A Nissan Leaf has a 24kWh battery. A refrigerator uses about 2kWh per day. LED bulbs are about 0.015KWh (each) for every hour they are on. A TV is about 0.1kWh for every hours it's on. Central AC uses about 36kWh per day in the summer. So yes to a fridge, some lights, a little TV and keeping your phones/tablets/laptops charged; no to air conditioning (or electric heat, oven, clothes dryer, etc).
Since the alternative is "nothing backing your power grid", I'd have to say yes. BTW, the Model 3 is a single model of a single brand of electric vehicle and not in any way representative of the reliability of electric vehicles as a whole.
Keepass is basically as good as it can ever possibly be. The "vulnerability" they found relates to the fact that when it displays entries on screen Windows will make copies of some of the data to create the GUI, and there is no effective way to scrub that.
Are you kidding? That's easy, don't use system fonts to display the password on-screen. It takes a bit of effort to create letters from graphic elements like lines and semi-circles but it's much safer (/-\ = A, etc). You could even randomize the angles and lengths of the line segments slightly (like a captcha) to prevent automated pattern recognition.
Kodak's problem was not being early or late to the market, it was picking the wrong end of the market. They chose the low-end point-and-shoots, leaving the higher end cameras to Canon, Sony, Nikon, etc. This strategy worked for them in the film era with their cheap Brownies and Instamatics. The goal was growing the market (and the demand for film and processing services), not competing with the likes of Hasselblad. In the digital era they saw digital coming before anyone else, but they failed to see smart phones coming. When everyone has a camera on their phone, there's still a market for high-end DSLRs, but there is absolutely no market for low-end (or even mid-range) digital cameras.
if they were "paying" taxes to the government, they'd just raise the price on their products and services
Oh no! Then customers would be forced to support local, brick-and-mortar, small businesses instead (the ones that actually DO pay taxes and create real jobs).
- Russia disconnects from Internet for short test.
- Rest of world gets hit with "mysterious" virus/worm that takes down critical financial/industrial/military infrastructure.
- Russia decides not to reconnect to protect their systems.
- Brave Russian programmers develop "cure" for virus/worm, offer to help rest of world for "small" price (just eastern Europe).
Who on earth thought it was a good idea to use an email address as a unique identifier for government programs? That's what Social Security Numbers are for.
Richard Nixon, the last criminal commander-in-chief (well, last one to get caught) was president during the first moon landing, so it's only fair that Trump gets to be president during the first mars landing.
Data would be like sunshine, if Facebook/Google/etc were capable of blocking out large portions of the sky to prevent the sun from shining on anyone else. Hey, maybe that's why Facebook is building a satellite and Google is building balloons.
autonomous scooters and bikes that can drive themselves to be charged, or drive themselves to locations where riders need them.
Where will they drive? On the road? On the sidewalk? Either way they would be a menace to cars and/or pedestrians. It's hard enough to see a rider on a bike, imagine dealing with a riderless scooter (basically a skateboard with tiny handle) zipping down a busy sidewalk or street. Then again, maybe the entire purpose of this is to get the rental devices to drive themselves from the private property where they are abandoned (or stolen), back to a public sidewalk where they can be retrieved by the owners without legal complications.
What's keeping wages from growing faster than inflation today is the huge pool of people who have been out of the workforce for the past several years.
Except that wage stagnation is a 40-year-old phenomena. It is not an effect of the last recession (though that certainly didn't help). It has persisted through several economic boom-bust cycles. The excuses change but the result is the same; "You're lucky to have a job in this dip.", "We're just starting to recover from the dip.", "Bad timing, there's another big dip on the horizon." CEO salaries on the other hand, seem to be immune to these effects.
Non-competes are a problem, yes, but not the cause of wage stagnation. Job mobility is higher than it's ever been, despite the rash of non-compete contracts. Changing jobs (or threatening to) is often the only way to get a raise now, but it wasn't always this way. The main problem is that companies no longer value experience (except perhaps at hiring time but often not even then) and believe every employee with similar education is interchangeable.
THIS is the problem. Republicans actually want the government shutdown, probably more than they want the useless border wall. It's a win for them either way.
From 1950 to 1970, the pinball industry made more money than Hollywood.
Citation needed.
"Special When Lit: A Pinball Documentary (2009)" Note the date range (1950-1970). There was no home market for movies at this point, thus box office was the total.
Interactive entertainment has always been more profitable, despite being mostly ignored by the so-called cultural critics.
Define what you mean by interactive entertainment. I realize that sounds obvious but I think it's less obvious than it seems. Professional sports spectating isn't really interactive but it's one of the biggest pieces of the entertainment market - far bigger revenues than the market for actually playing sports.
Citation needed.
If I offered you all the revenue from Professional golf (advertising, tv rights) or the revenue from recreational golf (equipment sales, green fees, etc), which would you choose? The NFL (one of the most profitable professional leagues) makes about $8 billion a year. A single sports equipment company (Nike), made $34 billion last year.
From 1950 to 1970, the pinball industry made more money than Hollywood. Interactive entertainment has always been more profitable, despite being mostly ignored by the so-called cultural critics.
For the first half of the twentieth century, a lot of transit systems in the US were private companies. They actually worked fairly well until they started to be bought up by a consortium of General Motors, Firestone and Standard Oil. Efficient trolley tracks were torn up and replaced by buses (which benefited the consortium). Eventually, even the buses were neglected to encourage the purchase of private cars. Local governments had little option but to buy and run the (intentionally) failing transit systems. In short, corporations can't be trusted to serve the public, because someone will always find a way to game the system and make it more profitable to not serve the public. Why do libertarians think they are so god damn brilliant for digging up old ideas that have been tried and failed in the past?
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A Nissan Leaf has a 24kWh battery. A refrigerator uses about 2kWh per day. LED bulbs are about 0.015KWh (each) for every hour they are on. A TV is about 0.1kWh for every hours it's on. Central AC uses about 36kWh per day in the summer. So yes to a fridge, some lights, a little TV and keeping your phones/tablets/laptops charged; no to air conditioning (or electric heat, oven, clothes dryer, etc).
Since the alternative is "nothing backing your power grid", I'd have to say yes. BTW, the Model 3 is a single model of a single brand of electric vehicle and not in any way representative of the reliability of electric vehicles as a whole.
Are you kidding? That's easy, don't use system fonts to display the password on-screen. It takes a bit of effort to create letters from graphic elements like lines and semi-circles but it's much safer (/-\ = A, etc). You could even randomize the angles and lengths of the line segments slightly (like a captcha) to prevent automated pattern recognition.
To paraphrase Ian Malcolm, "If Xerox PARC breaks down, it does run over the pedestrians."
Kodak's problem was not being early or late to the market, it was picking the wrong end of the market. They chose the low-end point-and-shoots, leaving the higher end cameras to Canon, Sony, Nikon, etc. This strategy worked for them in the film era with their cheap Brownies and Instamatics. The goal was growing the market (and the demand for film and processing services), not competing with the likes of Hasselblad. In the digital era they saw digital coming before anyone else, but they failed to see smart phones coming. When everyone has a camera on their phone, there's still a market for high-end DSLRs, but there is absolutely no market for low-end (or even mid-range) digital cameras.
Clearly you've never offended a Scientologist.
Oh no! Then customers would be forced to support local, brick-and-mortar, small businesses instead (the ones that actually DO pay taxes and create real jobs).
Someone should write a bot to post each new photo to Facebook (along with a randomly generated name) to salt their facial recognition algorithm.
...plus all the undersea cables that they've tapped into.
- Russia disconnects from Internet for short test.
- Rest of world gets hit with "mysterious" virus/worm that takes down critical financial/industrial/military infrastructure.
- Russia decides not to reconnect to protect their systems.
- Brave Russian programmers develop "cure" for virus/worm, offer to help rest of world for "small" price (just eastern Europe).
The Trump Administration is desperately seeking artificial intelligence due to the total absence of any natural intelligence.
Who on earth thought it was a good idea to use an email address as a unique identifier for government programs? That's what Social Security Numbers are for.
I bet AT&T or Verizon can't show a single example of a time they resisted a request from the American government.
Richard Nixon, the last criminal commander-in-chief (well, last one to get caught) was president during the first moon landing, so it's only fair that Trump gets to be president during the first mars landing.
Data would be like sunshine, if Facebook/Google/etc were capable of blocking out large portions of the sky to prevent the sun from shining on anyone else. Hey, maybe that's why Facebook is building a satellite and Google is building balloons.
Where will they drive? On the road? On the sidewalk? Either way they would be a menace to cars and/or pedestrians. It's hard enough to see a rider on a bike, imagine dealing with a riderless scooter (basically a skateboard with tiny handle) zipping down a busy sidewalk or street. Then again, maybe the entire purpose of this is to get the rental devices to drive themselves from the private property where they are abandoned (or stolen), back to a public sidewalk where they can be retrieved by the owners without legal complications.
Except that wage stagnation is a 40-year-old phenomena. It is not an effect of the last recession (though that certainly didn't help). It has persisted through several economic boom-bust cycles. The excuses change but the result is the same; "You're lucky to have a job in this dip.", "We're just starting to recover from the dip.", "Bad timing, there's another big dip on the horizon." CEO salaries on the other hand, seem to be immune to these effects.
Non-competes are a problem, yes, but not the cause of wage stagnation. Job mobility is higher than it's ever been, despite the rash of non-compete contracts. Changing jobs (or threatening to) is often the only way to get a raise now, but it wasn't always this way. The main problem is that companies no longer value experience (except perhaps at hiring time but often not even then) and believe every employee with similar education is interchangeable.
THIS is the problem. Republicans actually want the government shutdown, probably more than they want the useless border wall. It's a win for them either way.
US government is dead. Netcraft confirms it.
The "absurdity" of social sciences is not really the issue. Scientific Journals have been caught publishing AI generated nonsense as computer science papers, publishing pharmaceutical company marketing as medical papers, publishing a request to be removed from their mailing list as a paper and accepting a made-up researcher with no credentials as an editor.
Is no one working on optical storage anymore? I would think there are more opportunities to increase speed/density there than with magnetic storage.
"Special When Lit: A Pinball Documentary (2009)" Note the date range (1950-1970). There was no home market for movies at this point, thus box office was the total.
Citation needed. If I offered you all the revenue from Professional golf (advertising, tv rights) or the revenue from recreational golf (equipment sales, green fees, etc), which would you choose? The NFL (one of the most profitable professional leagues) makes about $8 billion a year. A single sports equipment company (Nike), made $34 billion last year.
From 1950 to 1970, the pinball industry made more money than Hollywood. Interactive entertainment has always been more profitable, despite being mostly ignored by the so-called cultural critics.
For the first half of the twentieth century, a lot of transit systems in the US were private companies. They actually worked fairly well until they started to be bought up by a consortium of General Motors, Firestone and Standard Oil. Efficient trolley tracks were torn up and replaced by buses (which benefited the consortium). Eventually, even the buses were neglected to encourage the purchase of private cars. Local governments had little option but to buy and run the (intentionally) failing transit systems. In short, corporations can't be trusted to serve the public, because someone will always find a way to game the system and make it more profitable to not serve the public. Why do libertarians think they are so god damn brilliant for digging up old ideas that have been tried and failed in the past?