Do you mean that fining more for richer people is unfair?
That's an interesting view. One could argue that a flat fine allows rich people to break the law more, because they can afford it. Which IMHO seems pretty unfair.
Luncheon vouchers systems are run by private entities that take a fee on it. I believe the fee is pretty high (a shop owner told me 8%, but I am not too confident).
I definitely believe this system is outdated, that the tax-cut is eaten by said companies plus the extra burden and that the world would be a slightly simpler place without meal vouchers (at least as I know them in France).
Any source that companies are actually paying a premium on this? Given that gift cards are sold at par or even at a discount, I'm skeptical that companies will pay a premium for what essentially are gift cards.
Freight trains have a much lower fraction of human labor as cost vs. benefits relative to trucking or cab driving. 1 truck and driver carries 20 tonnes. 2 engineers on a freight train carry close to 20,000 tonnes, so there is only 1/50th (ish) the benefit.
No. One form of transportation doesn't have to exist for everything. Rail is the long haul and trucking is the last mile.
Autonomous trucking should start out with its own dedicated part of the highway between distribution centers. We are trying to build autonomous driving to accommodate our current road structure which humans currently drive on. A dedicated / isolated lane with sensors, etc should be the start. Start small and then you can expand after getting feedback data. Everything is always so costly and unattainable because everyone wants to implement it with the current infrastructure but its not needed.
For reference we already do these types of dedicated lanes with ezpass express or HOV lanes.
Caught that did you? :-) The one interesting disruptive thing might be paved roads vs rail infrastructure. It is easier to have a steerable vehicle turn on different paths than doing railroad switches. So the underlying physical plant of building things might allow for rapid deployment vs rails.
we do have semi-autonomous trains, in the US at least. i'm not sure about elsewhere. PTC stops a large class of disastrous operator errors (overspeed, missed/ignored signal, etc.). it is almost entirely complete on all of the class 1 railroads in the US by now.
yes because more than one process can access the file.
A "password manager" provides a defined api and schields the password away from everything. It can also ask the user if process x can access the key y.
If a user has access to your machine to steal the password, why not just steal the data that's protected by it? Or add another device to syncthing? Install a keylogger. Rootkit.
On a rootkit you don't trust the OS anymore. So a safe location inside the OS space isn't an option anymore. But often you are not a root user (e.g. android, windows in a corporate environment)
If you have OS backups there is a risk it is readable by others (e.g. cloud, different IT department). There is also a risk a user uploads the config somewhere.
If you want to rotate keys you would have to search all keys compared to a centralized location.
https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-right...