead but damnit this was still a mainline product within the last year. And now it's already an orphan?
Well, I suppose I should not be too upset: the four Android phones I had before this one got only one or two updates between them, ever. The Nexus 6 has gotten monthly security patches and IIRC 3 major OS updates in the last few months.
We haven't found signs or evidence because what we are looking for, or expecting to find, is just all wrong.
To understand the problem, first think about what we know of life. It is all around us. The Earth is covered in life, in the air, in the soil, in the sea, on the land. It is everywhere. From small microbes to giant whales and even bigger creatures that have long since died out. Life comes in so many forms, it might as well be an infinite variety. It remains well beyond human ability to catalog and classify and identify.
So we have a lesson staring us in the face: life comes in all shapes and sizes and kinds, and that's just this ONE planet. If this is typical, we can expect other planets might have similar diversity. When we look out into space, logically, we could look for this sort of world. It is, afterall, the only one we know. The only pattern.
But that's not what happens when we look for life out there. Oh hell no. All we look for is radio signals. Look at the Earth: teeming with life, crawling with it, covered in it. Only one has ever invented radio. And then only for a bit over 100 years. None of the other billions of fine creatures has ever bothered with radio. That we know of. Just one.
So when we look out into space, we aren't looking for life at all. We ARE looking for a copy of us, in this brief window when we had radio and made enough noise with it that it might be heard across short interstellar distances. But nobody really knows how far our signals get. And if you were on alien world doing what we do, listening for signals, but you did it 200 years ago, the Earth would be a silent and dead world. So that settles it: there is no life in space. Right?
This is basically what is being said now: we, in our infinite wisdom, have decided to look only for exactly what we are this very moment, and having not found that so far, we have unilaterally decided the universe is empty and nobody is home.
This is absolutely asinine. The stupidest mistake in human history: to expect to find ourselves out there, to LOOK only for that, using only primitive methods only really useful because it's all we've managed to invent, and we we do not find signs of life after just a few years looking, we declare the universe is dead.
Netcraft now confirms: the universe is dead and you will be too, soon.
That's pretty fucking arrogant.
"Pathetic Earthlings. Throwing your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling WHO or WHAT is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would have hidden from it in terror." -Dessler of Gamilas
Terraforming Venus was shown back in the old Cosmos series. We humans made it rain or some such thing. Hurray! We are on our way to making another home!
The rains fell on Venus and out of the rocks emerged some sort of worm-like life form, which was promptly killed off by our helpful rain. The point the show was trying to make was that we don't understand all the consequences of doing things like that.
My additional point is that we humans don't OWN the Solar System, or even the Earth. We have no automatic right to do anything as we please. Sure, nothing is standing in our way but that does not give us right to do whatever the hell we want, terraforming Mars or Venus or plonking down bases all over the place.
And if we are exceedingly lucky and somehow manage to survive and actually become a space-faring race, we may eventually run across worlds where life already exists. Then what? We have even less right to do with it as we wish. And if we are really unlucky, we will run into some worlds inhabited by intelligent beings who won't particularly like human invaders. We sure as hell won't have any rights there.
This may sound all silly scifi but up to now in human history, everywhere mankind has gone, we have owned. The plants and animals and microbes have never objected. This doesn't extend out there. We may find, in fact, that the environment of space and other words presents a very strong objection.
They want to further obfuscate and restrict observations and reporting of the process, the people, the companies, the machines, the software, and the flaws and exploits and unresolved issues.
They have already gone to great lengths to silence reporting and brush issues under the carpet and pretend everything is fine when multiple independent observers and investigators have revealed major problems that SHOULD have us all questioning the whole process.
By making it a critical infrastructure, they will shove it all behind a wall and merely promise us all is well. When they have done this before, they have LIED. We have no reason to trust them and every reason to doubt every single thing they say.