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The company's lawsuit contends that the law which bans Huawei equipment without evidence and trial is a violation of the U.S. Constitution.

Anyone that's even heard of a clue, let alone has half of one, knows that national security is a valid and perfectly constitutional reason to prohibit government agencies from purchasing equipment or services from a foreign actor.

They are challenging John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (NDAA 2019), specifically Section 889.

Nothing in the law prevent private businesses from buying Huawei equipment but doing so could effectively lock them out of doing business with the federal government. It's just like the Kaspersky Anti-Virus situation where people a free to use it but it's a big no-no for the federal government.

It's fair to say the American nation isn't the envy of the World it once used to be, but the fact the Chinese can sue in American courts with a decent chance to win still says a lot about the differences between the two juggernaut nations.

(...bold mine...)

Looked at the situation through another lens...

Whereas one nation has sought to assert its will onto others, it's found one that will not simply sit back and watch. Huawei is fighting back.

In addition, of the two juggernaut nations, one has had a proven MO of fomenting chaos (read regime change) in distant lands, the other country has mostly followed bilateral cooperation even though some experts have seen this as a form of imperialism.

Think about that!

Have fun with this story, https://darwinawards.com/darwi.... Amps kill more than volts and alternating current is far worse than direct current, just ask a certain elephant, well, you can't because, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., just proves you can't believe anything were money is involved.

What Tesla should have done, was do a deal with nearby residents, to put in a solar powered charging grid adjacent to those charging stations, well, at least a few stations of them for marketing purposes. How many residents would depend upon location and sun exposure and not too hot or not too cold, as that would consume a lot of energy. Create a competing grid for marketing purpose and possibly considerably more.

They put a supercharger on a Tesla?! How in the...but....OHHH.

They should change the name of it, we already have those for cars. Wikipedia

lessee...

https://www.google.com/search?...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
As a physical object, a book is a stack of usually rectangular pages oriented with one edge tied, sewn, or otherwise fixed together and then bound to the flexible...

STOP! That's too long!

Siri, show me a book...

Ironic.

• Internet lag averages about 30 ms. Might be lower for newer games. (I've seen as low as 8 ms if you're lucky and have a good ISP and live near the server).
• Game and protocol processing lag (time for the game to decode the network packet, decode the protocol simulating your opponent's movement on your computer) is usually on the order of 100 ms (the other player's movement has to be encoded by their computer, shoved into a network packet, transmitted to the server, transmitted to you, removed from the network packet, then decoded by your computer for display on your screen).
• Human comprehension time is about 250 ms for visual stimuli. That is, your brain takes about a quarter second to see something, process it, and comprehend exactly what it's seeing. It's actually faster at processing audio (about 170 ms) - the runners in the 100m dash are beginning with the crack of the starting pistol, not the flash of the gun firing. It's important enough that they wire the gun to speakers placed in each runner's starting blocks, so that nobody is advantaged by the slow speed of sound causing the gun crack to reach their ears faster.
• Nerve impulse speed is around 120 m/s. So when you command your hand to move your mouse, it takes about 5 ms for the signal to travel from your brain to your muscles.
• Your muscles take about 5ms to begin respond to a nerve impulse and about 25 ms to respond fully.

So your hand isn't moving/clicking your mouse until 100 + 250 + 5 + 25 = 380 ms after the other player pops his head out from behind the wall. Your brain is basically constantly predicting what'll happen more than a third of a second in the future, and pre-emtively sending movement signals to your muscles to respond to what it thinks will happen in the future. That's why motor reflex actions like those associated with walking happen in your spinal chord. It avoids the lengthy trip all the way to your brain and back, plus processing time in your brain.

Meanwhile, going from a 60 Hz monitor to 120 Hz gains you 8.3 ms. Going from 120 Hz to 144 Hz gains you 1.4 ms. And going from 144 Hz to 240 Hz gains you only 2.8 ms. Even if you say your brain needs to see 3 frames to pick up and predict motion, that becomes 33 ms for 60 Hz (time interval between 3 frames is 2 refresh cycles), 17 ms for 120 Hz, 14ms for 144 Hz, and 8.3 ms for 240 Hz. It's still dwarfed by the time it takes your brain to parse what it's seeing, meaning the biggest factor is how much talent you naturally have or are trained to have. That's why the military trains so relentlessly rather than buying night vision scopes with a better than 60 Hz refresh rate - decreasing the time your brain needs to process what it's seeing makes a bigger difference in reaction time.

I don't think Java is dying or anything like that, but a lot of Android development is being done in Kotlin now.

There's a lot of misinformation in this thread. Everyone needs to go read about Flicker_fusion_threshold:

The maximal fusion frequency for rod-mediated vision reaches a plateau at about 15 Hz, whereas cones reach a plateau, observable only at very high illumination intensities, of about 60 Hz.[3][4]

and

If the frame rate falls below the flicker fusion threshold for the given viewing conditions, flicker will be apparent to the observer, and movements of objects on the film will appear jerky. For the purposes of presenting moving images, the human flicker fusion threshold is usually taken between 60 and 90 hertz (Hz), though in certain cases it can be higher by an order of magnitude.[7] In practice, movies are recorded at 24 frames per second and displayed by repeating each frame two or three times for a flicker of 48 or 72 Hz.

p.s. There's also Chronostasis where moving your eyes can cause you to see a frozen image for up to 1/2 a second (example).

There's a lot of misinformation in this thread. Everyone needs to go read about Flicker_fusion_threshold:

The maximal fusion frequency for rod-mediated vision reaches a plateau at about 15 Hz, whereas cones reach a plateau, observable only at very high illumination intensities, of about 60 Hz.[3][4]

and

If the frame rate falls below the flicker fusion threshold for the given viewing conditions, flicker will be apparent to the observer, and movements of objects on the film will appear jerky. For the purposes of presenting moving images, the human flicker fusion threshold is usually taken between 60 and 90 hertz (Hz), though in certain cases it can be higher by an order of magnitude.[7] In practice, movies are recorded at 24 frames per second and displayed by repeating each frame two or three times for a flicker of 48 or 72 Hz.

p.s. There's also Chronostasis where moving your eyes can cause you to see a frozen image for up to 1/2 a second (example).

There's a lot of misinformation in this thread. Everyone needs to go read about Flicker_fusion_threshold:

The maximal fusion frequency for rod-mediated vision reaches a plateau at about 15 Hz, whereas cones reach a plateau, observable only at very high illumination intensities, of about 60 Hz.[3][4]

and

If the frame rate falls below the flicker fusion threshold for the given viewing conditions, flicker will be apparent to the observer, and movements of objects on the film will appear jerky. For the purposes of presenting moving images, the human flicker fusion threshold is usually taken between 60 and 90 hertz (Hz), though in certain cases it can be higher by an order of magnitude.[7] In practice, movies are recorded at 24 frames per second and displayed by repeating each frame two or three times for a flicker of 48 or 72 Hz.

p.s. There's also Chronostasis where moving your eyes can cause you to see a frozen image for up to 1/2 a second (example).

I read 18 novels in the C.J. Cherryh Foreigner series for two months last summer. Language, mathematics and aliens. Space opera at its best.

Yes, and Technocracy is quite possibly the greatest punk/thrash crossover album of all time

This ecological atrocity finally
Caves in on itself...perhaps it's
All for the better
Lock your doors and say goodnight
As toxins leach out of sight
We're living in the new age
Of electronic security
Technocracy probable cause
Technocracy bending some laws
Living in fear making something
Of yourself is making fifty grand a year
The technology that spawned
Our every convenience
Creating more and more poison
Pledge of toxic allegience
Technocracy probable cause
Technocracy bending laws
All American clones
On and on their sermon drones
Rabbit at your career
It goes on all around you
Part of this insanity
Working for the technocracy
Technocracy probable cause
Technocracy bending some laws
There are limits to growth on this planet but
There is no limit to your Greed
or potential
to Exploit...
the end of Suffering
or just an Eternal scream

Hello Vladimir, it's good to see you keeping form so well! Here in the west individuals, even corporations, are free to choose, to think, to express and do business. Free, Vlad. Free. All these freedoms are very confusing to you, especially since now and then an individual seems to 'go off the rails' now and then. Don't worry, true freedom has lots of self-correcting systems that kick in, eventually. It is messy, but it sure beats the alternative! Give it a try sometime!

Now Vlad, about your current sad state of affairs:

Japan GDP (PPP): 5.6 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 5.1 Trillion

German GDP (PPP): 4.5 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 4.1 Trillion

Russia GDP (PPP): 4.3 Trillion, GDP (nomial): 1.6 Trillion

India GDP (PPP): 10.4 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 2.4 Trillion

Vlad 'ol buddy, I miss the cold war, I really do, but if you keep this up, your economy, country, and culture is simply going to implode and fade away into obscurity. It might take a couple more generations, but your race to the bottom is clear. India can damn near petty cash your entire economy! India! It's almost like all those years of British occupation did them some good!? Oh, damn, that was insensitive, ahem, ok, back on subject...

And come on ol' buddy, the saber rattling is fun, sometimes even endearing, but surely you realize that any major offensive against the west - hell, even India! - will leave you utterly obliterated. You don't want that, nobody wants that!

Stop playing with your little puppets states, let your own people and economy thrive. Give democracy and freedom a try. It's messy, but it's fun!

... fumble... grumble... damn, spilled my drink... Ah, here we go, look at this!

Brazil GDP (PPP): 3.5 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 1.9 Trillion

Damn, that might explain why most of the medium and short range airplane rides I take in the US are on Brazilian designed and built Embraer aircraft. Brazilian!?

Come on Vlad, surely you can compete with the likes of Brazil!

Hello Vladimir, it's good to see you keeping form so well! Here in the west individuals, even corporations, are free to choose, to think, to express and do business. Free, Vlad. Free. All these freedoms are very confusing to you, especially since now and then an individual seems to 'go off the rails' now and then. Don't worry, true freedom has lots of self-correcting systems that kick in, eventually. It is messy, but it sure beats the alternative! Give it a try sometime!

Now Vlad, about your current sad state of affairs:

Japan GDP (PPP): 5.6 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 5.1 Trillion

German GDP (PPP): 4.5 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 4.1 Trillion

Russia GDP (PPP): 4.3 Trillion, GDP (nomial): 1.6 Trillion

India GDP (PPP): 10.4 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 2.4 Trillion

Vlad 'ol buddy, I miss the cold war, I really do, but if you keep this up, your economy, country, and culture is simply going to implode and fade away into obscurity. It might take a couple more generations, but your race to the bottom is clear. India can damn near petty cash your entire economy! India! It's almost like all those years of British occupation did them some good!? Oh, damn, that was insensitive, ahem, ok, back on subject...

And come on ol' buddy, the saber rattling is fun, sometimes even endearing, but surely you realize that any major offensive against the west - hell, even India! - will leave you utterly obliterated. You don't want that, nobody wants that!

Stop playing with your little puppets states, let your own people and economy thrive. Give democracy and freedom a try. It's messy, but it's fun!

... fumble... grumble... damn, spilled my drink... Ah, here we go, look at this!

Brazil GDP (PPP): 3.5 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 1.9 Trillion

Damn, that might explain why most of the medium and short range airplane rides I take in the US are on Brazilian designed and built Embraer aircraft. Brazilian!?

Come on Vlad, surely you can compete with the likes of Brazil!

Hello Vladimir, it's good to see you keeping form so well! Here in the west individuals, even corporations, are free to choose, to think, to express and do business. Free, Vlad. Free. All these freedoms are very confusing to you, especially since now and then an individual seems to 'go off the rails' now and then. Don't worry, true freedom has lots of self-correcting systems that kick in, eventually. It is messy, but it sure beats the alternative! Give it a try sometime!

Now Vlad, about your current sad state of affairs:

Japan GDP (PPP): 5.6 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 5.1 Trillion

German GDP (PPP): 4.5 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 4.1 Trillion

Russia GDP (PPP): 4.3 Trillion, GDP (nomial): 1.6 Trillion

India GDP (PPP): 10.4 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 2.4 Trillion

Vlad 'ol buddy, I miss the cold war, I really do, but if you keep this up, your economy, country, and culture is simply going to implode and fade away into obscurity. It might take a couple more generations, but your race to the bottom is clear. India can damn near petty cash your entire economy! India! It's almost like all those years of British occupation did them some good!? Oh, damn, that was insensitive, ahem, ok, back on subject...

And come on ol' buddy, the saber rattling is fun, sometimes even endearing, but surely you realize that any major offensive against the west - hell, even India! - will leave you utterly obliterated. You don't want that, nobody wants that!

Stop playing with your little puppets states, let your own people and economy thrive. Give democracy and freedom a try. It's messy, but it's fun!

... fumble... grumble... damn, spilled my drink... Ah, here we go, look at this!

Brazil GDP (PPP): 3.5 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 1.9 Trillion

Damn, that might explain why most of the medium and short range airplane rides I take in the US are on Brazilian designed and built Embraer aircraft. Brazilian!?

Come on Vlad, surely you can compete with the likes of Brazil!

Hello Vladimir, it's good to see you keeping form so well! Here in the west individuals, even corporations, are free to choose, to think, to express and do business. Free, Vlad. Free. All these freedoms are very confusing to you, especially since now and then an individual seems to 'go off the rails' now and then. Don't worry, true freedom has lots of self-correcting systems that kick in, eventually. It is messy, but it sure beats the alternative! Give it a try sometime!

Now Vlad, about your current sad state of affairs:

Japan GDP (PPP): 5.6 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 5.1 Trillion

German GDP (PPP): 4.5 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 4.1 Trillion

Russia GDP (PPP): 4.3 Trillion, GDP (nomial): 1.6 Trillion

India GDP (PPP): 10.4 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 2.4 Trillion

Vlad 'ol buddy, I miss the cold war, I really do, but if you keep this up, your economy, country, and culture is simply going to implode and fade away into obscurity. It might take a couple more generations, but your race to the bottom is clear. India can damn near petty cash your entire economy! India! It's almost like all those years of British occupation did them some good!? Oh, damn, that was insensitive, ahem, ok, back on subject...

And come on ol' buddy, the saber rattling is fun, sometimes even endearing, but surely you realize that any major offensive against the west - hell, even India! - will leave you utterly obliterated. You don't want that, nobody wants that!

Stop playing with your little puppets states, let your own people and economy thrive. Give democracy and freedom a try. It's messy, but it's fun!

... fumble... grumble... damn, spilled my drink... Ah, here we go, look at this!

Brazil GDP (PPP): 3.5 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 1.9 Trillion

Damn, that might explain why most of the medium and short range airplane rides I take in the US are on Brazilian designed and built Embraer aircraft. Brazilian!?

Come on Vlad, surely you can compete with the likes of Brazil!

Hello Vladimir, it's good to see you keeping form so well! Here in the west individuals, even corporations, are free to choose, to think, to express and do business. Free, Vlad. Free. All these freedoms are very confusing to you, especially since now and then an individual seems to 'go off the rails' now and then. Don't worry, true freedom has lots of self-correcting systems that kick in, eventually. It is messy, but it sure beats the alternative! Give it a try sometime!

Now Vlad, about your current sad state of affairs:

Japan GDP (PPP): 5.6 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 5.1 Trillion

German GDP (PPP): 4.5 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 4.1 Trillion

Russia GDP (PPP): 4.3 Trillion, GDP (nomial): 1.6 Trillion

India GDP (PPP): 10.4 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 2.4 Trillion

Vlad 'ol buddy, I miss the cold war, I really do, but if you keep this up, your economy, country, and culture is simply going to implode and fade away into obscurity. It might take a couple more generations, but your race to the bottom is clear. India can damn near petty cash your entire economy! India! It's almost like all those years of British occupation did them some good!? Oh, damn, that was insensitive, ahem, ok, back on subject...

And come on ol' buddy, the saber rattling is fun, sometimes even endearing, but surely you realize that any major offensive against the west - hell, even India! - will leave you utterly obliterated. You don't want that, nobody wants that!

Stop playing with your little puppets states, let your own people and economy thrive. Give democracy and freedom a try. It's messy, but it's fun!

... fumble... grumble... damn, spilled my drink... Ah, here we go, look at this!

Brazil GDP (PPP): 3.5 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 1.9 Trillion

Damn, that might explain why most of the medium and short range airplane rides I take in the US are on Brazilian designed and built Embraer aircraft. Brazilian!?

Come on Vlad, surely you can compete with the likes of Brazil!

Hello Vladimir, it's good to see you keeping form so well! Here in the west individuals, even corporations, are free to choose, to think, to express and do business. Free, Vlad. Free. All these freedoms are very confusing to you, especially since now and then an individual seems to 'go off the rails' now and then. Don't worry, true freedom has lots of self-correcting systems that kick in, eventually. It is messy, but it sure beats the alternative! Give it a try sometime!

Now Vlad, about your current sad state of affairs:

Japan GDP (PPP): 5.6 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 5.1 Trillion

German GDP (PPP): 4.5 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 4.1 Trillion

Russia GDP (PPP): 4.3 Trillion, GDP (nomial): 1.6 Trillion

India GDP (PPP): 10.4 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 2.4 Trillion

Vlad 'ol buddy, I miss the cold war, I really do, but if you keep this up, your economy, country, and culture is simply going to implode and fade away into obscurity. It might take a couple more generations, but your race to the bottom is clear. India can damn near petty cash your entire economy! India! It's almost like all those years of British occupation did them some good!? Oh, damn, that was insensitive, ahem, ok, back on subject...

And come on ol' buddy, the saber rattling is fun, sometimes even endearing, but surely you realize that any major offensive against the west - hell, even India! - will leave you utterly obliterated. You don't want that, nobody wants that!

Stop playing with your little puppets states, let your own people and economy thrive. Give democracy and freedom a try. It's messy, but it's fun!

... fumble... grumble... damn, spilled my drink... Ah, here we go, look at this!

Brazil GDP (PPP): 3.5 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 1.9 Trillion

Damn, that might explain why most of the medium and short range airplane rides I take in the US are on Brazilian designed and built Embraer aircraft. Brazilian!?

Come on Vlad, surely you can compete with the likes of Brazil!

Hello Vladimir, it's good to see you keeping form so well! Here in the west individuals, even corporations, are free to choose, to think, to express and do business. Free, Vlad. Free. All these freedoms are very confusing to you, especially since now and then an individual seems to 'go off the rails' now and then. Don't worry, true freedom has lots of self-correcting systems that kick in, eventually. It is messy, but it sure beats the alternative! Give it a try sometime!

Now Vlad, about your current sad state of affairs:

Japan GDP (PPP): 5.6 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 5.1 Trillion

German GDP (PPP): 4.5 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 4.1 Trillion

Russia GDP (PPP): 4.3 Trillion, GDP (nomial): 1.6 Trillion

India GDP (PPP): 10.4 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 2.4 Trillion

Vlad 'ol buddy, I miss the cold war, I really do, but if you keep this up, your economy, country, and culture is simply going to implode and fade away into obscurity. It might take a couple more generations, but your race to the bottom is clear. India can damn near petty cash your entire economy! India! It's almost like all those years of British occupation did them some good!? Oh, damn, that was insensitive, ahem, ok, back on subject...

And come on ol' buddy, the saber rattling is fun, sometimes even endearing, but surely you realize that any major offensive against the west - hell, even India! - will leave you utterly obliterated. You don't want that, nobody wants that!

Stop playing with your little puppets states, let your own people and economy thrive. Give democracy and freedom a try. It's messy, but it's fun!

... fumble... grumble... damn, spilled my drink... Ah, here we go, look at this!

Brazil GDP (PPP): 3.5 Trillion, GDP (nominal): 1.9 Trillion

Damn, that might explain why most of the medium and short range airplane rides I take in the US are on Brazilian designed and built Embraer aircraft. Brazilian!?

Come on Vlad, surely you can compete with the likes of Brazil!

Sad, there was a time decades ago where some of them at least tried to be professional reporters.

Not true. 60 Minutes has never been professional journalism. From the beginning they relied on sensationalism, biased reporting, ambush interviews, editing of interviews to swap in different questions that what the interviewee actually answered, and fabricated evidence. They were doing fake news long ago.

Plenty of examples here.

You pay taxes not because someone threatens you with nukes, but because the IRS is threatening you with prison time. Ethics has nothing to do with it. Sufficiently high costs can be imposed on you even without the nuclear threat.

Similarly, ethics has nothing to do with not nuking governments that are weak and/or subservient to the US, there are other, less expensive means of influencing them. Threats against the well-being of their politicians is usually sufficient, and if not, then the threat is materialized.

This is why the US is a staunch proponent of non-proliferation of everyone but itself, nuclear proliferation erodes its ... errr... "influence".

You pay taxes not because someone threatens you with nukes, but because the IRS is threatening you with prison time. Ethics has nothing to do with it. Sufficiently high costs can be imposed on you even without the nuclear threat.

Similarly, ethics has nothing to do with not nuking governments that are weak and/or subservient to the US, there are other, less expensive means of influencing them. Threats against the well-being of their politicians is usually sufficient, and if not, then the threat is materialized.

This is why the US is a staunch proponent of non-proliferation of everyone but itself, nuclear proliferation erodes its ... errr... "influence".

The general idea is that "letterboxing" will mask the window's real dimensions by keeping the window width and height at multiples of 200px and 100px during the resize operation -- generating the same window dimensions for all users.

Okay, who here has a monitor with a display resolution that is a perfect multiple of 100 in both X and Y? Not most people, that's who.

Does everyone who works on Firefox have an old 800x600 CRT or a laptop with a 1600x900 display or something? Because in the real world, there's a lot of resolutions and most of them are not divisible by 100.
The most popular one, which is "full HD" (1920x1080) is certainly not divisible by 100 in either X or Y.

So congratulations, idiots. You just gave advertisers a way to target Firefox users even if they use a fake user agent string.
We won't even talk about the problems this is going to create for web programmers who need to rely on knowing the exact size of the display for real-world purposes.

TL;DR, this is one more reason to NOT bother supporting Firefox anymore.

Except there are literally hundreds of additional data points which allow websites to uniquely identify you. The best you could do without too much hassle is to run the English version of Google Chrome under the latest release of Windows 10 without any extensions or additional fonts installed. But even that is not enough since you still expose your time zone, WebGL extensions and then there are evercookies, mouse tracking, canvas fingerprinting, etc. etc. etc.

It surely looks like the WWW was built with tracking in mind. Not intentionally of course.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... is very high

he's probably living with arthur porter somewhere in south america
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Iran: Russian and Chinese gov. for the last 40 years.
Saddam: American gov.
ISIS: Captured a lot from Syria and Iraq, however, bought directly from Chinese and European gov.
Mexican Drug Cartels: Various, but low-end is bought from American stores, while high-end is obtained from China, Vietnam, etc.

Iran: Russian and Chinese gov. for the last 40 years.
Saddam: American gov.
ISIS: Captured a lot from Syria and Iraq, however, bought directly from Chinese and European gov.
Mexican Drug Cartels: Various, but low-end is bought from American stores, while high-end is obtained from China, Vietnam, etc.

Right, the NSA would never attempt something so unsubtle

There's already autonomous machine gun turrets overwatching the Korean DMZ. They are made by Samsung.

Lead cooled fast reactors generally fission their fuel to a much greater extent than pressurized water reactors and have a higher operating temperature than molten salt reactors. Also, among the 100 most populous U.S. cities 26 have a nuclear plant within 50 miles and it seems preferable to have them over coal. Additionally, the term "district" heating may or may not be appropriate such as when the use is limited to the property of a single company.

Whew, that's a load off my mind

Seriously, can we just end the endless war already. We don't need to always be at war with Eurasia. Stop voting for war hawks already.

Well, they know that. It's the same as when the Republicans put bills on Obama's desk to repeal the ACA. They knew he'd veto it and that they wouldn't be able to override it. It's about signalling to the voters "this is what we'll be able to do if you put us in charge." It's not a new phenomenon.

And then the GOP won the House, Senate, and White House and...didn't repeal ACA. (Okay, they're working on it...sort of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...)

False:

Grand Coulee Dam is one of 14 hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River, not including tributary rivers such as the Snake, Willamette, Yakima, Deschutes, Cowlitz, and Lewis Rivers (as well as other smaller rivers) and generates 7,079 MW by itself. There's 9 other dams on the Columbia main stem as well, which produce over 26,500 MW in total.

The largest nuclear generating station in the United States is Palo Verde, which has an operational capacity of 3937 MW from three reactors.

Why do you have to lie in order to make your chosen solution look better?

False:

Grand Coulee Dam is one of 14 hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River, not including tributary rivers such as the Snake, Willamette, Yakima, Deschutes, Cowlitz, and Lewis Rivers (as well as other smaller rivers) and generates 7,079 MW by itself. There's 9 other dams on the Columbia main stem as well, which produce over 26,500 MW in total.

The largest nuclear generating station in the United States is Palo Verde, which has an operational capacity of 3937 MW from three reactors.

Why do you have to lie in order to make your chosen solution look better?

False:

Grand Coulee Dam is one of 14 hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River, not including tributary rivers such as the Snake, Willamette, Yakima, Deschutes, Cowlitz, and Lewis Rivers (as well as other smaller rivers) and generates 7,079 MW by itself. There's 9 other dams on the Columbia main stem as well, which produce over 26,500 MW in total.

The largest nuclear generating station in the United States is Palo Verde, which has an operational capacity of 3937 MW from three reactors.

Why do you have to lie in order to make your chosen solution look better?

I believe encryption in the US during the 80's and 90's was under a very tight umbrella, PGP was even considered munitions and was illegal to transport outside of the country along with any encryption standard greater then 40bits (easily crackable by NSA back then by design flaws, even brute forcing would not have taken them long)

You laugh, but there actually is infrastructure for doing that. The flow on the Pacific DC Grid Intertie can be reversed for exactly that purpose to send power from it's southern terminus in the Los Angeles area (Sylmar) back up to the BPA.

I'm over 70. I started programming Fortran on the CDC 6600.

A generalization is meant to express a common case. There can be many exceptions.

"Free speech" means "you're free to say anything without being charged with a crime." And there are limits to that even in the US - incitements to violence, for example. Very different from the "marketplace of ideas" concept which has nothing to do with criminality:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Everyone you disagree with is a "Nazi" these days, so you're saying "don't let people you disagree with speak at a government-funded school. I don't see any daylight between that and government censorship.

It may amount to government censorship at a public school. However most colleges are privately funded so there's no issue.

Censorship by effective monopolies that dominate public debate is nearly as bad as censorship by governments.

Nearly as bad in your opinion, but legally worlds apart. Again, the alternatives are enforced common carrier status and forced speech. Choose.

Anyway, since when are "forbidden ideas" less attractive? I don't think the human mind works that way.

Doesn't matter how attractive they are if they're highly elusive and largely unknown. Pushing ideas underground works.

Debunk the bunk. Especially, do so in a way that kids of anti-vax parents get the full story.

This is what the Western world's been doing for much of the late 20th century, and as you can see the bunk has been winning. Remember Einstein's definition of insanity?

That's the correct answer. Or as W. Edwards Deming often taught us, "blame the process, not the person."

Sadly, the post you are responding to is everything we've come to expect from years of government training!

Participating in it? Not intentionally. It certainly doesn't mean I support the concept. Learn what it means:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The marketplace of ideas holds that the truth will emerge from the competition of ideas in free, transparent public discourse and concludes that ideas and ideologies will be culled according to their superiority or inferiority and widespread acceptance among the population.

That central tenet is demonstrably false. We would not live in a world of viral fake news and large subcultures who believe in clear falsehoods if it were true. Exposing the public to falsehoods for the purpose of debate was not harmless or, on balance, beneficial.

And a multiplayer tank battle game.
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... and not one you'd want to associate with modern AI: Bolos are autonomous, self-aware tanks.

Well, that settles it then. Emmanuel Goldste ... I mean, Facebook, is the source of all evil.

Seriously, what are we supposed to do with this? Lynch Zuckerberg? Set up an office of censorship to make sure that no Moms get false information from anywhere? What, exactly?

The tool is ideal for software engineers...

Yes, there will be good guys who will use this to reverse-engineer malware to design patches. There will also be bad guys who will use it to reverse-engineer patches to design malware.

Here's a scenario: A security researcher discovers a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. Remotely executable. Root-level access. Being a responsible researcher, the information is provided quietly to Microsoft before being announced publicly, so they are given a chance to develop a patch. Somewhere down the road, Microsoft releases a patch.

What happens immediately is that people start reverse-engineering the patch. What modules is it touching? Let's look very closely at those modules, maybe do some fuzzing, see if we can figure out what's exploitable. I once saw Halvar Flake give a talk on this that was both impressive and frightening. A person with his level of skill could potentially develop an exploit by reverse-engineering a patch in a matter of hours. Much faster than many people would be deploying the patch.

Looks like it worked out for Austria. The socialist party was pretty much constantly part of the government since WW2 and Vienna (the capital) has had a socialist mayor since WW2 and has been topping Mercer's highest quality of living for the past years (i.e. since Mercer's been doing it).

And looking down the list of cities, I get to see Austria, Switzerland, New Zealand, Germany, Canada, Denmark, Netherlands, .... you have to go down to place 30 to find the first US city. Which is San Francisco. I may be wrong, but I don't see a single US city from a traditionally Republican run state in the first 50 at all.

It takes any compiled binary and reverse engineers it into Brainfuck.

It is FOSS.

Is it, though? If the software was written by the NSA, doesn't that constitute a work of the United States government and thus make it public domain by default?