Currently we mine 1-1.5% of the existing supply of gold annually.
That means that unless your economy grows less than that, or mining rates go up significantly, you are basically having deflation: Your gold becomes worth more over time.
Deflation is generally seen as a really bad thing, as it makes people prefer saving over spending. Money being saved is not part of the available supply, causing more deflation, causing more people to save their money, etc. The people hardest hurt are those that can't save any money, as they need to spend all they earn on things like food. Deflation is really good for people who have a lot of money, as they can save most of it, becoming richer over time, without doing anything. If they let other people borrow the gold at an interest, their pile of gold also grows, on top of it getting more valuable. The end result becomes a situation where those few people who have enough gold that they spend less than they earn by lending, will end up with all the gold very quickly. This has happened many times in the past, when gold was the main type of currency. It usually ended by some King using their power to steal the money from whatever bankers had the big gold piles. (Kings always have wars to spend money on, so they usually spend more than they can earn and then some).
If "recently" is Windows 7, then you're well behind the curve as there have been 8, 8.1 and 10 since. Apparently you like one of their older products, you can't call Windows 7 their most recent one any more.
if it is a 4 digit passcode, I just don't understand why we can't clone the phone and try all 10,000 in moments?
How does having a separate "encryption chip" prevent cloning what is stored on the drives and chips?
I don't know if you can clone the memory, but it's 256bit AES encrypted, you're not going to brute fore that.
The encryption uses the (probably) 4 character (maybe digit only) passcode. There is a chip that takes this and the info to encrypt/decrypt and outputs the opposite. The chip is unique to each device and the unique AES key is burned into it by destroying some of its transistors (or something like that). The key itself is never exposed.
Both the memory and the chip probably have tamper protection to avoid what you're proposing. Apple engineers have assisted the FBI, so probably they don't know how and if this can be done.
The FBI is further limited by the system wiping itself after 10 failed attempts, and making you wait longer and longer after each try. What they are now asking Apple is to circumvent those. The iPhone under investigation is a 5C, where the 10 failed attempts and the timeout are still done by the OS. From the 5S and never those are part of the same chip that does the AES key and not even Apple could conceivably help them.
Apple doesn't want to make a version of iOS that could be loaded on the 5C and disable the 10 failed attempts and the timeout for two reasons: - Once it's out there, any other law enforcement or government could ask for it, and/or criminals could steal it. China could be interested. - To do this they need to expose some kind of "Apple master key" to force the iOS update onto the phone. This could then be used to force malware onto other iPhones if it got out.
Next to that is the good encryption and privacy protection one of the things they have done better than their competitors and this would thus result in bad press and a competitive disadvantage. Their bottom line would get hurt.
I've used TomTom on my iPhone for the last 7 years and it gives you a lot of control over your route. I don't think you can ignore traffic predictions though.
I do a lot of driving out in the forests and rural areas with GPS for navigation. I've noticed that I often need to be sure to set the GPS for Shortest Time rather than Shortest Distance. Setting the GPS to Shortest Distance can result in the GPS directing me via routes like 'Forestry Road #13' or worse.
The other thing I've noticed is that I can start a trip in town using my phone GPS and get directions to a rural location (actually hiking trailhead) and then on return be somewhere with no cell signal and be unable to get return directions.
I now travel with smart phone, stand-alone car GPS, and a paper map. I've occasionally had to resort to the paper map.
I've used TomTom on iPhone for the last 7 years. It stores all maps on the phone (this might require many GB, I could fill up my old 32GB iPhone 3GS with all the maps I have). I have travelled 5 continents and 30+ countries with it, often very remote places. I still always also bring a paper map as a backup device and planning tool. I don't want to rely on anything with a battery and delicate electronics.
Shortest time is a logical default any way. TomTom knows the average traffic speeds at a lot of locations at 15 minute intervals. This can make a major difference not only in rural areas, but also rush hour in a major city.
I've travelled to over 50 countries and having GPS navigation for the past decade or so has been a huge improvement. It allows you to keep your eyes on the road and focus on traffic and driving safely, especially when visiting a country driving on the other side of the road after a 24 hour flight (looking at you New Zealand). I still always prepare with and bring a paper map as well, preferably Michelin as those are the best.
I have submitted updates/fixes to TomTom and have seen them applied. You can even do it from within the iPhone app. TomTom is quite good at that kind of stuff.
Driving that road is one of the easiest things I've ever done in a car. It's a long distance, but not really a challenge.
Something like Paris or even New York City during rush hour is a lot more challenging. And then there are places some cities I've visited Morocco, Egypt, India and Brazil. I'm happy to take a taxi there.
Phones don't have small screens any more, and even on my old iPhone 3GS, the TomTom app would do a good job of showing the complete route after computing but before accepting it. Google Maps is reasonable as well, but requires an internet connection.
Now with 5+ inch full HD screens, it's no issue at all.
I've also been surprised at how awful in-car systems are compared to even older smartphones. My in-laws had a 2013 Taurus with a miserably awful system that looked like the same thing I remember in 2005-era cars. On the other hand even my Galaxy S2 I had a couple years before did voice recognition fine. My wife and I just bought a 2016 Civic, and its head unit is actually running Android and uses all of its services for things like voice recognition, and it actually works pretty well.
Like most hardware manufacturers, car builders are at least half a decade behind, if not more. I select my cars based on the ability to replace the factory junk and put in a system that can hook up to my smartphone. This has worked well ever since my first iPhone. Spotify, Skype, YouTube, TomTom, Weather info, Traffic info, iTunes, it all runs from my phone, hooked up to speakers and mic on the head unit I put in.
Depends on how you're defining it. Following word-by-word directions as seems to be so popular today--you're better off without that.
I find the spoken directions the most useful part of GPS navigation. It allows me to keep my eyes on the road in heavy traffic and complex situations. I always also use a paper map to check if the overall GPS route makes sense and to understand where I am and where I'm going and to not rely on something with a battery.
Looking at a map is very distracting, especially in an urban area during rush hour in 6 lane heavy traffic.
TomTom stores traffic conditions with its maps. It knows the usual average traffic speed on most major roads at 15 minute intervals. This information is based on its Live Traffic information, but added to its maps on a static basis for those who do not use the feature.
It means that even without a connection, it will still have an estimate of traffic conditions based on historical information. I have found this feature to be very accurate at predicting normal rush hour traffic and such, having used TomTom in over 30 countries, often without an internet connection.
TomTom app does that as well. I've travelled 5 continents and 50+ countries and have found TomTom to be the most reliable GPs navigation, assuming you have up-to-date maps. 30 GB of my phone is TomTom apps. (North America, Brazil, Argentina, Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, Europe).
I find a GPS navigation system really useful for turn-by-turn navigation, especially if I'm alone in the car.
However, I do not trust anything with batteries to be fully dependent, let alone the information stored in it. So I always have a paper map as well. (Michelin makes the best ones). On long trips I will plan my route using the paper map and check against it.
Navigation relies heavily on checking if you are indeed where you think you are, by observing landmarks and such. Some people are just clueless and will get lost any way.
I know at least TomTom allows you to send in corrections. I've used it several times and have seen the corrections have been made at least in some cases.
In those cases I've often noticed that Google Maps, Garmin and others have the same errors. I don't know how to send corrections to them. I do think this indicates that whatever source they're using is the problem. Maybe an error in some national or municipal geoinfo database.
I really do not like what Firefox has done with the UI. I still lament the loss of the Qute icons and I want a browser with Home, Reload, Stop, Back, Forward, an URL bar and a Search bar.
Maybe I'm getting old. I stared on Mosaic, then all versions of Netscape and Phoenix/Firefox.
It might not happen in your neighbourhood today, but Christianity and various other religions have been used to justify bloodshed and other atrocities. Sometimes quite recent and sometimes not that far away.
Witch hunts might no longer happen where you live, but there are large parts of the world where they still do. Prosecution of gays happens in a lot of places in the world based on supposed Christian values and was the norm in most of the Western World fifty years ago. For recent examples of people claiming to have killed others for religious reasons, not Islamic, go google, Barend Strydom, Ami Popper, Wade Michael Page, the IRA, UDA/UFF. I could probably find more, but that's what an initial google turned up.
I would agree with the argument that at the moment, the Islamic inspired religious fundamentalists seem the most numerous, violent and well funded. I primarily blame the recent oil weath in the Middle East for that, especially the Saudi-Arabia and Iran. The agenda of a very few, but suddenly very rich, religious fundamentalist people has shaped the region and the world tremendously over the past half century. You will find much woman wearing a headscarf in images from the sixties and seventies, let alone the full black dress and scarf you commonly see in the Middle East today. I've seen pictures of women in miniskirt in Kabul. Look at the funeral images of Nasser in Egypt in 1970.
The Middle East is a mess, but the former Ottoman Empire, and the borders drawn by colonial powers Britain and France after that have a lot to do with it, at least in Israel/Palestina/Iraq/Syria/Turkey/Libya/Pakistan/Lebanon. I put the primary blame on the Saudi's though for exporting and funding their ideas in the region over the past decades. I don't think Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS or the Taliban would exist without that, certainly not in their present form.
Human reaction times, just from the limited speeds at which neurons transmit signals, are already of the same magnitude as the times discussed here. And they get slower as we age, so the age and physical condition of the timekeeper/official can have a significant effect over the course of a game.
I got into the Linux as a desktop thing in around 1997. I got out in 2007 when Apple made BSD as a desktop work.
I do agree that Linux as a desktop has gotten better since then, especially on laptops. I have recently used systems based on Mint and Ubuntu. I still think Linux that while Linux is making progress, it's not exactly catching up.
In my view the fundamental problem with Linux on the desktop is that the common kernel and GNU environment do not provide enough functionality. This means that KDE, Gnome, etc. and X/Wayland have to implement a lot of things that should be basic OS.
Linux lives in the days of Windows 3, when the OS (DOS) provided very little and the GUI system had to provide a lot of the functions that should have been in the OS. Windows is hampered by that model to this day but not by the extent Linux is.
Driving a vehicle and owning a car are not the same thing.
I'm from the Netherlands. We use bicycles. The average Dutch person bikes 1018km a year. Yes, that includes the elderly, infirm and very young. My grandpa used his bike until he was 91.
I've heard describe the USA as a democracy. Maybe you should vote in some politicians that stand up for workers rights? I would guess that employees outnumber employers?
I don't see the difference between domestic and international travel you're making. I have 6 different countries within 400km of where I live. Any shorter distance and I would take a train.
Her claim of 'absent-mindedly' putting it on before going to the airport to pick up a friend (as I recall) was about as dubious as Ahmed's 'I invented this clock and wanted to show it off' claim.
You have never met real nerds. They do these things all the time, completely oblivious to the real world. It's the kind of people that if you ask them how to make a bomb, the answer is: "Let me show you right now". And I know from experience that they will have a working bomb, or at least an explosion within a few minutes, just from the stuff lying around.
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Currently we mine 1-1.5% of the existing supply of gold annually.
That means that unless your economy grows less than that, or mining rates go up significantly, you are basically having deflation: Your gold becomes worth more over time.
Deflation is generally seen as a really bad thing, as it makes people prefer saving over spending. Money being saved is not part of the available supply, causing more deflation, causing more people to save their money, etc.
The people hardest hurt are those that can't save any money, as they need to spend all they earn on things like food.
Deflation is really good for people who have a lot of money, as they can save most of it, becoming richer over time, without doing anything.
If they let other people borrow the gold at an interest, their pile of gold also grows, on top of it getting more valuable.
The end result becomes a situation where those few people who have enough gold that they spend less than they earn by lending, will end up with all the gold very quickly.
This has happened many times in the past, when gold was the main type of currency. It usually ended by some King using their power to steal the money from whatever bankers had the big gold piles. (Kings always have wars to spend money on, so they usually spend more than they can earn and then some).
If "recently" is Windows 7, then you're well behind the curve as there have been 8, 8.1 and 10 since. Apparently you like one of their older products, you can't call Windows 7 their most recent one any more.
if it is a 4 digit passcode, I just don't understand why we can't clone the phone and try all 10,000 in moments?
How does having a separate "encryption chip" prevent cloning what is stored on the drives and chips?
I don't know if you can clone the memory, but it's 256bit AES encrypted, you're not going to brute fore that.
The encryption uses the (probably) 4 character (maybe digit only) passcode. There is a chip that takes this and the info to encrypt/decrypt and outputs the opposite. The chip is unique to each device and the unique AES key is burned into it by destroying some of its transistors (or something like that). The key itself is never exposed.
Both the memory and the chip probably have tamper protection to avoid what you're proposing. Apple engineers have assisted the FBI, so probably they don't know how and if this can be done.
The FBI is further limited by the system wiping itself after 10 failed attempts, and making you wait longer and longer after each try. What they are now asking Apple is to circumvent those. The iPhone under investigation is a 5C, where the 10 failed attempts and the timeout are still done by the OS. From the 5S and never those are part of the same chip that does the AES key and not even Apple could conceivably help them.
Apple doesn't want to make a version of iOS that could be loaded on the 5C and disable the 10 failed attempts and the timeout for two reasons:
- Once it's out there, any other law enforcement or government could ask for it, and/or criminals could steal it. China could be interested.
- To do this they need to expose some kind of "Apple master key" to force the iOS update onto the phone. This could then be used to force malware onto other iPhones if it got out.
Next to that is the good encryption and privacy protection one of the things they have done better than their competitors and this would thus result in bad press and a competitive disadvantage. Their bottom line would get hurt.
I've used TomTom on my iPhone for the last 7 years and it gives you a lot of control over your route. I don't think you can ignore traffic predictions though.
I do a lot of driving out in the forests and rural areas with GPS for navigation. I've noticed that I often need to be sure to set the GPS for Shortest Time rather than Shortest Distance. Setting the GPS to Shortest Distance can result in the GPS directing me via routes like 'Forestry Road #13' or worse.
The other thing I've noticed is that I can start a trip in town using my phone GPS and get directions to a rural location (actually hiking trailhead) and then on return be somewhere with no cell signal and be unable to get return directions.
I now travel with smart phone, stand-alone car GPS, and a paper map. I've occasionally had to resort to the paper map.
I've used TomTom on iPhone for the last 7 years. It stores all maps on the phone (this might require many GB, I could fill up my old 32GB iPhone 3GS with all the maps I have). I have travelled 5 continents and 30+ countries with it, often very remote places.
I still always also bring a paper map as a backup device and planning tool. I don't want to rely on anything with a battery and delicate electronics.
Shortest time is a logical default any way. TomTom knows the average traffic speeds at a lot of locations at 15 minute intervals. This can make a major difference not only in rural areas, but also rush hour in a major city.
I've travelled to over 50 countries and having GPS navigation for the past decade or so has been a huge improvement.
It allows you to keep your eyes on the road and focus on traffic and driving safely, especially when visiting a country driving on the other side of the road after a 24 hour flight (looking at you New Zealand).
I still always prepare with and bring a paper map as well, preferably Michelin as those are the best.
I have submitted updates/fixes to TomTom and have seen them applied. You can even do it from within the iPhone app.
TomTom is quite good at that kind of stuff.
Driving that road is one of the easiest things I've ever done in a car. It's a long distance, but not really a challenge.
Something like Paris or even New York City during rush hour is a lot more challenging.
And then there are places some cities I've visited Morocco, Egypt, India and Brazil. I'm happy to take a taxi there.
Phones don't have small screens any more, and even on my old iPhone 3GS, the TomTom app would do a good job of showing the complete route after computing but before accepting it. Google Maps is reasonable as well, but requires an internet connection.
Now with 5+ inch full HD screens, it's no issue at all.
I've also been surprised at how awful in-car systems are compared to even older smartphones. My in-laws had a 2013 Taurus with a miserably awful system that looked like the same thing I remember in 2005-era cars. On the other hand even my Galaxy S2 I had a couple years before did voice recognition fine. My wife and I just bought a 2016 Civic, and its head unit is actually running Android and uses all of its services for things like voice recognition, and it actually works pretty well.
Like most hardware manufacturers, car builders are at least half a decade behind, if not more. I select my cars based on the ability to replace the factory junk and put in a system that can hook up to my smartphone. This has worked well ever since my first iPhone. Spotify, Skype, YouTube, TomTom, Weather info, Traffic info, iTunes, it all runs from my phone, hooked up to speakers and mic on the head unit I put in.
Cruise Control and voice navigation means I can keep my eyes on the road most of the time.
Depends on how you're defining it. Following word-by-word directions as seems to be so popular today--you're better off without that.
I find the spoken directions the most useful part of GPS navigation. It allows me to keep my eyes on the road in heavy traffic and complex situations.
I always also use a paper map to check if the overall GPS route makes sense and to understand where I am and where I'm going and to not rely on something with a battery.
Looking at a map is very distracting, especially in an urban area during rush hour in 6 lane heavy traffic.
TomTom stores traffic conditions with its maps. It knows the usual average traffic speed on most major roads at 15 minute intervals. This information is based on its Live Traffic information, but added to its maps on a static basis for those who do not use the feature.
It means that even without a connection, it will still have an estimate of traffic conditions based on historical information. I have found this feature to be very accurate at predicting normal rush hour traffic and such, having used TomTom in over 30 countries, often without an internet connection.
TomTom app does that as well.
I've travelled 5 continents and 50+ countries and have found TomTom to be the most reliable GPs navigation, assuming you have up-to-date maps. 30 GB of my phone is TomTom apps. (North America, Brazil, Argentina, Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, Europe).
I find a GPS navigation system really useful for turn-by-turn navigation, especially if I'm alone in the car.
However, I do not trust anything with batteries to be fully dependent, let alone the information stored in it.
So I always have a paper map as well. (Michelin makes the best ones). On long trips I will plan my route using the paper map and check against it.
Navigation relies heavily on checking if you are indeed where you think you are, by observing landmarks and such. Some people are just clueless and will get lost any way.
I know at least TomTom allows you to send in corrections. I've used it several times and have seen the corrections have been made at least in some cases.
In those cases I've often noticed that Google Maps, Garmin and others have the same errors. I don't know how to send corrections to them.
I do think this indicates that whatever source they're using is the problem. Maybe an error in some national or municipal geoinfo database.
I use NoScript, AddBlockPlus, BetterPrivacy, Classic Theme Restorer.
I used to run various variants of Qute, but after many years there is no compatible addon any more.
Yes. I live on NoScript, ABP, BetterPrivacy and
Classic Theme Restorer.
I really do not like what Firefox has done with the UI. I still lament the loss of the Qute icons and I want a browser with Home, Reload, Stop, Back, Forward, an URL bar and a Search bar.
Maybe I'm getting old. I stared on Mosaic, then all versions of Netscape and Phoenix/Firefox.
The original poster could have been more polite.
I will still try to answer the point.
It might not happen in your neighbourhood today, but Christianity and various other religions have been used to justify bloodshed and other atrocities. Sometimes quite recent and sometimes not that far away.
Witch hunts might no longer happen where you live, but there are large parts of the world where they still do.
Prosecution of gays happens in a lot of places in the world based on supposed Christian values and was the norm in most of the Western World fifty years ago.
For recent examples of people claiming to have killed others for religious reasons, not Islamic, go google, Barend Strydom, Ami Popper, Wade Michael Page, the IRA, UDA/UFF. I could probably find more, but that's what an initial google turned up.
I would agree with the argument that at the moment, the Islamic inspired religious fundamentalists seem the most numerous, violent and well funded. I primarily blame the recent oil weath in the Middle East for that, especially the Saudi-Arabia and Iran. The agenda of a very few, but suddenly very rich, religious fundamentalist people has shaped the region and the world tremendously over the past half century. You will find much woman wearing a headscarf in images from the sixties and seventies, let alone the full black dress and scarf you commonly see in the Middle East today. I've seen pictures of women in miniskirt in Kabul. Look at the funeral images of Nasser in Egypt in 1970.
The Middle East is a mess, but the former Ottoman Empire, and the borders drawn by colonial powers Britain and France after that have a lot to do with it, at least in Israel/Palestina/Iraq/Syria/Turkey/Libya/Pakistan/Lebanon. I put the primary blame on the Saudi's though for exporting and funding their ideas in the region over the past decades. I don't think Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS or the Taliban would exist without that, certainly not in their present form.
Human reaction times, just from the limited speeds at which neurons transmit signals, are already of the same magnitude as the times discussed here. And they get slower as we age, so the age and physical condition of the timekeeper/official can have a significant effect over the course of a game.
I got into the Linux as a desktop thing in around 1997. I got out in 2007 when Apple made BSD as a desktop work.
I do agree that Linux as a desktop has gotten better since then, especially on laptops. I have recently used systems based on Mint and Ubuntu.
I still think Linux that while Linux is making progress, it's not exactly catching up.
In my view the fundamental problem with Linux on the desktop is that the common kernel and GNU environment do not provide enough functionality. This means that KDE, Gnome, etc. and X/Wayland have to implement a lot of things that should be basic OS.
Linux lives in the days of Windows 3, when the OS (DOS) provided very little and the GUI system had to provide a lot of the functions that should have been in the OS. Windows is hampered by that model to this day but not by the extent Linux is.
Driving a vehicle and owning a car are not the same thing.
I'm from the Netherlands. We use bicycles. The average Dutch person bikes 1018km a year.
Yes, that includes the elderly, infirm and very young. My grandpa used his bike until he was 91.
I've heard describe the USA as a democracy. Maybe you should vote in some politicians that stand up for workers rights?
I would guess that employees outnumber employers?
I'm always amazed by the US situation.
I don't see the difference between domestic and international travel you're making. I have 6 different countries within 400km of where I live. Any shorter distance and I would take a train.
Her claim of 'absent-mindedly' putting it on before going to the airport to pick up a friend (as I recall) was about as dubious as Ahmed's 'I invented this clock and wanted to show it off' claim.
You have never met real nerds. They do these things all the time, completely oblivious to the real world.
It's the kind of people that if you ask them how to make a bomb, the answer is: "Let me show you right now".
And I know from experience that they will have a working bomb, or at least an explosion within a few minutes, just from the stuff lying around.