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Comment · 8 years ago
So its an upgrade transport system with cost savings, ie carriages that can use the basic concrete tunnel controlled by software like AI road trains to avoid collisions maximising the transport of people and stations above ground for the cheaper space required when carriages need to stack up side by side whilst people engage in the rather slow activity of getting in and out. I cant see why they cant make a profit from that model.
Comment · 8 years ago
CO2 levels rise to unhealthy levels (700ppm) within a few hours of a typical bedroom if you keep the doors and windows closed. Its also why Submarines have CO2 scrubbers.
Comment · 8 years ago
You can tell where someone is from just by looking at them, facial proportions, bone structure, and thats before you even get into clothes which mimic social conformity aka dedicated followers of local fashion.
Comment · 8 years ago
CIA, MI5 offer the best courses, plenty of paid for field work in interesting locations around the world. Just answer strange adverts, like Godolt is not coming, or be observant when out walking.
Comment · 8 years ago
super fast broadband.. super fast autobahns.. super good cars.. in Germany..
Comment · 8 years ago
NordVPN use these guys as a node along with MIT, plenty of businesses and plenty of *.io domains to pop out in different parts of the world. Would not be surprised to learn there are various analysis of the traffic popping out of NordVPN's openVPN vpn's. Of course if you have 14 eyes, you can watch the encrypted traffic passing along the wires like waves travelling an ocean.
Comment · 8 years ago
You have an issue with speed and size of someone on the footpaths, I could run fast and cause more problems than someone on a scooter on the path. Besides its not like Scooters will ever be that popular because people love transporting stuff around in their cars and they need/expect a certain level of protection from the elements which scooters, bikes and motorbikes will never exceed. Its a bit of a storm in a teacup which is why the UK police are not prosecuting electric scooter users at the moment.
Comment · 8 years ago
This is why the World Bank can claim to have lifted the poorest who earn $1 a day above this limit, wage inflation gives these people $2 a day, but the cost of living has increased to $3 a day, so they are now worse off despite the headline claim to having being lifted out of the $1 a day poverty. For thousands of years clever people have been manipulating stupid people.
Comment · 8 years ago
Totally agree about Nature needs the odd wildfire. On the point of the bombing maybe the Vacuum bombs aka Thermobaric bombs could be a solution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermobaric_weapon They burn more intensely so could the advancing edge be bombed so what is on fire burns out more quickly so that t can not advance? Although many will be familiar with the Fire triangle, if you can burnt an area at an accelerated rate, the fire can put itself out. As the vacuum bombs are essentially just fuel that suck/use the oxygen in the environment, they could steal the oxygen from the fire. These are also slow exploding bombs as a result but it would be interesting to see how they work on the advancing face of a wildfire. Hard part would be getting the right sized explosion, the Military cant control the size of an explosion that well, but Reaper drones could be used effectively with their laser targeting.
Comment · 8 years ago
There is no legal requirement in many countries for a company to report it has been hacked and even if there were, if they dont spot the hack how can they report it? See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, problem solved. Beside with so many global businesses employing the best from around the world, how do these companies know they are not employing spooks with excellent fabricated grades? It might explain how Microsofts Win10 source code their crown jewels, was leaked online.
Comment · 8 years ago
> that scammers are simply getting hired BY Dell, and then supplementing their hourly wage by trying to con Dell's customers out of hundreds of dollars more.

This, I've bought Dells in the past and one Indian based sales rep charged my payment card for an additional amount, I wonder if they expected me to not spot the extra charge but the card company refunded it. Thing is people deal with call centres so its easier as a criminal to join a large multinational company and operate from within as we assume big companies know what they are doing. Other problem is Intel Vpro/AMT is supplied in a lot of Dell equipment and its switched on by default. Even now, despite it being disabled, its not disabled as its 169992 port is showing up in ipv6 port scans. Intel really have created a hackers paradise with vPro/AMT.

Comment · 8 years ago
There are lots of factors at play, some are more significant that others in one area of a country than another. Take Brexit, 5th largest economy, if you look at UK car stats (SMMT website) businesses are in recession as far as car manufacturers are concerned. Another factor, the GBP has dropped, this makes investing in London attractive for overseas buyers who may have invested in the US market. Plus as London house prices have dropped this also becomes attractive to overseas buyers. In turn as London property is very expensive, this drags the average's up for the price of property in the rest of the country. These factors will be repeated in many countries around the world, but one thing the US has lots of which counts against the US housing market, is land. The UK is highly populated, England is densely populated, the demand for land in the UK is at a much higher premium than in other parts of the world like Europe or the US. In turn, the UK landowners benefit from this global demand ie stability to park money in UK assets due to the reputation of the UK on the global stage, ie no major revolutions in recent history, one of the oldest legal & financial systems in the world. All this stability to park money in the UK pumps up property prices, so with Trump getting into office, is he lowering your property prices considering his flip flopping around with what he says? I see Trumps election as a desperate attempt to consolidate the US position on the global stage as the rest of the world wants detach itself from the petrodollar. As the dollar declines much of your money has to now be spent on things to help you live instead of just going into property. Be prepared for inflation and hedge accordingly, property prices falling is good for the wider US economy, as high property prices where a great % of income is going on servicing the property is bad for the wider economy. Besides there are more Basel requirements coming in next year and many banks have not got themselves ready for that either.

One other thing, Brexit, 5th largest economy, if the EU doesnt allow the UK to stay in the single market, what sort of effect on the global economy will the UK market crashing out of the EU single market and going into major recession have on the global economy. Brexit in a way has the global economy by the balls and the EU led by Germany will be seen as the bad guys for not budging on their philosophy.

Comment · 8 years ago
"defining division by zero as zero is OK" And those mathematicians should be classed as wrong. If you treat zero as nothing, a value divided nothing does not make it magically disappear, it should just cancel out the mathematical operation. So 1/0 should be 1, 42/0=42 and so on. Otherwise to apply their logic, a*0=0 would have to be applied. Again if you take a value and multiply it with nothing, it should cancel out the maths operation. It is possible for whole areas of a science to follow down the wrong rabbit whole, medical science best shows this over the last 100-200yrs since scientific equipment has improved and the current thinking about something in the body has changed when new discoveries appear that contradict. Maths is not untouchable either, especially considering the fact Big G and the speed of light varies. Check out Rupert Sheldrakes of Cambridge Uni talks on this subject. The official bodies response was to mandate G and speed of light is now constant when its not.
Comment · 8 years ago
There appears to be nothing drawing attention to the fact Mt Gox was originally a US football trading card platform which had little of the expected security features seen or required of many financial exchanges, so Mt Gox was a hack waiting to happen. As to whether the Russian was fitted up by others to serve an agenda remains to be seen.
Comment · 8 years ago
You will find intelligent people are more deviant and he was an intelligent person. In a way, you could say "Pedophilia - The stupid dont get it" and it would be true for a whole host of reasons.

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