Slums 2.0 will involve apps that help people pool together enough money to rent a building, and rather than having "personal" living-space, will optimise room availability on a minute-by-minute basis
These days, by default, Windows hides "system" directories and anything else that an uninformed user shouldn't touch.
This is the actual reason. Perhaps this was your point, but I don't think you specifically mentioned it: changing the extension "breaks the file", by making its type no-longer known. There is no valid reason for a non-technical user to want to do this, so it is not a good idea to let users change it "by accident". Ever field a tech support call before "hiding extensions" was the norm? 90% of them were "my file is corrupt" because somebody renamed "Unitled3.doc" to "Report", and had absolutely no idea how to handle it / what was going on.
That does nothing to help the problem. It isn't "management", either. It's just broken software.
True DRM, ie: something which actually tries to keep track of what I have the right to use, do, and consume, based on the often fickle nuances of intentional IP law, I would pay money for
And they seem to think it's okay to stop at "building" when describing a location.
The vast majority of "destinations" in the world which one might want to find on a map are some sub-division of a building. And many others span across multiple buildings.
It baffles me to no end that it is apparently easier to convince people that the entire world should operate on a different schedule, than it is to convince people that individual buildings should have opening hours that make sense based on their requirements.
Whenever people want to touch the 2nd amendment, it seems that there's always someone who seems to be of the opinion that if you want to touch the amendments, you ought to start at the top of the list.
His launch is not likely to influence his beliefs. Not due to the strength of his convictions, but because he only planned to go up about 600 meters.
Note that the bare-minimum for being able to detect the curvature of the earth with the naked eye, in ideal / cloudless conditions, is over 10,000 meters. The most-common views that one typically sees of the "curved earth" / thinks of when considering the curvature of the earth, are from the the international space station (or other orbits of roughly that area), which averages 400,000 meters from the earth's surface.
600 meters much less than he'd get from riding in an airplane. If he didn't trust the windows on those things, and wanted a definite unobstructed view, he could just get into a normal hot air balloon - those tend to go up a little more than 600 meters, on average.
There aren't enough cables. The Internet is such absurdly critical infrastructure, and we have only a handful of cables even for the most-dense connections. While the Internet routes around damage efficiently, the amount of time it takes to route around damage is longer than would be desired these days (where an assumption of failure is the norm for critical applications), and a small reduction in capacity could easily be catastrophic.
When AI goes rogue, the problem won't be "we can't figure out how to turn it off", it will be "We can't figure out how to turn off just the parts we don't like, without accidentally disable the parts of it which we have become completely dependent on for the past decade"
As an absurdist example: preventing Tesla AI from intentionally ramming human drivers when it detects them, without also requiring all 100,000,000 drivers worldwide suddenly pay attention and take emergency manual control of their vehicles (not to mention the 200,000,000 with no human operator, which will suddenly become obstacles that it would be really nice to have a coordinated AI to navigate around)
If we make the assumption that it is possible to simulate this reality multiple times, it follows that the odds of living in the "top universe" are practically nil.
That first part is already a huge leap, but it would make much more sense to estimate: "how likely is it that we will (eventually) be able to simulate this universe", and just assume that we are living in a simulated universe if and only if this is possible.
The test for whether or not someone ought to be provided a mobility scooter is "can they comfortably walk through a Wal-Mart in order to retrieve the item they want to purchase?", and has nothing to do with what the specific reason for their being uncomfortable with walking that far might be.
Wal-Mart's prime competitor is one which requires zero walking, so it makes sense to offer a reduced-walking option for any customer who might desire it.
The simplest proof would be to sign a message from the owner of the "genesis block".
Craig Wright pretended to do this, but actually copied&pasted a random signature from an early transaction, proving only that he's trying to commit fraud
Driving tests are a lot more rigorous in the U.K., true, but given the average U.K. driver, I'd say they're still laughable. (maybe just an automatic fail if you show up in a BMW?)
in England, even roads with a "central white line" are almost universally only wide enough for a single car at a time to drive down them by any sane measure. When there is no white line, cars will often drive down the middle of the road, and "slow down"/"move over" when another car approaches, entirely out of necessity.
When there *is* a white line, most cars won't do this, despite the same necessity still being there.
England's roads (the ones they are talking about) are basically foot-paths which were widened over time enough to allow horses through, but which were never widened or maintained enough to allow multiple cars through in any case. Two American cars would literally not fit side-by-side on these roads.
What is actually needed is wider, better-lit roads, with real shoulders and barriers at the side. But that costs money, so instead we get proposals like "what if we don't bother to even repaint the lines anymore?" and "people will slow down if we stop lighting the roads entirely"
As for "slowing down", the speed limit on most roads (even ridiculously tiny roads) is "meh, whatever". If they really want people to slow down, reducing the speed limit would be the *first* thing I'd try. It seems not to have occurred to anyone in England, though.
cloudfront, as far as I am aware, usually operates via per-distribution subdomains.
But then, based on your follow-up, "CDN-style spying", I might simply have no idea what you're talking about. Do you consider CDNs to be a form of spying?
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Slums 2.0 will involve apps that help people pool together enough money to rent a building, and rather than having "personal" living-space, will optimise room availability on a minute-by-minute basis
These days, by default, Windows hides "system" directories and anything else that an uninformed user shouldn't touch.
This is the actual reason. Perhaps this was your point, but I don't think you specifically mentioned it: changing the extension "breaks the file", by making its type no-longer known. There is no valid reason for a non-technical user to want to do this, so it is not a good idea to let users change it "by accident". Ever field a tech support call before "hiding extensions" was the norm? 90% of them were "my file is corrupt" because somebody renamed "Unitled3.doc" to "Report", and had absolutely no idea how to handle it / what was going on.
All it has ever done is make misdirection work by allowing malicious actors to hide the extension.
The extension is *definitely* not the problem there.
Having the exact same action ("double click") perform two entirely distinct functions:
1. View a file
2. Execute a program with all of the permissions of the current user
is the issue. In what universe is *that* a good idea?
I don't care. If you're dead, you should have absolutely zero rights.
That does nothing to help the problem. It isn't "management", either. It's just broken software.
True DRM, ie: something which actually tries to keep track of what I have the right to use, do, and consume, based on the often fickle nuances of intentional IP law, I would pay money for
And they seem to think it's okay to stop at "building" when describing a location.
The vast majority of "destinations" in the world which one might want to find on a map are some sub-division of a building. And many others span across multiple buildings.
It baffles me to no end that it is apparently easier to convince people that the entire world should operate on a different schedule, than it is to convince people that individual buildings should have opening hours that make sense based on their requirements.
Whenever people want to touch the 2nd amendment, it seems that there's always someone who seems to be of the opinion that if you want to touch the amendments, you ought to start at the top of the list.
His launch is not likely to influence his beliefs. Not due to the strength of his convictions, but because he only planned to go up about 600 meters.
Note that the bare-minimum for being able to detect the curvature of the earth with the naked eye, in ideal / cloudless conditions, is over 10,000 meters. The most-common views that one typically sees of the "curved earth" / thinks of when considering the curvature of the earth, are from the the international space station (or other orbits of roughly that area), which averages 400,000 meters from the earth's surface.
600 meters much less than he'd get from riding in an airplane. If he didn't trust the windows on those things, and wanted a definite unobstructed view, he could just get into a normal hot air balloon - those tend to go up a little more than 600 meters, on average.
There aren't enough cables. The Internet is such absurdly critical infrastructure, and we have only a handful of cables even for the most-dense connections. While the Internet routes around damage efficiently, the amount of time it takes to route around damage is longer than would be desired these days (where an assumption of failure is the norm for critical applications), and a small reduction in capacity could easily be catastrophic.
Yeah, PayPal doesn't offer any of the protections of a bank. That's why everyone should use Bitcoin!
Not every site that I use is important enough to need a secure password.
When AI goes rogue, the problem won't be "we can't figure out how to turn it off", it will be "We can't figure out how to turn off just the parts we don't like, without accidentally disable the parts of it which we have become completely dependent on for the past decade"
As an absurdist example: preventing Tesla AI from intentionally ramming human drivers when it detects them, without also requiring all 100,000,000 drivers worldwide suddenly pay attention and take emergency manual control of their vehicles (not to mention the 200,000,000 with no human operator, which will suddenly become obstacles that it would be really nice to have a coordinated AI to navigate around)
random_hex ()
{
local n="${1-40}";
head -c "$(( $n / 2 + 1 ))"
}
usage: random_hex <maximum allowed length of the password field>
If we make the assumption that it is possible to simulate this reality multiple times, it follows that the odds of living in the "top universe" are practically nil.
That first part is already a huge leap, but it would make much more sense to estimate: "how likely is it that we will (eventually) be able to simulate this universe", and just assume that we are living in a simulated universe if and only if this is possible.
The test for whether or not someone ought to be provided a mobility scooter is "can they comfortably walk through a Wal-Mart in order to retrieve the item they want to purchase?", and has nothing to do with what the specific reason for their being uncomfortable with walking that far might be.
Wal-Mart's prime competitor is one which requires zero walking, so it makes sense to offer a reduced-walking option for any customer who might desire it.
The simplest proof would be to sign a message from the owner of the "genesis block".
Craig Wright pretended to do this, but actually copied&pasted a random signature from an early transaction, proving only that he's trying to commit fraud
Driving tests are a lot more rigorous in the U.K., true, but given the average U.K. driver, I'd say they're still laughable. (maybe just an automatic fail if you show up in a BMW?)
Software copyright should not apply at all when complete source code is not available
or both networks were called "home" and had the password "no1willguess"
in England, even roads with a "central white line" are almost universally only wide enough for a single car at a time to drive down them by any sane measure. When there is no white line, cars will often drive down the middle of the road, and "slow down"/"move over" when another car approaches, entirely out of necessity.
When there *is* a white line, most cars won't do this, despite the same necessity still being there.
England's roads (the ones they are talking about) are basically foot-paths which were widened over time enough to allow horses through, but which were never widened or maintained enough to allow multiple cars through in any case. Two American cars would literally not fit side-by-side on these roads.
What is actually needed is wider, better-lit roads, with real shoulders and barriers at the side. But that costs money, so instead we get proposals like "what if we don't bother to even repaint the lines anymore?" and "people will slow down if we stop lighting the roads entirely"
As for "slowing down", the speed limit on most roads (even ridiculously tiny roads) is "meh, whatever". If they really want people to slow down, reducing the speed limit would be the *first* thing I'd try. It seems not to have occurred to anyone in England, though.
Modern techniques have made this sort of testing a *lot* easier than it used to be.
It hasn't made it any more common, though.
cloudfront, as far as I am aware, usually operates via per-distribution subdomains.
But then, based on your follow-up, "CDN-style spying", I might simply have no idea what you're talking about. Do you consider CDNs to be a form of spying?
You seem to have read his comment backwards.
"There was no before" as in "there was no before the universe", ie: everything has a cause / turtles all the way down
Yeah, the impracticality of a permanent moon-base also meant that the Space Race was a complete waste of time