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MatPat (The Game Theorist) actually cited countries like Saudi Arabia and Venezuela in one of his videos. He said that their complete dependence on one resource and totalitarian governmental structure would cause come collapse in a matter of time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByeyFfOHgQA

It sounds like China is pushing digital currency just like what the US did to buy it's own debt.

http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=25161

In the very early days we used BBS that we dialed or telnet'ed into. These were text systems where you chat and leave messages about you had found. If you search around you can find web interfaces that will let you telnet into some them. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system)

After that there were USENET/Newsgroups. Its a universal discussion board. You can still get to it by using 'news reader' software package and finding an open server. You can also pay for access but unless you really need the need the history ::cough:: or special content it's not worth it. Otherwise use Google Groups which is both a USENET reader and it's forum system (https://groups.google.com/).

Yahoo.com was the best directory at the time.(http://web.archive.org/web/19970124192912/http://www10.yahoo...) Back in the day there were few enough major websites that Yahoo had time to review and categorized sites by hand. As Yahoo became more of a search engine company and less of a director the Mozzill foundation created DMOZ.org.

DMOZ was supposed to be the 'democratic' replacement for Yahoo. With the open nature of the internet bad player starting getting up voted and it became spammed horribly. Plus search engine were getting big. It never really took off.

In between Yahoo being the dominate directory and Google trying to become the biggest search engine I like sites such as Webcrawler.com and Lycos.com. They're both still around. If I remember correctly Webcrawler still crawls site but it so back logged that its like 1-2 year behind. Lycos stopped doing it's crawls for a while was feed from Google search results. But it seems that Lycos started doing it's crawls again but with a really engine.

Finally we used a real time text chat system called IRC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat). I loved using mIRC on Windows 3.1.(https://www.mirc.com/) It was simple and fast. But by modern standards it not very intuitive. Think of Discord where you can have unfiltered channels but with almost no filters.

FYI: if you want to have some fun check out Microsoft Comic Chat. It worked on IRC as well (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat). That was abused so badly at the time.

Tesla wants to be a major car manufacturer but they can't get a basic assembly line working. Musk's attempts with robotic are failing. They can't find competent 'drivers' to test their self-driving cars. And his April Fools tweet was childish with everything going on. If I was invested in the company I would start pulling my money out while I could recoup something.

I would image giving up any high intensity activity, social or physical, would have the same affect.

Trying to use the latest, greatest new methods. You'll have to balance when to fight for the new ideas with when sticking with old tried and true methods. A lot of times its turns into political game instead of a technological challenge.

It looks good. Did I miss a collision detection demo?

It's a two edged sword. As we decentralized, we create a bigger opportunity for 'bad players' to take advantage of individual sectors. Decentralized services also means deregulated or at least unregulated applications. Remember the salad days of Napster?

I'm not calling for a centralize regulating board. We need individuals and groups to be informed and inform consumers what they are getting into. Those same consumers have to be personally responsible for their actions. Otherwise, we will slip in totalitarian in a very short time.

Have read the ULA?

The Apple Privacy Policy was updated on January 19, 2018.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/

What personal information we collect

* When you create an Apple ID, apply for commercial credit, purchase a product, download a software update, register for a class at an Apple Retail Store, contact us or participate in an online survey, we may collect a variety of information, including your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, contact preferences, and credit card information.

* When you share your content with family and friends using Apple products, send gift certificates and products, or invite others to participate in Apple services or forums, Apple may collect the information you provide about those people such as name, mailing address, email address, and phone number. Apple will use such information to fulfill your requests, provide the relevant product or service, or for anti-fraud purposes.

* In certain jurisdictions, we may ask for a government issued ID in limited circumstances including when setting up a wireless account and activating your device, for the purpose of extending commercial credit, managing reservations, or as required by law.

BTW: How your iPhone is tracking your every move

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/advice/11056373/How-y...

I like the concept but here are some issues:

True (01) / False (00) - I assume that you will not support hexadecimal notation (00)

How will you note when its a textual semicolon from a string separator. IE: "a":";","b":"1" vs. a;;b;1

How do you tell a numeric value from a string character? IE: "a":1;"b":1 vs. a;1;b;1

Nulls what is test or is null: "x":null vs. x;000 < is this a string value, a hex value, or a null?

I believe what he is saying that government should stay out of company's day to day activities unless there is a clear an present danger. In this case its the data that Facebook recklessly sold does endanger it's consumers.

I would disagree because of how closely Apple tracks it's users. Yes, they don't sell the data but they use it for internal marketing.

EDIT: From Apple's own website:

The personal information we collect allows us to keep you posted on Apple’s latest product announcements, software updates, and upcoming events. If you don’t want to be on our mailing list, you can opt out anytime by updating your preferences.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/

Is that the best or worst pun ever?

With all the retro fads going on I wish they would release a basic PDA with the BlackBerry retro style. For $30 it would sell out in a matter of minutes.

I would love to see the fax machine to go away. But many government agencies still say that fax is the only secure method to send data. Even though documents travel over VOIP lines and often kept in public areas.

Love this line:

Although the tool (Google Translate) works to translate words in groups, rather than word-by-word translation, it's still not nearly as effective as human translators.

The streaming industry is fragmenting. From what I'm seeing you can use:

* Freeuim services with a ton of redundant commercials and dated content (Crackle, Midnight Pulp, Cocoro, Pluto). There a couple of 'classic' movies from the 70's and 80's (man I fee old now) but the commercials are automatically inserted by AI based on showing a commercial every 12 minute when the AI thinks the action is at slowest by audio volume. The problem is that it break the flow of the show because it ussualy a reflective moment and not a proper transition. Also I'll see the exact same Holiday Inn commercial 3-4 times at each break.

* Sub $10 services with less commercials and more recent content (Hulu.) I'm already paying for you. Why do I have you even more to turn off your commercial?

* Dull streaming service in the greater the $10 with no commercials (HBO, Starz, Netflix, Sling). These are great content but there some redundancy. Also I'm not going subscribe to each of you to get one or two shows when there's... cable.

Its getting to the point where viewers are saying 'Why do this when you can get a cable box that has a DVR or On Demand service and 'easy' customer service. The same customer service their high speed internet is going through. So there isn't much of a difference there.

If the streaming service was to survive they need to come up with a central application that lets you go more ala carte for your content at a less of an overall price easier navigation. Smart TVs and Roku boxes come close but it still a pain to switch apps. The cost advantage over cable isn't what it use to be. Steaming service had better be careful with pricing and content or cable will take over again.

Just to make sure I understand this:

- Google has been spearheading a protocol called 'QUIC'

- It bypasses tradition TCP by using UDP to create it's own version of TCP but encrypts the data it sends

- However it could be (is?) sending a bit and header that can make tracking the message path easier.

I would guess if that is true then and would not effect the performance the bit and header should be removed. I don't see what the fuss is about. Can't two different implementations exist along side each other and the public will choose the better one?

Correction: I misread the article and thought though spin bit was for an encryption key. Let this be a lesson to everyone: if you are going to comment at 2 am in the morning reread your article.

Dust clouds are usually an off-color from the decay of organic matter or crushed rock. Since this is in a forest setting I would discount that it is crushed rock. If the item was on fire I would think the elephant would spit it out. My guess is mushroom spores or a chemical reaction with something growing there. No matter what the elephant sure thought it was tasty.

This is something that has been going on for centuries. With tempo, notes, and melodies you have quite of variety of way to encrypt a message. I had a friend who would do this for fun. But said that only the trained ear could pick up on his messages. Also he could only squeeze in a limited amount of information before it became obvious what he was doing. Still it was fun to watch him write the music.

I'm guessing the Mozilla Foundation just lost all it's funding from Facebook.

Isn't it only being delayed a year? In the grand scheme of things that isn't much time.

In underlying code you are correct. But they both work in a C/C++ style. JavaScript has become a 'Write Once, Run Anywhere' foundation because of the web browser. Don't forget projects like NWJS (Node Webkit), Electron, Cordova/PhoneGap, Google Chrome Apps, NodeJS, and ClearScript(.NET).

All of these JavaScript implementations use the V8 JVM and can make desktop and command line application. Depending on security settings they can give partial to full system access to the underlying OS just like Java. If this ruling is upheld I would look for Oracle to float a trial balloon on newer JavaScript implementations and for stealing their Java's API's.

I guess I would politely argue that creating new functions would make reading code harder in basic example such are this. You'll be jumping all round or possibly separate files. Obviously larger logic tress should be pruned. Side note: a lambda function may get around this specific instance.

A government will always its power. That is why you give it as little as possible and let the people tackle the social issues.

Try PWA based one. Since they load in segments and cache a lot you'll have fun:

https://pwa.rocks/ - Look at the business and news webpages

Also look for the website that use AMP. They're even more fragmented then PWA pages. Below is article about AirBNB using AMP and iFrames:

https://medium.com/swlh/how-airbnb-is-putting-amp-at-the-cor...

https://www.ampproject.org/

Back to days of ASCI and ANSI art. Those were fun times on BBS's.

What is the advantage your system has over something live Twitter or Discord?

Safety drivers have an impossible job. They're just the sacrificial lamb, staked out to appease the regulatory gods. The driver was looking down, probably at her phone. Shame on her and all that, but take a good long look at yourself. How many hours of mind-numbing boredom could YOU take before you pulled out yours? The car had been functioning fine until that point.

Very cool. I'll wait for generation 2 or free ordering to come out. Nothing against the company but I've gotten burn by similar projects on Kickstarter.