Re: "Facial Recognition" is no worse than any other kind.
"shoot first and ask questions later "
Then furiously look for something in their past, like an expired visa to leak to the press to justify it
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>provide a provable identity for asylum seekers who may not have one already
You would have thought if they had already applied you might have something reliable, like fingerprints or iris scans
Not a system where a CCTV camera on a beach can decide to launch the missiles because somebody $ETHNIC on a raft looks like somebody $ETHNIC in the record
>We still have their genetic forebears in the form of the Loyalist community in the North of Ireland
That was the flaw in the US colonies plan (also known as Ark-B)
We exported the religious nut-jobs, but only one type. If we had exported 2 different types they would have happily fought each other and left us alone - a plan which worked in every other ex-colony
So it will become a box-ticking exercise.
Once somebody posts a "we detected a possible attack and are investigating the impact" statement and it's accepted by the SEC it will become precedent and so everyone will just submit the same statement every time there is a hit on their firewall
It's like how after 9/11 banks were made to report suspicious transactions and so just flagged almost everything because there were massive penalties for not reporting, but no follow-up if they did
We looked at it for our rural location here in the colonies, where most people have under-sink UV+filter for well water anyway
Could the town filter but not fully purify the municipal water supply, and have people sterilise just the kitchen tap supply ?
The problem, apart from legal liability, was that even water for flushing the toilet, or showering can get aerosolised. Surprisingly this isn't too bad if it's only "toilet droplet cloud" (!) but is rather nastier if it has legionnaires or similar. We ended up with a supply that is chlorinated to cheaply kill all the nasty stuff, but still requires your own in-house filter system if you want to drink it.
> I should only be expected to pay what *I* use, nothing more.
The problem is that the cost of supplying you with water is >90% fixed costs whether you use a drop or not
So if there is no standing charge the rate/volume is going to be really high - screwing anyone with families.
Fortunately it benefits old people living alone, who vote, so expect the standing charge to go away.
Unfortunately it IS a good method of communication - if only it wasn't owned by a fsck-wit
Traffic alerts, forest fires, train / ferry delays, lots of applications where you want potentially millions of people to be able to subscribe to a lot of information services in a single app with low bandwidth and some level of authentication of the sender - not really anything to replace it for the general public
You can make current high-Tc in bulk, the problem is you can't make wires. Currently you either cast the HTs material in situ or you scatter powder onto tape, either isn't great. It's why they weren't used for ITER
Currently this material seems to have very low (100mA) critical current and very low max field - but if those are just due to it being a lab bench mix rather than a refined product