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but... but... gorilla arms!

After you are used to a touch based device, sometimes, especially when you are not immediately sitting in front of it (say... same room?) it's just more natural to be able to reach over and touch the screen on occasion to do something, rather than reach for your mouse, find your cursor then move it to the desired location.

What evidence. Russian IP[ address? Same signature and attack vector that has allegedly been used by Russian Intelligence in the past?
https://www.wired.com/2016/07/...

Does it really matter who did it? IMHO what matters is what was exposed. Blaming the Russian is only trying to shift the focus of the public away from the e-mails. And our great 4th estate is helping them.

or is it something that, just like the DNC hacks merely ascribed to Russia with zero evidence offered?

Er, there is evidence, even if you choose to ignore that fact:
https://www.wired.com/2016/07/...
http://www.esquire.com/news-po...

Uh huh... Might want to get on the ship already sailing... https://www.wired.com/2015/04/...

If anything we need more 'right wing hack jobs' as you put it, to uncover and expose more of the lies like the one used to blame the cause of Benghazi on a youtube video and pin it on some poor patsy, that in turn led to the discovery of the secretary of state storing SAP level top information on private servers and being proved a complete liar, and the DOJ and FBI being DNC pawns rather than being committed to the public's interest.

We definitely need another 'right wing hack job' to uncover the extent of the role that Bob Creamer had in the conspiracy to commit violence at political rallies, and why exactly he was such a regular visitor to the white house, and who he was taking his marching orders from. We need to know the extent at how the DNC provoked the riots in Chicago, as well as the rioting in places like Ferguson via their BLM attack dogs, and the campaign to stir up racial tension to the point where innocent police officers are being gunned down and ambushed and killed. Furthermore, we need another 'right wing hack job' to uncover the extent that the DNC violated campaign finance laws, as shown by the DNC leaks, to funnel money directly to Clinton's campaign.

Why? Because as seen by how not one single Congressional Democrat voted to find Brian Pagliano in contempt of congress, for being a no show to a congressional summons, it is clear they have no interests whatsoever in policing their own. People wonder why there had to be half a dozen congressional inquiries into Benghazi to get anywhere at all, well, that's why, because the partisan hacks are on both sides, including the media, leaving those of us with an interest in the truth to have to fend for ourselves.

Bottom line, if Trump gets in, we get Trey Gowdy as attorney general, who is completely unlike this passive aggressive, tarmac-meeting weasel that won't even commit to saying that speeding is illegal, who might get to the bottom of some of these questions. There's your reach around for you.

A $185,000 application fee and annual $30,000 operation fee will keep mom-and-pop shops away from their own domains.

Where is the money going to? Who approves the applications and what are the mechanisms for appeals and disputes?

What sort of framework is there to ensure, the fees are not excessive and the services thus purchased — of high quality?

Is it done by the best means known — via vigorous competition — or somehow else? How?

Is this new mechanism related to and/or enabled by the transfer of control of the Internet towards an international body? And, if so, is that the reason, Google and other mega-corporations pushed for the transfer so hard?

The bigger problem with this article though is that it really doesn't belong here. This is not a technology issue, or even a science issue.

Post-money societies are the stuff of science fiction. This makes UBI an appropriate topic for discussion on Slashdot.

The bigger problem with this article though is that it really doesn't belong here. This is not a technology issue, or even a science issue. This is an economics issue, and a monetary issue. The jobs aren't going away because people here are being replaced by better technology, the jobs are going away here because people are being replaced by workers in other countries who can work for less.

Except that MIT and President Obama would both disagree with you... https://www.wired.com/2016/10/...

So I followed your link and rather than saying about "WMDs found" I would say "scraps and dreams of WMDs found".

From the Wired's article:

WikiLeaks’ newly-released Iraq war documents reveal that for years afterward, U.S. troops continued to find chemical weapons labs, encounter insurgent specialists in toxins and uncover weapons of mass destruction.

and:

Nearly three years later, American troops were still finding WMD in the region. An armored Buffalo vehicle unearthed a cache of artillery shells “that was covered by sacks and leaves under an Iraqi Community Watch checkpoint. “The 155mm rounds are filled with an unknown liquid, and several of which are leaking a black tar-like substance.” Initial tests were inconclusive. But later, “the rounds tested positive for mustard.”

You were saying?

At the times of Watergate, journalists relied on illegally-obtained information to bring down a Republican President. That was and remains deemed heroic and brought them accolades and Pulitzer Prizes.

Bradley Manning's exposures made him (or her? — one never knows with Illiberals) — a hero as well. He may be in prison, but he is a hero still — with numerous fans at home and abroad.

Julian Assange was a hero too, as long as his exposures harmed Bushitler. But then things started to get weird. First, Wikileaks published a few bits about WMDs found in Iraq after all, leading to questions of whether Bush really "lied". That was still forgivable, because the found caches weren't "massive".

But now that his releases harm a Democrat, his words are, as the very first post here claims, "bullshit" and he is not to be believed. One can really be forgiven for suspecting, people call the same acts different names depending on whether they are useful or harmful to Democrats.

See also "Peace is the absence of opposition to Socialism".

Well, of course it probably was Russian hackers. Whether they were actually sponsored by the Russian government, or were freelance Russians who just used tools originally built by the Russian intelligence agency, is another question. The evidence is pretty good. They're not just hacking the DNC, by the way; they're aiming at anything to do with our election they can find.

But the question is: so? With respect to the leask, well, no matter who did them, the leaks are still the leaks.

Wired: https://www.wired.com/2016/07/...
NBC: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us...

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How would you end the cycle of poverty?

Why, obviously, I'll outlaw it!

Serious question.

Seriously? What poverty? Burmese migrants sneak from Myanmar into neighboring Thailand for better life. Thais themselves are happy to go to Israel for fruit-picking now that Israelis are loath to allow Palestinians, who used to work these agricultural jobs, to enter the country. And many Israelis are more than happy to move to the US. In other words, poverty is relative. In absolute terms, a homeless in New York is better off than a "middle class" North Korean.

The inequality within a society will be with us always. Even when we move beyond the much-denounced "scarcity", people who are smarter and/or more driven than others will still appear ahead — if not by wealth, then by some other measure, quantifiable or otherwise. It is just as inescapable as are differences in good looks, agility, or stronger muscles, .

For the absolute poverty, (a close approximation of) Free Market Capitalism is the best prescription, as the US has been demonstrating for at least a century already. But, to avoid arousing US-haters too much, let's consider other, less controversial, examples:

• Soviet Socialist Republic of Estonia vs. Finland
• East Germany vs. West Germany
• North Korea vs. South Korea

In all three of the above examples, the peoples — hitherto identical in culture, religion, language, natural resources — lived for some decades under Socialism/Communism and Capitalism respectively. In fact, Estonia is better endowed than its sibling by climate and land-fertility — and yet, Capitalist Finland produced Linux, Nokia and the best snow tires in the world, while Estonia... Well, not so much.

It is not even about Democracy necessarily — both Cuba and Chile, the fourth pair I might add to the above, have lived under dictatorships for a while. But Pinochet had the wisdom to choose Capitalism and so left his country Latin America's top economy, while Cuba remains a shithole.

Stick to Capitalism, dude — but don't let it become Crony Capitalism (a guinea pig ain't a pig) by giving government so much control over the production, the manufacturers and service providers start trying to satisfy government officials, rather than actual customers.

Re "Why would someone build a weapon that could so easily be countered? They wouldn't."
The US way of thinking is not to add too much crypto.
A flying super computer is bad for two simple reasons. If it fails and glides down into enemy hands, every enemy gets a look at US thinking on secure maths.
The power and support needed for a secure system can be put to better use as payload or optics or time to loiter over any nation with no defence systems.
The US drone system is a rushed to market prototype that can be lost and analysed without giving any secrets away.
Think of a big fancy TV camera, a 1970's export grade weapons system and some navigation.
Any nation can request the parts from some arms trade show.
Re "How do the not expect that concept to extend to drones?"
Never use them against any advance enemy with skills.
Its not so much as "communications are disabled" as been damaged. The drone is not hardened. All the weight savings went into ammo count, big optics, time over the other nation to watch and track.
The drone was rushed into service to fight in nations where the US would never face advanced detection or long range systems.
Inside the Military’s Secret Terror-Tagging Tech (06.03.09)
https://www.wired.com/2009/06/...
That is about all the drone was sold as to the political elite. To stay above any nation so that US backed operatives could plant retro reflector-based tags on interesting people or locations.
The problem is the US political class now thinks drones and cruise missile will always work against every nation because they always have against nations with no working defence systems.
Its a bit like faith in Enigma or blitzkrieg. It keeps on working until it does not.
The only option for the US is to get to all defence systems removed to make the area of operations totally safe for drones again.
Most advanced nations have worked that aspect out and have taken steps to absorb or counter that needed first step in safe drone use.
Re 'Profit from war."
The next step will be to sell the US gov on a new space drone project to stay one step above all advance nations. More high ground profits await.

yeah, but unless you also control/audit the compiler and so on, all the way down to the chip fab, you're never gonna be 100% sure it's clean.

eg - what if Intel/Qualcomm/etc have their own backdoors built in, per order of the US government? Google/etc certainly have their own features built in. http://www.pcworld.com/article... or https://www.wired.com/2013/05/...

Or, what if there is some malicious Easter egg built into the chip? etc, etc...

Seriously, if your company is considering adding "smart" features to a product worth more than $500 stop and have a think about how long that device needs to operate: 'new' cars today will be on the road for at least 10 years, so that's support you have to offer until 2026.

Now look at how Microsoft struggled (and continues to struggle) to get people to move off of Windows XP and onto a more up-to-date platform. AND THEY BUILD OSs FOR A LIVING.

If you can't even get your infotainment system working AT LAUNCH perhaps you shouldn't even try, because abandoning your customers with a shitty, complex, error-prone and not to mention insecure 'smart' system (that may be able to take over critical systems and put people's lives at risk) is a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Not necessarily. Some of these jobs are being picked up by US prison labor, and I'm sure it is worse now than in 2004 when this article was written about it.

Once travelers get to mars the problem is not over, as Mars magnetic field is rather weak, because its dynamo was killed a long time ago

Richard Stallman has been advocating this for some time. Here is an example in a Wired article from 2012.

While not a fan of Google, I believe you're referring to Cisco

From TFA:

Charles Moore, the racing boat captain who discovered the floating vortex in 1997, once said that the cost of a cleaning operation would âoebankrupt any countryâ.

But around half the scheme's initial â30m (£20m) budget has now been raised through online donations and wealthy sponsors. In the long term, the project plans to finance itself with a major retail line of ocean plastic fashion wear.

And they've not even made it to the scaled model phase yet.

Much like jeans made from ocean plastic worn by our "hero" there the project itself will do nearly nothing for the oceans, something for the people who are desperate for a solution for their many existential anxieties which make them crave for a way to validate their life styles while shedding the self-perceived quilt over their own existence, holier than thou assholes and clueless treehuggers - and a lot for certain people's bottom line.
AND I'M NOT TALKIN BOUT THEIR PANTS!

Even if every pair of jeans in the world were made from Bionic Yarn, the oceans would still have a plastic problem. Toussant knows that much. But if every piece of clothing, every shoe, every pillow and couch cushion, blanket and rug were stitched with the stuff, then we might see a dent.

Feel free to peruse their recycled jeans store here.
Warning! Store features explicit images of hipsters surrounded by even more hipsters. People allergic to hipsters shouldn't click on the link provided above.

By law?? Can you cite that law?? You can't because there is no such law.

I couldn't find a specific law but according to this article she was quite justified in destroying the Blackberrys and I could see the same reasoning being applied to the servers. Information is supposed to be archived and then the device deleted/destroyed as thoroughly as possible.

It's not a ridiculous line of thinking from Clinton (and her lawyer's) perspective. "Oh crap, we weren't supposed to be using X because of security concerns? Well we'll give you what you need off of X for your investigation and the official archive, and then we'll destroy X so there's no more copies to worry about".

Note that any smart politician, no matter how clean, would be wise to leave as little a paper trail as possible.

You don't have to believe, you just have to draw eyes on the wall...

Wired
New Scientist
Scientific American

1- This isn't about some mx redirect thing (or a domain name), this is about storing the emails on a private server.
2- No, they don't necessarily. If you wanted to email a private email server, why would the government have that on record? At least one of the two parties would need to have their emails on a government controlled system. Which one seems like the better plan to you: you, me, and everyone else in the world, needs to somehow have accounts on a government server -OR- the secretary of state keeps emails on a state department server as per policy?
3- I don't know what you mean here. She used the clintonemail.com server for her work in the state department. There were tens of thousands of emails that were in question.
4- You are wrong. She announced her candidacy in April 2015. Here's a wired article from March 2015:
http://www.wired.com/2015/03/c...
(and archive: http://archive.is/2015.03.05-0... )

"The person who may had broke the law is the person who sent classified information to her email address."

That's not really how this works. But pretend it did. Here's Comey on it:
"For example, seven e-mail chains concern matters that were classified at the Top Secret/Special Access Program level when they were sent and received. These chains involved Secretary Clinton both sending e-mails about those matters and receiving e-mails from others about the same matters."

"However she is a politician not a IT expert."

She employed numerous IT experts, however, and certainly could be expected to know the implications.

"If it was an average guy who did this... Chances are they may had lost their job, but not had criminal activity put on him."

Clinton doesn't have any criminal charges being placed on her. She's never been indicted. Comey pretty much stated that anyone else would be in hot steaming shit.
https://www.fbi.gov/news/press...

"To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now."

Quite honestly man, you can google this. You've been able to google this for awhile. To me, the most interesting part isn't the emails, it's the consistent stream of bad information out of Clinton herself. On March 10th, 2015 (before she announced for president), she said "I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material. So I’m certainly well-aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material."

That was either an omission or a lie. But if you follow it forward, it just gets sillier- at almost every chance to discuss this, she dissembled, provided false information, or maybe even straight fucking lied. The fact that you or I would never work again if we made this kind of mistake, the bizarre deletions, the possible foreign intel implications- that's all whatever compared to the fact that this was just deny, deny, deny until the evidence caught up.

Nevertheless, once turned on Siri is much the same privacy sucking nightmare Cortana and Google are.

Nope, sorry. That is incorrect.

Siri on MacOS (and also Siri on iOS 10) does its level-best to do as much as it can "client-side", directly on your Mac/iDevice. This is VERY different from Cortana an Google's "voice assist" stuff, which take every opportunity to send every utterance to their respective motherships.

If you would bothered to have watched the WWDC keynote, Apple talked at length about the lengths they have gone to make Siri, Dictation, and Spotlight do as much as they possibly can directly on the Mac itself, and when it is necessary to push something to their servers, they do it in an anonymized fashion using an technique known as "Differential Privacy". See the WWDC Keynote at Time Index 1:40:00 for a quick explanation of the measures that Apple is taking both on macOS and iOS 10 in the name of Privacy. Here's another article on Differential Privacy, and why it is pretty damned cool.

It most defiantly is a matter of public debate and regulation as long as those providers have restricted competition.

Begging the question, aren't you? Why do they have "restricted competition"? Because the government chose to regulate them to begin with — from the AT&T monopoly, to cable TV, to the cellular duopolies, the problem is the same.

When the chips are down so to speak it is amazing how overwhelmingly people will back science. One of the best examples of this which is often pointed out is despite all the arguments in US schools about whether to teach evolution vs. creationism (or whatever fancy name is the flavour of the day) everytime there is a concern about a new disease evolving an spreading e.g. SARS, bird flu, swine flu etc. no politician stands up and says that we should do nothing because viruses can't evolve. So when lives are on the line people really do believe in science to help and guide them but if they do not see an immediate threat to their well being then they'll happily undermine and ignore it to keep up their own standard of living.

Off topic, I suppose:

Video: The Evolution of Bacteria

A more wordy article about it.

Now if they'd only try poisoning lobbyists or politicians instead of bacteria. (But not the ones *I* like, of course. **THAT** is the entire problem in a nutshell.)

The Echo is a hit? Citation, please.

I have my doubts too, but apparently it is so...

Amazon Echo turns into a sleeper hit, offsetting Fire's failure

Amazon Echo sales reach 3M units as consumer awareness grows, research firm says

She has a name': Amazon's Alexa is a sleeper hit, with serious superfine

How Amazon's Echo Ended Up a Surprise Hit

The Amazon Echo Is Winning the Race to a Screenless Future

Odd, over and over, nukes come out WAY ahead of any chem esp. hydrolox.
You mention the mass of a nuke pile, yet, for something like NERVA, it is fairly lightweight, esp. relative to LOX and its tank.
Although the Kiwi/Phoebus/NERVA designs were the only ones to be tested in any substantial program, a number of other solid-core engines were also studied to some degree. The Small Nuclear Rocket Engine, or SNRE, was designed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for upper stage use, both on unmanned launchers as well as the Space Shuttle. It featured a split-nozzle that could be rotated to the side, allowing it to take up less room in the Shuttle cargo bay. The design provided 73 kN of thrust and operated at a specific impulse of 875 seconds (8.58 kNs/kg), and it was planned to increase this to 975 with fairly basic upgrades. This allowed it to achieve a mass fraction of about 0.74, comparing with 0.86 for the SSME, one of the best conventional engines.

And apparently, there was major room for improvement:
Between 1987 and 1991 an advanced engine design was studied under Project Timberwind, under the aegis of the Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars"), which was later expanded into a larger design in the Space Thermal Nuclear Propulsion (STNP) program. Advances in high-temperature metals, computer modelling and nuclear engineering in general resulted in dramatically improved performance. While the NERVA engine was projected to weigh about 6,803 kg, the final STNP offered just over 1/3 the thrust from an engine of only 1,650 kg by improving the Isp to between 930 and 1000 seconds.[citation needed]

So, it appears that Musk, Bigelow, and Bezo knows a great deal more about this than you do.

Larry Ellison is a sociopath http://www.canadianbusiness.co... who has singlehandedly done more damage to the software world https://www.wired.com/2014/05/... than any other man since software became a thing. His self-aggrandizing attention-seeking narcissism https://books.google.com/books... proves that when you have money and you're a dick the media still loves you.

Larry Ellison is a liar.

If he says Amazon's lead is over you can rest assured knowing that three things are true:
1. Amazon's lead is not over
2. Larry is hoping to create a self-fulfilling prophecy so that it will be true
3. He's going for the free PR that he's getting by saying outrageous thing. It's a Trump thing.

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P.S. The subject line I wrote is "Ellison is a terrorist." Given all the explosives he's set off in Java, APIs, Harmony, etc. the man should be locked up.

I just found this puff piece on Theranos and CEO Elizabeth Holmes in Wired magazine from a couple of years ago: This Woman Invented a Way to Run 30 Lab Tests on Only One Drop of Blood

Wired senior editor Caitlin Roper gushes, "The results are faster, more accurate, and far cheaper than conventional methods. The implications are mind-blowing. With inexpensive and easy access to the information running through their veins, people will have an unprecedented window on their own health." Roper goes on to "interview" Holmes, basically just prompting her for her sales pitch.

No more FBI aircraft to track over any US city.
https://www.theguardian.com/us... (Tuesday 2 June 2015)
24/7 aerostats looking down. Tracking cell phones, computer use. With the NSA and OVERHEAD like options even wifi.
https://theintercept.com/2016/...
Total domestic drag net surveillance.
DHS Uses Wartime Mega-Camera to Watch Border (04.02.12)
https://www.wired.com/2012/04/...

People seem to think that self driving cars are driving like people and that they will freak out when they can't see the lane markings. 360 degree sensors of all different types, tied to a 3d map of the area, means that they should be way better at staying on the road in those types of situations. See this article for just one example:
https://www.wired.com/2016/01/...
Sure, they need to figure out ways to keep the sensors clear etc, but that can be done pretty easily. And at some point, if the weather gets too bad, maybe having your car say "I'm not going out there" isn't the worst thing. Way too many people around me overestimate what they and their all-weather radials can handle and end up blocking the roads when they get stuck.

What are the poison pills you are reffering to?

Democrats want direct funding for plan parenthood in the bill to help deal with Zika. Republicans don't want this, but would allow for states to allocate money as needed (including plan parenthood).

Democrats want this bill considered to be emergency funding, but Republicans have paid for part of the 1.1 billion dollar bill with 750 million from ~100 million of unused funds from Ebola and ~540 million from unused funds from the affordable health care act. The funds for the affordable health care act were unused because in some US territories it was not feasible to setup exchanges and they opted for additional medicare funding and so did not need the money to setup the exchanges.

So nothing really poisonous going on, just disagreement.

NNope. Republicans banned Planned Parenthood funding in Puerto Rico. But they've lost the image on it just like they did for the shutdowns, and no, nobody believes the crap about the Confederate flag belongs either.

Republicans tried to make a political grand-standing, and failed, they weren't doing anything but with lives.

Why do you expect the rest of us to fall for it? Why do you have so little regard for anyone else?

The US issue of self-healing theory might not be real policy at the private sector or consumer level.
Building out to add as many consumers at a very low cost along one network is about cost savings. A one connection policy only up and down the wider network.
The gov, party political, mil elite on the upper east coast would have great redundancy thanks to contractor overspend and mil/gov policy.
The west coast would have had the rush to build networks and in theory have a few different networks still running.
The real fun part is the unpaved fly over state where east and west multinationals agree to peer. Why pay to build out redundancy for another company?
Thats shareholder cash per year been lost to a "theory". The working one link, one satellite, buying just enough shared bandwidth for expected daily data flows is the all the redundancy worth investing in.
Recall "A Dissertation So Good It Might Be Classified" (01.01.04).
https://www.wired.com/2004/01/...

Pity android users? Isnt the current IOS update bricking iphones? Id rather have a grenade than a brick any day.

1. Better a brick than a bomb, eh?

2. The "bricking" affected a very small number of users, was only temporary, was recoverable by the user (making the term "bricking" somewhat hyperbolic), and lasted one whole HOUR before Apple fixed the problem.

Oh, and didn't set any iPhones or iPads on fire...

Kind of a different situation, wouldn't you say? But of course you wouldn't, Hater.

The Difference Engine by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling

In the Beginning... Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson

Mother Earth Mother Board - https://www.wired.com/1996/12/... also by Neal Stephenson (actually, anything by him)

The Victorian Internet is also worth reading.

Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

Try living in an area where you had two choices but choice one just bought choice two and then a year later shut down choice two.

I've already cited an article, where the blame for this sorry state of the ISP-market is laid squarely on the local governments.

Netflix hates data caps. The on-demand movies and TV shows service has asked the US Federal Communications Commission to declare that home internet data caps are unreasonable

The solution to a problem created by there being too much government regulation is more government regulation.

A drug-addict's logic.

From the NSA on a HD under EquationDrug or GrayFish https://www.wired.com/2015/02/... (02.22.15) to other strange software getting in...
If we had better encryption, networking tool, smarter academics in the private sector, computer experts working on networking issues like this then we could all sit back, buy with confidence from any big brand.
With better standards the internet community can restore storage options to been useful again and not an open door for any gov or malware attempt.

The article says there were sensitive files stolen from his personal email account. If true, he shouldn't have had them there.

From a Wired article dated almost a year ago:
"News of the hack was first reported by the New York Post after the hacker contacted the newspaper last week. The hackers described how they were able to access sensitive government documents stored as attachments in Brennan’s personal account because the spy chief had forwarded them from his work email.
The documents they accessed included the sensitive 47-page SF-86 application that Brennan had filled out to obtain his top-secret government security clearance. Millions of SF86 applications were obtained recently by hackers who broke into networks belonging to the Office of Personnel Management. The applications, which are used by the government to conduct a background check, contain a wealth of sensitive data not only about workers seeking security clearance, but also about their friends, spouses and other family members. They also include criminal history, psychological records and information about past drug use as well as potentially sensitive information about the applicant’s interactions with foreign nationals—information that can be used against those nationals in their own country."

Sounds pretty bad to me, but I doubt he'll receive the same level of scrutiny as Hillary Clinton has, because it isn't as interesting politically.
Source: https://www.wired.com/2015/10/... -- interesting article.

H's home server did only one narrow job.

If only I could believe that it was truly hardened, following at least PCI policies :)

I'm surprised you keep trying to defend her grossly negligent actions by pretending that it was equivalent in safety or security to the option she was obligated to abide by, and obligated others to abide by.

How about that - if Clinton's secret homebrew server was so much better than the SD, why didn't she make it official policy for others to do the same?

Interesting new source material: https://www.wired.com/2016/09/...

It seems like Powell should be charged with conspiring to destroy federal records, and Clinton should be charged with the same for taking his advice. The fact that Secretaries of State would so blithely talk about avoiding federal records laws is shameful, don't you think?

Think min-wage workers in the Philippines
https://www.wired.com/2014/10/...

Pretty sure Narrative Science has been doing this since 2012. At least for Little League.

Also, their competitor Automated Insights offered API access to small parties last year. Maybe "local sports" is too big?

Maybe this is new for Spain?

Regardless, seems like entry level writing positions are going to be more difficult to come by, at least for humans.

Pretty sure Narrative Science has been doing this since 2012. At least for Little League.

Also, their competitor Automated Insights offered API access to small parties last year. Maybe "local sports" is too big?

Maybe this is new for Spain?

Regardless, seems like entry level writing positions are going to be more difficult to come by, at least for humans.

I made a mistake and posted anon. Moderators, to delete the dupe? I'll concede you're right on "honey bees." It's sort of nomenclature and visibility problem. We talk about and see honey bees routinely. The bees scientists are concerned about are these: http://www.wired.com/2015/04/y... Most of the arguments I could find that are new seemed like cheap click bait. I went back to a Nature piece from 2010 that's premise isn't precisely the same because it extends beyond North America. But let's be real, if the US goes that route, others will follow. It's going to be a global effort. http://www.nature.com/news/201... I really ask that you consider this with an open mind. I probably am not going to be able to sell you on the idea that this is a problem, and I don't know if spraying to the extent that it would take to kill all the mosquitoes would have on bees AND other parts of the system, including the effect of killing off all the mosquitoes, food for many species of birds and other insects. I'm not trying to take a hard stand against the complete extermination of 12 species of this insect, distributed across the entire continent. That's not a Saturday afternoon job by the exterminator. It's massive industrial sized effort to cause the complete extinction of 12 species of mosquitos. I don't know of a time in history where humans have successfully intentionally killed off a species. It's not that easy. A little bit of stagnant water here and there and they creep back in. Then there will be unintended consequences of killing off a prey species for birds and insects in many different habitats. There are a whole lot of risks but the tone I get from you is you've made up your mind already. Do you want your position to be true and have no ego over beating me? I'll concede I'm no bee expert. Not even close. I don't understand how the global Gaie works, nor do I even understand really how even the smallest unit of ecosystem works. I've got some humility around this. I'm now realizing I was wrong on the honey bees. They're a red heron. It'd be about as useful to focus on them as it would be to focus on the well being of the canary as you mine. I hope you're open to the truth as I'm trying to be. I'm basically acknowledging that I know almost nothing about the effects of exterminating these species would be and frankly I think you've already been sold a POV and you've completely bought in. That's OK maybe the evidence is so strong and you're convinced with good reason that this is not only the right thing to do, the effects on the system will be trivial so let's just go for it. Also, it's insulting to basically call what I'm saying ignorant crap. I'm someone who will concede an error or even that I'm wrong on an entire issue but if I have a misconception or am distracted by something far from the core issue, chances are there are others too. Correct me with a strong argument and help educate me and others. You can't insult your way to any gain for your position. The people using pejoratives such as neo-luddite are using the same sort of tactics. It's not how civilized smart people have conversations. Alll ideologies and ism are fucking crap, including whatever one has you and the others that toss insults. I've found that people who use cheap tactics usually have an ideology. All ism's are rubbish. Every single one. Argue to read the truth not support the decision you already made.

I'm not sure what you're on about, but you couldn't be more wrong, to the point of being irrational. You obviously have no clue how easy it is for even a single individual to break into and compromise these machines. I figure at this point, you're not even being serious and are just making trouble. Feel free to argue with the others, I'm out... for the moment...

I don't understand why I can't say that part of the project was botched. I have actually worked on projects that required the finished product to "work 100%" when put in production (not "in space" the closest I have reached is satellite communication software) and it was not a matter of "unlimited engineering, time or weight budget", it was mostly a matter of solid design and especially testing. In this particular case, it seems that they either did not fully vacuum-test their harpoon firing, or the test was not right and they actually found this would be a problem while the probe was in space, from other people tests if I understand correctly! http://archive.wired.com/wired... (see comments section). They thought they had found a solution, bit it either did not work, or there was an additional problem with the wiring.
Also a gas thruster is sort of a simple device, I think you just have to make sure it doesn't leak. But it failed as well. That's 2/2 control systems gone...

Seriously, I thought the Moto Z was the fruit of the Google Project, what with Moto Mobile being a Google property until recently. It's not? Oh, well, modular smartphones are here if the market wants them.

Yeah, despite how Lenovo chooses to describe it - this is less a laptop and more like that Microsoft Research dual-screen "Courier" tablet concept that was floating around six or seven years ago (just rotated 90 degrees).