Almost positive a state tax agency using cell-phone records would run afoul of the 4th amendment, especially if they didn't get a search warrant which almost certainly they didn't
Not just that... anyone with that much money will probably have their houses, cars, phones, etc. all owned by LLCs and trusts, so that the tracking data is useless. Especially now that they've made it known they're using cell tracking.
Watching Boeing spiral downwards for the last 20 years has been like watching that mob movie. MBA's took over leadership, drove out the knowledgeable, and hoovered up every dime possible hand over to shareholders, and bonus themselves all the way to the Caymans and back. Is it now a worthless carcass, or worth saving?
It's a carcass. They've outsourced almost everything, so they don't really directly produce anything anymore. The engineers are disillusioned, and would probably leave the second they see an opportunity. And they seem to be accumulating liability at an alarming rate. The only things of value they have left are the designs/patents, and their bought regulators and legislators.
Working with a systems integrator on a new SCADA system for the water/electric/wastewater utility I work for a few years ago, I designed system to be all IP connected (using our private fiber along utility lines, and site-site VPNs to locations not on fiber network), they had never really done an IP system before, but was impressed on how well it works when they were done....Got a call from the systems integrator a few months later at another customer site saying something along the lines of "I have the cable company here (at a remote site for their customer), how many static IPs should we be asking for, one for PLC, HMI, etc".....to which my answer was "how many do you need to make your FIPS compliant VPN work?" and I could hear a blank stare at the other end of the phone....glad I caught that one before it showed up on Shodan or something, but how many others do the same thing? SMH
I have vendors asking for port forwards all the time also, but rarely do that for them anymore, I will give them our VPN client (which only gives them access to the network they need), or pass http traffic through a "reverse" SSL proxy that requires 2FA (looking at replacing that with Cloudflare zero trust).
VPN isn't really good enough, either. It's still exposed to the internet, and vulnerable to DDoS that can deny access during critical events, which could cause just as many problems as direct access to systems could.
Caffeine can be synthesized... I'm guessing that's where it mostly comes from anyway for things other than coffee and tea where it's not naturally occurring.
...a lot of Thanksgiving babies this year...
I can put my hand on the center console and turn the AC on, change the air vent outlet/demist, fan air speed and air temp without having to take my eyes off the road.
Aren't all cars this way?
Not for a long time - even before the touch screen craze. These stupid automatic climate control systems are the worst offenders. My 2001 Toyota had a few big buttons to turn the A/C compressor, recirc, and defrost on and off, and temp, fan, and vent control were all giant chunky knobs that you could reach for without looking to adjust whatever was making you uncomfortable. The automatic ones have tiny buttons with half the functions buried in clumsy menus (and nothing you do will actually make it comfortable in the car).
Aside from that, automakers have been guilty for a long time of large arrays of barely indistinguishable buttons on the console.
Unfortunately, from a usability standpoint, the ideal would be something that looks like a Playskool child's toy.
Feels like we are going to start reaching an uncanny valley of sorts with self driving and driver-assist features reaching a point where they are mostly good enough to make people complacent.
Like the tiring thing about driving isn't the turning of the wheel or pressing the pedals, it's the maintenance of attention and now the attention of the driver isn't just taking in all the visual and audio stimuli and coordinating that with your actions behind the wheel but babysitting the computer driving the car "just in case" it makes the wrong move which is just shifting the attention span and in some cases making it worse.
The funny part is, driving 55mph on a straight empty highway in the country (we have a few of those here in TX) will put you to sleep pretty quickly. If I could drive 80 or 90mph on the same road, I guarantee you I'd be WIDE awake the whole time.
Self-driving cars perpetuate an inefficient, dangerous, expensive mode of transportation. Individual cars contribute to deaths far more than buses, trams, trains and subways. They clog up streets and cause more traffic. They insulate the wealthy from the poor, making it easier to ignore society's problems. And the poor can barely afford public transit, much less the more-expensive self-driving cars which take up more of the roads (which taxpayers fund).
I'd love to not have to drive myself around! But I'd love it even more if there were affordable, timely public transit to drive me around.
Depending on how you look at it and where you live, public transit can be FAR more expensive than owning a car.
Around here, public transit adds about a minimum of an hour to most trips, easily topping that if you go multiple places in a day. So lets just say an extra hour both ways on your commute every weekday, and figure that also includes some extra stops when needed.
That would cost someone making $15/hr about $7,500 a year in lost time, not counting fares. For me, the number would be closer to $40,000/yr if I was doing productive work instead. My wife and I have three cars and STILL don't spend that much a year on them (it would also take more than an hour a trip, since the nearest bus stop is a 30+ minute walk from our house).
Part of the speed limitation when dealing with spinning media is the rate at which bits pass under the read/write device. There's a limit to how fast you can spin a disk before it comes apart.
Increasing the density of bits by a given factor should also increase the read/write speed by a similar factor, so going from 20GB/disk to 200TB/disk could be up to 10,000x faster, depending on where other bottlenecks are (like multi-layer media where only one layer can read/write at a time).
It's lack of critical thinking and problem solving skills, specifically.
I routinely participate in interviews for IT sr. architecture level positions (the kind where total compensation is 200k+). Over the years, I've developed some scenarios to test for this, and it's astounding how many people fail miserably at it. We've even had people throw their hands up and walk out. These are fairly straight-forward "here's a simple diagram of a system, here's a problem that's being reported, walk me through how you'd troubleshoot" type things.
One of the problems I can see with this is that on roads where traffic moves at 80, it will condition drivers to just floor it, and result in a large percentage of traffic going exactly the same speed. You actually *want* faster and slower drivers on the road, or it makes it nearly impossible to move around in traffic.
Easy:
3: Raise inheritance tax to 50%
There are a couple of reasons why this won't work:
1. You can't pay taxes with stock, and as someone else on the threat pointed out, selling 50% of, say Bezos' holdings of Amazon on his death to pay the taxes would crash the stock and screw many, many people. Just news of him getting ill would probably cause economic problems.
2. Anyone with those kind of assets has a plan in place to avoid inheritance taxes.
The low-tech route, is include an Apple AirTag in all parcels over $100
No, the low-tech route is for homes and apartments to incorporate package lockers which are normally left open, but, once closed, can only be opened via a key.
not so sure you have a valid point here. I am in the USA right now and everyone I know is supportive of North Korean's defecting to the rest of the world (USA included). I have never heard of anyone hating a North Korean defector.
It would probably be easy for the workers themselves to get asylum if they wanted to.
BUT, I'm guessing the NK government knows this, and probably only chooses workers that have families to hold hostage. Defect, and your spouse and children will be murdered.
It seems that we need to get rid of many billions of people as quickly as possible.
And the easiest and cheapest way to do that is to do exactly what we're doing now for the next 50 years! (nothing)
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines." -- Bertrand Russell
