Can you explain to me how an RFID tag is any more of a violation of your right to privacy than being constantly filmed/taped in public? Because courts have already ruled for quite a while that you have no expectation of privacy in public (as you shouldn't). You may not agree, but I fall on the side that "If you're in public, it's public". I say that now, and I say that under the assumption that in the future everything I do in public will be recorded by hundreds of different sensors, devices, and cameras.
I'm ok with that. My passport already has an RFID tag, my electronic toll device on all of my vehicles, my debit card, my american express charge card.
So yeah, get with the times gramps. "OH NOES! Devices on us can track us when they encounter an RFID reader within a few feet of our person!" Going to get rid of your cellphone? The same one that has its location based on cell tower triangulation recorded constantly and the data is provided to law enforcement without a warrant?
RFID tags in school IDs isn't an erosion of rights unless you're a crackpot. These same students will have RFID tags in their driver's license when they're old enough to drive and if their state has enhanced ID systems.
Employers would be able to pay their employees less; they're no longer drivers, but just product handlers, moving it from warehouse to vehicle to delivery destination.
Also, who needs liability insurance anymore? The autonomous vehicle manufacturer would carry insurance for errors in their system, and only other drivers who still drive their cars would need insurance.
I waste upwards of 450-500 hours a year driving (at least). I would normally pay $30K-50K for a car. My billable rate is $125/hr, but I don't do any work for less than $75/hr. Assuming I value my own time at $75/hr, for a vehicle I own for 5 years, I would pay a premium of $187,500 for a self driving car. That premium I would pay is what a Google self-driving car costs (Prius + ~$150K in sensor gear). Amortize it over 30 years like a Cessna or other light aircraft, and you can have my money today.
I was correcting the statistic, not your assertion.
I agree that there are only so many resources to go around; consequently, prices will change based on the demand and availability of those resources until they reach an equilibrium. If there isn't enough copper *at all*, people will need to make due either without or with a substitute (or expensive reserves in the ground will be more appealing to dig up).
Just because it doesn't directly profit doesn't mean it doesn't provide a strategic advantage.
Not all business is sell X, make Y from that. Delta airlines bought a refinery, not to make money from selling Jet-A, but to hedge against price increases (i.e insurance).
People are still putting soldiers on the ground? That's UAV work right there!
Front lines are so 20th century. The only warriors are going to be those on the airstrip fueling and refurbing UAVs and the pilots controlling them from the airbase near Vegas.
My understanding of the SpaceX engine control system is that the launch portion is completely automated; once the vehicle is ignited, the only on-ground task is the safety control officer's in the event the vehicle becomes unstable and needs to be destroyed.
This is apparent during the latest launch to the ISS: a merlin engine was lost, and the onboard launch system safed the motor and increased burn time on the remaining motors to obtain orbit. While its true that the secondary mission failed due to a small window (due to NASA/ISS safety margins), the vehicle was still able to a) make it to orbit and b) complete its primary mission with *zero* human intervention.
The aircraft crashed following an aerodynamic stall caused by inconsistent airspeed sensor readings, the disengagement of the autopilot, and the pilot making nose-up inputs despite stall warnings, causing a fatal loss of airspeed and a sharp descent. The pilots had not received specific training in "manual airplane handling of approach to stall and stall recovery at high altitude"; this was not a standard training requirement at the time of the accident.[8][1][9]
The reason for the faulty readings is unknown, but it is assumed by the accident investigators to have been caused by the formation of ice inside the pitot tubes, depriving the airspeed sensors of forward-facing air pressure.[10][11][12] Pitot tube blockage has contributed to airliner crashes in the past – such as Northwest Airlines Flight 6231 in 1974 and Birgenair Flight 301 in 1996.[13]
Does this mean I'm going to have to hand my 3D bioreactor before it even gets to my desk? Because if guns kill easily, just wait and see what you'll be able to churn out biologically from your desk in 10 years.
You can build your input sanitization directly into the stored procedure; someone at Google once said, "If the policy isn't built into the code, it doesn't exist."
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Can you explain to me how an RFID tag is any more of a violation of your right to privacy than being constantly filmed/taped in public? Because courts have already ruled for quite a while that you have no expectation of privacy in public (as you shouldn't). You may not agree, but I fall on the side that "If you're in public, it's public". I say that now, and I say that under the assumption that in the future everything I do in public will be recorded by hundreds of different sensors, devices, and cameras.
What are you going to do? Hide in your house?
I'm ok with that. My passport already has an RFID tag, my electronic toll device on all of my vehicles, my debit card, my american express charge card.
So yeah, get with the times gramps. "OH NOES! Devices on us can track us when they encounter an RFID reader within a few feet of our person!" Going to get rid of your cellphone? The same one that has its location based on cell tower triangulation recorded constantly and the data is provided to law enforcement without a warrant?
RFID tags in school IDs isn't an erosion of rights unless you're a crackpot. These same students will have RFID tags in their driver's license when they're old enough to drive and if their state has enhanced ID systems.
Until these are reconfigured to seek out laser ground targets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-88_HARM
They have a 106km range. Good luck hitting it long enough and fast enough before it takes out your ground station.
They're doing heavy launches from Vandenberg on the west coast:
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/12/business/la-fi-vandenberg-launchsite-20110713
California, Florida, and Nevada have already legalized self-driving cars.
Employers would be able to pay their employees less; they're no longer drivers, but just product handlers, moving it from warehouse to vehicle to delivery destination.
Also, who needs liability insurance anymore? The autonomous vehicle manufacturer would carry insurance for errors in their system, and only other drivers who still drive their cars would need insurance.
I waste upwards of 450-500 hours a year driving (at least). I would normally pay $30K-50K for a car. My billable rate is $125/hr, but I don't do any work for less than $75/hr. Assuming I value my own time at $75/hr, for a vehicle I own for 5 years, I would pay a premium of $187,500 for a self driving car. That premium I would pay is what a Google self-driving car costs (Prius + ~$150K in sensor gear). Amortize it over 30 years like a Cessna or other light aircraft, and you can have my money today.
Not everything that runs on Linux is open source.
I was correcting the statistic, not your assertion.
I agree that there are only so many resources to go around; consequently, prices will change based on the demand and availability of those resources until they reach an equilibrium. If there isn't enough copper *at all*, people will need to make due either without or with a substitute (or expensive reserves in the ground will be more appealing to dig up).
Correct! It's closer to 2.5 billion combined.
Not just Kinect:
https://flutterapp.com/
Just because it doesn't directly profit doesn't mean it doesn't provide a strategic advantage.
Not all business is sell X, make Y from that. Delta airlines bought a refinery, not to make money from selling Jet-A, but to hedge against price increases (i.e insurance).
Self-driving cars don't need drivers.
People are still putting soldiers on the ground? That's UAV work right there!
Front lines are so 20th century. The only warriors are going to be those on the airstrip fueling and refurbing UAVs and the pilots controlling them from the airbase near Vegas.
The NIH says you're wrong: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=fluorescent%20light
Care to provide any proof?
Which any incumbent could've done, they've just chosen not to.
My understanding of the SpaceX engine control system is that the launch portion is completely automated; once the vehicle is ignited, the only on-ground task is the safety control officer's in the event the vehicle becomes unstable and needs to be destroyed.
This is apparent during the latest launch to the ISS: a merlin engine was lost, and the onboard launch system safed the motor and increased burn time on the remaining motors to obtain orbit. While its true that the secondary mission failed due to a small window (due to NASA/ISS safety margins), the vehicle was still able to a) make it to orbit and b) complete its primary mission with *zero* human intervention.
No, they're not. It's software's job to determine sensor inconsistencies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
The aircraft crashed following an aerodynamic stall caused by inconsistent airspeed sensor readings, the disengagement of the autopilot, and the pilot making nose-up inputs despite stall warnings, causing a fatal loss of airspeed and a sharp descent. The pilots had not received specific training in "manual airplane handling of approach to stall and stall recovery at high altitude"; this was not a standard training requirement at the time of the accident.[8][1][9]
The reason for the faulty readings is unknown, but it is assumed by the accident investigators to have been caused by the formation of ice inside the pitot tubes, depriving the airspeed sensors of forward-facing air pressure.[10][11][12] Pitot tube blockage has contributed to airliner crashes in the past – such as Northwest Airlines Flight 6231 in 1974 and Birgenair Flight 301 in 1996.[13]
This is my favorite Youtube video showing the driverless Google car in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w-Fd2JbgGA
Human drivers will be obsolete in 5-10 years, tops.
Does this mean I'm going to have to hand my 3D bioreactor before it even gets to my desk? Because if guns kill easily, just wait and see what you'll be able to churn out biologically from your desk in 10 years.
Madagascar sounds like a good place to be.
A simple hunting rifle or handgun are all that one needs.
In that case, what next? We ban machine shops?
Really? Because at my day gig, our developers write their stored procedures, not a DBA.
You can build your input sanitization directly into the stored procedure; someone at Google once said, "If the policy isn't built into the code, it doesn't exist."
Unless you're the big boys: Then you're just specing it from the ODM and bypassing Dell/HP/etc: http://opencompute.org/
Just wait until ADS-B/NextGen rolls out.