I think the apple TV would be useful about the time I finally purchase a really nice TV, and a really comfortable couch. Until then, the laptop and Tablet are sufficient.
Because we know what an effective polio vaccine looks like. If we are able to replicate an effective polio vaccine using this new technique, the knowledge obtained creating it produces a framework around which to build the process of making vaccines for diseases that we currently do NOT have vaccines for.
Much the same as how there are many proofs for the Pythagorean theorem. The more ways to the correct answer, the more thoroughly the problem is solved, and the understanding gained developing those proofs lends itself to being able to solve other more complex problems.
It also looks like its over 10 years old, which probably means a lot of installs have been lost to system wipes, drives being replaced, and even system failures. 10 years is forever in computer years.
with 400 known installs over more than a decade, I'd lean towards social engineering and phishing rather than self propagating. Of course, that is based on the assumption that most of the existing installs phoned home to his Command&Control server.
Considering the age of this thing, it looks like *apparently* the primary Command&Control server is down, based on the fact that the 400 installs connected to the backup address when it came to life.
This makes me wonder if the thing was far more widespread once, served whatever nefarious purpose it was intended for, and then was abandoned. 10 years being an eternity in computer years, a lot of infected machines would have been wiped, replaced, or trashed since, perhaps only leaving these few surviving installs on older machines, or ones with overly thorough backup/migration processes.
About a decade ago a local realator put my cell phone number on either an ad, or on his business cards, and I got calls from people looking for property to lease for hunting for about a year. That got annoying fast.
Molten Salts Solar Collection Towers.
stores power as thermal mass for night time. If you couple that tech with with batteries, pumped hydro, and dynamos, you start to get a more viable model. Assuming its all going to be photoelectric cells and batteries is foolish. So we diversify the tech used, and spread the generation across the entire southern US. 1000 one square mile solar installations across the country, using whichever storage system is most reasonable (pumped hydro in varied terrain with water available, batteries and dynamos in the dryer southwest, etc).
Sure, its still really expensive, but honestly, it's going to need to be done eventually.
Exactly, I catch myself watching weather radar online, slowly zooming out, with this itch in the back of my brain that says "If i just see a little more, all this will make sense and be predictable" until i'm watching a global radar view and thinking "just a little more data..." because it *looks* predictable, but its just... not.
Could be, Verizon is the main culprit in ringbacks these days, as can be testified by the fact that every time I hear one, it is preceded by "Please enjoy this Verizon ringback tone while your party is reached." I think that if you are paying for the service, a default classical music is used. (and its probably defaulted into most of their plans).
I've always hated calling people that used ringback tones, because it seems that the type of people that use them are the type of people that like music I can't stand, so it is literally a case of "Here, listen to this song you hate while you wait for someone to answer."
Plus, because you never call "yourself" so whoever picks out a ringback tone never actually gets to listen to it, so I can see why they fell out of favor quickly.
Also, the sound quality over normal calls being so crap, it was like listening to the radio through a ball of aluminum foil, wrapped in a wet blanket.
I don't think you entirely know how animals work.
See, every year, they make new animals. You eat some of those new ones (mostly the males), and keep some, (mostly the females) and use them to replace the older female animals, maintaining a collection of animals with an average age in the best reproductive range.
Weirdly, this tends to work out well most of the time. In fact, it is possible to do this, and not only eat animals, but increase the number of animals on hand, via careful management!
In fact, people have been doing this for centuries, with semi-domestic animals such as chickens, sheep, goats, pigs, and cows. Some have even leveraged this technique to develop vast stores of wealth, procured via selling their excess meat animals.
Of course, doing it in an ecologically sound fashion takes careful planning, but is entirely possible, thanks to centuries of careful study, and the existence of schools devoted to the subject.
While sadly, some individuals and companies eschew these sound practices in favor of increased profits, public sentiment has been against this, and is slowly adjusting their behavior in recent years, and it is entirely possible that in the coming decades, we will see a shift in their behavior and techniques, probably accompanied by a slight rise in the cost of their products as they back away from unsustainable practices, but the whole of that situation is yet to be seen.
A lot of my family is from the heartland, and according to what i've heard, a big part of the problem is that the CRP program was fraught with fraud from the beginning.
Land owners who where ostensibly not actually farming would plow up big tracts of their grassland, then apply for CRP, get their money, and then just ignore the land, which let invasive weeds take root in place of native grasses, as well as dust blowing off of newly plowed, and then unused land.
You can see it yourself traveling through a lot of the great plains, land that is just sort of weedy and barren, and was clearly plowed at some point, and totally ignored now.
Makes a lot of people in those parts really heated to see the land be abused and wasted that way, when it could have been at least used for cattle grazing, (which would better reflect the bison usage of the plains) but instead got plowed under and ignored.
My problems with it where just as annoying. My laptop would ask for a password, enter the password, and a verification code would pop up on my phone. Enter the code, and the computer asks for my password, and then a new verification code pops up on the phone. Endless loop of this bullshit for 10 minutes at a time, before the system finally gets the picture and lets me in. I turned off 2FA until they work a few more of the bugs out.
Exactly. Take it from someone who got in the hole, (medical expense cropped up between jobs, no insurance back then) and has been living this way for years now trying to drag myself back into stable territory, and I can tell you. 20 year old TV, computer that was a gift, iPad that was a gift, own my 25 year old vehicle, paying my share of an old family plan phone with my folks (because it makes sense) and living in literally a three room apartment (kitchen, bathroom, and bed/living/diningroom) It has taken seven years of focused savings and fuckery to get even close to back to where stable, let alone advancing, because there is ALWAYS a magical *emergency expense* like getting the flu and losing a week of wages getting better, or throw out your back and lose a week of wages and a couple hundred bucks on therapy getting better. It Never. Fucking. Ends.
So sure, I could cancel my netflix, and turn off my internet, and save just a little more every month, but that fractional increase is beans compared to the sums needed to buy a house, and tends to be swallowed up by the churn of daily life. Turns out, saving up from the bottom of the heap is a fucking bitch, and only the seriously dedicated manage it. I'm not looking for a handout, I'll get myself their, but don't pretend this shit is simple.
I think that for UBI to work, a few restrictions would be in order:
1. To receive UBI, you must be on birth control. Males and Females. You want to make more people, you provide for them. (We're close enough to male birth control for this to happen in the next decade I think)
2. To receive UBI, you must not be a smoker. (drinking we'll allow, because but tobacco no. Mostly just to push the numbers down a little)
Really, with these two restrictions, it will shrink the number of people willing to subsist on UBI just enough to make it vaguely reasonable, abet still unpalatable, for the working/taxed wealthy class.
Or maybe I suggest these just to throw gasoline on the argument, and see where it goes.
I think its a context issue, and stands on a razor edge and can be argued both ways until blue in the face. Grayson is admitted to know who and where all the local drug dealers are, and is approached by someone offering a large sum of money to deliver a package to one of said drug dealers. *wink wink nudge nudge*
So either you have to assume Grayson is a complete idiot, who figures UPS was a bit short handed that day, or he knows he is delivering drugs.
His is a really razor edge case, which would be in court and appeals for way to long, and sort of props the prosecution on the old "Small Penis" defense, where the accused has to admit something undesirable (to being a complete idiot in this case) in order to defend himself. Not an ideal example for the comic.
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Correction: "At this point, I've long assumed"
This breach is nearly half of the US. At this point, I assume with total confidence that my data is in the hands of someone it should not be.
I think the apple TV would be useful about the time I finally purchase a really nice TV, and a really comfortable couch. Until then, the laptop and Tablet are sufficient.
1. eeh, the 7 is not that bad, but the large model is a bit much. 2. yeah. 3. People who's parents have to much money.
Because we know what an effective polio vaccine looks like. If we are able to replicate an effective polio vaccine using this new technique, the knowledge obtained creating it produces a framework around which to build the process of making vaccines for diseases that we currently do NOT have vaccines for.
Much the same as how there are many proofs for the Pythagorean theorem. The more ways to the correct answer, the more thoroughly the problem is solved, and the understanding gained developing those proofs lends itself to being able to solve other more complex problems.
It also looks like its over 10 years old, which probably means a lot of installs have been lost to system wipes, drives being replaced, and even system failures. 10 years is forever in computer years.
with 400 known installs over more than a decade, I'd lean towards social engineering and phishing rather than self propagating. Of course, that is based on the assumption that most of the existing installs phoned home to his Command&Control server.
Considering the age of this thing, it looks like *apparently* the primary Command&Control server is down, based on the fact that the 400 installs connected to the backup address when it came to life.
This makes me wonder if the thing was far more widespread once, served whatever nefarious purpose it was intended for, and then was abandoned. 10 years being an eternity in computer years, a lot of infected machines would have been wiped, replaced, or trashed since, perhaps only leaving these few surviving installs on older machines, or ones with overly thorough backup/migration processes.
About a decade ago a local realator put my cell phone number on either an ad, or on his business cards, and I got calls from people looking for property to lease for hunting for about a year. That got annoying fast.
Molten Salts Solar Collection Towers.
stores power as thermal mass for night time. If you couple that tech with with batteries, pumped hydro, and dynamos, you start to get a more viable model. Assuming its all going to be photoelectric cells and batteries is foolish. So we diversify the tech used, and spread the generation across the entire southern US. 1000 one square mile solar installations across the country, using whichever storage system is most reasonable (pumped hydro in varied terrain with water available, batteries and dynamos in the dryer southwest, etc). Sure, its still really expensive, but honestly, it's going to need to be done eventually.
I thought "Burn Out" was when you fantasized about burning the building down as you drive to work.
Exactly, I catch myself watching weather radar online, slowly zooming out, with this itch in the back of my brain that says "If i just see a little more, all this will make sense and be predictable" until i'm watching a global radar view and thinking "just a little more data..." because it *looks* predictable, but its just... not.
Could be, Verizon is the main culprit in ringbacks these days, as can be testified by the fact that every time I hear one, it is preceded by "Please enjoy this Verizon ringback tone while your party is reached." I think that if you are paying for the service, a default classical music is used. (and its probably defaulted into most of their plans).
I've always hated calling people that used ringback tones, because it seems that the type of people that use them are the type of people that like music I can't stand, so it is literally a case of "Here, listen to this song you hate while you wait for someone to answer."
Plus, because you never call "yourself" so whoever picks out a ringback tone never actually gets to listen to it, so I can see why they fell out of favor quickly.
Also, the sound quality over normal calls being so crap, it was like listening to the radio through a ball of aluminum foil, wrapped in a wet blanket.
I don't think you entirely know how animals work.
See, every year, they make new animals. You eat some of those new ones (mostly the males), and keep some, (mostly the females) and use them to replace the older female animals, maintaining a collection of animals with an average age in the best reproductive range.
Weirdly, this tends to work out well most of the time. In fact, it is possible to do this, and not only eat animals, but increase the number of animals on hand, via careful management!
In fact, people have been doing this for centuries, with semi-domestic animals such as chickens, sheep, goats, pigs, and cows. Some have even leveraged this technique to develop vast stores of wealth, procured via selling their excess meat animals.
Of course, doing it in an ecologically sound fashion takes careful planning, but is entirely possible, thanks to centuries of careful study, and the existence of schools devoted to the subject.
While sadly, some individuals and companies eschew these sound practices in favor of increased profits, public sentiment has been against this, and is slowly adjusting their behavior in recent years, and it is entirely possible that in the coming decades, we will see a shift in their behavior and techniques, probably accompanied by a slight rise in the cost of their products as they back away from unsustainable practices, but the whole of that situation is yet to be seen.
A lot of my family is from the heartland, and according to what i've heard, a big part of the problem is that the CRP program was fraught with fraud from the beginning.
Land owners who where ostensibly not actually farming would plow up big tracts of their grassland, then apply for CRP, get their money, and then just ignore the land, which let invasive weeds take root in place of native grasses, as well as dust blowing off of newly plowed, and then unused land.
You can see it yourself traveling through a lot of the great plains, land that is just sort of weedy and barren, and was clearly plowed at some point, and totally ignored now.
Makes a lot of people in those parts really heated to see the land be abused and wasted that way, when it could have been at least used for cattle grazing, (which would better reflect the bison usage of the plains) but instead got plowed under and ignored.
Instructions not clear; became trapped in ceiling fan.
My problems with it where just as annoying. My laptop would ask for a password, enter the password, and a verification code would pop up on my phone. Enter the code, and the computer asks for my password, and then a new verification code pops up on the phone. Endless loop of this bullshit for 10 minutes at a time, before the system finally gets the picture and lets me in. I turned off 2FA until they work a few more of the bugs out.
No thanks. Also. rape jokes stopped being even a little funny approximately a decade ago.
*there, not their, fucking proofreading.
Exactly. Take it from someone who got in the hole, (medical expense cropped up between jobs, no insurance back then) and has been living this way for years now trying to drag myself back into stable territory, and I can tell you. 20 year old TV, computer that was a gift, iPad that was a gift, own my 25 year old vehicle, paying my share of an old family plan phone with my folks (because it makes sense) and living in literally a three room apartment (kitchen, bathroom, and bed/living/diningroom) It has taken seven years of focused savings and fuckery to get even close to back to where stable, let alone advancing, because there is ALWAYS a magical *emergency expense* like getting the flu and losing a week of wages getting better, or throw out your back and lose a week of wages and a couple hundred bucks on therapy getting better. It Never. Fucking. Ends.
So sure, I could cancel my netflix, and turn off my internet, and save just a little more every month, but that fractional increase is beans compared to the sums needed to buy a house, and tends to be swallowed up by the churn of daily life. Turns out, saving up from the bottom of the heap is a fucking bitch, and only the seriously dedicated manage it. I'm not looking for a handout, I'll get myself their, but don't pretend this shit is simple.
Hell, home depot will sell you a basic refrigerator for under 400$
I think that for UBI to work, a few restrictions would be in order:
1. To receive UBI, you must be on birth control. Males and Females. You want to make more people, you provide for them. (We're close enough to male birth control for this to happen in the next decade I think)
2. To receive UBI, you must not be a smoker. (drinking we'll allow, because but tobacco no. Mostly just to push the numbers down a little)
Really, with these two restrictions, it will shrink the number of people willing to subsist on UBI just enough to make it vaguely reasonable, abet still unpalatable, for the working/taxed wealthy class.
Or maybe I suggest these just to throw gasoline on the argument, and see where it goes.
Food items, such as fruit, vegtables, meat, beans, rice, etc are not taxed in WA.
I think its a context issue, and stands on a razor edge and can be argued both ways until blue in the face. Grayson is admitted to know who and where all the local drug dealers are, and is approached by someone offering a large sum of money to deliver a package to one of said drug dealers. *wink wink nudge nudge*
So either you have to assume Grayson is a complete idiot, who figures UPS was a bit short handed that day, or he knows he is delivering drugs.
His is a really razor edge case, which would be in court and appeals for way to long, and sort of props the prosecution on the old "Small Penis" defense, where the accused has to admit something undesirable (to being a complete idiot in this case) in order to defend himself. Not an ideal example for the comic.
Single device washer-dryers exist. They cost a lot. LG makes one that costs $1700