Agreed, but even that won't always work out. Recently, a Finnish subway driver wrote 'wish I had a beer' on the in-car display, and a media shitstorm ensued. The subway operator had the driver scolded, though not fired, and issued a statement on their stance against promoting alcoholic drinks.
That's entirely due to the legions of idiots that love to go out and find things to get outraged about, and the media that loves to sell those things to those people. If it wasn't for that class of people trolling social media (and mainstream media scraping social media instead of actually reporting), that sort of thing would just be chuckle-providing fun.
Yeah... I have lots of seriously concerns about Clinton... but I'd pick her over Trump because I'm a one-issue voter, and that issue is not opening the seventh seal and ushering in the apocalypse.
Um, Hillary has already pretty conclusively demonstrated that she can't keep anything securely sealed.
Security researchers have discovered a variant of the FLocker Android ransomware that not only infects mobile devices, but also can infect smart TVs running certain versions of the operating system.
Oh so you mean the malware doesn't inspect the screen resolution and block itself from running if it's a large screen? Fascinating.
If it did that, it would be locking the TVs and not the phones:P HDTV: 1920 x 1080 Galaxy S7: 2560 x 1440
Having universal (mental) healthcare would probably reduce the rate of occurrence, but the only way to deal with the incidents that do happen in an economically feasible and liberty-compatible way is to make the targets (the civilian population) inimical to the threat. You do this by making sure they are mentally prepared and physically equipped to stop the threat themselves.
So one can imagine a case where a program crashes and sends telemetry to microsoft from inside a secure computing enviornment or otherwise exports secret bussiness data. This could invalidate MS from all government computing.
It wouldn't just affect MS software, but anything from anyone with any component built with MS development tools, anything built by tools built by MS dev tools, etc.
Residential streets aren't designed for this kind of traffic. I wonder if you could get the city to pass an ordnance prohibiting the usage of "live" traffic routing apps on residential streets. The local residents would probably almost unanimously support this, so would probably be easy to pass.
Then, any time this happens, two cops show up. One blocks off the downstream end of the street, the other wanders up the line and starts writing tickets. Word would get out quickly.
The neighborhood associations need to hire someone to drive back and forward on the route at 2.5 mph during peek hours.
Except that many places have laws about "obstructing traffic."
If it's really heavy traffic, what they really need to do is get residents to legally park along both sides of the street during rush hour, so there's only room for one lane of traffic between them. Then several others drive down the street opposing the flow of traffic, get to the bottleneck, and simply refuse to back up (there's really no clear right-of-way), with other residents coming in behind them. Once it backs up from the other direction, and they can't back up either, it will create a lovely snarl that people will learn to avoid.
Or if you have front driveways, have the neighbors park all around yours, and get "stuck" trying back a trailer in or out, make a u-turn with it, or something.
Given how many failures they've had, it's amazing they have any engineers left.
Then again, maybe that's the problem. All of the good engineers were "retired" after bad launches and now they're stuck with guys who have no experience in engineering and are struggling to make sense of the equations lest they be "retired" also.
Until they get a smart engineer, who "fails" in such a way that the missile "crashes" where all the brass is standing.
Is it just me or does it start to seem like ol' Elon is going senile?
Not senile, but self-indulgent. Any college sophomore can deal with the same ideas and get nowhere. And then there's Mars. I fervently wish he'd leave off the Mars stuff until SpaceX was on a solid footing as a profitable launch company with rapid cadence.
Isn't the entire purpose of SpaceX to get to Mars? The rocket launch business is just to fund things and develop the technology.
I suspect this is why there hasn't been a rush to go public - it could scupper that long-term mission when investors start demanding moar profits NOW.
According to this, we should obviously ban trucks from city streets. How many cars would it take to equal the weight of an 18-wheel rolling warehouse loaded with plates, cutlery and mini-fridges for Walmart?
Enough that their total weight and combined emissions would be more than that of the tractor-trailer rig that's required to carry the same amount of goods to where they need to be?
Now days it seems you can run almost any game at high settings with old cards. And the games still don't look as good as old elder school mods, which you need cpu and ram for. Everything is console lvl now.
"muh frames per second are slightly better then your frames per second" is just esat bullshit nowdays when the settings are the same otherwise.
The ONLY reason I'm still running 1920x1200 instead of 4k is that driving the monitor at native resolution for gaming would require too much spent on graphics card hardware.
Most likely, even this new card isn't enough for a single-card setup at 4k.
(says the guy who spent the last week playing Dwarf Fortress...)
Also, if the government gives me $30,000/year but I have to work at some boring, back breaking job 40 hours/week to make $32,000/year then why the hell shouldn't I just sit home and play video games?
You've just hit on another interesting side effect of a basic income. All of those crappy "backbreaking" jobs that they can get away paying peanuts for today because the only people that will do them are desperate? Guess what, those desperate people can give them the finger, and they'll actually have to pay enough to make people *want* to do it.
They are a lot more expendable than they realize, and it will barely cause a hiccup in operations.
Any one person is expendable, but not an entire IT department at once.
I've worked for places where it would only take a day or two of IT striking to run the place out of business. Another issue is that you can't easily bring in strike-breakers, because they won't have any access to the systems.
In the US, just over 3,000 people have died of terrorist attacks. In 21 years. How many millions die from car crashes alone each year? Are we going to start improving our public transit? No, of course not, because that's not the sexy ratings our senators here want.
It's worse than that. I did some back-of-the-envelope calculations based on average yearly income, the amount of money spent on terror-triggered government spending, and the number of man hours wasted collectively due to such things as extra time spent at TSA checkpoints since 2001.
The end result was that our voluntary reaction to 9/11 has caused us to flush the equivalent of about half a million lifetimes down the toilet (ie. $14 million == someone working 700,000 hours at average wages == one person wasting their life generating resources to pay for it). x3 if you limit them to working 8-hour days, and even more if you count the civilian casualties in the wars.
Now that Tesla is competing with products such as the Ford Fusion mid level products they aren't going to let Tesla continue with the free press. There will come a day when pretty much every old media article we read will be about a Tesla battery fire, or Telsa recall, or anyone killed in a Tesla will somehow be national news.
At least until a reporter from a competing media company gets wind of the under-the-table deals going on at their competitor, and can't resist the chance to slam them publicly for it.
The recall itself is pretty boring. They're doing the right thing by proactively fixing a problem they found.
What I found interesting from the article I read yesterday is that the bad part in question was one of the few that wasn't made by Tesla. Just like the bad strut that caused the SpaceX launch to fail was one of the few parts not made by SpaceX.
Musk's aversion to using third-party parts seems to be well-placed.
That really just happens to be the label that currently applies to "people old enough to be aware of the problem, and young enough that they'll be around to deal with the effects."
I'm guessing that the reason older people can still deny it is that they don't really care - they'll probably be gone by then, so why would they make themselves worse off now.
I'll go there. Seriously, how many Americans can truly afford to buy a $35k car?
Don't know, but the average new price of a car is $33560 so with inflation to 2017 it's well... average?
A lot of people can *pay* for $35k (new) cars, but I'm not sure a lot of them can *afford* them. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't seem to understand that there's a difference.
Misuse of to/too, there/their/they're, your/you're, etc is ignorance. There's a difference.
How's that for pointing out errors?
Sometimes. I darn well know the difference, but sometimes my treacherous fingers will betray me when I type. Fortunately, I actually proofread what I write, so I usually catch it before I make someone's head explode.
I am familiar with fuel manifolds and oxidizer manifolds, but where exactly is the budget manifold in a rocket?
It's usually referred to as "accounts payable." It's an adapter that allows numerous tubes going to government contractors to connect to a single government teat.
Learning to code might not "save" your job directly, but (for certain fields, anyway) it can definitely make you a more valuable employee.
I've lost count of the number of times I've come across a coworker doing something that's taking forever, and a little time spent automating the task (even if it's a one-off) saved gobs of time.
If you want something really eye-opening, consider this: - Average human lifetime is about 700,000 hours (80 years) - Take a middle-of-the-road wage of about $25/hr - A person that works 24/7 from birth till death would make about $17 million in their lifetime using the above numbers - Total cost of the US wars precipitated by terrorism is currently over $6 trillion or so
Thus, the US government has squandered 353,000 lifetimes (2,246,000 if they work a normal schedule for 50 years) worth of resources on those worthless wars, because "terrorism!!1!"
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Agreed, but even that won't always work out. Recently, a Finnish subway driver wrote
'wish I had a beer'
on the in-car display, and a media shitstorm ensued. The subway operator had the driver scolded, though not fired, and issued a statement on their stance against promoting alcoholic drinks.
That's entirely due to the legions of idiots that love to go out and find things to get outraged about, and the media that loves to sell those things to those people. If it wasn't for that class of people trolling social media (and mainstream media scraping social media instead of actually reporting), that sort of thing would just be chuckle-providing fun.
Yeah... I have lots of seriously concerns about Clinton... but I'd pick her over Trump because I'm a one-issue voter, and that issue is not opening the seventh seal and ushering in the apocalypse.
Um, Hillary has already pretty conclusively demonstrated that she can't keep anything securely sealed.
Security researchers have discovered a variant of the FLocker Android ransomware that not only infects mobile devices, but also can infect smart TVs running certain versions of the operating system.
Oh so you mean the malware doesn't inspect the screen resolution and block itself from running if it's a large screen? Fascinating.
If it did that, it would be locking the TVs and not the phones :P
HDTV: 1920 x 1080
Galaxy S7: 2560 x 1440
Having universal (mental) healthcare would probably reduce the rate of occurrence, but the only way to deal with the incidents that do happen in an economically feasible and liberty-compatible way is to make the targets (the civilian population) inimical to the threat. You do this by making sure they are mentally prepared and physically equipped to stop the threat themselves.
So one can imagine a case where a program crashes and sends telemetry to microsoft from inside a secure computing enviornment or otherwise exports secret bussiness data. This could invalidate MS from all government computing.
It wouldn't just affect MS software, but anything from anyone with any component built with MS development tools, anything built by tools built by MS dev tools, etc.
Residential streets aren't designed for this kind of traffic. I wonder if you could get the city to pass an ordnance prohibiting the usage of "live" traffic routing apps on residential streets. The local residents would probably almost unanimously support this, so would probably be easy to pass.
Then, any time this happens, two cops show up. One blocks off the downstream end of the street, the other wanders up the line and starts writing tickets. Word would get out quickly.
The neighborhood associations need to hire someone to drive back and forward on the route at 2.5 mph during peek hours.
Except that many places have laws about "obstructing traffic."
If it's really heavy traffic, what they really need to do is get residents to legally park along both sides of the street during rush hour, so there's only room for one lane of traffic between them. Then several others drive down the street opposing the flow of traffic, get to the bottleneck, and simply refuse to back up (there's really no clear right-of-way), with other residents coming in behind them. Once it backs up from the other direction, and they can't back up either, it will create a lovely snarl that people will learn to avoid.
Or if you have front driveways, have the neighbors park all around yours, and get "stuck" trying back a trailer in or out, make a u-turn with it, or something.
Given how many failures they've had, it's amazing they have any engineers left.
Then again, maybe that's the problem. All of the good engineers were "retired" after bad launches and now they're stuck with guys who have no experience in engineering and are struggling to make sense of the equations lest they be "retired" also.
Until they get a smart engineer, who "fails" in such a way that the missile "crashes" where all the brass is standing.
Not senile, but self-indulgent. Any college sophomore can deal with the same ideas and get nowhere. And then there's Mars. I fervently wish he'd leave off the Mars stuff until SpaceX was on a solid footing as a profitable launch company with rapid cadence.
Isn't the entire purpose of SpaceX to get to Mars? The rocket launch business is just to fund things and develop the technology.
I suspect this is why there hasn't been a rush to go public - it could scupper that long-term mission when investors start demanding moar profits NOW.
It can’t JUST be a sticky layer, otherwise it’ll last about 5 minutes before it gets a layer of environmental debris on it.
And another 5 minutes until the miscreants realize how much fun it is to stick crap on people's cars while they're sleeping.
According to this, we should obviously ban trucks from city streets. How many cars would it take to equal the weight of an 18-wheel rolling warehouse loaded with plates, cutlery and mini-fridges for Walmart?
Enough that their total weight and combined emissions would be more than that of the tractor-trailer rig that's required to carry the same amount of goods to where they need to be?
Do video card upgrades even matter anymore?
Now days it seems you can run almost any game at high settings with old cards. And the games still don't look as good as old elder school mods, which you need cpu and ram for. Everything is console lvl now.
"muh frames per second are slightly better then your frames per second" is just esat bullshit nowdays when the settings are the same otherwise.
The ONLY reason I'm still running 1920x1200 instead of 4k is that driving the monitor at native resolution for gaming would require too much spent on graphics card hardware.
Most likely, even this new card isn't enough for a single-card setup at 4k.
(says the guy who spent the last week playing Dwarf Fortress...)
Also, if the government gives me $30,000/year but I have to work at some boring, back breaking job 40 hours/week to make $32,000/year then why the hell shouldn't I just sit home and play video games?
You've just hit on another interesting side effect of a basic income. All of those crappy "backbreaking" jobs that they can get away paying peanuts for today because the only people that will do them are desperate? Guess what, those desperate people can give them the finger, and they'll actually have to pay enough to make people *want* to do it.
They are a lot more expendable than they realize, and it will barely cause a hiccup in operations.
Any one person is expendable, but not an entire IT department at once.
I've worked for places where it would only take a day or two of IT striking to run the place out of business. Another issue is that you can't easily bring in strike-breakers, because they won't have any access to the systems.
Not to mention they'd make so much noise, they'd be banned, well, everywhere.
In the US, just over 3,000 people have died of terrorist attacks. In 21 years. How many millions die from car crashes alone each year? Are we going to start improving our public transit? No, of course not, because that's not the sexy ratings our senators here want.
It's worse than that. I did some back-of-the-envelope calculations based on average yearly income, the amount of money spent on terror-triggered government spending, and the number of man hours wasted collectively due to such things as extra time spent at TSA checkpoints since 2001.
The end result was that our voluntary reaction to 9/11 has caused us to flush the equivalent of about half a million lifetimes down the toilet (ie. $14 million == someone working 700,000 hours at average wages == one person wasting their life generating resources to pay for it). x3 if you limit them to working 8-hour days, and even more if you count the civilian casualties in the wars.
Now that Tesla is competing with products such as the Ford Fusion mid level products they aren't going to let Tesla continue with the free press. There will come a day when pretty much every old media article we read will be about a Tesla battery fire, or Telsa recall, or anyone killed in a Tesla will somehow be national news.
At least until a reporter from a competing media company gets wind of the under-the-table deals going on at their competitor, and can't resist the chance to slam them publicly for it.
The recall itself is pretty boring. They're doing the right thing by proactively fixing a problem they found.
What I found interesting from the article I read yesterday is that the bad part in question was one of the few that wasn't made by Tesla. Just like the bad strut that caused the SpaceX launch to fail was one of the few parts not made by SpaceX.
Musk's aversion to using third-party parts seems to be well-placed.
That's not actually a ringing endorsement.
That really just happens to be the label that currently applies to "people old enough to be aware of the problem, and young enough that they'll be around to deal with the effects."
I'm guessing that the reason older people can still deny it is that they don't really care - they'll probably be gone by then, so why would they make themselves worse off now.
I'll go there. Seriously, how many Americans can truly afford to buy a $35k car?
Don't know, but the average new price of a car is $33560 so with inflation to 2017 it's well... average?
A lot of people can *pay* for $35k (new) cars, but I'm not sure a lot of them can *afford* them. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't seem to understand that there's a difference.
Misuse of to/too, there/their/they're, your/you're, etc is ignorance. There's a difference.
How's that for pointing out errors?
Sometimes. I darn well know the difference, but sometimes my treacherous fingers will betray me when I type. Fortunately, I actually proofread what I write, so I usually catch it before I make someone's head explode.
and your project will go over budget manifold
I am familiar with fuel manifolds and oxidizer manifolds, but where exactly is the budget manifold in a rocket?
It's usually referred to as "accounts payable." It's an adapter that allows numerous tubes going to government contractors to connect to a single government teat.
So even if BART is willing to import, it would take some doing to get India to export any.
Just update the H1-B requirements to stipulate that all imported workers much come packaged in rolling stock.
Learning to code might not "save" your job directly, but (for certain fields, anyway) it can definitely make you a more valuable employee.
I've lost count of the number of times I've come across a coworker doing something that's taking forever, and a little time spent automating the task (even if it's a one-off) saved gobs of time.
If you want something really eye-opening, consider this:
- Average human lifetime is about 700,000 hours (80 years)
- Take a middle-of-the-road wage of about $25/hr
- A person that works 24/7 from birth till death would make about $17 million in their lifetime using the above numbers
- Total cost of the US wars precipitated by terrorism is currently over $6 trillion or so
Thus, the US government has squandered 353,000 lifetimes (2,246,000 if they work a normal schedule for 50 years) worth of resources on those worthless wars, because "terrorism!!1!"