Fusion is just 10 years away for the past 60 years
Cure for cancer...
Travel to Mars...
The real problem with IoT is that nobody is willing to share data and cooperate so it is all just a bundle of orphaned plastic junk the connects with nothing (sound and fury signifying nothing). Where is the I in IoT? Until I can ping my door bell from any connected terminal there is no Internet in the Internet of Things.
Bongey, Fair enough, but information about the source does provide context for their point of view and point to where a critical mind might look for faults and omissions in their argument. The fact is that the Washington supreme court last spoke on an income tax during the great depression. That was a tied decision due to an incapacitated judge. When a new member was dubiously appointed, the court overruled the personal tax 5 to 4, but changed their mind the next day on a similar business income tax (B&O) and in the supporting opinion on the B&O tax noted that the court had changed their mind from the previous day. Seems like they were just begging to have the topic revisited. There is a second question of law regarding the rights of cities to impose an income tax. For those looking to dig deeper, our local Seattle NPR station, KUOW, did a great in depth story in this today.
This really is a very effective tool. As AmiMoJo also points out far above, There is no incentive to manufactures to not have planned obsolescence as they do not pay the disposal cost (externalized as AmiMoJo says). Manufacturers make money when they sell the product and their only cost is is making the product. In most places, currently, the customer (and the government and the environment) pays the disposal cost. A few US states have cost tacked onto some electronics products to pay disposal costs. Unfortunately, this is usually tacked on at the cash register so customers do include this in their considerations. If this were baked into the price at manufacture/import time and included in the sticker price then consumers cold make more informed decisions and manufacturers would have incentive to make their stuff last linger.
I was working in the bubs of Seattle during the WTO fun and games and I saw the substantial lag between events and police response. On local live TV I saw the black-block breaking windows and instigating the looting of Starbucks, etc. I also saw on live TV the protesters try and stop the damage/looting while the black-block made themselves scarce. A only after the fact were their police press conferences and riot squad response that only thumped on sweet young hippies in turtle costumes singing save the earth songs. I assume by the time the police hit the protesters, the black block was back at the bar watching the same live TV coverage I was and laughing their heads off. If just one cop would have been watching TV and radioed a couple of beat cops to grab a few of the right juvenile delinquents with the full help and support of the protesters the whole WTO riots would have been prevented. But since the city was crawling with feds/secret service just spoiling to have the local cops crack skulls the whole mess was inevitable. With lessons like these, the idea of some half-baked tarted-up search hit launching the riot squad at the wrong time/people/place does concern me. Good things there are no twitter bots out there to cause something to go wrong.
There was an interview about very thoughtful report by the Guardian's Chris Arnade about the impacts to income to people who are unwilling to relocate for work. The relevant takeaway is that you are at a substantial financial disadvantage if you are unwilling to relocate. It is also talked about here.
IANAL, obviously, but often state regs do get tossed by the courts when they drift into areas already regulated by the feds. I would personally much prefer to have my privacy protected anywhere I am in the country so I would like to see this nonsense outlawed by the FCC. That said, there is no reason you can apply substantial taxes to something that you can't regulate. No reason not to apply sales tax to the sale of all personal data if we can't regulate it. These advertising companies are benefiting from our educated citizenry and able to sell more stuff because of our roads they ship the stuff over. Let these low-life spam merchants pay the cost of our roads and schools like everyone else does.
Freischutz, great questions. It really is up to us. We are moving to an amazing time of blue collar productivity (abundance/unit of sweat). No doubt we will soon move to time of white color productivity that will make many slashdotters redundant too. We understandably get very hung up in our existing economic structures, but as you clearly point out, those structures are changing. Look at how much of our economy is devoted to ever expanding non-essential activities such as sports, pleasure travel and entertainment. We have the physical capability to give every human a comfortable life if we can just figure out a way to keep the gears tuning and share it in an equatable way. There are some interesting ideas out there such as a real basic income. "Free money," be it basic income, welfare or a trust fund, has often been feared as a pathway to moral hazards, but in an era of being famous for being famous perhaps there are broader ways to gain self worth than just shoveling slag in a mill. Even with our current economic model, if jeans cost $3 then perhaps people will pay a day's/week's pay for an "experience" of watching an artist make a custom belt buckle for those jeans because it is not automated and perfect. We've already seen seeds of high premiums for artisanal anything. Perhaps we will chose to evolve into a cash-free star trek world (TNG, not that dystopian Abraham version).
If the current direction continues, there will never be an Internet toaster. The bulk of consumer IoT devices lack the I in IoT. A device is not port of the Internet if it does not have an IP address. Until I can ping my toaster from across the planet, we do not have an IoT. We have an ioT, small "i" that is routed through a bunch of half-baked proprietary layers and protocols that is only then tunneled through the Internet to a proprietary cloud application. (Real) IoT, fusion and (real) AI have been just a few years away and will be for a long time to come.
Like VS, hate VS; be a MS fan boy or a MS hatter, but please VS is not a lightweight editor as the blurb says. VS has many nice features, VS has some dumb features. but those feature do not make it light weight editor. Please someone rewrite the blurb to bring some sanity to the term lightweight.
And blindly following banal best practices that may or may not apply in any given circumstance. In other words, learn from others, but always use you best judgement.
Strictly speaking this is not a treaty. It is a non-binding accord and legally little more than than a Presidential proclamation declaring national broccoli day with a pledge that all American's must eat their broccoli. Yes, we have had years of Gingrich inspired gridlock with republican refusing to come to the table to participate. Too many leaders have had the single minded goal of party over everything else. That has indeed driven presidents to fill in the void left by congress abdicating their responsibility. If you are not happy with President Obama's actions blame the republicans for hiding in their offices and not participating - they could have had a say. I would never hire a chef who hates food and cooking, why do republicans keep electing people who hate government, governing and the art of compromise?
Most voter fraud would be prosecuted at the state level, so for example ask the republican Alabama Secretary of State, John Merril, how many convictions he his state has for at poll voter impersonation.
The aerospace and medical device industries have done a stellar job of building reliable products. The ITcloud/app fields have not come close to that level of quality.
Please cite one case, by name and location, where a non-citizen has been convicted of voting in a US election. Please cite a specific election where so many non-citizens have been convicted of voting that it could have conceivable changed the outcome in that election. Let me cite you substantial analysis that requiring ID keeps many citizens from voting
I'm waiting for a kid to get expelled for bringing in his grandfather's real slide rule because the slide rule is an unauthorized "cheating device" not covered by a school board approved EULA.
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Man you are lucky it wasn't kitten videos or worse.
AI is just 5 years out for the 50 years
Fusion is just 10 years away for the past 60 years
Cure for cancer...
Travel to Mars...
The real problem with IoT is that nobody is willing to share data and cooperate so it is all just a bundle of orphaned plastic junk the connects with nothing (sound and fury signifying nothing). Where is the I in IoT? Until I can ping my door bell from any connected terminal there is no Internet in the Internet of Things.
Bongey, Fair enough, but information about the source does provide context for their point of view and point to where a critical mind might look for faults and omissions in their argument. The fact is that the Washington supreme court last spoke on an income tax during the great depression. That was a tied decision due to an incapacitated judge. When a new member was dubiously appointed, the court overruled the personal tax 5 to 4, but changed their mind the next day on a similar business income tax (B&O) and in the supporting opinion on the B&O tax noted that the court had changed their mind from the previous day. Seems like they were just begging to have the topic revisited. There is a second question of law regarding the rights of cities to impose an income tax. For those looking to dig deeper, our local Seattle NPR station, KUOW, did a great in depth story in this today.
Worth noting that according to Source Watch, the Washington Policy Center receives funding from the Koch brothers and pushes agenda items from American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in the state.. Take that as you will per your political leanings.
This really is a very effective tool. As AmiMoJo also points out far above, There is no incentive to manufactures to not have planned obsolescence as they do not pay the disposal cost (externalized as AmiMoJo says). Manufacturers make money when they sell the product and their only cost is is making the product. In most places, currently, the customer (and the government and the environment) pays the disposal cost. A few US states have cost tacked onto some electronics products to pay disposal costs. Unfortunately, this is usually tacked on at the cash register so customers do include this in their considerations. If this were baked into the price at manufacture/import time and included in the sticker price then consumers cold make more informed decisions and manufacturers would have incentive to make their stuff last linger.
I was working in the bubs of Seattle during the WTO fun and games and I saw the substantial lag between events and police response. On local live TV I saw the black-block breaking windows and instigating the looting of Starbucks, etc. I also saw on live TV the protesters try and stop the damage/looting while the black-block made themselves scarce. A only after the fact were their police press conferences and riot squad response that only thumped on sweet young hippies in turtle costumes singing save the earth songs. I assume by the time the police hit the protesters, the black block was back at the bar watching the same live TV coverage I was and laughing their heads off. If just one cop would have been watching TV and radioed a couple of beat cops to grab a few of the right juvenile delinquents with the full help and support of the protesters the whole WTO riots would have been prevented. But since the city was crawling with feds/secret service just spoiling to have the local cops crack skulls the whole mess was inevitable. With lessons like these, the idea of some half-baked tarted-up search hit launching the riot squad at the wrong time/people/place does concern me. Good things there are no twitter bots out there to cause something to go wrong.
That would be add it to a future sprint???
Please file a Jira ticket on this and mark it as a blocker!
Seems to be real twist on the usual definition of Cord Cutting
There was an interview about very thoughtful report by the Guardian's Chris Arnade about the impacts to income to people who are unwilling to relocate for work. The relevant takeaway is that you are at a substantial financial disadvantage if you are unwilling to relocate. It is also talked about here.
IANAL, obviously, but often state regs do get tossed by the courts when they drift into areas already regulated by the feds. I would personally much prefer to have my privacy protected anywhere I am in the country so I would like to see this nonsense outlawed by the FCC. That said, there is no reason you can apply substantial taxes to something that you can't regulate. No reason not to apply sales tax to the sale of all personal data if we can't regulate it. These advertising companies are benefiting from our educated citizenry and able to sell more stuff because of our roads they ship the stuff over. Let these low-life spam merchants pay the cost of our roads and schools like everyone else does.
Freischutz, great questions. It really is up to us. We are moving to an amazing time of blue collar productivity (abundance/unit of sweat). No doubt we will soon move to time of white color productivity that will make many slashdotters redundant too. We understandably get very hung up in our existing economic structures, but as you clearly point out, those structures are changing. Look at how much of our economy is devoted to ever expanding non-essential activities such as sports, pleasure travel and entertainment. We have the physical capability to give every human a comfortable life if we can just figure out a way to keep the gears tuning and share it in an equatable way. There are some interesting ideas out there such as a real basic income. "Free money," be it basic income, welfare or a trust fund, has often been feared as a pathway to moral hazards, but in an era of being famous for being famous perhaps there are broader ways to gain self worth than just shoveling slag in a mill. Even with our current economic model, if jeans cost $3 then perhaps people will pay a day's/week's pay for an "experience" of watching an artist make a custom belt buckle for those jeans because it is not automated and perfect. We've already seen seeds of high premiums for artisanal anything. Perhaps we will chose to evolve into a cash-free star trek world (TNG, not that dystopian Abraham version).
Perhaps the name of the consortium of vendors you are looking for is called the PRC.
If the current direction continues, there will never be an Internet toaster. The bulk of consumer IoT devices lack the I in IoT. A device is not port of the Internet if it does not have an IP address. Until I can ping my toaster from across the planet, we do not have an IoT. We have an ioT, small "i" that is routed through a bunch of half-baked proprietary layers and protocols that is only then tunneled through the Internet to a proprietary cloud application. (Real) IoT, fusion and (real) AI have been just a few years away and will be for a long time to come.
Nothing but June Gloom this year
I wonder how many of these message that the drive had heard and learned to consider them as "false alerts"?
Like VS, hate VS; be a MS fan boy or a MS hatter, but please VS is not a lightweight editor as the blurb says. VS has many nice features, VS has some dumb features. but those feature do not make it light weight editor. Please someone rewrite the blurb to bring some sanity to the term lightweight.
And blindly following banal best practices that may or may not apply in any given circumstance. In other words, learn from others, but always use you best judgement.
If there is such a book
Strictly speaking this is not a treaty. It is a non-binding accord and legally little more than than a Presidential proclamation declaring national broccoli day with a pledge that all American's must eat their broccoli. Yes, we have had years of Gingrich inspired gridlock with republican refusing to come to the table to participate. Too many leaders have had the single minded goal of party over everything else. That has indeed driven presidents to fill in the void left by congress abdicating their responsibility. If you are not happy with President Obama's actions blame the republicans for hiding in their offices and not participating - they could have had a say. I would never hire a chef who hates food and cooking, why do republicans keep electing people who hate government, governing and the art of compromise?
Most voter fraud would be prosecuted at the state level, so for example ask the republican Alabama Secretary of State, John Merril, how many convictions he his state has for at poll voter impersonation.
The aerospace and medical device industries have done a stellar job of building reliable products. The ITcloud/app fields have not come close to that level of quality.
Brennen Center, Washington Post, Atlantic, Mother Jones, UCSD, UW, Cornell, Cambridge. There is a mix a academic original research and easily accessible, but thoughtful articles in that list.
This Boeing group includes the old GM Hughes Space & Comm group
I'm waiting for a kid to get expelled for bringing in his grandfather's real slide rule because the slide rule is an unauthorized "cheating device" not covered by a school board approved EULA.