So hide the ability to install unsigned or non-Play-Store apps, but don't prevent it entirely. Hiding it in Developer Options after a big, fat disclaimer should be enough, frankly.
I believe this already exists and is off by default... At least in vanilla Android.
And no, the world doesn't need more Crapple-style paternalism where a bunch of do-gooding censoring pricks in Cupertino decide which apps are good enough for users to run. It's not only safety-based -- Apple has been known to ban political games or things which they find to be in poor taste.
I agree and I dont think this move is intended to implement an Apple style of 1984 content controls. Its just adding a system of verifying an applications authenticity.
My wallet was stolen, along with my physical green card (which, as you state, you have to carry with you at all times.) It cost $500 to get replaced, involved going to an in-person interview at a DHS office forty miles from my house, and took about four months end to end.
Its the same with my Biometric Residency Permit (BRP) here in the UK. It costs £500 to replace.
Fortunately I don't have to show my "papers" to any random plod who stops me (which has never happened to me here... not even a random breath test and feck knows I'm not a slow driver). If a Bobby were to ask to see my residency status I'm sure it'll be fine if I pop down the station with it later (my address is on my UK license anyway), I'm also pretty sure immigration checks are not in the remit of the Surrey or Hampshire constabulary. I'm certain the UKVI has better things to do than bother random people about their residency status. If the US ICE has time to do this, I'd suggest they were grossly overfunded.
I only have to remember to take it with me when I travel as it is my proof of entitlement to reside in the UK (or when I move house or get a job but mainly, its so I can quickly re-enter the United Kingdom).
Having very little carbonation brings out light and delicate flavors in the beer that are usually masked by having lots of C02. My favorite are cask drawn IPAs.
How can you even tell? In my experience, the only ingredient you can taste in most IPAs is the overwhelming amount of hops.
Because more discerning palettes can detect more subtler flavours.
Also given your sig, chances are you've never had a cask drawn ale (not an attack, in fact it's a suggestion, get out there and try a cask drawn ale). As cask ales aren't overpowered by the carbonation, they can have subtler and far more nuanced flavours. Some are pretty strong, I've got a plum flavoured ruby ale sitting at home waiting for me that definitely has a powerful plum flavour but many can have many flavours and aftertastes.
For someone not from Europe (I'm Australian by birth) cask ales take a little getting used to, but once you've gotten used to them you wonder how you lived before them.
If the beer is good, it actually doesn't need to be served at a temperature that dulls your mouth...
Lager (what Americans call beer) should be served chilled. Cask ales (which you don't really see much of outside of the UK) should be served at cellar temperature (which is usually 4-6 C). As an ale man, I'll be sitting back chuckling as the lager louts struggle to handle a beer with flavour.
Ok...this should not cause a problem with MAKING beer, as that CO2 is produced by the fermentation....
I would guess this should affect draft beer in bars, but why not use natural carbonation in the bottles?
It works when I brew beer and bottle it (although I do prefer to keg it and use CO2 myself, but I do still bottle some).
Many here in the UK do, ales are usually naturally carbonated. However an inert gas is usually still used to top the can or bottle to prevent the beer from degrading until opened, the gas is usually CO2 or nitrogen. Lagers, specifically keg lagers require CO2... I guess this is good news for CamRA (Campaign for Real Ales). Doesn't affect me much, I prefer a good ale anyway.
Once you order your burger style through a human concierge on a tablet, a compressed air tube pushes a baked-that-day bun into an elevator on the right. It's sawed in half by a vibrating knife before being toasted and buttered as it's lowered to conveyor belt.
I'm lactose intolerant, you insensitive clod!
I'm not lactose intolerant... but toasted and then buttered?
I have a decent palate, you tasteless clods.
Not least "your battery runs flat, but you need to open it to jump-start it" (so either all the doors open, or you can't get into it at all), "I locked my phone in the car", "Someone sniffed the NFC transaction from across the street- NFC is short-range-powered, but long-range-ordinary-radio-signal", "Every garage has a way to open that car if the system should fail and you can buy the kit to open any car for $20k", "My phone got a virus and now anyone can open my car", "Previous owners of the car can just walk up to it with their phone to unlock it", etc. etc. etc.
Yep, a solution to a problem no-one has.
Beyond your points, there is no single standard for NFC... Hell, we cant even get the full standard for Bluetooth in every phone as manufacturers pick and choose what bits they want.
Add to this in the UK, there has been a spate of car thefts that have used buttonless "proximity" keys to simply open the door. The key may not work for you more than 3ft away so people think they're safe until the criminals simply use a signal repeater, open the door and drive off with your new car. As long as they dont stall it on the way to the garage/chop shop, its easy to retrofit it with a new ECU with new keys.
Christians believe that they (like all humans) are sinful and in desperate need of forgiveness. That nothing they can do can earn that forgiveness; it must be a gift from outside of them, from Jesus. That they themselves are so bad that only the death of a perfect, sinless Man can atone for it.
Such arrogance!
All religions are fucked up in one way or another but having lived amongst Buddhists for a while, Buddhism is the least fucked up of the major religions. Christianity and the other Abrahamic religions say that God is the only one who can judge, so some people go around doing shitty things without remorse because they think god thinks its OK. A Buddhist is responsible for creating their own destiny, if you've lived a shitty life being shitty to others, you're coming back as a slug and it's no-one's fault but your own. I find the idea of divine forgiveness to be the antithesis of responsibility.
There are bad parts in Buddhism, such as rampant sexism (desire leads to suffering, temptation leads to desire, women are temptation) but Buddhism has shown a willingness to change (as has the CoE, to be fair). However judging by the worst of them... When a Buddhist goes off the reservation he sets himself on fire... When a Christian goes off the reservation he nails others to the cross and set them on fire.
Why are you focusing on the viruses that make headlines, and not the ones that are actually dangerous? All we need is for somebody to take a historical plague for which we all have immunity and tweak it so our antibodies don't recognize it -- say, do a repeat of the Spanish Flu. That be enough of a disaster to slow civilization to a halt.
Because these are the viruses that actually kill people and Ebola is the one that most mouth breathers may have heard of. Yellow Fever is one of my other favourite examples but a lot of people don't realise its a real disease, many people think it's just a white guy with a penchant for Asian ladies.
Ebola and other hemorrhagic diseases tend to be the biggest killer, Ebola has a mortality rate of 25-90%, Yellow fever has a mortality rate of 20% if left untreated or 5% if treated... I believe, but have no evidence that this is reduced to 1% if treated at a modern facility... However we treat the disease very seriously, If I haven't got my immunisation card coming back from South America, I'll find it very hard to get back into Australia or Europe.
Spanish flu had a mortality rate of 10-20%... And most of those died due to complications combined with the disease. In fact the main reason it spread so far is because of World War 1 and the fact Influenza was not understood by the average person. So we had troops stacked into rooms like cordwood, no wonder it spread and we had limited resources to treat it. Influenza rarely kills on its own, the vast majority of influenza deaths are from complications or secondary infections like Pneumonia. We now now how to treat influenza outbreaks so that very few die from them, even in developing nations there is enough common knowledge about isolating sick people to limit infections, knowledge most educated westerners didn't have in 1918.
Diseases and viruses are simply not effective ways to kill people. A home made rocket full of home made mustard gas will kill more people.
So how would you propose to infect an entire city's worth of people with a complex virus without it being detected? In order to be infectious, you need noticeable symptoms
Make it spread through the air.
Have you ever wondered why Ebola has never become airborne.
The reason I said "complex" is because a complex virus like Ebola is far to heavy to be airborne. To be airborne a virus needs to be light and there is an inverse relationship between complexity and lightness. Also to be airborne, the virus needs to grow on the inside of the lung or throat, which significantly decreases it's effectiveness as the lung is the most advanced particulate filter known to man.
There's a reason few people die from the flu or common cold... and most of them die from complications exacerbated by the virus, not the virus itself.
You also didn't mention how you'd control the mutation.
>"In the wake of shocking allegations against Star Trek: Discovery's showrunners"
Discovery? Is that really a thing? I am a huge Trekkie and have not seen a single episode. Their distribution model sucked, and I have heard it is nothing but "PC overkill" combined with total fantasy. Strangely, I don't know ANYONE who has actually watched "Discovery" and when I ask them, they have no interest in doing so, even the Trekkies like me. But....
Discovery sucked for many reasons, mainly because they tried to make it dark and gritty like BSG and the Trek universe doesn't fit in to that... But also a lot of production annoyances (like the Klingons speaking Klingon, but the Vulcans speaking English).
However the whole "PC overkill" thing was a complete and utter fallacy made up by people who wanted to cry about the world becoming less bigoted than the 1960's.
Watch it, it got slightly better towards the end but I honestly didn't think it deserved a second season.
diversity... I really wouldn't want to see Star Trek fall victim to this kind of manipulation.
You didn't watch the original Star Trek, did you? Diversity was a significant part of Roddenberry's conception of the future.
Shhhh,
Dont interrupt his baseless rant with facts. He's got an SJW to harass from the comfort of his trailer or some such before crying about the injustice of being born a white, middle class, educated male who's never had to feel real discrimination in their life on the MGTOW forums.
WRT diversity, it wasn't that in Gene Roddenbery's vision of the future that we simply had diversity... But no-one cared about it and the fact all were treated as equals was the status quo, no one on the bridge cared that Uhura was black or a woman, it simply didn't matter.
Have you guys ever been in Denver International Airport main terminal? It's a tent. It gets as hot in Denver as it does in Fremont.
Snark all you want but just because something is a quote TENT unquote doesn't mean it isn't a robust and practical structure.
Note to self, don't fly to Denver.
Tent indicates its a temporary shelter, using one permanently is very problematic as canvas or synthetics will give way to the elements (wind, rain, sun) long before metal, wood or concrete. So you either need to be replacing them on a regular basis or using them on a temporary basis. In Perth, Western Australia (and you thought Fremont was hot) shade sails are a common thing as they provide shade to a large area for minimal cost, the biggest problem is that they need replacing every few years and maintenance several times a year.
I'll get modded down for daring to question THE MUSK... but it seems they haven't thought about this long term and that seems to be an endemic at Telsa.
The obvious counter-argument is to create a virus that spreads easily, waits a few months, then kills people as quickly as ebola.
How do you propose to control the mutation? Anything with a life cycle as short as a virus will undergo mutations at a rapid rate.
Also, Ebola does not kill quickly. Two to twenty one days for incubation, death six to sixteen days after symptoms appear, even then some strains of Ebola only have a 25% mortality rate. OK, that's fast for a virus, but incredibly slow in human terms.
Anything remotely like Ebola needs to be extremely complex. Ebola requires direct contact with bodily fluids to be transmitted. So how would you propose to infect an entire city's worth of people with a complex virus without it being detected? In order to be infectious, you need noticeable symptoms (well thats kind of backwards, the whole idea of looking for infections is to look for the symptoms they produce).
Surely it would be easier to build a missile and load it with nerve gas, not only will it be cheaper, but cause considerably more deaths and carries less risk of failure.
In the specific case of viruses, it's counter productive. As some hyper dangerous viruses have shown like Ebola, it you kill your host, you won't have a host into which to reproduce anymore.
Viruses aren't full autonomous life forms, their just simple genetic code (recipes that need an actual host's cell with cellular machinery to interpret the code and produce more viruses).
In addition to that excellent post, with viruses (as well as parasites and bacteria) there is an inverse relationship between complexity and transmissibility. A more complex a virus the larger and heavier it needs to be. This limits its transmission vectors. A virus that spreads easily like flu or the common cold is rarely fatal. It transmits easily because it is airborne and it can only be airborne because it is simple and light enough to be carried by air. As viruses get heavier and more complex, the transmission vectors must become equally complex, becoming waterborne or foodborne. Ebola requires direct contact with infected blood and to do so, causes its victims to bleed and haemorrhage which ultimately causes their death.
Because the transmission vector is easily stopped by basic hygiene, complex viruses tend to be difficult to spread. Ebola has a shocking mortality rate, some strains up to 100%, but the number of infected are relatively few compared to the total population and with quarantines, can be completely isolated. Yellow Fever, which is often transmitted by mosquito, has a 20% mortality rate if untreated and a 5% mortality rate if treated... And we consider Yellow Fever to be pretty F-ing serious.
So using adapted viruses as a weapon isn't effective. Not simply because for a virus complicated enough to have a high mortality rate, you need a very complex method of dissemination. Its not simply a matter of dumping a vial of virus into a seedy corner of the city, in order to defeat the inevitable quarantine you need to infect all people within a short amount of time before the virus is discovered. Its also not a case of just make Ebola lighter so it can be airborne, doing that would make it significantly less potent.
Which leads me to my last point... the Human body is pretty damn good at defending itself. The immune system can adapt and fight off new viruses, especially if they aren't complex. Given a bit of help with modern medicine, it can do a sensational job.
I'm less concerned about adapted viruses because they're not very effective weapons. There's a reason dictators still prefer chemical weapons, Sarin, VX, Novichok, literally pick your poison is that they're easy to disperse and near 100% effective. Not to mention less dangerous to the handlers and easier to store. Given that viruses are hard to spread, the notion of one suicide patient zero infecting themselves with some form of super-ebola being able to wipe out entire cities is laughable, we've already got procedures on how to handle mass outbreaks of deadly natural diseases, these can apply artificial ones.
A good sized dog in the hallway works even better.
This is Truth. I read a study once that a home invader will most often be deterred by the sound of a dog of any size. With that being said I believe they would be more "deterred" to the sound of a Rottweiler and a Chiwawa.
Criminals now often bait dogs.
Also there is no evidence that dogs will bark when criminals enter (in fact the evidence points to a trained dog not barking because they cant tell the difference between an owner and a criminal) and zero evidence that anyone else will act on a dog barking.
The dog defence is a complete waste of time (and enough dogs are mistreated as it is).
Go search "Lockpicking lawyer" on Youtube. That guy shows how useless locks are, mechanical or digital.
Well, yes, but there are degrees of lawyer. Someone with the right resources can break probably most locks, but your usual criminal will go for the easiest option, which you just don't make be you. You don't have to run faster than the bear, you have to run faster than the man next to you also running away from the bear.
I was walking past a bike rack today and the local council had put up a sign saying "This is a known bike theft hotspot, secure your bike". I noted that most bikes had a chain with a standard combination lock on them. I recall that most of these locks can be "picked" simply by giving them a good whack with a rubber mallet (IIRC, the pins just fall out). You're better off with a decent padlock and length of chain which probably costs half as much as the combination locks. Of course these can be picked, but it's a lot harder than the bike chains (as you said, locks don't have to be unpickable, just hard enough to make a crim say "I cant be arsed").
Remember the stages: "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you..." Tesla has passed now the first two stages, so the fight is shaping up.
Yes, but Tesla's stages are:
1. First you make a big scene in the press.
2. Then fans fellate you.
3. Then your leader turns nutty.
4. And you still haven't made any money.
5. So Mercedes buys you for pennies on the pound.
Musk is currently at stage 3.
No-one actually laughed at Tesla and given they aren't even looking like their going to be profitable in the near future, other manufacturers are just biding their time until they can buy them up cheap (this strategy is how Volkswagen AG has come to own so many brands). Tesla has a cult of personality and a large list of fans, most of whom cant afford a Tesla.
We are going to see a lot of "disruptive" companies die in the next few years (if that long) because they had no plans for profitability, in fact had no plans beyond "be called disruptive in the press". Remember that the likes of Google, Amazon, et al. didn't simply have a new, strange idea that no-one had bought to market before, they had a plan to make that into a sucessful business from the word go and achieved milestones instead of just being "disruptive".
We're going to need a name for this next bust, DisruptaBust... UberFail, BusTelsa?
and they are wording it to exclude the few people who want to use their smartphone as their home internet or have some continuous download on it 24x7 cause they want to feel special at using a lot of data
And this kind of deceptive advertising is why I'm glad I live in a country that penalises this kind of deceptive advertising. I have unlimited fibre broadband at home and unlimited means it's not metred at all. You'll find it hard to get an "unlimited" mobile phone plan here (although it's pretty good value for money, £6 a month for 1.5 GB of data... plus some minutes and texts I just don't use).
If a UK company wants to use the word "unlimited" in advertising, the service they provide must be sans limits.
Or maybe... just maybe... you've forgotten that 99% of what was produced back them was garbage too, just like 99% of what's produced today.
Sure, 99% of what was produced 40 years ago was crap... But the crap has gotten worse. There isn't a 1978 equivalent of Love Island... I can think of some 1998 equivalents, but these were budget shows which were relegated to late night TV... So much so I cant even remember the names of the shows.
My local supermarket had a Western Union poster on display at the customer service desk for years. Its background was a map of Africa with Nigeria highlighted, and it advertised a reduced rate on money transfers there. Now my area (Denver 'burbs) doesn't have any unusual concentration of Nigerian immigrants; their only possible reason for the offer was to get a piece of the action.
Or just a lazy advertising department dispatching the same poster to dozens of store fronts without actually knowing the demographic of that area.
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So hide the ability to install unsigned or non-Play-Store apps, but don't prevent it entirely. Hiding it in Developer Options after a big, fat disclaimer should be enough, frankly.
I believe this already exists and is off by default... At least in vanilla Android.
And no, the world doesn't need more Crapple-style paternalism where a bunch of do-gooding censoring pricks in Cupertino decide which apps are good enough for users to run. It's not only safety-based -- Apple has been known to ban political games or things which they find to be in poor taste.
I agree and I dont think this move is intended to implement an Apple style of 1984 content controls. Its just adding a system of verifying an applications authenticity.
My wallet was stolen, along with my physical green card (which, as you state, you have to carry with you at all times.) It cost $500 to get replaced, involved going to an in-person interview at a DHS office forty miles from my house, and took about four months end to end.
Its the same with my Biometric Residency Permit (BRP) here in the UK. It costs £500 to replace.
Fortunately I don't have to show my "papers" to any random plod who stops me (which has never happened to me here... not even a random breath test and feck knows I'm not a slow driver). If a Bobby were to ask to see my residency status I'm sure it'll be fine if I pop down the station with it later (my address is on my UK license anyway), I'm also pretty sure immigration checks are not in the remit of the Surrey or Hampshire constabulary. I'm certain the UKVI has better things to do than bother random people about their residency status. If the US ICE has time to do this, I'd suggest they were grossly overfunded.
I only have to remember to take it with me when I travel as it is my proof of entitlement to reside in the UK (or when I move house or get a job but mainly, its so I can quickly re-enter the United Kingdom).
Having very little carbonation brings out light and delicate flavors in the beer that are usually masked by having lots of C02. My favorite are cask drawn IPAs.
How can you even tell? In my experience, the only ingredient you can taste in most IPAs is the overwhelming amount of hops.
Because more discerning palettes can detect more subtler flavours.
Also given your sig, chances are you've never had a cask drawn ale (not an attack, in fact it's a suggestion, get out there and try a cask drawn ale). As cask ales aren't overpowered by the carbonation, they can have subtler and far more nuanced flavours. Some are pretty strong, I've got a plum flavoured ruby ale sitting at home waiting for me that definitely has a powerful plum flavour but many can have many flavours and aftertastes.
For someone not from Europe (I'm Australian by birth) cask ales take a little getting used to, but once you've gotten used to them you wonder how you lived before them.
If the beer is good, it actually doesn't need to be served at a temperature that dulls your mouth...
Lager (what Americans call beer) should be served chilled. Cask ales (which you don't really see much of outside of the UK) should be served at cellar temperature (which is usually 4-6 C). As an ale man, I'll be sitting back chuckling as the lager louts struggle to handle a beer with flavour.
Nope, this is the all wise and powerful market running around with it's pants around it's ankles.
American pants or British pants? Because in only one of those scenarios does it still have underwear on.
Ok...this should not cause a problem with MAKING beer, as that CO2 is produced by the fermentation....
I would guess this should affect draft beer in bars, but why not use natural carbonation in the bottles?
It works when I brew beer and bottle it (although I do prefer to keg it and use CO2 myself, but I do still bottle some).
Many here in the UK do, ales are usually naturally carbonated. However an inert gas is usually still used to top the can or bottle to prevent the beer from degrading until opened, the gas is usually CO2 or nitrogen. Lagers, specifically keg lagers require CO2... I guess this is good news for CamRA (Campaign for Real Ales). Doesn't affect me much, I prefer a good ale anyway.
I'm lactose intolerant, you insensitive clod!
I'm not lactose intolerant... but toasted and then buttered? I have a decent palate, you tasteless clods.
They're charging double what In N Out charges, which doesn't freeze any of their ingredients. I guess teenagers are cheaper than robots...
Initial costs are bound to be high... Also In-N-Out are pretty cheap as far as burger joints go, especially for how good they are.
- Doesn't solve any existing problem.
- Creates new problems all of its very own.
Not least "your battery runs flat, but you need to open it to jump-start it" (so either all the doors open, or you can't get into it at all), "I locked my phone in the car", "Someone sniffed the NFC transaction from across the street- NFC is short-range-powered, but long-range-ordinary-radio-signal", "Every garage has a way to open that car if the system should fail and you can buy the kit to open any car for $20k", "My phone got a virus and now anyone can open my car", "Previous owners of the car can just walk up to it with their phone to unlock it", etc. etc. etc.
Yep, a solution to a problem no-one has.
Beyond your points, there is no single standard for NFC... Hell, we cant even get the full standard for Bluetooth in every phone as manufacturers pick and choose what bits they want.
Add to this in the UK, there has been a spate of car thefts that have used buttonless "proximity" keys to simply open the door. The key may not work for you more than 3ft away so people think they're safe until the criminals simply use a signal repeater, open the door and drive off with your new car. As long as they dont stall it on the way to the garage/chop shop, its easy to retrofit it with a new ECU with new keys.
Buddhists would have left their ego on the mat.
Right ...
Christians believe that they (like all humans) are sinful and in desperate need of forgiveness. That nothing they can do can earn that forgiveness; it must be a gift from outside of them, from Jesus. That they themselves are so bad that only the death of a perfect, sinless Man can atone for it.
Such arrogance!
All religions are fucked up in one way or another but having lived amongst Buddhists for a while, Buddhism is the least fucked up of the major religions. Christianity and the other Abrahamic religions say that God is the only one who can judge, so some people go around doing shitty things without remorse because they think god thinks its OK. A Buddhist is responsible for creating their own destiny, if you've lived a shitty life being shitty to others, you're coming back as a slug and it's no-one's fault but your own. I find the idea of divine forgiveness to be the antithesis of responsibility. There are bad parts in Buddhism, such as rampant sexism (desire leads to suffering, temptation leads to desire, women are temptation) but Buddhism has shown a willingness to change (as has the CoE, to be fair). However judging by the worst of them... When a Buddhist goes off the reservation he sets himself on fire... When a Christian goes off the reservation he nails others to the cross and set them on fire.
No beef wellington on the menu at the campus cafe this week, got to tighten our belts.
Why do Americans think Beef Wellington is fancy?
Its a beef roast wrapped in pastry... if you struggle to make that you should probably admit you're a failure of a cook.
Why are you focusing on the viruses that make headlines, and not the ones that are actually dangerous? All we need is for somebody to take a historical plague for which we all have immunity and tweak it so our antibodies don't recognize it -- say, do a repeat of the Spanish Flu. That be enough of a disaster to slow civilization to a halt.
Because these are the viruses that actually kill people and Ebola is the one that most mouth breathers may have heard of. Yellow Fever is one of my other favourite examples but a lot of people don't realise its a real disease, many people think it's just a white guy with a penchant for Asian ladies.
Ebola and other hemorrhagic diseases tend to be the biggest killer, Ebola has a mortality rate of 25-90%, Yellow fever has a mortality rate of 20% if left untreated or 5% if treated... I believe, but have no evidence that this is reduced to 1% if treated at a modern facility... However we treat the disease very seriously, If I haven't got my immunisation card coming back from South America, I'll find it very hard to get back into Australia or Europe.
Spanish flu had a mortality rate of 10-20%... And most of those died due to complications combined with the disease. In fact the main reason it spread so far is because of World War 1 and the fact Influenza was not understood by the average person. So we had troops stacked into rooms like cordwood, no wonder it spread and we had limited resources to treat it. Influenza rarely kills on its own, the vast majority of influenza deaths are from complications or secondary infections like Pneumonia. We now now how to treat influenza outbreaks so that very few die from them, even in developing nations there is enough common knowledge about isolating sick people to limit infections, knowledge most educated westerners didn't have in 1918.
Diseases and viruses are simply not effective ways to kill people. A home made rocket full of home made mustard gas will kill more people.
So how would you propose to infect an entire city's worth of people with a complex virus without it being detected? In order to be infectious, you need noticeable symptoms
Make it spread through the air.
Have you ever wondered why Ebola has never become airborne.
The reason I said "complex" is because a complex virus like Ebola is far to heavy to be airborne. To be airborne a virus needs to be light and there is an inverse relationship between complexity and lightness. Also to be airborne, the virus needs to grow on the inside of the lung or throat, which significantly decreases it's effectiveness as the lung is the most advanced particulate filter known to man.
There's a reason few people die from the flu or common cold... and most of them die from complications exacerbated by the virus, not the virus itself.
You also didn't mention how you'd control the mutation.
>"In the wake of shocking allegations against Star Trek: Discovery's showrunners"
Discovery? Is that really a thing? I am a huge Trekkie and have not seen a single episode. Their distribution model sucked, and I have heard it is nothing but "PC overkill" combined with total fantasy. Strangely, I don't know ANYONE who has actually watched "Discovery" and when I ask them, they have no interest in doing so, even the Trekkies like me. But....
Discovery sucked for many reasons, mainly because they tried to make it dark and gritty like BSG and the Trek universe doesn't fit in to that... But also a lot of production annoyances (like the Klingons speaking Klingon, but the Vulcans speaking English).
However the whole "PC overkill" thing was a complete and utter fallacy made up by people who wanted to cry about the world becoming less bigoted than the 1960's.
Watch it, it got slightly better towards the end but I honestly didn't think it deserved a second season.
diversity... I really wouldn't want to see Star Trek fall victim to this kind of manipulation.
You didn't watch the original Star Trek, did you? Diversity was a significant part of Roddenberry's conception of the future.
Shhhh,
Dont interrupt his baseless rant with facts. He's got an SJW to harass from the comfort of his trailer or some such before crying about the injustice of being born a white, middle class, educated male who's never had to feel real discrimination in their life on the MGTOW forums.
WRT diversity, it wasn't that in Gene Roddenbery's vision of the future that we simply had diversity... But no-one cared about it and the fact all were treated as equals was the status quo, no one on the bridge cared that Uhura was black or a woman, it simply didn't matter.
Have you guys ever been in Denver International Airport main terminal? It's a tent. It gets as hot in Denver as it does in Fremont.
Snark all you want but just because something is a quote TENT unquote doesn't mean it isn't a robust and practical structure.
Note to self, don't fly to Denver.
Tent indicates its a temporary shelter, using one permanently is very problematic as canvas or synthetics will give way to the elements (wind, rain, sun) long before metal, wood or concrete. So you either need to be replacing them on a regular basis or using them on a temporary basis. In Perth, Western Australia (and you thought Fremont was hot) shade sails are a common thing as they provide shade to a large area for minimal cost, the biggest problem is that they need replacing every few years and maintenance several times a year.
I'll get modded down for daring to question THE MUSK... but it seems they haven't thought about this long term and that seems to be an endemic at Telsa.
The obvious counter-argument is to create a virus that spreads easily, waits a few months, then kills people as quickly as ebola.
How do you propose to control the mutation? Anything with a life cycle as short as a virus will undergo mutations at a rapid rate.
Also, Ebola does not kill quickly. Two to twenty one days for incubation, death six to sixteen days after symptoms appear, even then some strains of Ebola only have a 25% mortality rate. OK, that's fast for a virus, but incredibly slow in human terms.
Anything remotely like Ebola needs to be extremely complex. Ebola requires direct contact with bodily fluids to be transmitted. So how would you propose to infect an entire city's worth of people with a complex virus without it being detected? In order to be infectious, you need noticeable symptoms (well thats kind of backwards, the whole idea of looking for infections is to look for the symptoms they produce).
Surely it would be easier to build a missile and load it with nerve gas, not only will it be cheaper, but cause considerably more deaths and carries less risk of failure.
In addition to that excellent post, with viruses (as well as parasites and bacteria) there is an inverse relationship between complexity and transmissibility. A more complex a virus the larger and heavier it needs to be. This limits its transmission vectors. A virus that spreads easily like flu or the common cold is rarely fatal. It transmits easily because it is airborne and it can only be airborne because it is simple and light enough to be carried by air. As viruses get heavier and more complex, the transmission vectors must become equally complex, becoming waterborne or foodborne. Ebola requires direct contact with infected blood and to do so, causes its victims to bleed and haemorrhage which ultimately causes their death.
Because the transmission vector is easily stopped by basic hygiene, complex viruses tend to be difficult to spread. Ebola has a shocking mortality rate, some strains up to 100%, but the number of infected are relatively few compared to the total population and with quarantines, can be completely isolated. Yellow Fever, which is often transmitted by mosquito, has a 20% mortality rate if untreated and a 5% mortality rate if treated... And we consider Yellow Fever to be pretty F-ing serious.
So using adapted viruses as a weapon isn't effective. Not simply because for a virus complicated enough to have a high mortality rate, you need a very complex method of dissemination. Its not simply a matter of dumping a vial of virus into a seedy corner of the city, in order to defeat the inevitable quarantine you need to infect all people within a short amount of time before the virus is discovered. Its also not a case of just make Ebola lighter so it can be airborne, doing that would make it significantly less potent.
Which leads me to my last point... the Human body is pretty damn good at defending itself. The immune system can adapt and fight off new viruses, especially if they aren't complex. Given a bit of help with modern medicine, it can do a sensational job.
I'm less concerned about adapted viruses because they're not very effective weapons. There's a reason dictators still prefer chemical weapons, Sarin, VX, Novichok, literally pick your poison is that they're easy to disperse and near 100% effective. Not to mention less dangerous to the handlers and easier to store. Given that viruses are hard to spread, the notion of one suicide patient zero infecting themselves with some form of super-ebola being able to wipe out entire cities is laughable, we've already got procedures on how to handle mass outbreaks of deadly natural diseases, these can apply artificial ones.
A good sized dog in the hallway works even better.
This is Truth. I read a study once that a home invader will most often be deterred by the sound of a dog of any size. With that being said I believe they would be more "deterred" to the sound of a Rottweiler and a Chiwawa.
Criminals now often bait dogs.
Also there is no evidence that dogs will bark when criminals enter (in fact the evidence points to a trained dog not barking because they cant tell the difference between an owner and a criminal) and zero evidence that anyone else will act on a dog barking.
The dog defence is a complete waste of time (and enough dogs are mistreated as it is).
Go search "Lockpicking lawyer" on Youtube. That guy shows how useless locks are, mechanical or digital.
Well, yes, but there are degrees of lawyer. Someone with the right resources can break probably most locks, but your usual criminal will go for the easiest option, which you just don't make be you. You don't have to run faster than the bear, you have to run faster than the man next to you also running away from the bear.
I was walking past a bike rack today and the local council had put up a sign saying "This is a known bike theft hotspot, secure your bike". I noted that most bikes had a chain with a standard combination lock on them. I recall that most of these locks can be "picked" simply by giving them a good whack with a rubber mallet (IIRC, the pins just fall out). You're better off with a decent padlock and length of chain which probably costs half as much as the combination locks. Of course these can be picked, but it's a lot harder than the bike chains (as you said, locks don't have to be unpickable, just hard enough to make a crim say "I cant be arsed").
Which of those were SMS?
There was a number of open SMS gateways, completely free, unauthenticated and anonymous. Give me at least three reasons they are no more...
1. In most countries the sender pays for the SMS.
2. In most countries the sender pays for the SMS.
3. In most countries the sender pays for the SMS.
Now I know that technically is only one point, but I thought it was big enough to be mentioned thrice.
The difference is now that most SMS services are now data based, rather than telephone based as they were in ye olde GSM spec.
Remember the stages: "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you ..." Tesla has passed now the first two stages, so the fight is shaping up.
Yes, but Tesla's stages are:
1. First you make a big scene in the press.
2. Then fans fellate you.
3. Then your leader turns nutty.
4. And you still haven't made any money.
5. So Mercedes buys you for pennies on the pound.
Musk is currently at stage 3.
No-one actually laughed at Tesla and given they aren't even looking like their going to be profitable in the near future, other manufacturers are just biding their time until they can buy them up cheap (this strategy is how Volkswagen AG has come to own so many brands). Tesla has a cult of personality and a large list of fans, most of whom cant afford a Tesla.
We are going to see a lot of "disruptive" companies die in the next few years (if that long) because they had no plans for profitability, in fact had no plans beyond "be called disruptive in the press". Remember that the likes of Google, Amazon, et al. didn't simply have a new, strange idea that no-one had bought to market before, they had a plan to make that into a sucessful business from the word go and achieved milestones instead of just being "disruptive".
We're going to need a name for this next bust, DisruptaBust... UberFail, BusTelsa?
and they are wording it to exclude the few people who want to use their smartphone as their home internet or have some continuous download on it 24x7 cause they want to feel special at using a lot of data
And this kind of deceptive advertising is why I'm glad I live in a country that penalises this kind of deceptive advertising. I have unlimited fibre broadband at home and unlimited means it's not metred at all. You'll find it hard to get an "unlimited" mobile phone plan here (although it's pretty good value for money, £6 a month for 1.5 GB of data... plus some minutes and texts I just don't use).
If a UK company wants to use the word "unlimited" in advertising, the service they provide must be sans limits.
Ah yes, 40 years ago was a classic time in cinema. It's too bad we no longer get such intelligent fare as The Swarm, Laserblast and everyone's favorite The Star Wars holiday Special
Or maybe... just maybe... you've forgotten that 99% of what was produced back them was garbage too, just like 99% of what's produced today.
Sure, 99% of what was produced 40 years ago was crap... But the crap has gotten worse. There isn't a 1978 equivalent of Love Island... I can think of some 1998 equivalents, but these were budget shows which were relegated to late night TV... So much so I cant even remember the names of the shows.
My local supermarket had a Western Union poster on display at the customer service desk for years. Its background was a map of Africa with Nigeria highlighted, and it advertised a reduced rate on money transfers there. Now my area (Denver 'burbs) doesn't have any unusual concentration of Nigerian immigrants; their only possible reason for the offer was to get a piece of the action.
Or just a lazy advertising department dispatching the same poster to dozens of store fronts without actually knowing the demographic of that area.
Never ascribe to malice what can easily be explained by stupidity.